Mike Benz on X - "The same people cheering the murder of the head of UnitedHealth because you have to challenge the medical establishment were the same people wanting you dead for criticizing Pfizer because you can't challenge the medical establishment."
Why I'm disinviting my unvaccinated friends from my dinner parties (Kate Mulvey)
I'm a single woman of 63, and I feel friendless and lonely (Kate Mulvey)
Meme - MaskTogetherAmerica is in University of Utah. May 19 at 8:43 PM: "“I debated about walking in my graduation ceremony. Some students expected that I might finally have the mask off, but I didn’t. I think maybe by showing up, I can encourage others to be less afraid of being seen masked. One woman stopped me on the way to my seat, to say she was glad there was a way for me to participate.” Behind the @3m 6000 series half-face respirator with P100 cartridges is ๐ง๐ป๐Melanie Bunch ( @melaniebunch ) who just earned a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from University of Utah (@universityofutah ) School of Art and Art History. ๐๐๐ Melanie could have her BFA sooner if it wasn’t for the pandemic, which started when she was planning to transfer from a community college to the university as a Junior. Everyone in the household started wearing a P100 respirator mask EVERY time they left the house because one of the members is immunocompromised. To protect each other, Melanie postponed her dream. “I waited a few years after getting my Associates degree, to see if COVID-19 would become less of a problem - but it didn’t. It finally became apparent that I could not put the rest of my degree on hold forever. So in the fall of 2023, I began my time at the University of Utah - fully masked. Everyone seemed very supportive. But a lot of teachers struggled to hear me through the respirator. After the first semester, I learned to get the seat closest to the teacher, and to project my voice every time I had to present to the class. I ate packed lunches in my car, if I had a longer day of classes. My classmates and instructors got used to seeing me in my mask, and by the time I had finished the program, I felt like I was pretty accepted and liked. No one ever brought up the subject of me taking the mask off, not even once. Completing my degree while masked was a challenge, and may not be for everyone. But I am glad that I did. Staying healthy and keeping my household healthy was worth it. And I got to find out just how much I can accomplish just by staying determined. Stay strong out there!” Join #MaskTogetherAmerica to congratulate our masked graduate!"
Covid hystericists in 2025 were still bonkers. And of course they cannot tolerate criticism and block everyone else
Heart attack deaths plummet 90% in 50 years – but three other conditions are surging, study warns - "researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine analyzed age-adjusted heart disease death rates among adults 25 and older from 1970 to 2022."
Damn vaccine!
Job one for Canada in this scary new world is to stop being stupid - "When it comes to COVID-19 post-mortems, inquiries and audits, scrutinizing the ArriveCan debacle shouldn’t really be at the top of the list. But beggars can’t be choosers: If we can’t get a proper reckoning for having kept schools, summer camps, playgrounds, skate parks, golf courses and restaurant patios closed for reasons that look highly suspect in hindsight, even to quite cautious people, we might as well appreciate the feds getting pilloried for their spectacular failure in producing what ought to have been a very simple app... “This report has no (new) recommendations but (rather) confirms weaknesses raised in previous audits. Rather than repeat previous recommendations on procurement, this audit re‑confirms that policy should be well understood and properly applied.” Is anyone involved embarrassed? Apologetic? A bit chagrinned, at least? There hasn’t been much sign of that. But Mark Carney has been cutting an interesting figure since taking over as prime minister: If Trudeau was Captain Apology — for past governments’ sins, for his own government’s sins, for his own idiocies, vacation-related and otherwise — Carney seems not at all interested in apologizing for pursuing Canada’s best interests, at least as he sees them. Invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7? The fellow whose government Trudeau accused quite recently, and credibly, of involvement in the assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil? After Liberal partisans spent years accusing Canadian conservatives of cozying up to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, with former prime minister Stephen Harper leading the charge, tenting his fingers, rictus of evil, as head of the insidious International Democracy Union? Well, sure. We need trade with India, don’t we? And China too, come to think of it. Invite Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman to the G7? The guy U.S. intelligence officials think ordered the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018? Whose family had … shall we say … uncomfortable links to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in which 24 Canadians died along with thousands of others while screwing up the whole world for decades? Well, yeah. It’s Saudi Arabia. We’re Canada. They matter more. We can’t dictate terms to the rest of the world... the ArriveCan debacle offers a tantalizing proposition for Carney, or indeed any other incoming new prime minister from any party: How much of Canada’s failure to thrive is just a matter of our politicians, deputy ministers and senior civil servants just being complacent, back-slapping scroungers? What if instead of farming out something like ArriveCan to the usual assortment of no-account grifters and hangers-on — or for that matter, something 25 times more expensive; military procurement, say? — we just did what any private company would have done and contracted it out for a quarter of the cost, at most, to the best reasonable bid?"
Covid vaccines ‘saved far fewer lives than first thought’ - "Covid vaccines saved far fewer lives than first thought, a major new analysis has concluded, with researchers criticising “aggressive mandates”. Last year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) claimed jabs had prevented the deaths of 14.4 million people globally in the first year alone, with some estimates putting the figure closer to 20 million. However, new modelling by Stanford University and Italian researchers suggests that while the vaccines did save lives, the true figure was “substantially more conservative” and closer to 2.5 million people worldwide over the course of the pandemic... Overall 5,400 people needed to be vaccinated to save one life, but in the under-30s this figure rose to 100,000 jabs, the paper suggests. Researchers criticised “aggressive mandates and the zealotry to vaccinate everyone at all cost”, adding that the findings had implications for how future vaccine rollouts were handled... “In principle, targeting the populations who would get the vast majority of the benefit and letting alone those with questionable risk-benefit and cost-benefit makes a lot of sense. “Aggressive mandates and the zealotry to vaccinate everyone at all cost were probably a bad idea.” More than 13 billion Covid vaccine doses have been administered since 2021. But there have been mounting concerns that vaccines could be harmful for some people, particularly the young, and that the risk was not worth the benefit for a population at little risk from Covid. More than 17,500 Britons have applied to the Government’s vaccine damage payment scheme, believing they or loved ones were injured by the jabs. In June, manufacturers added warnings for myocarditis and pericarditis to the prescribing information of Covid messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines... earlier modelling may have used overly pessimistic infection fatality rates and overly optimistic vaccine effectiveness, while failing to consider how quickly protection waned. Earlier studies may also have underestimated how many people had already been unknowingly infected by the time they had the vaccine. Dr Angelo Maria Pezzullo, a researcher in general and applied hygiene at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, said: “Before ours, several studies tried to estimate lives saved by vaccines with different models and in different periods or parts of the world, but this one is the most comprehensive because it is based on worldwide data. It also covers the omicron period. “It also calculates the number of years of life that was saved, and it is based on fewer assumptions about the pandemic trend.” The team calculated that around 14.8 million life-years were saved, one life-year per 900 vaccine doses administered... The over-70s made up nearly 70 per cent of the lives saved, while those aged 60 to 70 accounted for a further 20 per cent. In contrast, under-20s made up just 0.01 per cent of lives saved, and 20 to 30s were 0.07 per cent... Sir David Davis, the former Brexit secretary who fought against vaccine mandates, said: “Frankly it’s a good cautionary tale that if we have another pandemic we should be far more clinical about the risk-benefit ratio. “We knew pretty quickly who the most susceptible groups were and we should have focused very strictly on them, rather than placing people who were at little risk in hazard’s way. “The level of aggression of trying to force people to become vaccinated and shutting down people who were raising concerns, the reasons for those concerns are all validated in this report.”"
Damn anti-vaxxers need to be fired for spreading misinformation!
Measles outbreak can be traced to Trudeau politicizing COVID vaccines, Tory MP claims - "An Alberta Conservative MP said she thinks the measles outbreak in her province can be traced back to the COVID pandemic and loss of trust in vaccines due to the federal government’s lack of transparency about their risks. “ Years after COVID, broken trust in government health directives has not been addressed for many Canadians,” Michelle Rempel Garner, formerly the party’s health critic during the pandemic, said in a lengthy social media post. Rempel Garner said the downplaying of “rare but serious” side effects of COVID vaccinations by the Liberal government, led by then prime minister Justin Trudeau, spurred broader vaccine hesitancy, leading to a drop in childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccinations. Trudeau notably waved off a spring 2021 notice from National Advisory Council on Immunization raising a possible link between the AstraZeneca jab and rare blood clots, urging Canadians to take the first vaccine they were offered . (AstraZeneca pulled the vaccine worldwide last year.)... Rempel Garner’s post said Trudeau deserves much of the blame for making vaccinations a polarizing wedge issue before the 2021 federal election. “Trudeau dined out on using dehumanizing and politically loaded terms to describe the vaccine hesitant, including ‘anti-vaxxer’,” writes Rempel Garner. Rempel Garner says Trudeau made even more vaccine-hesitant Canadians “dig in” when he doubled down on this rhetoric during the early 2022 convoy protests. “The Liberal government has never issued a public apology for its vehemently hostile rhetoric toward vaccine-hesitant individuals … As a result, it has entrenched a partisan divide in society, where vaccination status is viewed as a political virtue signal rather than a public health objective to be pursued collaboratively,” she writes. Rempel Garner also speculated that the post-COVID surge in immigration has contributed to the measles outbreak, and suggested that health authorities track the citizenship status of infected individuals. Olivier Jacques, a professor of health policy at the University of Montreal, said the 2021 Liberal campaign’s rhetoric surrounding vaccinations could have contributed to the drop in MMR uptake. “It might have knocked down uptake by one or two per cent, but even that one or two per cent is dangerous when it comes to herd immunity,” said Jacques."
Clearly, this cannot be it and the solution is even more stigma and mockery of and discrimination against "anti-vaxxers", even though left wingers are usually against all those things
The pandemic aged our brains, whether we got Covid or not, study finds - "Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, people’s brains showed signs of aging, including shrinkage, according to the report published in Nature Communications... The aging effect “was most pronounced in males and those from more socioeconomically deprived backgrounds,” said the study’s first author, Ali-Reza Mohammadi-Nejad, a neuroimaging researcher at the University of Nottingham, via email. “It highlights that brain health is not shaped solely by illness, but also by broader life experiences.” Overall, the researchers found a 5.5-month acceleration in aging associated with the pandemic... An earlier study on how teenagers' brains were affected by the pandemic discovered a similar result. The 2024 research from the University of Washington found that boys’ brains had aged the equivalent of 1.4 years extra during the pandemic, while girls aged an extra 4.2 years... Other research has suggested that environmental factors might cause a person’s brain to age prematurely. One study conducted in the Antarctic tied living in relative isolation to brain shrinkage."
The cope is going to be that all of them got covid, so this clearly shows that there needed to be even more lockdowns and fear mongering to protect people from covid
Instagram - "78 people (9 short of sell out!) from all over Washington gathered in Seattle this past weekend for a concert surrounded by Far UV, air purifiers, and required masking to look out for each other in an ongoing albeit disappeared pandemic. As with other gatherings like this popping up across the world, they showed there is a way to take part in traditional entertainment experiences without leaving disabled or further disabled from unmitigated airborne pathogen infection. I am so thankful to all in attendance for trusting @cleanairevents to facilitate that experience and once again provide proof that there is huge value in community and mutual aid should we have the willingness to try. Punk rockers, all. #cleanairevents"
From 2025
B.C. judge protects hospital that fired unvaccinated doctor - "although the government mandated that all health-care workers must be vaccinated, since it didn’t say that unvaccinated staff had to be disciplined or fired, it cannot be said that Szezepaniak’s Charter rights were"
PoIiMath on X - "Here is the problem with "oh no, we're defunding universities, all the smart people are going to go away" Our universities are not really filled with the best and brightest. Even in many of the technical fields, we are spending billions of dollars on a lot of "science" that just kind of sucks. In @davidzweig 's "An Abundance of Caution", he talks about Covid modeling and how there was a "COVID-19 Forecast Hub" where teams of researchers from all over the country could submit models of Covid spread. "Three of the top four most accurate modelers were from outside the public health field... A team from a management consulting firm, along with - to be frank, two random guys - outperformed teams with researchers from Johns Hopkins, MIT, Duke, Columbia, and the University of Michigan, the famed IMHE and the US Department of Energy's elite Los Alamos National Laboratory" The people who failed to accurately model Covid spread were people who *study* pandemic spread! It is their job, their life's work, they are spending all of their time and all of our money to be worse at their jobs than some nerdy weirdos who decided to suddenly pick up their profession as a hobby to noodle around in their free time. Any reasonable observer would look at this situation and say "This is unacceptable". Anyone who thinks we should demand excellence from public funding should be pretty upset about this. If they don't like what is currently happening, they need to propose their own solutions. People are getting awfully impatient with our elite expert class sucking this bad and never getting better."
Meme - "r/ZeroCovidCommunity
NoCovid_1
Daughter wants me unmasked at her wedding
Hi all, I'm a single retired dad. My daughter lives out of state 1700 miles away and is getting married early next year. She wants me to walk her down the aisle and in all photos unmasked. She lives her life as if Covid does not exist. She also has a step dad, and I suggested to her that he should walk her down the aisle too, since he's been a great a dad to her. I'd like to as well but feel very uncomfortable doing so. Thoughts? Background on my CCness: I'm very extreme in my covid carefulness, live like a hermit, avoid people indoors and out, and have not traveled, nor been unmasked near anyone since the emergence of Covid. I feel wearing a mask also stands up for my principles around covid and sets a good example. The only exception to masking near people is dental or oral surgery appointments which are always monday mornings, 1st appointment 3-8 weeks after my boosters. (the staff do N95 and use HEPA, and from Nov-Mar require patients masking) I only visit with family outdoors (and friends but super rarely), if they KN95/N95 mask. All shopping is online delivery. Even for Amazon returns, I have the UPS Store employee pick up my packages at the door, and the restaurants I give business to hand me my orders outside ๐"
The comments are even wilder
Meme - "Imagine being someone who rides a motorcycle with no helmet and wears a mask outside while riding it."
Meme - Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10: "Indian authorities to Pfizer... “You can either lose 1.38 BILLION customers…or allow us to do an independent investigation to determine whether your product is safe and effective…” -India
“We would rather give up 1.8 billion customers…” -Pfizer"
"Pfizer drops india vaccine application after regulator seeks local trial"
One "fact checking" site tried to pretend that a lack of emergency use authorisation didn't mean it was banned
Which countries have the best, and worst, living standards? - "IN THE THROES of the covid-19 pandemic—when hospitals overflowed, schools and offices shut, and economies seized up—many asked when the world would recover. Five years later, the data show that the setback to living standards could endure. The Human Development Index (HDI), produced by the UN, tracks progress in life expectancy, education and income. After GDP it is one of the most widely used measures of development. The global score fell in 2020 and 2021—the first declines since the index began in 1990. It recovered somewhat in 2022. The latest report, released on May 6th, shows that the pace of improvement in 2023 was the slowest on record... After decades of narrowing, the gap between countries at the top and bottom of the index has widened for four years running. The world’s poorest countries have stalled on other indicators, too. Extreme poverty has barely fallen since 2015. Measures of public health have declined since covid. And since the mid-2010s economic growth rates in poor economies have been slower on average than in richer ones. Cuts to aid budgets by governments in America and Europe will make things worse for poor countries. According to the HDI, countries in the Arab world and Latin America and the Caribbean have had the slowest post-pandemic recovery in living standards"
Too bad covidiots opposed even harsher lockdowns, which would've reduced the harm from covid, like in China
We may never recover from the lockdowns - "From its pre-pandemic trend peak of $58,100, real GDP per capita has fallen seven per cent, for a loss of $4,200 per person — equal to about $160 billion in lost GDP per year. Can this loss be recovered? The report warns that it will not be easy. To get back to trend by 2030, the Canadian economy would have to generate annual real GDP growth of 1.7 per cent (as shown in the nearby graph), a rate well above Canada’s experience in recent decades when growth rates averaged 1.1 per cent or lower. The latest numbers paint an even more difficult struggle for Canada. In 2023, GDP per capita fell 1.3 per cent, followed by another decline of 1.4 per cent in 2024 — at a time when the country needs 1.7 per cent growth to get back to trend by 2030. In the current economic environment, filled with trade wrangles, massive government deficits and a trend toward greater government involvement in directing the economy, the odds of recovery from the 2020 pandemic lockdown are even slimmer than they were a year or two ago."
Time for more regulation and to "tax the 'rich'"
If I said my husband had a bike accident, people would say how sorry they were - but because he's been left disabled by the Covid vaccine, they question if it's true - "Three years ago in April, Jamie suffered a catastrophic bleed on the brain after being given the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Doctors were convinced it was a death sentence but, astonishingly, the previously fit and athletic then 44-year-old – a keen skier, mountain biker and runner – pulled through. A 'walking miracle', in Kate's words. He is far from the same man, however. His vision is impaired, he can no longer hold down his high-flying software engineer job, drive a car, or follow complex conversations. The toll it has taken on the family has required a huge amount of adjustment. To make matters worse, it has been unfolding against a backdrop in which the Scotts – and the dozens of others like them who have lost loved ones or watched them battle grievous consequences following an adverse reaction to the Covid vaccine – feel they have been silenced... Equally difficult to navigate, she says, is the Government's compensation scheme (known as the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, or VDPS), currently limited to a payout of just £120,000 – and even then, only when those affected have gone through a draconian process in which they are judged on whether they meet 'the threshold' for payment, a brutally specific figure of '60 per cent or more disabled'... 'Because now it's been confirmed in black and white that the vaccine caused his injury, and he's 60 per cent disabled, and that is our 'win'. But it's not a win, is it? That's our life now. And £120,000 doesn't touch the sides of what we have lost in terms of income, and will lose over the decades to come.' It is one reason that Kate has fought so passionately for the voices of vaccine victims to be heard at the ongoing Covid-19 Inquiry, a desire which was fulfilled last week when, on Wednesday, she gave evidence for half an hour on their behalf... 'At the inquiry the lead counsel said it is accepted that with any medicine, including vaccines, there's injury and death,' she says. 'But after what we've been through, the question is, how many is unacceptable? Because we know that 13,000 people have applied for the compensation scheme, and we know that 250,000 have reported an adverse reaction. So at what point does it tip over to becoming unacceptable? And if it is acceptable, why is it not accepted that there should be a fair and adequate compensation scheme?'... 'He didn't need it for himself, like most of us he did what he thought was the right thing. He thought it was safe and effective and would protect others,' Kate says... 'Jamie had read something about it somewhere and did ask for the Pfizer vaccine, but he was told they didn't have any and he would be fine,' says Kate. 'He didn't get any patient information.'... 'I've tried to be compassionate about it,' she says of people's discomfort. 'I think it's because Covid touched everyone. But it angers me that even now I have to say we're not anti-vaccine. You can say the vaccine rollout saved lives while also saying lives were damaged, both things can be true. But people seem to struggle to accept that.' She hopes the inquiry will help with this disconnect... Last week, it emerged that the payment scheme has cost taxpayers more to run than it has paid out to victims – a key reminder, says Kate, that urgent reform is needed."
Dozens of British women have seen their breasts grow after the Covid jab - experts reveal why - "The revelation comes days after shocking images showed how a 19-year-old Canadian woman's breast quadrupled in size in what experts believe is a rare reaction to Pfizer's Covid jab dubbed the 'Pfizer boob job'... doctors have argued that the link between the unusual reaction and the vaccine is indeed plausible. Making their case in a recent medical report about a young woman who suffered the complication, they theorize that a bizarre immune system reaction to the vaccine may have caused cells in the breast to overgrow."
The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows - "Containing the COVID-19 pandemic by non-pharmacological interventions is costly. Using high-frequency, city-to-city truck flow data, this paper estimates the economic cost of lockdown in China, a stringent yet effective policy prior to the Omicron surge. By comparing the truck flow change in the cities with and without lockdown, we find that a one-month full-scale lockdown causally reduces the truck flows connected to the locked down city in the month by 54%, implying a decline of the city’s real income with the same proportion in a gravity model of city-to-city trade. We also structurally estimate the cost of lockdown in the gravity model, where the effects of lockdown can spill over to other cities through trade linkages. Imposing full-scale lockdown on the four largest cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) for one month would reduce the real national GDP by 8.7%, of which 8.5% is contributed by the spillover effects."
