Independent Writer & Consultant, Former Ruckus Panelist on KCPT, Former U.S. Senate Candidate, Former Academic/Educator, PhD
Overland Park, KS, US
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In my new article in @AreoMagazine I discuss why the CDC’s guidance changes for masks & testing were wrong.
Vaccines are important but we can’t put all our eggs in one basket. Additional approaches will be vital to defeat #COVID19 & the #DeltaVariant
areomagazine.com/2021/06/30/…
Whatever 🙄
Manipulative brainwashing to scare people back to in office work
You better waste a bunch of time commuting & diminish your quality of life or else
As if people’s posture & computer usage is any better in the office than it is working at home
Don’t buy this 🐴💩
Swollen eyes, a hunchback and claw-like hands: What remote-workers will look like by 2100 trib.al/GbUcp6P
As I’ve said repeatedly, 💉efficacy is abysmal versus XBB
CDC data presented today (6/15) shows NEGATIVE efficacy for HOSPITALIZATION for both primary series & boosted >90 days
Boosted <90 days show 29% relative efficacy which is only 5% actual risk reduction (41% vs 36%)
Side note: I believe the reported 29% relative efficacy figure is incorrect given the absolute reduction of 5%
41% vs 36% represents 12.2% relative efficacy given that 5% is 12.2% of 41%
29% relative efficacy would require an 11.9% absolute risk reduction - not 5%
Link to data presented by CDC at yesterday’s FDA VRBPAC committee meeting
Discussion begins around 51:56
XBB data is at the bottom of the slide shown
youtube.com/live/gBOyPREXGh8…
And by the time the 💉formula is ready, we'll have moved past the current variants included in the update & they won't be effective... again
Honestly, NPIs are the only infection protection path until they have a formula that provides broad sterilizing immunity for any variant
Fantastic quote from @arijitchakrav
⬇️
Those pushing notion that repeated reinfection is helpful are attempting to “polish the turd”
✅ 🎯
Link to full interview in reply…
Full interview…
wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06…
Lead the FA with viruses effort & become patient zero for a worldwide pandemic ⬇️
"[A]ccording to new reports this week three separate Chinese government officials have all named scientist Ben Hu, who was in charge of gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as the first human to be infected with the new disease."
dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n…
💥Lisa Johnston, PhD💥 retweeted
Prime example: Efforts to push 💉uptake were not honest
April 2021 story touted only a 0.008% breakthrough rate (link in reply)
When I noted this was inaccurate per research noting vaxxed in trials had persistent virus in swabs, I was attacked & told I was doing a “bad thing”😡
Mark Zuckerberg says it was challenging to censor COVID misinformation because the scientific establishment was frequently wrong, which ultimately undermined public trust:
"Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn't been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the kind of establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true. That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust."
🤔💭 Imagine someone gives you $1 million but you are required to bet all of it on who will be the two major party Presidential nominees
If you win, you get the million plus your gains from the wager
How would you bet your million❓
27%Biden versus Trump
27%Biden versus other R
27%Trump versus other D
18%Other R versus other D
11 votes • Final resultsPrime example: Efforts to push 💉uptake were not honest
April 2021 story touted only a 0.008% breakthrough rate (link in reply)
When I noted this was inaccurate per research noting vaxxed in trials had persistent virus in swabs, I was attacked & told I was doing a “bad thing”😡
Mark Zuckerberg says it was challenging to censor COVID misinformation because the scientific establishment was frequently wrong, which ultimately undermined public trust:
"Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn't been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the kind of establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true. That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust."
Article published online Dec 2020 in a head & neck surgery journal noted vaxxed in trials had persistent virus in swabs & could be infected & spread ⬇️ but the public was not told
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3332…
Story claiming only 0.008% breakthrough rate:
wsj.com/articles/cdc-identif…
High virus levels still very pervasive in wastewater ⬇️
For majority of sites, 80-100% of samples are positive (red dots)
Note: Open/white circles labeled “non-detect” mean they didn’t do a reading or report
SARS-CoV-2 is being detected in wastewater...pretty much everywhere. This shows % of samples with detectable SARS-CoV-2 in the last 15 days. There are some areas with low detection though, you can zoom in on your area if you're curious. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
ALT Map: Percent of wastewater samples with detectable SARS-CoV-2 in the last 15 days by site, United States
🚨 Shared this preprint months ago - now it’s peer reviewed
(Link in reply)
Among 51,017 Cleveland Clinic workers
🔸Vax efficacy vs XBB 4%
🔸Those with more doses had MORE infections 😵💫
XBB is nearly all of what’s circulating now, so cannot rely on 💉for infection protection
Please wake up ⏰ & stop clinging to false talking point that vax is “best” prevention
❌ You CANNOT rely on 💉to avoid infection
NPIs are only path for significant infection protection❗️
✅Limit exposures
✅N95 or better respirators
✅Clean air
academic.oup.com/ofid/articl…
🙈 Putting on a blindfold so you don’t see a problem does nothing to actually solve the problem
Study: Stopping universal admission testing was linked to significant increases in hospital-onset SARS-CoV-2 infections. Hospital infections remain common with high mortality rates.
Hospitals should not stop universal admission testing.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
