The Texas "Study" on vaccines you link to is months old and the data Berenson is using is a week or two old. If you disagree with Berenson, take on his specific arguments which I believe are data from Denmark, Israel, and the UK where the numbers (to this untrained data guy) seem to say vaxxed are dying at higher rates. Nevertheless, lazy journalism on your part. Still will subscribe, but research more thoroughly.
Your statement that "unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die from covid is entirely wrong and shows a complete lack of understanding of the facts. First of all, where did you get that figure? Information like that is not available from CDC nor is it published by any reliable source. It IS available from UK and some other countries and nothing in the available data suggests numbers at all like that. Second, what is the meaning of "unvaccinated?" One of the tricks Pfizer plays is to count vaccinated people as unvaccinated for two weeks following the injection. That is because the immune system is suppressed for that period and DURING that two weeks is when vaccinated people are most susceptible to infection. Third, in heavily vaccinated countries like Israel where 95% of people are vaccinated, the ONLY unvaccinated people are very small children and the very sick. Very sick people are not able to tolerate the vaccine and they are already dying. You do not understand the issue and you need to listen more closely to the critics. And it is wrong to make up numbers.
I don’t know if Tucker is vaccinated or not, but it doesn’t really have anything to do with whether he should have people on his show who disagree with him or not. As a 68 year old with emphysema, I am vaccinated and boosted, but I don’t agree with the mandates, nor do I trust the CDC, the NIH, Fauci or Collins to make policy for everyone. They’ve been caught lying, they have conflicts of interest, and their released emails prove it.
There is nothing wrong with Tucker Carlson having someone on who goes against the “approved narrative.” People can make up their own minds. We’re not stupid.
The slamming of those with different views on the experimental vaccines is disappointing once again and for that, I am unsubscribing. Alex Berenson has been doing the research like a real journalist so I will support him instead. I'm a board certified physician with 21 years experience btw...
One note for comments section: the general take of this Friday post--and of Common Sense editors--is pro-vax, anti-mandates. The nuances of the vaccine roll-out strategy, the side-effects especially among young men, the origins of the virus . . . these are open questions. But if you're looking for a weekly hard anti-vax perspective you just won't find it here.
Bari, you're starting to get intellectually sloppy. You castigate Berenson for coming on Tucker Carlson this week and warning about the vaccine. And then you cite a study showing that the unvaccinated are 20 times more likely to die. But the study you cite says: "The research, published by the Texas Department of State Health Services on Monday, determined that 81.3 percent of COVID-19-related deaths between Sept. 4 and Oct. 1 occurred among unvaccinated people." Berenson was talking about the less virulent omicron variant. Omicron was not yet circulating in Texas when the study was conducted. Apples and oranges, Bari. Before you criticize Alex, why didn't you give him a chance to respond? I read Pandemia and it's very carefully researched.
So you simply do not like Tucker Carlson and his audience. Bari's position on Maher's show concurred with many of Berenson's and Carlson's comments from prior Carlson shows. David Zweig echos Berenson's reporting from prior Carlson shows but Zwieg's comments are a "very important deep dive." The City Journal lab leak story parallels Berenson's reporting and Carlson directly referenced Wade's reporting in May 2021. I guess slamming Carlson and his "vulnerable viewership" elevates your moral superiority. Like they say "do better."
She then wrote this: "The vaccine is what allows us to relax"
I wonder whether Nellie found the time to watch Sen. Ron Johnson's five-hour hearing on Monday about vaxx safety. No, I don't actually wonder, because if she had, there's no way she would've written "The vaccine is what allows us to relax" today.
Because had she paid attention to the hearing, she would've learned of:
"...shocking information from multiple whistleblowers within the Department of Defense. The DoD has apparently been tracking the military’s vaccine mandate and recording adverse event signals among our troops. The information came from the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS), which tracks billing codes for medical diagnoses among service members.
Among other things...the data from DMSS shows a dramatic increase in the first ten months of 2021 in certain diagnosis codes, over the prior 5-year average for the same diagnoses:
— a 300% increase in miscarriages (4,182 vs 1,499)
— a 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (114,645 vs 38,700)
— a 269% increase in myocardial infarction
— a 291% increase in Bell’s palsy
— a 467% increase in pulmonary embolisms
— a 471% increase in female infertility
— a 1,000% increase in neurological diagnoses (863,000 (!) vs 82,000)
...the 2020 diagnosis codes for the same conditions do NOT show similar increases, which seems to rule out Covid-19 as a possible cause...numerous other diagnosis categories have also increased exponentially.
[Attorney Renz] presented a sworn declaration from one of the military doctors who came forward, which states, “It is my professional opinion that the major increases of the above discussed instances of miscarriages, cancers, and disease were due to COVID-19 ‘vaccinations.’”
Yeah, let's...relax. Pfizer says we can relax, so no need to do real journalisming.
"Unvaccinated people are some 20 times more likely to die of Covid than the vaccinated."
One study. One four-week period. And way back in *September*. That data is four months old. Got anything newer to hang your hat on? Because Alex does.
Furthermore, y'know what else happened in September?
The CDC changed the definition of "vaccine" because these Chinese virus experimental gene therapies were not (and still aren't) doing what vaccines do, weren't (and still aren't) behaving the way vaccines behave.
So they're truly and truthfully NOT vaccines, and your use of the term "unvaccinated" and "vaccine" is classic...what's the word?...oh yeah: misinformation.
It’s really sad that Nellie would feed this to her highly loyal readers...
And this is just dishonest: "...especially given that he is surely vaccinated himself."
This implies that NO ONE who has been vaxxed has any reason to regret the decision or might have reasons for getting jabbed that don't apply to others. Also, by this rationale, anyone who has dropped acid in the past has no business advising others not to do the same, has no business having on a guest who argues against dropping acid.
AND, Nellie obviously doesn't know whether Carlson is jabbed, because all she can say is the cheap-shot guess "...that he is surely vaxxed himself."
Disappointed in the attack on Berenson, claiming the vaccines are why we can relax, and that putting Berenson on was Tucker peddling misinformation. First, if you’d read Pandemia, or any of his other writing on substack, you’d see it clear he knows what he’s talking about. Second, and most importantly, how are you not participating in censorship and cancel-culture when you say Tucker shouldn’t have had Berenson on? Since I’ve been reading this substack it seems like there’s a very strong opposition to the censoring of people with differing ideas. Is it just that you, Nellie, should be the one who decides who is and is not allowed to speak and what they are or are not allowed to say? Are you saying, ‘It’s bad when others censor but I know enough to know who should be allowed a voice and who shouldn’t’? And if you’re going to rip Berenson, I’d suggest trying to find something he said that’s wrong and counter it with what you feel is right and accurate info. Bring up some specifics on what he’s misrepresenting and why. Not this lazy, NYT-style hit and run. Disappointing.
Gotta push back on this MSM and pharma sponsored notion that the vaccine indeed saves lives, especially to the tune of 20x. Where are the peer-reviewed studies to confirm this? We know pharma uses "absolute" vs "relative" risk reduction interchangeably. The science is not settled on this, as many people keep insisting it is.
How can you attack Alex B with old data? And then use that to attack Tucker Carlson and FOX. That’s the worst kind of journalism. Please stick to the facts.
Can someone please explain to me how the difference between 19% and 81% is 20x? I'm starting to think the "math" that makes 81% 20x greater than 19% perfectly explains our never ending policy failures. Our journalists, even ones I respect (though pretty much always disagree with) like Bari really need to stop being this intellectually lazy. It took reading ONE paragraph of the article to realize the headline is either an outright lie, or they need to start employing 4th graders capable of doing division and multiplication to check their math... "snowflakes" like me are ruining society per the comments here, and I'll accept that perspective, but can we all please at least agree on how basic math works?
The Texas "Study" on vaccines you link to is months old and the data Berenson is using is a week or two old. If you disagree with Berenson, take on his specific arguments which I believe are data from Denmark, Israel, and the UK where the numbers (to this untrained data guy) seem to say vaxxed are dying at higher rates. Nevertheless, lazy journalism on your part. Still will subscribe, but research more thoroughly.
Your statement that "unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die from covid is entirely wrong and shows a complete lack of understanding of the facts. First of all, where did you get that figure? Information like that is not available from CDC nor is it published by any reliable source. It IS available from UK and some other countries and nothing in the available data suggests numbers at all like that. Second, what is the meaning of "unvaccinated?" One of the tricks Pfizer plays is to count vaccinated people as unvaccinated for two weeks following the injection. That is because the immune system is suppressed for that period and DURING that two weeks is when vaccinated people are most susceptible to infection. Third, in heavily vaccinated countries like Israel where 95% of people are vaccinated, the ONLY unvaccinated people are very small children and the very sick. Very sick people are not able to tolerate the vaccine and they are already dying. You do not understand the issue and you need to listen more closely to the critics. And it is wrong to make up numbers.
I don’t know if Tucker is vaccinated or not, but it doesn’t really have anything to do with whether he should have people on his show who disagree with him or not. As a 68 year old with emphysema, I am vaccinated and boosted, but I don’t agree with the mandates, nor do I trust the CDC, the NIH, Fauci or Collins to make policy for everyone. They’ve been caught lying, they have conflicts of interest, and their released emails prove it.
There is nothing wrong with Tucker Carlson having someone on who goes against the “approved narrative.” People can make up their own minds. We’re not stupid.
The slamming of those with different views on the experimental vaccines is disappointing once again and for that, I am unsubscribing. Alex Berenson has been doing the research like a real journalist so I will support him instead. I'm a board certified physician with 21 years experience btw...
One note for comments section: the general take of this Friday post--and of Common Sense editors--is pro-vax, anti-mandates. The nuances of the vaccine roll-out strategy, the side-effects especially among young men, the origins of the virus . . . these are open questions. But if you're looking for a weekly hard anti-vax perspective you just won't find it here.
Bari, you're starting to get intellectually sloppy. You castigate Berenson for coming on Tucker Carlson this week and warning about the vaccine. And then you cite a study showing that the unvaccinated are 20 times more likely to die. But the study you cite says: "The research, published by the Texas Department of State Health Services on Monday, determined that 81.3 percent of COVID-19-related deaths between Sept. 4 and Oct. 1 occurred among unvaccinated people." Berenson was talking about the less virulent omicron variant. Omicron was not yet circulating in Texas when the study was conducted. Apples and oranges, Bari. Before you criticize Alex, why didn't you give him a chance to respond? I read Pandemia and it's very carefully researched.
"Berenson told Mr. Carlson’s largely older and vulnerable viewership.........................."
Are you serious Ms. Bowles? My wife and I are both 74 years old and are a heck of a lot less vulnerable to bullshit than you apparently.
So you simply do not like Tucker Carlson and his audience. Bari's position on Maher's show concurred with many of Berenson's and Carlson's comments from prior Carlson shows. David Zweig echos Berenson's reporting from prior Carlson shows but Zwieg's comments are a "very important deep dive." The City Journal lab leak story parallels Berenson's reporting and Carlson directly referenced Wade's reporting in May 2021. I guess slamming Carlson and his "vulnerable viewership" elevates your moral superiority. Like they say "do better."
Nellie apparently found the time to watch Tucker.
She then wrote this: "The vaccine is what allows us to relax"
I wonder whether Nellie found the time to watch Sen. Ron Johnson's five-hour hearing on Monday about vaxx safety. No, I don't actually wonder, because if she had, there's no way she would've written "The vaccine is what allows us to relax" today.
Because had she paid attention to the hearing, she would've learned of:
"...shocking information from multiple whistleblowers within the Department of Defense. The DoD has apparently been tracking the military’s vaccine mandate and recording adverse event signals among our troops. The information came from the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS), which tracks billing codes for medical diagnoses among service members.
Among other things...the data from DMSS shows a dramatic increase in the first ten months of 2021 in certain diagnosis codes, over the prior 5-year average for the same diagnoses:
— a 300% increase in miscarriages (4,182 vs 1,499)
— a 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (114,645 vs 38,700)
— a 269% increase in myocardial infarction
— a 291% increase in Bell’s palsy
— a 467% increase in pulmonary embolisms
— a 471% increase in female infertility
— a 1,000% increase in neurological diagnoses (863,000 (!) vs 82,000)
...the 2020 diagnosis codes for the same conditions do NOT show similar increases, which seems to rule out Covid-19 as a possible cause...numerous other diagnosis categories have also increased exponentially.
[Attorney Renz] presented a sworn declaration from one of the military doctors who came forward, which states, “It is my professional opinion that the major increases of the above discussed instances of miscarriages, cancers, and disease were due to COVID-19 ‘vaccinations.’”
Yeah, let's...relax. Pfizer says we can relax, so no need to do real journalisming.
(Excerpts from https://bit.ly/34iUF1K)
“What it found: Children in state-sponsored pre-K had worse grades and more disciplinary problems.”
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Who ever could have foreseen that being abandoned by your mother and sent to a prison run by communists would generate negative outcomes??
😂😂
"Unvaccinated people are some 20 times more likely to die of Covid than the vaccinated."
One study. One four-week period. And way back in *September*. That data is four months old. Got anything newer to hang your hat on? Because Alex does.
Furthermore, y'know what else happened in September?
The CDC changed the definition of "vaccine" because these Chinese virus experimental gene therapies were not (and still aren't) doing what vaccines do, weren't (and still aren't) behaving the way vaccines behave.
So they're truly and truthfully NOT vaccines, and your use of the term "unvaccinated" and "vaccine" is classic...what's the word?...oh yeah: misinformation.
It’s really sad that Nellie would feed this to her highly loyal readers...
And this is just dishonest: "...especially given that he is surely vaccinated himself."
This implies that NO ONE who has been vaxxed has any reason to regret the decision or might have reasons for getting jabbed that don't apply to others. Also, by this rationale, anyone who has dropped acid in the past has no business advising others not to do the same, has no business having on a guest who argues against dropping acid.
AND, Nellie obviously doesn't know whether Carlson is jabbed, because all she can say is the cheap-shot guess "...that he is surely vaxxed himself."
Disappointed in the attack on Berenson, claiming the vaccines are why we can relax, and that putting Berenson on was Tucker peddling misinformation. First, if you’d read Pandemia, or any of his other writing on substack, you’d see it clear he knows what he’s talking about. Second, and most importantly, how are you not participating in censorship and cancel-culture when you say Tucker shouldn’t have had Berenson on? Since I’ve been reading this substack it seems like there’s a very strong opposition to the censoring of people with differing ideas. Is it just that you, Nellie, should be the one who decides who is and is not allowed to speak and what they are or are not allowed to say? Are you saying, ‘It’s bad when others censor but I know enough to know who should be allowed a voice and who shouldn’t’? And if you’re going to rip Berenson, I’d suggest trying to find something he said that’s wrong and counter it with what you feel is right and accurate info. Bring up some specifics on what he’s misrepresenting and why. Not this lazy, NYT-style hit and run. Disappointing.
“Neil Young told Spotify that the company could either have his music or keep controversial podcaster Joe Rogan”
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They need a streaming service called Despotify for artists like Neil Young who support despotism.
#Puns
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Gotta push back on this MSM and pharma sponsored notion that the vaccine indeed saves lives, especially to the tune of 20x. Where are the peer-reviewed studies to confirm this? We know pharma uses "absolute" vs "relative" risk reduction interchangeably. The science is not settled on this, as many people keep insisting it is.
How can you attack Alex B with old data? And then use that to attack Tucker Carlson and FOX. That’s the worst kind of journalism. Please stick to the facts.
Can someone please explain to me how the difference between 19% and 81% is 20x? I'm starting to think the "math" that makes 81% 20x greater than 19% perfectly explains our never ending policy failures. Our journalists, even ones I respect (though pretty much always disagree with) like Bari really need to stop being this intellectually lazy. It took reading ONE paragraph of the article to realize the headline is either an outright lie, or they need to start employing 4th graders capable of doing division and multiplication to check their math... "snowflakes" like me are ruining society per the comments here, and I'll accept that perspective, but can we all please at least agree on how basic math works?