Posted on 01/04/2022 1:40:07 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
It’s easy to put a person in a box, to write someone off as an anti-vaxxer. But it isn’t always that simple.
Take Marty Makary, a professor of surgery and health policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has made a name for himself during the pandemic, partly through his appearances on Fox News shows like Tucker Carlson’s.
But while he’s certainly a contrarian pandemic pundit, he isn’t a fringe voice, nor a political one. He writes op-eds for places like The Washington Post and The New York Times. He told Nightly, unprompted, that he wasn’t a partisan, during an interview this morning. He had another piece published on the website for Fox News this morning, calling for new leadership at the FDA.
He also told me I could call him any time if I wanted to hear a perspective on Covid policy that was different from the “standard party line.”
Some on the left have said Makary is spreading misinformation, while some Republicans have accused him of being an alarmist. He’s argued against masks for children. He’s criticized the CDC for not conducting its own research on boosters. He’s pro-vaccine, but he opposes blanket vaccine mandates unless they’re for health care workers.
Lately Makary has been questioning whether children, especially boys, need two doses of a Covid vaccine. Once again, he falls outside the consensus of his fellow public health experts with his views.
Makary is particularly concerned about a condition known as myocarditis, inflammation of the heart, and its potential as a risk factor for young men after receiving the second dose of an mRNA vaccine. He’s proposed a one-dose regimen for young men, to lower their chances of developing the condition.
So, no, Makary is not an anti-vaxxer...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
At least 243,527,564 people or 74% of the population have received at least one dose. (more than 3 times larger number than votes president Trump received in either run)
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Whenever I see the word “consensus” regarding science, only one thing comes to mind, Jim Jones and the Consensus amongst his followers that drinking the koolaid was the right approach.
The word has been overused and distorted by those who buy into a certain narrative. It shuts down any different ideas/thinking of others. Kinda on par with racist.
99.9% of Jonestown, Guyana residents received jabs on November 18, 1978. No president in history has ever had so high a percentage compliance.
All it takes is 1 person to strongly disagree and there is “no consensus”
You compare Jonestown residents with USA residents?
May be you need to see a shrink.
As I remember, it wasn’t a consensus. A good number of his followers did not want to kill their children and die themselves. Those were murdered.
Yeah like 0.005% of USA population. You can not extrapolate with such small sample. If you did, you would not do well in real world.
Perfectly said and perfectly applicable.
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