Don't let facts disturb your faith in covid vaccines

I’ve often said that if we want to understand the pandemic, we need to look to what’s happening in Israel. That’s because Israel was first off the mark with mass vaccinations, and has one of the highest rates of fully-vaccinated people in the world.

Here’s a timely ten minute read, published yesterday; Israel is overrun with Covid. The vaccines have failed.

Long story short, Israel is on the second booster shot - four doses of Pfizer’s safe and effective vaccine, and they’ve got more covid than ever. This is not a new story and the trend has been evident for some time, but that’s done nothing to rein in media fear-mongering.

One wonders if that’s just due to will-full ignorance, or is something else at play? 

Correcting vaccine falsehoods (brought to you by Pfizer)

The top ‘o the op-ed page in today’s Globe goes to Timothy Caulfield; Correcting falsehoods isn’t cancel culture.

Mr Caulfield, we are told, is Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. He has a bee in his bonnet over those gosh-darned anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers like Aaron Rogers, Joe Rogan, and “disgraced American virologist Robert Malone.”

Rogan had the disgraced guy on his show recently. I personally don’t have the attention span to follow a three hour interview, but apparently 11 million others did. That’s a gargantuan number for anything found on American screens, easily eclipsing all cable news platforms combined. Obviously, pandemic scepticism is growing, two full years into this circus.

I like to check out the affiliations of the thought leaders who appear on the op-ed page. I googled "corporate partnerships u of alberta."

Oh, what a surprise! There’s Pfizer! Along with fellow pharma bigs Merck and J & J! Root around a little more on the old googlator and you’ll find the pharma partners are worth tens of millions to the U of A!

Check out this Wikipedia page, List of largest pharmaceutical settlements.

All of U Alberta’s pharma partners are on it!

Pfizer is on it twice!

And that list ends in 2012. Here’s an updated accounting of Pfizers many regulatory challenges since 2000. Over ten billion in fines for their many shenanigans in the past twenty years!

So who are you gonna believe?

An NFL quarterback, or a guy whose employer takes money from Pfizer?

Expert claims 66% higher rate of myocarditis for Moderna vaxx nothing to worry about

You’ve probably seen the CBC story about all those fussy folks walking away from the Moderna vaccine if that’s what’s offered when they go for their booster shot. The narrative managers at CBC have decided to nip that irresponsible bit of effrontery in the bud.

To that end, Julianne Hazlewood interviewed a 70 year old virologist just after the eight o’clock news this morning. He reassured the audience that the Moderna vaccine is so safe and effective that he, an expert, personally requested it by name.

Our expert even brought some stats with him. Of every 100k vaccinations with Pfizer, 1.5 people will develop myocarditis, or swelling of the heart, whereas with Moderna, the number is 2.5, which he assured us is “nothing, only one more person per 100k vaccinations.”

I thought, hold the phone, Mr. Expert. An increase from 1.5 to 2.5 isn’t nothing.

It’s a 66% higher chance of getting myocarditis with your vaccination!

That's hundreds more myocarditis cases when you're vaccinating all of Canada.

But not too worry. According to the expert, myocarditis is no big deal - there’s plenty of safe and effective pharmaceutical products out there to fix up your myocarditis in no time!

Do you ever get the impression that a lot of these "experts" are just glorified vaccine salesmen?

Another Einstein notices more testing results in more covid

I don't know who Jim Quinn is, but his article at Zerohedge calling out manipulation of covid data seems a winner. At 8 this morning it had over 40k looks. Took my morning walk and it was over 50k by the time I returned, and it's doubled since.

It's been obvious since the beginning of the pandemic that virtually all media have been hyping the fear factor. It's cases, cases, deaths, cases, cases, oh look, another more deadly variant! They'll tell you everything you need to know about case and death counts, but if you want to know test numbers, you're on your own.

That's not by accident.

And of course the vaccines are perfectly safe. Perfectly safe! There is no excuse other than selfishness and/or stupidity why anyone should be vaccine hesitant... 

Oopsie! Here's an embarrassing headline from page A4 of today's Globe and Mail; New data confirm Pfizer, Moderna vaccine link to risk of heart problem.

But it's only a tiny risk, so the vaccine is perfectly safe! Who could possibly be reluctant to get a perfectly safe vaccine that'll give you a few months of partial protection from a virus that over 99% of infected recover from? 

It's time for the pinheads at The Globe and Mail to update the windy axiom that graces the top of their editorial page.

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures unless we say so.

Why the pot-addled hillbilly trusts Pfizer

Not that I trust Pfizer. 

Oh, I "trust" them alright. I trust them to do what's best for Pfizer.

But here's the thing. I've read a fairly broad swath of vaccine propaganda, both on the pro and the con sides. On the one hand, you've got a bunch of folks jumping up and down telling you the vaccine is infinitely more deadly than the virus.

On the other hand, you've got your legacy media telling you these vaccines are perfectly safe. Given their track record, I don't put a lot of stock in legacy media.

At the end of the day, in spite of their ethically challenged history, I don't see how it could ever be in Pfizer's interest to kill off a whole bunch of their customers.

Much better to keep you up and about to sell you another booster shot every few months.