The Highwire with Del Bigtree - HOW DID TANZANIA OUTPERFORM THE WEST ON COVID?

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

After shunning COVID vaccines during the early pandemic response, Tanzania became a natural experiment for all-cause mortality rates. Compared to large U.S. states like Texas and California, Tanzania, with one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the world, succeeded in having one of the lowest all-cause mortality rates on earth, through the worst of the pandemic.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Let's talk about propaganda in health, more importantly, something we've been really just trying to pick apart from day one with this COVID situation. So a video came across our desk at the Highwire from UNICEF. And it was a kind of Hollywoodish version video. And it just had our jaws on the ground. So we'd like to share with the audience. Take a look. In 2020, scientists developed a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines in record-breaking time. It was miraculous.

It saved the lives of my parents and grandparents. In just a few months, nearly everybody in my country got the vaccine. I lost my mother right at the start of the pandemic. So many doctors and nurses got sick. School closed down. But then came the vaccine. You said life would return to normal. You restored our hope.

And you promised you wouldn't stop there. You said you'd help other countries. you'd help other countries. You promised to share vaccines with the whole world. To make sure it ended everywhere, for everyone. But you took too long. You brought up supplies and held them back. Just in case. You let people and other countries suffer. Doctors and nurses kept getting sick. Teachers died. You let the virus carry on, going round and round and round. It changed into even more dangerous variants.

Then it all came back again and again, again. School's closed again. Life kept getting turned upside down. But all of us, things could have worked out so differently. You knew that no one is safe. Until everyone's safe. I feel like there should be a law against using children for fear porn, but, you know, that's just gross. So I can't let this stand.

I have to break this down a little bit. So, I mean, there's so many untruths in this video. We could do an entire segment on it. But just really quick, the young actress says I lost my mother at the start of the pandemic. Well, do you remember they were holding back early treatment at the start of the pandemic? They were telling people just to basically go home so you can't breathe, then come in the hospital, put you on a ventilator. We know how that turned out. No Ivermectin, no vitamin D, no exercise. They were denying everybody calling conspiracy theories for trying to do that. And then they said, schools closed. Then they came the

vaccine. Well, actually, schools closed and they held kids hostage, even though against the direction of people like the Great Barrington Declaration and so many other public health experts, schools closed because of the teachers' unions and policymakers shut them down and you held them hostage until these kids were at almost no risk had the vaccine. Now, some of those little girls' classmates, their male classmates, have heart conditions, because of that vaccine. And then also, they said that the virus kept circulating and circulates because they never tested the vaccine

to stop transmission, but they lied to you and said, it did stop transmission. But finally, the life-saving shot, that life-saving shot that they're propagandizing you with, that only 5% of Africans have had, they say in this video, says UNICEF. Well, let's see how Africa has done. Let's look at 2020.

Let's look at the headlines to really fact-check UNICEF. Reuters, 2020. Puzzled scientists seek reasons behind Africa's low fatality rates from pandemic. Hmm. 2021, scientists mystified, weary as Africa avoids COVID disaster. But they didn't get the life-saving vaccine. Maybe the COVID disaster is the vaccine itself potentially? I mean, we know that, but it's outrageous to be reading it.

Right. So let's go back to a segment and a topic that we've discussed before talking about Africa. So former president of Tanzania, John Magafouli, he came out during the vaccine rollout. Remember, they're trying to give vaccine. They're trying to vaccinate Africa. They're trying to vaccinate his country. And he went to on a podium. He went in a public discussion and said this.

Take a listen. There are some Tanzanians who recently traveled abroad in search of the coronavirus vaccine. These people brought the virus into a country when they returned. Let us stand firm. This vaccine is not good at all. all. We need to put God first in fighting against this dangerous disease, but at the same time, take health precautions to protect ourselves against this disease as advised by our health experts. We have lived for over a year without the virus, and the good evidence is most of you here don't

wear masks. Wow. This vaccine is no good at all. He's starting to sound like Peter McCullough in retrospect. Yeah. So we have articles, Wall Street Journal. Of course, he was attacked relentlessly because of this. So this is the Wall Street Journal in February of 2021. Tanzania shunned lockdowns. Now it's rejecting COVID-19 vaccines. So it goes in there and talks to their chief medical officer. And she says this, we are not yet satisfied that those vaccines have been clinically proven safe. Dr. Guajima said in a news conference flanked by unmasked by unmasked government health officials. During her conference, Dr. Guajima, a medical doctor with a master's degree in public health displayed several trades with local herbs

that she said could be used to make anti-coronavirus remedies, otherwise known as early treatment that is the local population has at their fingertips. I mean, this is what was going on in that country. So now what was happening was they were getting all of these testing kits there. So you're not going to take the vaccine, well, at least start testing your population, keep doing this. So the health department under direction of the former president we just saw started testing things besides people like goats and papayas. And this is the headline here, Tanzania.

It's one of my favorite headlines. Testing Kitt's question after goat and papaya test positive. So they're saying, look, obviously these tests aren't accurate. We know they're not accurate because of the high cycle threshold rate that was required to find these virus detection particles. But this is a whole new thing. So obviously, this made a lot of people mad. And then shortly after President Magafouli disappeared from the public for, for, for weeks on end. It was a big mystery. And then he was pronounced, he was announced dead.

This is the headline Tanzanese Maghuli laid to rest after mysterious death. We really don't understand what happened. His wife had come out and said he's had a long time heart condition and that's what proved fatal. But really, the whole purpose of going into this conversation is we have a natural experiment. So we have, like UNICEF said, only 5% of Africans have had the vaccine. That's clearly not what's going on in the rest of the world. The rest of the world is 80, 90, nearly 100, or if you talk about boosters, 110, 150% vaccinated because they're getting so many other shots. So we have Tanzania. Let's look at, let's look at, as you've talked about before, it really comes down to all-cause mortality. We're not talking about hard conditions or

emergency room visits. Talking about all-cause mortality. Let's look at how, because the vaccine was life-saving. It should save lives. It should have an effect on all-cause mortality. So let's look at the two largest states in the United States, Texas and California, and compare that with how Tanzania did. And together, they're almost about the same populations when you add California and Texas together compared to Tanzania. And here you see in blue Tanzania starting at 2014 going to 2021. It's basically going down. You get a little spike there in 2015, but that blue line, you see it going down, down, down. And then the pandemic comes 2019, 2020, 2021.

not much of a rise there where starting in 2019, the orange line and the gray line representing Texas and California, you see those spike up from 2019 to 2020 they go up. And then again, the vaccine's already being distributed at that point, and they still keep going up into 2021. And these are similar population sizes, right, when we compare Tanzania with California and Texas. If you're going to say density, questions like that,

they're fairly similar. Absolutely. Tanzania has about 63 million. California has about 39 million. Texas is about 29 million. So you add those two together. We're talking about this about the same size populations. But now let's stay in that same graph.

And let's talk about the percentage increase from the previous year. So California and Texas, starting in 2019 to 2020, you have 21.5% increase in all-caused mortality per 100,000 people in Texas and 18.7% in California. But then again, the vaccines are rolled out at that point, going to 2021. it's still going up. Texas, 6.1% all cause mortality goes up. Why? 5.1% California goes up. Why?

Tanzania, we have 2.8% in 2020 and then 0.6% in 2021. I mean, we really should have seen, especially in 2021, we should have seen that percentage jump up because they didn't get their life-saving vaccines. Now- It sure makes me want to like meet that head of the health department in Tanzania that was handing out local herbs and traditional healing methods. saying that this is going to stop COVID. It sure as heck looks like it did. So instead of making fun of her, maybe we should go over there

and figure out what it is she did exactly. I mean, outrageous results there in the rest of the world all over, similar meridians everywhere are just struggling. Amazing. And we've had Edward Dowd on here. He's the analysts looking at all-cause mortality and children in the UK, in the workforce,

comparing that to insurance actuaries. So really what they compare, because the big deal is you compare it with the years before the pandemic because you get a baseline. So let's do that with this chart. Let's stay with this chart one more time. Percent increase compared to the last five years before the pandemic. So starting around 2015 to 2019 and you see Texas in California, Texas is 24% increase in 2020 compared to the five years before. 32% increase in 2021 compared to the five years before California, 22% in 2020, 20% in 2020, in 2021 just keeps going up. Tanzania, negative 10%, compared to the previous five years before the

pandemic, and negative 9% in 2021. So that is extremely, extremely telling chart. And again, we have this microcosm of a natural study extremely important. And this is not lost on a lot of the experts out there. We had Vandenbosch on. And he specifically pointed to African children as being kind of a reservoir. Take a look at what he said about that. Okay. I'm always saying Africa will win the countries that barely vaccinated their people. You know, you see this, for example, now in South Africa, I don't know whether you have seen these curves. You have a steep increase of one Omicron variant, and then it was calm like for a few months, and then you had another steep curve. You don't see this in our countries anymore in the highly vaccinated countries. South Africa has approximately 30,

35% of vaccinated people. So you still have an important young population that can clear the virus. And that is how these waves can still be brought down. But yeah, as I was saying, this is going to be dramatic for highly vaccinated countries. And I really cannot imagine if we don't intervene with mass antiviral chemoporphylaxis. I, you know, yeah, of course you could say we need a baby boom to immediately dilute this whole thing so that we have earth immunity, but that cannot happen within a short time.

You could say we can have massive immigration from people coming from poorly vaccinated countries, but like, for example, now with Ukraine, etc. What I'm seeing is that they get already vaccinated at the border when they come in, right? So none of this is going to help. And this cannot be put back into balance without major sacrifice. If you don't act on the virus, if you don't want to do this, and you just drive it into more and more infectious variants, then the other alternative is, of course, the host population.

I mean, what else? It is not 25 different factors that are contributing. to this. You hear us all the time talking about infectious pressure and immune pressure, right? And that is the two factors you can play with. It's amazing when you sort of reflect on that. What he's saying really simply put is that Africa didn't get vaccinated. They have true immunity. They've achieved herd immunity. It's celebrated. Clearly, all the headlines now show us that. He was arguing that the stupidest that we could do in America was to vaccinate our children, that that was the last reservoir capable of herd immunity

had super low risk that could actually protect the rest of us, build that, you know, herd immunity. And he thought that if you vaccinate the children, this virus is just going to keep coming around like they're reporting. They think it's going to happen again. They think it's happening now. Some states starting to mask up because we weren't able to reach herd immunity. And he predicted there may be a moment in the history where we would start importing people from Africa to bring their immunity here to try and get a level playing field since all of the vaccinated are not contributing to herd immunity. They're carrying this virus because the vaccine is a leaky vaccine, cannot stop the virus, unlike the unvaccinated who caught it, kill it dead, and now have,

you know, a much more robust immunity. So it's super interesting now to be looking at these statements that were made in the middle of it and now proving to be true. And it looks like this natural experiment, the window for this natural experiment is now closing because as we saw at the beginning of our pandemic response, you saw social media influencers, like Jennifer Aniston and people doing really kind of pushing this vaccine. Same things happening in Africa right now. Here's the headlines just recently. Tanzania mobilizes musicians and influencers to shed the legacy of its COVID-denying ex-president.

And then here's from the WHO's regional office in Africa right from their website. From below 10 to 51 percent, Tanzania increases COVID-19 vaccination coverage. It says from a poor coverage of 2.8% of the total population by mid-January 2020, Tanzania recorded an exponential increase. to 51% as of April 2023, and that is increasing since that article as well. I mean, one day you know for sure is not happening those ads. They're not telling the people in Africa, you did better than every other nation in the world. You are healthier right now than every other nation in the world.

They're lying to them. They're poisoning them. This just shows how sick and demented WHO and these world, you know, authoritarian organizations called NGOs as though somehow they're bent, benefiting this world.