"Hey guys, look at this totally not-forged government document that not only says that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab, but also that ivermectin works great against it."
It must have been hard for them to refrain from including a passage saying that Michelle Obama was born male.
Intelligence agencies at the annual meeting of government agencies: "For the 27th year in a row, we can boast that we employ the dumbest people in government."
The head of DARPA, slowing rising from his seat: "Not so fast gentlemen, we have a surprise for you this year..."
Here is more detail on the program this guy attended. I increasingly think that, contrary to what I said above, this is not at all a forgery, which actually makes this story even more hilarious 😂
Est-ce que les gens croient sérieusement qu'on aurait pu "sécuriser" les écoles en quelques jours ? Ça va 5 minutes la pensée magique... Les enfants ne risquent rien et quasiment tous les adultes sont vaccinés ou ont déjà été infectés, il faut qu'on arrête avec ce délire.
J'ajoute que l'effet des écoles sur la transmission n'est pas clair du tout, donc les "médecins et scientifiques" qui disent le contraire sont des guignols. Les différentes études sur le sujet, qui de toute façon n'ont pas une grande valeur, trouvent tout et son contraire.
Cette histoire de "sécuriser les écoles" n'est rien d'autre qu'un slogan débile et vide de sens. Putain mais quand est-ce qu'on va revenir à la réalité sur ce sujet ? Les gens ont complètement perdu les pédales, il faut arrêter le délire maintenant...
It took some of them long enough, but it's nice to see that almost everyone now accepts the obvious, which wasn't the case when I wrote this. Sadly, the cost of those unnecessary lockdowns has been absolutely enormous, the worst policy failure in decades. cspicenter.org/blog/waronscie…
And before someone replies that if lockdowns had small effects on transmission because people voluntarily change their behavior then they also had smalls effects on cost, which I *know* is going to happen, let me remind you that it's an obvious fallacy.
Will the people who pushed for those policies at the time and treated the position I defended in that piece, which again was already obvious back then, as borderline conspiracy theory ever acknowledge they were completely wrong? Lol, no, of course they won't 🤷♂️
Say what you want about epidemiologists, but their ability to be amazed that something that has repeatedly happened in the past is happening once again — when they notice it that is — is truly refreshing. They really have kept a child's soul! 😀 cspicenter.org/blog/waronscie…
Of course, it had already happened before with Alpha and, by the way, I had already called attention to the importance of the assumptions we make about the generation interval at the time. But it's nice to see they are catching up! cspicenter.org/blog/waronscie…
I did the same thing for other European countries and France is not an outlier. There are some where there were more excess mortality in 2021 than 2020, but even in those, it was usually negative. Vaccines aren't killing young people and, for the most part, neither is COVID-19 🤷♂️
It's different in some Central and Eastern European countries, but from the timing of the increase in excess deaths, it's obvious that it's because of COVID-19 and not vaccination, since it matches that of COVID-19 waves but not that of vaccine uptake.
In fact, the difference is almost certainly in large part the result of the fact that vaccine uptake was much lower in those countries than in Western Europe, although the effect is probably driven by the higher end of that age group since COVID-19 kills very few people below 40.
Some people claim that vaccines are killing young people in droves, but I computed excess mortality in France for people between 20 and 49 and, not only was it negative both in 2020 and 2021, but it was slightly more negative in 2021 despite ~29% more confirmed COVID-19 deaths 😂
The only period when excess mortality was higher in 2021 than in 2020 was at the end of the summer, which coincides neatly with the wave of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in August/September, much better than with the wave of vaccinations in that group which started and ended earlier.
I was going to do something complicated to show that vaccines don't kill people, but it turned out to be even more obvious than I thought so I didn't need to. I also like that it's whitepill for both the antivax and the people who think COVID-19 is dangerous for young people 😀