Not exactly, but it certainly raises the possibility. A wide-ranging analysis published to little initial fanfare on December 1 reviewed Medicare data for outcomes for more than 30 million recipients of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine above the age of 65. The first pass of the data showed “statistical signals” to four potential adverse outcomes, but subsequent reviews limited the signal to just one: a potential causal link between this particular vaccine and a type of pulmonary embolism …
It’s quite the eye-catching headline: “Covid May Spread From Corpses, Studies Say.” New York Times COVID reporter Apoorva Mandavilli is back, the author of yet another alarmist COVID story.
When the shock wears off, and after one notes that the study it’s based on has yet to undergo peer-review, the bottom line is pretty simple: Don’t handle corpses, it might be bad for you, in case you didn’t know that already. And then there’s yet another big Mandavilli math error in the direction of alarmism.
Body language, mumbling, stuttering & incoherence – speak for themselves.
We see you, Bill. pic.twitter.com/z2vxNw26ko— Efrat Fenigson (@efenigson) December 19, 2022
h/t Mauser
The elites’ blacklisting of lockdown dissenters was shameful and self-destructive.
There were two viruses that the authorities wanted to control in 2020 and 2021. The first was the virus of Covid-19. The second was the virus of dissent. Throughout the pandemic, experts referred to lockdown scepticism and Covid misinformation as their own kind of disease, as a contagious malady that might sicken the masses’ minds as surely as Covid sickened their bodies. British politicians referred to a ‘pandemic of misinformation’. We must protect people both from ‘physical disease and the “disease of misinformation”’, scientists insisted. ‘False information has plagued the Covid response’, said one academic. Plagued – what a striking choice of verb. And if contrary ideas are an infection in the body politic, then it’s clear what the cure must be: censorship.
During a global pandemic, the role of social media companies shouldn’t be to police discussions about highly complex, multi-factorial medical questions such as the effectiveness of cloth masks against viral infection, potential adverse events from mRNA vaccines, or the origins of Covid-19. Their role should be to allow free speech to thrive and opposing perspectives to clash in the marketplace of ideas.
What could be worse than an unmasked and normal Christmas?
A great scourge has descended upon the land, leaving in its wake a path of misery and girlfriends shivering under blankets. Crops have been destroyed, and there are times when (after 5 p.m.) it can seem like we might never see the sun again. Yet the greatest terror ushered in by this darkness is its plague, a relentless onslaught of mild coughs and sniffly noses that seems to have left just about everyone feeling marginally annoyed.
Tech workers are still at home. The $17 salad place is expanding into the suburbs. So what is left in San Francisco?
The coffee rush. The lunch rush. The columns of headphone-equipped tech workers rushing in and out of train stations. The lanyard-wearing visitors who crowded the sidewalks when a big conference was in town.
There was a time three years ago when a walk through downtown San Francisco was a picture of what it meant for a city to be economically successful. Take the five-minute jaunt from the office building at 140 New Montgomery Street to a line-out-the-door salad shop nearby.
Well, maybe you had the seeming transhumanist Big Tech Czar going after Emperor Fauci on your 2022 bingo card, but I sure didn’t. Yet, as Pope Francis loves to say, we do have a “God of surprises,” and I think Elon Musk looking like a veritable white knight against one of the greatest criminals in American history is a surprise, to say the least.
If you weren’t aware, Musk went after Fauci—and gender pronouns, I might add—with a tweet from a few days back, stating: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health waded into the controversial issue of “immunity debt” Thursday, saying the issue needs more study but it makes sense to him that pandemic public health measures such as masking are a factor in the record numbers of young children becoming seriously ill with respiratory viruses this year.
According to a new study, if you aren’t jabbed with the 15-minute-old COVID jab, you may actually be a risk to others on the road because you are a bad driver.
I know what you are thinking: You thought being unvaccinated only made you a racist science-denier …
Canada’s electronic spy agency is watching out for security threats from the popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
Responding to questions from reporters in a pre-cabinet scrum on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency, is keeping an eye on TikTok as Republican lawmakers move to ban the app in the U.S.
Xi Jinping’s Covid restrictions have stunted his country’s progress
With the benefit of hindsight, we can be certain that futurologists are often wrong. Contrary to the expectations of earlier decades, no one is living on Mars, nor do many of us commute to work in a flying car.
He is certain that Covid had zoonotic origins, but can’t recall a crucial day in the lead-up to him reaching that conclusion
Dr. Anthony Fauci sat for a seven-hour deposition last week as part of a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana. The suit claims that the Biden administration colluded with social media platforms to censor information surrounding the origins and circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as information that went against CDC guidelines and mandates around vaccines and efficacy masks.
Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have issued a minority report that says there are “indications” that COVID-19 was part of a bioweapons program that “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Judicial Watch said that the records contained information…
…regarding data Moderna submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, which indicate a “statistically significant” number of rats were born with skeletal deformations after their mothers were injected with the vaccine. The documents also reveal Moderna elected not to conduct a number of standard pharmacological studies on the laboratory test animals.
