Rallying in fear ...

“Our comms have been the best in Europe. We scared everyone shitless” UK MP (FT 1/5/2020).

How does the 'Global disinformation index' index disinformation?

Anything adversarial to the orthodox view, whether true or false, is regarded as disinformation.

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How did our pandemic response do in terms of the four principles of biomedical ethics?

autonomy
non-maleficence
beneficence
justice

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Good to see the Lancet publish a commentary challenging this interpretation thelancet.com/journals/lance…

In the early stages of the pandemic, I got very concerned about public health messaging aiming at terrorising people into submission rather than providing information that would help them to process the situation and try to do what's best for them.
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'Under Article 18, countries would also agree to limit criticism of the WHO in order to “combat false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation”. Thus this very article could in theory be censored by our government at the behest of the WHO.'

Last year, the Make-a-Wish Foundation announced that kids with cystic fibrosis would no longer automatically qualify for a wish.

This was, actually, a good thing—a great thing even!

A Covid classic, from 2021:
The US zeal to mask children inverted basic forms of rationality and human logic. & for naught. American professional organisations failed miserably.

New study PNASNews:

US Covid vaccine mandates DID NOT increase vax rates but REDUCED flu vaccine & C19 booster uptake

Lost trust, Ineffective; legally, socially, & ethically=wrong approach

Mandates have unintended consequences gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e0…

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If you want to understand geopolitics of energy & climate change: think about the fact that 'the USA is fracking central' & profits heavily from that, while discouraging Global South countries from less environmentally harmful extraction of gas.

NZE is the only country in the world with high vax, good death data and vax happening before and not in parallel with covid

It saw no excess in the<60, which is not attributable to covid

This de facto kills any claim of high vax deaths made elsewhere, let me explain⤵️

Here is my considered analysis of the ICJ ruling and its consequences, from someone who was there.

It contains a number of very important points I have not seen made anywhere else. Please read and share.

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Israel says the International Court of Justice is antisemitic
The United Nations is antisemitic
The World Health Organisation is antisemitic
The 18.22 train from Stockport to Oldham is antisemitic
So are squirrels. Especially the red ones. But the grey ones too.

Mark Woolhouse with another excellent testimony at the Covid Inquiry:

> Bans on outdoor activities were pointless.

> Harms of lockdowns were not assessed.

> Omicron modelling was poor.

> BBC reporting was alarmist.

Science, as a discipline and a method of inquiry, has moved away from authority as the primary source of knowledge.

Therefore, we should give science special authority.

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Kasper's complaint is exceedingly clear, and calls out specific and substantive issues which violate ABC News standards. I would encourage anyone concerned about this to lodge a complaint as well.

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A good publication on modelling and decision making, published by Cambridge University Press, and written by Eric Winsberg and Stephanie Harvard.

It includes a section on Covid-19 modelling.

In testimony before the US Senate yesterday, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly (Ziyad Al-Aly, MD) is quoted as saying “The burden of disease and disability in Long Covid is on par with heart disease and cancer”.

I think this statement is provably false.

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