That’s quite alright. I mean, he’s been right on s-o-o-o many other things. Well, maybe not right, but hedged really well.
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Lockdowns did pretty much nothing, except economic damage.
The study found that the states that locked down businesses, churches, schools and restaurants for lengthy periods did not have lower death rates than those that largely remained open.
Nursing home policies may explain the poor mortality rates in some states, such as New Jersey and New York, where Cuomo faced backlash for an order that directed nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients.
Meanwhile, Florida, whose GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis did away with COVID restrictions earlier on in the pandemic, ranked 28th in mortality, the study found. In comparison, heavily locked-down California came in 27th in terms of deaths.
Keeping schools closed had no impact on the number of deaths in children or adults, according to the study.
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CA authoritarians look to ban medical dissent.
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It’s quite ironic, how the masses decry how medical treatments are approved at the whim of insurance bureaucrats, yet cheer the notion of treatment being allowed at the whim of government bureaucrats.
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Mandates
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Someone needs to ban these vaccine deniers. They’re not sufficiently enthusiastic about the 4th shot.
The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized Americans 50 and over to get a fourth Covid vaccine dose. Some of the FDA’s own experts disagree with the decision, but the agency simply ignored them. It will convene its advisory committee this Wednesday to discuss future vaccine needs. That’s like having lawyers present arguments to a judge who’s already issued a verdict.
Eric Rubin, editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, sits on the advisory committee. He told CNN last month that he hadn’t seen enough data to determine whether anyone needs a fourth dose whose immune system isn’t seriously deficient.
Another committee member, Cody Meissner, agrees. Dr. Meissner, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Tufts Children’s Hospital, told me last week that the fourth dose is “an unanswered scientific question for people with a normal immune system.”
A third member of the committee, Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Atlantic that he advised his 20-something son to forgo the third shot, which the FDA recommends for everyone 12 and over.
Two top FDA officials quit the agency in September complaining of undue pressure to authorize boosters. Marion Gruber, former director of the Office of Vaccine Research and Review, and her deputy, Philip Krause, later wrote about the lack of data to support a broad booster authorization.
Hours after the FDA authorized the fourth dose, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave its formal approval to the move—also without convening its external vaccine experts.
Those are the FDA’s own advisory committee, but Biden says he wants boosters so we get boosters whether there’s any evidence to support them or not. Neither the FDA nor the CDC bothered to ask their panel of experts for a recommendation, which is normally done before making any final decision!
That’s on the “effective” side, what about “safe”?
Director Rochelle Walensky asserted that the additional doses are safe. But the jury is still out on vaccine-related complications. One of the most common reported adverse events is tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, developed a severe case while driving home after his second vaccine dose. He told MedPage Today he believes tens of thousands of people may be affected in the U.S. and he thinks more research is needed.
But neither the CDC nor the National Institutes of Health has made a priority of studying vaccine complications. The CDC isn’t even transparent about its investigations into young people who have died after Covid vaccination. A Seattle Children’s Hospitals study published in the Journal of Pediatrics March 25 found that 69% of children who presented with myocarditis after the vaccine had late gadolinium enhancement, a related abnormality, in an MRI three to eight months later.
Instead of investigating these complications further, health agencies rely on messy and incomplete data…
This doc gives a short and to the point critique on this booster policy:
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Oh, that is funny. An ancient callback, but a good one.
And why not? It’s the old-school way to do things, and has proven to be extremely helpful to the ruling class. It has also proven to be right all of the time … except for Ptolemy.
Oh, and Johannes.
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Oops! And Nicky Copernicus.
But that’s about it, or my education / memory fails me.
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Oh, but don’t forget Galileo, but not the one from Galilee.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Authoritarianism has proven to be infallible and the great protector of science/religion/conformity … except for the couple of the mistakes above. Otherwise, they’ve been right all of the time. Give them a few years, and they will have been right 100% of the time. Just ask Orwell.
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He won’t tell you to get ivermectin or similar, but if you want a good rundown of the officially approved effective covid treatments (PFE pill, monocolonals, etc), here’s a good list with links to how to get them if your local doc doesn’t know. Supplies are pretty good currently.
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And you thought the blue state covid authoritarians were bad. Xi says “hold my beer”
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That is very sad. Due to Red China’s control of the internet and unsocial media (similar to unsocial media’s control of users in the west) we will probably never hear the true story of the lockdowns/murders by XiXiPing.
If people think BadVladPutti is bad/sad/craven/crazy, wait until they get a load of Xixiping. Although there has been almost no Liberal/Progressive/Socialist objection to the Uyghurs enslavement, it is still wrong. Maybe because they’re Muslim, Liberals/Progressives/Socialists don’t feel obligated to help publicize their plight.
I presume previous ignorance of XiXiPing’s atrocities has been due to the Biden (not yet proven in court crime) family’s association with Red China’s government and businesses along with Urkaine’s Burisma business and the associated payo̶f̶f̶s̶ments to Hunter and President Joseph Robinette Biden’s brothers.
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Judge overturns travel mask mandates, TSA no longer require them.
CDC SAYS PUBLIC TRANSPORT MASK REQUIREMENT NO LONGER IN EFFECT
Several airlines have already said they will be optional. I think the masks are going away.
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John Hinderaker of Powerline analyzes the decision. IANAL but it seems to me well reasoned. The article is well worth reading
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb reiterates masking counsel in wake of Judge’s decision
I’ve always liked and respected Dr. Gottlieb. He is a down to earth guy, not at all a screamer.
I have been masking his way for well over a year and so far so good. I do wear a surgical mask over my KN95, but that is the only difference. At my age I cannot afford to mess up. But at the same time there is no reason whatsoever that other people, and in particular younger people, should have to wear a mask on my account if they prefer not doing so.
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The rate increase for alcohol-related deaths in 2020 outpaced the increase in all-cause mortality, which was 16.6%.
It’s pretty clear right now that the lockdown caused far more deaths than Covid
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I don’t think that’s 100% clear. But the life years lost from the lockdowns and mitigation measures were higher than the life years lost from COVID
Here we go again. We disagree with a decision, so obviously the person making the decision just didn’t understand it. Since this is the decision, perhaps it was you who was misunderstanding…
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Yeah. The libs are doing their level best to take that woman, who is a Trump appointee, apart.
Typical
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Mask Mandates work, the social media edition (because you’d be banned for saying they didn’t). This is the O wave.
They work so well you won’t believe your lying eyes, so the CDC is going to force you to, again.
- CDC SAYS BELIEVES TRAVEL MASK RULE STILL NECESSARY
- CDC SAYS ASKED DOJ TO APPEAL RULING AGAINST TRAVEL MASK MANDATE
- CDC SAYS TRAVEL MASK RULE STILL NEEDED, SETTING UP COURT FIGHT
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Clearly Rochelle Walensky and Xi Jinping are linked in some manner. 
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