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my exposure, if they really want people to read this, would we, accordingly, Doktor Deutsche reads needle points himself, enjoy? Does a psychiatrist cycle analysed and the author of the New York Times best seller, the brain, the changes itself? He was part of that search faculty at Columbia, University and the University of Toronto. Psychiatry, I meant for thirty years. This is a crucial he's of journalism, and I'm glad we can put it out in front of so many of you please enjoy again. If you want an ad free experience of this podcast check out, show notes or go to Jordan, be Petersen, DOT Super cast dot com and you can sign up for ten dollars a month or a hundred dollars a year that will change what you press on in Spotify Arrival, pod gas or wherever he listened to pod gas to the ad free version. hello, everyone, I've begun to consider using my Youtube channel and podcast from material generated,

people other than myself. I recently put up a lecture by Jonathan Patio that was delivered to the young society in Montreal. I thought it was particularly brilliant. Discussion of the underlying narrative structure and can actual structure of genesis. I added that to the sequence, my videos on Genesis. My wife is to be releasing a series of interviews with Jonathan Patio as part of her in instigation into the nature of the divine feminine. So that's coming up soon and in this instance, I'm. I asked my friend and colleague, psychiatrists Doktor Norman Doidge, two readings Ass, he wrote a few weeks ago called needle points, which is the most penetrating analysis that I've read about the cove in policies that have bedeviled and helped.

Over the last few years. Dark Doyle, Jesus psychiatrist in a cycle analysed and solid scientist renowned for his writing on science and the brain and, in my opinion, can as most literate physician writer, he's also friend and colleague of mine, he wrote the introduction. the twelve rules of life. His ass, a needle points which is reading today, first appeared a few weeks ago and tablet magazine, but its perhaps even more relevant today, like me, doctor, is vaccinated. He describes the history of vaccines praises what he calls the colonel insight and makes US an intelligent case for the utility of the technology, then he D, fails. The cove and state of mind describes them. working in nature of the brain circuits, triggered by contagion and helps

explain why the issue of vaccination is tearing families, friendships, professions and even states apart. He described why debates about vaccination and infection policies are always emotionally radioactive on both sides. the debate showing why our reason is threatened during contagion detailing? Why we are then tempted to treat each other so badly planes why those who hesitate in the face of the current policies surrounding vaccination have concerns more Divide by history and experience than they are often credited with particularly their views are caricatured and demonized. He makes the case that best path through the current crisis is not through coercion. That's cohesion is in fact a reliable indicator of failed government communication and policy. Doktor Deutsche describes the alternative.

separate model in which humane physicians speak to patients respectfully and is the visuals with their own agency and explains that, though, who adopt this approach, do much better public health work as would governments if they wished to enhance instead of degrade trust in public health, no shared this article with conservatives and liberals alike in Canada and Democrats and publicans in the? U S, many of them all who have received it and read it. In polarized time have expressed their appreciation for its content and its rider, doktor Norman Deutsch his homework, as he always does he's. The author of the brain, the changes itself and is currently cribbing writer for TAT magazine where this article is published, All the links to the scientific references he quotes can be found, he's also

executive, director of health and the greater good and new think tank devoted to finding solutions to health problems that respect civil liberties, so that neither health nor civil liberties need needlessly be at the expense of the other I wanted to bring this article to the broadest public attention possible given its importance and felt that having doktor Dodge, read it so that people watch it and listen to it on Youtube and in part, casts assuming. That would be the most effective way to disseminate the information. So without further ado, doktor, Norman, Deutsche and needle points. needle points. Why so many are hesitant to get the covert vaccines and what we can you about it. By Norman Deutsch

read by the author October, twenty seventh, twenty twenty one Since my days in medical school, I've had a fascination with the colonel insight behind vaccination. That way, could successfully expose a person to an attenuated version of a microbe that would prepare, and protect them for it tensely lethal encounter with the actual microbe. I marveled at Oh it tutors an immune system that, like the brain, has met three and a kind of intelligence, and even something akin to foresight, but I For a broader reason to at times modern science in modern medicine based on a fantasy that a match the role of medicine, is declining nature. So we can wage war against all microbes, with Anti Microbial,

create a world where we will no longer suffer from infectious disease. Vaccination is not based on sterile vision, but its opposite. It works with our educational immune system, which have of millions of years ago to deal with the fact that we must always coexist with microbes it Says to use our own resources to protect ourselves doing Oh, is in accord with the essential inside of a Portuguese who understood that the meat, you're, part of healing comes from within that it is best to work with nature and not against it and yet ever since they were made available. Vaccines Controversial and it is all

Must always been difficult to have a non emotionally charged discussion about them? One reason is that in humans and other animals any infection can trigger, and our case brain circuit in most of us called the behavioral immune system or be I yes, it's a circuit that trigger when we sense we may be near a potential carrier of disease causing disgust fear and avoidance its involuntary easy to shut off. Once it's been turned on the evil. Inhuman system is best understood, in contrast to the regular immune system. The right healer immune system consists of anti bodies and t cells and so on, and it evolved to protect us once a problematic microbe gets inside us. The b, I ask, is different

it evolved to prevent us from getting infected in the first place by making us hypersensitive to hygiene, hence of disease and other people. Even signs that they are from another tribe since in in times, encounters with different tribes. could wipe out one's own tribe with an infectious disease. They carried often the foreign trade had its own long history of exposure to pathogens, some of which still carried, but to which it had developed immunity in some way. members of the tribe were themselves healthy but dangerous to others, and so we developed a system whereby anything or any one that seems like it might bear a significant illness can trigger an ancient brain circuit of fear, discussed and avoidance. It can also trigger rage but rages, complex,

because it's normally expressed by getting close to the object and attacking it, but with contagion one fears getting too close So generally, the anger is expressed by isolating the plague. Bearer The eye ass is thus an alarm system, specifically contagion and I should add to the fear of being poisoned, which before the development of modern chemistry often came from exposure to living things and their dangerous by products such as victims. Thus it can also be triggered by non animate things like body fluids of some kinds, offices, others may have touched or even more abstract. Ideas like going to the restore during covered. There is one exception.

The b, I ass doesn't get or stay activated and people who don't feel vulnerable, perhaps because they have good personal protective equipment. or because you ve gives them strong innate immunity or because they know their already immune orbit. has there seriously misled. Delusional the reality of the disease for him. One else, though, what might. Figured. This system is rather plastic, but once triggered, the system is involuntary, The eye ass is, I would argue, one Institutional reactions that missed appearing in medical textbooks because we have not had a pandemic on this scale for a hundred years, because it focuses on potential bearers of disease. The b I as triggers many false alarms since in advance

did person may at first show only the mildest and nonspecific symptoms such as a coffer sniffle before they become deftly ill. that's why even a small exhalation or a surface watched by a stranger could trigger the B. I s word a medical test of danger, We would say this system tends to err on the phone. the positive side. We see it firing every Dana when someone drives alone wearing a mask. Org as for a walk by themselves in an empty forest mast. Or when someone say with good health and no previous, known adverse reactions to vaccines, hears it a vaccine can one in five hundred thousand cases cause death, but can't take any comfort that they have a Ninety nine point: nine nine nine percent chance of it not happening because it potentially cat.

before advanced brain areas are turned on and probabilities are factored in the b I ass is often running. One of the reasons are: discussions of vaccination are so emotionally radioactive, inconsistent and harsh. Is that the big, I ask, is turned on in people on both sides of the debate. those who favour vaccination are focused on the danger of the virus and that triggers their system. Those who don't are focused the fact that vaccines inject into them a virus or a virus surrogate or even a chemical, they think, may be poisonous and that turns on their system, thus both sides are firing, alarms, including many false positive alarms that put them in a state of panic, fear, loathing and discussed,

the other, and now these two sides of the vaccination debate are tearing America apart at many levels: families friendships states in the federal gum, but it's even affecting the country's ability to deal with a pandemic. Splitting hospital staff and sundering relationships between the science scientists studying it as if this riding in the United States about eighty five percent of people over sixty five, the age group most at risk are fully vaccinated against covert more if you Klute those who had one shot, fifty seven percent of the overall population is fully vaccinated. but around June, the rate acclamation slowed drastically down less than one million a day from three point. Four million daily in April,

even though many more people aged twelve in up were now eligible. Five minutes, people who got the first shot had not gone to their follow up. Appointment states start Sending vaccines back whilst vaccination sites were empty in. bonds. U S. Public health officials appear to believe that the number of people who would voluntarily take the vaccine had reached a ceiling. The chain could be seen from the top of the messaging system. With President Joe Biden. Switching from persuasion to coercion of the services federal employs and, as of September, ninth of everyone working for companies with a hundred- and always are more a category that includes a two hundred million Americans in a way This should be the least likely time in history for vaccine hesitancy for years

Is that a knowledge is explained vaccine scepticism by noticing that largely existed, because few had lived through a large scale pandemic and because backs He had already eradicated, so many serious diseases that it gave rise complacency about the threat. But today's vaccine hesitancy is happening in the midst of a pandemic in which over Seven hundred thousand Americans have died and arrest. Rasmussen poll found founded a staggering, one third of Americans quote, believe it. Shells are lying about: vaccine safety, close quote It seems to me especially vital that we broadly Our understanding of the history and current state of vaccines, because over the summer, many You chose vaccination for themselves, concluded that it is acceptable to mandate vaccines for others

including those who are reluctant to get them. That majority entered a state of crystallization a term, I bore The french novelist and all who applied it to the moment, the person falls in love. Feelings at me. have been fluid, become solid, clear and absolute, leading to all or nothing thinking such that even the beloved blemishes become signs their perfection, crystallization is I'm using. It here happens within a group that has been involved in a major dispute for awhile, There is an awareness that some decision it is in play and people are free to have different opinions, but at a certain point, often hard to predict and impact simple to measure, because it is happening in the wider culture

not necessarily at the ballot box, boast said the dispute become aware that within This mass of human beings- there is now a winner, one might say, that a consensus arises, that there is now a majority consensus, suddenly Certain ideas and actions must be applauded, voiced, obeyed and acted on, while others are off limits. One person who understood how this works intuitively was Alexey Tocqueville in democracy. These as long as there is not yet a majority opinion array you used can be expressed, and it appears that there is a great quote: liberty of opinion, close quote two uses phrase. But once the majority opinion forms

Quires a sudden social power, and it brings with it pressure to end to set a power for new kind of censorship and coercion begins in everyday life at work, school choir, church hospitals in all institutions. As the majority. he turns on the minority. Demanding it comply, talk. Like James Madison,. was concerned about this tyranny of the majority which he saw. The Achilles heel of democracy, it isn't because divisiveness created a minority faction steeped in lingering resentment. It's all because minorities can sometimes be more right. The majority's. Indeed, our ideas, are definition, minority ideas to start with the majority. we're taking the minority could me

stamping out thoughts and actions that would other is generac, generate progress and forward movement. It's a fascinating moment when this sort of Crystallization happens in a mass culture, like America's because, seemingly overnight, even the definition and of legitimate speech or thought or action, also changes to fill, observe that quite abruptly a person can no longer express opinions or raise questions that only days, but where were acceptable either no no facts of the matter of changed the visual level people are with who were within the bounds can be, surprised to find themselves quote tormented by this lights and persecutions of daily obloquy, close quote. Once this occurs, he wrote quote your fellow creed, this was shown you like an impure being

and those who are most persuaded of your innocence will abandon you two lest they should be shunned in their turn. Close club. In the midst of a pandemic, seeing the an vaccinated as impure is no surprise because of course they could carry contagion but, as Tocqueville pointed out This also occurs when there is no contagion and we begin who experience those who are on the wrong side as impure as in failing the purity test and react to them as though they are dangerous. That we do this, even when there is no pandemic, suggested There is a long way the realistic fear of infection, something else going on here a sense that Those with whom we may disagree are priorities in the body politic, bad people

to be taught a lesson, even punished a June twenty twenty one Gallup poll found that the vaccinated fifty three points and now worry most about those choosing not to get vaccinated quote Surpassing concerns about lack of social distancing in their area. Twenty seven percent availability of local hospital resources in supplies. Eleven per cent and avail quality of corona virus tests in their area, five percent close quote two to the beach, Gabriel Immune systems impulses. This fear is metastasized into discussed, even hatred of those who, because Believer ACT differently are now perceived as threats on August twenty six in a front page story, we in the Toronto star. My local newspaper arrest,

was quoted. As saying quote, I have no empathy. for the wealthy on vaccinated, let them die close quote in the midst of such a death wish for fellow human beings. Even the person quoted understood that an important mental capacity. has been lost, empathy or the ability to model other people's minds, we lose that on mass the result, Can be tragic, not least because getting through this must be a group effort. As I understand it, there are two main approaches to publicly liberal democracies and both have been tried historically in different places. one begins voluntarily out of respect for you, the liberties but sway

is to coercion when some voluntary ceiling deemed insufficient is reached, ideally this intervention is based on the principle of Lee, necessary coercion. The benefit to this is that it may work to get more people vaccinated in short order, but it also conveys the government does not trusted citizens to make good decisions on their own. A condescension that, in turn,. This is human nature, one or one actually generates resentment, even revolt and the sin of significance segments of the population. The other approach- participatory public health, Sees the need for cohesion as a sign that something in the public health outreach itself has failed if,

feeling is reached. Societies leaders should not simply resort to force, but rather confront the flaws In their own leadership that they should double down, their responsibility to generate trust in the public. The goal of participatory public health is not to crush, but to better engage in that spirit. What follows is an attempt by a physician and neuroscience rider and someone God vaccinated early involuntarily. to understand those who have not made this choice. This Say is not about covid deniers or anti vaccines who oppose vaccine any ideological grounds. Nor is it about the activists or political figures who feed off and benefit from the corrosive discourse around vaccines, it is Instead about the vaccine, hesitant.

Those who are concerned and anxious about covert but also anxious about these new vaccines. These are the people Not yet vaccinated for reasons that the majority may not understand and which are often more anchored in history and experience. then the majority would suspect they the two billion minority that the majority is threatening with. applause and other restrictions, one, I agree with the decisions: are actions of the vaccine, hesitant in order to learn something from them and about them and about society as a whole there, pay attention to and are vigilant about, different issues than the vaccinated and have strong feelings about the people and institutions involved in our public health, particularly politician since the drug regulatory process and pharmaceutical companies for many taxing hesitancy is not simply a

the vaccines, it's about the absence of faith in the wider systems that brought us the vaccines quote. Public health moves at the speed of trust, close quote, notes, physician and author regime men Chandra. If we want our public health system to function better safer swifter in ways that more effectively safeguard the lives and livelihoods of all citizens. It must be rooted Nodding coercion, but in confidence, and not only among the majority chapter two. and brilliance of vaccines. The colonel idea of exposing a person to We can form of the pathogen or toxin known locally as like to treat like long seated modern medicine and came

stages and through observation, Paracelsus who was said to have treated persons during a plague of fifteen. Thirty four noted that quote what makes men ill also cures. Close quote: the ancient plague of Athens for thirty, two for twenty five b c e The historian assiduities noted that those like himself got the plague and then recovered, never got the plague again. chinese writing alluded to inoculation in the tenth century, and in this sixteenth century brahman, Hindus were inoculating people withdrawing pass from smallpox. Pustules similar practices, which were I'm in Turkey in the seventeen hundreds were brought to England by remarkable Lady Montague, the ink ambassadors, wife, but when some such as key

George, the third son died of being a knock, did with the smallpox many became reluctant to undergo the procedure. A key advance occurred when farmers in England, in the seventeen hundreds noticed the dairy mates who milk cows got cow part and their hands from the others cow pox was very mild illness compared to smallpox, which had a thirty per mortality rate by some estimates, it was observe that the maids with cow pox were immune to the dreaded smallpox english cattle breeder named Benjamin Jesse. Himself self contracted cow parks and was thus immune to smallpox, decided supposedly on the spur of the moment to intentions, inoculate his wife and children with cow pox. They maned immune to smallpox. Fifteen years later,.

The english physician, Edward Jenner? Learning of this begins. Systematically exposing patients to car parks, including an eight, old boy named James Phipps. He exposed James to car parks and then exposed him to smallpox to see if he'd contract it an experiment conducted, quite obviously without informed consent. The boy survived and was vaccinated twenty times without bad effect, said Jenner, who reported on the benefits of the procedure and warding off smallpox in a series of cases He was initially ridiculed for this idea, but in the end, prevailed the phenomenon was soon called vaccination from what Kenya the Latin for cap Exe virus species, whacker being cow. Some of you wondered whether the ancient western symbol for the medical arts and healing still

Today, the right the sleepy us a serpent wrapped around his staff may its self, be an allusion to the colonel idea that something injuries can also protect. According to the greek myth, scrappy was said to have he'll people was snake. Venom. which can have some medicinal properties that were written about by the candour and, interestingly this Image appears in the Torah in numbers. Twenty one, eight and the Lord said unto Moses make the fire serpent and set it upon a pool, and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looked at the pawn it shall live and Moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass If a serpent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

All of which is to say that the heel harm paradox is a deep archetype in the human psyche, and it came not from big farmer from everyday often rural observations. One might even call them front line observations about how nature, works and how immune system behaves. on the great tribes of vaccination are the elimination in the United States of the scourge of polio and the erratic should have smallpox throughout the world. Indeed, perhaps because of these successes many of us nostalgic. We imagine that their development in public. Acceptance came easily, but the real history shows a more textured picture. A number of polio vaccine had to be tried. The initial

Maxine studies had very little oversight and the first vaccines left some children paralysed the first truly effective backseat. The salt had problems to nineteen fifty five, a bad batch of over Hundred twenty thousand doses from the cap or pharmaceutical company contained the live polio virus causing forty thousand cases of polio and killing ten. The cutter incident, as the event is now known revealed vulnerability of the systems that produce vaccines and remit, is one of the sources of the nightmare that so HANS the hesitant getting the dreaded disease from the treatment the incident was followed. My efforts to improve the regulatory systems so that similar Tragedies wouldn't be repeated in the public mind. Perhaps the greatest tried for vaccination was the mid century.

Worldwide eradication of smallpox, a horrifying scorch that was lethal in thirty percent of cases. The history, as it is often told a tribute, the victory solely to vaccines. But as british physician Richard, how has written was not simply the product of a single blockbuster vaccine or campaign, as it is so often described, but rather a regime of multiple public health measures, instituted alongside vaccination. The details here are quite interesting. beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Where a number of mass campaigns of inoculation with smallpox, and then vaccination with cow pox that lead to a decline. in small talks in the nineteenth century by nineteen. Forty eight some physicians in England, thought the illness was sufficiently well managed that master

the nation of infants which carried some risks, could wind down, and so mass vaccination was replaced by a new, more individually, focused strategy. If a case was reported, public health officials, isolated the person and their contacts, and the contacts were vaccinated. This was called the surveillance containment strategy. It worked After the cessation of vaccination in England, a few cases occurred in one thousand nine hundred and seventy three and one thousand nine hundred and seventy eight, but both were based on laboratory accidents. according to help us in the World Health Organization came to this in conclusion, and also adopted the surveillance, containment approach elsewhere in nineteen eighty, the disease was declared, eradicate it

But alongside the public health systems, triumphant eradication of polio smallpox from the nineteen forties through the nineteen seventies, there was a horrifying chapter as well. Wondered included staggering abuses by public health and medical authorities. The Tuskegee experiment conducted by the? U S, public health service, from One thousand nine hundred and thirty two until one thousand nine hundred and seventy to send out representatives to five african american men with syphilis, who were told they would receive treatment for their quote bad blood. Close quote: no treatment occurred. the officials gave these men a placebo instead of penicillin, which would have saved them this was done. So the investigators by watch the men die slowly could study them natural course of the devastating disease.

During the same period of time, the U S public health system oversaw Seventy thousand sterilizations of quote mentally deficient, close quote people with learning problems, the blind and the poor and also forcibly removed. The uterus of african american and indigenous women all is part An international eugenics movement that swept through public health secondary and other drugs were given to people in mental institutions without telling them often leading to nightmare trips and dangerous campaigns were undertaken based on only partial knowledge, such as the widespread radiation of healthy children's finest glance, a key part of one's immune system which later cause cancers. All of these programmes used abstract population base thinking.

Do you mean icing? People two numbers to be toyed with in the science and progress. None of the public health abuses during this period involved in foreign patient consent, and yet they were government sponsored loud it and justified in the name of the greater good. It took the revelation of Nancy medical experiments on Jews and others to give up. to a new ethics of consent for research subjects the Nuremberg How do the ethics of nineteen forty seven, along with it, Nineteen sixty four declaration of Helsinki originally did but by the World Medical Association required, for actions and scientists to obtain the informed consent all, research subjects this breakthrough.

led to the normalization of patient consent, not just for search subjects, but for those undergoing all medical procedures and became a bedrock of many of us in the medical field now see as an invite viable code of ethics. But in the late nineteenth seventies and nineteen eightys, there were new controversies, In nineteen, seventy six, a swine flu outbreak occurred in four dicks New Jersey, fearing The country was on the cusp of a pandemic. The? U S, government approved the vaccine and undertook an aggressive roll out that involved forty eight million people, but there were to unforeseen developments. First, the epidemic proceeded on its own and rather quickly. Second, foreign debt Fifty vaccinated people came down with a neurological, logical disorder called Guienne by RE syndrome in greater

numbers than would be expected during that period after produce, in distributing the vaccine so quickly. The government then reacted with caution, but idea that a vaccine could cause damage stuck in the public's might quote. This government led pain was widely viewed as a debacle and put an irreparable dent in future public health initiatives. Close quote: wrote Rebecca Crest and industry as well as negatively influenced the public's perception of both the flu. the flu shot in this country. Close quote that scepticism, Might have emerged so sharply because the swine the debacle occurred against the backdrop of another contemporaneous event in the night team seventies. A number of points Let's begin arguing with their children, were left with serious brain problems and seizures after receiving the

theory protest, his vaccine, ferris vaccine related lawsuits followed and the parents many legal victories costing pharmaceutical companies millions of dollars it twelve sense to make a dose of the DP vaccine and nineteen eighty two, but within a few years the cost increase thirty five fold, thanks to Negation awards and ass a result. Companies started leaving the vaccine business to this day. There is disagreement about the prime because of the brain problems with some of the parents and said thing. It was a vaccine and vaccine advocate, arguing that these children actually had a genetic condition culture that syndrome possibly brought the surface by the vaccination but which they would. Suffered from anyway. there is little disagreement all about what happened next. Nineteen, eighty six, the last pharmaceuticals

Many still making the dvd Lateral told the government it would stop making the vaccine company making vaccines for other diseases were also being suit and also start production. The government grew very kind and in a nineteen eighty six Congress pass the national childhood vaccine Injury ACT, see the idea, the artist Obviously, a new system for vaccine related injuries or daft, linked to childhood vaccinations we're in companies were indemnified from being so, for safety problems sooner The programme was enlarged to include adult vaccination injuries if anyone leave that a child or person was injured by a vaccine. They could take the complaint to newly established vaccine court run by the? U S, government and plead their case if they won the governor would pay them damages from the fund created out of taxpayers money this

might have seemed the best possible solution. The country. The vaccine supply. citizens had recourse in the event of harm, but because these were indemnified from any harm. Their vaccines might cause they no longer have a powerful financial incentive to rectify, existing safety problems or even improve safety, his time passed. Arguably, they were financially disincentive eyes from doing so. The solution shifted liability for the cost of safety problems from the makers onto the taxpayers, pull that included those who were arguably harmed this sphere. Suspicions spread in the ninety nineties with even greater explosive. This toxicity during the Maxine Autism, debate, the landscape of the vaccine. course in the United States, never swim

or one dimensional to begin with, was becoming even more complicated and hostile. To understand the polarized psychological reactions to vaccination now, as well as what to do about it essential to disentangle three things. First, there is the colonel idea. Behind vaccination as a treatment argue one of humanity's greatest medical insights. Second, there's the process by which a particular vaccine is produced, tested for safety and efficacy and regulated. That is the execution of the core insight which, as we know, can vary and success from one, vaccine to the next or fail completely we'd not yet been able to make an AIDS vaccine, for instance,. Third, there is the way in which those who produce the vaccine and the public health

shells in charge of regulating and disseminated communicate to the public. Only a person who rejects the first colonel idea could sensibly called an Anti Baxter. Many people, except the curl insight, and have been vaccinated, multiple times in the past, but have come to doubt the exit, you shouldn't or necessity of a particular vaccine and hence also come doubt the claims made in the course of disseminating they become hesitant about that particular vaccine and defer or avoid getting it One reason hesitancy can take hold in relatively low trust societies is that relaxed vaccines typically have no direct relationship with those mandating vaccinations and thus no personal evidence that those people are trustworthy for regular,

medication a physician needs and has the ability to convince one patient at a time to take a particular drug. This is why pharmaceutical companies have huge marketing budgets to sway individual physicians and patients alike. In the case of vaccines. Companies need to it's only a few key officials in committees within by their product and marketed for them to an entire population for companies producing vaccines. Mass marketing is replaced almost entirely by political line A number of events occurred in the nineteen nineties that suggests growing investment between the pharmacy Coal, industry and scientists involved in drug production and approval decisions alone with the role of profit in the whole arrangement was becoming an endemic problem in two thousand and five

The associated press reported that quote two of the EU Es governments premium infectious disease researchers are collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment. There. Testing on patients using taxpayers money, but patients work too. hold on their consent forms about the financial connection. Close quote: one of them was helping to develop an intern, can to treatment tested around the globe. The problem, as those reports known it, was that quote hundreds perhaps thousands of patients in an age experiments made decisions. To participate in experiments that often carry risks without full knowledge but the researchers financial interests, close quote, one of the two people running these experiments was a researcher named doktor. Anthony fetching who first rose to prominence a decade

for in the AIDS crisis. Not only was the assertion about royalties, true, it was also perfectly legal royalties for Public service scientists were first allowed under the by Dole ACT of nineteen eighty, which had attempted to remedy to related problems. The lack of reimbursement for government funded reach search and retaining top scientists who were being lured away from public work by the private sector. This act and federal regulations permit DNA H, for instance, to collect proceeds, its research made money in the private sector. and allowed individual governments scientists to collect up to a hundred and fifty thousand a year in royalties on treatments they developed at that

I felt she said he tried to alert patients to his royalties, but his agency rebuffed him arguing that he couldn't do so under the law. on disclosure of the researchers interest was changed after the scandal that the damage has been done. in the minds of some elements of the public. There was something she going on between the government and the pharmaceutical industry, and it had something to do with money and a will is to disregard or dilute informed consent

Streaming on vehicle, it's the girls triple the live down. I haven't getting about seven iconic house wasn't for different cities, case Serbs and Cape Verde, and there's no party like a house, was find out what happens when the forecast prince sunshine at a whole lot of shit. You are all self absorbed. It raise a real housewives, ultimate girls through all episode streaming now only on paper. These suspicions heightened in the two. Thousands as key Physicians began revealing to the public. The big farm had been involved, in a number of major abuses of its relationships with government patients, physicians and journals. the first to break. This story was marsh angle, who had been editor of the new England journal of medicine, arguably the most important medical journal in the United States at the time intertwined.

and in four book the truth about drug companies, how they deceive us and what to do about it. She argued that the company spent far more on marketing administration, public relations and rebranding. They did on research and that they actually discovered very few new effective drugs, Instead, they used quote blurs bribes and kickbacks close quote to get drugs taken up by physician Angles showed how these companies penetrated medical schools, conventions and organizations often passed off marketing is quote education, close quote, which they provided free of charge. More to the point angle argued that government agencies were highly compromise,

She demonstrated how conflict of interest permeated the? U S, food and drug Administration, which gave expedited reviews and approvals drugs with major side effects like heart attacks and strong, such as I and celebrates. And some with no serious benefit angle also reveal that quote many members of the F D, a advisory committees, were paid consultants for drug companies. Although they were supposed to excuse themselves from this visions when they have a financial connection with a company that makes the drug in question that rule regularly waved close quote. She documented multiple instances of committee members discussing decisions on safety violations commit by the very companies that paid them from which they did not refuse themselves angles book. Which was published too great a claim was impossible,

to dismiss, as french quote doktor angles case, is tough, persuasive and troubling. Close quote cleaned the New York Times, publisher, weak publishers, Weekly wrote quote in what serve as the fast food nation of the drug industry, angle, prince, and a searing indictment of big farmer as corrupt and corrupting close quote over the next few years the kinds of abuses she documented made it to the courts as the trials became public Americans who suffered from serious side effects caused by the drugs involved took notice, two thousand and twelve physician. And gold acre of Oxford University published bad farmer in which he explored fraud settlements for pharmaceutical companies covering up known adverse events, including lethal ones, hiding information, including about safety. The books, subtitle,

how drug companies, mislead doctors and harm patience was key positions, often didn't No, the wool was being pulled over their eyes or what had been kept from the window. This is of large pharmaceutical companies were examined in the courts with internal documents reviewed one illegal act here, after another was revealed. Gold acres list makes one shudder quote Pfizer. Was find two point: three billion for promoting the painkiller backdrop later taken off the market over safety concerns. Dangerously high doses, miss branding it with the intent to defraud or mislead in court. the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the. U S until it was beat, by JFK Clacks, so Smith decline in the club quote. In July, two thousand and twelve JFK received

three billion dollar fine for civil and criminal fraud. After pleading Gill. to a vast range of charges around unlawful promotion of prescription drugs and failure to report safety. Data. Close quote quote Abbott was fine, one point, five billion in May two thousand and twelve over the legal promotion of difficult postscript Eli Lily was find one point: four billion in two thousand nine close quote quote: asked Rosetta was Fine five and twenty million in two thousand and ten close quote, quote mirth, Fine one billion in two thousand and eleven close quote after gold acres book was published, defines kept coming Johnson and Johnson was made to pay two point: two billion in two thousand and thirteen which, including which included according to the Justice Department, called criminal. I'm close quote for having quote jeopardize the health and safety patients and damage the public trust close quote into them,

in nineteen. The company was find another five and seventy two million for its role in the opium epidemic and then find a whopping eight billion by a jury in a different case an amount that will no doubt be reduced, but which signals public outrage at the violations. These huge fines year after year involve popular drugs, by tens of millions of patients with negative effects, including death. boys of devastation have become law in many families and communities. Circle of concern is even wider of unique. If you those who may not have been personally affected, but are aware of this problematic legal history. When you certainly taken medication. You tend to notice news about it, especially bad news. not you ve, experienced any negative effects yourself. You are now actually alert to their existence each time a big

farm a company is in the courts and in the media because of some problem. The seas. kept, are planted in the minds of many Americans, and not just scepticism of the company themselves. The transgressions mentioned above were only possible on such a scale because of a textbook case of regulatory capture, Consisting of a mixture of perverse incentives and priorities, tolerance for non transparency and in some cases a culture of collusion, the FDA bills, big Eight hundred million dollars a year which in turn helps after salaries. Regulators also often get jobs.

in the pharmaceutical industry. Shortly after leaving the FDA or similar bodies, there is a huge incentive to impress and certainly not to cross a potential future employer. Its useful to see how this works, by examining a case that became famous as a tale of epic greed and corruption. And which patients and physicians were misled and deceived only after patients, families activists and even whole communities yelled themselves horse about it for years and ninety. Ninety five- the the eight proved oxy content for short term series pain like terminal cancer or post operative paint. Approval was based on legitimate scientific studies related to these narrow experiences. The effort

Then made available for minor pains with around the clock daily usage in two thousand, and one that approved for long term. Use was not based on any studies. According to a sixty minutes report in two thousand nineteen quote equally suspicious, but legal was the large number key FDA regulators who went through the revolving door to jobs with drug manufacturers. Close quote the obvious epidemic has today left half a million Americans dead. This same compromise Regulatory system allows big farmer to pay for play a key role in performing the view studies that led to the authorization of its own products. For decades it was not just

common for authors of studies to receive payments from the very companies making the medicines being tested it was. Also systematically hidden drug company secrets, ghost road studies of their own drugs. Gold acres shows how they conscripted damage to pretend they had offered them. The papers were then submitted the main stream journals, whose importer would give the studies credibility allowing these drugs to become quote the standard of practice. Sixteen of the twenty papers reporting on the clinical trials conducted on via ox the anti inflammatory and pain medication that got FDA approval and ninety. Ninety nine then was taken off the mark in two thousand and four for causing harm tax and strokes were ghost written by Merk employs then sign by respected scientists. Merk ultimately agreed to pay out

Four point: nine billion invite ox lawsuits the Democrats who lent their names to the studies could then stuff there. See with these articles receive, motions and higher salaries within academia and ultimate. Ultimately, yet more consulting fees from pharmaceuticals companies at which when they seen, as quote experts by trusting public. In the current regulatory environment, companies the studies of their own products. A danish study found it seventy five percent of drug company self studies assessed we're ghost written a leading? U S, editor of a specialist journal estimated that third three per cent of articles submitted to his journal were ghosts written by drug companies. These imports, There's don't get adequately investigated by Congress, because the farm suitable and health industries are now the highest paying lobby in the country. Having done

at least four point five billion in the last two decades to come. Petitions of both parties quote, Pfizer's pack has been the most active, close quote: stat reported live feature rights quote? Sending five and forty eight checks to various lawmakers and other industry groups? More checks actual number of elected officials in the House and Senate close quote. GO leakers book shows the many ways the drug studies have been brig to deliver certain outcomes. One doesn't always have to rigorous study to get the same result among them Most common techniques is to delay reporting of medication, side effects until after the patent runs out, and then is the bad publicity to sell a new replacement medication, which is still on Pat poles, repeatedly

now that the chief concern among the vaccine hasn't it is about side effects or at least effects that don't show up right away. The latest edition of the standard text book in the field plugins vaccine an excellent chapter on vaccines, safety, which notes quote because we actions that are rare, delayed or which occur only certain sub populations may not be detected or vaccines are licensed. the licence. Your evaluation of vaccine safety is critical. Close quote. Post. Licensure first requires FDA approval, so from us, vaccines. That means more follow up after the typical to your approval process, at least several years of it in two thousand and eight the New York Times pro vaccine science. Writer Melinda winner Moyer noted with shock she learned it was not uncommon. Among vaccine Researchers to take the attitude

censoring bad news about their research was necessary and that some who didn't were ostracised by their peers quote as a science journalist, ivory several articles to quell vaccine seen axed and incur Jimmy annexation, but lately I've noticed that the cloud fear surrounding vaccines is having another nefarious effect it is reading the integrity of vaccine science in February, I I was awarded a fellowship by the non Partisan, Alyssa Patterson Foundation to report on vaccines. Soon, after I found myself hitting a wall whenever I try to report on unexpected or controversial. aspects of vaccine, efficacy or safety scientists Often didn't want to talk with me when I did get them on the phone A worrying theme emerged

scientists are so terrified of the public's vaccine hesitancy there answering themselves playing undesirable findings and perhaps even. Voiding undertaking studies that could oh unwanted effects. Those who break these and rules are criticised. Close quote me: went onto called authorities who are, that smaller studies and even inconclusive once often give us the first glimpse of an insight or problem. And this is to say nothing of the wider issue. If scientists play down there undesirable findings in Paris firstly mandated medicines as more found them to be doing there I'll just missing opportunities for good science they are putting. sleep generating anti scientific misinformation quote

Taxing scientists will earn a lot more public trust and overcome a lot more unfounded fear. If they choose trend Apparently over censorship, close quote: she wrote by the time we are published her article in two thousand and eighteen, many Americans, already long in the habit of questioning certain elements of their public health in part because of this Hornets nest of corruption and regulatory capture this? Have it could also be explained in part by the gym? we'll trend in medicine over the past two decades towards recognising the superiority of individually tat, Third interventions or personalized medicine, which acknowledges the different people have different risk factors: genetic medical histories and REACT to medical products is now common place for people today responsibility for their own health, because this

is precisely what we have been telling them to do. Encouraging them to go To know their own unique risk factors for disease based: their own. Individual histories and genetics taxi in contrast, are a one size fits all intervention administered mass those who know nothing specific about the vaccines or their children, and when police nickel and medical authorities change policies from day to day and public health recommended, since in one jurisdiction or country differ from those in others. Questions will be asked. The public has been assured that we in health care recognise is that the era of medical authoritarianism and the ugly practices that lead, as to require informed consent are behind us. This means that ever. There is a treatment on hand, the burden of proof to death,

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It is a signal it evolved to get us to pay attention to something sometimes external threat and sometimes an internet. One Such is ignored, feeling or forbidden thought threatening to him. Urge from within anxiety. can be neurotic it can. Even psychotic It can also save your life because dangers do exist when people don't ex sperience enough anxiety, You say there in denial, thus, in some situations capacity to feel anxiety can be an advantage which is likely wide its preserved in evolution in so many animals heiress. A little understood this very point. Long ago ass. He noted the courageous some say a soldier can and should feel anxious He is facing danger after all, and is wisdom tells him there is risk what distinguish The courageous person from the coward is not that they dont, worry or fear.

but they can still manage to move forward into the danger. Situation they cannot avoid facing, all of which is to say that the presence of anxiety alone is not dispositive of sanity or insanity. It alone does not tell you, whether the anxiety is well or ill founded this name goes with distrust, sometimes distrust is paranoia, and sometimes it's healthy scepticism. As at the September, two thousand and nineteen Gallup Poll only a few months before, the covert nineteen pandemic. Big farmer was the least trusted of America's top twenty five industry sectors: number twenty, five of twenty five In the eyes of ordinary Americans, it had both the highest negatives

the lowest positives of all industries and number twenty four was the federal government and number twenty three was a healthcare industry. These three industries format. need troika, though at number twenty two was the advertising and public relations industry, which facility it's the work of the other three Those inside the troika often characterised the vaccine. Hesitant is broadly fringe and paranoid, but there are poor de of industries and sectors that Americans do trust of the top twenty five industry sectors, Twenty one enjoy net positive views from american voters. Only Pharma government, health care and p are are seen as net negative.

Precisely the sectors involved in the roll out of the covered vaccines. This set the conditions in a way for a perfect storm chapter. Three, a new plague descends. In February and March twenty twenty. It became clear that the disaster that has swept through Hon was becoming catastrophic in Bergamo is front, Health care workers were dying in both China and ITALY. The virus also spread throughout Western Europe and arrived in North America. Early rip words of the case, fatality rate reached over fourteen point. Five sent in ITALY in the spring and in Spain, Sweden and other hot but it was over. Eleven percent devour the elderly, in every affected country people. often didn't exist for frontline healthcare workers body

were stored in refrigerated trucks, Citys we were told Mass would not protect them. and there were no known outpatient treatments while hostile This could provide oxygen. This was often insufficient victims were put on ventilators, which may have made cases worse and was horrible way to die. while much of the United States was terrified. There was some light. Doktor Anthony felt she the physician scientists now running the country's pandemic defence seemed able to answer most press questions projected an viable avuncular persona and spoken ways, people could understand, which is what the nation required. Even sceptics had hoped so she seemed steady when events took unexpected turns. explaining that we were learning as we went along, he said the locked out

for fifteen days to flattened the curve when that didn't work, he explained. Why argued that it should be extended and much of the nation went along in a you. states exhausted by its hyper polarized political scene, here, was someone who work with both parties, advising every didn't since Ronald Reagan,. For those on the right he could be seen as an employee of an messenger. For President Donald Trump, for those on the left. He was alive. time public servant who had headed the same. institution. The National Institute of allergy and infectious disease and since one thousand nine since nineteen eighty four. And play a vital role in the fight against AIDS and, above all, there was a widespread sense that felt she was the right man at the right time. But then there were flip flops. I masks after cod,

The science showed the mass were unnecessary function. later said they were absolutely necessary, but wouldn't be for the vaccinated. Until eventually they were. There are also disputes about locked out initially introduced temporary to flattened the curve, they were extended to become a new way of life in where do to save lives, but then some states like Florida. which didn't imposed long and severe locked downs had lower age, adjusted mortality Then states like New York, which did then another issue, emerged, that was not simply scientific, but also political. since the earliest days of the pandemic, many regular people struggle to make sense of its origins. The Chinese Communist Party had find the virus emerge from a wet market while denying any connection

Two virology labs, located near by there was obviously cover up unfolding in China with the rest citizen journalists and detentions and disappearances of war physicians who witness the first cases and, We have had ideas about where it started. Various observers argued that there was reason too sitter that covered may have leaked from the Blue Hon Institute of Urology and perhaps even more have been engineered by gain a function. G o f research, in which an actual virus is made more contagious and lethal us simply to see if the scientists can get ahead of nature and to study it. How it operates to make new vaccines or medications or for biological warfare. Geo F is so controversial that in two thousand and fourteen President Barack Obama put a more,

hurry, I'm on it in two thousand and seventeen doctors, fowl and Francis Collins, then, director of the energy who had opposed the moratorium, succeeded in having it lifted. but felt she asserted that the site those who are in a position to judge the covert situation concluded it origin was natural. The media followed suit and call those who thought otherwise. Conspiracy, terrorists, the New York Times I'm the Washington Post and others called the possible. Many of the lab league, a conspiracy theory that had been debunked in the meantime a master narrative began to emerge once upon a time. Life was relatively normal and safe, and then the pandemic came and life as we knew it so

Really changed an awful ways: the only way out the only path back to a world without cove. It would be to make a vaccine as quickly as possible. Until then, everyone would have to do their part to stop the spread, which meant that basic social functions would have to cease, including school for millions of children. Thousands of small businesses would have to close and civil liberties rolled back. It would be a difficult time But eventually we would have the vaccine and covered would be over as long as everyone got it, of course, but then, who wouldn't want to on this point bill gates of Gabby, the vaccine alliance and the largest private contributor to the Dutch?

you, a job was very direct quote the ultimate solution. The only thing that Really, let us go back completely to normal and feel good is to create a vaccine. Close quote. He said If you ask researchers or most physicians in the spring of twenty twenty, how it normally takes to produce a vaccine safe enough to administer to patients. Many would have pointed out that the average fast vaccine, take seven to ten years and that the first back he might just be one of several required to any given crisis, because often the first is not the best. This seemed to lock gates predicted that there would be problem moving quickly because companies would have to produce a one size fits all vaccine that could have different effects. Indifferent groups, including pregnant women, the undernourished and people with existing calmer Betty's quote: people

myself and felt she Gateshead saying eighteen months to make the vaccine. If everything went perfectly, there will be a trade off will have less safety testing them. We typically would have. We just don't have that I am to do what we normally do. Close quote. The solution he noted was that quote, governments will have to be involved because there will be some risk and indemnification. Caisson, aided close quote in August. That solution was reached. The intercept reported on August, twenty Eightth quote an amendment to the prep act, stipulates that companies quote cannot be sued for money, damages and court. Close quote over injuries, caused by medical countermeasures for covert such care. Your measures include vaccines, therapeutics and respiratory devices. Close quote the only exception to this immunity would be if death or Syria

Physical injury is caused by wilfully, wilful misconduct and Innovation for vaccines was, as discussed above, not unique. What was new was that the companies producing them where indemnified before the vaccine was he even now in fully sassed, knowing it would all be done faster than ever before. As the nation agonized over mounting does the race for Vaccine was moving quickly if tool painfully foresaw in September. Twenty twenty, a number of scientists began openly worrying about the knowledge experience of the vaccine trials and whether this could wind up affecting vaccine hesitancy, York Times ran several articles on this reporting that asters ethnic, Pfizer and Madonna had each with held their study product

calls from outside scientists and the public. Withholding protocols guarantees that outside researcher can't know how participants are selected, are monitored and how effectiveness or safety are defined. So that they can't really know what exactly is being studied farmer companies have traditionally argued that not only the trial patience but the cat, nickel trial data belong to them that its proprietary though the studies results, impact millions. This is part of a kind. Traditional secrecy in the field. The link protocol release conveniently means that it is a company's press releases now The verified science that dominate the public's all important Shall impression of its product that the government

regulatory agencies go along with all this. It is in fact standard practice. Doesn't assuage the public. For many, it makes the whole process appear corrupt and it doesn't help that, according to the conflict of interests disclosures of the three of the fire and modern a vaccine clinical trials saw of the authors are employed by these companies and often have stock options. The essence of the scientific method is conducting spare me that everyone can objectively see and verify. Transparency is the bedrock of experimental science and the means to ultimately dispelled out, moreover, In terms of the scale of public involvement, the expense, of the summer and fall of twenty twenty was, unlike any other in the history of medicine. Never book,

war. Had studies of this size in consequence been run so quickly or a medicine been produced so quickly to be given to hundreds of millions of people. These studies were called phase three clinical trials and, if they had been positive results, then the vaccine could be given to hundreds of millions of people on the basis of an f d amour. can see, use authorization. But how long were the patient's followed in these two studies? After it second dose to assess safety and efficacy two months on that basis, the vaccines were given to over a hundred million people, one, must not confuse the perhaps immaterial fact the vaccines were made quickly from the argued more important fact that there were tested on people for only a short time.

These vaccines were developed so quickly in part, because the I am already. Technology allows quicker production and because parts of the production lines that in the past were stage out over time were in this case, set up simultaneously with the help of huge cash infusions, all else equal, there's a serious argument that it might be usually advantageous to be able to produce new vaccines. So quickly quote, if you can enter with, let's say of forty percent effective vaccine. For months before you can intervene with an eighty percent effective vaccine. You save more lives with the forty percent, effective vaccine- that's delivered for months earlier, close quote: barn Graham of the National Institutes of Health, pointed out quote being fast in an outbreak,

Setting in some ways is more important than being perfect. Close quote still. It was obvious as early as the fall that some testing steps would be scheme, quote will have left safety testing. Then we typically would have closed quote gates. Noted quote: we just don't have the time. Cuz club must not be a problem Why, especially during a pandemic, wouldn't we want to quickly distribute any vaccine that appears to work even some. effectively to those who are willing to take on any potential risks that may go with less safety testing. Some people might even decide for themselves that are raging pandemic is at.

dangerous enough threat to outweigh every other possible concern, but what we shouldn't do if we want to maintain public trust and cold, Asia is ACT as though there is no chance that any legitimate concern could ever possibly emerge. or that we know more than we really do after only two months of study with complex biological systems. We simply can't presume that, just because we have a fantastic idea for a treatment, the safety we hope for and see at the start. will necessarily hold over time. Take the classic example of thalidomide It was originally a sedative,

for anxiety and later tried for nausea. It worked leading some to theorize that it could prevent nausea in pregnant mothers in practice once on the market, It did, but it also cause serious birth defects in children. took longer than nine months and enough cases to realise that these side effects came from the drug and even more time to overcome the drug companies opposition to the facts. The same applies to many of the major drugs pulled off the market for causing cancer, heart attacks and diabetes. They dont We cause dire consequences immediately or in everyone, sometimes these drugs set a process in motion immediately, but it takes

I notice a year or many years to pick up the trend in the population at large, working from first scientific principles and Based on what we already know, we can often develop a neat theory about what might work, but because we don't know what we don't know, It often doesn't turn out as we expect. That is why empirical science developed as a way to test our theories. Empirical science is always by definition, science. After the fact. This is especially important given the specific kind of vaccine that was being approved in the United States. The M rna vaccine, which was the first of its kind.

Instead of exposing a person to the virus itself in attenuated lie form like the M M, are or killed form like the polio, shorter flush, which is how many of the other vaccines have come to know, work in the air rna vaccine, a person's exposed to an artificially made genetic messenger. Mri, nay, those into their cells and directs them to make part of the virus which then triggers antibodies early on in the roll out, both the farm, a pr industry and the press emphasised how novel these vaccines were and how this unique technique would produce a vaccine so quickly. but when some side effects started to emerge and people got nervous officials and the country's own pr teens change their message

these techniques were now presented is not new at all, but his hat been around a long time. The hesitant noticed flops in communication like this. At best, it makes them wonder about the lasting veracity of public health messages. At worst, it makes him deeply suspicious. over the course of the summer of twenty twenty, while the clinical trial were ongoing outside scientists still had no access to what exactly was being measured and hence studied so was no external check on or observation of the process. by much of the research having been funded by government. Marketing and distribution would be done by the government. The government would be providing the customers and the government would even pay for the consequences of safety problems that might arise

Withholding protocols, rather than disseminating them as widely as possible, was under such Come stances, the sign outlandish, is, and the government agencies that are supposed to advocate for the public, in this case the FDA cdc and an age countenanced it in September, twenty twenty, one bit of secrecy was lifted. It turned out that asterism. Had stopped its clinical trial, twice, the first was not even announced Second, one was, but neither the UK public nor the FDA, nor scientists were immediately told why, before they ever found out. However, asters efficacy e o pascal sorry at did privately disclose. The reason too this is of serious neurological damage to the J P Morgan Investment Bank to some

This said much about who exactly this process was designed to benefit quote The communication has been horrible and unacceptable. Close quote vaccine advocate virologist Peter Hotel said quote, This is not how the american people should be hearing about this close quote I just started to demand to see the protocols, hotels and others called criticized- choose statements released by government officials, including UK regulators, whose he said fail to supply a rationale for resuming their trials. Close quote: government a fish chills, and the regulators who most citizens assume are there to keep the process. Honest seemed instead to be partners in the office station. In November twenty twenty citing news arrived, we had vaccine lift off

phase, three trials of the Pfizer and modern of vaccines were said to be ninety five percent and ninety four point: five percent efficacious as vouchers and the company press releases announced and the emergency use authorization was granted on the basis of these two months studies allowing distribution of the vaccines to millions efficacious is the term used to describe how effective a treatment is in the artificial situation of a clinical trial with volunteer patients group, not always representative of the wider population effective the term used to describe how a treatment works in the real world, the media quickly assumed the two were the same thing

hearing the vaccine was ninety five percent, efficacious meant it was practically perfect, which the press repeated over and over. But what exactly where the vaccines efficacious doing? Stop viral transmission, preventing severe illness, are reducing hospitalization or I see you admissions preventing deaf. efficacious for how long efficacy in whom, in the elderly who are most vulnerable to death without clear definitions and answers to these questions, typical of much of the coverage Americans only had a limited idea really of what these axioms had been shown to do in the net.

oh universe of clinical trials, let alone what they do when given to the public. In fact, they didn't receive answers to a single one of these questions. Moreover, there was still a cloud of mystery surrounding the trials after I shall mounted in the wake of the Astor Seneca revelation in September, the four major turn vaccine manufacturers finally released their protocols each over a hundred pages long after the protocols were released. Peter Doesn T an associated editor at the British Medical Journal, who does research into. Drug approval processes and how results are communicated to the public. Try to sound an alarm quote: none of the tree else currently under way are designed to detect a reduction

in any serious outcome, such as hospital admissions use of intensive care or des close quoth, he said only one of the studies of the Oxford asked. Rosetta Looked at whether vaccinated individuals were less likely to transmit virus by doing weak Pc pcr swapping vaccinated people, lower viral loads were less likely to have a positive covered test. were positive for shorter gyrations. Very good news. Indeed, though, not automatically go to the other M are in a vaccine studies. So what were these clinical trial studies that showed ninety five percent and ninety four point? Five percent efficacy looking at, if not saving lives and viral transmission

Consider that researchers can set up a study to examine whether a vaccine prevents a person from experiencing any or all of the following events, sometimes called endpoints. An asymptomatic infection, the she is carrying the virus, but This is so mile, but they don't know it, even though the show be present by a positive virus test, a clinically symptomatic infection that is mild and might be confused with a common cold. A clinically symptomatic infection that is moderate, a clinically symptomatic infection that requires hospital admissions. A clinically symptomatic severe infection requiring, I see you admission and even a ventilator, a clinically symptomatic, severe infection that ends in death. What were the events or the end points that the phase three men

and Pfizer studies claim to be examining. They said they looked at any price, politically significant infection quote of essentially any severity as the primary end point, Therein lies the rob ass though she explained quote severe illness requiring hospital admission, which happens in only a small. all fraction of symptomatic cold. Nineteen cases would be, unlike to occur and significant numbers and trials, because most people was simple matter, covered nineteen experience only mild symptoms And trials involving thirty thousand or more patients would turn up relatively few cases of severe disease closed club. How few serious cases in terms of deaths were there in the eyes or trial, not to say. no person died of covert nineteen in either

vaccine or the placebo group, the report that Madonna to the FDA. On December, seventeen, twenty twenty on its trial specifically said it considered. Death quote a secondary and point close quote and added that quote there were no deaths due to covered nineteen at the time of the interim analysis, to name an assessment of that scene, efficacy against death due to call the nineteen close quote by publication date? One person had died in the policy of a group go over that again in the study period, the two new Emma Knave vaccines. Only one person out of seventy thousand died a covert death. Now ask yourself without knowing the demographic markers of the trial participants but

going for a fact that hundreds of thousands of people were I'm from the virus. Does this sing to you like an appropriate way to study severe illness. Madonna, told the british Medical Journal in August. Twenty twenty quote: You would need a trial that is either five or ten times larger or you'd need a trial, That is five to ten times longer to collect those events. Close quote talk based on her lancet article given to the british Medical Journal Calvin nineteen known unknowns, vaccines, webinar in February when he twenty one doctors, Dan Hodgen National two for health research, academic lecturer in infectious diseases at the University of Oxford stated quote. The current our sea tease randomize control trial.

there are ongoing, are not power to assess efficacy against hospital admission and death close club. In the same seminar, though, she presented on the transparency issue, having read the protocols and then the phase three trials, studies of the Pfizer, Madeira, Asters, Erika and Sputnik russian vaccines. He wanted to check the raw data from the studies in order to verify it that it He wants to see not just the final charts tables averages percentage and conclusions, but to look over individual cases, most of the studies had a line, and then that claim such data was available upon request. According to doesn t, he wrote to the drug companies that it off the studies and asked to see it, but he wasn't permitted quote Each time a trial is published, there is

Data sharing statement in everything sounds good until you read the fine print close quote, he said quote Pfizer, for example, says that it is sharing data. Upon request, I asked came from Madeira, the same for aught Oxford US the Seneca and the russian vaccine They all said they will be sharing the data just not yet and most her tying the data. Leads to the end of the trials. So we, situation were, there Vaccines are being administered to the masses, but the daddy in being shared because the sponsor say the trials are ongoing. Close quote Pfizer data he learned, might arise in January. Twenty twenty five Modena said it may be available once the trial is complete sometime in twenty twenty two Companies were similarly vague today across approximately four billion people. Have already: got these vaccines?

many receiving a first of its kind M rna genetic formulation without out side sources. Reviewing the raw study data, given that the these will release the stout in a timely manner. It is reasonable to assume that public health officials in different countries that approved the vaccines have not seen the raw data either or verification checks, given all this. It is difficult to assuage those who distrust the systems that delivered the vaccines, at least one of these vaccines. The Madonna supported by the end I and an HIV which may have joint ownership and intellectual property that under goods the vaccine. That means their budgets stand to benefit from sales.

individual government employees may get royalties for them, though it would fall to the FDA to officially approved vaccines. The of the advice to an act fast, Seen mandates would come from a small network and would be based. studies that were authored in some instances by people who are employees of the companies themselves and which protesting their own products. When a remarkably trusting public and a few scientists requested to look at the raw data, they got stiffed One can only imagine how enriched our knowledge would be if it were otherwise if to take just one sample. The raw data were available and verified by the hive. And of world scientists who drilling down could see for whom the vaccine was most effective who was most at risk of serious side effects in order to

all of them longer than two months and to protect those groups of people in the future. The confidence this would have instead in a vaccine produce so quickly might have been astonishing. A miracle not only of human scientific advancement, but if the human capacity for persuasive communication and the social progress it can generate. Alas, that's not what we got the train was already barreling out of the station when the first vaccines rolled out in December, twenty twenty felt she received. his Madonna shot announcing that he wanted to get paid. Oakley vaccinated as a symbol quote for everyone in the country quote. I feel extreme confidence in the safety and the efficacy of this vaccine. Close quote, he said, the question of how sick the patients in the study were, he said with regard to fight it was ninety five percent efficacious. Not only

disease that is just clinically recognisable, but severe disease. Close quote He said much. The same was found for the modern, a vaccine. It prevents severe disease by the spring of twenty two, any the master narrative the necessity of using one to all the vaccine to vanquish. The enemy was working brilliantly governor Data from Israel and the UK showed that the vaccines weren't just efficacious in clinical trials, but also effective in the real world. April. Twenty eight article in the Harbor Gazette was titled. Vaccines can get. two heard immunity, despite the variants that their Garza he and the chief executive of by intact, which developed the M are in a vaccine for Pfizer, was

hold it saying that Europe would reach heard immunity in July or August. The virus would no longer be able to spread in the U K. Freedom day was set for June, twenty first later changed to July Nineteenth, and the return to normal and other vaccinated countries seem not far behind. On April, twenty second Israel considered the world's most vaccinated country, except for some tinier nations, For the first time recorded no daily covert DES Pfizer CEO, who called Israel quoth the world's lab, close quote not because it was highly vaccinated, but because it was vaccinated early, giving the world a glimpse of its future, announced in favour that the experiment was going marvellously saying quote the current

This shows that after six months, the protection is robust, close quote and code. There are a lot of indicators right now. There are telling us that there is a protection against the transmission of the disease. Close quote the UK. The second most vaccinated large nation, had a terrible death count in January, but on May tenth there was not a single covert death in all of England. Northern Ireland and Scotland President Biden assure the american people confidently quote if you're vaccinated your protected, if you're on vaccinated you're, not close quote reiterating that being vaccinated quote is a patriotic thing, do close quote. This was a ref on did he see director? Rochelle will end statement quote if you have,

Who doses of the vaccine of the M are in a back scenes? Your protected you dont, need to wait for a booster. Your protected close clock over the spring will end scheming, In an increasingly prominent face in the months since Biden was inaugurated, a slew of officials who had advised the Trump administration were out of the picture. Doktor Robert Red failed as head of the CDC Doktor, Deborah Burke's and Doktor Scott ATLAS, and a new cohort was ushered in more and more will. Landscape became a visible voice of public health in April during a White House, press briefing, barely four months after distribution of first vaccine doses, began, will Linsky announced that the quote

CDC, recommends that pregnant people receive the covered. Nineteen vaccine close quote, but if you check the city website that as many pregnant women and their positions. Of course, did. You would have found something different quote. If you're pregnant you may choose to receive a covert nineteen vaccine, but There are currently limited data on the safety of covert nineteen vaccines in pregnant people. Close quote in the press. Briefing will Lansky had cited study from the New England Journal of Medicine, about which she said quote no sir if these concerns were observed for people vaccinated in the third trimester or safety concerns for their babies, close quote. The study did claim that there was no increased incidence of fetal death or neonatal death, which was very reassuring, but it was unable to

answer. One of the main questions many pregnant women are concerned about. Will these vaccines have adverse effects on my babies: development after birth. The studies There is made clear that they didn't have enough longitudinal data on women in the first or second trimester of pregnancy to draw conclusions about win. the vaccinated and those to try masters when different organ systems develop and their study was therefore quote. Preliminary quote preliminary findings did not show obvious safety signals among pregnant peep persons who received are in a covid nineteen vaccines, however, more longitudinal follow up, including follow up of large numbers of women vaccinated earlier in pregnancy is necessary to inform maternal pregnancy and infant outcomes.

Call that the vaccine roll out began in December, twenty twenty four older people. This study, only looked at safety data on women in various stages of pregnancy from December Fourteenth twenty twenty two February, twenty eight twenty twenty one, a two and a half month period, many women, become more vigilant in pregnancy about what they eat and what they put into their bodies. So that should come as no surprise. Did more than one woman who was either pregnant or trying to conceive Began wondering about a question that one of my colleagues asked me if, at the time of the Study The vaccine had only been available for two and a half months. Wouldn't that mean if it still true that you mentioned station is approximately nine months.

Literally no one who had been vaccinated early in pregnancy, had yet followed through to a full term. Pregnancy. None of this is to insinuate an opinion about these use of in pregnancy. We are here discussing house simplifications of what scientific studies actually show at a particular moment, even when they turn out ultimately to be right can generate distrust. I would venture that what young families wanted to hear was something both reassuring and reflective of. Whatever trustworthy data was available to date like we're working on a longer study and feel hopeful about it. But for now we at least no vaccinated in the third trimester. There is little chance. The vaccine will lead to a death that I believe, would have quelled anxiety, but the government and its messaging partners chose a different posture, one that suggested certain

when important data was still yet to come. A lesson in human nature. When public health officials distrust the public, the public will come to distrust them. Take, for example, an artist by Kimberly, Atkins Store, senior opinion, writer and columnists for the Boston glow who got the Johnson enjoy and vaccine in April a week before the FDA put a pause on it because of blood clots. Complications as Atkins indicates the FDA, admitting that there might be a problem as opposed to hiding. It made her more, not less likely to believe that the institution is on top of monitoring the vaccines quote. I want others to view this pause, not as a reason to doubt the drug but a reason to believe in it. Close quote. She writes

The mainstream media in the United States also often downplayed potential problems. Even demonize those who took them seriously portraying white christian Republicans is the last redoubt of covert vaccine scepticism in America but if White Americans in red states have had high rates of hesitancy African Americans The tenos have too, as we have seen in the case of African Americans. Hesitancy is based, at least in part, on well earned. Distrust in the UK in March, twenty twenty one vaccination were very high in the cool white british, close quote group. Ninety one point: three percent and British Christians had the least

hesitancy, whereas vaccination rates were lower in the black african and black caribbean communities. Fifty eight point: eight percent and sixty eight point: seven percent, respectively and among Muslims Buddhists, Sikhs and hinders in Canada. The typical vaccine has in person is a forty year old woman, hence devote liberal. A January Gallup poll showed the thirty four percent of U S. Frontline health care workers said they did not plan to get vaccinated and an additional eighteen percent were not sure what they would do. Given the doubly way chose own definition of the vaccine, hesitant people who d or are reluctant to take a back vaccine? One could say that fifty two percent of front I. U s- healthcare workers were vaccine, hesitant at the beginning of the year. It was hard to argue

These were people who got all their information from a few rancid conspiracy websites. In fact, many of these professionals are vaccinated for other illnesses. Nor can we argue that front Workers are overly anxious and cowardly. Many are exposed to active covid regularly. At other times. We are told that the didn't are only those with the least education, but Carnegie, Melon and University of Pittsburgh Study showed that by May twenty twenty one quote Phds, where the most hesitant group, close quote in may see Richard Blur of the? U S Senate committee on Health asked found she how many employee In the end, I ate the nations premier, Hell Science, research institution had been vaccinated I'm not a hundred percent sure senator, but I think it's probably a little more than half, probably around sixty percent. He said.

The senator asked the same question of Doktor Peter Marks, director of the centre for biologics evaluation and research at the Food and Drug Administration about the FDA, employs vaccinate quote. It's probably in the same range, close quote. He answered. In studies in the west, the hesitant repeatedly expressed as the top reason for their reluctance to get vaccinated concerns about what we might call future unknown facts in a May study of Britain, for instance. Forty two point: seven percent cited this as their biggest fear the hesitant not particularly concerned about trivial, short and side effects like sore arms fatigue or a passing fever or headache? Only seven point: six percent were distrustful of vaccination generally. In the United States, a multi

university study of over twenty thousand people found safety concerns We're uncertainty of the risk as the top reason given for vaccine hesitancy. Fifty nine percent, only thirty three percent agreed that vaccines are thoroughly test it in advance of release. The authors reported quote: mass of differences between the vaccinated and the unboxing, aided in terms of their trust of different people and organisations. Close quote including the CDC and the FDA, an Ipso world economic forum. Survey of fifteen countries show that in all fifteen countries The leading reason the reluctant gave was fear of side effects exceeding all other concerns. By far in all countries surveyed. The number of people who said they were quote against vaccines, close quote, in other words, the anti

exposition was generally a minor fraction of those who had yet been vaccinated. A common theme in France, Britain and the United States, in fact is distrust of the vaccine troika, big farm on government in public health and the health industry and an insistence that individuals should have the right to decide whether to get vaccinated. These similarities are worth paying attention to because they suggest that the attempt to explain the phenomenon by using the group identifiers. American media is so fond of sex race, religion and political affiliation falls short and shifts attention away from the real issues. Creating distrust on May Eleventh thought she appeared in front of the Senate hearing.

quote the end I ate. In the end, I D categorically has not funded gain a function, research to be conducted in the war on Institute of Roger. He said yet in a certain vision of the above, administrations, two thousand and fourteen moratorium until the disapproval of men, in the? U S, scientific community fancies agency did find it. U S: company called Eco Health alliance. Which then facilitated gain a function: research in collaboration with the war on Institute of Technology. Indeed, from June two thousand and fourteen to may two thousand and ninety vouches agency funded

no health and Peter Darzac. A well known, gain a function researcher who subcontracted the grant to the war on lab. Where gain a function, research on bad viruses was conducted and led by doktor she's Angli and which wasn't subject to the: U S: government moratorium Doktor, Francis Collins, then, head of the age had told the House Appropriation Sub Committee that the end age did not fun gain a function in lieu hot, but later after felt, she reversed his prior claim and said it was possible. Collins, also backtrack, Quote we of course, do not have internal inside as to what was going on in the war on Institute a virology close quote. He said both reversals came only after the plausibility of the law bleak theory, started again: mainstream acceptance and public pressure mounted.

well fell. Cheese denial in the Senate might have been technically accurate. It was misleading. Neither agency directly funded this kind of research, but did do so through a third party, as it turned out felt. She himself wrote in two thousand and twelve that he like gain a function. Critics cod, imagine quote an important gain: a function experiment involving a virus with Syria. pandemic potential quote, whereby quote an unlikely, but conceivable turn of events. was quote, leads to an infection of someone in the lab quote and ultimately triggers a pandemic. Close quote. Nonetheless, he wrote four quoth, the resulting knowledge close quote, such research might yelled. It was worth the risk in

on the question of what felt she knew and when he knew it came up in his emails, which showed that He denied to Congress at his organization, funded experiments at the wheel on Institute of Technology. It had on February, first, twenty twenty. though she sent to emails to staff about a quote, gain of function, close quote, study the an age had approve in which he referred to quote Sars gain a function. Close quote: His denial of gain a function ultimately proved unconvincing, since funding of it was already part of the inner H committee and grant paper, try She's. Only the head of the war on Institute of Urology CO authored a paper about constructing a super lethal virus, which appeared in nature medicine in two thousand and fifteen, and specifically thank the end. I ate and Eco Health for funding her work.

A two thousand and seventeen research article, so was Angli as co author normally call. finally, gain of function, research, but a pity Mises it and specifically states that it was funded by an end I ate an HIV grant. All of this was important because it was part of the largest worry that the public was following learning that the agencies and officials charged with leading Americans out of the pandemic, in fact, had links to a chinese lab with a history of safety violations and which all. So appeared to be involved in dangerous experiments that might be linked to the outbreak and move on was for many profoundly unsettling. Meanwhile, the inmates Spent between the FDA and farmer was becoming more relevant in it was announced that Stephen Hahn, who had led the FDA

December 17th, two thousand and nineteen until January, twenty twenty twenty one June in which time the agency approve the Madonna and Pfizer vaccines, became chief medical officer, a flagship, pioneering the venture capital firm that launched Madonna in two thousand and ten, and now owns four billion of Madeira Stock on in twenty seventh Scott Godly, who headed the FDA beforehand, joined the board of Pfizer on June third Three scientists from an FDA Advisory Committee, Doktor Aaron, Castle, Haim Professor of Medicine, at Harvard Medical School, Joel Pearl, mutter, empty Rollin, just at Washington University in Saint Louis and David, not man

empty and at the male clinic resigned because of the way in the Alzheimer's drug out of helm was approved in a letter. Kesselheim claim that the authorization of Abu Home, a monthly intravenous infusion that biochemist priced at fifty six thousand dollars per year, which I'm worried could bankrupt. Medicare was wrong quote because of so many different factors, starting from the fact that there is no good evidence that the drug works, close quote that it was quote price Thirdly, the worst drug approval decision in recent years, history, close quote, and that this code debacle highlights problems. Close quote with the FDA Advisory Committee relationship. It's worth translating this episode into Plain English in the middle of the biggest vaccine roll out in. U S history, which the government determine

to be the only way out of the pandemic, but which also face stiff headwinds of deep seated popular hesitancy. The FDA approved a drug that would line of pharmaceutical companies pockets with billions. Taxpayer dollars. Even those studies show the drug did little but raise false hopes. Castle Haim wasn't being rash as it was apparently the second time. He'd seen this kind of thing up close. in two thousand and sixteen, the director of the FDA Centre for drug evaluation and research, Doktor JANET, would caught approved a drug called at a person over the

reactions of all the main sign, FDA scientific reviewers, the grounds for the approval, we're not the patient's got better. They didn't rather a kind of lab value which can function as a biomarker or indicator of disease. Improved another farmer trick was taken is good enough evidence to approve their drug as Castle Haim and CO author, Jerry Average, later warned in the Journal of the American Medical Association, quote speeding drugs to market done. Such biomarker outcomes can actually lead to a worse outcome for patients. Soon, after castle Times departure in June the FDA to talk back, in officials announced they.

also leaving reports, explained the doktor Marian Gruber director of the FDA Office of Vaccines, research and review, and a thirty two year agency, veteran and doktor, Philip Kraus a ten year veteran, were leaving because of outside pressure by the Biden administration to approve boosters before the FDA had completed its own approval process. Meanwhile, Pfizer doing more signs by press release a technique that often Jackson, companies stock was calling for boosters, while quote hailing great results. Calvin nineteen boosters in short, for school age, children, close quote. in a piece in the lancet on September, thirteenth, Gruber Kraus and multiple international colleagues raised a red flag about pushing through a booster to the in the general population, quote

There could be risks if boosters are widely introduced too soon or too frequently in Spain. Sleep with vaccines that can have immune mediated side effects such as Mile Cardenas, which is more I'm in after the second dose of some MRI, Nay vaccines or by re syndrome has been associated with admiral vectors carbon nineteen vaccines likely ass, presenting her were Johnson and Johnson If unnecessary, boosting causes significant adverse reactions, there could be implications for vaccine acceptance that go beyond covered. Nineteen vaccines, thus widespread boosting should be undertaken only if there is clear evidence that it is appropriate. Close quote.

The Pfizer study was surprisingly tiny. Only three hundred and six people were given the booster as vaccine research or David Wiseman, who did trials for rival, Johnson and Johnson, pointed out the FDA, meaning quote, there was no randomize control, close quote in the five years that the subjects were younger eighteen to fifty five than the people who are most at risk of call the death or serious illness and were followed, only for a month, so we didn't actually know how long the booster would last of adverse events might show up. After thirty days, there were not followed nuclear, so there was no information on infections hospitalizations or DES. Rather only their anti bodies were measured. precisely the kind of short cut there was taken with the textbook person.

The study was too small and the FDA panel held two votes on approval in the first and overwhelmingly. Welcoming least sixteen to two against approving Pfizer boost is for all ages. In the second vote, the panel supported boosters only for people over sixty five or special at risk groups, and yet, in in August Biden, began publicly supporting boosters for all why, on sitting, sixteen to LOS Angeles Times reported that the president was following the advice of thought. She and the energy h with the help of Doktor JANET Woodcock, the same FDA official who over road FDA reviewers in the ETA person incident, would caught by that point, acting after commissioner and was going around the FDA Committee once again,. It was not only the Pfizer booster studied, it was weak and

England Journal of Medicine Study based israeli Ministry of Health data cleaned it third shot booster give eleven times and protection of to the entire It lasted only a month does showed it was protected for that period, but not whether it would last as long. Or longer than the second shots protection during the spring of twenty twenty one. Another wrinkle hit him Urged, along with the widespread attacks and scientists who had criticisms of the simplified master narrative, including ones four major universities like Harvard Yale, Stanford, Rockefeller, oxford- and you see- I lay the average Americans learned that certain major stories word is widely known, as they might have been thanks in part. The censorship by big tech in may face look announced that it would no longer sensors stories about the lab leak fairy, which was how many

people found out that it was in fact a viable scientific theory. In the first place, facebooks idea of transparency telling you when it stop censoring something? The same goes for Youtube, but in July the W H, o itself admits that it had been too hasty in ruling out a lab Lake Nicholas Wade's Excellent may second, article by contrast, showed the technical work. logical reasons for why the virus might well have come from. Ghana function research We also learn more about big tax motives when it was revealed that Google's charity arm had did the same gain a function. Researcher that the end I each had funded Peter Dazzle of equal health. At times, big tax censorship of quote misinformation, close quote coincides with its financial interests, Amazon, which is banned and unbend books. Critical of the master merit of has been looking into developing

a major pharmacy division. Meanwhile, three: U S! Medical boards, the American The family medicine, the American of internal medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics went beyond censorship by threatening to revoke licences from physicians who question the current, but shifting line of covert thinking and protocols This force doctors, who had any doubts about the master narrative to choose between their patients and their livelihoods. Things got so bad globally that Amnesty International eventually issued a report on this crisis quote across the world. Journalists, political activists, medical professionals, whistleblowers and human rights defenders who expressed critical opinions of their government's response to the crisis have been censored, harassed, attacked

Criminalized close quote, it noted the typical tactic. The report's author say is quote target one intimidate, a thousand close quote by sensors justify these actions as simply banning misinformation and preventing panic. The report goes on quote. Evidence has shown that harsh measures to suppress the free flow of information, such as censorship or the criminalization of fake news, can lead to increased mistrust in the authorities, promote space for conspiracy theories to grow and the suppression of legitimate debate and concerns cod school censorship nourishes the weed it purports to exterminate. It is, of course, vital that public health officials be able to lead and a crisis convey consistent messages. and even asked citizens to change their behaviors. But the only way

public health can legitimately ask for such changes is because the policies is recommends are bad. on a scientific process that is solid enough to withstand scientific criticism and debate. Why else should anybody listen. Science is not itself dogma or an authoritarian discipline, but the opposite. A process of critical inquiry and the method requires ongoing debate about how to interpret new data and even what constitutes relevant data. Science, as the Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Richard Feynman, pointed out, requires questioning assertions quote Learn from science that you must doubt the experts, when someone says signs teaches such and such he's using the word incorrectly, science doesn't teach it experience, teaches it

If they say to you, science has shown such and such you might ask how decides showed how The scientists find out how what, where science is shown, but this experiment this effect as show an u of his right as anyone else upon hearing about the experiments, but we must listen to all the evidence, to judge whether Usable conclusion has been arrived at close quote: note: How emphatic famine is that it's not just the few who conduct the experiments or either just the experts who have the right to discuss and judge the matter. This is especially true in public health, because the field is so broad and composed of me he disciplines from those that deal narrowly with viruses to those that deal with mass behavioral changes.

when public health and allied medical and educational organizations sensor. Scientists and healthcare professionals for debating scientific controversies, thus giving the public the false and should that there are no legitimate controversies. They misrepresent and grievously harm science, medicine and the public by moving the only justification public health has for asking citizens to undergo various privations. These requests are based on a full unhampered and open scientific proof. Says those who sensor or block this process undermine their own?

to speak in the name of science or public safety. If we didn't get to have a properly open scientific process, what did we get? Instead? Government investment with legally indemnify corporations, public health officials, misleading Congress. Multiple, honest, regular leaders leaving the FDA because of inappropriate approvals. Fda heads taking big farmer jobs, directly related products they had just been involved in improving upon the lab leak that couldn't be discussed as such from more than a year so that it couldn't be clearly, this confirmed faceless social media platforms admitting that they control what we see and don't see it,

institutional censorship of many kinds. If you were trying to create the perfect conditions for public scepticism about vaccines in the midst of a pandemic, could you have done any better than this? Over the summer the master narrative began to show cracks by August. Eighteen, Israel had the world's third highest number of nuke cases per capita. The health ministry retroactively released numbers showing that by midsummer the Pfizer vaccine, which had been used in his Extensively was only thirty, nine percent assent effective in preventing covert infections, though much more effective in preventing severe disease, but

nutritional data show that, at a time when sixty two percent of the entire israeli population had been vaccinated over sixty percent of Israel's four hundred hospitalized Calvin cases where patients have been fully vaccinated. This meant that the vaccine was much more leaky than expected by September. Fourteenth Israel's health Ministry, director General Knock ash reported that the country, even more, have vaccinated than it had been in the summer, with three million, mostly elderly, of its nine million citizens. Already having had a third shot, was now recording. Ten thousand new covert cases a day quote, that is a record that did not exist in the previous waves. Close quote, not man, said It was also the highest number of covert cases per capita of any country. Beating Mongolia and making it

real, the quote: covert capital of the world just months after leading the charge on vaccines, close quote many argued correctly yes, he's breakthrough cases do occur, but they're, usually mile than the vaccines are very good at protecting people from severe illness and death. But then conflicting statistics began to emerge. Israeli hospitals were so overloaded. They were turning away covered patients. Four hundred died in the first two weeks of September, hospital staff were worn out and in a dramatic state with one hospital director describing the situation, as quote catastrophic, adding that quoth the public knows absolutely nothing about it. those coat the israeli Ministry of Health statistics from August showed that of those ass, it had been classified.

More than twice as many who died were fully vaccinated. Two hundred and seventy two. as opposed to those who were not vaccinated one thirty three by late September, the data was in for the fourth wave and Doktor Sharon, Dr Sharon Price of the israeli Ministry of Health revealed to the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee. That quote what we saw prior to our boost your campaign was it. Sixty percent of people in severe and critical condition were immunized, doubly immunized, fully vaccinated and, as I said, forty five percent of people who died in the fourth wave were doubly vaccinated. Close quote Israeli vaccines are solomons, ARCA, double down and said the country now to contemplate a fourth dose in another five months quote: this is our life. From now on, in waves quotas,

The israeli Prime Minister not tally Bennet echoed this in September thirteenth, blaming six patients we're hospitalized because they were quote not fully vaccinated, quote by which he and they only had to jobs. Divisive terms are here he turned on those who recently use them now. The stigma that attended the Un Vaccinated also apply to the vaccinated but not vaccinated enough throughout the pandemic, Israel had extensive locked out, in contrast, Sweden.

Famous for never having lockdown Israel in Sweden have about the same size, population, nine million and ten million respectively, and have almost identical rates of double vaccinated people. If you take an all ages, including children, sixty three percent, Israel, sixty seven percent sweet, but if anything, Israel has the edge over Sweden, because forty three percent of Israelis are also triple vaccinated. Yet the difference in the number of hospitalized patients is staggering. For the week of September 12th, two thousand and twenty one Israel head, one thousand three hundred and eight ex covert hospitalizations, which was four times that of Sweden? Three hundred forty Israel had a rolling seventy eight average of two point: eight nine deaths per million compared to a much

Oh, a number of deaths in Sweden, zero point one five. What can account for this? Many argue that, because Sweden, where public health works on a voluntary participatory basis, never lockdown many more people, there were exposed and got natural immunity The swedes of it hoped to protect the most vulnerable and nursing homes which they fail to do because of poorly trained staff. But in this there were no different from most western nations that did locked out.

Sweden also suffered more desperate a hundred thousand than Israel overall, but through the summer of twenty twenty one, Sweden drop to about one point: five deaths a day from called it. It's hospitals were never overwhelmed, suggesting that once Sweden's natural heard immunity was established combined with its vaccines, it was now more protective than Israel's largely vaccine based immunity. This wasn't what the master narrative had promised. Israel was the world's lab experiment, because, being so early to complete a vaccine roll out on a large scale about three months ahead of the United States, it was supposed to be a glimpse of everyone else's future. Its people did seem to be among the first to break free of covert, but they were now the first.

show that the vaccine could we it's not that the vaccinated in the United States were doing better than the UN vaccinated in terms of hospitalization for covert. They definitely were. The fear rather was that this might only prove to be a short term benefit summer, the CDC behind on reporting of its own. U S. Data in real time had been advised that the file as a vaccine, was leading to break through cases in the vaccinated and Israel, but it did not. This whole in the master narrative with outside public officials until one month later, as the Washington Post reported quote what is very concerning is it we're not seeing the data it needs to come out coastguards, former head of the CDC Tom Freedom quote. What you can criticise. The CDC C4 validly is: why aren't you talking about the studies, you're doing of breakthroughs, close quote

because they had been such a lag time, some people wondered if the CDC hiding, something quote, and these are the people who are potentially friendly to the CDC coat said: freedom, Quote so, you know you're in trouble when even your friends are suspicious of your motives, close quote United States, a male Study found the Pfizer vaccine was forty, two percent effective at stopping people from getting infected between January and July. In the u, K nearly fifty percent of new covered cases in the summer were among the vaccinated each day. Thereabout fifteenth

and new symptomatic cases in people who had been partially or fully vaccinated as July fifteenth new new cases among the and aided seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty one were falling and new cases among the fully or partially vaccinated fifteen thousand five and thirty seven increasing and set to overtake the vaccinated. According to the CDC of the forbidden, sixty nine attendants TAT Province down Massachusetts celebrations in July, the tested positive for covert. Seventy four percent had been fully vaccinated. Scientists determine that those with such vaccine breakthrough infections can carry viral loads as big as infected unboxing. Eighty people. Vaccinated people were not just infecting others. There were all

oh clearly not completely Amy in themselves, though. Perhaps they were infectious for a brief period. the cdc, also emphasizes study to support its new policy of asking the vaccinated to wear masks on CNN Wolf, Blitzer Ass well Steve she got. The message in wrong and hadn't been nuanced enough. She answer that the breakthrough infections tended to be mild Blitzer then asked whether those who were vaccinated and had breakthrough infections could pass the virus on to older people or more vulnerable people. Linsky answered quote: our vaccines are working exceptionally well, they continued work. Well for delta? With regard to severe, Thomas and death, they prevent it, but what they can't do any more is prevent transmission. Close quote. She said so to suggest a people who were vaccinated that if there were going home to be

Laura Immunity suppressed or frail or with comber bidet, they should wear masks. It was a nuanced response, admitted a problem, a performance like that might have, because it was honest, enhance vaccine confidence, Unfortunately, the mainstream media was so over committed to a master narrative, the promised ninety five percent effectiveness for the vaccines, which had also believed implied stopping transmission, that it was caught off guard instead of asking whether scientists had compared the infectiousness of the vaccinated without the unbalanced aided the media, took, will ensue statement to mean that vaccinated people with breakthrough infections were just as likely to infect others as well who were not vaccinated and now had covered in this way the others transmitted more reasons for the vaccine, hesitant to have doubts. Internal documents showed that, at this

Point: the CDC was scrambling to change its messaging moving from. master narrative simplification, that quote, vaccines are effective against disease. Called close quote to the idea that vaccines are essential because they protect against death in hospitalization, the agency even changed its official, deafening Of what a vaccine does from producing immunity to a specific disease to producing protection from it,. The FDA had originally said. Vaccine less than fifty percent effective defined, is reducing the risk of having to see a doctor would not be approved by regulators now, something that appeared to the public to be significantly less effective, was being not just approved but mandated.

according to Israel's health ministry. The Pfizer vaccine data show that in those who were vaccinated as early as January about five months prior, it was only sixteen percent effective. A large study in Qatar show that the vaccine was waning at five months in the United States. A male clinic found as a vaccine dropped of forty two percent effectiveness, while the CDC found dropped to sixty six percent in just under formats abuse. U asked it is showed that the vaccinated were still overall, far less likely to get infected than the unbalanced and or

a serious illness, but Israel have been vaccinated earlier than the United States. So what lay ahead for America? It is noteworthy that this was the moment that, U S, government officials and the media chose to assert soon on a daily basis that the country was now in a quote pandemic of the UN's vaccinated, close quote, even though it was now clear that the vaccinated could get infected and transmit the virus every day, famous Americans, including entertainers athletes and politicians who had been doubly vaccinated, we're having breakthrough infections the message that

This is only an epidemic of the invalidated is falling flat. Close quote noted Harvard epidemiologist Michael Minha. By this point, the hesitant were no longer the only ones who had doubts There were many anecdotal reports of great worry about breakthrough cases among the vaccinated, including among Those who put much faith in vaccines because their immune systems were compromised by age or illness. Headline about winning vaccines, express despair that this pandemic might never end. Instead of addressing how this disappointment might affect people? U S public. Of talking heads and Twitter certified human nature. Experts turn now too. Behavioral psychology, a very american form of psychology to deal with the crisis. treating their fellow citizens like children or lab rat be given. Rewards when good and punishments when bad

seemed to relish telling people if they didn't just do with the experts, told them to do they lose their jobs, their place in school or some other basic me like mobility, other more doubted and thinkers, including provacatzia physicians, like Eric topple head of scripts research and a man as regards the production of the Amazon in a vaccine, is quote one of science and medical researchers. Greatest achievements, close quote now seem quite sir, and about the israeli data topple and build many articles showing how backs unaided population still fair, much better relative to unblock sedated populations in the United States. But he also pointed out the breakthrough. Infections catches be written off as simply caused by the new dealt a variant escape. vaccine protection is really data show that the potency of the vaccines was fading after five months, contrary to what Pfizer claimed. Thus, the data show

that the earlier one was vaccinated, the less protection one had against Delta. That finding was crucial because it meant that the new wave and is bill was not simply caused because of a new variant that came along. The vaccines were losing potency overtime she and surgeon, general vivid Murphy, stuck to their guns, continuing to emphasise to the public that the vast majority of all call the das. Ninety nine point, two percent. According to fetch and ninety nine point, five percent, according to Murphy, were among the unventilated. A narrative that was picked up by news outlets. Started, reporting excessively about states with high and vaccinated rates and filling the new cycle with one story. After another about stupid rhetoric,

Americans, succumbing to covered their final wish, not being for those they loved, but for their medical practitioner to broadcast to the world. Their vaccine regret. But, as David Wallace Wells showed on August, wealth in New York magazine Fashion, and Murphy's numbers were not rooted in what was currently happening in America. They were instead based on the cold in death. from January. First, twenty twenty one to date. If you think this through your He was obviously wrong for the first months of the year fuel our kids were yet vaccinated. So, of course, most des would technically be among the unbalanced and ate it quote: two thirds of twenty twenty one cases and eighty percent of deaths came before April. First, when only fifteen percent of the country was fully vaccinated, close quote

Wallace Wells, wrote quote, which means calculating year today ratios means possibly estimating the prevalence of breakthrough cases by a factor of three and break through DAS by a factor of five close quote. What do we Desperately needed was a comparison. Vaccinate to unveil need people by each month, but Wallace Wells noted grimly quote, unfortunately, more accurate month to month dad is hard to assemble because Cdc d stopped tracking, most breakthrough cases in early May. While, as well cited in New York Times analysis that clean the vaccines were working to suppress severe outcomes from covered infection by more than a factor of a hundred for some states but as Topple told Wallace Wells quote the brakes.

problem is much more. Concerning the what our public health officials have transmitted, we have no good tracking, but every indicator I have suggests There is a lot more under the radar than is being told to the public so far, which is unfortunate. Close quote the result. Total said, was a widening gap between the messaging. in public health authorities and the meaning of the data emerging in real time quote. I think the problem we have this people, whether it's the cdc or the people that are doing the briefings, their big concern? Is they just want to get back to nations up and they don't want to punch any holes in the story about vaccines, but we can handle the truth and that's what we should be getting close quote on August, twenty third

after the approval of the Pfizer vaccine came through. It was based on the same patients who are in the study the previously included only two months of follow up, but which now had six months of follow up with the approval Pfizer officially stopped the randomize control trials and informed the controls they never got the vaccine Now that they know they are not vaccinated, the controls may well choose or be mandated to get vaccinated, so we won't be. To follow them as a control group anymore. That means the only randomize control trials we have of these vaccines are just six once long should some new independent party not to drug company want to do new randomize control trial of the vaccine. They will find it almost in possible to do so, because it will be hard, if not impossible, to find people.

who are not vaccinated or not already exposed to covet. This is especially important because we don't yet we can't yet have any good randomize control trial data to rule out long term effects. Vaccine supporters, including government officials, will I quote there has not been a serious side effect in history that hasn't occurred within six weeks of getting the dose close quote, but as though she and others argue there are examples of long term problems that come to light after two months, for example, though, she points out that it took nine months to detect that thirteen hundred people who receive Glaxosmithkline Pandemics Info hence a vaccine after the two thousand and

Swine flu outbreak, develop narcolepsy thought too, because by the vaccine, Mile Cardenas inflammation of the heart tissue is a rare but real site affecting young males about ages. twenty nine that did not show up in the tomb. flung trials that led to the emergency youth authorization, even though those studies included males his youngest sixty was not generally recognised by the scientific community or our safety report systems until four months into the vaccine roll out, and we are still Learning about how this manifests in vaccinated males. In general severe mile Cardenas can lead to scarring and even cause death, so it must be taken seriously and followed long term right now, Paula professor vaccine ology at the University of Pennsylvania, says that most

visas, are mild and resolve on their own, the actual FDA approval for the fire of acts in acknowledges higher rates of my Cardenas impaired car males now and states. The obvious quote info Asia is not yet available about potential long term, health outcomes, the calmer natty, the new name for the Pfizer vaccine. Prescribing information includes a warning about these risks. Close quote An israeli study found that in boys aged twelve to fifteen Carditis occurred in only one hundred and sixty two cases out of a million, but this rate was four hundred and twenty six times higher than their chances of being hospitalized. For a severe case of covid. but to get a sense of the complexity of the decision facing parents in the United States This situation keeps changing with more and more cases,

children now showing up in hospitals for covert. The decision is further complicated by the crucial fact. The covert can cause my Cardenas as well and we're just now learning the different vaccine seem to cause my Cardenas at different rates. As of October. Several countries include Norway, Sweden and Denmark have put the Madonna vaccine, which is especially Poland, on pause for younger people, and Iceland is suspended it for all ages. These countries are not ending childhood vaccination. Just recommending different vaccines, we're lucky to have options, but we could use goods These comparing the covert induced Meyer Cardenas rates and the facts induced marker data's rates by age and sex, which is It's so unfortunate that the Arcy tease were not much larger and that they didn't go on longer had they continued and if their data ever became transparent,

It could really help us in assessing long term safety in a more reassuring way. That's what our sitting you're good at one can more persuasively demonstrate that a vaccine doesn't have these effects if there's a proper vaccine free covered free control group but vaccines continued should be pushed as the one and only answer we will Renault. If certain health problems emerge because there, he'll, be no normal vaccine. Free group left for comparison, its development, quite disconcerting, for it suggests a wish not to know when the pandemic first broke. Many were certain that the developing countries, with their inability to afford vaccines malnutrition, crowded cities and lower numbers of healthcare workers would be universally devastated, but that prediction turned out not to be true.

The population of Ethiopia is about a hundred ninety million just over one. Third of the United States. Coverlet Vaccination rates are very low. There two point: seven percent it had at least one shot and zero point nine percent have had to. As of September 28th, two thousand and twenty one, the country recorded only five thousand four hundred and thirty nine covid deaths over the course of the entire pandemic. If the United States had such a death rate per capita, it would have lost just over sixteen thousand people rather than over seven hundred thousand. Why does Ethiopia have such comparatively low numbers.

it's not that the country was late to the pandemic. It recorded its first case in March, two thousand and twenty. It had three comparatively small waves in July and August, two thousand and twenty April, two thousand and twenty one, and most thirdly, in August September, twenty twenty. What, during these waves, the Daily DAS averaged about thirty seven, forty, seven and forty eight people a day The country had very brief locked downs and select harder hit towns at the beginning of the pandemic and brief period stir in which large gatherings, schools, stadiums and night clubs were closed. Then, during the second wave of April twenty twenty one hospital capacity and oxygen supplies were stretched. But by June twenty twenty one ethiopian physician friends with whom I was in weekly com

tat told me that they could see the second wave receding, as numbers were decreasing and hospital occupancy with colored cases was going down all this third, with only about one percent of the country vaccinated, mostly the country's healthcare workers, the elderly, in key hot spots and the vulnerable. Now, the third wave appears to be receding, especially in the capital at a sob about the EU, Been physicians, I know extremely skilled, are also more accustomed to serious infectious disease than many western physicians and have a different attitude towards heard immunity when those all that the death counts were low compared to other countries. They didn't advocate to keep the country closed, observing, as one put it it's running through taking its natural course

And locked down will only delay resolution, close quote for part of the covert period. There has been armed conflict in one ethiopian province, which could be affecting numbers still How are numbers anywhere close to this low, even possible, and what might be learned. interestingly neighbouring Kenya, also reports a similar low death rate. Clearly, what determines the deaf count in at least some country is far more than vaccination rights. There is the average age of the population the opium, the median ages. Nineteen point five years in the United States. Thirty eight point: three years: population density Ethiopia's about eighty percent rural travel within the country. Ethiopians rarely travel outside their own province or far from their villages, ventilation? Most Ethiopians living thatched huh?

and even in the cities, homes or draft year and more open son exposure. Hence vitamin d levels protected exercise. Ethiopians are always walking with three com: for a thousand people and possible seasonal effects. They so had fewer locked out, and so they may have more natural immunity, crucially levels of obesity, being overweight and type to die these are almost non existent in Ethiopia, but epidemic in the United States, the UK and Australia. Staggeringly, none of these factors is even mentioned in the master narrative. Yet there com.

of potency and protecting a population seems in Ethiopia for the last eighteen months until now to have been very protective. A study of a hundred and sixty countries in two thousand and twenty show that the risk of death from covered is ten times higher in countries like the United States, where the majority of the population sixty seven point, nine per cent is overweight or obese. Cdc data shows that a whopping seventy eight percent of all hospitalized cases in the United States and therefore most at risk of death suffered from obesity or being we're way by lowering immunity. Obesity increases the chances, severe Elvis and also decreases vaccine ethics, as has been shown in studies of the flu vaccine, another key

and left out of America's master narrative is the role of natural immunity. After eighteen months of near total silence about it. She was asked by sea and ends. Sanjay cooped up about Us that showed natural immunity provides a lot of protection better than that. scenes alone, Gupta asked Voucher of people who already had called it needed to get vaccinated quote I dont have a really firm answer for you on that close quote felt she said quote that something we're going to have to discuss close quote dead? The? U S, administration and media, still maintain with a kind of idiot fervour that everyone Musket vaccinate. Even the already meal on the face of it.

This is a strange assumption, because vaccines work by triggering are pre existing immune system and by exposing it to part of the virus. If our bodies can produce good immunity by exposure to the virus, they won't usually be able to produce it by exposure to a vaccine which happens in him. No compromise people all the time vaccine immunity relies on the bodies, ability to produce natural immunity and epidemiologists name doktor. Martin Macsharry of Johns Hopkins University showed that about half of envy, vaccinated Americans have been exposed to the virus and therefore are already amused by December. Many twenty over a hundred million Americans had been exposed to the virus and a hundred and twenty by January thirty. First, according to a club

university study. Now, ten months later, with the more infectious delta variant, the number is probably closer to a hundred and seventy million or half the country Are the immune on vaccinated safe for others to be around? According to MC? Carry we have more than fifty Studies showing that natural immunity is very strong and last a long time so far the length of the entire pandemic, and it is effective against new variants. Three infection right for someone who had called it was shown to be zero point. Sixty five percent in a danish study, or one per and in a british study and some others, a number of studies suggest it may last for years. Even when antibodies go down. Cells in the marrow are ready to produce them.

There is one CDC study often used to justify vaccinating the already immune, but it is an outlier to its credit. The study begins by stating that quote few real world. Epidemiological studies exist to support the benefit of vaccination for previously infected persons, close quote, it then purports to show that covered vaccine immunity is two point three times as protective as natural immunity. Based on a single two months, study from Kentucky mockery that the study was quote dishonest, close quote and asked why the CDC shows. Just two of data to evaluate when it had nineteen months worth on hand and why one state, when you have fifty states close quote, but perhaps the key weakness is Harvard Martin colder points out is that they used a positive pcr test to marry

whether someone was infected and not whether the person action experienced symptomatic infection. The key point, the problem with the pcr test is it is good. At detecting viral dna, but can't distinguish whether the materials are intact. Particles which are infectious or merely degraded fragments which are not. but when actual symptomatic infection is below tat, natural immune becomes out better a year. jeez, rarely, study of about seventy six thousand people, the large, on the subject has compared rate of symptomatic reinforce in those who had been vaccinated. The breakthrough infection right with symptomatic re infection of those who had called it. The data has been circulated, though, not yet peer reviewed and

is consistent with other studies showing better protection for the previously infected. It found the people who had a previous covert infection and beat it with true immunity. In January or February, twenty twenty one, twenty twenties seven times less likely to get it symptomatic green faction, then You gotta immunity from the vaccine Washington University study showed that even a I'll infection gives long lasting immunity. Along with me, Carry of Johns Hopkins among those on record willing to question the knee for vaccination of the already a meal, our doctors called off the Harvard epidemiologists the nay precise he on colleges and associate profess rapidly epidemiology and unbiased it at the University of California. San Francisco Harvey Rich, a yell epidemiologist

JANET about a charter Stanford epidemiologist offered whose on the FDA tax. Advisory committee is an interesting case, as he both these four mandates, but can see that is a reasonable for the already immune to not want to be vaccinated. Asked by the pro vaccine. Zoom in demand a stand for train internist goes by the Pseudonyms Z, Dog M D. On his viral, Have you shall we he would say to someone who ass. Why should I be forced compelled the mandate to get a vaccine when I've gotten natural covered off it answered. I think, that's fair, I think if you ve been there, In fact, it is reasonable that you could say look, I believe, unprotected Based studies show, I have high frequencies of memory plasma glass in my bone marrow, I'm good

I think that's a reasonable arguments. Close quote the problem as off it noted in another interview quote: is that bureaucratically? It's a nightmare, close quote: but a bureaucratic problem is not a scientific one, which is, This is why they presented, and the question is a problem compared to what several million immune people fired and now resentful of public health, when by demand whether there might be a test they can prove. A person has had colder and recover and thus has natural immunity often explained that there is a blood test for two bodies to the nuclear protein of the virus, which could show up if so We need to have the virus and is now a new imaginable. Mental anguish and needless societal disruption might be relieved if

the billions we are spending we spent enough to make such tests widely available. Indeed, the very fact that we frame the threat debate between the vaccinated and the unvalued- it has always been pics, after some epidemiologists point out that the categories we should be thinking of instead are the immune and those who are not immune. The European Union has a digital covered certificate, which is not limited to prove a vaccination you can at one and travel if you ve been vaccinated or if you recovered from covered nineteen so travel among all EU member states. American officials always claim their following the science. But obviously if the science gave clear orders Then european scientists would have received them to let's say for the purpose of argument

that you accept natural immunity as equally good or better than vaccine immunity. What are the ethical consequences? Vaccinating people who had covered without informing them that the data says they don't need it overrides both informed consent and the classical medical ethic of not treating without the medical necessity, but one gives any intervention that is not medically necessary or especially beneficial, then the cost benefit analysis of risk, verses, little or no benefit is weighted in favour of risk, which overrides the first principle of hippocratic medicine. First, do no harm. it's also arguably selfish, to vaccinate those in wealthy countries who already have

natural immunity for it deprives poor countries short of vaccines of pay. Catching for their vulnerable populations. not lost on the vaccine, hesitant the tax exemptions for those who already had covered. Immediately slash the projected profits of big farmer for knows that poor countries might not be able to afford the leftovers at full fee. Vaccination is a tool. A me to an end immunity, but the amount can government has made the means vaccination, the new at this strange substitution or reversal. Reveals the master narrative to be the expression not of science but of a new kind of scientific ology, which we might call vaccine, is. but vaccine ism is not a treatment. It's a mindset.

One that takes a wonderful invention which, if used properly and carefully can be outstandingly productive and makes it the only tool worth having until it becomes at times counter productive. It makes no exceptions, indeed its insulted, but the idea of any exemptions in its all or nothing approach. It is the ideological mirror of Anti Vaccinium chapter for getting out, science- has had many surprises for us. In this pandemic, we ve learned and that, while the vaccines don't always stop the spread, they do protect the back. needed from getting severe disease and death for a number of months. We ve learned, the New York Times, points out that code non vaccinated. Child is less the risk of serious covered illness,

accelerated seventy year old, close quote We learned that Emily Auster, the author academic, who first call them fact to our attention was missed we for months, because you off narrative. We have also learned that you're safer in a room or Eve on a plane with people over hovered from covert. Then you are with, people who were vaccinated, especially the over four months ago, in other words, the immunity of those who suffered covert is holding up so far. So why, Good news like this sink in I said it's because of our old friend the bay real immune system many people's mental set for the pandemic, was formed early on when the behavioral immune system was on fire and they were school by a master narrative. They promised

Would be only one type of person who would not pose a danger? The vaccinated person. stuck into mine said one can hunted by non vaccinated people about half of whom are immune. They respond with the eye ass generated, fear, hostility and loathing. some. Take it further and seem almost addicted to being scared or being caught in a kind of post, traumatic, lockdown, the style demanding that all the pre Is protections go on indefinitely, never fact. In the costs and triggering ever more distrust. Their minds are hijacked by a primal, archaic cod, deadly, rigid brain circuit and will now rest, until every last person is vaccinated, some. It started to seem like this is the mindset not only of a certain cohort fellow citizens, but of the gun

meant itself, moreover, Colored vaccine hesitancy is based, insignificant part on distrust of the government and related institutions. It has to understood, not. In terms of vaccines, but in the country, Did the pandemic more broadly, first and form in other words, of the experience of locked out for many Trust was broken by the lock downs which devastated small businesses and their employees, even when they come wide with safety rules such didn't. Estimated one third of these businesses that were open in January, two thousand and twenty were closed in April. twenty twenty one, even as we kept open huge breadbox stores were people crowded together. These policies were, arguably Biggest assault on the working classes, many of whom

check the rest of us by keeping society going in the worst of the pandemic in decades that these policies also enrich the already incredibly wealthy the camp and wealth of the world. Ten richest man, the likes of Jeff Basis, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Larry Page is estimated. Who have risen by five hundred and forty billion dollars in the first? Ten months of the pandemic, and that view is politicians who instituted locked towns were regularly caught skirting their own regulations, solidify this distrust and yet as the Un Vaccinated, who many leading official still portrayed as recklessly endangering the rest of the country quote. We're gonna put vaccinated workers from us Accelerated coworkers President Biden has said.

The unbalanced needed are now presented as the sole source of future variants, prolonged the pain for the rest of us for was in favour of mandates. The vaccine, the only way out of the crisis to them. The vaccine hesitant are merely ignorant and defy science. We, to use a voluntary reproach, they believe these people are neanderthal whom now be coerced into treatment or be punished. Among the punishments called for is not just loss of employment, but also of anew climate insurance, health care there. I see you beds, even the abyss need to go to grocery stores. It's not true to override the core felt sense. In a democracy that is anything is one's own, its ones body. The eye.

Of the state or a doctor performing a medical procedure forcibly on a person or drugging come into compliance without their consent is in a bite. terrifying theme, many science fiction disappears, and is it here. That runs very deep in the modern psyche. This fear runs deeper and some people than fear of the virus or losing their jobs or pensions. As we are seeing history, shows that these are not just fantasies past matter, and public health abuses really did. make use of forest injections of drugs operations, sterilizations and even second took abuses internet our and Denmark. Alex Societies both, moreover, To say to the advancing aided it's in the name of the greater good is to make the humanitarian argument that we strive for the most good the greatest number of people a voice,

of utilitarianism is often the gun, philosophy of public health this raises. A series of questions how are we measuring the good is it same for all people, should it be you're. Eighty nine year old grandmother who has no time left to decide whether to spend the remaining years of her life in total isolation or covered, but see her loved ones and the bigger questions. Can you explain how you are held the group when, by overriding individual rights, you degrade the as a whole by weakening each individual within it. Are you aware that the great steeples in history have also always been done. in the name of that abstraction, the greater good, first answering such questions you, terrorism,

but a shallow form of arithmetic. One passing itself off as moral philosophy, it is not irrational for people to insist that public discourse seriously engage questions like these and that any state compulsion related to people's bodies, Be based on a flawless airtight argument. That is, I'll communicated that has not happened. What in rational political and public health terms is the states best justification for man that people be injected on mass with a medicine. The first the figures for mandates is that they get us to herd immunity faster bud Danforth epidemiologist, J Bout, it sharia and areas, the state University economists, Jonathan catch him now quote. We have good reason to doubt that if most everyone

vaccinated. We achieve heard immunity, close quote. this is because, as we have seen, Vaccines are fading at about five months. And scientists who believe that scenes will help get us to hurt. Immunity are divided on what percentage of the population needs to be vaccinated against their earlier the pandemic, She said we needed as low as sixty to seventy percent to reach heard immunity, but it's too went on, he increase the numbers in December. Twenty twenty within York Times noticed felt she was quote quietly shifting the number upward close quote. He explain He was generating these percentages based on a mix of the science and what he felt the public was ready to hear admitting quote, we really don't know what the real number is close quote present Biden recently said, we could need ninety, eight percent of Americans to be vaccinated to reach the goal,

Is there a scientific consensus behind the ninety eight percent claim? In fact, number of epidemiologists, an infectious disease experts and officials dispute that we need a number anywhere near it. even those who are pro mandate, like Doktor Monica Gandhi, proof. serve clinical medicine at the University of California. San Francisco believes that quote. There no evidence that we need that high the vaccination rate. Ninety eight percent to get back to normal, close quote other countries like Denmark have opted for seventy four percent vaccination rate as acceptable in order to lift certain restrictions, especially if the most vulnerable are vaccinated at higher rate Norway lifted restrictions when it got to sixty seven percent vaccination rate, the point here is that the science is shifting sometimes by the day it is reason

for people who noticed this to feel concerned about it and it is, at the very least churlish to present, is merely rational. The sex justification for mandates. Is that this It has an obligation to protect those who cannot protect themselves from an unfair just disease past onto them by others. I e the unfair. Fascinated do not have a right to cool recklessly endanger close quote and in fact others, but, as many have pointed out, it is hard to describe our current moment. Quite this way since Maxine's and now boosters are freely and widely available. So people can protect themselves if they wish, of course, This reveals the real problem, which is that vaccines, the people do not in fact get comprehensive immunity, as in the these, for example, of the polio or measles vaccines.

On this there is increasing scientific agreement. We can't erratic Eight, this mutating virus at this point likely not a case like smallpox, which was eradicated because both the virus and accedes, met a host of criteria, do An old, easily Henderson, who directed the dumb uh. Oh smallpox eradication campaign, wrote that smallpox so is uniquely suited for eradication because it didn't eggs. an animal reservoirs. It was easy to identify cases and even the smallest villages, by its distinctive awful rash. So a test for wasn't needed. Vaccine gave immunity that lasted a decade natural immunity was easy to identify the scars smallpox left called it satisfies. None of these conditions quote

If we are forced to choose a vaccine that gives only one year of protection, close quote said: Larry, brilliant and epidemiologist also involve in smallpox. Elimination quote then are doomed to have called become endemic and in action that is always with us. Close quote, and five other scientists have since argued together. The covert is not going away because its growing, in a dozen animal species and their Science allow it to pop up in places that once beaded back indeed This is the reason that some scientists argue. We need over ninety percent of people vaccinated to keep America safe from a virus that will ping pong around the Un Vaccinated parts of the globe for years as brilliant, colleagues, wrote recently quote: among humans, global heard immunity once promoted.

The singular solution is unreachable, close quote. So, if it's correct that we can't eradicate the virus and we can't get lasting vaccine induced heard immunity. What is our goal? It would be to use Monica Ganges phrase to get back to normal would mean accepting some natural heard immunity and putting more focus on leaving lives by other means, alongside vaccines, including better outpatient medications To catch covert early and keep pull out of the hospital low in our individual risk factors and speed, delivery of vaccines to the highly vulnerable when an outbreak occurs and pray retiring them. Over people were already a meal that justifications originally given for mass public

mandates are so weakened, is one of of its many unexpected challenges, one that requires flexible thinking, new kinds of planning and, above all, acknowledgement less its dinner. I'll becomes yet another example of bungled trust intact. The trust problem. Generally, we can return to two kinds of public health systems. The coercive and participatory. the United States has also of mandates, but also continues to have significantly high rates of vaccine hesitancy in vaccine avoidance in contrast. Sweden is the leading example of a participatory public health model quote Sweden has the highest vaccination rates in the world and the highest confidence in vaccines in the world. But there's

absolutely no mandate called off again. One of the world's leading epidemiologists and especially in vaccine safety and consult into the Asia IP covered nineteen vaccine safety. Technical sub group notes quote you want to have high confidence in vaccines it has, be voluntary, for something on people. If you were somebody to do something that can backfire public health has be based on trust. If public health officials want the public to trust them, public health officials also have to trust the public Those quote just as farmers indemnification remove. Its incentive to improve safety. so do mandates remove public house incentive to have better more consistent

reunification to listen, understand, educate and persuade, which is what builds trust called ORF, is by demanding a who is by my estimate. One of the most effective persuaded of the vaccine hesitate quote. I've been so wrong in the past about things close quote, he noted in a video quote. I actually at one point it MIKE. here felt that shaming anti vaccine was a good idea because they were, so dangerous to children. This was prepared M stuff- and it never works to convince anti factors. I would really ever get emails from people saying hey. I was on the fence and you convince me with your crazy rag about how stupid anti vaccines are. Then I started to wake up a bit. Why is it? People feel the way they do and when you really dig into it, you go, I can empathize with that.

Actually, we share the same goal, which is our kids should be healthy. And you really think this is going to help. So, of course you're going to. In fact, I should Are you for trying to do the right thing for your kids, close quote indeed, demonizing people for having doubts is the worst move we can make, especially since there are serious problems in our drug in vaccine regulatory systems. Some organizations have been concerned enough about the effects of non transparency that a group is formed. made up of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy University of Toronto, transparent the international and the dutch Rachel collaborating Centre for governance, accountability and trance Currency in the pharmaceutical sector port released recently the alive

its analyzed. Eighty six registered clinical vaccine trials across twenty culvert vaccines and found only twelve percent. Have me their protocols available. As of May twenty twenty one score, is of key decisions affecting the public were never made available. The? U S, government should immediately give them block and outside scientists access to raw data on which studies are based and minutes of meetings were major. Decisions are made on policies like mandates. We need kinds of transparency, p Does she has asked for from farm and Castle Haim did from the FDA, though she and some Colleagues from Oxford have asked, for instance, the rationale was for the regulatory agencies to allow farmer companies not to choose hospitalization death or I will transmission is endpoints in the authorization studies.

Let's see the internal deliberations see the minutes of crucial meetings, all these researchers are doing, is being due to the motto of the royal society, the fur first, national scientific institution ever established knowledge. in whereby take nobody's word, for it. Acknowledging severe problems in regulatory agencies or within farmer doesn't in believing that everything that system produces is tainted or that all the people in those institutions are corrupt. In fact, friends, those with the most integrity because it is they who are the most frustrated by system requires radical restructuring and new leadership. Even if especially if we Think of ourselves. As pro vaccine, we should want to rescue this extraordinary technology from the flawed and broken system of poor.

regulation Insufficient ITALY, transparent, testing a minute live messaging, but now many are choosing instead to replace this conversation about the system underlining the vaccine roll out with axing mandates. The strategy that both even some of those who have been very invested in the success of the vaccines quote right now. With these vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. This color, the thing is turning a lot of people away from vaccines and trusting them for very understandable reasons called or says quote. We are pushing these vaccine mandates in vaccine passports that in fanatics, I would call them to me they have done much more damage during this one year than the anti vaccines have done in two decades. I would even say that these vat, seen fanatics, they are the biggest

anti vaccines that we have right now. Close quote. Those congratulating the United States on mandates working convey Yet we leave out that each of those wins is potentially a recruit for our central Army that does not believe in vaccines Imagine a scenario already unfolding in Israel, in which right Miller boosters are deemed necessary. How easy do you think it will be to drag those people into this action every six months Would you do with more effective to have enabled them to own these actions for themselves much earlier, thereby me. Can it more likely that they would sustain them. There ways for all of US medical profession. those or not to stop the bleeding beginning with Changing our orientation to those who are sceptical, I have to run here too Dimona whose

idly watch videos of attempted to persuade the hesitant to get vaccinated quote I'll. of the corona virus. Vaccines, he's has said: quote they work They save lives, they prevent severe disease. A mutiny is our only way through a pandemic, whether it is naturally being infected or being vaccinated, close quote and yet Too believes that mandates are quote going to set back the cause of vaccination and increase tribal division. Close quote instead of coercion, he offers engagement when you're in the chat or in a personal email to him raises concerns demand it doesn't minimize it or go around the problems he works through them. He addressed conflicting studies, bringing on some of the world's finest epidemiologists and public health experts and show as the real world of physicians and scientists agreeing and disagree He acknowledges when the science is not as airtight as officials presented, an

doesn't use. A one size fits all approach if he can avoid it four person raises a personal health issue, analogy or an immune issue or cardiac problem. He factors it in and sometimes a person decides to get the shot. Sometimes decide not to and you, she's them well. As a result, people feel listen to in turn become more open to listening to what he has to say. Whether one agrees with his advice or not. I often agree or come to agree, but not every time. His respectful approach. It seems to me irreproachable and to judge from the results effective in it into primary care, physicians, those over vaccine. But not professionals also have a role to play here in acknowledging that of their fellow citizens, distrust utterly warranted.

the seemingly bottomless lining of pharmaceutical pockets. The young HANS censorship of scientists. The grotesqueness seeing the rich unmasked at a met, Gala waited on by a masked servant class. The downside of an controversy around masking schoolchildren and more. If they are not listen to when they are obviously right, I would they listen to others. I might come to the end of this I and wonder why I so cognisant of all the problems with the. U S: regulatory process and study, transparency, God vaccinated. I did so when I had time to think through my own situation as men. Physician friends dead. new. That covered was for many a beast not taken lightly like them. I used an individualised approach, which, ideally,

everyone should be able to do with their own physicians if they have special health issues. For me, this, and taking into account how prevalent this was at the time in my area, its lithology possible long term effects and someone my own age sex with my own health history probability of side effects known at the time and my own risk once the vaccines in the past and the fact that had no allergies to the additives. We're transparency problems with the clinical trials, which meant there was a lot we did not know, but already by the time I got my own shot. We did have some knowledge that the vaccines were lowering DAS or factor in my own risk tolerance. I tried not pretend I knew more than I really did about covert or the vaccines.

Of course, governments will not want to rely in a system in which everyone is encouraged to go to their physician for some kind of individualised discussion. But we are not talking about everyone here, you're talking about people who remain unconvinced after our publics, System has done its best at a mass marketed vaccine campaign It is a minority of citizens, but a sizeable one week either choose as we have to call them. The economic and social deprivation or we can work to better, engage them for Tocqueville The tyranny of the majority over the minority is the ever as in danger and democracies, the red for which John Stuart Mill argued was a pretence ten of minority rights and, above all, the right to continue speaking even The majority opinion seem to be crystallizing mill in the end, was

influenced and changed by Tocqueville notion of the tyranny of the majority and pointed out. That the tyranny unique to democracy gave rise to quote the peculiar of silencing the expression of an opinion, close quote in the social sphere in our so called old, free societies. It moved him to write his great plea for free speech in on Liberty quote, protect I am therefore against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough their needs. action also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling since the tendency of society to impose by other me means than civil penalties. It's all ideas and practices, as rule of conduct on those. Who dissent from them to fettered element and, if possible, prevent the formation of any individuality. Not

harmony with its ways and compel all characters fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is but to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence. To find that limit and maintain it against encroachment. Is this indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism. Close quote to find that limit and maintain it becomes the difficult but essential task when a plague beset democracy, especially one that wishes to remain in good enough condition to survive. It.

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