President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola is looking to isolate opponents to the migrant pact, she told the press on Tuesday. She said it is important to ensure opponents, expected to include Poland and Hungary, could not form a “blocking minority”.
Metsola said she was looking to help outmanoeuvre opponents in the Council of Ministers, to ensure they didn’t have sufficient backing to torpedo the package of laws.
Under the EU’s complicated qualified majority voting rules, a minority of EU Member States can technically veto legislation.
To increase pressure on national governments, the Parliament has put part of negotiations on hold, she said.
The aim however remained to secure approval before the end of the current Parliamentary term. The EP President said she would do anything she could to create consensus.
Speaking to the European Newsroom, a co-operation project between news agencies from all over Europe, Mestola said she remained “optimistic” that governments and MEPs could reach an agreement.
“I am optimistic because I would not be able to explain to voters how, after a five-year legislature, we failed to find a solution to one of the best legislative proposals we have ever had on the table,” Metsola said.
On September 20, the European Parliament halted negotiations with the Council of Ministers on Refugees on two key parts of the pact in protest at a lack of progress on the so-called “asylum pillar”. Metsola said the “pillar of migration security cannot be addressed alone without the asylum pillar”.
The European Parliament chief stressed the need to “not separate the internal and external dimensions of immigration” and to “be consistent in how we engage with neighbouring countries.
“Until we have found a solution that allows us to investigate asylum applications outside the EU territory, we will need to engage in a dialogue with those countries from which migrants have no other option but to embark on a boat,” Metsola said.
The negotiating impasse could end this week or next, she said, while noting that “not all countries will accept it, that is nothing new, but we need to find a majority”. Everything depended on “political” goodwill.
“I cannot justify the fact that in five years in office, we have not been able to find a solution,” she said of the Pact.
“In the past, we could have found majorities but consensus has been used as a reason not to do so.
“I say this with regret: we could have formed a majority in the past, but the excuse of preferring consensus was used.
“This is an area where decisions are made by a majority. Now we have to ensure there is no blocking minority in the Council, which is what concerns me in the case of crisis management.”
Metsola also commented on the use of navies in the Mediterranean. “If a naval mission in the Mediterranean can be carried out to ensure that fewer people lose their lives while simultaneously ensuring that borders are respected, then this is an aspect we could consider positively. It’s a decision of the governments but it is highly debated in this forum.”
Although the European election campaign is expected to be complex, Metsola said she was confident that the new Parliament formed after the vote will maintain “a pro-European and constructive centre majority”.
That would allow for her potential successor to be chosen “from that centre”. The same applied to the next President of the European Commission, she added: position for which no one has yet applied, though Metsola is rumoured to be interested herself.
When questioned if concerns over the recent EU-Tunisia migration agreement have had an influence on the negotiations, Metsola called for “consistency” in how different neighbouring countries are treated.
She admitted that until an agreement on where claims for asylum can be processed outside the EU is found, “there will have to be a dialogue with the countries where migrants see no other solution than getting on a boat”.
Remember the Steele Dossier, the document commissioned by the deep state and passed off as legitimate intelligence that asserted then-candidate Donald Trump participated in damning and disgusting urinary escapades with hookers in a Moscow hotel, and because sexual acts which involve urination are vulgar and shameful, Trump was compromised? Of course you do, the government racked up a $32 million debt (partly, in your name), all to “discover” it was a scam. How could you forget?
Well, in a strange turn of events, political figures and “pee play” do go hand in hand, but unsurprisingly, it’s a gay Democrat (not President Trump) implicated in debauched exploits of urination for sexual purposes. And, it’s the gay Democrat that seems to always be leading the parade of perversity, California’s most notorious state senator, Scott Wiener. From a story published at The Post Millennial yesterday:
On Sunday, the infamous Folsom Street Fair took place in San Francisco, with the kink festival celebrating its 40th year.
California state Senator Scott Wiener, who has been photographed at the event in previous years, applauded the day as ‘one of the best days of the year in San Francisco.’
See Wiener’s post to X below:
Today is Folsom Street Fair! One of the best days of the year in San Francisco
We kicked it off with the amazing Donna Sachet’s 25th annual Folsom Leather Brunch. I’m so grateful to Donna & all of the kick ass community leaders who make our city a better place. pic.twitter.com/BvZuI8KX5i
Reader and viewer discretion is advised, but the sort of degenerate behavior marketed to the normal person as “acceptance” and “expression” and the kind that Wiener celebrates, includes this:
Photos and videos of the event circulating on social media show men dressed in fetish attire openly participating in sexual acts on the public street.
One photo shows two men sitting in a kiddie pool while another standing along the side pees into it.
See below:
This would be the street fair where you can see grown men fucking each other on the streets like dogs and if you're feeling hot you can jump in a kiddy pool and have a man piss on you. What a delightful place. https://t.co/EJ0hQBJpjupic.twitter.com/JiL0WiVU2G
The event featured a number of booths for vendors and groups, including Cute Little F*ckers, which is described as a “gender-inclusive” sex toy company, as well as the Satanic Temple.
Another vendor present at the fair was Tykables, a company specializing in disposable diapers and onsies, with designs that resemble those for infants and toddlers, made for adults with diaper fetishes.
Other images from Folsom, too pornographic and filthy to include, showed public exhibitions of anal sex and men covered in feces—to Wiener, these are “kick ass community leaders” who are making the city “a better place.”
This is the man who consistently supports and sponsors legislation to push lewd and lascivious content in the classroom, and the confiscation of children by the state.
(What’s the common denominator? Innocent children.)
Language warning, but as noted by a social media personality:
Of course the guy who wants to take your kids away and have them chemically and physically mutilated goes to public shit and piss orgies[.]
These ppl are evil and should have zero say on what is appropriate for kids[.]
*Come to our Immigration Conference on Sat 7 Oct in London. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/immigr… We welcome Suella Braverman’s comments about multiculturalism and mass immigration. We only wish she had spoken up sooner. We at the New Culture Forum have been warning about the darker side of diversity for years. As explained in this clip from a speech by our Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, mass Immigration + multiculturalism is destroying Britain and has forever changed cities & towns across the nation.
Residents at the Kärråkra dementia center in Eslöv, Sweden, are going without basic staples such as milk towards the end of the month due to stretched budgets.
Elderly residents at a dementia home in Sweden are being served porridge without milk for breakfast due to a lack of funds, despite the governing municipality only recently finding the cash to put up migrants in hotels, according to local reports.
The Samnytt news site revealed the demise of pensioners at the Kärråkra’s nursing home in Eslöv, which it claims is just the latest cutback in the quality of care provided to residents in recent years.
“The money has run out,” Sofia Persson, the manager of the facility, told the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper when asked about the substandard breakfast on offer to its elderly residents.
She explained that the care home’s budget for August had been used up before the end of the month, leading to staff being prevented from buying certain staples, including milk, until the following month.
Persson expressed her sadness at the situation and explained that many residents were becoming dissatisfied with the meals on offer, particularly towards the end of the month when finances are stretched, but did note that those who do not wish to partake in a milk-free porridge breakfast are able to opt for sandwiches instead.
The Samyntt news site explains that the food is not even publicly funded for all residents, with those with the means to pay being charged for the breakfasts, and these prices were hiked recently by the local council.
The crisis comes at a time when the local government is finding the money to fund hotel accommodation for new arrivals into Sweden.
“Elderly people in wheelchairs with broken hips are thrown out into the street and 90-year-olds who cannot manage at home are denied a place in nursing homes. This is at the same time as the municipality of Eslöv has spent tens of millions on housing so-called unaccompanied migrants in hotels,” the site stated.
It expressed further concern over the quality of care being provided to those residents who remain in nursing homes in the region, reporting how an increasing number of staff members at the facilities are new arrivals in the country and struggle to communicate with the residents in Swedish and also lack adequate training.
“Eslöv is not unique, this is how it looks in most municipalities in Sweden today,” it added.
As early as 2015, Reuters reported that Sweden’s soaring costs for asylum seekers were forcing the country to cut costs and borrow more.
At that time, Sweden’s Migration Agency had doubled its financial forecast for asylum seekers and stated that it would require an extra 70 billion Swedish crowns ($8.41 billion) over the next two years. Since then, Sweden’s migrant population has only exploded higher.
Reuters wrote at that time that “Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said asylum costs were unsustainable in the longer term and called on other European countries to do more to share the burden.”
The same story has played out across Europe, with figures from Germany showing the country is set to spend €36 billion alone this year, 2023, on migrants even as is cuts services and funds to the elderly.
The head of the Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek, has reinterpreted an apparently Islamist-motivated attack as an act of anti-Muslim racism. On Monday, he commented on an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel with the words: “Muslim-read victims – also a classic Islamophobic attack. Who doesn’t understand that; first think, then write.” To this he posted the hashtag #AntimuslimischerRassimus, as reported by the newspaper Die Welt.
The official police report, however, suggests otherwise. According to the report, a man was attacked in a Neukölln bar on Monday evening because he was wearing an Islamic prayer cap as a fashion accessory. When he ordered a beer in a bar in the Schillerpromenade, two unknown persons allegedly approached him, hit him several times in the face with their fists and snatched his headgear.
The attackers allegedly asked him to think about which hat he would wear in the future. The perpetrators fled with the headgear in an unknown direction. The victim was taken to hospital by emergency services with a broken nose, a laceration to his lip and a loosened tooth.
After the circumstances became known, Mazyek deleted his post without comment. Critics have long accused the Central Council of Muslims of cultivating contacts with Islamist currents within Islam. The largest member association of the Council is the Union of Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations in Europe, which is classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as belonging to the Turkish right-wing extremist Grey Wolves.
Germany is the European champion of cupio dissolving. Germany’s Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, wants to massively expand foreigners’ right to vote. In the future, refugees who have been living in Germany for six months will also have the vote, BILD reports. Asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia etc… should participate in the elections. Because these are countries with very solid democratic and civil traditions? Other non-EU citizens (for example from Turkey) will also have the right to vote. Here we enter “Germanistan”, the title of the new book by journalist Henry Broder.
To combat the demographic crisis, “Germany needs 1.5 million immigrants a year”, economist Monika Schnitzer tells Welt. Anyone who knows anything about how the European Union works knows that you cannot create a Commission without the Germans and that it is the Germans who decide the most important dossiers. Including migration.
We are not in the field of statistics here, but of post-modern morality. Of a morality that provides for the abolition of nation states and their identities.
They want to atone for their history by being overwhelmed by history.
Italian minister Matteo Salvini declared: “There are German institutions that give millions of euros to German NGOs to bring immigrants to Italy.”
2 million euros per year from 2023 to 2026. This is how much the German NGO that brings migrants to Italy “United4rescue” should receive from the Bundestag, the German Parliament. Now, NGOs are fighting with the ministry and the government to get those funds.
But money comes to pro-immigration NGOs in many ways and the German government is not the biggest slice.
The city of Munich sponsored the ships of “SOS Mediterranee Deutschland”, such as the “Ocean Viking”, with 141,933 euros.
On the initiative of the Greens, the Cologne city administration has decided to finance a ship that brings migrants to Italy, “Sea Eye”, for four years. In April, the city of Osnabrück also gave 20,000 euros to “Sea Eye”.
And the archdiocese of Monaco is among the financiers. Cardinal Reinhard Marx has allocated 50,000 euros to support the “Sea Eye” ship, Die Welt reports. Other Catholic dioceses have given 125,000 euros to the “Sea-Eye”, such as Regensburg, Paderborn and Trier. 25,000 euros from the diocese of Limburg.
The “Ocean Viking” ship received 84,502 euros from the district of Lüneburg this summer. Half of the sum was raised through private donations and the other half by the district council. The “Save Bochum” campaign raised 25,000 euros for the German ship “Sea Eye 4”, according to a resolution of the Bochum City Council promoted by the Green parliamentary group.
Germany funds mass immigration. The mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann, and the head of the integration department, Sylvia Weber, gave a grant of 28,000 euros to “United4Rescue”.
“While I respect other cultures, I would still like to preserve my own,” famous novelist Uwe Tellkamp told the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “I don’t want to be like Frankfurt, I don’t want to see the situation in Frankfurt,” referring to the city where the majority of the population is no longer made up of native Germans. In Frankfurt, the first German city where Germans became a minority, 15 percent of the population is already of Turkish origin.
Note this other name: Bochum, whose mayor gave 25,000 euros to the ships. Bochum’s Jews have to hide their symbols in public and Die Welt reveals that a former bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden was able to design a mosque in Bochum.
They are financing the end of Europe.
The NGO “United4rescue” explains how it finds the funds:
“Our alliance already numbers over 800 organizations. And we are becoming more and more diverse: the cities of Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Rostock and Siegen, a nursery, an optician and a sustainable fashion brand have been added. The number of alliance partners who are taking action even beyond this limit is impressive. Be it direct donations or creative fundraising campaigns, information evenings, discussion groups or initiatives, other alliances…”.
The newspaper Taz reports: “Lawyers, shipping companies and humanitarian organizations support the project. The German Film Academy provided an office, actors such as Maria Furtwängler and Armin Rohde their face. Together with Harald Zindler and Gijs Thieme, co-founders of Greenpeace Germany. A shipping company from Leer made an expert available free of charge. And so they acquired the 33 meter long ‘Alk Explorer’, used to monitor drilling platforms off the coast of Iceland. Every month 40,000 euros will have to be collected to cover management costs.”
The Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal is right when he writes about Islam and Europe: “The need for comfort can generate submission”.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior has been accused of exaggerating the number of attacks by suspected right-wing extremists on asylum centers.
An investigation by the German news outlet Nius found that just eight of the 80 cases reported by Interior Minister Nancy Faesar’s department in the first half of 2023 were direct attacks on inhabited asylum accommodations, and just one case had been attributed to a known suspect with right-wing sympathies.
Nius published the findings of its investigation on Monday, having spoken to the relevant local police departments and public prosecutors to ascertain the facts of individual cases included in the federal department’s figures.
Of the eight attacks on asylum accommodations corroborated by the news outlet, six of the cases had no known suspect, yet all cases had been assigned to right-wing perpetrators. Five of the attacks in question pertained to the smashing of windows, while there was one case of arson. In the last confirmed attack, the suspect was a Syrian national who attacked a Lebanese security guard outside an asylum center and was lumped into the category of right-wing extremism by the interior ministry.
This means that 90 percent of the cases the department claims were right-wing attacks on asylum centers did not involve inhabited accommodations, and just one in 80 cases was a confirmed attack at an inhabited refugee center by right-wing suspects. This one relates to an incident in Teterow on June 6 when three drunken German nationals attacked a security guard and set off firecrackers at a premises being used to house refugees.
Nius provides a case summary of every incident detailed by the ministry. A majority of the cases have no known suspect but are labeled as right-wing attacks, while other tenuous links used to categorize incidents as examples of right-wing extremism include the spraying of graffiti on uninhabited refugee centers and, in one case, a German suspect who is said to have made inflammatory statements toward a person of another nationality.
In one instance, a 59-year-old who insulted a police officer during a demonstration in Schleusingen on May 10 was included in the figures, despite the town having no refugee center and there being no involvement of any refugee accommodation or asylum seekers.
Similarly, on June 26, a case of right-wing extremism against refugees involved a fire in a garbage can in Beckum, which the local police stated was “near a refugee home.” The authorities told Nius that there was “no damage to buildings or people” and “there is still no suspect.”
The investigation flies in the face of the narrative pushed by Germany’s Federal Minister Nancy Faeser who has recently attempted to link a perceived rise in anti-refugee sentiment to the surge in popularity of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which currently sits second in opinion polls.
Faeser labeled the party in June as “intellectual arsonists who prepare the ground for violence” and told reporters in Berlin that “right-wing extremism remains a continuing challenge, as it is the greatest extremist threat to the basic democratic order.”
Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for radical reforms to the “absurd” international regulations surrounding asylum seekers, arguing that it has become a promise that the “West cannot fulfil”.
Speaking before the American Enterprise Institute think tank on Tuesday morning in Washington D.C., Braverman — a child of immigrants herself — argued that both the United States and the United Kingdom are falling victim to radical modern interpretations of the 1951 Refugee Convention established by the U.N. in the aftermath of World War II, which she said is no longer fit for the realities of the present day.
She argued that the international refugee frameworks, such as the Convention, “obscure” the different categories of those seeking asylum, stating that it is wrong for people seeking asylum and those seeking to improve their economic standing to be lumped together, just as it is wrong for someone who is sex trafficked to be considered in the same category as someone who paid smugglers to break them into their “preferred country”.
Braverman said, therefore, that the 1951 Refugee Convention created perverse incentives for the illegal migrant trade, saying that while it was important and a real achievement when it was created: “More than 70 years on, we live in a completely different time”.
The Home Secretary said that when the Convention was ratified it conferred the right of asylum to some 2 million people, whereas today, such rights have been extended to over three-quarters of a billion people. Braverman went on to criticise the case law that has developed from starting as a means of helping people escape persecution, violence and torture to something “more akin” to fleeing discrimination, such as people seeking asylum in Western countries because LGBT people are discriminated against in their homelands.
“Where individuals are being persecuted, it is right that we offer sanctuary, but we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if, in effect, simply being gay or a woman, or fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection,” she said.
Braverman said that the current system in which migrants can stay in safe countries for years while they “shop” around for protection is “absurd and unsustainable”, and therefore, international reforms are needed to mandate that migrants can only apply for asylum in the “first safe country they reach”.
“Nobody entering the UK by boat from France is fleeing imminent peril. None of them have good cause for illegal entry. The vast majority have passed through multiple other safe countries and in some instances have resided in safe countries for several years. There is a strong argument that they should cease to be treated as refugees during their onward movement.”
She argued that such reforms may prove difficult, however, in light of the difficulty getting the U.N. to agree on anything, but also because many in the West fear being branded as racist. Some suggested reforms from the Home Secretary included making deterrence of illegal immigration a stated goal, as well as setting out new guidelines on who is worthy of claiming asylum, and for the leeway for countries to seek alternative solutions, such as Britain’s long-delayed plan to offshore illegals in a third-party country.
Braverman went on to decry the cost of immigration to the British taxpayer, noting that in the past decade alone, the cost of the UK asylum system has risen from around £500 million a year to around £4 billion per annum, with £8 million being spent to house migrants in hotels every day. She noted that nearly no illegal migrants put in more taxes to the state than take out in terms of benefits.
The Home Secretary also warned of the threats to national security and increased criminality posed by unfettered illegal migration, saying that police chiefs in England have told her personally that illegals are more likely to be involved in the drug trade and prostitution. Illegals, she said, have already shown “contempt” for the nation’s laws by coming into the country from another safe nation illegally.
“Illegal immigration is increasingly a tool used by hostile states and those acting on their behalf,” she said, pointing to reports that the Russian mercenary Wagner group were instigating increased migratory flows from Africa into Europe as a form of “hybrid warfare” against the West.
Finally, Braverman argued that states which fail to control their own borders will collapse as the people will lose faith in the government to fulfil its basic mandates. “Who we allow into our countries and become one of us is a fundamental issue, without public consent immigration is illegitimate,” she said.
“Dismissing as idiots or bigots those members of the public who express legitimate concerns is not merely unfair, it is dangerous.”
“If cultural change is too rapid and too big, then what was already there is diluted, eventually it will disappear,” the Home Secretary said in an apparent reference to the Great Replacement theory.
The speech from Braverman comes amid migrant crises on several different fronts, including the English Channel, the Southern border of the United States, and in Italy, where thousands of mostly military-age male African economic migrants have been landing on the shores of the island of Lampedusa for years. Such is the extent of the migrant crisis in Europe — which threatens to reach similar heights to the 2016 crisis spurred by the war in Syria — that even the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borell said over the weekend that it could become the “dissolving force” that destroys the EU.
Despite officially leaving the EU in 2020, the UK has continued to see thousands of migrants pouring across the English Channel in small boats run by people-smuggling gangs on the beaches of France. After taking office in a palace coup last year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed that stopping the boats would be one of his chief priorities and one which the public should judge his government on in the next election.
Since then, approximately 24,000 illegals have made the journey. The government has so far failed to come to an agreement with either France or the EU as a whole on the issue of migrant returns, with the Europeans being accused of weaponising the issue in order to punish the people of Britain for voting to leave the bloc in 2016. The government’s main strategy of offshoring migrants, in third-party countries such as Rwanda or on floating containment centres off the coast of the UK, have so far been mired in legal limbo.
For Braverman, the speech in D.C. may come with ulterior political motives, with the Home Secretary likely looking to position herself as a small-c conservative hardliner to replace the more globalist-minded Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party, which is currently trailing the left-wing Labour Party by over 20 points in the polls.
The Home Secretary ran in the last leadership race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, a contest which despite having the backing of Brexit leader Nigel Farage and the Eurosceptic European Research Group of MPs, she came in sixth.
It remains to be seen if her tough talk on immigration will be enough to sway voters in the next leadership race, given that during her time as Home Secretary and therefore responsible for protecting the nation’s borders, the migrant crisis in the Channel continued to rage. The Tories will likely face an uphill battle in the next general election regardless of their leader given their failures to curb both illegal and illegal immigration — despite their frequent promises to do so — during their more than a decade in power.
While Braverman’s speech riled the feathers of the pro-mass migration establishment media in Britain, others said that she should have gone further, including the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party (formerly the Brexit Party), Richard Tice, who said that unless there are “radical” reforms to the U.N. Convention is implemented within the next six months, the UK should withdraw from the agreement.
“Shock and awe is needed to awake our complacent elites out of their cosy metropolitan slumber. The millions of potential economic migrants targeting the UK and Europe over the next few years are a clear and present danger to our way of live, our culture, our security and our prosperity,” Tice wrote in The Telegraph.
The Reform leader went on to argue that Britain should follow the example of Tony Abbott’s ‘turn back the boats’ policy in Australia, which has all but eliminated illegal boat migration. Tice said: “We must pick up and return the illegal migrants crossing the Channel back to France as we are allowed to do under international maritime law.”
League Deputy Secretary Andrea Crippa said Tuesday that Germany had gone from using its army to attack other countries in World War II to using migrants today. The comments were made amid a spat over Berlin’s decision to fund NGOs working to rescue migrants at sea and those helping them in Italy. Premier Giorgia Meloni wrote to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Monday saying that she was “amazed” that Berlin had made the decision without liaising with the Italian government. “They are trying to destabilize the government by funding NGOs to fill us with illegal immigrants and bring down support for the centre right (coalition of government) in Italy,” Crippa, told Affaritaliani.it. “Eighty years ago the German government decided to invade other States with the army, but that went badly. “Now they are funding an invasion of illegal immigrants to destabilize governments that the Social Democrats don’t like. “It is clear that the German government doesn’t want the centre right to govern Italy. “They do everything to put the Italian government in difficulty in the hope of bringing it down”.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce is arguably the best tight end in the NFL. Recently, he appeared in a commercial sponsored by Pfizer and aired during NFL games promoting getting a COVID booster and a flu vaccine simultaneously, showing two parallel band-aids on his arm, with the pitch being it saves time (“two things at once”). You can see the commercial on his Instagram page. Given Kelce also appeared recently in a Bud Light commercial and is rumored to be dating Taylor Swift, some conservatives are calling him out for triple wokeness.
But how safe is getting both vaccines simultaneously? A CDC-funded JAMA study published July 15, 2022, by researchers from the CDC and Emory University, looked into this very question, recording adverse events reported in the period September 22, 2021 to May 1, 2022 for one week following the injections through v-safe, a self-reporting app, for 92,023 receiving the booster and the flu vaccine simultaneously, compared to 889,076 receiving the booster alone. (Note: the study excluded the 2,647 who got more than these two vaccines simultaneously. All I can say to this group is: “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?”) According to the Key Points:
Findings In this cohort study of self-reported data from 981099 persons aged 12 years or older, simultaneous administration of a COVID-19 mRNA booster dose and an influenza vaccine was associated with 8% to 11% increases, respectively, in systemic reaction compared with COVID-19 mRNA booster alone. These differences were statistically significant.
Similarly, at the end of the abstract:
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this study, compared with administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccines alone, simultaneous administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster and seasonal influenza vaccines was associated with significant increases in reports of systemic reactions during days 0 to 7 following vaccination. These results may help better characterize the outcomes…
And this in the Results section:
In the week following vaccination, any systemic reactions were reported by 36144 (58.9%) of 61390 respondents who simultaneously received Pfizer-BioNTech booster and influenza vaccines and 21027 (68.6%) of 30633 respondents who simultaneously received Moderna booster and influenza vaccines.
Yet the CDC link to the JAMA study saying you can get both shots simultaneously merely says this:
A CDC study published this summer showed people who got a flu vaccine and an mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccine at the same time were slightly more likely (8% to 11%) to have reactions including fatigue, headache, and muscle ache than people who only got a COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccine, but these reactions were mostly mild and went away quickly. The findings of this study are consistent with safety data from clinical trials that did not find any safety concerns with giving both vaccines at the same time.
Before you say the CDC is dishonest and Kelce is an idiot, a look at Tables 2 and 3 in the study does reveal that just about all of these events were mild and temporary, and that those receiving just the booster had very similar numbers. However, a few observations: a) While hospitalizations are reported in the table, deaths, if any, were not reported. b) While the numbers in each age group are supplied in the demographics of Table 1, the outcomes are not separated by age group. c) Adverse events occurring after one week will be missed. d) One can ask whether v-safe is the ideal reporting platform.
The drugstores are certainly all-in, e.g., Walgreen’s:
Multiple vaccines in one easy visit
Did you know the CDC says you can get more than one vaccine at the same time? Stay up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine and others like pneumococcal (pneumonia), shingles and more.
That said, you can still say the CDC is dishonest and Kelce is an idiot: the CDC not just for minimizing the significance of the side effects in this instance, but also for past behavior, such as advocating masks against the evidence and for letting Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers dictate its COVID school policy, as well as its current dishonesty on the relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, to the point it’s hard to trust the CDC on anything; and Kelce for getting a booster (not to mention a simultaneous flu shot) apparently without weighing the current COVID virus vs. booster risks (including unknown longer-term) for a healthy, fit, 33-year-old athlete in his prime.
