COVID-19 ... how we cope :)

[Sid Belzberg]

https://makismd.substack.com/p/exces...rta-surge-past

[Sid Belzberg]

To the people who won't take the vaccine....

In case you don't already know, it's not about being forced to protect yourself. it's about protecting everybody else from you.

A famous grandmaster once said: "It's better to have a bad plan, than no plan at all. Kudos to Doug Ford. Even though he is a bit of an a-hole, I though he showed good leadership during the pandemic.

about protecting everybody else from you.

The injections have never prevented infection or transmission, nor was it ever tested for that. This is directly stated on the CDC's website and by Pfizer itself when they were brought to task on this at a recent EU parliamentary inquiry. An injection injected into the deltoid muscle does not induce mucosal antibodies found in the nasal passages, the primary entry point for a respiratory virus; hence it is a physical impossibility for this to be considered a vaccine that prevents infection or transmission in any way, shape, or form.
You are repeating false statements put out by pharma-corrupted governments and media and by Doctors forced not to talk about these facts under threat of losing their license by tyrannical pharma-corrupted licensing boards. These injections are neither safe nor effective.

[Fred Henderson]

To the people who won't take the vaccine....

In case you don't already know, it's not about being forced to protect yourself. it's about protecting everybody else from you.

A famous grandmaster once said: "It's better to have a bad plan, than no plan at all. Kudos to Doug Ford. Even though he is a bit of an a-hole, I though he showed good leadership during the pandemic.

[Bob Armstrong]

COVID-19

Self-Protection/Societal Protection

Americas - Province of Ontario, Canada

Ontario Appeal Court Overturns Previous Ruling in Favour of Mother Who Doesn’t Want Her Children Vaccinated for COVID-19

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ontari...&utm_content=3

Bob A (T-S/P)

[Fred Henderson]

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13 days of no water (I'm on a well) no flushing the toilet, no clean dishes, forget about doing any laundry. 13 days!

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Not to mention the smell when people emptied out their refrigerators and freezers at the end of it all.

I remember the big ice storm that hit eastern ontario and quebec. That was brutal. The first morning, when I left for work at King and Bay in Toronto, the headline in the newspaper box said. "Toronto to be covered with a layer of ice by the end of the day. Then the storm turned east at the last moment.

[Neil Frarey]

The lockdown saved my ass. Probably the best year of my life , in my late '50s. Busy as hell, multitasking the Internet all day long. Chess and Facebook, lots of interaction with people around the world, making influential friends and having success by being judged only by the value of your words, and getting it done. The shyness and fear is gone. It's funny, relationships with most old friends family went downhill, but more new friends than I can shake a stick at. I feel like my life has been just beginning for the past two years. My family has already made all their decisions and settled in. Old relationships are gone because we didn't stay connected while we all went through changes.

And now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost and something gained
In living every day.

................... Joni Mitchell

Thanks for the share ... I can kinda relate about relationships and all.

An interesting event happened in my neighborhood back in late May 2020. A sustained force of 185 km/h wind shredded my neighborhood! Torn up homes ... level 50-80 year old trees, roots systems up ended, some just snapped in half. My power was out for 13 days! 13 days of no water (I'm on a well) no flushing the toilet, no clean dishes, forget about doing any laundry. 13 days!

Here's just on photo I took after I had been cutting up some of the front yard fallen trees...



So ... all my neighbors who are also equally on well water, septic, etc., ... we all gathered together in the middle of the street most every other day.

They're all vaxxed many times over ... I'm not, not once, still not.

Did it matter? No.

At that point COVID wasn't even a consideration ... being vaccinated wasn't something even talked about ... no masks ... no social distancing either!

[Fred Henderson]

The lockdown saved my ass. Probably the best year of my life , in my late '50s. Busy as hell, multitasking the Internet all day long. Chess and Facebook, lots of interaction with people around the world, making influential friends and having success by being judged only by the value of your words, and getting it done. The shyness and fear is gone. It's funny, relationships with most old friends family went downhill, but more new friends than I can shake a stick at. I feel like my life has been just beginning for the past two years. My family has already made all their decisions and settled in. Old relationships are gone because we didn't stay connected while we all went through changes.

And now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost and something gained
In living every day.

................... Joni Mitchell

[Sid Belzberg]

Human Health

COVID-19

Vaccination

CDC adds Covid-19 shots to list of routine vaccines for kids and adults.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/healt...=1676029343131

~ Bob A ((T-S/P)

Greater than 50% of the CDC's budget is funded by WEF partner Pfizer and other big pharma partners. Of course, the CDC has no compunction about insisting on injecting kids with toxic substances who are at ZERO risk for COVID.
At the end of this MSM CNN will be equally as complicit in crimes against humanity. as Rochelle Walensky of the CDC.


https://childrenshealthdefense.org/d...0-70306725676d

‘Tragic’: CDC Adds Original COVID mRNA Vaccine to Childhood Schedule Despite Known Harms



“Given all that we have learned about the dangers and ineffectiveness of COVID-19 shots over the last two years, it is horrifying to see the CDC now recommend this as a routine shot to children,” Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president and general counsel told The Defender.

“Although it is unsurprising given the level of parma corrupted agency capture, it is nonetheless tragic,” she added."

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/stat...35902598512641


Bob, the level of your ignorance and stupidity is only topped by CNN.

[Bob Armstrong]

Human Health

COVID-19

Vaccination

CDC adds Covid-19 shots to list of routine vaccines for kids and adults.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/healt...=1676029343131

~ Bob A ((T-S/P)

[Sid Belzberg]

Interesting thread.

"1) Masking was a non-starter! To the argument “Why do Drs. use them in surgery?” It’s just to keep particulate out of wound field- nothing else! Ritter et al., in 1975, found that “the wearing of a surgical face mask had no effect upon the overall operating room"

https://twitter.com/Fynnderella1/sta...70557409157120

[Sid Belzberg]

Do You Know Someone with 'Long COVID' and Vaccinated? Here's a Guide for Spike Protein Detox by World Council for Health


For those who have had COVID-19 or who have been vaccinated against it, the World Council for Health (WCH) has issued a guideline for “spike protein detox” to eliminate the risk of developing long-term effects from the spike proteins.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ouncil-health/

[Sid Belzberg]

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses - Jefferson, T - 2023 | Cochrane Library

"We included 12 trials (10 cluster‐RCTs) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness (two trials with healthcare workers and 10 in the community). Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence)."

I want to add that I know many people sic who used the same mask hour after hour, day after day.

One of my detractors last year so proudly presented me with the first ever in 40 years newly minted Random Control trial for masks with pro-mask conclusions that did not at all match the data, and it was evident that it was yet another pharma-sponsored fraud! Well, guess what? A reanalysis of that paper in a peer review journal just came out.
Masks do not work for aerosolized respiratory viruses and never have. Masking healthy people and especially children, when peer-reviewed literature proved that asymptomatic transmission does not exist was and is a crime against humanity. In surgical theatres, masks are used as splash guards against blood spraying, etc. Nothing to do with viral transmission!
For three years, the scientifically uninformed have been lied to!

https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral....63-022-06704-z

"Abstract
A recent randomized trial evaluated the impact of mask promotion on COVID-19-related outcomes. We find that staff behavior in both unblinded and supposedly blinded steps caused large and statistically significant imbalances in population sizes. These denominator differences constitute the rate differences observed in the trial, complicating inferences of causality."

This documentary properly puts the last three years in perspective.

https://live.childrenshealthdefense....is-now-global/

[Sid Belzberg]

Here is a response by Dr. Alexander to the above Newsweek article.

https://palexander.substack.com/p/ke...

"Kevin Bass, MD, PhD student: If Kevin Bass, medical 'doctor in waiting', thinks this is a mea culpa, that this is another version of AMNESTY by Emily Oster, take this & shove it! Props for this BUT


It cannot be as simple as ‘we were wrong’. It cannot. People must be held accountable. If lost lives are traced to a doctor, that doctor must face harsh penalties.

No, you knew you were wrong long ago. Your side have gone on power drunk and malfeasant way too long.

Start with we will give back every penny we made, in all ways we profited, every salary for every fraud CNN and NBC etc. fraud statement by your talking head fraudulent ‘television medical doctors’ who conspired to mislead and deceive the population into the fraud gene injections, down to Suzie’s summer vacations and the new homes we bought with COVID money and kickbacks from COVID money contracts etc. I mean we need to reverse it all. Start there. We will get to the lives your side took.

No amnesty and yes, we really this time want doctors and all those who caused loss of life, all, no matter who, all CDC, NIH, FDA officials, all government officials, all pharma CEOs, all, to face justice and accountability in a real court and it be done right and fair. And we let tribunals and juries of our peers decide, and we want on the table and based on their decisions only, we act only based on them, but we want on the table financial penalties, deep prison time, and up to the death penalty, if a court and judges rule this.

Thanks Kevin. I enjoyed the NEWSWEEK opinion letter by you and wish you success and hope that you are not 1% alike any of your colleagues in medical school and those who practice now. Or the typical ‘head up their ass only worried about their grant money’ sellouts in academia’. IMO, these are the real malfeasants of society. We were sold a lie for a century, these are no different than the common thief, yet while he steals to eat a food, your side steals to take lives to keep their jobs, lifestyles, and incomes. And they do not blink once to do it. ssssshhhh, but do not tell anyone about that, it’s our little secret Kevin."

[Sid Belzberg]

‘Elite’ Scientists Caused Deaths by Misleading Public on COVID, Newsweek Op-ed Author says

In an op-ed published today in Newsweek, Kevin Bass, M.S., an M.D./Ph.D. student, blasted the elitism of the scientific community and called on it to take responsibility for the deadly consequences of misleading the public about COVID-19. By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.



An op-ed in Newsweek today blasted the elitism of the scientific community and called on it to take responsibility for the deadly consequences of misleading the public about COVID-19.

“I was wrong,” wrote Kevin Bass, M.S., a 7th-year M.D./Ph.D. student at a Texas medical school. “We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives.”

Like many medical students and researchers, Bass said he initially believed the information put out by public health authorities. He advocated for lockdowns, vaccines and boosters.

But now it is clear the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public” about a wide range of topics — including but not limited to natural immunity, the need for school closures, the effectiveness of masks and vaccine safety and effectiveness, Bass said.

The biggest mistake of all, he argued, was made by a scientific community that fell in lockstep behind these institutions without concern for the needs of the broader public.

“We created policy based on our preferences, then justified it using data,” Bass wrote. “And then we portrayed those opposing our efforts as misguided, ignorant, selfish, and evil.”

This approach abandoned the principles of science and created an “us versus them” mindset in public health that fractured society and exacerbated existing health and economic disparities.

The “emotional response and ingrained partisanship” of the scientific community led it to minimize the downsides of systematically imposed interventions.

“We violated the autonomy of those who would be most negatively impacted by our policies: the poor, the working class, small business owners, Blacks and Latinos, and children” who were already marginalized in society, Bass said.

And not only did most scientists fail to support alternative scientific voices — like those of Dr. John Ioannidis, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Dr. Scott Atlas, Vinay Prasad M.D., MPH and Dr. Monica Gandhi, MPH — he said, they worked to disparage and suppress them.

By dismissing valid critiques by former President Trump as “buffoonery” and treating dissenters with similar scorn, the scientific community also alienated large segments of the public and opened space for “conspiracy theories” on social media, he added.

The government then used the presence of some uninformed analyses as justification to conspire with Big Tech to “aggressively suppress” so-called “misinformation” and erase opponents’ valid concerns.

The privileged elite who made these policies — members of academia, government, medicine, journalism, tech and public health — failed to understand that critics from outside of their social class could possibly hold a valid point of view, he said.

The outcome of their approach to policymaking is a “massive and ongoing loss of life” due to loss of faith in the healthcare system, spiking rates of mental illness, increased suicide and gun violence, a catastrophic loss of education disproportionately experienced by the poor, and a loss of trust in healthcare, scientific authorities and political leaders, he said.

“We crafted policy for the people without consulting them,” Bass wrote. “If our public health officials had led with less hubris, the course of the pandemic in the United States might have had a very different outcome, with far fewer lost lives,” he concluded.

Bass joins experts speaking out in mainstream media and beyond

Bass, a medical student with a master’s degree in immunology, keeps the institution where he studies private out of concern for his professional security.

In addition to his studies, he runs a website called The Diet Wars dedicated to exploring the effects of nutrition and treatments on health.

Bass first made his shifting position on COVID-19 policies public to his almost 60,000 Twitter followers last month:

He joined a number of health professionals and experts calling for a re-examination of the policies imposed in the name of mitigating the effects of COVID-19.

Some mainstream media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Associated Press and Newsweek, have begun to publish similar concerns.

Earlier this month, in a live television appearance on the BBC, cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra took the network by surprise when he made the “unprompted” suggestion that mRNA vaccines, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, pose a cardiovascular risk.

Malhotra was one of the first to take the Pfizer vaccine and he publicly promoted the vaccines on TV. But once he thoroughly reviewed the scientific safety data, he became convinced the vaccines pose unprecedented harm, he told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), in an October 2022 interview.

Late Sunday night, Retsef Levi, Ph.D., with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, posted a video on Twitter calling for an end to COVID-19 mRNA vaccination.

Levi said the vaccines failed to deliver the promised efficacy, and that based on his risk analysis, the vaccines “cause unprecedented levels of harm, including the death of young people and children.”

“This is clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products both in terms of efficacy and safety,” he said.

This weekend, Prasad announced he was joining the campaign by Bass and a number of doctors, researchers who are swearing not to take any more vaccines without randomized controlled trials (RCT).

Prasad wrote on his Substack:

“The issue with perpetual COVID-19 boosters is what evidence is needed to justify their push? The answer has to be randomized trials powered for reductions in severe disease, hospitalization and death.

“Yet the FDA seems to be moving in the opposite direction, thinking mouse antibody data is good enough. Now a number of doctors, researchers are swearing: no more boosters till RCT.”

[Sid Belzberg]

Hot Off the Press: Masks Don't Work

A Cochrane Database Systematic Review


Dr. Byram W. Bridle



Here is one of the main take-home messages from the paper...

"Wearing masks [medical/surgical] in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks"

Even in the context of N95/P2 respirators, this is what the authors concluded…

There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr...6207.pub6/full