Instapundit also posted a link to the archived article on the UKTelegaph cited above (the Telegraph is behind a pay wall).
Generally, when a journalist is preparing for an encounter of that importance, you really do your homework. Young Clayton thought it was sufficient to turn up with a bunch of lazy, Leftist assumptions which probably quite accurately represent the groupthink in the BBC newsroom. Elon Musk had other ideas.
Generally, when a journalist is preparing for an encounter of that importance, you really do your homework. Young Clayton thought it was sufficient to turn up with a bunch of lazy, Leftist assumptions which probably quite accurately represent the groupthink in the BBC newsroom. Elon Musk had other ideas.
In the meanwhile, Instapundit links to an Unherd article about the scientist who funded Wuhan and persuaded the Lancet to publish an artlce to condemn conspiracy theoriests. ....
Why did Peter Daszak change his mind? New documents reveal he warned against risky research,,,Peter Daszak spent many years hunting down bat viruses with Chinese scientists, helped fund their cutting-edge research in Wuhan, and then vociferously led opposition to any suggestions that the pandemic might have been linked to a laboratory in the city. A pugnacious character, the British zoologist would pop up regularly in the media to fiercely dismiss “conspiracy theories”, playing a key role in efforts to stifle debate over the origins of Covid-19.
So how strange to discover that this same man had previously warned that risky research was “intensifying” threats from “lab-enhanced viruses”. In fact, two years before the pandemic erupted, Daszak was involved in drafting a presentation about the dangers of engineered viruses being accidentally or even deliberately released into the world.....
another video discussing influence in the media that I post here to watch later since it is long and nuanced.
...In the past, most of us who were what was called liberals in the olden days were aware of the danger of corporation money influencing medical literature
But who was behind the censorship on various aspects of covid?
And why did it take Joe Rogan to break the silence that there was some truth behind those crazy conspiracy theories about the mRNA vaccines being dangerous?
My opinion has been stated many times: Early in the epidemic, the mRNA and other vaccines saved millions of lives, especially in high risk folks.
The irony is that thanks to people like Dr Levine (who is above criticism because trans) allowed a dangerous policy that caused thousands of deaths by allowing infectious covid patients to be readmitted into nursing homes, and justified this because of an out of date Medicare rule that was written before covid.
the censorship of vaccine side effects was because an active anti vax conspiracy types caused epidemics because they frightened people from having their children vaccinated for all sorts of diseases after people mistook a problem with one vaccine as a problem with all vaccines (this happened after the Dengue vaccine kerfuffle here in the Philippines).
mRNA vaccines were a new technology, so there should have been close examination of the pros and cons of using this, when older methods of making vaccines was available.
But of course, one also has to remember that older methods of making vaccines had problems: AZ vaccine worked but caused Strokes/blood clots, and the older technology such as used by China's Sinovax essentially didn't work well... Indeed, one reason for China's recent outbreak of Covid was because they used an inferior vaccine.
the dirty little secret is that once Omicron hit, the risk benefit ratio changed, so the health authorities should have changed their plans to fight the epidemic to one similar to how they fight influenza: vaccine for the elderly etc. not those with little risk of death. But not shutdown except temporary and limited shutdowns in areas with a high rate of disease.
yet the governments kept stressing that you needed one booster after another, even in low risk young people, where the risk outweighed the benefit.
So early on, most of us elders and caregivers got the vaccine, but now not so much. The main problem is that students who wanted face to face class also agreed to get it (probably not a good idea).
Here, people don't obey the government when the law seems stupid.
Ironically, that is why so few people here got the booster.
and alas the main result of this censorship is a complete lack of trust in the medical establishment. And that bodes ill if another epidemic happens.
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