COVID didn't do this; We did 1/4 1. No data supported day care workers wearing cloth masks w infants all day 2. Masking kids 2-4 was contradicted by WHO, but American Peds Assc. did it anyway 3. Keeping kids without playdates had no data 4. We closed playgrounds!
5. risk to kids was always much lower than risks we routinely tolerate 6. School closure did massive harm/ had no upside/ strangely occurred in liberal urban strongholds w strong unions & had nothing to do with virus factors
2/4
7. We rushed into boosting adolescents despite the resignations of top 2 FDA officials & dissent of Offit, man who makes vax 8. we imposed vax mandate for school & activities, under promise it would return life to normal 9. we then escalated demands to make kids wear n95s
3/4
10. people piled on J Allen for suggesting we have off ramps to restrictions in kids 11. omicron was milder, but we tested kids in rampant fashion & held up their school 12. CTU closed pre-emptively
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” - Charles Mackay
And let's not forget. When kids needed them, they failed...
All of health care policy falls like dominos when you accept this FACT about mother nature & omicron
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Wearing an n95 is pointless
You won't do it the rest of your life
Exposure is inevitable
It merely delays the inevitable at personal inconvenience & anchors the mind in fear mode
Vaccine mandates are now intellectually bankrupt
All the boosters mandates in the world cannot halt spread
A key prerequisite to mandates is gone
They are a personal health choice (which BTW you should opt for, esp. if you are an older adult!) vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/vaccine-effe…
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A couple journals had a couple sessions, and one seminar at Hopkins, but besides that, universities largely abdicated the role as a forum for debate.
@sdbaral hosted one session, And there was an early angry one at Stanford.
But besides this, institutions nearly abdicated this responsibility entirely
I suspect they did so for the same reason so many people engage in preference qualification, or are scared to comment on issues. Which is that the culture among elites is so hostile to differences of opinion.
Universities probably worried that they would offend their donors.
Great article, but I fear the CDC director is doomed. Here's why.
In the next few months, we will have to accept the inevitable, that all people will be infected with the virus at some point in the future. Better to be vaccinated/ or have nat immunity when you meet it...🧵
Draconian mitigation efforts to delay the time to meet the virus make no sense.
Makes no sense for a vaccinated person to wear an n95 or equivalent. Certainly makes no sense, and is borderline insane, to make a child wear such a mask.
It is also borderline insane to make college students who have already had multiple vaccines keep getting more, or sit all day in their dorm room to avoid meeting it.
Moderna's dose is 100, 100, and 50 for booster;
Pfizer is 30, 30, 30
Moderna has WAY more myocarditis
it is NOT REASONABLE to make a Moderna determination from Pfizer data
FDA has never, to my knowledge, changed a label for 1 product based on data from a completely different product, given at a different dose, with different rates of adverse events
I sit down with @LeslieBienen, OHSU-PSU Public Health Faculty & author of dozens of op-eds & we talk about poor data to support masking kids, boosting, & college madness etc.