If the 'extreme right' has its way and tribunals are established, the entire governing Netherlands will have to be behind bars, as will at least three-quarters of the healthcare sector and the magistracy. Causing tens of thousands of deaths or turning a blind eye to it when you could and should have known better, amounts to complicity in multiple manslaughter or murder. And especially if public health or civil protection was part of your duties. Institutes are paid for this by citizens whose interests they simply have not represented. Not a moment. They do not even care about an excess mortality of many tens of thousands of Dutch people.
But the whole establishment behind bars, that is going to be very impractical and will not be considered desirable. It would possibly discredit certain individuals or even worse: lower vaccination readiness! At least that is how the establishment thinks. And those are the ones who can judge it because, after all, you need highly educated people and experts for that.
No need to apologize
Het wordt dus maximaal een generaal pardon. Ik kan de redenering helemaal volgen: er zijn wel degelijk fouten gemaakt, grote fouten zelfs, maar in die omstandigheden en omdat alle fatsoenlijke mensen het deden is het eigenlijk niemand aan te rekenen. Dat zal het oordeel zijn. Alles lag volstrekt in de rede dus waarvoor zou iemand zijn/haar excuus moeten aanbieden? Het waren echt andere tijden en "Tja, met de kennis van nu... Dat is makkelijk praten!" En destijds dan? "Ja, da's ook niet zo moeilijk: De beste stuurlui staan aan wal!"
Resolved. Too bad for those who suffered, they may have learned not to be so obstructive next time and just to cooperate a little, to have some faith!
Collaborating with the most promising was also the Dutch norm in this corona war and the entire establishment participated again. It was certainly not 'maladaptive', on the contrary, it became more and more 'normal'. Those who resisted were abnormal or they did it for the money (see also the donation button on this site, directly to my private account). Of course, that commercial motive did not apply to government servants, but only to poor slobs who did not receive a guaranteed salary from their own taxes.
In general, in this financially dependent class on the government, we were dealing with good, well-intentioned citizens, including the sycophants of the OMT, the bunglers in the cabinet and at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, MPs: you name them. Civil servants, supervisors, doctors: even Marion Koopmans, who had no association with the disaster she had helped cause. All decent, honest people...
The bubble steers
All those people can't be Bad or Wrong, can they? Really all!? Impossible. It seems more like their training and the systems they live in give them the wrong incentives. The incentives are the wrong way around. The fact that institutes such as EMA and Lareb are paid by pharmaceutical companies for every medicine they assess is already wrong. For every drug they reject, they should get five times the amount plus a bonus for the discoverer of the defects. Only then are you protecting yourself! Reverse incentives, encouraging thorough critical assessments. This will be a concern for pharmaceutical companies with their billion-dollar profits, which will be discounted. So you should not punish the damaging side but reward the protective side. As far as I know, we do not have such a system in our intensive supervisory system.
An alphabetical selection of the institutes that have given up considerably. I didn't devote a separate heading to RIVM and CBS, but we now know that. Click to read more. Tip: Jurisprudence, with a video where Willem Engel has to explain to the judge how things work. The Media lemma is the longest, but it is also where the most serious crimes have been committed: withholding information from the population, manipulating messages, censorship and propaganda.
And yet this was the last bastion that could have protected the citizens by providing them with multi-sided information. The totalitarian lack of transparency should have been exposed by the media. That was their job as a 'watchdog'. Because the latter safeguard has also failed, the corona crisis has been able to dig the unprecedentedly deep grave that we are now staring into.
Academia
RIVM was not alone. The entire academic world was silent in the face of the rape of science. The university employs more than 60,000 people, including nearly 3,500 professors and professors.
Logical inconsistencies and crooked reasoning did not bother the professors of Logic, Philosophy of Science or Argumentation Theory at all. My left-wing rebellious fellow students at the time, always super committed - I haven't heard anything from them, anywhere. There were a lot of them because I studied for a long time ('extremely thoroughly', I always say). There must have been some advances in science. Nada.
Did mathematicians jump into the saddle in the face of nonsensical (probability) calculations, or in the worthless interpretations of CBS? It remained with a brave few. Did they flag the incorrect graphs? Nothing.
What about the medical faculties, when all the basic rules of responsible healthcare were violated, all knowledge about respiratory diseases suddenly turned out to be worthless - and no one lifted their hand?
Fundamental rights evaporated. Where were all those intellectuals? Where had those always sharply critical medical and law students of the past gone? Not to mention philosophers and lawyers. These professional groups have degraded themselves. They have allowed their most important representatives in the media to spread their dangerous nonsense unhindered. Also via the Disinformation Think Tank. Willy Spaan... It is incomprehensible that the academia would want to be represented in this way. Also see something Pierik and Verweij in de Volkskrant performed. The universities have become centers that undermine free democracy - and no one is protesting.
The scientific (and certainly pharma-medical) world is characterized by highly debatable connections within and outside science. Science as we knew it is dead, I hear that observation repeatedly from people who work there or are in close contact with it professionally.
Academics who spoke out with integrity have been thwarted and/or fired. It now appears that they have often had the scientific right on their side. For the purposes of this article, we will stick to the fact that the scientific and academic elite were simply completely wrong in this corona war.
Central Bureau for Medicines (MEB)
The MEB employs five hundred people, mainly paid by pharmaceutical companies and sponsored by the government. Just for fun, read what they think of themselves: "Als onafhankelijke autoriteit reguleert het CBG de kwaliteit, werking en veiligheid van een medicijn, en stimuleert het CBG het juiste gebruik door de juiste patiënt." "Het CBG staat midden in de samenleving, in alle openheid en in directe samenwerking met patiënten, artsen, apothekers en wetenschappers. Waarbij het CBG het delen van kennis - van wetenschappelijk onderzoek tot gebruikersinformatie - initieert en stimuleert." source) and then wonder how it is possible that low-side effect drugs were canceled (even with major consequences for doctors) and junk was injected into populations that didn't need it at all, leaflets missed essential information and knowledge was kept out of the picture. Were they on vacation, perhaps?
EMA
Alles wat door de Amerikaanse (gecorrumpeerde) FDA en/of het het Duitse RKI (zie de recente "RKI-Protokolle") werd aangedragen, werd klakkeloos overgenomen door de kleine negenhonderd knappe koppen van het European Medicine Agency. De toegevoegde waarde van deze 900 kenniswerkers is voor de leek niet zo makkelijk te zien. Maar: EMA verzamelt ook de meldingen van bijwerkingen in Europa. Waarom dat precies gebeurt is niet duidelijk. EMA doet er niets mee totdat ze vanuit Amerika worden gebriefd.
In fact, when alarming side effects are pointed out, the answer is invariably one: they are reports AFTER vaccination, not BECAUSE of vaccination. Causal link has not been demonstrated. Like Lareb, the EMA has not taken any action on red flags.
The Health Council of the Netherlands
De Gezondheidsraad (ca. 100 leden, op de overheidsbegroting voor 6 miljoen per jaar) liet onlangs weten dat het eigenlijk toch niet zo'n heel goed idee is voor zwangeren om zich te laten mRNA-vaccineren. "Een coronaprik kan tijdens de zwangerschap veilig gegeven worden, maar is meestal niet nodig." Dat laatste geldt overigens niet alleen voor zwangeren. Dit onbehaaglijke nieuws -want zwangeren werd voorheen juist sterk aangeraden zich te laten vaccineren- hebben ze toch zeker een jaar onder de pet weten te houden. Bovendien zijn er nooit data geweest die zo'n positief advies rechtvaardigden. Zwangere vrouwen waren uitgesloten van de trials toen het vaccin werd goedgekeurd onder noodvoorwaarden. Dat was trouwens het steriele, in het lab geproduceerde vaccin en niet het op bacteriën geproduceerde massaproduct dat uiteindelijk werd geïnjecteerd.
On the other hand, there have been later signals from all over the world that something was wrong with pregnancy/births and mRNA, for example from Scotland. Moedermelk bleek na vaccinatie dagenlang besmet met vaccin-spikes. mRNA bleek overal in het lichaam de weg te vinden, dus ook in de placenta. Een half jaar geleden verscheen er een studie over: "Increased risk of fetal loss after COVID-19 vaccination". Ook daar werd niet op geacteerd - of die reactie heeft een half jaar geduurd.
Health and Youth Care Inspectorate
Recent court rulings confirm that the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ) has conducted a witch hunt against doctors, without medical or legal substantiation. An institute that has to monitor public health on behalf of a ministry allows itself to be sent out like a BOA, even if the obviously erring boss asks for it. The IGJ was wrong. Read more about this at WOB-researcher Cees van den Bos.
Lareb Hotels
When Lareb received many times more reports of side effects than anticipated, the main problem was the manpower to process those reports and where the money had to come from to pay for them. It didn't go any further. See also the Substack van Cees van den Bos for the corresponding FOI documents.
Lareb has to act as a watchdog. In recent years, it has been one that you had to kick awake when there was a burglary, and even then he went to his drinking trough first. Lareb did not once show a signal function. Lareb was constantly lagging behind. An energy supplier's helpdesk is doing a better job.
Lareb should have been on top of protecting the population and should have closely monitored possible side effects. Especially with brand new injections, working according to a new principle with genetic aspects, side effects of which have not been sufficiently investigated and target groups were excluded from the studies. It turned out that there was actually a lot going on with effectiveness - but effectiveness is of course not what Lareb is about, that has been carefully separated.
The requirements for the conditional admission of the vaccines have not been met. It states that every 'adverse event' must be reported, even if it does not appear to be vaccine-related. Logically, otherwise you'll never discover anything. This was evident from the mortality reports alone less than 5% were reported.
How anyone thinks they can combine the directorship of such an institute with participation in the Disinformation Think Tank is a mystery to me. Can anyone be blamed for that? In any case, there is a lack of incentives to decide NOT to do it. After all, the Disinformation Think Tank aimed to suppress all negative expressions about vaccines, including reported side effects. These could reduce willingness to be vaccinated and that was not allowed under any circumstances. But no matter how bad the vaccines quickly turned out to be, in accordance with the reports received by Lareb: the willingness to be vaccinated had to and would increase, according to the Think Tank Disinformation.
KNAW
De Koninklijke Akademie voor Wetenschappen noemt zich "Hoeder en duider van de wetenschap in Nederland". Dat is een grote broek om aan te trekken. Als vaderlandse hoeder van de wetenschappelijke integriteit heeft de KNAW richtlijnen opgesteld. Heeft iemand iets daarover van de KNAW gehoord, toen hun eigen leden de tem 'wetenschap' verkrachtten en uit naam van de wetenschap inconsistente duidingen gaven die soms logisch niet eens klopten en die richtlijnen met voeten traden? Ik schreef er twee jaar geleden al in this article about. At that time, Jaap van Dissel and OMT member Menno de Jong were still listed as members/experts on the KNAW website.
At the time, I found it striking that the Academy partly nominates the members of the RIVM Supervisory Committee, while senior RIVM officials are members of the Academy. Do I smell a conflict of interest there? We may be too small a country for that kind of construction, everyone comes together for drinks.
By the way, Willy Spaan also sits on the RIVM Supervisory Committee...😂 that says it all. The man who threw away an account with 4 years of tweets because it was largely outdated rabid nonsense. The KNAW should also have called him to account. But that's not how it works, we now know.
Media
We have not sufficiently realized that there are no longer any independent national media. The Netherlands is too small to keep such a mini-industry alive. We have seen how Ongehoord Nederland has been sabotaged, which does not mean that they have never made a mistake - but at least they are acting independently. Tools such as censorship and restrictions on freedom of expression are worse than the disease. The smear campaigns against Maurice the Dog by the Pointers of this world speak volumes. The man just had a point. MSM shows the Gestajo in full action: Secret state journalists; fact checking is the disguise. The first thing that dies in a war is information.
In the ongoing centralization of money and power, with a government that does not defend itself against globalist tendencies of concentration of power, it is therefore to be expected that such a puny media industry will merge into larger conglomerates that can make an optimization move. Copy/paste vaccination propaganda, for example, becomes much easier. And every unsuspecting citizen thinks that the danger is at his own doorstep.
The sound in the media was one-sided in support of policy. An unpleasant word for this is state propaganda. Alternative perspectives remained underexposed or ridiculed. There were exceptions: a number of columnists in De Telegraaf saw it clearly and there was occasionally a single letter submitted in Trouw or De Volkskrant, which was usually taken down again in an editorial piece. Or an 'expert' who explained why it was wrong, with words like 'it really is' and 'consensus'.
Since, despite this, the media still claim a prominent role, we have to make up our minds. The verdict can only be that they were Wrong in the corona war and even the source of the clouding of public opinion, making correction from below impossible. A democracy is based on an informed population that can make choices. From the behaviour of Tijs van den Brink we can learn that the Germans were only proven wrong because they lost WWII. If they had won, there would undoubtedly have been a feeling in the media and in the lecture halls that perhaps not everything had gone smoothly, but that sometimes it is simply necessary to put things in order. Ordnung muss zijn; So it had to be this way for a while and that really wasn't because it was so much fun. They didn't come up with the corona policy for fun either!
The loss of critical media has an impact on the functioning of our democracy. Democracy is based on choosing citizens, informed on many sides. It doesn't work for a mass brainwashed with propaganda. The problem of a non-functioning democracy urgently needs to be discussed. The role of the media in this cannot be overestimated. Without a functioning democracy, the Netherlands can no longer be called a democracy. 'Mediacracy' is a better term. An elite that creates support through the media and can therefore democratically justify any policy, no matter how unwise or harmful. 'Plutocracy' or 'dictatorship' does not do justice to the pseudo-democratic smokescreen that is raised with the help of the media.
In any case, things are good in the media. Wrong, with enormous consequences because our policy makers and experts also look and read in their 'quality media'. There are some politicians in the position to control the (social) media. The lower echelons think they can inform themselves in the same media about what their supporters expect from them, while the loyal supporters read what they should think about it, without hearing a response.
Medical industry (incl. NHG, Medical Contact etc.)
Although no infertility experiments have been done on unvaccinated people, anyone who saw Hugo de Jonge and Attje Kuiken at work, in combination with the unprecedented docility among doctors, knew that it would not take much more. Confidence in white coats was so limitless that it became silly. And the overestimation of those white coats too.
Zo legden ervaren artsen mij uit dat ivermectine niet tegen Covid kan werken omdat Covid een virus is. Het was dus grote onzin dat ivermectine zou kunnen werken. Tegen virussen helpen alleen middelen die op "vir" eindigen, zoals Remdesivir. Voldoende bewijs, voor deze artsen.
Daar is niet tegenop te argumenteren. Noem je een valide argument, over onderzoek, vroege of late behandeling, bacteriële pneumonie etc, dan is het antwoord "Dat weet ik niet." Daarmee is het gesprek dus gesloten want bij nadere uitleg volgt het zelfde antwoord "Nou, dat weet ik niet" of "Nee hoor, daar weet ik niks van." Het gaat erom wat zij weten en wat niet. Hun kennis is de verdedigingsmuur die hun professie beschermt. Voor middelmatige ambachtslieden is dat misschien nog verdedigbaar maar met excellente wetenschap heeft het helemaal geen donder te maken, het staat er zelfs haaks op. Terwijl juist artsen beweren zich op wetenschap te baseren. Ze weten simpelweg niet goed wat het is.
In short: the 'vaccines-are-safe' naivety among NRC, Volkskrant, Medical Contact and Doctor and Auto-reading doctors was downright shocking. Even the CDC director was happy with the CNN news that the vaccine effectiveness was as high as 95%.
Natuurlijk vonden ze de corona-vaccins veilig want dat zijn vaccins altijd geweest, volgens de autoriteiten. Van de artsenzijde was dus geen kritische nieuwsgierigheid te verwachten. Sterker nog: de meer activistische provaxxers droegen bij aan een activistisch gelegenheidsinitiatief, gebaseerd op stupide uitgangspunten: De "Denktank Desinformatie" die de ene bêtise na de andere de wereld in slingerde.
Fortunately, a number of sensible doctors gathered in the Doctors Collective, which was promptly labeled 'disinformation' by the establishment (and therefore the Think Tank).
The doctors in line (hello NHG, Medical Contact...?) should have taken better account of the fact that the authority granted to them, which they are only too happy to embrace, also entails responsibility. However, their docile compliance contributed to the False narrative. Let's leave the role of virology in biological warfare for what it is, as it has already been done recently Attention. Wat dat betreft had het kopje van dit lemma beter "Medisch/militair industrieel complex" kunnen zijn.
National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV)
The logistical management of the policy was outsourced to the NCTV, which soon took over, undoubtedly in consultation with foreign colleagues, given the occasionally striking synchronicity. In the case of terrorism, national borders should not be an obstacle in the event of a virus, hence the intensive international coordination, I understand the choice for NCTV. But science and society disappeared from the picture. The European NCTVs seemed to lose sight of the fact that these were not terrorists. That actually suited the cabinet well: tools for more control and therefore more grip, exactly what was already being aimed for with digital IDs and CBDC. Read all about the dubious role of NCTV and how our government danced to its tune Substack by WOB researcher Cees van den Bos. But has the NCTV kept the population safe? Yesterday I saw again how a young woman was sprayed with her head against a concrete wall by a water cannon, I don't know...
NWO
De naam van het instituut zeg alles: "Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek". Doe je dan niets als jouw domein te grabbel wordt gegooid met onscientifice methods and manipulative interpretation of researchsresultaten? Valt het niet binnen je takenpakket misschien? "Nee, dat hebben wij niet geweten. Wij organiseren alleen congressen" of zoiets maar dan wolliger en ongrijpbaarder, het blijven tenslotte ambtenaren, bedreven in dooddoeners waarmee medeverantwoordelijkheid en dus medeplichtigheid wordt afgeschoven. Ook niet best, om niet te zeggen Fout.
Politicians
Politici drongen erop aan om artsen hun baan te ontnemen als ze niet in de pas liepen. Onze overheid heeft op die manier artsen die voor hun patiënten opkwamen bedreigd en achtervolgd. Rechters constateren inmiddels dat de minister(s) van VWS "buiten hun boekje zijn gegaan". Een gewone burger zou voor dezelfde vergrijpen misschien wel achter de tralies belanden. Het doet onwerkelijk aan voor een open en vrijdenkende democratie. We kunnen niet anders dan constateren dat de meeste politici Fout waren in deze oorlog. We denken allemaal aan Hugo de Jonge maar Wiebes, Kuipers... iedereen in die positie doet hetzelfde. En vergeet de rol van de Minister van Justitie niet, die had Het Hof aan een touwtje.
Almost the entire House of Representatives participated. Can you blame Wieke Paulusma, Attje Kuiken, Pia Dijkstra? They should never have been in the chamber, let alone in the cabinet, during such a turbulent period. They are indicators of the prevailing incompetence at the administrative level and demonstrate the failure of the outdated systems that were once set up to safeguard our democracy.
It doesn't work anymore: the people who rise to the top in policy positions don't have leadership qualities; Above all, they know how to conform well to the stimuli of the system. The job carousel demonstrates that.
Jurisdiction
Scientists were rejected 'because the OMT' and that OMT was appointed by the government, so that was right. The Netherlands is a constitutional state? It really was a puppet show. Anyone heard of dissident judges having trouble figuring out what to do? If one was withdrawn because the government did not like a statement, you never heard anything about it again. Quickly arrange an appeal, overrule the ruling and move on. And shut your mouth now, it's serious now, we have no time for rule of law considerations.
Not to mention the attitude of the Public Prosecutor's Office, with the imprisonment of Willem Engel and Jan Bonte, for example. The police who recently searched the house of comical (Also corona-)critic Hans Teeuwen, making use of the totalitarian gains made in recent years. They should have tried that 5 years ago. It was a scandal and it still is. If you follow the current court case against Willem Engel, you will see that it is still not over, the Kafkaesque harassment by the state. Will there be prosecutors or judges standing up against this absurdist charade/costume party?
It looks like Jiskefet when you look at the video registration. These professionals, like doctors, virologists and epidemiologists, discredit their own profession. They make a fool of themselves. It will be a long time before any respect is restored, if ever, for the impractically educated class.
People are still begging for 'trust', but practice has taught us that 'trust' is by definition misplaced when it comes to higher positions of power. There, by definition, strict control is necessary and therefore unhindered transparency. Even - or perhaps especially - when one has the best intentions. So wrong.
The Science®
De politiek wilde het beleid wetenschappelijk verantwoorden (of indekken, hoe je het wil noemen). Dat is het omgekeerde van wetenschappelijke inzichten implementeren. Het RIVM stelde in opdracht van de regering een OMT samen van "degelijke en kundige intellectuelen en academici". Dat dat niet per se een garantie is voor een empathisch team dat belang van burgers voorop stelt, heeft het verleden uitgewezen. Sterker nog: het zegt niets. Google er maar eens op en neem daarbij de aanhalingstekens mee.
Uit WOB-documenten blijkt dat het RIVM/OMT wel erg gemakkelijk aanvragen inwilligde om reeds bepaald beleid achteraf wetenschappelijk te onderbouwen. Van tegengesputter was bijzonder weinig en meestal geen sprake, ook al was de volgorde verkeerdom. Zelfs toen het VWS het coronadashboard overnam om dat als propaganda-tool in te kunnen zetten, gaf het RIVM geen kik, althans niet publiekelijk. Wellicht werd het "onder ons" gehouden, zo doen fatsoenlijke mensen dat. Het CBS maakte zich op Twitter belachelijk met het ene drogdraadje na het andere.
All this should have unleashed a revolt: protests, seething parliamentary questions. But they looked on passively. Well, what fool risks his job for the national interest? Only a handful of heroes, apparently. The rest was Wrong.
There was a lot more wrong with the science, see the featured article on scientific integrity.
ZonMW
ZonMW distributes research grants from the Ministry, approves or rejects the research objectives and insists that independent research is being conducted into the link between vaccinations and excess mortality when this is not the case. Only researchers who are affiliated with a university are eligible. That is already a welcome selection, see the heading Academia above. An important function of ZonMW has proven to be to shield transparency, similar to what Lareb does for the pharmaceutical companies. They have also compartmentalised the subjects in such a way that the main points remain out of sight.
In specialized sub-researches, the already fairly minimal budgets are largely spent on temporarily renting the required data. These studies will therefore never be able to be independently evaluated: the source data will then not be available. This has more to do with frustrating than with promoting scientific excellence. Protecting the government a priori is Wrong. That idea is common in Eastern Bloc countries because they have gone through an 'Enlightenment' there that we have sorely missed here.
National Health Care Institute (SENTENCE)
SENSE Self-defines: "National Health Care Institute works on behalf of the government to ensure that everyone in the Netherlands has and continues to have access to good care." Dat heeft alles te maken met budgetverdelingen en prijsniveau's. ZIN onderhandelt bijvoorbeeld met farmaceuten over redelijke prijzen zodat zorgbudgetten zorgvuldig en effectief worden verdeeld. Met enig hart voor hun domein hadden ze de afgelopen 4 jaar van de daken geschreeuwd dat decennia van hun werk in enkele maanden teniet werd gedaan. Integendeel, ze hebben zitten slapen. Zorgmiljarden zijn door het putje gespoeld en ZIN had geen behoefte om in te grijpen. Dat is Fout, het bedreigde direct het werkveld waarvoor ze in het leven zijn geroepen: het borgen van goede zorg voor iedereen.
Suggestions for additions to this incomplete list please in the comments.
Preview of parliamentary inquiry
Will the parliamentary inquiry achieve anything? You would hope that they would look at the things that don't seem to have gone well. Possible starting points:
- the quality of the advice of the OMT (with regard to infection routes, for example, but also the vaccines)
- Warnings about lockdown measures ignored
- the erroneous models of the RIVM and associated quack statistics from CBS, gratefully presented by VWS and further popularized in the media (all independently of each other...!?)
- Despite vaccine protection and disappearing corona, excess mortality continued and even increased ('unexplained excess mortality')
- Fundamental rights violated
If only those lids were lifted... Concrete pain points first, so to speak. But the first bits of smokescreen are already visible in the illustration below. It starts with the fact that they do not go beyond March 2022. That covers roughly the first two years of the corona period, while we already know what the subsequent two (2! two full years) looked like: disastrous.
They do not want to take this recent knowledge with them, despite the fact that the file research phase will run until February 2025! In fact, public hearings won't even begin until 2026. Unbelievable. Then you schedule a time in 2025 when the additional data will be delivered until March 2024 (or later)? That is, if you want to know whether what is actually happening in society is broadly in line with what you have observed on the basis of that first period. If, on the other hand, you want to hide behind Covid mortality, it is advisable to stop observing earlier. Otherwise, this is impossible to sustain until 2024. Perhaps until the beginning of 2022, just less than a year after the first reports of unexplained excess mortality.
I fear that the committee will mainly focus on the entire process from start to finish. And especially check whether the protocols have been followed properly. Given the extremely difficult circumstances, that went very well, just ask the experts and the NCTV.
Perhaps there is still a prize or honorary doctorate for Jaap van Dissel because he has done such a fantastic job in recent years at the scientific National Institute that deals with our Public Health.
So much for the institutes. You can read about the individuals in Decent people don't snitch.
I realize now that I forgot something. The Skepsis Foundation and the Association Against Quackery. Journalism squared. Biters who are going to attack what they have always said to guard. That turns out not to be common sense, nor is it common sense for the Dutch. It is the incumbent that they defend tooth and nail.
What about the "Disinformation Think Tank"?
A reprehensible activist initiative, based on stupid principles, but not a million-dollar institution. In my opinion, it didn't really fit in this list. Idea: I'll mention them at Academia and Medical Industry.
The role of social media in suppressing counter-information.
Fortunately, Elon Musk has put an end to this with X.
Nice overview, Anton. You could write a big book about this, I think.
CBS, NVWA, KNMP, RIVM, NHG, NVVC, NVCI, NVOA, ASR, CZ, ACHMEA, MENZIS
The NHG definitely belongs in the list. With Medical Contact – but they already fall under Medical Industry. I'll mention them there.
Insurers, well. They do not have a duty of care. The settlement of what excess mortality means for the premium. Of course, you could also blame them for that.
I have been cured of the illusion that insurers would have an interest in our health by Suneel Dhand, among others; Sick is a business model, not health.
Tadaaa! A ribbon for the professor
I've been sending letters to all those experts who appeared in the media at the time, asking them all kinds of critical questions. Experience shows that for the most part you will no longer get an answer post 2023, while before 2023 these experts had no trouble taking the measure of someone else, which speaks volumes....
I intend to post all these letters on my blog: https://maartenleeflang.blogspot.com/?m=1
Here's a sneak peek: it's part of a letter I sent to my former manager: an epidemiologist who appeared in the media more than 100 times during the corona war years, and told me in response to this letter that he no longer wanted to talk about covid.
Volumes...
Dear 'Fons',
On Tuesday 30 May, we will have a meeting at the HUMC, which I am very much looking forward to. I hope we can talk about the implications of the 'conventional wisdom' as written down by JK Galbraith in this case covid. Within that conventional wisdom lies the reason why I left the academy, and within that conventional wisdom I see an opportunity to return to the academy, as a BIG registered doctor and epidemiologist, without anyone being left unscathed, which is my goal.
We've talked about Galbraith's essay on conventional wisdom before (pre-covid) and that essay is in the book: The Affluent Society (book we both have on our shelves). I won't quote extensively (you can read it for yourself there), but I will quote a few quotes that I find quite striking:
'Audiences of all kinds must applaud what they like best. And in social comment, the test of audience approval, far more than the test of truth, comes to influence comment.'
'Just as truth ultimately serves to create a consensus, so in the short run does acceptability.'
‘Numerous factors contribute to the acceptability of ideas. To a very large extent, we associate truth with convenience – with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem.’
‘Because familiarity is such an important test of acceptability, the acceptable ideas have great stability. They are highly predictable. […] I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the Conventional Wisdom.’
‘The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.’
I want to talk to you about 'the march of events'. In the following (and attached) you can see how I am compiling this course of events. A 'smoking gun' is the covid 'gives' pulmonary embolism story about which 'Richard' published at the time (and 'Marleen' in his entourage, and with it: the entire world of thrombosis experts), and of which 'Miranda' just can't find the cause despite the tons of subsidy she gets for this research (because she searches in all places except the right place, i.e., negligent acting) and what I presented to you in April-May 2020 as a typical covid example of medical negligence. And to which you responded by email that you were 'not an expert'. I understand all this very well from Galbraith's conventional wisdom. Relating Covid to medical negligence does not fit conventional wisdom, especially in April-May 2020. But it does fit within the march of events.
With that course of events, which I summarize as covid=flu + medical negligence, I am working on it by talking about it with anyone who wants to know, which has now led to parliamentary questions and publications. I talk about it with everyone and also with the media, politics, IGJ. The only party with whom I don't really talk about it yet (because of my voluntary excommunication = voluntary resignation HUMC) is the academy. I want to lift that excommunication by talking to you about it. I hope you are open to this.
And in response, don't want to talk about it anymore... How convenient. I understand very well. No one has to actively participate in their own condemnation, that's what it is.
What a huge iatrogenic scam it is.
I read your blog last week. Impressed! It's nice that there are 'awake' doctors. 'Awake', a word I've been muttering about for a long time...
It would be worth a lot if the information flows concerning 'whatever' were free and could not be guided by invisible (but evident) interests.
It should be the case that missteps can be brought into the limelight to such an extent that those responsible are looked down upon if they persist in being right. And here a heavy responsibility lies with the media/critical journalists/.....
This is a bit like how people in Germany eventually (had to) face what had gone wrong in the thirties and afterwards and then in such a way that those responsible were interrogated by their own children and did not allow themselves to be fobbed off
'Intensive supervision', wonderful term!
Yes, I'm going to use it more often. The logical consequence is therefore to reduce the number of civil servants! fun
They do not go beyond March 2022. Also interesting is the period before the corona crisis. See WOB/WOO researcher Cees van den Bos. The piece can also be found at maurice.nl. Put all off the list and all followers imprisoned in the EU province of the Netherlands converted to 15 minutes city. "We" on the Wadden Islands start again in freedom and peace. In recent years, it has become clear to me that in every profession, expertise, scientists, etc., there are awake people walking around, so we make something beautiful out of ;). Happy (almost last???) King's Day!
Nice summary, Anton. Of course, the narrative is rattling on all sides, we don't need to convince each other about that. Your list is very extensive. It is striking that the exact same pattern, but with different abbreviations (CDC, FDA, MHRA etc.) has manifested itself in other countries. Then you quickly move towards conspiracy. Or not, and then we call it mass hysteria.
During this period, I have come to realize more than ever that it is impossible to see things from someone else's perspective. I seriously don't understand how all these agencies went along with a narrative that was so nonsensical. In the end, all these institutions are made up of people. People with an average reasonable intelligence, we can hope. Yet, like tame sheep, they have started to implement a completely nonsensical narrative. My friends (most) and family the same. That's the big question for me.
I specifically felt very alone once. When I was not accepted at the award ceremony of a tennis tournament in which I had participated. Had gone home to take a shower. There was a lady with a QR scanner at the entrance. This was before the official introduction of the CTB (2022). At one point there was a nice crowd around me. The weather was beautiful, everyone was standing outside with a well-behaved wristband on. Several people apologized. They also thought it was nonsense, but yes, suppose the BOAs would come (meeting of more than x people), then fines and such. Narrow!
Then went back home without making a scene. But it did feel like apartheid. Of all those dozens, maybe 100 people, I was the only one who had trouble with this.
That is why I welcome forums of this kind where we can express our surprise. In fact, all I see are sensible, well-founded comments. And we are the wappies?
I think this self-inflicted crisis was inevitable. The WHO had been insisting for a long time on the next pandemic that just wouldn't come. A spark was enough to set off the alarm. Over the years, all these bodies have grown into huge bureaucracies, and they must have something to do. I have now come to the point where I assume that there has never been a pandemic in the old sense of the word. It's an inflated story. The reasonable voices (Ioanidis) in 2020 have been shouted down and censored.
This is not to say that it was a conspiracy. More like a technocracy that has gone completely off the rails and is self-reinforcing. And that's much scarier than a respiratory virus. That's why it's not over.
I'm definitely going to check out Maarten Leeflang's site
Cees, it's also a mystery to me why people are like this. So recognizable your story in tennis. I then sent an email to our club about that "fear of the boas" because it was "necessary for a virus, wasn't it?". They then started to stick to the rules instead of that "overdrive" so that the top athlete of our family could participate in training again, but had to stay in front of the crowd barrier in the open air with the people with wristbands on the other side of the fence at a few centimeters distance during meetings. The vast majority of them did not believe in a pandemic themselves, but walking along was more important and also the holidays etc. So important that they have put their health and that of their children at risk. There is a lot of suffering around us now, but no one wants to talk about the (possible) cause or even know what causes extra misery because there is no progress in looking for the right treatments. Also suffering where treatment is no longer possible... I was never bullied at school but also never participated in bullying and that also felt like being excluded. That feeling times a thousand is still there today.
As requested by Anton, I made a suggestion. And it has already been removed.
Yes, what do you want Teunissen: Active thinkers or just syrup spreaders?
Ik heb niets verwijderd…? Niet zo agressief svp. Of was het off-topic? Kan het mij niet herinneren. Zou je het nog eens willen proberen?
Ik heb niets verwijderd…? Niet zo agressief svp. Of was het off-topic? Kan het mij niet herinneren. Zou je het nog eens willen proberen?