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#1123 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Ladapo strikes again
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issued guidance against males age 18-39 receiving the vaccine. The analysis he cited is not peer-reviewed and the authors are not known. Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD wrote an essay in response, "Given the arbitrary selection of cardiac outcomes, the lack of validation, the small sample size, and the failure to control for COVID infection as a confounding variable, overall these results are largely unreliable, and personally I would not base any decisions on them."
Politico reported, "Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA have all stressed that the vaccine is safe and urged the public to get vaccinated." The Orlando Sentinel reported, "“This decision is flawed and a far cry from the science: COVID-19 vaccines have been proven safe and effective, and severe adverse reactions are rare,” said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Sarah Lovenheim in a statement. “Vaccines were evaluated in tens of thousands of participants in clinical trials and since then, tens of millions of Americans have received COVID-19 vaccines.”" link I am putting this information into the present thread because conspiracy theorists might cite Florida's guidance. EDT I see that Resume has already covered this topic in comment #1119. EDT2 At the Los Angeles Times Michael Hiltzik wrote, "“This is the first time that we’ve seen a state government weaponize bad science to spread anti-vaccine disinformation as official policy,” wrote David Gorski, a surgical oncologist and veteran debunker of anti-vaccine balderdash. Gorski identified Florida’s action as “a dangerous new escalation in anti-vaccine propaganda.”" |
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Dental Floss Tycoon
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Nothing so far - ACK! GURGLE!! AAAAAARRRRRRGH...
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Actually, I'm not feeling well at all. It's a cold . . . I hope.
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Dec 2009
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A study from France
"As recently as September, a French peer-reviewed study looked at cardiovascular events in the country’s 46.5 million adults younger than 75 using medical records; this study found no relationship between cardiovascular events and Pfizer or Moderna vaccination." Orlando Sentinel. Other portions of the article are worth reading as well.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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I'm going to quibble about the French Study.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-0988 Their analysis only had 2 age groups, Under 60 and 60-75. And they relegated that data to Table 5 in a supplement. It was well known that heart related issues with mRNA vax (pericarditis and myocarditis) have a much greater impact on males under 30. By aggregating them in the under 60 any signal from the younger group would be much smaller. But they had the info and could have published it. Also, they only published data for Az and Jansen, not Pfizer and Moderna for those groups and they had more data for them! What's up with that? Supplement: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/supp...Supplement.pdf Still, the point values in the supplement are consistently higher for the group under 60 than 60-75. This is consistent with the Florida data. This annoys me as much as the Florida analysis that didn't publish deaths from covid-19, which they also had and would have likely shown significant benefit in all age groups. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2003
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I've been thinking more about the inconsistencies in the Florida study. On reviewing it yet again, there seems evidence that the original paper included data on covid-19 deaths, not just vaccine risks. And then the paper was stripped of the covid-19 deaths but left tell-tale signs of the original. And it starts with the title and objective:
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This sure smells like a study that originally included data on both benefits and risks then they removed the benefits. But sloppily leaving traces of the original. Why would they do that? On Florida's Surgeon General's orders? |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Northumberland, UK
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Booster received on Thursday afternoon: still no 5G reception and still no super powers and I'm definitely still alive with not even as much as an achy arm.
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Skepticifimisticalationist
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Gulf Coast
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The explanation is simple however; being that either: 1. You are a lying shill CIA satanic Jewish disinfo agent and you're just saying you got the shot but you never did, 2. The Conspiracy/Cabal obviously gave some percentage of the public fake and harmless shots exactly so that in the future they would be around to pipe up at times like this and say "but I got the vaccine and I'm fine". |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Getting my booster next week. I will live forever.
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Just got flu and C19 jab. No superpowers. Darn.
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Resident Skeptical Hobbit
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Waging war on woo-woo in Winnipeg
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I got a COVID bivalent vaccine and a flu shot last week. Is it possible to flue shot cancelled out the COVID vaccine's superpowers? If so, next year I'm going to get them a month apart.
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) |
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Quixoticist
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: ON Canada
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Sherri Tenpenny will finally have to explain herself.
Doc who thinks vaccinated people are magnetic is in big trouble with med board (arstechnica.com)
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Dog House
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Wife and I remain Covid virgins, or were we the typhoid marys of Covid... our kids and grandkids have had Covid a time or two.
we had each booster, the latest bivalent (she no soreness, I had a sore arm, or thought/imagined I had a sore arm each time) |
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Quixoticist
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: ON Canada
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I haven't had covid, and neither has my sister, but most other people I know have had it at least once, including my anti-vaxx niece and her kids. I've had two Pfizer shots and a booster. The six-month mark for my next booster is mid-December, but I might get it (the bivalent) later this month. My local hospital closed the ER last weekend due to covid, so we're obviously not done with covid yet.
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Profoundly, deeply, habitually . . . they visited here just today at 3:28 and one can only imagine their frustration at their inability to disseminate more dangerously ignorant disinformation, and despite the demurs offered up by disinformation defenders, this forum is far better for the current lack of heinous horse ****.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Malmesbury, UK
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This made me idly wonder just how long it will be before he does finally acknowledge he was wrong, but I know the answer is never. As long as there is some crackpot in some obscure corner of the internet "explaining" that the vaccines have in fact killed 90% of humanity but the mainstream media are covering it up, he will carry on believing. There really did seem to be no lie, however blatant and transparent, that he would not swallow if it reinforced his preposterous image of himself as more informed/insightful than us sheeple.
In the meantime, in the real world, this particular conspiracy theory will be forgotten. Sadly another, equally ridiculous, one will pop up, which the Bubbas of the world (including Bubba himself, there seemed no limit to the number of things he could be simultaneously wrong about) will seize on just as eagerly. |
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Dental Floss Tycoon
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The whole "map alignments" thing proved that Bubba is pathologically incapable of admitting error. He parroted a stupid claim that he never bothered to verify, and when it was pointed out that it was blatantly untrue, and he wasn't able to make it work himself, he childishly made up an "expert" who was going to provide the proof at some point in the near future.
I'm sure Bubba is on some other forum making up ******** authorities who are about to prove him right... Any day now... Just you wait and see... Meanwhile, keep an eye out for new members going by "Abbub" or "notBubba". |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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I'm shocked, I say.
Right-wing doctor group led by anti-vaccine insurrectionist implodes in scandal (arstechnica.com)
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Verified Anti-vaccine accounts at Twitter
The Guardian reported, "Under Elon Musk’s new direction for Twitter, several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now verified by paying $7.99 a month for Twitter Blue...But “now it looks like Twitter’s giving these accounts some legitimacy”, said Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist and dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Another problem is that this crowd is savvy enough to avoid algorithms that look for key words. "“I [Tiago Henrique Fernandes] basically train the members to … get away from that kind of language and get more into undercover, what I call ‘carnival talk’ – that way the algorithms can’t figure it out,” he said. Group members often refer to the vaccines as food – “cookie”, “peaches”, “cheeseburger” – or use purposeful misspellings, especially for purported side-effects like seizures (“see jures”) or cancer (“can sir”)." |
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This is also the downside of censorship. It reinforces the notion that what is being censored is an actual truth that those in power want to supress. The self collapse of the Soviet Union is a good example where the nonsense became palpable. I remember listening to Radio Moscow (Vladamir Posner) over the decades and noticing that, near the end, they became rather sly at aluding to the systemic problems w/o directly saying so whle maintaining the "ain't things great" party line.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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So the latest toy in the anti-vaxxers fun box is a movie called “Died Suddenly” with lots of footage of people allegedly dying on camera, obviously from the vaccine! Problem is some of the footage is of people collapsing before the vaccine was available…and most didn’t die!
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There's some clown saying the rise in COVID deaths this fall is directly related to the boosters we got in the Spring.
I'm boosted. I'm still not dead. In fact, my heart function has recovered from where it was five years ago. If the vaccine and booster did what the nutjobs claim, I should have been worm food last year. |
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Join Date: Mar 2020
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...urgery-on-baby
Nope, those parents, who refer to blood tainted by vaccines, are NOT conspiracy theorists. Says their lawyer, who is well known to be an anti-vaxx campaigner. This is all just an unfortunate coincidence... |
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Bill Clinton has tested positive for COVID. I wasn't sure if I should post this here or on the Qanon thread.
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