Let' catch up with the latest nonsense being spewed by anti-vax Covid-denying conspiracy theorists. Flawed Autopsy ‘Review’ Revives Unsupported Claims of COVID-19 Vaccine Harm, Censorship https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/f...d-claims-of-covid-19-vaccine-harm-censorship/ COVID-19 vaccination is generally very safe, and except for extremely rare cases, there is no evidence that it contributes to death. Social media posts about a now-published, but faulty review of autopsy reports, however, are repeating an unfounded claim from last summer that “74% of sudden deaths are shown to be due to the COVID-19 vaccine.” (More at above url -- and Yes, the claim about deaths completely false bullshiat). No, COVID-19 vaccines do not 'eat' children's immune systems | Fact check https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...e-child-immune-system-fact-check/75003446007/ Fact checking claims about vaccines as new COVID-19 variant emerges https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/05...out-vaccines-as-new-covid-19-variant-emerges/ Fact Check: Study does not say COVID vaccines may have fuelled excess deaths https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/...es-may-have-fuelled-excess-deaths-2024-06-13/ Still No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccination Increases Cancer Risk, Despite Posts https://www.factcheck.org/2024/05/s...cination-increases-cancer-risk-despite-posts/ Fact Check: EU has not said COVID vaccines were illegally approved, contrary to online claims https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/...y-approved-contrary-online-claims-2024-07-05/ Fact Check: No evidence to link UK excess deaths to COVID-19 vaccines https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-link-uk-excess-deaths-covid-19-vaccines-2024-02-06/ As outlined many times previously, the Covid vaccine was effective at stopping transmission with the early variants such as Alpha and Delta. However when the highly infectious Omicron variant came out the vaccine no longer was effective at stopping transmission. This was expected. The Covid vaccine is still very effective at stopping severe illness or death. Fact Check: Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/...-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-2024-02-12/
Let's take a look at one of the leading purveyors of Covid misinformation, Jay Bhattacharya. Keep in mind that misinformation from these anti-vax Covid disinformation artists and scammers caused the deaths of millions of people around the world and tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. Jay Bhattacharya's false assertions are endless over time. Let's just focus on his nonsense on Covid lockdowns and the Great Barrington Declaration today. Just remember that Sweden's model led to 10X the death rate of neighboring countries, did not improve their economy, and they eventually had to reverse it & effectively do traditional lockdown. Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya is Fox regular, anti-lockdown. Twitter is his new foe Jay Bhattacharya continues to advocate for herd immunity on Covid, despite his much-touted Swedish model resulting in an unnatural number of deaths. https://theprint.in/theprint-profil...er-anti-lockdown-twitter-his-new-foe/1272375/ Meet the anti-lockdown doctor that conservative pundits are flocking to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been promoting the idea that American lockdowns are too aggressive on Fox News https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/th...is-views-on-lockdowns-are-very-controversial/ Brownstone Institute admits that the Great Barrington Declaration was wrong (without actually admitting it was wrong) The Brownstone Institute’s Gabrielle Bauer claims vindication for the Great Barrington Declaration, the October 2020 document that advocated a “natural herd immunity” pandemic strategy, with an ill-defined “focused protection” strategy to protect those most at risk of death. In the fine print, however, Bauer tacitly admits that its core assumption was badly mistaken, minimizing it as not getting all the “details” right. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/br...ton-declaration-didnt-get-every-detail-right/ The making of COVID-19 “contrarian” doctors https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-making-of-covid-19-contrarian-doctors/
Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Governor DeSantis want to kill some more Floridians. They are shoveling complete disinformation on state websites about Covid vaccines -- disgusting the medical community. Remember Florida leads the nation in raw Covid deaths and per-resident Covid death rate since the Covid vaccine was easily available in April 2021. Guess DeSantis and Ladapo want to maintain this record. Florida's new COVID booster guidance is straight-up misinformation https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-new-covid-booster-guidance-misinformation-ladapo/ In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to protect against diseases like measles and whooping cough. A prominent Florida doctor expressed dismay that medical leaders in the state, leery of angering Gov. Ron DeSantis, have been slow to counter anti-vaccine messages from Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, including the latest COVID bulletin. Ladapo is a DeSantis appointee and the top official at the state health department. The bulletin makes a number of false or unproven claims about the efficacy and safety of mRNA-based COVID vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna, including that they could threaten "the integrity of the human genome." Florida's guidance generally regurgitates ideas from anti-vaccine websites, said John Moore, a professor of microbiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Ladapo did not respond to a request for comment. DeSantis referred questions to the health department, which said the surgeon general's guidance and citations "speak for themselves" and pointed to a post he made on the social platform X accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA of "gaslighting Americans." DeSantis has styled himself and his administration as a bulwark against vaccine mandates, lockdowns and other restrictive public health protections adopted during the pandemic to curb infections and save lives. COVID vaccination has become a partisan issue, with surveys by KFF, the health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News, finding that Republicans have far less confidence in the safety and efficacy of the shots than Democrats. But vaccine historians consulted for this article could not recall any previous state health leader urging residents to shun an FDA-approved and CDC-recommended vaccination. "It's unprecedented," said Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Florida medical leaders should speak out more forcefully against Ladapo's attacks on public health, said Jeffrey Goldhagen, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville. Ladapo urged people under 65 to avoid COVID shots last year and has rejected public health protocols for fighting measles outbreaks. "What you see is a pattern of fear and neglect of professional responsibilities across the state, in part because of the fear of this governor and the vindictiveness of this governor," said Goldhagen, a former health department director in Jacksonville. He specifically criticized the Florida Medical Association, a trade group for physicians, noting that Ladapo is a nonvoting member of the group's board of governors. The association did not respond to emails requesting comment. The Florida Health Care Association, whose members run more than 600 long-term care facilities, declined to comment on Ladapo's bulletin. One nursing home chain, LeadingAge Southeast, said it was aware of both federal and state recommendations on COVID boosters and encouraged providers to "engage with their residents, families and health care professionals to make informed decisions." A spokesperson for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Cherie Duvall-Jones, said the agency "strongly disagrees with the State Surgeon General of Florida's characterization of the safety and effectiveness of the updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines." The vaccines met the FDA's "rigorous, scientific standards," she said, and she urged people to get boosters since the population's COVID immunity has waned. Among its incorrect claims, the Florida bulletin says the new mRNA boosters wrongly target a viral variant, Omicron, that is no longer circulating widely. This is false, since all major variants of COVID in the past two years evolved from Omicron and subsequent mutations. "You start off with that and then you go into head-exploding-emoji territory," Moore said. "It's a litany of lies out of the anti-vaxxer playbook." Other claims in Ladapo's bulletin include: COVID boosters don't undergo clinical trials. It's true that COVID booster shots, whose mRNA sequences are changed slightly from previous shots, aren't tested in large trials. Neither are annual influenza vaccines. By the time such tests would be completed, flu season would be over. But the original mRNA shots underwent clinical trials, and as with flu shots, "a lot of evidence has been collected in support of the ongoing use of the vaccines," said Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. The shots pose a risk of infections, autoimmune disease and other conditions. "I don't know where these claims come from, but they aren't accepted by the general medical community," said William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine infectious disease specialist. Serious side effects do occur, rarely, as with any medication. U.S. authorities were among the first to detect rare occurrences of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart tissue, in young adults who got the COVID vaccine. Most patients recovered quickly. Myocarditis is more commonly caused by COVID infection itself. The shots could cause elevated levels of spike protein and foreign genetic material in the blood. These concerns, which circulate on social media, have been disproved or have not panned out. For example, the billionths-of-a-gram quantities of bacterial DNA alleged to be contaminating COVID shots are dwarfed by our other exposures, Offit said. "You encounter foreign DNA all the time, assuming you live on the planet and eat anything made from animals or vegetables," he said. "I don't know Dr. Ladapo, but I assume he does." Americans face "unknown risk" from too many booster shots. Scientists look at the possibility of "overvaccination" every time they study boosters. So far, no safety risks have been associated with multiple immunizations, Schaffner said. Floridians should get exercise and eat vegetables and "healthy fats." "These things will benefit your general health, but none of them will prevent COVID," Schaffner said. The bulletin urges all Floridians, including older residents, to avoid mRNA vaccines and find alternatives. But it comes off as "not in good faith" because it doesn't specifically mention the only non-mRNA vaccine available, from Novavax, Dean said. Several critics of Ladapo's bulletin said it read like a tryout for a job in a Trump administration advised by longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said Trump wants him to help vet senior health officials. Trump has said children receive too many vaccines and suggested that vaccines cause autism, a myth debunked by years of scientific research. Ironically, although his administration oversaw the triumphantly rapid creation of the first COVID vaccines, Trump declined to receive his shots in public, as presidents have done during past epidemics. Ladapo's vaccine statement "aligns with Project 2025," Offit said, referring to the conservative Heritage Foundation policy blueprint. While the plan's authors include officials from Trump's first term, he has said it doesn't reflect his views. The document calls the CDC "perhaps the most incompetent and arrogant agency in the federal government." Organized resistance to vaccines has existed as long as vaccination itself. Within six months of the release of the mRNA vaccines in December 2020, about 70% of American adults were vaccinated. Those who refused put themselves at greater risk of hospitalization or death if they contracted COVID, studies have shown. Cheryl Holder, an internist who practices in Miami, said Ladapo's statements had dampened interest in vaccination overall. People who are blasé about COVID "also don't want to take the tetanus vaccine, and they don't want to take the pneumococcal vaccine, or the flu vaccine," she said. "We're in the disinformation age," Offit said. "It's certainly a lucrative business, more lucrative than the information business. But what really bothers me is when you have people who are credentialed stand up and say these ridiculous things."
Trump left Americans to fend for themselves while the Covid death toll rose drastically every week -- while sending much needed supplies to a foreign dictator. After report Trump sent COVID tests to Putin, governors cry betrayal https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2669384909/ Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and two other Democratic governors joined Friday in condemning Donald Trump after reports that as president Trump shipped COVID-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin early in the pandemic. In a new book, journalist Bob Woodward writes Trump sent the tests to Putin secretly, and that Putin told Trump not to reveal what he had done to avoid political repercussions. The book, to be published Tuesday, Oct. 15, was the subject of a Washington Post report published Tuesday. A Trump spokesman dismissed the book’s claims about Trump as false. In a joint statement Friday, Evers, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrote, “Former President Trump betrayed us.” When the three governors sought in the first months of the pandemic to obtain COVID-19 testing kits, ventilators, and N-95 masks, the federal government “abandoned us to fend for ourselves,” the governors added. Trump and the federal government ignored requests for help at a time when the pandemic’s death toll was still unknown and hospitals were beleaguered as they tried to treat patients and protect health care workers, according to the governors. “It was a terrifying time.” The governors assert that after Trump rejected their pleas to ramp up domestic production of those supplies under the Defense Production Act, states turned to “price gouging foreign suppliers” and purchased what they needed using state funds. “Now we are reading reports that during this unprecedented and historic public health crisis, while Americans were dying and desperate for life saving supplies, former President Trump was personally sending testing kits to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” the governors wrote. “For that, we demand answers.” The statement claims that Trump’s “cozy relationship with Putin has been well documented,” and that the new report shows him “putting a foreign dictator before Americans, threatening our national security in the process.” “Former President Trump betrayed us. Americans suffered during the pandemic. 1.2 million Americans died, many because they did not have access to adequate supplies at a critical time,” the governors wrote. “Donald Trump must explain why he put his personal friendship with Putin, a ruthless dictator and war criminal, over the American people.”
So you merely re-post the latest bullshiat being spewed all over social media and fringe right-wing websites. You should know that this claim is not true -- just like all the previous ones targeting Gates.
The criminal justice system fact checked this idiot. They need to lock up more Covid deniers. Covid denier who posted violent threats against Chris Whitty jailed for five years Patrick Ruane had targeted individuals online including chief medical officer https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...e-jailed-violent-threats-against-chris-whitty A Covid denier who suggested “whacking” Prof Sir Chris Whitty with a rounders bat has been jailed for five years after being convicted of encouraging terrorism. Messages posted by Patrick Ruane on social media were described by a judge who sentenced him at the Old Bailey as “extremely dangerous” during a volatile time. The trial previously heard that the 55-year-old had targeted individuals including the UK government’s chief medical officer and the chief executive officer of Covid vaccine developer Pfizer in a series of posts during 2021. Ruane had replied to a post about Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, saying: “The weakest point of the scull [sic] is the back of the scull and all it would take is riding a bike very fast and whacking target over the back of head with a rounders bat but a mace [a piece of metal ball and chain] would be way better.” In response to the creator of the AstraZeneca vaccine getting a standing ovation at Wimbledon, he commented: “It’s a shame there was not a sharp shooter to take that fucking POS [piece of shit] out.” An audio producer who worked in films, Ruane also posted images of semtex explosive and called for an “IRA playbook” to be implemented after the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, extended lockdown powers for a further period. Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker said that posts by Ruane spanned months and encouraged serious violence and disruption designed to influence the government or intimidate a section of the public. They reached a “very large audience” through two Telegram chat groups, one of which had 18,000 users. Judge Richard Marks KC said on Monday that Ruane could not be sure people would not act out what was said in the messages. He went on to say that Ruane had a “compulsive and obsessive” mindset about the vaccines and that he often posted the messages while “blind drunk”. The “overwhelming view around the world” was that vaccines were hugely effectively in saving lives, said the judge, who told Ruane that he was entitled to publicly vent dissenting views. “You, however, went very much further and in so doing committed the offences of which you were convicted,” he said. Ruane, of Paddington in London, was cleared of collecting information useful to a terrorist. He had denied the charges against him and claimed his film work gave him a reasonable excuse for having the manual with semtex instructions. Bethan David, head of the counter-terrorism division at the Crown Prosecution Service, said at the time of Ruane’s conviction last month: “This is a dangerous man who was prolific in encouraging violence because of his firmly held beliefs in a conspiracy theory.”