Posted on 11/17/2022 12:02:03 PM PST by george76
Why? Because that's what the policy is! Nobody is allowed to ask why, not even Stanford faculty. The policy is: "Just shut up, do what you are told, and don't ask questions." That's how science works.
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My previous article on Stanford’s vaccination policy was incorrect.
I was fooled because they issued very unclear guidance on Oct 17, 2022 which basically said they encourage people to take the shots.
I clarified this with Lucia Sinatra of NoCollegeMandates: the primary series and a booster is required for Stanford students.
Why? This makes no sense. Well, it’s the policy.
And even Stanford faculty are not allowed to ask questions about the rationale. People are expected to follow the policy and not ask questions, no matter how irrational it is. I know this because I talked to a very prominent Stanford faculty member who has tried to understand the rationale for the policy and was stonewalled when he tried to ask any questions.
Stanford just came out with this new guidance just two days ago (Nov 14). Among other things it says, without evidence, that:
The new bivalent booster provides crucial protection from COVID-19, especially during travel season.
Great, so if it does that, why do you need a mandate?
It also claims:
Boosters help reduce the risk of both hospitalization and Long COVID. The CDC estimates that about one in every five people who get COVID, even those with no symptoms when infected, develop and suffer from Long COVID, which can have devastating and debilitating long-term health effects including nervous system, digestive, heart, and breathing issues.
There is no evidence for that. But there is evidence that using early treatment protocols that rely on repurposed drugs is virtually 100% effective in preventing long COVID. Of course, no mention of that. I wrote about how to prevent long haul COVID a year ago and also wrote about it more recently here. Fareed and Tyson have treated over 15,000 COVID cases with virtually zero long-haul COVID (aka PACS).
They also claim:
Masking while traveling and in crowded indoor spaces can also limit your risk for COVID.
No it can’t. No way. I’ve written extensively on the subject. The Bangladesh study put all that to rest: there was no protection at all.
I sent emails to both of the authors of this memo. One of us is spreading misinformation and I don’t think it is me. But if I’m wrong, I’m open to seeing the evidence.
Google isn’t any better than Stanford: you aren’t allowed to question the policy there either..
At Google, it’s the same way. Just shut up and follow the policy. No questions allowed. That’s the way science works nowadays (which is the opposite of how science used to work).
Google still has a vaccine mandate for the primary series. No booster mandate. They ran clinics for the bivalent booster but demand was low. They have an internal vaxpass system where you upload your proof of vaccination.
You can get out of it if you are a remote employee or get a religious or medical exemption. If you have an exemption, you can come into the office but you must remain 6 feet away (note: there is NO science on that one) and if you wear a mask. Apparently, the vaccines don’t really work at all to protect the employees that’s why the extra precautions (which don’t work at all either) are needed.
Google executives in charge of the policy, Karen DeSalvo (Chief Health Officer) and Sohini Stone (Chief Medical Officer for Global Employee Health) both refuse to answer any questions from Google employees about the policies.
De Salvo reportedly told employees that people who did not get vaccinated “did not want to benefit from science.”
Summary..
Science used to be about inquiry, asking questions, and adjusting beliefs based on data. Not anymore.
Today, science is about blindly following whatever the government says and not asking any questions. Critical thinking is discouraged. This is how we are training our kids to think at most universities in our country.
There must have been some randomized double-blind phase 3 trial showing this results in better outcomes for society. Does anyone have a reference on that?
Stahn-ford = Stoopid
Well, maybe not stupid, but...glitzy
All show, no go
“science is about blindly following whatever the government says and not asking any questions. Critical thinking is discouraged. This is how we are training our kids to think at most universities in our country”
Eisenhower nailed it many decades ago;
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.
In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research.
Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
CDC Director: Covid vaccines can’t prevent transmission
Eric Sykes - Jan 10
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-director-covid-vaccines-cant-prevent-transmission-anymore/ar-AASDndg
“The director for the CDC publicly acknowledged in a CNN interview that the COVID-19 vaccine is not effective at preventing transmission of the virus.”
As if we need proof as to why Americans have lost faith on our public health system.
Certain factors leading to lower rates of COVID-19 vaccination in certain states may have spilled over to uptake of the seasonal flu shot, an observational study suggests (N Engl J Med 2022;DOI:10.1056/NEJMc2204560). Rates of flu vaccination were stable during the first influenza season of the pandemic, but following the widespread release of vaccines for the coronavirus, flu vaccination rates varied in ways that correlated with states’ COVID-19 vaccination rates. For states in the lower quartiles of COVID-19 vaccination, rates of flu vaccination dropped from 43.7% and 45.5% in 2020-2021 to 39.2% and 43.5% in 2021-2022, according to their New England Journal of Medicine correspondence. Meanwhile, states in the top quartiles of COVID-19 vaccination saw flu vaccination rates increase from 46.9% and 49.0% in the first year of the pandemic to 47.7% and 52.8% following the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. Decreases in flu vaccination were driven by lower rates among children; reassuringly, the researchers noted, flu vaccination in older adults remained stable. It is alarming that controversy surrounding COVID-19 vaccination may be undermining separate public health efforts that save thousands of lives each year,” Leuchter said in a press release. “Many Americans who never before declined a routine, potentially life-saving vaccine have started to do so,” he added. “This supports what I have seen in my clinical practice and suggests that information and policies specific to COVID-19 vaccines may be eroding more general faith in medicine and our government’s role in public health.”
“I sent emails to both of the authors of this memo. “
And here’s a list of the “special favors” I received in return for my $5M total expenditure on behalf of Gore (i.e., the 500K plus $4.5M more in various ways):
One return phone call from Joe Lieberman thanking me. 4 minute duration.
Sat one person away from Joe Lieberman at a fundraiser at Joel Hyatt’s home
Christmas party invitations from both Clinton and Gore
Invitation to Election Night celebration in Tennessee and special VIP passes to the stage area
Notification of a conference call with Al Gore (over 200 people were on the call)
A “plate” from the DNC signed by Al Gore (one of thousands produced)
I’ve never received a phone call from Gore, nor his email address, nor a thank you note. And you thought money buys influence, eh?
If you can’t question “ the science”…it isn’t science.
Countries like Denmark have stopped recommending vaxx for under-30’s because the risk of vaxx injury exceeds any benefit.
Is that science?
The board at Stanford needs to face charges for fraud because that’s exactly what they’re perpetrating here.
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