I have a confession to make. The COVID pandemic no longer scares me. Omicron may be highly infectious, but it's looking pretty damn wimpy to be the new star of pandemic horror stories. No, what scares me is how completely the mainstream media in North America has become the willing propaganda arm of Big Government.
What's scariest is not what the media covers, but the places where the media has deliberately blinded itself to any information that runs contrary to official government narratives. That has me struggling with feelings that not long ago I would have dismissed as paranoia.
Here is an example of a story where the selectivity of media attention has been utterly shocking. It's a December 9th story out of Denmark that looked at the vaccination status of the first 785 Omicron cases seen in that country.
Here's the vaccination status of those 785 first Omicron cases, compared with the vaccination status of the general Danish population on the same date, as reported by Our World in Data:
The story that the mainstream media ran with based on the above Danish information was that those were booster vaccinated were getting infected with Omicron at only 36% of the rate of the general population (7.1% versus an expected 19.7%). That got an immense amount of media coverage. So this Danish data was used almost entirely to boost governments wishes to give everyone booster shots ASAP.
But that's not the only story here. If you look at this data, Omicron is infecting the unvaccinated, the partially vaccinated and the fully vaccinated all at roughly the same rate we would expect given their general prevalence in the population. In other words, the protection that full vaccination offers against infection with Omicron is approximately ZERO.
As far as I can see, not a single reporter in the mainstream media picked up on that part of the story. That scares me, because it tells me journalists are deliberately blinding themselves to any information that runs counter to the official government narrative that vaccines are our best and only protection against COVID.
But the thing that most scares me about the above story is the utter and complete lack of curiosity the media has shown since December 9th. The information the Danish information was able to present on December 9th was extremely limited in scope. We shouldn't make too much of findings that were based on a sample size of only 785 cases. That said, it should have been a huge red flag that screamed for follow-up once more data was available.
Denmark had 20,578 cases of COVID on December 21st, which means Omicron cases in Denmark must now be nearing the 100,000 mark. We can be reasonably certain Denmark must know the vaccination status of each of those 100,000 Omicron cases.
If even one investigative reporter were to ask, I suspect the Danish Government would feel compelled to release that information. On a sample size of 100,000, any data trends seen will have extremely high reliability. We should be able to tell fairly exactly what level of protection full vaccination offers against infection with Omicron. I think that would be crucially important information for all of us to have.
The problem is, if full vaccination were still providing ZERO protection against COVID, that would blow a huge hole in Government’s vaccines-will-protect-us narrative. I guess that has left all of North America’s ‘journalists’ afraid to ask questions, because, as far as I can tell, not one ‘journalist’ has bothered to ask the Danish Government for an update.
That freaks me out. It tells me our once 'free press' has completely abandoned it's role as the watchdog of Government. Lapdog media is all we have left, which means you and I are cruising blind into the future.
Now that is scary.
is current data available from Denmark, or any other place?