Context: Again, this non-leaked, public document describes which pregnancies should be monitored during the trial. It doesn't suggest "shedding" exists (which can't because there's no virus to shed).
Here, @gorskon places this into the broader context of antivax tropes. I'm still seeing a lot of this, and will keep posting these bad takes while they remain popular. sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-vacci…
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Here Naomi Wolf suggests criminal prosecution might be necessary for a teacher’s union that invested millions into a company she says harvests DNA from children without HIPAA protections.
TLDR: They don’t. That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.
A partial list of issues: 1. CalSTERs has invested literally 0.004% of its portfolio into the company Wolf hates. 2. CalSTERS is legally obligated to protect its members’ retirement savings, and so can’t really make decisions based on Wolf’s unique theories.
Context: Alex Berenson casually suggests the Ohio governor is guilty of war crimes because lottery tickers are "coercive." But by this logic, lotteries themselves are—they offer life-changing amounts of money for only $1, which even less commitment than getting the vaccine!
In fact, they're even more coercive because people can by endless tickets, and some in fact do ruin themselves this way. A chance for a single lottery ticket only constitutes "coercion" if you don't understand what a lottery is.
Context: I'd like to walk through this, because this plot is sort of a Rosetta Stone of debunking bad takes.
First, Covid skeptics almost uniformly denied that cases were meaningless—up until they could snapshot a plot and blame the vaccines. They'd always claim that there are lots of "false positive" and that unnecessary testing created a "casedemic."
Context: VAERS is self-reported data and not even error-checked.
So the report of the infant vaccinated in December shooting herself? Uh, that’s not a Pfizer trial participant, Joel. That's a data entry error. sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-vacci…
Another of the 9 reported deaths, of a supposed nursing infant, didn’t even take vaccine, and the report appears to have been submitted by someone who saw a outright fraud on Facebook. Anyone can submit!
Context: Jordan denies that Israel's current level of cases (approaching nil, with a positivity rate of 0.1%) is remarkable, says it doesn't show the vaccines are working, even as neighboring countries went through recent surges. Wrong.
Context: This was one of a series of tweets last year suggesting that the response to COVID-19 was mysterious because 70-116k died in 1957 and we didn't shut down anything!
In fact, we had a vaccine prepared within months to blunt the impact of that flu. history.com/news/1957-flu-…
For some reason Jeffrey keeps bringing up this example—America in 1957 where we had a vaccine—even as we've blown the doors off the 1957 death toll.