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• Chapter 1: “We have protected the vulnerable by vaccinating the older population”
A discussion of pre-pandemic anti-vaccine doctors and how influential, contrarian doctors and scientists made their ideology mainstream.
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• Chapter 2: “It was an unimaginable hell to be quite honest”
A recollection of my experience working at Bellevue Hospital during the pandemic.
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• Chapter 3: “This would translate into about 10,000 deaths”
Dr. John Ioannidis and how his repeated, public downplaying of the risks of the virus at the pandemic’s start, helped to create enduring myths, with tragic, real-world consequences
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• Chapter 4 “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence”
A refutation to the many myths spread by Dr. Ioannidis and other contrarian doctors. Doctors who worked with COVID patients know, our patients died from COVID, not with COVID.
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• Chapter 5: “By rebuilding population immunity among the least at-risk, moreover, we help buffer risk for those most vulnerable.”
Great Barrington and herd immunity through mass infection of unvaccinated youth. It never would have worked, and it never was intended to.
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• Chapter 6: “Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions, etc. have zero to little risk…so we use them to develop herd…we want them infected…”
How the idea of mass infection influenced USA actions in regard to the pandemic.
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• Chapter 7: “We’ll have herd immunity by April.”
How doctors repeatedly spread the myth that herd immunity was at hand, the pandemic was over, and variants were nothing to worry about.
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• Chapter 8: “The fear that’s driving this pandemic has been heartbreaking to see.”
A discussion of how doctors not only mocked and shamed anyone who tried to avoid the virus but also used histrionic language to fear monger about methods to control it.
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• Chapter 9: “Any strong advocate for kid COVID vaccination is off their rocker”
A review of pediatric COVID and over 25 anti-vaccine myths spread by doctors. The anti-vaccine movement is now mainstream.
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• Conclusion: “Every time we see or hear such mistruths we need to combat them and call them out”
Doctors have an obligation to police misinformation in their profession.
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Het zou méér dan een jaar duren voordat FOIA-e-mails onthulden dat Fauci, Collins en topvirologen (Ron Fouchier, Marion Koopmans cs) hier ook privé door gealarmeerd werden.
Feith: De virologen (w.o. Marion Koopmans) "die hadden kunnen helpen ...een nieuwe en ernstige situatie te begrijpen en dienovereenkomstig kansen af te wegen, hebben echter overweldigend afgeleid en ontkend."
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De meesten mensen waren toen al op de hoogte van het virus. Taleb et al. voerden aan dat het uit de hand zou lopen als regeringen niet snel zouden handelen.
"Nassim was alert op wat er in China gebeurde", zegt Bar-Yam. "We hebben snel de paper opgesteld en gepubliceerd."
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Ze hadden beiden het essentiële begrip van het extreme risico van een pandemie, en wisten dat er in een complex adaptief systeem snel en met intensiteit moest worden gereageerd.
Bar-Yam had tevens praktijkervaring met Ebola (overigens net als Koopmans).