Moderna on X - "Your risk of #LongCOVID rises with each additional infection. A recent study has shown that by their third COVID infection, patients have a 40% chance of developing Long COVID symptoms. Learn more about the threat of Long COVID:"
Crémieux on X - "Moderna might be promoting misinformation. That result is based on selective self-reporting, but as it turns out, it's only self-reported COVID that seems to reliably produce "long COVID." Merely serologically confirmed COVID infections don't seem to come with long COVID."
Chris Cuomo brutally mocked for taking U-turn on anti-viral drug Ivermectin: ‘He’s such a hypocrite’ - "NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo recently claimed that he is facing side-effects caused by a COVID-19 vaccine. And now in his latest appearance on Patrick Bet-David's podcast, Cuomo revealed that he frequently takes Ivermectin to treat his long-term condition of COVID. Back in 2020, Cuomo as a CNN anchor called out people promoting Ivermectin, stating that they “need to be shamed.”... During the PBD podcast, Cuomo said he's "taking a regular dose" of the antiviral to deal with an ongoing inflammatory response and "brain fog." “I’ll tell you something else that’s gonna get you a lot of hits,” Cuomo said. “I am taking … a regular dose of Ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman during COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. The real question is, why?” Ivermectin surfaced as a fringe treatment when COVID-19 broke out and was immediately condemned as a "horse dewormer". At that time, podcaster Joe Rogan was mocked for taking the antiviral. “Everyone’s going to say ‘Joe Rogan was right,’” Cuomo stated. “No, Joe Rogan was saying – yeah, he was right – that’s not what matters. What matters is, the entire medical community knew that Ivermectin couldn’t hurt you. They knew it … I know they knew it. How do I know? Because now I’m doing nothing but talking to these clinicians, who at the time were overwhelmed by COVID, and they weren’t saying anything!” While working for CNN, Cuomo along with his colleague Don Lemon blasted the use of Ivermectin after Rogan’s disclosure that he had had successfully taken the antiviral drug. “What person – you know you talk about cancel culture and who to shame – Ivermectin? A de-wormer? Really? … they need to be shamed. They need to be called out and shamed, brother.” Taking a U-turn on the PBD podcast, Cuomo implied that Ivermectin was strongly opposed because there was no profit in a medicine since it was already affordable and widely used. "It's cheap, it's not owned by anybody, and it's used as an antimicrobial, antiviral and has been for all these different ways, and has been for a long time," Cuomo stated. He went on to add that his doctor used the medicine during COVID and it worked for him and his family. “So. They were wrong to play scared on that. Didn’t know that at the time. Know it now, admit it now, reporting on it now.”"
Meme - Max Boot: "Words I never thought I'd write: Saudi Arabia is being more progressive than America. Saudis will need to show proof of vases to enter schools, shops, malls, restaurants, concerts, public transport.
Saudi Arabia to Impose Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate"
I love how "papers, please" is now Progressive
Canada Post wrong to suspend unvaccinated remote workers: arbitrator - "The arbitrator also tossed out Canada Post’s argument that it had an interest in ensuring its employees’ health and safety, namely by getting two COVID-19 vaccine doses. “In essence, the employer’s position is that it can prescribe activities, including medical procedures like vaccination, simply because this could increase the likelihood an employee will be available to work,” she wrote. “To the extent that any such interest exists, this is outweighed by the important interests at stake for the employees in question, including their privacy and their financial and economic interest in ongoing paid employment.”... Flaherty disagreed with Canada Post’s assertion that it was unable to determine which of UPCE’s unvaccinated employees worked exclusively remotely so as to be exempted from the vaccine mandate."
Covid mandates were political, not about public health, after all
Former PM Tony Abbott’s has launched a blistering rebuke of COVID-19 pandemic leaders after bombshell pandemic report - "Former prime minister Tony Abbott has backed fresh criticism of Daniel Andrews and other COVID-era leaders, claiming the premiers' overreach eroded Australia's democracy. The former Victorian premier and other state and territory leaders have landed in hot water for adopting health decisions during the pandemic which were not backed by medical advice, according to former federal health minister Greg Hunt’s submission in the federal government’s inquiry into COVID-19. Now, Mr Abbott has expressed fresh disapproval of COVID-19 era leaders, saying “the policy to deal with COVID-19 turned out to be far worse than the disease itself”. “When you go back and look at this honestly and dispassionately, you'd have to say that the first mistake that governments made was throwing out the carefully prepared pandemic plans that we all had in panic in early March 2020, because of the dire photographs coming out of overwhelmed Italian hospitals,” he said. Mr Abbott said there was “no doubt” government’s “ceased being a democracy and became a kind of a doctocracy” at the time. Victoria implemented stringent curfews, a 5 kilometre radius, as well as the state’s choice not to use ADF personnel at hotel quarantine facilities... In his submission, Mr Hunt said despite references to "medical advice", some decisions made by the then Victorian premier lacked such advice from the Commonwealth and chief health medical officers. “And my fear is that without a fair dinkum Royal Commission type inquiry into the whole response to COVID. Next time a pandemic happens, and it will, we'll take the over the top response to this one, as the model for all future actions,” Mr Abbott said. “But the last thing we want to be is locked up, for several years, again, in response to a disease that turned out to be relatively mild.”"
We now know the likely truth about COVID, and how scientists lied - "LIE: The virus didn’t come from the lab in Wuhan
Anyone who questioned this claim — including The Post — was censored online in 2020. The reason? A statement published in Lancet by 27 scientists calling it a “conspiracy theory.” We now know that statement was drafted by Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, the company working on research in the Wuhan lab. He was just trying to cover his own complicity. All signs point to a lab leak. The only reason we can’t say it conclusively is because China has been allowed to destroy all evidence.
LIE: The US didn’t fund ‘gain-of-function’ research...
in May 2021, Fauci stated unequivocally that the US “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” On Thursday, NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak directly contradicted that. US taxpayers did fund EcoHealth, which was working on gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Tabak’s new excuse? “Gain of function” doesn’t mean what we’ve always been told it means. It’s perfectly “safe,” he claimed. On cue, the National Institutes of Health has changed the definition of the term on its website to make it sound benign. Except it isn’t benign. EcoHealth was specifically working in China because such work was not allowed in the United States. What researchers were doing with coronaviruses was very dangerous. And while there may be a scientific debate about whether such inquiries are worthwhile, deadly viruses have leaked from Chinese labs before. It is the height of irresponsibility for the US to be involved."
Meme - "May be time to revisit our views of this brave man in his N95 mask who ordered a quarantine of Manhattan over the objections of the public and whose primary foe was a man infected by a bat *Bane from the Dark Knight Rises*"
Meme - Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS @17cShyteposter: "lmao. The libs were wrong about *everything*: that it wasn't a global pandemic; that closing borders was racist; that lockdowns/masks/social distancing would stop it; that the vax would solve it; "remote learning" The online right was ahead of the curve at every step. You idiot"
Swenn Marcus @SwannMarcus89: "There are people denying that this occurred, but it absolutely did. All the right-wingers on youtube were freaking out about Covid in January 2020 and the newspaper op-ed position was that we needed to avoid excessive fear It was a very short period of time, but it happened
In fairness, the libs are more justified in their behavior because they were wrong initially but rectified their opinion as evidence became available, whereas the right-wingers just mindlessly took the opposite of the prevailing opinion at every point in time"
Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish @IRHotTakes: "Remember the early days of COVID when it was a right-wing conspiracist opinion to say COVID was going to be a big deal and lib op- Ed writers were penning editorials about how wearing a mask was racist and then everyone switched teams and nobody mentioned it again? Good times."
Pfizer accused of 'bringing discredit' on industry with 'unnecessary' vaccine tweet - "Pfizer has been accused of ‘bringing discredit’ on the pharma industry after senior employees promoted its ‘unlicensed’ COVID-19 vaccine through social media at the height of the pandemic. Pharmaceutical watchdog, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA), found that the pharma giant promoted unlicensed medicines and violated its regulatory code five times. Back in 2020, Dr Berkley Phillips, medical director of Pfizer UK, retweeted a post on X from a US employee which stated: ‘Our vaccine candidate is 95 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19, and 94 per cent effective in people over 65 years old. We will file all of our data with health authorities within days. Thank you to every volunteer in our trial, and to all who are tirelessly fighting this pandemic’. The post was also re-shared by four other UK employees at the company. However, the PMCPA ruled that the post had ‘limited’ information about the vaccine’s efficacy, no reference to adverse events and no safety information. Therefore, the message resulted in an ‘unlicensed medicine being proactively disseminated on Twitter to health professions and members of the public in the UK’ the regulatory body said... Ben Kingsley, head of legal affairs at UsForThem, had a less forgiving perspective, commenting: "It’s astonishing how many times Pfizer’s senior executives have been found guilty of serious regulatory offences – in this case including the most serious offence of all under the UK Code of Practice. “Yet the consequences for Pfizer and the individuals concerned continue to be derisory. This hopeless system of regulation for a multi-billion dollar life and death industry has become a sham, in dire need of reform.” The news comes after Pfizer’s CEO previously found himself in hot water over his ‘misleading’ comments about children’s vaccines, made during an interview with the BBC. In the interview, Dr Albert Bourla said that ‘there is no doubt in my mind that the benefits, completely, are in favour of vaccinating youngsters aged five to 11 against Covid-19’. He added that: ‘Covid in schools is thriving’ and ‘there are kids that will have severe symptoms’. These comments were made before the vaccine received approval by the UK’s medical regulator for this age group and were found to have breached code of practice by the PMCPA."
Damn anti-vaxxer misinformation! Time to shut down the UK regulator!
Stop Death Shaming - The Atlantic - "All unvaccinated, and all whose deaths were covered by various papers and TV stations, with notes of shame or contempt subtle in some tales and bold in others. Whom are these stories for? They seem to aspire to be persuasive—perhaps the unvaccinated simply don’t realize, or haven’t accepted, that COVID-19 can be quite suddenly fatal, even for the otherwise young and healthy. In that case, they could use some frightening reminders, or so the reasoning seems to go. But if persuasion is the target, then the aim seems off—a general problem in our democracy, where persuasion is a key method of self-governance but something we’re less and less amenable to. In that sense, the strange case of vaccine persuasion is just another entry in the annals of our disillusionment with our own liberal democracy. One receives the distinct impression from today’s discursive environment that persuasion in its traditional democratic form—wherein a great deal of value is placed upon shrewd and moving rhetoric that assumes listeners’ basic goodwill—is a useless venture, and that lower forms—insults, scolding, intra-group memeing, the dirty persuasion of disinformation campaigns—are all that’s left. Maybe those things are useless too, one gathers, but at least they’re fun and cathartic. Still, it’s worth considering what an honest persuasion effort aimed at the unvaccinated or vaccine-hesitant would look like, even if we may never see the population-level vaccine uptake that we’d like to. Good-faith persuasion is a matter of discipline and habit; it’s not something that comes naturally. It also happens to be a practice that maintains the premise that liberal democratic politics can change, that they can respond to the shifting will of the people without violence or civil unrest. Perhaps we’ve already come near that point through lopsided, bitter polarization. But inasmuch as democracy is a shared vision—a collaborative dream about the kind of governance we’re capable of and the sort of future we could build—it’s crucial to keep its practices alive even when its functions have broken down. The dream is the last thing to go... the morality tale cum obituary disregards the fact that to persuade someone to do something, you have to present them with information that is persuasive to them, not strictly with information that’s persuasive to you... These stories also reflect (unflatteringly) some of the feelings of the vaccinated set toward the willfully unvaccinated: anger in need of discharging (plenty have written as much) and its cousin schadenfreude—glee at the radically false notion that dying of an illness is a form of moral comeuppance. (NB: No one here gets out alive.)"
From 2021, partially exploring vaxhole psychology
Why countries with 'loose', rule-breaking cultures have been hit harder by Covid
From February 2021. Of course, this is only true if you take a very myopic view of what is good against covid - just cases and short term deaths (ironic, given that it recommended amping up advertising about covid danger). And given that one recommendation of the article was for tightening to be clearly temporary, that's another epic fail for covid hysteria
AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine worldwide after admitting it can cause rare blood clots - "AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide, months after the pharma giant admitted the drug could cause very rare, but life-threatening, injuries... AstraZeneca recently admitted that its vaccine, initially called Covishield, could cause very rare side effects like blood clots and low blood platelet counts... The admission came after the company was slapped with a class action lawsuit in the UK, which claimed that the vaccine had caused deaths and severe injuries and sought damages up to £100m for about 50 victims. “It is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause TTS. The causal mechanism is not known,” AstraZeneca said in court documents in February... AstraZeneca’s admission that the vaccine could potentially prove lethal ran counter to its insistence in 2023 that it would “not accept that TTS is caused by the vaccine at a generic level”."
Damn misinformation and anti-vaxxers!
Clearly it was right to force young people to get vaccinated against a disease which had a very low chance of harming them
TheMastiffMafia on X - "It's been 4 years. Shouldn't all the Non mask wearers and Unjabbed be dead by now? 🤔 #BornBadass 😅"
Opinion | The Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab. These 5 Key Points Explain Why. - The New York Times - "Dr. Anthony Fauci... was questioned about several topics related to the government’s handling of Covid-19, including how the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... supported risky virus work at a Chinese institute whose research may have caused the pandemic. For more than four years, reflexive partisan politics have derailed the search for the truth about a catastrophe that has touched us all... a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China. If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science... The SARS‑CoV‑2 virus is exceptionally contagious and can jump from species to species like wildfire. Yet it left no known trace of infection at its source or anywhere along what would have been a thousand-mile journey before emerging in Wuhan... the Wuhan institute, working with U.S. partners, had proposed creating viruses with SARS‑CoV‑2’s defining feature... The Intercept published a leaked 2018 grant proposal for a research project named Defuse, which had been written as a collaboration between EcoHealth, the Wuhan institute and Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina, who had been on the cutting edge of coronavirus research for years. The proposal described plans to create viruses strikingly similar to SARS‑CoV‑2... While it’s possible that the furin cleavage site could have evolved naturally (as seen in some distantly related coronaviruses), out of the hundreds of SARS-like viruses cataloged by scientists, SARS‑CoV‑2 is the only one known to possess a furin cleavage site in its spike. And the genetic data suggest that the virus had only recently gained the furin cleavage site before it started the pandemic. Ultimately, a never-before-seen SARS-like virus with a newly introduced furin cleavage site, matching the description in the Wuhan institute’s Defuse proposal, caused an outbreak in Wuhan less than two years after the proposal was drafted. When the Wuhan scientists published their seminal paper about Covid-19 as the pandemic roared to life in 2020, they did not mention the virus’s furin cleavage site — a feature they should have been on the lookout for, according to their own grant proposal, and a feature quickly recognized by other scientists. Worse still, as the pandemic raged, their American collaborators failed to publicly reveal the existence of the Defuse proposal... American partners very likely knew of only a fraction of the research done in Wuhan. According to U.S. intelligence sources, some of the institute’s virus research was classified or conducted with or on behalf of the Chinese military. .. Fauci repeatedly acknowledged the lack of visibility into experiments conducted at the Wuhan institute, saying, “None of us can know everything that’s going on in China, or in Wuhan, or what have you. And that’s the reason why — I say today, and I’ve said at the T.I.,” referring to his transcribed interview with the subcommittee, “I keep an open mind as to what the origin is.”... Dr. Shi’s group genetically engineered an unexpectedly deadly SARS-like virus (not closely related to SARS‑CoV‑2) that exhibited a 10,000-fold increase in the quantity of virus in the lungs and brains of humanized mice. Wuhan institute scientists handled these live viruses at low biosafety levels, including BSL-2. Even the much more stringent containment at BSL-3 cannot fully prevent SARS‑CoV‑2 from escaping... the virus infected a scientist in a BSL-3 laboratory in Taiwan, which was, at the time, a zero-Covid country. The scientist had been vaccinated and was tested only after losing the sense of smell. By then, more than 100 close contacts had been exposed. Human error is a source of exposure even at the highest biosafety levels, and the risks are much greater for scientists working with infectious pathogens at low biosafety... The hypothesis that Covid-19 came from an animal at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan is not supported by strong evidence. In December 2019, Chinese investigators assumed the outbreak had started at a centrally located market frequented by thousands of visitors daily. This bias in their search for early cases meant that cases unlinked to or located far away from the market would very likely have been missed. To make things worse, the Chinese authorities blocked the reporting of early cases not linked to the market and, claiming biosafety precautions, ordered the destruction of patient samples on January 3, 2020, making it nearly impossible to see the complete picture of the earliest Covid-19 cases. Information about dozens of early cases from November and December 2019 remains inaccessible... the existing genetic and early case data show that all known Covid-19 cases probably stem from a single introduction of SARS‑CoV‑2 into people, and the outbreak at the Wuhan market probably happened after the virus had already been circulating in humans. Not a single infected animal has ever been confirmed at the market or in its supply chain. Without good evidence that the pandemic started at the Huanan Seafood Market, the fact that the virus emerged in Wuhan points squarely at its unique SARS-like virus laboratory... In previous outbreaks of coronaviruses, scientists were able to demonstrate natural origin by collecting multiple pieces of evidence linking infected humans to infected animals... Even though Wuhan is the home base of virus hunters with world-leading expertise in tracking novel SARS-like viruses, investigators have either failed to collect or report key evidence that would be expected if Covid-19 emerged from the wildlife trade... investigators have not determined that the earliest known cases had exposure to intermediate host animals before falling ill. No antibody evidence shows that animal traders in Wuhan are regularly exposed to SARS-like viruses, as would be expected in such situations... SARS‑CoV‑2 required little to no adaptation to spread rapidly in humans and other animals. The virus appears to have succeeded in causing a pandemic upon its only detected jump into humans... investigators should follow their strongest leads and subpoena all exchanges between the Wuhan scientists and their international partners, including unpublished research proposals, manuscripts, data and commercial orders. In particular, exchanges from 2018 and 2019 — the critical two years before the emergence of Covid-19 — are very likely to be illuminating (and require no cooperation from the Chinese government to acquire), yet they remain beyond the public’s view more than four years after the pandemic began. Whether the pandemic started on a lab bench or in a market stall, it is undeniable that U.S. federal funding helped to build an unprecedented collection of SARS-like viruses at the Wuhan institute, as well as contributing to research that enhanced them."
Damn racist misinformation! Time to shut the New York Times down
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines - "The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk... The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda, and Reuters found no evidence the Pentagon’s influence operation did so... Academic research published recently has shown that, when individuals develop skepticism toward a single vaccine, those doubts often lead to uncertainty about other inoculations... In the wake of the U.S. propaganda efforts, however, then-Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte had grown so dismayed by how few Filipinos were willing to be inoculated that he threatened to arrest people who refused vaccinations. “You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” a masked Duterte said in a televised address in June 2021. “There is a crisis in this country … I’m just exasperated by Filipinos not heeding the government.”"
Damn far right anti-vaxxers falling prey to misinformation! Why can't they listen to the government, because everyone knows the government is always right and those who disagree need to be arrested?
Of course, the EU also demonised AstraZeneca, but since covid hysteria and vaccine policies were political anyway, that's fitting
State sponsored ops are only bad when the US deep state tell us they are bad
Those who condemn the US to hell for this have nothing to say about China's own nonsense. naturally
Meme - TravelLearnLive @cmishmom: "My now 38yr old husband was just told by his cardiologist that his benign myocarditis reaction from Moderna vaccine is now a chronic heart condition. 20% chance of living the next 9yrs. Doubled his colchicine."
Travis Real @trreal: "Would him receiving Covid and spreading the disease be a better alternative?"
TravelLearnLive @cmishmom: "He still got covid moron"
Weird. I thought everyone "knew" the vaccines were never meant to reduce transmission
Liz Wheeler on X - "Your grandma died alone in the hospital. Your husband was fired over a mandate. Your teenage son has heart problems. You lost your business. You weren't allowed to go to church. Your 2-year-old was forced to mask. But you wanna forget the whole thing? NO. I will NEVER forget."
Covid‐19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors - "Systemic immune response after BNT162b2 vaccine is a reasonable cause for transient semen concentration and TMC decline. Long-term prognosis remains good."
Aka the Pfizer vaccine affects sperm count
Damn misinformation! Time to force the article to be retracted!
Ontario can’t make COVID-19 disappear by pretending it doesn’t exist : r/ontario - "You encouraged me to look at the data from the past year. There has only been one spike and it was from Nov-Feb with the peak around the new year. The waves are coming and going now fairly regularly and predictably... The virus hasn't had a significant mutation in a while. If it does mutate again, then there would be some justification. Otherwise we can expect it to behave like other endemic viruses like the flu or RSV."
Left wingers can't let it go. Resources are infinite so no programmes left wingers love can ever be ended
Wilfred Reilly on X - "What would I have done in response to COVID-19? ~Nothing. Protect seniors. Break the riots that were the largest gatherings, then. What Sweden did. Some people WOULD have died. All men die. Entire giant societies would not have shut down for months or years, at far higher cost."
Meme - Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "There are some people who think the COVID pandemic is still concerning: they're still masking, taking precautions, and warning others about infections. Meanwhile, COVID-19 has stopped being a top cause of mortality. Concern, at this point, reflects much more about people than it says about the dangers of the disease."
The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large Population-Based Study - "Myocarditis and pericarditis are potential post-acute cardiac sequelae of COVID-19 infection, arising from adaptive immune responses. We aimed to study the incidence of post-acute COVID-19 myocarditis and pericarditis. Retrospective cohort study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021. Inpatient myocarditis and pericarditis diagnoses were retrieved from day 10 after positive PCR. Follow-up was censored on 28 February 2021, with minimum observation of 18 days. The control cohort of 590,976 adults with at least one negative PCR and no positive PCR were age- and sex-matched. Since the Israeli vaccination program was initiated on 20 December 2020, the time-period matching of the control cohort was calculated backward from 15 December 2020. Nine post-COVID-19 patients developed myocarditis (0.0046%), and eleven patients were diagnosed with pericarditis (0.0056%). In the control cohort, 27 patients had myocarditis (0.0046%) and 52 had pericarditis (0.0088%). Age (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI]; 0.93 to 1.00) and male sex (aHR 4.42; 95% CI, 1.64 to 11.96) were associated with myocarditis. Male sex (aHR 1.93; 95% CI 1.09 to 3.41) and peripheral vascular disease (aHR 4.20; 95% CI 1.50 to 11.72) were associated with pericarditis. Post COVID-19 infection was not associated with either myocarditis (aHR 1.08; 95% CI 0.45 to 2.56) or pericarditis (aHR 0.53; 95% CI 0.25 to 1.13). We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection."
Weird. We keep being told that forcing people to get covid vaccines was justified because the risk of myocarditis was higher from getting covid than from the vaccines anyway
Meme - "What does it mean when someone says "trust the science?""
"It means "shut up and obey us.""
