Chief Nerd on X - "HOWIE: “They never said you won't get COVID”
RFK JR: “I saw a tape yesterday of Biden, Fauci, Gates, Bourla, all of them saying if you take the vaccine, you can't get COVID. Can I play it for you?”
HOWIE: “Wait wait wait, it doesn’t matter”"
Meme - Being Libertarian: "Anyone decrying "fascism" right now needs to be asked their stance in 2020 on the jab."
"If you believe that basic human liberties are contingent upon consumption of a product from a giant pharmaceutical company, that is in bed with the government, who made this product off taxpayer money, that is shielded from liability from their customers, by the government, then you are a fascist."
Jordan Schachtel on X - "Tucker's positions on COVID, a timeline:
2020: Mass hysteria. Shut down the country NOW
2021: Wait a minute. Have I been fooled?
2022: Overblown. Rational thinking temporarily prevails
2023: Reset to hysteria. China didn't do it. America did
2024: America is evil and China good, says Prof Sachs
2025: Jews did it."
COVID Vaccines Heart Risk Warning Update Issued by FDA - Newsweek - "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its warnings on Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines about the risks of two heart conditions. These manufacturers, the two main COVID-19 vaccine providers, will now have to update their information about the chances of myocarditis and pericarditis... The new warning says that the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis has shown to be highest among men between the ages of 12 and 24. Previous labels said the issue was a risk for men aged 12 to17... It also says that there were around 8 cases per 1 million people who got the 2023-2024 COVID shots between the ages of 6 months and 64 years old, citing analyses of commercial health insurance claims data. This label change seemingly conflicts with a previous conclusion published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which concluded that there was no increased risk of myocarditis detected in government vaccine injury databases for COVID-19 shots dating back to 2022."
Clearly, the FDA is just bowing to political pressure, and under Biden there was no political pressure at all, so we could trust them in the past but not now
Masking at health-care facilities mandatory starting Monday, says NLHS
Shibboleths and virtue signaling are more important than evidence
Lion Advocacy on X - "Trudeau prevented unvaccinated Canadian citizens from fleeing Canada until June of 2022. I’m not aware of any other country *in the world* that did this to its citizens at that time. It was reckless, and in many ways worse than the unlawful invocation of the Emergencies Act."
Meme - "THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 IS NOT OVER
Why is it that the self-evident benefit of wearing a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, as a necessary means of avoiding harmful airborne contagion, is so hard for most people to understand and accept? *man in mask*"
Covid hysteria is still strong
Meme - AyAy *Communist hammer and sickle* @heysugardumplin: "So daughter wants to go to a concert with friends, she no longer masks, how are parents of older teens /young adults supposed to be navigating this Coviding life?"
Karyn Bishof @K _Bishof: "I dont know ... prob going to get hate for this but if they can't mask to keep you safe then they wouldnt be going out of mine. Dont want to wear a seatbelt? Don't get to drive. Won't wear mask at school, back to virtual."
Rebecca Barrett-Fox @rbarrettfox: "When our older teen refused to participate in keeping our family safe, they moved in with other adult relatives whose vision of the world aligned more with their own. It hurt, but I have an obligation to care for the whole family and couldn't protect us from them otherwise."
Heather Christena Schmidt: "Your house, your rules. If she goes to the concert she's gotta mask around the house a few days after. Her no longer masking at school because of being concerned about peer pressure, bullying etc (fair) doesn't mean you can't make rules after higher risk events"
Fio @fiothenerd: "My sons stopped masking too. (17 & 20 y). They have 2 Northbox filters in their rooms. We have HEPA filters in every room + hallway, running 24/7. And I mask with an FFPS at home. My bedroom is kept at positive pressure, there I take the mask off. We also test with Pluslife."
Meme - *Clown putting on makeup*
2022: "The vax will you within a year"
2023: "The vax will kill you within 2 years"
2024: "The vax will kill you within 3 years"
2025: "The vax will kill you within 4 years"
New York Post on X - "Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner’s daughter calls for mask mandates at UN due to ‘ongoing pandemic’"
Buck Sexton on X - "There is a pandemic: of mentally ill people who *still* want Covid masks."
Chief Nerd on X - "Sam Harris blames Joe Rogan and “Ivermectin cultists” for creating a “polluted information landscape” during COVID"
Alex Berenson on X - "I’m old enough to remember when Sam Harris said he wouldn’t have minded if Covid had killed more kids because that would have put more pressure on people who criticized Covid shots (proof in next post) I say this in the nicest way, Sam: fuck the fuck off"
Jay Bhattacharya on X - "A friend told me that the NYT just published a piece criticizing me, fearful I wouldn't recommend a lockdown if another pandemic came along. Not sure why that's a criticism. Lockdowns were the biggest public health disaster in history and it's true I won't ever recommend one!"
Hans Mahncke on X - "The simple truth about lockdowns is that they were always a political instrument. If there really had been a movie style contagion, people would have stayed home voluntarily without being ordered to do so. But since that was not the case, lockdowns instead became a tool of social engineering. In the case of Covid, they were used to normalize work from home for the benefit of the laptop class, while the millions of people who make food, keep the lights on, run transport systems and do the work that actually keeps society running were simply treated as expendable or irrelevant. The logic was absurd but it was enforced anyway, and it conveniently served another purpose too, ruining Trump's reelection prospects."
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in children and adolescents
Dr. Simone Gold on X - "WOW: A study involving 1.7 million children has found that myocarditis and pericarditis only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines. Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems. This is absolutely shocking."
Scientists who advised government during Covid did not reveal they had received more than £200m in grants from one of the world's biggest pharma investors, report says - "Scientific advisors to the Government during the Covid pandemic failed to reveal they received over £200million in grants from one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical investors, a report reveals. Twenty-six members of the influential Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which helped shape lockdown rules, did not register the research funding from the Wellcome Trust in an apparent conflict of interest. The report by the campaign group UsForThem analysed research data from The Wellcome Trust, which is largely funded by its investment portfolio and links to the pharmaceutical industry... one grant recipient was Professor Neil Ferguson, one of the biggest advocates for vaccines and whose advice to Prime Minister Boris Johnson led to the UK lockdown in March 2020, and who famously resigned as a government adviser two months later after it emerged he broke rules to meet his married lover. Prof Ferguson declared in the register that he was involved with a 'Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium', but did not mention Wellcome anywhere. Yet he was either the lead applicant or sponsored other applications for grants worth £5.6million including a £1.25 million grant looking at influenza-like viruses in Vietnam, according to the analysis of Wellcome's figures. Of the 149 SAGE members during the Covid crisis 38 applied for funding or supported other applications to the Wellcome Trust, the UK's biggest charity. Of the 38, just 12 declared their relationship - leaving 26 who failed to do so... Ben Kingsley, UsForThem's legal director, said: 'SAGE members were told very clearly to disclose their research funding relationships precisely because they were in a position to influence public health decisions that affected millions of people during a national emergency. 'The fact that some members appear not to have respected those requirements raises serious questions about transparency and potential conflicts of interest. 'If the Government wants to maintain the public's trust, then we have to be sure that the advice given by its most senior advisers is free from risks of bias or conflicts, and this means those advisers need to be completely transparent with the public about their relationships with private organisations such as the Wellcome Trust. 'A good number of the members of SAGE grasped that fundamental point very clearly but our research shows others didn't, and one has to ask: 'Why?' SAGE's register states participants must highlight any commercial interests, research interests, and whether any funding has been secured in the past or currently. A fortnight after the first lockdown, the Wellcome Trust said 'drugs, vaccines and rapid diagnostics' were 'the only exit strategy' from the pandemic. That was echoed by a number of key SAGE participants during the pandemic... Wellcome is headed by Sir Jeremy Farrar, also a SAGE member during the pandemic, and who controversially discredited the Wuhan lab-leak theory which is claimed to have kickstarted the global crisis at the end of 2019. Among others who it is claimed failed to register research funding is Professor Susan Michie, who had claimed restrictions such as social distancing and face masks should stay forever to reduce long-term pressure on the NHS. Wellcome data shows she was the lead applicant for a £3.8 million grant into a behavioural science research project which she failed to disclose. Professor John Edmunds, who previously argued there would be 'significant risk' until everyone including children had been vaccinated, was the sponsor of 10 research projects receiving Wellcome grants during the pandemic which were worth more than £12 million. He was also one of seven applicants in a team receiving £2.8 million for a research project into Norovirus pandemics but none of these relationships with Wellcome were mentioned in the register. Vaccines expert Professor Gavin Screaton received more than £26 million in nine Wellcome grants according to its records including one directly related to Covid-19 but these grants do not appear on the SAGE register. Professor David Lalloo, who was working on a £25 million project focussed on infection and disease in Africa, did not register the funding."
Conflict of interest only matters when it pushes the left wing agenda
New York Times exposes own bias by reporting urban legend as reality - "The New York Times published a story about a 30-year-old man who died of the coronavirus after attending a Covid party in Texas—only they provided no sources to confirm what happened, and the whole thing may have been an urban myth... The New York Times soon backtracked on the initial telling of the tale by adding in a couple more paragraphs: "The Times could not independently verify Dr. Appleby’s account. On Monday, the San Antonio health department said its contact tracers did not have any information 'that would confirm (or deny)' that such an event had happened there." "In recent days, the hospital distributed video of Dr. Appleby describing the case, along with a press statement. She did not say when or where the party took place, how many people attended or how long afterward the man was hospitalized with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. She said she was sharing the story to warn others, especially in Texas, where cases are surging." The ABC article that The Times referenced in these two paragraphs has since been taken down. These two paragraphs also draw out the fact that the junior reporter who was writing this piece was not even in Texas at all, but at a desk somewhere—likely at home. The sub-headline was changed entirely since the first instance of the story, and it appears that the entire content of the story has undergone significant changes, "edit by edit," according to Dougherty. Dougherty added that "there are no editor's notes on it documenting the changes in the published story and the huge tonal shift from credulousness to skepticism.""
From 2020. Time to ban Fox News and the Daily Mail for lying
Joe Rogan Podcast News on X - "RFK Jr: "If you look at the studies of the Pfizer vaccine…the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate from all causes."
Bill Maher: "But that could be the disease itself."
RFK Jr: "Then the vaccine doesn’t work, does it?""
Jennifer Sey on X - "This article is so annoying. Summary: kids’ mental health was harmed by prolonged school closures. But how could we have ever known that locking kids at home on screens for a year and a half, isolating them from peers, telling them if they were lonely and depressed that they were horrible selfish people and that they were gonna kill grandma if they went to school or played sports would have detrimental effects? I mean who could have predicted it??? Well some of us did know. We got a thorough cancellation for saying it out loud. F off @nytimes ."
Epoch Health on X - "Former CDC Director Calls for Removal of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines “I really would like to see the mRNA vaccine use curtailed, and personally, I'd like to see it eliminated, because I think there’s too many unknowns,” Dr. Robert Redfield told EpochTV. 👇"
Jimmy Dore on X - "No big deal, just the former head of the CDC saying mRNA vaccines should be pulled off the market. Now everyone I know in Hollywood can go back to pretending this didn’t happen, that they weren’t lied to on a scale their brains can’t comprehend, & anyone who questions COVID Vax is a bad person."
Camus on X - "On Joe Rogan:
Bret Weinstein: “Fauci, Collins, Walensky & Paul Offit ALL admitted they KNEW natural immunity was superior—yet they forced shots on kids who’d already had COVID knowing there was ZERO benefit and real risk. They violated informed consent.”
Rogan: “When it doesn’t stop transmission, your entire argument collapses.”
Bret: “You can’t force me to inject something to ‘protect me’.”
This 81-second clip is the most damning thing you’ll hear all year."
Woody Harrelson was right to joke at Big Pharma's expense - "Woody Harrelson took a jab at the jab — and revealed that much of the left still views COVID vaccines not as a medical advancement but as a religious virtue. While hosting SNL last weekend, Harrelson embarked on a meandering monologue where he talked about getting blazed in Central Park just before the pandemic and reading an outrageous movie script. “So, the movie goes like this,” Harrelson said. “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.” He added, “I threw the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.” Predictably, the blowback was swift, with nearly every ensuing news story proclaiming Harrelson was spreading anti-vax conspiracy theories. Outrage spread on Twitter and a Vanity Fair critic opined: “Taking the stage to float conspiracy theories disguised as provocative humor is both intellectually dishonest and tedious.” But maybe the former “Cheers” star had it coming. After all, he made a joke about Our Lady of Pfizer. And during Lent, of all seasons. We all know the only approved vax humor is a jazzy dance number with human syringes twirling around Stephen Colbert... The only danger here is turning Big Pharma and COVID mandates into sacred cows. According to the commandments set forth by the sensitivity police, comedy should always punch up, never down. I believe the multibillion-dollar corporations that provide COVID vaccines, and our government, whether Republican or Democrat, fit that bill. But joking or questioning the official party line gets you called an antivaxxer or a conspiracy trafficker. Just ask Jon Stewart, who last year presented a hilarious and extremely logical theory that the virus was indeed from the Wuhan lab. He was mocked and subject to a torrent of backlash from his once adoring progressive cheering section... We can reflect on how we let a drug company run roughshod over whole swathes of the country and rake in billions of dollars in the process, yet we’re not allowed to question certain pharma companies, unions, government agencies or mandates during this unprecedented time in our nation’s history. Why do these entities now deserve immunity from scrutiny? How did we become so incurious and docile? As more evidence emerges about mask mandates, the likely origins of COVID and the overall effectiveness of COVID vaccines, it’s time to open the floor to common-sense dialogue. And yes, a few jokes. The day of his SNL monologue, Harrelson clarified his position, calling for an end to the showbiz industry’s outdated COVID protocols in an interview with the New York Times. “It’s not fair to the crews. I don’t have to wear the mask. Why should they? Why should they have to be vaccinated? How’s that not up to the individual,” he said. During Sunday’s SAG Awards, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher echoed a similar sentiment for the industry, saying it’s time to end its “bulls — t” mandates."
Robby Starbuck on X - "This was one of my favorite moments of 2023 because the SNL audience Woody made this joke to is exactly the kind of people that needed to hear it and the media proved him right that Big Pharma owns them. I bet this woke a few people up."
From 2023. But even in 2023 there're left wingers who believe the "Science" about Covid was mostly (or even totally) accurate, so.
Joseph Marine on X - "Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that only one out of 36,000 placebo-treated subjects in the two pivotal modRNA trials died from covid over median 3 months in the midst of a “once-in-a-century” pandemic. I missed this entirely at the time, blinded by the headline RRR. The reports claimed to show a “95% efficacy” rate for the covid shots. What they actually showed was no objective evidence of a deadly pandemic that required shutting down the world. It is amazing to realize how easily one can be deceived by false framing. https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.10"
Valerie Anne Smith on X - "🚨Study involving 1.7 million children has found that Myocarditis & Pericarditis only appeared in children who had received COVID mRNA vaccines. Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems."
The usual cope is that covid has a higher chance of giving you heart problems than a covid vaccine, but since covid vaccines do not reduce your chances of getting covid, that claim falls apart
Jeffrey A Tucker on X - "An actual truthful email circulating inside the FDA. Read and weep."
Bret Weinstein on X - "The FDA now recognizes that the covid vaccines killed healthy children who were in no danger from covid itself. That’s the tip of a gigantic iceberg—bioweapon leaks, science fraud, regulatory capture, a global coup by the “public health” bureaucracy against traditional medicine, the debut of a lethal new vaccine platform, shredding of the First Amendment, and robotic pens used to brazenly pardon criminal masterminds—all lurk just below the surface. Thanks to @VPrasadMDMPH for stepping up."
Trapped in the Past: Maine Democratic Socialists Rage at the End of National Convention's Mask Mandate in 2025 - "The Democratic Socialists of Maine criticized their national parent organization in an Instagram post on Sunday after the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) resolved that, from this point forward, masks will be strongly encouraged rather than required for their 2025 national convention. “The National Political Committee’s decision to make masking optional, despite years of advocacy from DSA’s Disability Working Group puts members at risk, and has already had an impact on our delegation,” said the Maine DSA. “COVID is still a threat to the working class in 2025, and to deny this would be a grave mistake. Additionally, bird flu cases continue to rise, which disproportionally harm our immigrant neighbors. Our access to evidence-based data on public health emergencies is being gatekept from us on purpose. The Trump Regime continues to try and take proper PPE from the National Nurses Union, and America’s fascist government is ramping up its restrictions on vaccine access,” they added. The Maine DSA chapter became gravely concerned after learning that the national convention, set for August 8-10 in Chicago, slightly relaxed its extremely strict COVID policies. The convention’s 2025 health requirements only “strongly encourage” masking and do not require it during meals or when speaking at microphones. According to its informational materials, the DSA national convention even provides to-go food containers for socialist activists afraid to eat inside around unmasked diners. They also urge attendees to maintain six-foot social distancing when an unmasked person is speaking. Their national convention also requires attendees to attest to COVID vaccination, with at least one booster taken within 12 months of the convention. Attendees must also submit a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours of the convention’s start. Additionally, anyone with any symptoms whatsoever is instructed not to attend the convention. These health protocols, though extremely strict compared with most events across the U.S. in 2025, did not satisfy the Maine DSA, who claimed that the lack of a strict mask mandate is failing “our future selves.” “Masking should be required for all attendees, as airborne viral particles can still spread regardless of social distancing. We wish for fellow DSA members across the country to understand that by not upholding the highest standards possible for ourselves now, we are failing our future selves,” said the Maine DSA. “DSA is responsible for meeting the moment, and to make sure we are fully encouraging the health and safety of everyone, we request that the NPC and the Convention Committee reconsider their decision to make masking optional,” they added. The Maine DSA also argued that masks are an “accessibility tool” for disabled socialists. “We hope all our comrades mask up during their travels, and keep disability justice at the forefront of their minds! The unfortunate truth is that ableism, and excuses for it, are only on the rise as fascism ramps up! We must do everything in our power to combat it,” they said. The group also took issue with their parent organization’s testing requirements, which they claim encourage improper use of rapid tests. According to the Maine DSA, the rapid tests can only be used accurately in asymptomatic cases if the test is used three times over five days with 48 hours between each test, and only work when taken twice over three days. “Advising people to misuse medical tests in the midst of numerous public health threats is neither comradely nor wise,” they said. It remains to be seen whether the national DSA’s minor changes to their COVID policy will cause an irreconcilable rift in their organization, though the Maine chapter maintains that they are still excited for the convention."
1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea - "The oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 has been hypothetically proposed, but real-world data on COVID-19 infection and vaccination are insufficient. Therefore, this large-scale population-based retrospective study in Seoul, South Korea, aimed to estimate the cumulative incidences and subsequent risks of overall cancers 1 year after COVID-19 vaccination. Data from 8,407,849 individuals between 2021 and 2023 were obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance database. The participants were categorized into two groups based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. The risks for overall cancer were assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazards models, and data were expressed as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The HRs of thyroid (HR, 1.351; 95% CI, 1.206–1.514), gastric (HR, 1.335; 95% CI, 1.130–1.576), colorectal (HR, 1.283; 95% CI, 1.122–1.468), lung (HR, 1.533; 95% CI, 1.254–1.874), breast (HR, 1.197; 95% CI, 1.069–1.340), and prostate (HR, 1.687; 95% CI, 1.348–2.111) cancers significantly increased at 1 year post-vaccination. In terms of vaccine type, cDNA vaccines were associated with the increased risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers; mRNA vaccines were linked to the increased risks of thyroid, colorectal, lung, and breast cancers; and heterologous vaccination was related to the increased risks of thyroid and breast cancers. Given the observed associations between COVID-19 vaccination and cancer incidence by age, sex, and vaccine type, further research is needed to determine whether specific vaccination strategies may be optimal for populations in need of COVID-19 vaccination."
Thread by @kevinnbass on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "March 29, 2021 Rochelle Walensky, Director of CDC, infamously declared on MSNBC: "Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick." Emails obtained by FOIA from Jan 30, 2021 show that Walensky knew this was a lie at the time she said it.
See for yourself. Without these lies, unconstitutional vaccine mandates would not have been possible. That's why she lied. The scientific community knew she was wrong, too. Here is an article in Nature just weeks before Fauci and Walensky's PR campaign--where they repeated these lies--about the vaccine started in March 2021: There are others. Take this one by scientists interviewed by the New York Times. They knew what Walensky was doing and said she should stop, because her lies would destroy trust in vaccines and public health. They did just that. She didn't stop spreading these lies, and neither did Fauci. They went on a media campaign for months making these claims. Where were the doctors and scientists who are saying that Trump has launched an "attack on science" when this was happening? You were silent then. You are silent now. You do not care about science. You care about social media engagement, about propagandizing to your braying and ignorant colleagues. You are partisan liars. You spent the last 5 years destroying science. The hypocrisy of you people saying ANYTHING about science now is disgusting."
The usual cope is that politicians lying (or at the very least saying something wrong about covid) doesn't reflect badly on scientists or public health. But of course there is some other cope for this
Neuroticism and emotional risk during the COVID-19 pandemic - "Large-scale health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, may evoke negative affective responses, which are linked to psychological maladjustment and psychopathology. Here, we shed light on the role of the personality trait neuroticism in predicting who experiences negative affective responses. In a large-scale experience-sampling study (N = 1,609; 38,120 momentary reports), we showed that individuals high in neuroticism experienced more negative affect and higher affective variability in their daily lives. Individuals high in neuroticism also (a) paid more attention to COVID-19-related information and worried more about the consequences of the pandemic (crisis preoccupation), and (b) experienced more negative affect during this preoccupation (affective reactivity). These findings offer new insights into the consequences and dynamics of neuroticism in extreme environmental contexts."
This partially explains why more left wingers are covid hystericists
