2/ Both birth and death numbers have been awful since spring 2022, when the mRNA booster campaigns hit high gear (and about nine months after the initial vaccine campaigns hit childbearing women). The changes can't be blamed on long Covid - Taiwan had <> no Covid before 2022...
3/ The lack of 2020/21 Covid deaths means Taiwan has faced the full impact of the vaccines without any pull-forward cushion (the slightly early deaths of very sick people) to hide its impact.
In other words, in a Covid-naive population, the damage from the shots is more visible.
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1/ No surprise, Switzerland has amazing data on both all-cause deaths and Covid jabs.
Here’s the story the last six months:
Covid deaths (the grey line) are basically zero.
Other mortality has fluctuated but is well above normal, with notable peaks and valleys…
2/ The story gets worse, though. Switzerland’s excess mortality since the spring has occurred ONLY in people over 65. Those are also essentially the only people to receive vaccines (Switzerland officially stopped recommending vaccines to almost anyone under 65 this fall)…
3/ The timing is also impeccable. Summer shots, summer death wave. Fall shots, fall death wave. The third and fourth mRNA doses seem to cause damage more quickly than the original series (recall mRNA therapy was repurposed as a vaccine because of concerns about repeated dosing).
2/ "The purpose of these laws is not to dictate the content of anyone’s speech, but to make sure that nobody is denied goods or services in commercial markets for discriminatory reasons."
So Twitter's a common carrier by any reasonable definition, but the logic is the same...
3/ In fact, common carriers are and should be subject to stricter non-discrimination rules than other companies since by their very definition they are in the business of carrying all freight/messages/people offered to them...
I have no way of proving this and I don't even know how anyone would try, but I'm starting to think the US (maybe the rest of the developed world too, the US for sure) has reached the point where additional overall health-care spend is more likely to be iatrogenic than helpful.
It's not just the public health driven lockdowns, or the opioids, or the near-end-of-life surgeries, or the prescription drug advertising, or the hospital advertising (WHY are hospitals advertising?) or the general medicalization of life itself... it's all of it...
Yet no one, NO ONE, can stop it or even begin to try, the federal government backstops it all with an endless well of taxpayer money -
Into which hospitals, physicians, nurses, drug companies, consultants, insurers and all the other actors find ways to reach deeper and deeper...
1/ @elonmusk seems genuinely to be grappling with two impulses. He wants Twitter to be a place for free speech. But he also wants it to host "accurate" information, as he or some other arbiter sees fit.
The sooner he realizes he must choose one, the better off all of us will be.
2/ The great hope for all of us on Team Reality was that Elon would get Twitter OUT of the content moderation business, that he would bring social media back to its roots as a place where everyone could speak...
3/ And the ugly, messy, necessary business of free speech and debate could be conducted without cease, jour et nuit, until the robots come for us all.
Twitter in particular is especially suited to play this role, which is why authoritarians pay it such close heed.