Here's a link to a preprint I guess you missed 10 days ago, a national-level safety database from New Zealand (4 million Pfizer vaccinated); it shows post-jab acute kidney injury ALONE occurring in 1 of 2,200 vaccinated people.
Another safety signal on a very common side effect from a major government database you might have missed last month - I know, I know, the holidays are a busy time and you can't read everything!
It is not clear they work at all, much less better than inactivated virus vaccines, at stopping infection OR severe disease in the long run. But China's experience (even assuming 1-2 million Chinese died in the Omicron wave) suggests they don't...
3/ What we do know for sure: their side effects are FAR worse than inactivated virus jabs in the short run and that they appear to carry long-run risks (IgG4 class switching, most notably) that the traditional vaccines do not.
On the plus side, they cost about 10 times as much!
1/ Upon further review I think the WaPo’s framing of the ruling may mark the beginning of a meaningful change in the way some smarter people on the left view the Biden Administration’s censorship efforts, a realization they really did go too far
2/ The story - and the people quoted - make an big distinction between the initial district court injunction against gov’t contact with social media companies, which was VERY broad, and the new, much narrower injunction the circuit court issued, which captures the worst conduct…
3/ Implicit in that is a dawning awareness that this White House really did overreach in 2021 and constant jawbowing to tell private companies what speech they should and should not carry is unacceptable.
It’s the first time I’ve seen that anywhere in the non-conservative media
"The dispositive question is whether the Individual Plaintiffs’ censorship can also be traced to government-coerced enforcement of those policies. We agree with the district court that it can be."
"The Individual Plaintiffs adduced extensive evidence... that the government has engaged in a years-long pressure campaign designed to ensure that the censorship aligned with the government’s preferred viewpoints"
"The district court thus had a sound basis upon which to find a likelihood that, faced with unrelenting pressure from the most powerful office in the world, social-media platforms did, and would continue to, bend to the government’s will."
1/ @jordanbpeterson - fair question, but in fact we have very good data from both flu and Covid shots showing that "healthy vaccinee bias" makes the jabs seem to work much BETTER than they really do in observational data.
The reasons are slightly different for the two shots...
2/ Flu shots are preferentially taken by people who care more about health, have access to doctors, etc - this is the standard cause of healthy vaccinee bias.
Covid jabs are different. In wealthy countries, the first three mRNA shots were given to almost every elderly person...
3/ Yet jab rates actually fell after 80-85. The reason is that a small but significant fraction of very elderly people have less than three (maybe up to six months) to live at any time and caregivers will withhold shots from them as useless and potentially dangerous...
2/ The RIGHT thing to do would be to privatize the programs, acknowledge they have nothing to do with amateur athletics, and pay the (predominantly black) players openly - as other professional athletes are played.
But that cash windfall has to go somewhere...
3/ And the biggest direct beneficiary of it, aside from (mostly white) football coaches and administrators, is (mostly white, upper-middle class) female college athletes.
This has been the case for a long time - we make poor black kids play for free to enrich everyone else...
Wow. @aslavitt makes a stunning, novel claim in his motion to dismiss Berenson v Biden - as a Twitter USER, he has the right to censor content he doesn't like.
It's easy to see where this would go: hate a review of your store? Attack the reviewer, and claim Section 230 immunity.
No joke. From the mpotion:
Section 230 Provides Immunity for “any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider OR USER considers to be . . objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”
"Slavitt had a good-faith belief that Berenson’s tweets represented dangerous and objectionable... As such, Slavitt is immune as a matter of law from liability for Berenson’s statutory and common law claims."