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stevefrench93on FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing exculpatory evidence

Beware the people who moralize about great issues; moralizing is easier than facing hard facts.

- John Corry

stevefrench93on Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

"Trust the Science" is the product of well funded social scientists who leveraged focus groups to determine the phrase effectively targeted people who already align themselves with the myriad of establishment pitch men - Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Trevor Noah, et al. Same as (ironically) "My body, my choice."

"Trust the Science" is merely a proxy for "Believe in and defend the Neoliberal agenda against scientific criticism".

If you're still uncritical of it, you might want to start reading the science.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

"At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases..."

stevefrench93on The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”

Wasn't that the point of Wikipedia?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9793263/Nobody-trus...

stevefrench93on Majority of Guards at Covid-Wracked California Prisons Refusing Vaccination

How do they train you to become stronger?

stevefrench93on Majority of Guards at Covid-Wracked California Prisons Refusing Vaccination

The GLARING logical flaw is that vaccines are safe and effective.

stevefrench93on Majority of Guards at Covid-Wracked California Prisons Refusing Vaccination

Their flawed logic is likely as follows:

1. I have consistent prolonged exposure to inmates in my day to day so there is a high probability of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

2. While infected, my immune system produced similar or identical antibodies to the vaccine.

3. The potential benefits of the vaccine no longer outweigh the potential risks.

Something must be done to educate these guards.

stevefrench93on FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15

According to this paper published recently in Nature Immunology, around 4 out of 5 people already have pre-existing immunity to SARS-COV-2.

> Of the SARS donors, 100% showed T cell responses to cross-reactive and/or specific ECs (HLA class I 86%, HLA-DR 100%; Fig. 5d,e), whereas 81% of PRE donors showed HLA class I (16%) and/or HLA-DR (77%) T cell responses to cross-reactive ECs (Fig. 5d).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x.pdf

stevefrench93on FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15

I'm looking into it too. Can you provide more information on the long term organ damage? Do you know what the incidence of this kind of damage in children is?

stevefrench93on FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15

282 deaths according to CDC.

stevefrench93on FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15

Does anyone know the case fatality rate for children in this age range?

stevefrench93on Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

I wouldn't install beta software on a production system though.