The attachment says it all:
Something really odd is going on. The vaccines are failing.
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 16, 2021
READ THIS THREAD https://t.co/7YxWG3kEja
I did actually follow the link to see what's misleading about this.
The attachment says it all:
Something really odd is going on. The vaccines are failing.
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 16, 2021
READ THIS THREAD https://t.co/7YxWG3kEja
I did actually follow the link to see what's misleading about this.
This statement comes from a position of poor understanding, but when I see those results, I think of Antibody Dependent Enhancement.
ReplyDeleteTo get a real world example, look up Dengue fever and ADE.
Yes, ADE is a real thing.
DeleteThis is Friday news. so here goes- sorry about O/T but no other likely choice:
ReplyDeleteA federal judge in Texas on Friday invalidated an Obama-era initiative that provided deportation protections and work permits to some young immigrants, a ruling that places the program in jeopardy.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was unlawful because Congress never gave the executive branch the power to grant mass reprieves to immigrants who are in the U.S. without authorization.
“As popular as this program might be, the proper origination point for the DACA program was, and is, Congress,” Judge Hanen, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote.
The judge in another part of his ruling said the Obama administration also erred by not soliciting public comment on DACA before adopting it.
Judge Hanen’s ruling barred the Biden administration from approving new DACA applications. But the judge stayed the immediate effect of his ruling on current DACA recipients, citing their longtime reliance on the program, meaning there won’t be upheaval right away for those people who are currently in good standing.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judge-rules-obama-era-daca-immigration-program-is-illegal-11626471046
DACA is gone. We’re stuck with those who have been here for years, but only those who have followed the rules and are “in good standing”. A major thwap to Obama and now to Biden…
Re DACA, this gives a sense of the numbers involved and the probable fight ahead.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/us/court-daca-dreamers.html?
I imagine we'll be waiting on the appeal, but that's a good thing in its own way.
DeletePopulations in the real world are not heterogeneous.
ReplyDeleteThe simple epidemiological models are based on the implicit assumption of heterogeneity.
There are pockets of low immunity/vaccination within a large country. Just because the country has a AVERAGE vacc/immunity rate of 60+% doesn't mean that every neighborhood has that level. There will be many that don't, and the virus will spread rapidly in those communities, especially if they were under infected up to this point.
It doesn't mean vaccines are no longer working.
The critical measure is what % of confirmed new cases are among the vaccinated. If the vaccine were no longer effective that % would climb dramatically.
I have yet to see anyone present scientifically robust statistically significant data showing such is happening.
Note the fact that despite rising case counts, fatalities remain low.
One possible explanation is that the case counts are "inflated" dramatically with false positives, which are to be expected in large numbers when the incidence rate is very low.
Thus, a significant increase in testing will produce a false increase in case count numbers. But since many cases are false, the fatalities remain very low.
Yankees-Red Sox Game Postponed After Three Fully Vaccinated Pitchers Test Positive For Covid-19
Deletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9773047/Health-expert-says-vaccinated-Americans-helping-spread-Indian-Delta-variant.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9790999/Symptom-tracking-app-claims-number-people-falling-ill-virus-day-FALLEN.html
@ez or, another possible explanation for why fatalities remain low, is that the virus is spreading through population pockets of people under the age of 90 and having like , you know, few co-morbidities, or a good supply of vitamin d, or hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin , or what have you. Can we stop talking about this respiratory virus as though it's some kind of unstoppable silent killer? It's not. Can we stop feeding the narrative of these totalitarians? Please? Mark A
Delete@ Mark A, that sounds like a reasonable request.
DeleteEZ refers to case counts. In fact, PCR cycle rates are now being set MUCH LOWER for those who are vaxxed. Moreover, no vaxxed person who is asymptomatic is tested. This should result in much higher positive rates among the unvaxxed. But ...
DeleteA Catastrophe Unveils Itself
https://www.unz.com/gatzmon/a-catastrophe-unveils-itself/
Congratulations, Mark! Your blog has attained a new staus level where the regime feels it's now necessary to send their hired shills to your comment section to "stop the misinformation" lol.
Delete“Hired shills”? Explain, please, or are you just going to let that lie there?
DeleteBebe, I think Anon was under the impression that the message included about the Tweet being "misleading" was added to this blog site. It came with the Tweet.
DeleteMeh!... Never let data stand in the way of a good narrative!!
ReplyDeleteOf course longtime readers of this most excellent blog will know that we are witnessing the very thing predicted by the Brit virologist-- the mRNA injections pushing the virus to mutate in ways that avoid the injection gene therapy thus making the inoculated more vulnerable to variants than those with normal, uncorrupted immune systems.
ReplyDeleteHedge
LA starts masking tonight,
ReplyDeleteYet the data does not support it, sigh,
The small increase in cases is among the unvaxed and the death rate is way down:
https://reason.com/2021/07/16/citing-rising-covid-19-cases-l-a-county-reimposes-a-general-mask-mandate-and-threatens-additional-restrictions/
To me the only number that matters is the death rate.
Re the unvaxxed, remember that they're being tested at the old, positive-inducing, cycle settings. The vaxxed are being tested only when symptomatic and at much lower, i.e., realistic settings.
DeleteGiven my lack of med. background, I'm struggling with the overlap between the words "much lower, i.e., realistic settings", and the point of the quote from Denninger I posted here the other day,
Delete"Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get *infected after* the shot, than *after natural* infection".
I presume that "get infected after the shot" means showing a Positive test result (despite the tests on vaxxed folks being conducted only on the symptomatic, and at "much lower, i.e., realistic settings").
If so, this may mean that the Israeli results are even more significant than they first seemed, but I'm not sure of that.
Any thoughts?
I'm not sure how to interpret the Israeli results because we don't know from the article what the test settings were. It seems clear, however, from Pfizer's reaction to the Israeli data--request for emergency authority for boosters--that they were alarmed by the data.
Deletehttps://www.unz.com/gatzmon/a-catastrophe-unveils-itself/
Ray, Los Angeles County’s health officer, Barbara Farrar (woman who looks like something from the crypt), pays no attention to data. She is a control freak who has had a swell time controlling the most populous county in the United States. Farrar is not an MD.
DeleteI don't understand... my understanding was that the vaccines are not supposed to prevent one from being re-infected. Their purpose was only to prevent a serious body response, so that one only becomes mildly sick if infected.
ReplyDeleteIs that not true?
Frank
That's correct.
Deletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9773047/Health-expert-says-vaccinated-Americans-helping-spread-Indian-Delta-variant.html
I see. Think I was focusing on the wrong thing. Thanks
DeleteFrank
FDA revokes authorization of COVID-19 test given to hundreds of thousands in L.A.
ReplyDeleteFederal regulators revoked the authorization of a COVID-19 test that has been given to millions of people for free across the country, including hundreds of thousands in Los Angeles.
The Food and Drug Administration said Curative, the Southern California startup that had brought in more than $1 billion in revenue through the test, had asked the agency to pull its authorization. The company says it no longer needs to use the unique mouth-swab test.
In January, the FDA had alerted the public that Curative’s test could produce false results, causing people to possibly delay treatment and unknowingly spread the virus.
More here:
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-16/fda-revokes-approval-curative-covid-19-test
@Bebe, A heartwarming story of rent-seeking and grift (sarc). Hard to tell from the article itself if there is even a bad guy here. It may be just a pair of good guys, Curative & the U.S. Gov't, having at your hard-earned cash. Curative raked in $1 billion, quite a haul for a startup. Covid worked out quite well for the indefatigable Mr. Turner.
ReplyDeleteWhen you factor in Pfizer & the rest (e.g., the Broad with its monopoly on university testing), 'do-gooder' pharmaceutical-biotechs earned billions and billions. That said, I wish people would stop using the word "free" to describe these transactions.