cross posted from my main blog
Joe Biden in at least two interviews claimed the epidemic of covid is over (a milder form is now endemic: sort of as covid morphed from killer flu that needed intervention to control the spread to an ordinary cold that will be with us forever).
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Dr. C discusses, and one does hope that youtube won't censor him for quoting what any doctor knows about the vaccines: They did work, and saved lives.
but now that the pandemic is over, why the push on vaccinating low risk folk including children?
The newer varients don't kill except for a few high risk folk, and the shots don't give good protection.
but he points out that there is now a covalent vaccine that gives immunity against the newer strains: The problem is the lack of data in humans, including safety data (the experts assume the side effects are similar to the original vaccine). Eight mice confirm it works.
One hopes that Dr C doesn't get banned from Youtube for saying such things (he is, like myself, pro vaccine, but in publich health you have to know about side effects and efficiency of vaccines, and the way you do this is open discussion, not censoring anyone who dares to question the authorities).
theTablet has an article on how government officials pressured media and social networks like you tube etc. to ban publicizing the Great Barrington Declaration, that questioned the extensive use of the vaccines on low risk groups and the high cost of the extreme lockdowns.
To my shame, liberal media websites like the UKGuardian, which are usually sceptical of power pushes from governments and profit making ventures of Big Pharma, added their voice to silence the discussion.
the problem is made worse because private companies can censor stories and give their opinion, but when the government is behind this, it is against the first amendment.
Ironically, the way most ordinary folk found out the details of what was going on was by listening to Joe Rogan who let one of the docs behind this give his side of the story for two hours, transcript here.
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The big danger here is Dengue fever, not just here in the Philippines but also in other countries. LINK
TimesOfIndia discusses the problems of using a vaccine to stop Dengue: what kills you is the reaction to the disease, which causes the hemorrhagic type of sickness.
The Philippines was pressured into giving the vaccine to kids a couple years ago but improper screening led to some deaths,
Background: a few docs pointed out that giving it to kids who had not had dengue in the past could cause the hemorrhagic type complication, and there was a natural suspicions that Filipino kids were being used as guinea pigs, (and of course locals wondered if maybe small gifts encouraged approval of giving out the vaccine),
ScientificAmerican article on the dengue debacle.
Full medical details about dengue from a 2018 article in Lancet.
One side effect: epidemics of other diseases such as measles because parents refused any vaccine for their kids.
another side effect: The DOH refused to approve of the Pfizer vaccine for covid that the US planned to send to the Philippines in January 2021, so we didn't start vaccinating until later in the year.
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And guess what? Ebola is breaking out in Uganda. Luckily they have a vaccine for this now, so it will probably be stopped before it kills a lot of folks. The problem: This is not the strain that the vaccine stopped in DRC, it is a strain from Sudan, so maybe the vaccine won't work as well as hoped.
sigh.
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