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I thought it was goin to be this: https://youtu.be/orBH_Qnw3eY


You are correct, and the problem with these articles is that they sound too much like a sales pitch and less like a responsible general-public divulgation article.

She may not go in detail about the items aforementioned, but she doesn't even mention once that the technology might have have possible dangers, and that one must exercise caution in its evaluation. The article its all about the potential benefits of the technology, without warning the public about its potential dangers.

She even mentions that "the FDA is so painfully slow, and so indifferent to human suffering. It takes, on average, eight years to get a new drug through clinical trials."

Yeah, those pesky thorough clinical trials, they are a hurdle on the return on investment.


Some people want to get forgiveness without repentance.


The government has to step in by stepping out.

1. There is a problem. 2. Government steps in to fix problem. 3. Government creates two new problems by fixing the first one. 4. Repeat x 2


The like Macron left-wing, they didn't like the other guys.

Just like they liked Obama Neo-lib style, but not Bernies.

Original statement is still correct.


The "locking down children in cages" was already being done during the Obama period.


Separating them from their mothers? Nope


Antonio Gramsci is pleased.


Expect ratings, reviews, and customer interaction in general, to go down.


> Excess deaths are widely considered to be “from Covid”

Considered by whom? The funny thing is that there was no non-covid excess mortality in 2020, that stated on 2021, which is the same time the v{censored} started.

> Unvaccinated people are dying at a much higher rate.

Again, where did you see that?


Insurance companies have already begun publishing reports indicating that excess mortality rates are inversely related to vaccine adoption (i.e. higher excess mortality in states with lower vaccination rates).


Source?


Apologies, as it's a PDF. I don't have another version of it available.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22275411-group-life-...


Thanks. Very noisy data, so I'd say far from conclusive, particularly given the confounding variables that differ between states. Still, the best attempt I've seen to actually look into this issue.

Countries like the UK have national vaccination databases. They could easily put this issue to rest with a study of excess deaths by vaccination status, controlling for age/health/etc., except they conspicuously have chosen not to.


It's definitely not a scientific study of the data, but those will follow in years to come by respective national and international bodies I assume.


Starts on page 33, for any one else curious at looking. Quite interesting to see what appears to be their hazard ratio relative to the state population: their members have a much higher excess death rate, and their members show minimal correlation to the vaccine rate of the state they are in—presumably reflecting that older, sicker, or more health-conscious people opt in more often to buying health care plans?



There are definitely excess deaths reported starting in 2020. Started in March. See the chart at the bottom of this page: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

And here’s the total death rate by vaccination status: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...

I assume you’ll switch to some CDC conspiracy nonsense at this point, in which case we are done here.


You're conflating total excess deaths for _all_ vax statuses (in your first link) against COVID death rates by vax status (with your second link).

Neither is what the GP is talking about.


Do you mean “Weekly number of deaths (from all causes)?” If so that is such a junk chart I don’t see how it supports either claim. The X axis label is absolute garbage. It’s completely unclear where the new year begins. A naive reading (counting back from 2022) has the excess deaths starting in 2019!


> What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized

Where did you see that?



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