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Blair's avatar

When you have the time, you should read this article posted by "Your Local Epidemiologist" this morning. It's very telling. People are still eating this info up and going back for their 7th and 8th boosters.

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/covid-19-research-roundup-jan-11?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ir5nw

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Blair - it was all I could do to stop myself from commenting.

Now I just want to throw up.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I just read the comments and it's hard to believe there wasn't sarcasm in at least a few but covidiots abound so I can't be sure.

Interestingly, she actually demonstrated the difference between relative and absolute risk reduction: "Across 4 Nordic countries, for example, there was 73% vaccine effectiveness against severe disease among adolescents. The risk difference was 2 per 10,000 adolescents vaccinated." 2 per 10,000? What wizardry must be performed to get that to equal 73%?

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Blair's avatar

Yeah, me too. Funny how you have to be a "paid subscriber" to comment on many of these newsletters. I am a free subscriber to Alexander Vindman's substack as well. You have to be a "paid subscriber" to comment. Very telling, if you ask me.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Blair - yes, very telling! We wouldn't want these sheep being educated now, would we!

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Copernicus's avatar

Well, you have to be a paid subscriber to comment. I tried.

“The heart attacks in young people weren’t caused by the vaccine.” She says. Without offering any alternative cause. So WHAT *DID* cause them!? Because they certainly aren’t normal.

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Sam's avatar

Plus it takes hours for people to get infected?

"Transmission = time x proximity. This may help your risk calculations. Quick passersby at a grocery store are far less risky than staying in a house with someone infected."

Then why were there mask mandates in stores and why wouldn’t the same thing apply to hospitals? This seems as made up as Fauci’s 6 feet rule.

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Sam's avatar

And here’s the dig at anti vaxxers:

"Glad to know my multiple vaccinations provide added protection. I had Covid last summer and it proved to be mild. I am sure Paxlovid helped, as well. Too bad the anti-vax crowd keeps spreading disinformation based on nothing."

Buy a mirror dude.

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Copernicus's avatar

Because it was made up. Of course.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I was gonna call her a quack, but only paid subscribers can comment.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Not surprised at that.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

My issue is that I don’t believe these studies. I’m going to stick with the whistleblowers information. AND any doc that came out in the beginning to sound the alarm but that’s it!

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Kim's avatar

Same here!

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Peter Schott's avatar

Sadly, I have family members who keep track of when they're eligible for their next boosters. :( (And some co-workers - who are quite vocal about that.) It's always interesting how many scream about following the science, but don't want to look at any _other_ scientists who present a different perspective.

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Jeff C's avatar

Even back before Covid I had a coworker who would try to round up people every year to get flu shots when we had an onsite jab clinic. He'd be pushy and intimidating until I forcefully told him to get lost and never ask me about it again.

Very strange behavior indeed. I don't know if they are germaphobe true believers, or if they just need others to go along to help justify their own decision. But there is certainly a bullying attitude about them. As with most bullies though, they count on people being "polite" in response to get away with it.

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RunningLogic's avatar

When science is (or should be!) all about debate and challenging assumptions and conclusions 😕

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Kim's avatar

That is definitely what science is - debating. What we see now is definitely NOT science.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Exactly!!

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Daryl Johnston's avatar

Thanks for the link. I read her nonsense, but first I was dumb enough to subscribe to her propaganda. Hopefully, once I unsubscribe, no one will know I was stupid enough to sign up for more Epidemiologist spin doctor fairytales. She recommends everyone have seven Covid shots and endless flu jabs!

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Blair's avatar

I wouldn't be too hard on myself. I know doctors who fell for the AMA/CDC dictats and then after 2-3 vaccinations, realized they made a mistake. I am glad people can admit they made mistakes. Most will never allow themselves to do so. You obviously have a great deal of integrity. Don't beat yourself up over it.

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Ray's avatar

what do you mean people havnt had their 10th yet?

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

"Why does this matter? If you’re up-to-date on vaccines, you can be confident it’s providing additional protection." Next paragraph: "We didn’t know the incremental benefit of additional doses." Doesn't the second prove the first invalid?

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Blair's avatar

It's a mashup of wordy, ambiguous propaganda cloaked in medical jargon and deceptive lingo to avoid addressing the real issues. I can see how people would be fooled by it, but it still amazes me that these people buy into what she's saying, considering many people have stories of someone they know "dying suddenly" or having an adverse event after vaccination. These people still don't know about excess death rates in highly vaccinated countries?

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

They are the ASLEEP ONES and I doubt they will ever AWAKEN because the TRUTH IS SCARY!

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Dr Linda's avatar

That news saddens me.

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

It's complicated, I feel sorry for them for being so afraid, and fearful, and there is a part of me, that can only shake my head at their blindness. I have dear friends in both camps. They have chosen to embrace fear. For what ever reason. They have told me, in the beginning, that they don't want to hear the truth, they would have to deal with reality. Sad. truly sad.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I get it, I don’t want deal with realty either. However . . .

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wily_coyote-genius's avatar

Tell them:

“Fear is the most potent weapon of totalitarians”, Franklin Roosevelt

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Freebird's avatar

Nikki, I’m with you in feeling sorry for them. The vast majority were simply duped. I was talking to a friend the other day who said that she took the originals and one booster, but she won’t take any more because…can we all say together…they don’t work! And they don’t want to deal with the reality of vax injuries- who would?

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Most people don’t wanna do the work to get healthy & stay healthy. Everyone I think wants the easy way to great health, a pill or shot, is the easiest they think. Sadly it isn’t reality. Wish in one hand and —— in the other & see which fills up the fastest🤪

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Dr Linda's avatar

I very dear friend just died from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She took 2 but had regrets. Sadly, it still killed her. I am very, very angry.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

"What we know: Recommendations for an updated 2023 Covid-19 vaccine were based on lab and some human data. We didn’t have real-world data or clinical trial efficacy data."

WOW! I wonder how many subjects provide "some human data". No real-world, no clinical trial efficacy: scientific fairy tale at its best?

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Copernicus's avatar

I know!!!

She admits no real world data. And then continues to push real world jabs.

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Sam's avatar

OMG! People will eat this nonsense up.

"What we know: Vaccines have many benefits, including preventing long covid. We didn’t know the incremental benefit of additional doses. New info: A recent study showed that the more vaccines you get, the less likely you will get long covid. This is called a dose-response relationship: One dose of vaccine reduces risk by 21%, 2 doses reduce by 59%, and 3+ doses reduce by 73%."

The Cleveland clinic study showed the exact opposite of what is stated here. The more jabs one gets the more likely people will be infected and how can a non sterilizing "vaccine" prevent people getting long Covid when it doesn’t keep them from getting Covid in the first place?

Sadly this means that more people will get jabbed and more people will eventually die from their adverse effects.

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Blair's avatar

Yeah, she's feeding her readers a steady stream of bullshit. And they lap it up every time. Sad, indeed.

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PEL's avatar

The AARP Bulletin just told everyone to get their 8th!!

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Blair's avatar

Yeah, they're still trying to take advantage of people.

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Copernicus's avatar

I’m not sure Id even know where or how to start a discussion with someone like this. I guess at the peripheral margins…. what DID cause the heart attacks in young adults? If hospitalizations are down, why the big worry about jabs and distancing, paxlovid was not approved for injected people, and so on.

I have an acquaintance who followed this person religiously, and I am not exaggerating. She and her family masked IN THEIR HOUSE when one of them had the virus. Despite all of them being highly jabbed, which of course, should have given protection. But of course didn’t.

May our Lord remove the scales from their eyes.

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Blair's avatar

I just talked to a guy last week who barely left his house for two years and masked by himself in his home. Fear truly paralyzes the mind. Yes, may God remove the scales from their eyes. Amen.

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CeeMcG's avatar

I love how she insists that repeated jabs will prevent “long covid”. 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

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Blair's avatar

No kidding! I was thinking the same thing. How convenient. 🤔 🤡

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Deb S's avatar

Ugh! The comments are just...

I tried to view the “sponsors” of the studies and the connections of the authors. Some aren’t included, but the ones I could see show Pfizer’s little fingers everywhere, with Astra Zeneca thrown in for good measure too.

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SJ's avatar

She's one of the Covidian priestesses. She's involved in the Biden admin in some peripheral way as well.

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Blair's avatar

No surprise. It reads like a CDC propaganda blog.

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