Thread by @elleprovocateur

WPR, Aug 3 2021. Marty Makary, surgeon & professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University:

"We have downgraded #Covid19 to a mild seasonal virus... Covid-19 will become the 5th seasonal #corona virus that will circulate for decades to come."

wpr.org/listen/1831276

Makary: "Now, you can report the number [of cases] going from 4-7 as a 70% increase - or you can say its gone from 4 to 7."

(Speaking to how case numbers can be framed - presented in a straightforward non-alarming fashion - or framed to incite fear, panic, sensationalism)

"I think the #demonization of these people [unvaxxed], blaming them, even though they pose really no risk to those who have immunity [&] are vaccinated...

btw, the type of person that's not vaccinated is also the type of person that more likely had the infection."

"So we think it's higher in the unvaccinated for them to have natural immunity... a study out of Israel just affirmed that #NaturalImmunity may be BETTER [his emphasis] than vaccinated immunity. It found that it was 6.7 times better. Natural immunity is going strong & it works."

Mar 2021, Makary:

"Fauci has been saying [] the country needs to vaccinate 70-85% of the pop. to reach herd immunity [] but he inexplicably ignores #NaturalImmunity... herd immunity is likely close at hand."

"cases" prolong fear

M.I.A.: #serosurveys

wsj.com/articles/herd-…

Although such candor/bluntness is refreshing from a high-profile individual associated w/ Johns Hopkins, one must pay attention to #language & #framing. Within capitalist structure, opposing opinions will enter public realm in order to shift focus to "non-immune" for vax uptake.