Today’s post is co-authored with the brilliant Viral Myalgia (@contrarian4data). Viral writes and tweets under a pseudonym for protection against the Intellectual-Yet-Idiots that roam the social media landscape. He is a brilliant physician, and data scientist with oodles of common sense (Follow him on twitter!).
Harry Wade was a hero. The British boy arrested last year. I was appalled that no other student in that classroom had the courage to stand in solidarity.
I recently read somewhere that the new & 'improved' (aka unproven) boosters will only be available to those who have completed the 'primary series'. Is this true? If antigenic imprinting is indeed occurring this guidance will completely eliminate any natural experiment that might prove it. Wouldn't it be better to do a controlled trial comparing protection of the new shots in vaccine naive individuals versus those previously vaccinated? Is that really too much to ask?
All good info, but pales in comparison to the broader ethical and constitutional montrosity of mandates. The individual, community, societal and economic impact.
Concentrating on the medical argument opens the door to legitimising the mass hysteria, mass psychosis, mass tyranny and mass self-destruction of the last 30 months, and into the future.
Have you seen the latest UK study on myocarditis (after vaccination versus after infection) from Patone et all in Circulation? For <40 yo males, risk of myocarditis after Vx >> after infection.
Those college students will learn to distrust their institutions and the "experts" who gave the bad advice.
Whenever the next pandemic comes, these students may well be responsible for children / employees / companies / institutions of their own and their skepticism (once they find the courage to act on it) may well hinder an appropriate response.
Having gone all-in on covid and sacrificing today's young will have disastrous impacts next time.
A list of US colleges with no good, very bad, dumb booster mandates can be found in the spreadsheet linked here:
https://nocollegemandates.substack.com/p/which-colleges-mandate
Harry Wade was a hero. The British boy arrested last year. I was appalled that no other student in that classroom had the courage to stand in solidarity.
I recently read somewhere that the new & 'improved' (aka unproven) boosters will only be available to those who have completed the 'primary series'. Is this true? If antigenic imprinting is indeed occurring this guidance will completely eliminate any natural experiment that might prove it. Wouldn't it be better to do a controlled trial comparing protection of the new shots in vaccine naive individuals versus those previously vaccinated? Is that really too much to ask?
All good info, but pales in comparison to the broader ethical and constitutional montrosity of mandates. The individual, community, societal and economic impact.
Concentrating on the medical argument opens the door to legitimising the mass hysteria, mass psychosis, mass tyranny and mass self-destruction of the last 30 months, and into the future.
Good summary.
Have you seen the latest UK study on myocarditis (after vaccination versus after infection) from Patone et all in Circulation? For <40 yo males, risk of myocarditis after Vx >> after infection.
https://sanjayverma-66740.medium.com/myocarditis-after-covid-19-vaccination-versus-sars-cov2-infection-latest-uk-study-in-context-db7e075d58cd
Why mandating vaccinations is a very bad, dumb idea - and a human rights violation.
Those college students will learn to distrust their institutions and the "experts" who gave the bad advice.
Whenever the next pandemic comes, these students may well be responsible for children / employees / companies / institutions of their own and their skepticism (once they find the courage to act on it) may well hinder an appropriate response.
Having gone all-in on covid and sacrificing today's young will have disastrous impacts next time.
Off-topic
Update on Myocarditis
Link to 45-minute lecture by pediatric cardiologist Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACC
https://kimberlymilhoanmd.substack.com/p/update-on-myocarditis
Oh and thanks for an excellent summary! really clear
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