tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81381832024-03-13T19:41:15.293-04:00PlagueBlogReporting on disease around the world and throughout the ages.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.comBlogger859125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-2597988761981726642023-07-07T12:37:00.000-04:002023-07-07T12:37:21.615-04:00Day 1246: The Erstwhile PreprintYou have to be quick in post-COVID clown world, not taking the week off for the holiday. We at PlagueBlog intended to blog the amazingly anti-vaxx preprint "A Systematic Review of Autopsy Findings in Deaths after COVID-19 Vaccination" on <i>The Lancet</i>'s preprint server while it was still up. We expected it to last longer than 24 hours. It seems the world wasn't ready for an estimated 700,000 American vaxx deaths, while <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4496137">the excuses</a> were near at hand. We'll quote them because who knows what they'll be tomorrow:
<blockquote>This preprint has been removed by Preprints with The Lancet because the study's conclusions are not supported by the study methodology. Preprints with The Lancet reserves the right to remove a paper that has been posted if we determine that it has violated our screening criteria.</blockquote>
They cite <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/preprint-faq">a FAQ</a> that, of course, does <b>not</b> say they take papers down for methodological reasons (though they do for ethical and other reasons), just that they reject preprints for methodology—which they clearly did not (by posting it in the first place).
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Note that this tissue of lies is inserted in place of the paper's abstract. The Wayback Machine is watching, so you can read that much <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706021406/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4496137">there</a>:
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Background: The rapid development and widespread deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, combined with a high number of adverse event reports, have led to concerns over possible mechanisms of injury including systemic lipid nanoparticle (LNP) and mRNA distribution, spike protein-associated tissue damage, thrombogenicity, immune system dysfunction, and carcinogenicity. The aim of this systematic review is to investigate possible causal links between COVID-19 vaccine administration and death using autopsies and post-mortem analysis.
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Methods: We searched for all published autopsy and necropsy reports relating to COVID-19 vaccination up until May 18th, 2023. We initially identified 678 studies and, after screening for our inclusion criteria, included 44 papers that contained 325 autopsy cases and one necropsy case. Three physicians independently reviewed all deaths and determined whether COVID-19 vaccination was the direct cause or contributed significantly to death.
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Findings: The most implicated organ system in COVID-19 vaccine-associated death was the cardiovascular system (53%), followed by the hematological system (17%), the respiratory system (8%), and multiple organ systems (7%). Three or more organ systems were affected in 21 cases. The mean time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days. Most deaths occurred within a week from last vaccine administration. A total of 240 deaths (73.9%) were independently adjudicated as directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.
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Interpretation: The consistency seen among cases in this review with known COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, their mechanisms, and related excess death, coupled with autopsy confirmation and physician-led death adjudication, suggests there is a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and death in most cases. Further urgent investigation is required for the purpose of clarifying our findings.
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Funding: None.
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Declaration of Interest: Drs Alexander, Amerling, Hodkinson, Makis, McCullough, Risch, Trozzi are affiliated with and receive salary support and or hold equity positions in The Wellness Company, Boca Raton, FL which had no role in funding, analysis, or publication.</blockquote>
The Wayback Machine is not so good at capturing weirdly-linked PDFs, so if you're looking for the paper, the precient folks at <i>The Daily Skeptic</i> have it <a href="https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SSRN-id4496137.pdf">here</a>, along with their own <a href="https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/06/lancet-study-on-covid-vaccine-autopsies-finds-74-were-caused-by-vaccine-journal-removes-study-within-24-hours/">reporting</a>.
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Here is the preprint's extrapolation of 700,000 deaths, not from the autopsies and causes they listed, but from a rather mild VAERS underreporting factor:
<blockquote>Pantazatos estimated that VAERS deaths are underreported by a factor of 20. If we apply this underreporting factor to the May 5th, 2023, VAERS death report count of 35,324, the number of deaths in the United States alone becomes 706,480. If this extrapolated number of deaths were
to be confirmed, the COVID-19 vaccines would represent the largest medical failure in human history.</blockquote>
mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-46399740074279038302023-06-15T13:18:00.000-04:002023-06-15T13:18:16.798-04:00Day 1224: Patients ZeroAn independent news substack <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19">reports on</a> three patients zero, doing gain-of-function research on SARSes at the Wuhan Institute of Virology:
<blockquote>Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.
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As such, not only do we know there were WIV scientists who had developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019, but also that they were working with the closest relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and inserting gain-of-function features unique to it.
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When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%”[.]
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“Ben Hu is essentially the next Shi Zhengli,” said Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and coauthor with Matt Ridley of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid19. Shi is known as “the bat woman of China,” and led the gain-of-function research at the WIV. “He was her star pupil. He had been making chimeric SARS-like viruses and testing these in humanized mice. If I had to guess who would be doing this risky virus research and most at risk of getting accidentally infected, it would be him.”</blockquote>
So not wet-market pangolin shoppers after all.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-8060701756659580472023-06-04T17:29:00.000-04:002023-06-04T17:29:07.555-04:00Day 1213: The New Anti-VaxxersThe failure of the COVID vaccines has led to generalized grassroots anti-vaxxing. But lately the sorts of professionals who used to preface their doubts about the mRNA vaccines with apparently sincere statements that "I am not an anti-vaxxer but..." have been coming out as anti-vaxxers.
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I don't know whether it's the recent revelations about massive production issues with AstraZeneca, the latest autism numbers, or previous enormities like the CDC adding an emergency use vaccine to the childhood schedule that's pushed these people out the Overton window into anti-vaxxing, but once they arrive they usually mention autism (rather than, say, SIDS).
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Recently vocal anti-vaxxers include <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/vaccines-cause-autism
">Steve Kirsch</a>, <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/association-between-childhood-hypervaccination
">Dr. Peter McCullough</a>, and <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronsiri/p/how-did-our-vaccine-oversight-system">Aaron Siri</a>.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-23044368417025973752023-05-15T10:16:00.000-04:002023-05-15T10:16:47.467-04:00Day 1193: Letters to WalenskyThe bad cat has joined the epistolary madness, writing <a href="https://brownstone.org/author/el-gato-malo/">his own, properly capitalized missive</a> to lame-duck CDC head Rochelle Walensky.
<blockquote>This series of unfounded claims and distortionary definitions seems both a poor and a deeply dangerous practice for Public Health.
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If we are to have any hope of restoring faith in this field, we must ask and answer the pointed questions of “How did this happen?” and “At whose behest?”
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Someone made these choices for some reason. Who and why would seem to be the bare minimum of post mortem here.
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It is oft opined that a bad map is worse than no map at all and in this, I must wholeheartedly agree. The public health agencies in America have become the most calamitous of cartographers.</blockquote>
Jessica Rose also <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica5b3/p/florida-surgeon-general-persists">reports on</a> Dr. Lapado's missive exchange with the <s>dens of vipers</s> writers of "word salad" at the FDA and CDC (which we linked in passing last time).
mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-36841734530633149122023-05-11T10:47:00.003-04:002023-05-11T15:55:17.108-04:00Day 1189: The State of Non-EmergencyAbout a year and a half after all semblance of an emergency ended (with the <i>just the flu</i> Omicron wave), the federal government has finally put a stake into the state of emergency that would not die. Federal largess for free COVID tests and vaccines has officially dried up. Like welfare bonuses, the Medicaid extension ended a bit earlier, but what happens when to those who no longer qualify for Medicaid varies by state.
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Holdout states like Massachusetts are quickly dropping any remaining mask, testing, and vaccination mandates as well as ending local states of emergency. The major healthcare networks have been sending out emails about what they're dropping, as though they had a choice and could continue enforcing masking or other measures without the state to back them up. Regardless, none of them seem to have the appetite for it any longer.
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It's difficult to say which intervention was the least effective, but the one people on the ground are still the most attached to seems to be masking. The government, on the other hand, continues to push dangerous and ineffective vaccines.
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<b>P.S.</b> ...except <a href="https://substack.com/inbox/post/120773602">in Florida</a>.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-55146973520356996842023-05-10T18:46:00.000-04:002023-05-10T18:46:07.061-04:00Day 1188: The Vaccines Fail to Work, Bivalent Booster EditionFor the last day of the state of emergency, here's <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v5.full">a preprint</a> about the boosters failing to provide any protection against the most current incarnation of COVID they considered. They phrase this in terms of various Omicron variants, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to assume it's about the particular variant rather than the passage of time, as boosting is calculated with a week of immortal time.
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Despite the immortal time fallacy, they found that more jabs led to more cases of COVID, and that natural immunity led to less COVID:
<blockquote>The risk of COVID-19 also varied by the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses previously received. The higher the number of vaccines previously received, the higher the risk of contracting COVID-19 (Figure 2).
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The multivariable analysis also found that, the more recent the last prior COVID-19 episode was the lower the risk of COVID-19, and that the greater the number of vaccine doses previously received the higher the risk of COVID-19.</blockquote>
They cite some prior speculation (immune imprinting and IgG4 issues with which PlagueBlog readers are familiar) about the causes of the increase in COVID with more jabs, and even dare to suggest that more jabbing may not actually be helping.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-18595866341994158932023-05-03T14:05:00.003-04:002023-05-03T14:05:31.278-04:00Day 1181: VAERS Still Full of Dead BodiesAs of two weeks ago, VAERS was up to over 35,000 deaths from various COVID vaccines (over 17,000 of them in the US) out of about 45,000 total deaths reported since 1990. Steve Kirsch hasn't given up on VAERS-watching or convincing people to <a href="https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/dont-let-anyone-gaslight-you-on-vaers">acknowledge the body count</a>, though he himself refrains from the VAERS underreporting math in that post. (It adds up to about 700,000 COVID vaccine deaths in the US to date.)
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He has other interesting arguments for VAERS veracity that I don't recall from my first run-in with his numbers a year and a half ago, back when the body count was half what it is now. I think the most impressive argument is the imbalance of male to female deaths. Men <i>are</i> the weaker sex when it comes to vaccine side-effects, but people allegedly making politically-motivated VAERS reports don't know that. They certainly don't know to report only the male childhood deaths and no female ones. Pediatric deaths that aren't from skateboarding into traffic or genetic diseases are already an anomaly that needs explanation beyond <i>because VAERS</i>. A sex imbalance is just adding insult to the injury of the CDC ignoring them.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-71006185407199584702023-04-20T10:16:00.000-04:002023-04-20T10:16:42.407-04:00Day 1168: CDC Director Lies to Congress About Masks<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/maryannedemasi/p/cdc-director-gives-misleading-testimony">Maryanne Demasi reports</a> on CDC Director Rochelle Walensky lying to Congress regarding what she knew when about COVID vaccine efficacy (the truth: nothing), and what the Cochrane review has retracted from its famously damning mask review (the truth: nothing).
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To be fair, many <a href="https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/breaking-did-cochrane-sacrifice-its">innocent bystanders</a> have gotten the impression that Cochrane backed down or apologized and thus masks might still work despite the utter lack of evidence, via nonsense promulgated by Zeynep Tufecki. (For less paywall, see <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/sensiblemed/p/the-cochrane-mask-fiasco">Vinay Prasad's angry recap</a> of Tufecki's confabulations.)
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But the Director of the CDC isn't supposed to be just another sheep getting her COVID info from the opinion page of the New York Times. She should know better.
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On a completely unrelated topic, RIP former pro football player Chris Smith, 31, who has died of suddenly. We'd like to report more details, but none have been released, not even the date of his death. We are forced to conclude it was particularly vaxxy-looking, such as keeling over of "commotio cordis" at his first XFL practice.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-20672018478437551132023-04-19T20:11:00.002-04:002023-04-19T20:11:23.714-04:00Day 1167: CasualtiesI have long thought that if the excess mortality rate is out of control, then whatever is causing those deaths must be causing significant morbidity as well, not to mention affecting labor markets. Back in January, <a href="https://dailyclout.io/smoking-gun-disability-data-reveals-alarming-health-crisis-of-the-employed/">the Vigilant Fox reported</a> some numbers from Ed Dowd:
<blockquote>The following table, provided by phinancetechnologies.com, provides a summary of different statistics regarding changes in disability that occurred from February 2021 through November 2022. We’re going to be focusing on the red section.
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The number it gives is an increase in disabilities of (1,460,000 + 1,677,000) 3,137,000 in people between the ages of 16-64.
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“In Wall Street,” explained Edward Dowd, “we focus on signals and frequency and rate of change. That was a three-standard deviation year-over-year rate of growth change — shouldn’t have happened.”</blockquote>
He makes much of the new disabilities being concentrated among the employed (allegedly due to vaxx mandates), and, more obviously, causing our national staffing woes.
mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-10442868977245479132023-04-18T13:06:00.001-04:002023-04-18T20:24:04.361-04:00Day 1166: A Vaxx Like Any Other VaxxAaron Siri, the man who sues the FDA so you don't have to, wrote <a href="https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/mrna-vaccines-are-vaccines">an excellent essay</a> against the anti-vaxx talking point that certain mRNA products that fail to prevent COVID infection or transmission "aren't vaccines." Apparently the essay was restricted to his paid Substack subscribers at one point, but in the intervening two months has gone fully public.
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If you're not familiar with the other non-sterilizing vaccines on the market, this essay is both short and educational. One omission is <i>why</i> the pertussis vaccine is non-sterilizing, but it's much like the other inactivated virus vaccines: the virus (or bacteria in some cases) runs rampant in some more external part of the body (<i>e.g.</i>, the mucus membranes or the digestive tract) but is prevented from getting into the bloodstream or spinal column where it could do the most harm.
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If this sounds like a just-so story to obscure the poor performance of inactivated virus vaccines in first-world countries where the diseases aren't circulating anyway, well, further research on this topic is left to the reader. There's no particular evidence that the COVID vaccines are achieving even this half-arsed immunity, so (if the others are) the mRNA vaccines could still be not-a-vaxx by most people's standards.
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Non-sterility is not his only argument, though the remaining points are less about the definition of a vaccine and more about standards of vaccine (or drug) safety that the mRNA products violate. That it's been a long, slippery slope with littered with other bad vaccines is a sort of argument for yes-a-vaxx, though not the one he makes.
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It's all worth a read, but the most horrifying example is the hepatitis B vaccine, which appears under both the yes-vaxxes-use-new-technology point (recombinant DNA) and the yes-vaxxes-are-largely-untested point:
<blockquote>The clinical trials for Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines each enrolled at least 30,000 people, reviewed safety for at least six months, and had a placebo control group for at least two months on average.
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In contrast, most childhood vaccines had only days or weeks of safety review; typically far, far less than 30,000 participants; and virtually never had a placebo control. As an example, let’s use the very first vaccine on the CDC’s childhood schedule – the hepatitis b vaccine given on the first day of life:
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The safety review in the clinical trial relied upon to license this vaccine is similar to that of many other vaccines on the childhood schedule. In a word: useless. Now let me earn the use of that adjective.
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There are only two brands of hepatitis b vaccines that are given to babies on the first day of life, Recombivax HB and Engerix B. Here is a summary of the clinical trial relied upon to license Recombivax HB for babies and children directly from the official FDA documentation:
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So, 147 children were injected with 5 days of safety monitoring after injection. The clinical trial for Engerix B (see page 6), the other hepatitis b vaccine given to babies, only had 4 days of safety monitoring after vaccination.
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This seems so unbelievable that, on behalf of Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), my firm sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA demanding copies of the clinical trial reports submitted to the FDA to license Recombivax HB, and you can see for yourself it was indeed five days of safety monitoring after each shot given to babies and children! For Engerix B we requested that the FDA only produce clinical trial reports that reviewed safety for more than a week and after 3 ½ years, the FDA has still never been able to produce a single such study!
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And if you are thinking, as I did, that maybe, just maybe, a clinical trial or some other large, robust safety assessment occurred <i>after</i> licensure (even though it would be condemned by the medical community as unethical – to withhold an “effective” vaccine from children in the control group), you would be wrong.
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Note that hepatitis B is a sexually transmitted disease; there is no reason to vaccinate an infant unless the mother carried it. Studies have shown that immunity does not persist well into puberty as was hoped when the whole boondoggle of vaccinating day-old infants began. (PlagueBlog recommends against this vaccine in infancy, even if it is a vaxx like any other vaxx.)
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<b>P.S.</b>: <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/very-urgent-the-fda-is-raising-the">Alex Berenson reports</a> that the vaxx became like any other vaxx in yet another way today when <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-changes-simplify-use-bivalent-mrna-covid-19-vaccines">the FDA nixed</a> the storied two-shot series along with booster samsara (the eternal cycle of boosters) in favor of one bivalent shot for all but the most defenseless among us. This remains an emergency authorization, with no final, allegedly vetted product in sight (as the monovalent vaccines are now deauthorized). mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-49352517362033071652023-04-14T17:04:00.001-04:002023-04-14T17:04:44.818-04:00Day 1162: An Anti-Vaxxer for PresidentRFK Jr. isn't just <i>an</i> anti-vaxxer, he is <i>the</i> anti-vaxxer. He'll be kicking off his presidential campaign <a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/a-historic-event-in-boston">in Boston</a> next week. One wonders if he'll come out of the gate gunning for the CDC, and how many Republican and independent voters he can grab on COVID issues.
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Dr. McCullough also <a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/bad-pfizer-vaccine-batches-account">reports on</a> a research letter on bad batches of Pfizer's COVID vaccine in Denmark. While it looks pretty damning, due to their methodology the report actually fails to control for bad administration technique, which (as a systemic problem rather than an occasional random jab to a vein) could be highly correlated with batch number.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-58284881618502891702023-03-16T08:53:00.000-04:002023-03-16T08:53:13.641-04:00Day 1133: Pandemic Iatrogenocide<a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid">The bad cat speculates</a> that modern pandemics are iatrogenic; the cure <em>is</em> the disease. The nominal disease is mostly harmless in the face of modern medicine, and only panicking and adopting dangerously untested new drugs can lead to pandemic-scale mortality. (Note that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, whatever their effectiveness against COVID, are safe and well-tolerated old drugs.)
<blockquote>there has NEVER been a seriously dangerous global pandemic in the post antibiotic era. there have barely been any that even warranted notice and pretty much no one living can recollect a shred of the last one.
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and the odds on bet appears to be that had we not swerved around covid as though it were a tyrannosaur in the road instead of a squirrel, covid would almost certainly not have been one either.
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let’s unpack.
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as was the case in the spanish flu, perhaps the last truly high excess death global pandemic to bedevil humanity, much of the damage was done by horrible reactions. and the parallels may be more poignant than people realize.
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one of the enduring causes of fear during the 1918 flu was the way that it seemed to be killing otherwise young and healthy people (especially soldiers) in a matter of days. they would be a bit sick then suddenly die of massive organ failure and “wet hemorrhagic lungs.” the progression was incredibly fast, seemingly irreversible, and was stacking people who really ought to have been low risk in mortuaries like cordwood. this made risk, CFR, and IFR look horrifying and fear near universal.
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if it could do this to a solider in his prime in a matter of days, every last one of us should be terrified.
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[...] but respiratory diseases are different and tend to spread far more. fatality rates are low. claimed spanish flu CFR was always suspicious in this regard. and there may be a reason:
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<b><em>there is actually quite a lot of convincing evidence that many of the “young, healthy deaths” in spanish flu were iatrogenic.</em></b>
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loosely put, iatrogenic death is when the doctor kills you. and there is a long and unpleasant history on that one from benjamin rush bleeding george washington to death to killing “witchy” cats to stop a plague carried by the fleas of the very rats they were eating to (and especially) new “wonder drugs” that are poorly understood but that rapidly go into widespread use.
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and one of those drugs was aspirin.
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aspirin had just come into widespread availability in 1918 (and bayer was rushing it to market for the pandemic). it was the new wowie-zowie drug and doctors (and especially militaries) all over the world fell in love with it. they prescribed it widely to those with spanish flu. in doses ranging from 8 to 31 grams per day. oopsie.
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a typical aspirin today is 325mg and max dosing per day is ~4 grams.
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a toxic dose is 200-300mg/kg of weight. that’s about 20g for a 180 pound person.
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31g is “you’re going to die really, really fast and there is not a damn thing anyone can do to stop it once you take that dose.”
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this is why incredible caution should be exercised around large departures from tested and true medical practice and new pharma modalities and products.
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stop me if any of this starts to sound familiar.
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So we'll stop him there, though he goes into some detail about <a href="https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441">a 2009 paper about Spanish flu iatrogenic aspirin</a>, and how ventilators and nursing home policy were COVID's aspirin. Strangely (for him), he doesn't mention the vaccines.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-91386674154075895052023-02-07T12:37:00.004-05:002023-02-07T12:55:26.871-05:00Day 1103: Masks Still Don't WorkEveryone and their brother has reported on the latest meta-study showing masks don't work. Just for example, Vinay Prasad lights into the "religion" of masking in <a href="https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/the-cochrane-review-on-masks-is-damning">"The Cochrane Review on Masks is Damning"</a>:
<blockquote>Here is the big summary finding. With 276,000 participants in RCTs or cluster RCTs, masking does nothing. No reduction in influenza like or Covid like illness and no reduction in confirmed flu or COVID. That’s stone cold negative. See those effect sizes and confidence intervals.
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This is why Fauci said what he said initially on 60 [M]inutes. He wasn’t lying. The best evidence showed no benefit. That was before we saw a concerted campaign to promote cloth masking—a bizarre way to treat anxiety. People routinely wore cloth masks outside—something that was less 21st century and more 3rd century, akin to animal sacrifice, and dancing to make the rains come.
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The section on N95 masks was also devastating.
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He recommends reading <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full">the whole thing</a>. <a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/lead-author-of-the-cochrane-mask">Eugyppius talks about</a> pro-maskers' reaction to the news:
<blockquote>Plainly, the conviction that mask mandates were necessary came first; The Science followed. All the while, though, the evidence didn’t go away. It was just suspended slightly out of view, diluted with weak excuses and deprived of influence over policy, until the ideological fervour dissipated and the plain truth could be spoken again. The lesson is that regime authorities, particularly when they enjoy the collaboration of the press and academia, can tell almost any lie, but keeping the truth out of view requires active effort, and sooner or later their myths come crashing down. The mask mythology was among the first to take shape, and it has been the first to fall.
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In the coming months other pandemic fantasies will also begin [to] unravel.</blockquote>mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-49838520554467251392023-02-06T14:17:00.000-05:002023-02-06T14:17:46.918-05:00Day 1102: vxCJD Paper PublishedThe mysterious <a href="https://plagueblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/day-908-prions-again.html">disappearing vaxx-variant CJD preprint from last summer</a> has finally been <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367167725_Emergence_of_a_New_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_Disease_26_Cases_of_the_Human_Version_of_Mad-Cow_Disease_Days_After_a_COVID-19_Injection">published, in the <i>International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research</i></a> (h/t <a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/are-covid-vaccines-coding-for-that">the bad cat</a>). The final paper is restricted to mainly the French cases from the preprint, including one who was still alive in August:
<blockquote>Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the formerly rare but universally fatal prion disease in humans, normally progresses over several decades before it leads to death. In the Appendix to this paper, we highlight the presence of a prion region in the spike protein of the original SARS-CoV-2, and in all the “vaccine” variants built from the Wuhan virus. The prion region in the spike of SARS-CoV-2 has a density of mutations eight times greater than that of the rest of the spike, and, yet, strangely that entire prion region disappears completely in the Omicron variant. In the main body of our text, we present 26 cases of Creuzfeldt-Jacob Disease, all diagnosed in 2021 with the first symptoms appearing within an average of 11.38 days after a Pfizer, Moderna, or AstraZeneca COVID-19 injection. Because the causal progression, the etiopathogenesis, of these atypical and new cases of human prion disease — cases of what is apparently a totally new form of rapidly developing Creuzfeldt-Jacob Disease — we focus on the chronology of the symptomatic development. We consider it from an anamnestic point of view — one in which we compare the typical development of pre-COVID cases of Creuzfeldt-Jacob Disease to the extremely accelerated development of similar symptoms in the 26 cases under examination. By such an approach, we hope to work out the etiopathogenesis critical to understanding this new and much more rapidly developing human prion disease. By recalling the sequential pathway of that the formerly subacute and slowly developing disease followed in the past, and by comparing it with this new, extremely acute, rapidly developing prion disease — one following closely after one or more of the COVID-19 injections — we believe it is correct to infer that the injections caused the disease in these 26 cases. If so, they have probably also caused a many other cases that have gone undiagnosed because of their rapid progression to death. By late 2021, 20 had died within 4.76 months of the offending injection. Of those, 8 died suddenly within 2.5 months confirming the rapid progression of this accelerated form of Creuzfeldt-Jacob Disease. By June 2022, 5 more patients had died, and at the time of this current writing, only 1 remains still alive.</blockquote>
One of the authors has also died. Note that the VAERS search mentioned in the paper (for CJD from COVID vaccines) originally produced 20 cases, 19 of whom were already deceased. In our previous vxCJD post the search produced 33 deaths, and as of last week is was up to <a href="https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?EVENTS=on&PAGENO=4&PERPAGE=10&ESORT=&REVERSESORT=&VAX=%28COVID19%29&SYMPTOMS=%28Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease_%2810011384%29%29">79 cases</a>, 42 of whom are marked deceased, and two of which involved J&J rather than the mRNA vaccines.
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If you're feeling brave, the bad cat goes into the prospective mechanisms behind vaxx-induced CJD. Keep in mind that vxCJD onset appears to be sudden, usually within 15 days of vaccination, rather than a delayed side-effect of the vaccines.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-72116695189037544512023-01-25T15:56:00.001-05:002023-01-25T15:56:59.784-05:00Day 1090: Not the Vaxx, and Yet, Still the VaxxAlthough it's harsh on Scott Adams week in the Covidsphere, we'll leave that work to the bad cat (<a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/rationalizing-rationality">representing the "fear is the mind killer" camp</a>) and Mathew Crawford (<a href="https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/scott-adams-cognitive-warfare-and">representing the "controlled opposition" camp</a>).
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Instead we'll flash back to last year's news about IgG4: "Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination" <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798">in <i>Science Immunology</i></a>, followed in January by a similar result <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1020844/full">in <i>Frontiers in Immunology</i></a>: "mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 induce comparably low long-term IgG Fc galactosylation and sialylation levels but increasing long-term IgG4 responses compared to an adenovirus-based vaccine". (The first paper was <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.05.22277189v1.full.pdf">preprinted</a> in July, and the second submitted in August of last year.)
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<a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/are-covid-vaccines-causing-persistent">The bad cat</a> and <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/a-second-paper-confirms-the-mrna">Alex Berenson</a> go into some detail about the papers, but the short horror story is that the antibody response you get with repeated mRNA shots is akin to the one you get for allergens, and is not particularly useful against COVID <i>qua</i> infectious disease. This means that boosters not only make it <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/very-urgent-after-four-shots-covid"><i>more</i> likely you'll catch COVID</a>, but also make it more likely you'll die of COVID. So the vaxx is not necessarily killing people with the weird side-effects of an insufficiently-tested technology that has never succeeded before; it may just be killing them with...COVID.
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PlagueBlog recommends avoiding drugs that have only been tested in a handful of mice, especially if said mice have only passed a vague and possibly harmful endpoint like "antibody levels".mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-18275909265857179332023-01-02T21:32:00.004-05:002023-01-02T22:23:06.267-05:00Day 1067: The Other FootballWhile we at PlagueBlog Headquarters have been expecting the vaccine against soccer to eventually affect a major American sport live on camera, we watch little enough of it to have expected to witness the event ourselves. But we were watching today's Bills game when 24-year-old Damar Hamlin mysteriously collapsed on the field.
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One would also have expected people to be a little more aware of the recent carnage on the soccer field and a little more prepared for SADS, but it's all shock and ad-libbing from the teams and reporters. As of press time the game is still suspended.
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<b>P.S.</b> The Internet is grasping at a diagnosis of commotio cordis, but it's extremely rare, even rarer in adults, and also rarer in non-projectile sports like football.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-86790905956125489352022-12-24T18:47:00.000-05:002022-12-24T18:47:38.365-05:00Day 1058: No Child in the MangerThe bad cat has another monthly update on <a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/swedish-birthrate-data-october-is">the precipitous drop in Swedish births</a>, along with <a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/quick-updates-on-covid-vaccine-fertility">a recap of the potential causative factors</a> behind the correlation between vaccinations nine months ago and historically low birth rates today, in those countries that report both stats in an accurate and timely manner:
<blockquote>but instead of the sort of all hands on deck attention one would expect from a health agency in the face of such a powerful and atypical signal on such an important matter, we’re getting absolutely nothing.
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studies about what happens when you read rilke to nematodes are getting more funding and interest than this.
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at a certain point, this utter lack of curiosity becomes an indictment of, if not complicity, at least of culpability in cover up.
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what, after all, is public health supposed to be for if not this?
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if this sort of mischief with the very basis of societal perpetuation is insufficient to rouse the alleged watchmen from their slumber, how is one not to ask some VERY pointed questions not only about whether they have any use at all, but perhaps just who and what they are guarding?
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perhaps it is something other than our well being…</blockquote>mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-46746454018471224912022-12-23T12:22:00.000-05:002022-12-23T12:22:09.814-05:00Day 1057: The Tripledemic that Wasn'tWhile the world (and especially <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-23/china-estimates-covid-surge-is-infecting-37-million-people-a-day">Bloomberg</a>) continues to speculate on how many Chinese will get COVID today (<i>e.g.,</i> 37 million), <a href="https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/21/the-fake-tripledemic-that-was-90-rsv-and-almost-zero-covid-19/">Dr. Andrew Bostom</a> reports on some more concrete numbers from the alleged tripledemic (h/t <a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-fake-tripledemic-that-was-90">Dr. Meryl Nass</a>):
<blockquote>Serious paediatric illness is best gauged by the actual number of children hospitalised, as opposed to ‘respiratory virus test positivity’. The latter is especially misleading because of the unique, ongoing phenomenon of continued mass COVID-19 testing for minimal symptoms. Curiously, almost two months later, I could find no local media follow-up coverage elucidating the feared paediatric ‘tripledemic’ by this most germane metric: a direct comparison of children hospitalised for COVID-19, influenza or RSV.
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With the cooperation of Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) spokesman Joseph Wendelken, and an academic paediatrician at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, I can now present those hospitalisation data, per the table below. Given time lags in compilation and transmission, the hospitalisation record only covers all of October, and November 2022.
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Despite the anguished media declarations, there was no Rhode Island paediatric ‘tripledemic’, at least through October and November. RSV, alone, accounted for around 90% (194 ÷ 222 = 87.4%) of so-called ‘tripledemic’ hospitalisations among Rhode Island children, and the rate of RSV hospitalisations (97 per month), was around seven-fold the rate of COVID-19 and influenza hospitalisations combined (14 per month). Moreover, the surrogate for RSV hospitalisations, a single International Classification of Diseases (ICD) RSV code (bronchiolitis, an inflammation of the smaller lung airways) omits RSV pneumonia and bronchitis coded hospitalisations. Certainly, omitting these ICD codes underestimates true paediatric RSV admissions.</blockquote>
I've seen other reports of flu peaking early this year, so it's interesting to see RSV swamping even flu. Both are on the decline already, and with COVID remaining harmless to children hopefully the tripledemic that wasn't will be behind us soon.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-280203711704272732022-12-21T17:36:00.001-05:002022-12-21T17:36:10.568-05:00Day 1055: The Cleveland Negative Efficacy StudyChina's new 100%-COVID policy continues to mystify both onlookers and Chinese. One thing that is <i>not</i> all that mysterious about the news is the prediction of three waves of COVID in China this winter, because it's not actually about COVID at all, but about three waves of movement and mixing connected to the Chinese New Year celebrations.
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Back in the land of The Science™, one bit of news not to be missed is the Cleveland study of booster efficacy, which, <a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/cleveland-study-conducted-to-demonstrate">as Eugyppius notes</a>, had the unplanned result of showing that COVID cases <i>increase</i> with additional mRNA boosters:
<blockquote>Because Pfizer only tested the effectiveness of their BA.5 bivalent vaccine on a handful of mice, there has been understandable interest in working out whether the shiny new jabs actually do anything in return for inflicting an unknown number of injuries and undesirable side-effects on the Pfizer Pfaithful. Towards this end, a few scientists at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio have conducted a retrospective cohort study of Clinic employees who received the bivalent vaccine between September and December of this year. Most received the Pfizer cocktail, but 11% had the Moderna version.
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Of 51,011 people ultimately included in the study, a mere 10,804 opted for bivalent vaccination. If anything shows that the stock of the vaccines is in freefall, it’s uptake this dismal at a major healthcare institution. The bivalently boosted were 30% less likely to be infected, in a study period where the vaccines and the circulating SARS-2 variants were for the most part perfectly aligned. In another blow to the logic of perpetual vaccination with subpar ineffective products, the authors note that their cohort had “too few severe illnesses for the study to be able to determine if the vaccine decreased severity of illness.” Because it’s severe outcomes and death, rather than infections, which matter, this is the same as saying the bivalent vaccines are totally pointless, especially in the younger cohort (mean age 42) studied here.
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The real bombshell, though, is the authors’ accidental finding that risk of infection increases incrementally with each prior (non-bivalent) vaccine dose.
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Their discussion of this point is more honest than you’d expect:
<blockquote>The association of increased risk of COVID-19 with higher numbers of prior vaccine doses in our study, was unexpected. A simplistic explanation might be that those who received more doses were more likely to be individuals at higher risk of COVID-19. A small proportion of individuals may have fit this description. However, the majority of subjects in this study were generally young individuals and all were eligible to have received at least 3 doses of vaccine by the study start date, and which they had every opportunity to do. … This is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19. … We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to a vaccine’s effectiveness it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed.</blockquote>
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They also showed that prior COVID infection <i>is</i> effective in preventing COVID infections. (Fancy that!)mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-22793840826753172702022-12-05T11:10:00.003-05:002022-12-05T11:11:07.546-05:00Day 1039: Not the Vaxx For Once<a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-rate-of-respiratory-infection">Eugyppius reports</a> on raging respiratory infections in 1 out of 4 German children, especially RSV among the almost completely unvaccinated under-4 set, overwhelming hospitals. He attributes the problem to lockdowns:
<blockquote>This isn’t the vaccines (almost no children under 5 have been vaccinated), and it’s not just a coincidence or a bad year for RSV either. It’s a direct consequence of mass containment. While lockdowns didn’t do much about SARS-2, they appear to have reduced the incidence of other, slower-moving viruses considerably. Young women in particular have been underexposed to RSV for three years now, with the result that their breast milk confers far less passive immunity against common viruses than it did in the pre-pandemic era.</blockquote>
Of course a four-year-old would have been breastfed back in the Before Times, but presumably has not been exposed to enough viruses since then. For a vaxx-did-it theory, see, <i>e.g.</i>, <a href="https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/is-rsv-more-severe-in-covid-vaccinated">Igor Chudov on hematopoietic stem cells</a>.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-21046196684512902492022-11-13T18:45:00.002-05:002022-11-13T18:45:40.712-05:00Day 1017: Yet Another Bad Mask StudyOf course, it's about masks. The NEJM paper is about an observational study of Boston schoolchildren, so it's been especially newsworthy here in Massachusetts. Vinay Prasad brought in Tracy Høeg <a href="https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/nejms-disappointing-decision-to-publish">to debunk the thing</a>:
<blockquote>In the Boston study, the identified masking effect size against cases that is <b>implausibly high</b>. They say the dropping of the mask mandates corresponded with an additional 11,901 cases, which was 33.4% of ALL cases in the unmasked districts. Among the staff they found 40.4% of the cases to be attributable to the lifting of the mask mandates.
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This is unrealistic considering most cases come from the community into the school AND we have a randomized study from Bangladesh failing to find any effect of either community or cloth masking in anyone under 50 (and that signal was modest, at around 11% decrease rate with surgical masks, which was uncertain, and no significant decrease with cloth masks). We also have a regression discontinuity design study from Spain which takes advantage of the fact that 5-year-olds don’t mask and 6 year old do and there was <i>no significant discontinuity</i> from age 5-6 as compared with other ages to suggest an effect of masking on case rates.
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Additionally, the authors of the Boston study made the difficult-to-understand choice of “consider[ing] community rates of COVID-19 as part of the causal effect of school masking policies rather than a source of bias” in other words they saw community case rates to be a result of school masking policies/school case rates rather than community case rates to be the major source of school cases. A large body of research has suggested the opposite finding COVID-19 in schools is up to 10-20x more likely to come from outside of the school than from within. This includes a study from the UK where children <12 were not masked.
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But they did plot the results of school COVID cases vs community covid cases and, as you can see here: [graph omitted] school case rates had a similar relationship to city/town case positivity rates in all districts, with all school case rates similar in relation to that of the community, which speaks against any large impact of school masking. Further, it is unclear why cases would be presumed to be coming from the school to the community with the school peak lagging the community peak in two of the districts or why any difference seen in the masked district would be presumed to be due to masks when the March 17 and the did not lift groups appear so similar in the difference between school (black) and community (orange) case rates. Looking overall at how much the mask district differs from the community compared with the unmasked districts, it’s clear the difference is modest---and of course may not be attributable to masks!</blockquote>
They both note the paper's strange focus on structural racism.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-88174371581575342892022-11-01T13:46:00.002-04:002022-11-04T12:12:25.821-04:00Day 1005: Amnestesia The response to Emily Oster's <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/">recent plea in <i>The Atlantic</i></a> for a COVID-craziness amnesty went over surprisingly poorly. She got ratioed on Twitter for her forgive-and-forget stance, and all the usual suspects blogged their implacable opposition to letting anyone off the hook for criminal COVID insanity.
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Mathew Crawford recaps some of the posts <i>qua</i> <a href="https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/apology-games">Apology Games</a> (the lack of an apology being the first thing that comes up in criticism's of Oster's amnestesia), notably <a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/emily-oster-proposes-a-pandemic-amnesty">Eugyppius' salty take</a> and Vinay Prasad's <a href="https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/pandemic-accountability">"narcissistic fence-sitting"</a>. Eugyppius was actually harsher than Crawford lets on:
<blockquote>Emily Oster may have said a few reasonable things in the depths of her pandemic moderation, but she can take her proposal for pandemic amnesty and shove it all the way up her ass. I’m never going to forget what these villains did to me and my friends. It is just hard to put into words how infuriating it is, to read this breezy triviliasation of the absolute hell we’ve been through, penned by some comfortable and clueless Ivy League mommyconomist who is ready to mouth support for basically any pandemic policy that doesn’t directly affect her or her family and then plead that the horrible behaviour and policies supported by her entire social milieu are just down to ignorance about the virus. We knew everything we needed to know about SARS-2 already in February 2020. The pandemicists and their supporters crossed many bright red lines in their eradicationist zeal and ruined untold millions of lives. That doesn’t all just go away now.</blockquote>
But of course the bad cat has <a href="https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/emily-osters-no-good-really-bad-terrible">the saltiest take</a>:
<blockquote>it is precisely BECAUSE following vicious, evil orders is so easy in times of fear and that humans break and bow to authority with such ease that there must be sharp penalties, reputational and otherwise for so doing.
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otherwise, you're just greasing the rails for next time.
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it’s the low energy path of submission and freeing it from consequence serves only to render it a path more followed.
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ignorance of the law is [no] excuse. neither is ignorance of ethics or epidemiology.</blockquote>
<b>P.S.</b> Not to be outdone, Eugyppius <a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/once-more-on-renowned-fool-emily">goes another round</a> against Emily Oster and her fellow "Head Girls":
<blockquote>One of the reasons things like lockdowns and mass vaccination frenzies have become possible in the first place, is the uniformity of outlook and opinion among the governing elite. When everybody, from university professors to the minister president of Bavaria to municipal police administrators, believes that with enough social distancing we can eradicate SARS-2, and that the unvaccinated are responsible for prolonging the pandemic, the result is a powerful if erratic and ever-shifting social tyranny. Social media technologies have been particularly noxious for the consensus formation of the Head Girls, widening the range of issues on which they have functionally identical opinions and enforcing conformity more thoroughly than was ever before possible. And should one of their runaway preference cascades go off the rails and destroy society, they’ll rapidly reunite around the new consensus position, that nobody could’ve known any better and all the worst offenders—especially their friends and colleagues—acted in good faith with the knowledge that was available at the time.</blockquote>
<b>P.P.S.</b> Cartoonist Bob Moran also has <a href="https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1588519734538297345">something to say</a>:
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mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-49796153029471202742022-10-29T19:00:00.046-04:002022-10-29T19:00:00.157-04:00Day 1002: The MisinformersOn Monday, <a href="https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic">the Ethical Skeptic</a> finally published <a href="https://theethicalskeptic.com/2022/10/24/houston-the-cdc-has-a-problem-part-2-of-3/">Part 2</a> of his series on the CDC's death-reporting malfeasance. He elaborates on their missing and misclassified records---most notably, cancer deaths reclassified as COVID deaths to reduce the excess death rate from cancer below 9σ)---along with their callous disregard for the 20σ high in heart disease deaths since the inexplicable date of MMWR Week 14 2021.
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To add insult to injury, he also find the CDC inventing fictional deaths among the unvaccinated to get the pro-vaccination results they wanted out of a sampling study, and their misuse of all-cause mortality figures. He concludes with a frightening number for excess non-COVID mortality:
<blockquote>In the end, it is this last chart depicted in Exhibit 6 which serves to confirm the claims made in Sections 1 through 4 of this article. The level of excess natural cause death which is not Covid itself, is around 13.3% to the excess of where it should be – even given a 1.1% baseline growth inside an aging demographic (see Exhibit 6, dark orange baseline ‘annual growth’).
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<b>Exhibit 6</b> – Excess Non-Covid Natural Cause Mortality as a metric, serves to filter out the distractions of Covid-19 as well as mortality from accidents, overdoses, and assault – all of which serve to cloud one’s ability to observe the entailed alarming signal. As of MMWR Week 40 2022, the US has experienced an additional 385,000 natural cause deaths above and beyond what we should have seen for this period of time. Couple this with 80,000 non-natural deaths during the same timeframe, and one finds an excess of 465,000 deaths which have occurred since MMWR Week 14 of 2021. A pandemic all unto itself.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>“hey, what if we could make omicron even more immunity evading and as deadly as ebola?”
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this is the biomedical equivalent of jumping up and down on a pogostick while holding the nuclear launch trigger. granted, this was just done in mice, but hey, that was good enough to approve a booster, right?</blockquote>
Eugyppius <a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/in-totally-fine-and-completely-safe">took it a little better</a>:
<blockquote>To be clear: Just three years after Wuhan researchers decided it would be cool to insert a codon-optimised furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction of this interesting SARS-related bat virus they found, Boston researchers thought maybe it’d be fun to start mixing and matching different SARS-2 proteins to see if a new chimeric virus might be more exciting than boring old Omicron. The payoff is not any vaccine or treatment, but the mere knowledge that it is not just the spike protein that contributes to the pathogenicity of SARS-2. For extra fun, they did not conduct this research in space or at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, but in a BSL-3 facility at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories on Albany Street in the Boston South End.</blockquote>
He notes that <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-can-we-please-not-freak-out/">while Alex Berenson thinks this is all a nothingburger</a>, its flailing short-order cooks still pose a serious threat to humanity:
<blockquote>But, I’m just not much comforted by this. Beyond broader concerns with the entire enterprise of enhancing viruses in the lab for shits and giggles: The experimenters improved a slower-moving and more lethal wild-type strain by giving it the more infectious Omicron BA.1 spike. I think there are evolutionary reasons why such a combination is unlikely to arise naturally, and why this kind of research amounts to helping viruses achieve otherwise out-of-reach protein combinations for which our natural defences are ill-equipped.</blockquote>
He's also disturbed that the short-order cooks at BU <a href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/boston-university-falsely-denies">seem to feel the need to lie about it</a> to boot.mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138183.post-27611897381655305492022-10-12T13:48:00.000-04:002022-10-12T13:48:11.333-04:00Day 985: The Cold PandemicDespise surprisingly low rates of <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fact-check-14m-children-younger-than-5-years-old-in-us-have-received-covid-19-vaccine/ar-AA12pzgC">toddler vaccination</a> and <a href="https://qz.com/the-uss-estimate-for-uptake-of-the-new-covid-booster-wa-1849639093?utm_source=reddit.com">adult boosting</a> against COVID (under 5% each), the pandemic of the moment appears to be <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1127873967/respiratory-illness-covid-children-hospitalizations-health">the common cold</a>:
<blockquote>Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in various parts of the country, and some pediatric hospitals say they are running out of beds. But this uptick in illness has largely been due to viruses other than the coronavirus, like RSV, enteroviruses and rhinovirus.
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While respiratory infections typically surge in the winter months, experts say that this year the season has started much sooner, and that numbers are unusually high.
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"Rates are as high as 25% of those [who have] tested positive for RSV. That is quite unusual for October, we would typically start to see higher rates in November, December and January," said Dr. Ibukun Kalu, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Duke Children's Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.
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[...]<br><br>For now, the issue is concentrated among younger patients. But Kalu said that with the colder months coming up, it could begin to impact more people.
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"As we see more viral infections in kids, we will see a similar pattern in adults," she said.</blockquote>mcdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329601158206119597noreply@blogger.com0