'We've been born into freedom....We are essentially free...except where our actions are specifically prohibited by law.'
This Pivotal Moment (TPM)
The universal adoption of vaccine passports .... is no less than a fundamental inversion of what is meant by freedom in democratic societies....
No longer will your personal freedom be expansive, constrained only at the periphery by long established and mutually agreed laws.
Instead what will remain of your freedom will be limited to those things that you have been given explicit permission to do by some unseen algorithmic power, mediated through the screen of your smart phone, one green tick at a time.
Randomly, coincidentally, the next entry freezes and can neither be edited nor deleted...
Let me say this again....
Today we are essentially free to do anything we choose except where our actions are prohibited in law....
That concept of freedom will be ... replaced by a completely new system in which you will only be allowed to do the things that you have been given explicit permission to do.
This is what I mean by a fundamental inversion of freedom.... freedoms become mere privileges, temporarily granted to us for compliance and good behavior. 'Can I go into this restaurant, this concert, this sporting event...'

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27 Nov
BMJ: Journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics

For the curious, multiple references to other vax ethics papers.

We can disagree, but this is how issues are framed by medical ethicists.
@impishchimp @Lidsville @KimPigSquash @albertarabbit @cakesalie

jme.bmj.com/content/early/…
'neither a moral obligation to vaccinate nor a sound ethical basis to mandate vax under any circumstances, even for hypothetical vaccines that are medically risk-free'
'Agent autonomy with respect to self-constitution has absolute normative priority over reduction or elimination of the associated risks to life.'
Read 5 tweets
26 Nov
A 2nd view on leakiness:
'G. Vanden Bossche joined 'the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines & Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager'
He's not Jesus, not infallible, and not anti-vax--as a vaccinologist, he argues for different vaccines...

'Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants.'
'Prior to the start of this universal vaccination program (and until today!), no single publication existed that came even close to suggesting that mass vaccination campaigns using non-transmission-blocking vaccines could be successful...'
Read 8 tweets
26 Nov
You know, given the firehose of data, different information sets may, in these vexatious times, be too readily chalked up to misinformation.
From unwashed anti-vaxxers at NatGeo:
nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
The less virulence over time is one optimistic scenario, but these recent experiments showed--one study, animal testing, Marek's disease--that viruses can evolve to become *much* more virulent.
Or, directly from the peer-reviewed study published in PLOS, in 2015, from an era before data not wholly favorable to universal vax promotion was anti-vax.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
Read 5 tweets
26 Nov
A thoughtful reading more open to the downside on Omicron implication (technical, detailed) @Lidsville

'Biden administration systematically failed to support or actively denigrated all non-pharmaceutical interventions.'

nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/probab…
'we are collectively about to pay for the eagerness of the officialdom to declare the pandemic over at every possible turn & put all their chips on a non-sterilizing vaccine...very useful at preventing worst outcomes...but does little to prevent transmission of Delta'
Sound familiar, #bcpoli?
Biden Admin: 'actively encouraged the vaccinated to abandon masks (positioning non-masking as proof of virtue). The CDC & WHO have been silent on ventilation & have actively opposing the aerosol theory of transmission.'
Read 15 tweets
26 Nov
Are adverse events in C19 vaccine trials under-reported?
'A systematic review in PLOS journal analysed 28 studies & found that adverse events were less likely to appear in published journal articles than unpublished studies (e.g. industry-held data).'
maryannedemasi.com/publications/f…
Systematic review in PLOS Journal:
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002127
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
'strong evidence...much of the information...remains unpublished & that the number & range of adverse events is higher in unpublished than in published versions of the same study.'
'Experts now suggest that the pivotal Covid-19 vaccine trials may have under-reported adverse events in several ways.' [below]
Read 27 tweets
25 Nov
From the anti-vaxxers @
Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Volume 11, December 2021
'In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaxxed index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaxxed index cases' (25% to 23%)'
That was transmission. Regarding infection:
'Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status'
They conclude:
'It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures.'

Gross negligence is essentially what current vac-sanctified reopening amounts to.
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