Berenson writes a summary thread full of misinformation and idiocy. Just to highlight 2 of the points. It doesn’t sound that frightening when you say Israel now has less than 2 people dying per day from Covid-19 so instead Alex randomly decided to extrapolate the # to US pop.
Now this one, which is his favorite idiotic claim. Not only is it arguable, but it’s 100% false. It is scientifically impossible for mRNA vaccines to cause a spike in Covid. The vaccines do not have the virus in them.
He’s taking data of vaccines starting during outbreaks and pretending they cause the outbreaks bc vaccines take time to work. But even forgetting the science, we know this is false because: 1) The people getting covid were mostly people that weren’t vaccinated.
That’s why he uses total cases
2) if first shot caused spikes in Covid, logic dictates you would get more cases as you administer more first shots, right? The opposite has happened everywhere. As # of shots administered went up, cases consistently went down.
The rest of the thread is just nonsense about vaccine risks. Overall his message is that outside of the elderly people shouldn’t worry about the effects of Covid-19 but should worry about the far less significant effects of vaccines. It’s dangerous and ignorant nonsense.
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This is a really frustrating response I keep seeing. Just because the claim of widespread voter fraud was false doesn't mean there aren't legit concerns about voter security, especially given major changes in election processes that occurred in 2020.
As an example, drop boxes were not common in most states before 2020. They are a good idea, but having a bunch of ballots gathered in one place can be an obvious risk if they are not secured so rules that limit their locations/times to places they can be observed make sense.
Similarly, voter ID is a common-sense measure to ensure that the people voting are supposed to be. Even if voter fraud is not widespread, any illegal votes can cancel out and devalue the votes of Americans. Gov't has a responsibility to prevent that.
He’s such an irresponsible a-hole with his just asking questions shtick. A nightly segment of conspiratorial nonsense.
This is like saying 8k people a day are dying in the US after eating breakfast. We can’t speculate how many died bc of breakfast, but raises serious questions.
VAERS is a self-reporting system. We vaccinated all the people in nursing homes first. So when one of those elderly people dies of any cause (car accident, heart attack, stroke, cancer etc), they could have been added in there. Some of those people also died of Covid btw.
And he does this with everything, not just vaccines. Remember how many segments he did “just asking questions” about whether it was really Assad mass-murdering Syrians with chemical weapons only his regime really had access to?
This is a really telling exchange. Some people believe in trying to convince others to make good choices while also recognizing the harm and limits of force. Others believe in abusing government power to force people to do what they think is right.
Btw Tom, as usual, has no idea what he's talking about. He's spewing generalities because he looks down on people who are reluctant to get vaccinated and assumes they all have specific politics. The reality is there are a diverse group & can be convinced w the right messaging.
I know doctors that spend a lot of time convincing patients to get vaccinated now. Most of the people they convince just need to hear it is safe and there are real benefits to it (inc return to normal), they aren't crazy political people. Real-life isn't political Twitter.
Apparently a bunch of former jeopardy contestants wanted to prove they are complete morons by trying to cancel a current contestant for using the word "Gypsy" and holding up 3 fingers to represent 3 wins.
Again, you can't just change language overnight and then expect everyone to conform to your whims or be labeled a bigot. Furthermore, hand gestures that are common don't suddenly become white supremacist symbols because you & random 4chan trolls declare them to be so. Go away.
It's embarrassing when even Snopes has to tell you that you're being complete jackasses.
Rogan can do what he wants and the risk of someone who is 21 dying from Covid-19 is very low, but that is not the point of them getting the vaccine. The point is to prevent spread to people who are at much greater risk and reduce overall community spread to unnoticeable.
You don't need everyone to vaccinate to do that. Ex: Israel has basically reached that point and has said kids under 12 will not be vaccinated. But you do need an overwhelming majority of adults vaccinated so we still need a lot of younger adults to do it to stop the virus.
Also, if you don't reach that point and continue to have high levels of community spread, you risk further variants that can eventually overcome vaccine + natural immunity. It's a recipe for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Absolutely nuts. This is like an alternate reality. Giving Biden credit for things he had 0 to do with and just completely lying about the situation that existed when he took office.
This isn't about Trump vs. Biden. Thousands and thousands of people devoted their lives for a year to make the current results a possibility. Operation Warpspeed helped make this a reality. To try to rewrite history just to give the current admin credit is deplorable.
The article doesn't mention Operation Warp Speed once. Instead, their evidence is the Biden team setting a ridiculously low goal we were already on pace to achieve and a relief package that had little to do with Covid-19.