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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 31, 2024 20:34:55 GMT -5
And I hear there's a brand new variant on its way, and the vaccine about to be released won't be that effective against it.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 31, 2024 20:45:01 GMT -5
And I hear there's a brand new variant on its way, and the vaccine about to be released won't be that effective against it. Bah, they’ve said that over and over. Meanwhile…
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 1, 2024 11:27:45 GMT -5
And I hear there's a brand new variant on its way, and the vaccine about to be released won't be that effective against it. Bah, they’ve said that over and over. Meanwhile… Hope you're right. This was reported on my local news Friday night. Also, as for vaccines, this omitted the gazillions of people the vaccines have killed, right Trump supporter RFK Jr.?
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 19, 2024 4:15:03 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 19, 2024 18:35:07 GMT -5
What does this mean to we non-English speakers? That it will be easier to create a responsive vaccine?
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 19, 2024 19:17:40 GMT -5
Not really - unsurprisingly, the virus is developing resistance to antivirals with more exposure to them. Vaccination remains the best answer unless and until we get better antivirals. But we need better vaccines… to wit,
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 20, 2024 6:56:40 GMT -5
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Post by tgo on Sept 27, 2024 11:39:11 GMT -5
This article lays many of the problems with not just public health but government in general that were magnified during the pandemic. The scandal of people like Gavin Newsom putting cops on the beach to keep people from surfing as a flex of their power while he is attending parties and Jay Varmas, the guy in charge of draconian lockdowns in NYC hosting sex parties during the height of the lockdown he was running is awful enough but this gets at a problem that is far more problematic and deep rooted than the one or two bad actors in positions of power who are actually caught being awful people. As the closing of the piece says "What we did during the pandemic to young and healthy people was mass delusion, and it was led by incompetent, hypocritical public health officials." Power mad politicians and public officials are going to have crazy ideas but I was and continue to be the most concerned that they were greeted with massive applause akin to when Palpatine declared that he loves democracy. www.drvinayprasad.com/p/dr-jay-varmas-sex-parties-are-a-metaphor?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Post by Filo on Sept 27, 2024 12:41:32 GMT -5
This article lays many of the problems with not just public health but government in general that were magnified during the pandemic. The scandal of people like Gavin Newsom putting cops on the beach to keep people from surfing as a flex of their power while he is attending parties and Jay Varmas, the guy in charge of draconian lockdowns in NYC hosting sex parties during the height of the lockdown he was running is awful enough but this gets at a problem that is far more problematic and deep rooted than the one or two bad actors in positions of power who are actually caught being awful people. As the closing of the piece says "What we did during the pandemic to young and healthy people was mass delusion, and it was led by incompetent, hypocritical public health officials." Power mad politicians and public officials are going to have crazy ideas but I was and continue to be the most concerned that they were greeted with massive applause akin to when Palpatine declared that he loves democracy. www.drvinayprasad.com/p/dr-jay-varmas-sex-parties-are-a-metaphor?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=emailI am sure it is a great article if confirmation bias is your thing, especially given the author.
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 27, 2024 13:06:19 GMT -5
This article lays many of the problems with not just public health but government in general that were magnified during the pandemic. The scandal of people like Gavin Newsom putting cops on the beach to keep people from surfing as a flex of their power while he is attending parties and Jay Varmas, the guy in charge of draconian lockdowns in NYC hosting sex parties during the height of the lockdown he was running is awful enough but this gets at a problem that is far more problematic and deep rooted than the one or two bad actors in positions of power who are actually caught being awful people. As the closing of the piece says "What we did during the pandemic to young and healthy people was mass delusion, and it was led by incompetent, hypocritical public health officials." Power mad politicians and public officials are going to have crazy ideas but I was and continue to be the most concerned that they were greeted with massive applause akin to when Palpatine declared that he loves democracy. www.drvinayprasad.com/p/dr-jay-varmas-sex-parties-are-a-metaphor?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=emailI am sure it is a great article if confirmation bias is your thing, especially given the author. If the poster’s got a problem with “power mad” politicians with “crazy ideas”, wait until he hears who the Republicans have running for president and how his adoring fans literally treat him like the second coming. I’m sure it’ll blow his mind with how “concerning” it is.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 27, 2024 13:15:47 GMT -5
Dr. Vinay Prasad delivered a virtual lecture to the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences on Feb. 17 following GSBS Dean Daniel Jay’s disavowal of one of Prasad’s blog posts, which Jay characterized as antisemitic. Several GSBS students and faculty objected to Tufts offering Prasad a platform to speak in light of his blog posts and other public comments about COVID-19, which they argue undermine public health and inappropriately invoke Nazism by comparing current mask and vaccine requirements to totalitarianism in Nazi Germany. Prior to the lecture, some faculty and students at GSBS recognized Prasad’s name from statements in his October 2021 blog post and YouTube videos comparing COVID-19-related public health restrictions to the totalitarian policies of Nazi Germany. The blog post forecasts a descent into totalitarianism spurred by the adoption of COVID-19-related public health restrictions. In the post, Prasad argues that in the context of the pandemic, democratic countries have become tolerant of government censorship and restrictions, which he says potentially paves the way to totalitarianism. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2022/03/controversial-oncologist-dr-vinay-prasad-disavowed-by-dean-lectures-to-gsbs
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 27, 2024 13:22:32 GMT -5
Dr. Vinay Prasad delivered a virtual lecture to the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences on Feb. 17 following GSBS Dean Daniel Jay’s disavowal of one of Prasad’s blog posts, which Jay characterized as antisemitic. Several GSBS students and faculty objected to Tufts offering Prasad a platform to speak in light of his blog posts and other public comments about COVID-19, which they argue undermine public health and inappropriately invoke Nazism by comparing current mask and vaccine requirements to totalitarianism in Nazi Germany. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2022/03/controversial-oncologist-dr-vinay-prasad-disavowed-by-dean-lectures-to-gsbsIn the interest of trying to be somewhat fair, I did read the article (after looking up the author and seeing many of his troubling past statements). It wasn’t terribly compelling, and only really offered a “can you believe these hypocrites” critique without much else. I can’t really argue with the hypocrisy of some the people mentioned, but that hypocrisy pales in comparison to what we’ve been offered by politicians in the intervening 4 years.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 27, 2024 13:26:27 GMT -5
Arthur L. Caplan, a bioethicist at the New York University and an expert on the bioethical implications of fascism, said Prasad’s argument is specious and ignorant. “The notion that public health will lead us to fascism due to efforts to control COVID is ludicrous, dangerous, and offensive,” Caplan said to The Cancer Letter. “It’s anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-Romani people. It cheapens the deaths of those who died in camps for political objections, or in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses, religious objections. “I have to say, rarely will I claim to be the world’s expert on much, but I’m up there on the Nazis. I’ve studied it for decades and I did it, just so you know, because my dad was in the troops that liberated Dachau. “I have written one of the first books about Nazi medical experiments and the ethics thereof, and early on, I have argued that Trump’s rhetoric and his divisiveness, his racism, his homophobia, and his appeals to white nationalism were somewhat analogous to what was going on in Germany in the 1930’s. cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20211008_4/
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