Posted on 11/01/2022 5:51:52 PM PDT by george76
Food writer and author of the hit memoir “Julie and Julia,” Julie Powell, has died at 49 from cardiac arrest. Powell had been tweeting about not feeling well in recent weeks.
“‘Julie & Julia’ became an instant classic and it is with gratitude for her unique voice that we will now remember Julie’s dazzling brilliance and originality,” Judy Clain, the editor-in-chief of Little, Brown and Co., said in a statement announcing her death.
“We mourn her loss with her husband Eric and her family. We are sending our deepest condolences to all who knew and loved Julie, whether personally or through the deep connections she forged with readers of her memoirs. She was a brilliant writer and a daring, original person and she will not be forgotten.”
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The writer had also tweeted about being vaccinated and boosted several times.
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So, as a vaccinated, boosted person, I’ve not been tested for Covid. Is it possible for me to be at this point? The Long Covid thing worries me, but also keep in mind that I’m a hypochondriac,” Powell tweeted in June.
Powell also tweeted about not allowing unvaccinated relatives into her home.
“My cousin won’t get vaccinated and I don’t want to allow him in the house with my niece and nephew who are too young to be vaccinated,” she wrote in October, 2021.
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Powell died at her home in New York on Oct. 26.
"My data" has nothing to do with Finland's decisions as to how to classify a death.
Ah, good ol’ “estimates”. Pulled that one right out of your ass.
Actually it was the Brown University School of Public Health, but if you whistle a little louder you won't be able to hear the rustling in the graveyard.
Your data has the same flaws which have been the focus since COVID deaths were being reported - motorcycle accidents classified as COVID deaths for example. If 42% of the COVID tests were false positives and another 40% of the COVID deaths are based solely on whether or not a death occurred within 30 days with no regard to any type of symptoms or whatever this skews the "data" so much it is meaningless.
Nothing was "discovered". The Finnish Institute for Health had a policy of reporting deaths occurring within 30 days of a positive test as a Covid death for initial reporting purposes. This wasn't a secret, it was their official policy.
Once the death certificates were available they were reviewed and were counted as an "official" Covid death only if the physician cited Covid on the certificate. A very reasonable, if conservative, approach.
So what we have is a garden variety administrative process, totally transparent and in the open, and your immediate reaction is to claim lies, fraud and conspiracy.
More to the point of our conversation, as I stated earlier this would have no effect on the relative death rates of the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated because the same reporting policy applied to both.
Also, you did not address all of the lies I listed. Were they lies or not or are you ready to gaslight everyone and try to convince them it didn't happen as there is ample evidence they lied over and over again?
I didn't address them then because they were just an attempt to divert from our discussion which was about the relative death rates of vaxxed vs. unvaxxed.
The items you listed - ...six foot social distancing, masking up, lockdowns, vaccinated people can't get sick, no such thing as natural immunity, vaccinated can't spread the virus, COVID lives on surfaces longer, ivermectin doesn't work and is dangerous, hydroxychloriqin is dangerous, vitamin d doesn't work, etc...the list goes on and on... - were public health decisions made in good faith real time as we were trying to deal with a pandemic caused by a novel virus.
Well, except for lockdowns which were done by businesses and local governments and the notion that there's no such thing as natural immunity which no one said. It's obvious that there's some level of immunity from getting Covid but it isn't complete - people get it more than once - and the recommendation was to get vaccinated because it would increase protection even if you had the disease.
Public health professionals have a job which is to protect as many people as possible. They make very conservative recommendations and it isn't their job to worry about the economy, education or personal liberty. That's the job of our politicians. They are supposed to take the public health recommendations, balance them with all of the other factors, and come up with a policy that works for everyone.
It's difficult and it's much easier to find a Bogeyman like Fauci to simplistically blame our complex problems on.
Even easier is to claim lies and conspiracies when in fact it's professionals trying to do their best in uncharted territory.
That doesn't affect the death rate in the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. Both are reported using the same criteria.
Good faith, really? Thru force of government and no debate nor informed consent? Ruining people lives and livelihoods because they disagreed? Stripping doctors of their credentials because they were spreading "misinformation" because they disagreed Is that the considered "Good Faith" to you?
Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity BY Jeffrey A. TuckerJEFFREY A. TUCKER MARCH 25, 2022
https://brownstone.org/articles/fauci-finally-admits-natural-immunity/
----------------------------------------------- Yes, Fauci has never worried about consistency or even contradicting himself one day to the next, often without explanation. Too often his doling out “the science” has felt like performance art. Still, the record is that Fauci and all his compatriots either downplayed or denied natural immunity for two years. That has been the source of vast confusion.
In fact, this might have been the most egregious science error of the entire pandemic. It amounted to giving the silent treatment to the most well-established point of cell biology that we have. It was taught to every generation from the 1920s until sometime in the new century when people stopped paying attention in 9th-grade biology class.
After the pandemic broke, Fauci said nothing on this topic for a year and a half. The John Snow Memorandum, written to counter the Great Barrington Declaration, claimed “there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection.” Mandates and passports have excluded it. Academic, medical, and corporate enforcers have generally refused to recognize it.
When CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked him specifically, September 13, 2021, Fauci quickly demurred.
“I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that. That’s something that we’re going to have to discuss regarding the durability of the response,” Fauci said. “I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously.”
In other words, no one knows!
The HHS head refused to say either way, even when grilled by Rand Paul.
Earlier, the WHO even backed up this denialism, going so far as to change their own definition of immunity in the middle of a pandemic. They eliminated the old sentence on natural immunity and replaced it with a claim that immunity comes from “protecting people from the virus” and not “exposing them to it.” That’s some clever rhetoric right there!
There’s no question that this effort to deny natural immunity was systematic and pushed from the top.
How has this changed? In February 2022, the CDC finally published on the topic that they could not forever deny. And now, Fauci himself let the following slip in an interview on March 23, 2022:
“When you look at the cases they do not appear to be any more severe [than Omicron] and they do not appear to evade immune responses either from vaccine or prior infection.”
What’s critical here is not his debatable claim about vaccines but rather his offhand remark about prior infection. It was tossed off as if: “Everyone knows this.” If so, it is no thanks to him, the CDC, or WHO.
To be sure, everything we’ve known since two years ago – if not 2.5 thousand years – is that immunity from prior Covid infection is real. Vaccines have traditionally been a substitute version of exactly that. Brownstone has assembled fully 150 studies that demonstrate that immunity through infection is effective, broad, and lasting.
Had that messaging been around during lockdowns, the attitude toward the virus would have been very different. We would have clearly seen the present reality from the beginning, namely that endemicity generally arrives in the case of a new virus of this sort due to exposure-induced population immunity. This is how humankind evolved to live in the presence of pathogens.
If we had widespread public awareness of this, the public-health priority would not have been locking down people who can manage exposure but rather alerting those who cannot to be careful until herd immunity in one’s own circle of contacts has been realized via meeting the virus and recovering.
To those who say that is dangerous, consider that mass exposure is precisely what happened in any case, stretched out over two years rather than occurring in a single season. This delaying of the inevitable might be what allowed for variants to emerge and take hold in successive rounds, each new one hitting naive immune systems in ways that were difficult to predict. Flatten the curve amounted to “prolonging the pain,” exactly as Knut Wittkowski predicted in March 2020.
A widespread understanding of natural immunity would have changed the entire calculus of public perception of how to manage one’s life in the face of a new virus. Instead of just running and hiding, people might have considered tradeoffs, as they had always done in the past. What is my risk of infection and under what conditions? If I do get the thing, what happens then? It might also have changed the priorities from disease avoidance and vaccine subsidies and mandates to thinking about the crucial thing: what should people do if they get sick? What should doctors recommend and prescribe?
The neglect of therapeutics figures into this very highly. If people believe that locking down, staying away, masking up, stopping travel, and generally giving up all choices in life were the right way to make a pathogen magically disappear, plus they are under the impression that the risk of severe outcomes is equally distributed across the whole population, plus they believe that 3-4% of the population is going to die from Covid (as was suggested in the early days), you end up with a much more compliant people.
If natural immunity had been rightly seen as the most robust and broad form of immunity from the beginning, and we instead followed the idea of focused protection, the vaccine mandates would have been out of the question.
In other words, the silence of this topic was critical to scaring people all over the world into going along with an unprecedented attack on rights and liberties, thus losing up to two years of childhood education, closing millions of small businesses, and denying people basic religious liberties, in addition to the collapse of public health that resulted in record-breaking alcohol and opioid-related deaths, not to mention lost cancer screenings, childhood vaccinations, and general ill-health both physical and mental.
This stuff is not without consequence. Once might expect some contrition. Instead we get a passing comment and nothing more. After all, frank talk about this subject might be risky: it would imply that their entire mitigation strategy was wrong from the beginning and should never be attempted again. ----------------------------------------------------
Please don't try and gaslight.
Of the things you listed only lockdowns were mandatory and they were done by state and local governments. Not the CDC, not Fauci, not Trump, not Biden.
Ruining people lives and livelihoods because they disagreed?
Examples?
Stripping doctors of their credentials because they were spreading "misinformation" because they disagreed Is that the considered "Good Faith" to you?
There are accepted standards in the medical community and they aren't based on someone's opinion. Doctors, like anyone else, can have any opinion they want but when they start treating or advising patients medical boards rightly enforce some standards.
Medical boards can, in good faith, find that a doctor isn't acting in the best interests of patients or otherwise violating his position.
Give a specific example and we can discuss it.
The memo your article quoted says:
“there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection.”
That was absolutely correct at the time because we didn't have appreciable evidence yet. The pandemic was new.
What do we know now after almost 3 years? We know that Covid infection doesn't provide lasting protective immunity to SARS CoV2.
Millions of people have contracted Covid more than once.
So everything Fauci or anyone else you've cited said about natural immunity has been definitively proven to be true.
No, this was not true at the time and many doctors and scientists argued against this very point because the John Snow Memorandum was from Oct 2020 not at the beginning of the "pandemic" as you state.
And we also know, as had been predicted, that the vaccine doesn't prevent COVID as is it was approved for and what is stated on the actual inert of the drug.
And millions of people have not been vaccinated and contracted COVID more than once without and long lasting side effects unlike the vaxxed which seem to be having some very terrible side effects and dying suddenly.
Dr McCullough being stripped of his specialties.
Peter McCullough is an author of 677 articles published in the scientific peer-reviewed journals. He’s one of the most respected cardiologists in the world. He’s been right about everything throughout the pandemic. He has an encyclopedic memory of every paper he’s ever read. And he’s just a wonderful, nice person to boot. You really never met a nicer guy.
He’s sacrificed everything so he can speak the truth about the COVID policies. If there was one COVID advisor that the government should be listening to, Dr. Peter McCullough would be at the top of every list.
So how is he being rewarded for having the courage to speak the truth?
I got this message from him this morning:
I was terminated as the Editor-In-Chief of Cardiorenal Medicine and Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine after years of service and rising impact factors. There was no phone call, no board meeting, no due process. Just e-mails or certified letters. Powerful dark forces are working in academic medicine to expunge any resistance to the vax.
Yesterday I was stripped of my board certifications in Internal Medicine and Cardiology after decades of perfect clinical performance, board scores, and hundreds of peer reviewed publications.
None of this will stop until there is a “needle in every arm.”
These lockdowns were done at the behest and unscientific guidance of the CDC and NIH, 15 days to slow the spread - remember? Only some Govs and Local officials with the guts not to shutdown were the exceptions.
The CDC specifically proglamated an eviction moratorium thru their administrative power which was illegal, Biden made vaccinations mandatory for gov workers and gov contractors - My job and livelihood was threatened because of this and I don't have anything to do with any gov contracts and I work from home?
This is the tyranny you accept because "it was a novel virus". This is the anti-Constitutional authority you accept and embrace in the name of science. Science which was not scientific, nor peer reviewed, nor debated, otherwise you are cancelled financially or socially.
Back to your data. The data you are providing needs to be peer reviewed for accuracy due to the liars that are providing it, end of story. No one will believe your data because it is from a bunch of liars that have been slowly exposed more and more since the beginning of this whole worldwide experiment and it will continue as the light of truth keeps illuminating the evil that was perpetrated.
It was true then and it's still true. Natural immunity wanes just like the immunity from vaccines.
Exactly!! Natural immunity doesn't offer long lasting protection from infection.
Just like Fauci said.
Natural Immunity is the gold standard and lasts much much longer than the "vaccines" do.
Exactly!! Natural immunity doesn't offer long lasting protection from infection.
Exactly! No need for a vaccine since millions and millions are just fine.
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