A financial man once explained the following to me: "If you go to a notary in Belgium and you want something with a second or third house in the Ardennes, you shouldn't be surprised if he asks: 'left drawer or right drawer?'" The right drawer is strictly in accordance with the rules of the law, the left drawer offers a little more leeway, a corner can be cut, something can be skipped that is never checked anyway, it goes faster, uses a goat path that has not been done yet, a conversation with the mayor also helps etc. etc. In the end, that may very well be debatable – but, if no one publicizes it, there is actually no chance that anyone will discover it at all. And of course: with mutual benefit for the notary and the homeowner. No rooster goes to crows. Everyone happy.
You won't experience that so easily in the Netherlands. Perhaps a parallel can be drawn with Bible views, which have always been dealt with differently in the south than above the rivers where they were a bit more upright in doctrine.
A man goes to the doctor
We are going to play with the caricature outlined above of how the Belgians deal with their regulations, including the implementing authorities. What will happen to compulsory vaccinations that people don't really want to take themselves but take anyway, in order to be able to go on holiday, to be able to work, in short, not to become a pariah in social life?
The doctor gets a pat on the back (and a fee) for each injection given, so he likes to have that shot in the books.
The healthy citizen in front of him also likes to have that jab in the books, but actually prefers not to have it in his shoulder. As long as he can go on holiday.
Left drawer or right drawer?
They have a common interest. So what happens then? We'll never know until we start testing the entire population for vaccine residue. (Which, according to top scientist Dijkgraaf, is not possible, because he has explained to us that that mRNA jab flutters out of your body 'just like a snapchat'. Within fifteen minutes or so, in any case very quickly. A miracle. And it works much better than We had dared to dream!)
Bad batches?
To characterize a national character in this way has something dangerous and at the same time something romantic; You could make a feel-good movie out of it. But there is more: the batch numbers, for example. The quality of the Covid vaccines is very variable. Batches differ from each other and the same batches have different safety profiles in different regions.
The quality is not monitored and vaccines produced in this way have never been approved. There are huge differences between batches and even between batches from the same batch! You can read more about studies on this in the US, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Denmark in a previous article.
Perhaps the Belgian and Dutch jabs came from different suppliers, the output of which has never been tested, and the Dutch have had a bad batch (a few?) times, which has been bothering them ever since. Or they use different cooling systems, different ways of storing and transporting, which made the Dutch jabs more harmful.
Surely there must be something to be found that explains why excess mortality in the Netherlands is three times as high as in Belgium. The Netherlands: an average of 13% excess mortality, Belgium: 4%.
Is it the environmental pollution that a large part of the Dutch lives in and has that interacted with something else that was not there before 2021?
Has that pollution suddenly only worsened in the Netherlands in 2021?
Did they turn on 5G!? But what about Belgium?
Anyone who has an explanation for the fact that excess mortality in the Netherlands is three times as high as in Belgium is welcome to say so. Since (mid) 2021, not to forget. Prior to that, also during the corona waves in 2020, it was more or less the same.
Below are the average excess mortality rates since April 2021, per month, with trend lines that give way (see Eurostat chart). The trend line of Belgium is decreasing, the difference with the Netherlands is only increasing...
And no: it's not about the expectation that can vary from country to country. Below you can see that both OurWorldInData and Eurostat see the same thing. They calculate an expectation themselves. On both sites, the baselines of all countries have been made comparable with each other.
Only when we have all the figures transparent can we perhaps start to understand why 'outlier' Sweden suffers less from excess mortality, where the difference between the Netherlands and neighboring Belgium comes from and more of that crazy thing.
When you look at age categories, you see that the difference between the Netherlands and Belgium only occurs in two places: 1) an undermortality of children under the age of 14 in Belgium (although these will probably be too small numerically to play a major role in the overall trend), and 2) an excess mortality in the 75+ population.
How active is/were people with vaccinations in Belgium? If more elderly people there took the left drawer, that might be an explanation. But in any case, the cause apparently lies in the larger number of elderly people who are now dying.
What I do know is that there is much more vaccination in Flanders than on the other side of the country (the French speakers and immigrants were more critical) and/or left-handed, the latter I have also heard from my family and acquaintances there. More could also be done in schools without the principal getting into trouble (or being afraid of it). Other than that, it was just as crazy as here, unfortunately. The strangest incident was the death of the man Marc van R. acquaintances let their hunting dogs out every day! in the forest/area where the man was found and declare that they are sure that the man was not there before... I really hope that the bottom stone will come out. Thanks again for the article and perhaps the figures of the vaccination coverage in the different language areas and the big cities will bring more clarity.
Or did the Belgians make a hefty correction to the calculated excess mortality 2 years ago, see kink in graph?
No, both OWID and Eurostat calculate the excess mortality themselves on the basis of the mortality figures provided by Belgium.
For the Belgian calculation of excess mortality, you have to check with sciensano. That's pretty much the same. For example:
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/analyse-van-de-oversterfte-de-zomer-van-2023
The RIVM excess mortality calculation is a lot more reassuring than the NL excess mortality calculated by OWID and Eurostat. They are more like https://sterftemonitor.nl
Twee vragen die je dan kunt stellen om een duidelijkere relatie inenten/ oversterfte vast te stellen: Is de oversterfte nog (vooral) lager in Wallonië en Brussel waar de vaccinatiegraad beduidend lager was dan in Vlaanderen?
Is de werkelijke vaccinatiegraad in Wallonië ( Brussel) nog lager ten opzichte van Vlaanderen en Nederland omdat in het zuiden van België nog meer gesjoemeld wordt dan in Vlaanderen?
I'm looking for some advice on whether or not to do vaccinations.
I am 61 years old. I'm a little overweight. 93 kg by 189 cm. My health is good and my fitness level is reasonable.
Because of my age, I have been invited for 3 vaccinations.
Corona Vaccination:
• There is of course no doubt about that: The Corona vaccination is an MRNA vaccine and I will of course not take it.
• It is now generally known that the side effects do not outweigh the possible minimal and short-term protection of the corona flu.
Flu Vaccination:
• I'll skip that one too.
• I never actually have the flu and I never actually have a cold.
• What would be the added value of the flu shot?
Pneumococcal vaccination:
• I'm still unsure about this.
• The GP has not responded to my request for information. The assistant only managed to say that this was not an MRNA vaccine. A package leaflet was not available.
What now?
• I don't consider myself crazy. My yellow booklet is overflowing with vaccination stamps. I just like to travel. And I still think vaccinations against diseases such as polio and rabies are a good thing.
• But, I have followed Mr. Steigstra's studies closely and I know that the MRNA vaccines are simply no good. My confidence in the RIVM has now fallen far below zero.
• After the corona campaign, I eventually became reluctant to accept other regular vaccines without question.
So now I am just looking for objective and reliable advice about the advantages and disadvantages of pneumococcal vacination.
Mijn vraag is dus: kan iemand mij adviseren ver nut en noodzaak van deze pneumokokken-vaccinatie ?
Denk het niet:
https://www.radboudumc.nl/nieuws/2015/pneumokokkenvaccin-leidt-tot-opkomst-andere-pneumokokken
Bedankt Peter !