Criticisms of Coronavirus narrative and policy

Great and impassioned piece that fits perfectly with the title of this thread in light of the Great Backpedal.

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Too Little Too Late: WSJ Tries to Save Face on Failed COVID Policies

Now that our public health agencies’ leaders have admitted failure when it comes to their COVID-19 policies, the Wall Street Journal suddenly has the “courage” to offer a stiff critique.
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Quoted in full here:
The Wall Street Journal last week published an opinion piece, “Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response,” with this subhead: “Lockdowns were oppressive and deadly. But U.S. and WHO officials plan worse for the next pandemic.”

The article begins:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] belatedly admitted failure this week. ‘For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for Covid-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,’ Director Rochelle Walensky said. She vowed to establish an ‘action-oriented culture.’”

Yes, you read that correctly. Dr. Anthony Fauci and Walensky admitted they failed. They learned their lesson.

As John Tierney, author of the op-ed, wrote:

“Lockdowns and mask mandates were the most radical experiment in the history of public health, but Dr. Walensky isn’t alone in thinking they failed because they didn’t go far enough. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, recently said there should have been ‘much, much more stringent restrictions’ early in the pandemic.”

They believe that they didn’t go far enough? There should have been “much, much more stringent restrictions?”

That’s what they learned from the destruction their public health policies wreaked upon this nation and the others that followed their lead?

To his credit, Tierney pointed out the absurdity of Walensky’s and Fauci’s stance on their own incompetence.

Tierney also dropped a series of “truth bombs,” including:
  • “Their oppressive measures were taken against the longstanding advice of public-health experts, who warned that they would lead to catastrophe and were proved right.”
  • “For all the talk from officials like Dr. Fauci about following ‘the science,’ these leaders ignored decades of research — as well as fresh data from the pandemic — when they set strict Covid regulations.”
  • “The burden of proof was on them to justify their dangerous experiment, yet they failed to conduct rigorous analyses, preferring to tout badly flawed studies while refusing to confront obvious evidence of the policies’ failure.”
  • “U.S. states with more-restrictive policies fared no better, on average, than states with less-restrictive policies.”
  • “When case rates throughout the pandemic are plotted on a graph, the trajectory in states with mask mandates is virtually identical to the trajectory in states without mandates. (The states without mandates actually had slightly fewer COVID deaths per capita.)”
  • A Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of studies around the world concluded that lockdown and mask restrictions have had “little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.”
  • Florida’s and Sweden’s open policies have been vindicated based upon their lower levels of excess mortality compared to other regions.
  • “It was bad enough that Fauci, the CDC and the World Health Organization ignored the best scientific advice at the start of this pandemic. It’s sociopathic for them to promote a worse catastrophe for future outbreaks.”
I take no issue with Tierney’s list. The problem here is with the Wall Street Journal.

Every single point this opinion piece offered could — and should — have been made months or years ago.

There was longstanding advice from public health experts that predicted Fauci and Walensky’s failures? Why didn’t you say so in 2020?

Fauci and Walensky ignored decades of research? They touted flawed studies while ignoring the obvious failures unfolding in front of them, month after month?

The successes of Sweden and Florida were apparent in 2020.

Where were the articles in your publication that could have brought light to these issues over the last two years?

The Johns Hopkins University analysis on mask restrictions was published nearly nine months ago. Why didn’t you cover it?

Why did it take so long to run this kind of piece when the evidence was around for so long?

Do you really expect us to look the other way because you now have the temerity to call Anthony Fauci sociopathic?

You had ample opportunity to give voice to the dissenters who were pleading for a voice, a conversation and a debate based on the very same evidence you are mentioning now.

You failed your readership. You failed the public.

The CDC’s policies were so devastating because you did not challenge them. Not once.


As a media platform, you were no less negligent than the public health officials you see fit to denigrate now — after untold damage has occurred, at their hands and yours.


Perhaps you’ve caused your loyal readers to finally scratch their heads and reconsider their perspective after 28 months of mercilessly attacking those of us who were asking you and other mainstream platforms to do your job.


Why are you holding Fauci and Walensky accountable now? Is it because they are finally admitting they blew it?


They are not the only galactically incompetent parties in this global tragedy. You are, too. And we all know it.


Interestingly, your scathing attack on our public health agencies still hasn’t gone nearly far enough.


One of their biggest “blunders” was not around lockdown measures. It was the dismissal of powerful, early treatment regimens, including ivermectin, that could have saved thousands of lives or more.


Instead, the public was forced to wait for a largely ineffective and harmful vaccine that has since exacted an incalculable level of damage on humanity.


Nevertheless, more than a year after Dr. Pierre Kory gave impassioned congressional testimony demanding that an official expert panel be convened to examine the mountains of evidence coming from all corners of the globe demonstrating the significant benefits of ivermectin in treating and preventing COVID-19, you had the audacity to print this hit piece on the safe and effective medicine that would have obviated the need to inject poorly tested mRNA technology into the bodies of several billion human beings.


Beyond being irresponsible, the article was silly, citing a single, small and yet-to-be-published study (at the time) that purportedly showed no benefit as proof that ivermectin cannot prevent COVID-19 hospitalizations.


The study underdosed the participants and was too small to detect statistically significant benefits, despite reduced incidence of hospitalization in most cohorts that got the medicine. (Read a full critique of the study here).


The study didn’t prove anything — other than that it was designed to fail from its inception.


Talk about touting a “badly flawed” study.


More importantly, your article on the study missed the real story: the scuttling of ivermectin by an unseen hand that was, it seems, in the pockets of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through Unitaid, a quasi-governmental advocacy organization the foundation funds (full story here).


Have your editors lost their sense of smell from repeated bouts of COVID-19? Or were you never able to sniff out where the real stories are?


It’s fairly obvious that despite this attempt to reclaim your journalistic integrity you are still muzzled. Any story that even intimates that the highly profitable COVID-19 vaccine was not only unnecessary but also a stark failure, is still off-limits.


Your silence on this continues to deafen us.
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So if the virus is still “out there” are we still in a “ pandemic “? It sure doesnt feel like it.

But if we’re not that means we’ve emerged from the greatest medical threat to humanity ( wink wink) in over a century. Right?

So wheres the big announcement and epic “V Day “ like celebrations?

Right

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Papaya said:
So if the virus is still “out there” are we still in a “ pandemic “? It sure doesnt feel like it.

But if we’re not that means we’ve emerged from the greatest medical threat to humanity ( wink wink) in over a century. Right?

So wheres the big announcement and epic “V Day “ like celebrations?

Right

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The V day celebrations will be about 1-2 weeks before the Nov elections.

They'll pat each other on their backs while begging for donations for only increasing the death rate by 40%
 
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Here's a compilation of the Demon Doctor using the words "shut down" over and over again contradicting his statement on Cavuto which is as honest as his sworn congressional testimony.



My question is, when is someone going to take these people to task? Who is going to make these people answer for themselves? If not Cavuto, does anyone else have the integrity to show the vile murderer this exact video and put him on the spot to explain what he meant when he said "he didn't shut down anything." Where are the great Rand Paul and Jim Jordan now? Make the fake doctor bureaucrat explain this under penalty of perjury.

Recently we had this idiotic health official in Canada saying publicly that the killer virus is less deadly than the flu. Again - who is demanding that this person explain themselves? And not just in some stupid tweet that their PR person will never read, I mean asking them the question to their face in a live public setting.

Every week or two we trot out the stupid clip of Rachel Maddow vehemently claiming that if you receive the poison injection you can't get or spread the deadly plague. Who is making her answer for what she said?

Not a single person can hold these demagogues and sinful liars accountable for their deliberate lies? Sure they'll just hand wave it away with any number of excuses. "Oh, we were just acting on the best information we had at the time! What was the harm in erring on the side of safety? Vaccines are safe and effective!" In addition to various deflection and ad hominem distractions ("what are you, some sort of Trump supporter?!") Fine, let them give some sort of answer even if it will be completely fraudulent, let them go on record with their hand wringing, wriggling, and backpedaling so we can have a permanent record of their inability to speak logically or present an argument in good faith.

I'll be impressed when someone stops talking a big game and exposes these people for the bumbling, lying fools that they are.
 
Belgrano said:
Curtis Yarvin/Moldbug recently appeared on Tim Dillon's show, they also discussed the origin of Covid:

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Tim Dillon and Jew Moldbug are perfect fits for each other because both are good at rants that some find inspiring without providing you with any useful information. Moldbug is correct about Daszak being a weird corrupt beaurocrat and the nature of people willingly submitting to certain narratives to keep their cashflow and growth of power going, but doesn't he miss the key piece that there has not been any excess mortality until they started giving the jabs? Anyone who has looked into it already knows that Daszak is a bizarro, but it would be really useful to tell people that the shot is bad.
The more I observe Moldbug the more he seems like a fishy dude to me (Tim Dillon just seems like a gay grifter), as in he actually comes from the Hebrew ruling class (the existence/relevance of which he completely denies) and he has a really disgusting way of expressing himself and obfuscating his positions. Whenever he talks it's as if he wants to confuse you a lot as to what even the topic is and he always transmits "information" in the form of some convoluted narrative. I used to read the Gentle Introduction very eagerly, so I'm not a hater since the start, but that guy is just weird, and extremely Jewish, including the aspect of not acknowledging being Jewish or the distinctiveness of Jews, while also preferably interacting with Jews and ostensibly making use of the nepotism that goes along with it.
Viewing the parts of the coof regime as an outcome of a lack of accountability is fine and dandy, but if you ignore the fact that it is a provable hoax, you are not really saying anything useful. He could at least in this context say that the jab is bad. Evidently so. He does this weird depersonalized "wow, isn't it crazy how irresponsible and whacky everything is?", but unless you make people identifiable and also explain WHAT they have done, what did you really contribute?
This is kind of a rant but Mldbug has been grinding my gears with his very subversive and hidden, yet clearly intentional dishonesty about a lot of things. It's comparable to Michael Malice, who just so happens to be his best pal, which has totally nothing to do with kinship.
 
At UC Berkeley, anyone who isn’t vaccinated for the flu must wear a mask, by executive order from the university president.

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August 4, 2022 - COVID-19 mitigation measures for Fall 2022​

Dear undergraduate, graduate, and professional students,

We are reaching out today to provide an update on our COVID-19 mitigation measures for the Fall 2022 semester. We are pleased to report that many of our campus pandemic-related restrictions have eased since the last academic year. However, we still plan to rely on testing, vaccination, and masking to assist us with limiting the spread of the virus, especially if we hit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “high” community transmission level.

Testing

We will have vending machines with free COVID-19 PCR home saliva tests at select locations on campus (learn more). Anyone traveling within the past seven days, or engaging in high-risk activities, is encouraged to test - either through the PCR tests available at the vending machines or by at-home antigen tests.

Students living in on-campus housing (residential halls and apartments) will receive an over-the-counter rapid COVID test on their move-in day. We are requiring our on-campus residents to take a test soon after arriving, and to report back to University Health Services (UHS) only if they test positive. On-Campus residents should also refer to specific, detailed emails we are sharing with them.

Reporting a COVID Positive Case

If you test positive with a COVID test, immediately isolate at home and away from your roommates, and follow these instructions from UHS on what you need to do. Do not go to work or class until you have been cleared from isolation.

Any student experiencing symptoms or who may have been exposed to COVID-19 (or any students with concerns), please call the University Health Services (UHS) Advice Line 24/7 at 510-643-7197 for consultation or send a message through etang.berkeley.edu. For severe symptoms (shortness of breath, chest pain or fainting), call 911.

If you believe you have been exposed to COVID as a close contact, please follow these instructions from UHS.

Vaccinations

COVID-19 vaccinations, including booster shots, are still required per University of California policy.

For those who are fully vaccinated and boosted or vaccinated but not yet eligible for a booster, regular surveillance testing is no longer required.

For those that are not fully vaccinated, or booster eligible but not yet boosted, or who have an approved exemption, weekly surveillance testing is required.

Masking

UC Berkeley is not currently requiring masks but continues to strongly recommend that masks be worn indoors. Free masks also continue to be available for pick-up on campus.

If you have questions or need additional information regarding COVID-19 at UC Berkeley, please visit the UC Berkeley COVID-19 Resource page at https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu.

We are looking forward to seeing you on campus soon, Bears! Enjoy the rest of your summer.

Sincerely,
Stephen C. Sutton, Ed.D
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs

Guy Nicolette, MD, CAQSM
Assistant Vice Chancellor

Anna Harte, MD
Medical Director
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August 4, 2022 - COVID-19 mitigation measures for Fall 2022

This is the first in our Back-to-School series. Stay tuned for a message about top tips to get ready for fall semester and a special Back-to-School Berkeley Life Roundup. Dear undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, We are reaching out today to provide an update on our COVID-19...
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budoslavic said:
At UC Berkeley, anyone who isn’t vaccinated for the flu must wear a mask, by executive order from the university president.

FbXT-eoUcAA35CD



August 4, 2022 - COVID-19 mitigation measures for Fall 2022​


August 4, 2022 - COVID-19 mitigation measures for Fall 2022

This is the first in our Back-to-School series. Stay tuned for a message about top tips to get ready for fall semester and a special Back-to-School Berkeley Life Roundup. Dear undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, We are reaching out today to provide an update on our COVID-19...
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The biggest SCAM in human history rolls on with its oppressive Talmudic roots.

REJECT IT AND DON'T COMPLY.
 
So, it turns out that nudges is the new name for collective manipulation and social engineering. By way, they will focus their psychological weapons on those who said no the this evil scheme. Expect more persuasion, ostracization, fear, and deception. They will bombard people through TV, Internet, Smartphones, Radio, Churches, Colleges, etc. Even the NPCs will be programmed to persuade, embarrass, and guilty trip us. Be aware.

You may not like the messenger but I recommend you to listen to the message. Chris Martenson sucked all the propaganda in 2020



Article 1: Vaccination as a social contract
Four preregistered experiments demonstrate that vaccinated individuals indeed show less generosity toward nonvaccinated individuals who violate the social contract. This effect is independent of whether the individuals are members of the same or different social groups. Thus, individuals’ behavior follows the rules of a social contract, which provides a valuable basis for future interventions aiming at increasing vaccine uptake by emphasizing this social contract.
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Article 2: Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions
We find that persuasive messaging that invokes prosocial vaccination and social image concerns is effective at increasing intended uptake and also the willingness to persuade others and judgments of non-vaccinators. We replicate this result on a nationally representative sample of Americans and observe that prosocial messaging is robust across subgroups, including those who are most hesitant about vaccines generally. The experiments demonstrate how persuasive messaging can induce individuals to be more likely to vaccinate and also create spillover effects to persuade others to do so as well.
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Wayback Machine

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Article 3: Persuading US White evangelicals to vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing message effectiveness in fall 2020 and spring 2021
In study 1, we find that a message that emphasizes community interest and reciprocity with an invocation of embarrassment for choosing not to vaccinate is the most effective at increasing uptake intentions, while values-consistent messaging appears to be ineffective. In contrast, in study 2 we observe that this message is no longer effective and that most messages produce little change in vaccine intent. This inconsistency may be explained by the characteristics of White evangelicals who remain unvaccinated vis à vis those who got vaccinated. These results demonstrate the importance of retesting messages over time, the apparent limitations of values-targeted messaging, and document the need to consider heterogeneity even within well-defined populations. This work also cautions against drawing broad conclusions from studies carried out at a single point in time during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PS:
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Mercury Project to Boost Covid-19 Vaccination Rates and Counter Public Health Mis- and Disinformation in 17 Countries Worldwide

The Social Science Research Council is providing USD 7.2 million to 12 teams advancing ambitious, applied social and behavioral science to combat ...
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The Social Science Research Council is providing USD 7.2 million to 12 teams advancing ambitious, applied social and behavioral science to combat the growing global threat posed by low Covid-19 vaccination rates and public health mis- and disinformation

NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) announced it will provide an initial USD 7.2 million in direct research funds to 12 teams working in 17 countries in order to better understand how health mis- and disinformation spreads, how to combat it, and how to build stronger information systems, while increasing Covid-19 vaccination rates. Through the Mercury Project—enabled by The Rockefeller Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a total of USD 10.25 million so far—the SSRC is supporting a first cohort of social and behavioral scientists from around the world to generate much-needed new research on locally tailored solutions in Bolivia, Brazil, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, United States, and Zimbabwe.
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