The factual post that got Alex Berenson banned from Twitter

American Thinker ^ | 08/30/2021 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

From the beginning of the COVID pandemic, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has been focused on following the facts no matter where they lead.  More often than not, the facts have led him in a different direction from those emanating from the World Health Organization or from Anthony Fauci.  What's important to remember about Berenson, though, is that, while his conclusions may differ from those being pushed on the American people, he never deviates from the facts.  That's why Twitter just kicked him off.

Because Berenson's conclusions did not support mask mandates and lockdowns, the tech tyrants hate him.  He's routinely been locked out of Twitter, and, last year, Amazon tried to shut down his self-published works about the virus.

Now Twitter has banned him permanently for pointing out the obvious about the vaccines: they're not real vaccines that provide permanent protection against an illness.  (I liken them to space-age flu shots.)

Berenson has known for a while that he was going to get the ax, which is why, when he's appeared on Tucker Carlson's show (as he has regularly since the pandemic began), he's been urging people to visit his Substack account.

On Saturday, Berenson put up a short post at Substack entitled "Goodbye Twitter: I am officially suspended."  The eye-catching thing on the post is the "entirely accurate" tweet that got him suspended — and he's right that it is entirely accurate:

Here's Berenson making the same point on Tucker Carlson's show a week and a half ago:

What was a little more interesting to me was a throwaway line Berenson dropped into his accompanying comments (emphasis mine):

This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate. I can't wait to hear what a jury will make of this.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I ended up getting Pfizer because it became available for my cohort near the end of March.

I would still think about getting a J&J shot, because it works differently, and therefore would give a different coverage.

But first, I’ll be getting the booster, probably when it first becomes available to general use, assuming it is still free.

Pfizer has shown to be effective at blocking infection, and also preventing transmission even if you get the virus.

And it is still highly effective — if you have received both doses, you are more likely to die from a dog attack than from COVID. Heck, you are more likely to die from being stabbed with a sharp object, than to be hospitalized with COVID.

And there are no vaccines for dog attacks or pointy objects.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Here is the information from the CDC website posted in 2019, before we knew about COVID:

“For the 2019-2020 flu season, ACIP recommends annual flu vaccination for everyone 6 months and older with any licensed, age-appropriate flu vaccine (IIV, RIV4, or LAIV4) with no preference expressed for any one vaccine over another.”

It is true though that lots of people call it the “flu shot” — probably because two syllables is easier to say than three. A lot of people call it the “COVID shot”, or the “COVID jab”.

[CharlesWayneCT]

What do you call a vaccine the destroys a body’s neutralizing antibodies?

Fictional?

You should not believe everything people post to youtube videos. I've heard that sometimes they have inaccurate information.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Tetanus has to be redone.

Here is a list of vaccines that have booster shots while you are a child:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)
Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)
Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap)

Here is a list of vaccines for which adults should get a booster:
Tdap (every 10 years)
Shingles
Pneumonia
Varicella
MMR

If you have never had a booster shot for any vaccines, you should discuss it with your doctor, to see if you might be due for one or more.

I’m thinking about Shingles, since I actually had chicken pox as a child and I understand shingles is really painful.

I just got a booster for TDAP a couple of years ago, I think — or maybe it was MMR. I should check the records.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Because this is a new type of vaccine, created with modern genetic science. It remains to be seen whether this method of doing vaccines will inherently require more boosters than the old tried-and-true “inject people with a weak version of a disease and let their bodies beat it”. The plus side is nobody can get COVID from this vaccine, while people did get diseases occasionally from some live-virus vaccines.

Oh, and the “dead virus” vaccines took a long time to develop, while we managed to get a highly effective vaccine for COVID in a little over 6 months.

[Pelham]

“Great, you must be a smart chap! What do you call a vaccine the destroys a body’s neutralizing antibodies?”

If David Bauer has discovered that taking the Pfizer vax is destroying your neutralizing antibodies that is indeed terrible!!

But that isn’t at all what he’s saying.

Bauer is comparing the number of NAbs the Pfizer vax generates versus Wild-type antibodies. And the study he is doing is also about Delta.

The video doesn’t give you the context. I’m sure that’s purely “an oversight”. But you can read about the study in the PubMed paper that Dr David Bauer co-authored which is found here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8175044/

“Neutralising antibody activity against SARS-CoV-2 VOCs B.1.617.2 and B.1.351 by BNT162b2 vaccination”

[cuz1961]

He does not understand what a Vaccine is, apparently
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Who can ?

when academia , which holds the concept of truth as anethma,

Wikipedia as Watson rewriting history and definitions of words daily

Weasel word Smith’s the lot of them.

Spit.

[rolling_stone]

ROFLMAO fantastic. good job. hit the nail on the head!

[Jan_Sobieski]

I’ve seen the full video as well. It says the same thing.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Don’t believe my lying eyes and ears, but believe you and Fauci. Sure thing, Genius!

[1Old Pro]

New cases here are dropping off a cliff. I wonder if this is exactly what the Brits experienced, larges increases and then over in a month: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases

[rolling_stone]

“assuming it is still free.”
(cheapskate!) you do know they are paying doctors to give the jab dont you? is that a conflict by itself?

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/covid-19/medicare-covid-19-vaccine-shot-payment

methinks more people are dying from the jab than from covid...if the truth were allowed to be known.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Alex Berenson is the man who went on Tucker Carlson right after the election ranting about how politicians should stop wasting their time trying to overturn an election and instead start working on a Covid plan with the incoming Biden administration. The worst thing about it was that Tucker never once interrupted him or asked him if he thought the results were fair. That is when I stopped watching Tucker Carlson for good.

[Bodega]

I personally think you should consider going back to school.

Your statements are not factual. And no, I will not debate what is or isn’t a vaccine...

“vaccine...vac·cine (vak’sēn, vak-sēn’), Although this word is correctly stressed on the first syllable, in U.S. usage it is often stressed on the second syllable.
Originally, the live vaccine (vaccinia, cowpox) virus inoculated in the skin as prophylaxis against smallpox and obtained from the skin of calves inoculated with seed virus. Usage has extended the meaning to include essentially any preparation intended for active immunologic prophylaxis; for example, preparations of killed microbes of virulent strains or living microbes of attenuated (variant or mutant) strains; or microbial, fungal, plant, protozoal, or metazoan derivatives or products. Method of administration varies according to the vaccine, inoculation being the most common, but ingestion is preferred in some instances and nasal spray is used occasionally.
Synonym(s): vaccinum
[L. vaccinus, relating to a cow]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

or

a. A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion of the pathogen’s structure that upon administration to an individual stimulates antibody production or cellular immunity against the pathogen but is incapable of causing severe infection.
b. A preparation from the cowpox virus that protects against smallpox when administered to an individual.
The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

or

vac·cine (vak-sēn’)
Any preparation intended for active immunologic prophylaxis, e.g., preparations of killed microbes of virulent strains or living microbes of attenuated (variant or mutant) strains, or microbial, fungal, plant, protozoal, or metazoan derivatives or product.
[L. vaccinus, relating to a cow, vacca]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

By any and all criteria available at this time, the Corona vaccine fails.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The plus side is nobody can get COVID from this vaccine

Nobody as in Lindsay Graham and 3 other senators? Nobody as in the Rev. Jesse Jackson?

Nobody as in the huge number of people who have DIED OF COVID in say, West Virginia after being (so-called) FULLY (Emphasis) vaccinated?

This is the plus side?

[joma89]

The Twitter company, all its leadership and every employee is the enemy, folks. Why is this so difficult to understand?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yes, because of course there is a difference between getting COVID from a vaccination, and getting COVID after you have been vaccinated.

Vaccines are never perfect. But in addition to preventing a majority of infections, they also greatly reduce the risk of serious infections. Mostly because even if they don’t prep your immune system to completely thwart the virus, they do get you ahead of the curve for fighting it.

Hence, a vaccinated person may be more likely to get hit by a car than die from a COVID infection. Of course, Vaccines do not protect you from vehicle collisions.

[CharlesWayneCT]

“include essentially any preparation intended for active immunologic prophylaxis;”

Pretty much covers it. Not surprising that definitions from the early 2000s, and even 2012, would not specifically reference techniques for vaccines that were not in use at the time.

Pretty sure if you pulled out the first edition of a dictionary that had “vaccine”, you’d find that almost none of our vaccines meet that definition.

In general, btw, dictionaries are not actually the text that dictates what words mean, but are the compilation of how words are used. They are in fact, unlike the constitution, living, breathing documents.

Occasionally this upsets people, until they realize they are not still using 16th century English, and decide that maybe allowing for a modern english acceptance is a good thing. Otherwise, they’d have to wonder how to understand Beowulf.