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[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Dr. Kelly Victory: The new COVID-9 boosters are not safe, efficient or necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oev6T-Gp6z8&ab_channel=KUSINews (6 mins well spent)

Read the comments; people are waking up. Maybe not enough, maybe not soon enough, but it's happening.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Excellent video, packed full of good information despite its short length. And presented on a San Diego news station! Granted, it pegs itself as "the rarest of the rare, a true independent television station" but here's hoping it's not the only one out there.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Isn't it? Clear enough for anyone who has a sliver of an open mind on the topic.

Here's the same doctor on the long-known futility of masks against respiratory viruses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhYfBZMiCvs&ab_channel=KUSINews (~ 7 mins)

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Another good one and says what others have said all along: we've known for decades that masking was ineffective with respiratory viruses. What's great about videos like this is the amount of information you get in under 10 minutes, not only what the research shows but also the negative effects of masking, especially to kids.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup. I'll keep those links around and sent one to a friend whose husband is pressing her to get the new booster, as he will. She was harmed by the first pair of jabs; even her doc now agrees the vaccine's the likely culprit. The husband can't bring himself to believe that.

[–]3andfro 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Campbell again in a YT short video on who chooses what to research (on vit D research from clinicians in Japan): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JMbWbsSu3ZE

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yet one more thing that's wrong with the whole system. And even if you could find US scientists willing to do the research without the federal funding, there's no guarantee they'd be able to get the results published if, as Campbell points out, it made some pharma product unnecessary.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'm sure that never happens.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What's ironic is that the handling of the Covid pandemic was what made me start questioning a lot of what I had previously settled opinions on; reading the ZH article it was deja vu all over again.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep. Pre-covid, even after Russiagate, I held the standard conservative view that the government is simply wasteful and useless and stupid; post-covid, I evaluate everything with the understanding that the government is actively out to get us.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or the government is simply comfortable with us as collateral damage to the profit-uber-alles actions of the corporatist state.

[–]3andfro 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

And 2 more:

The White House Former COVID Czar Spreads Misinformation to Sell Fall Booster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stJ6yKc85bA&ab_channel=VinayPrasadMDMPH

FLAWED Booster data was used by FDA for Mass Vax Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MJWgaYfWgA&ab_channel=VinayPrasadMDMPH

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I get his newsletter but had never listened to any of his broadcasts. I love how he presents the info; he's talking ninety to nothing but I had no difficulty following him because it's clear and linear (unlike some broadcasters I have trouble watching because they ramble and take forever to get their point across).

I loved his commentary on the "observational dataset gravy train" that drove a lot of our pandemic policy: "a setback for science, a setback for evidence-based medicine and a setback for the brains of many people working for universities." He also makes a very valid point in both broadcasts that Pfizer is flush with $100 billion in profits from Paxlovid and the vaccine so there was no justification for not demanding they do randomized control trials for the boosters and for the newly available vaccine.

[–]3andfro 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agree. He's been big on the dearth of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in pandemic policy. That's such an important point. We trust that "our" watchdog agencies are overseeing actual EBM and question what should be questioned. Now those of us who felt moved to look deeper find they're not, and that failure undermines EVERYTHING pharma, "the science," and the "oversight" agencies tell us.

Others have addressed this, too:

John Campbell - The corruption of evidence based medicine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2wGg0CYrjY&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell (18 mins)

op-ed in BMJ - The illusion of evidence based medicine https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o702

"Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia"

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting discussion about how since Covid they almost don't allow doctors to use the clinical discretion and acumen they've built up over years or even decades, instead pushing fairly rigid protocols via a top-down dictatorial process that's not even coming from the experienced doctors. The doctor-patient relationship was one of the three necessary prongs of evidence-based medicine as originally conceptualized but was effectively eliminated during Covid. Maybe it's part of a plan to eventually replace doctors with AI; wouldn't surprise me, they try to strip the human element from everything.

[–]3andfro 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Still timely reminder, from a recent analysis of COVID-19 vaccination effectiveness, published June 27, 2023 in the Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination:

All research that concluded that COVID-19 vaccines were successful and diminished mortality rates have used improper methodologies and have no support in the analysis of the basic statistical data which prove the mortality rate of vaccinated cohorts is higher than the mortality rate of unvaccinated cohorts. Clinical research is confirming that spike protein technology applied in COVID vaccines causes severe damage to human health. Its use on humans was premature and did not protect public health. The opposite was achieved. https://www.walshmedicalmedia.com/open-access/analysis-of-covid19-vaccination-effectiveness-120520.html

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Welp. Time to release a new 'variant'.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excerpt:

On the left, Tageszeitung (taz)– basically a cut-rate German Guardian – have already registered their displeasure that the vaccines are a) no longer free and b) no longer being urged on absolutely everybody...

Indeed it’s interesting that the Health Ministry have so quickly forgotten their vaccination appeals from just last year. With a little more introspection, taz might’ve drawn some important conclusions from this curiosity. As for STIKO and vaccine hesitancy, I fear they’ve gotten it backwards. The regulators are plainly trying to preserve remaining public faith in vaccines by reining in their mass Covid jab campaigns.

Holger Schelp, Chairman of the General Practitioners’ Association in Bremen remarked to local media this morning that there will be no “great rush” for the new jabs, admitting that “Interest is so low that many practices have not even ordered the vaccine.”

That may not sound like much, but you need to remember that these are words from an important medical bureaucrat in the most heavily vaccinated German state.

This, then, is how it ends. All the Very Important Science People have been wrong about everything, which means that none of them can pull the plug on this farce. They’ll continue their doubtful performances, selling slightly updated versions of failed pharmaceutical products and making claims well in excess of the evidence to an ever shrinking audience of virus enthusiasts. These dead-enders will shriek that they’ve been abandoned; they’ll write long meandering columns full of hand-wringing about “crowded waiting rooms, trains, classrooms and offices,” pleading that we need more “hybrid teaching” and more vaccine outreach, all of it to a suddenly indifferent political class. With all eyes on the upcoming state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, nobody cares what they have to say.