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If the Vaccines Work, Why Aren't They Working?
American Thinker.com ^ | November 22, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeph, MD

Posted on 11/22/2021 2:13:16 AM PST by Kaslin

In the movie Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane queries his team of scouts when discussing a prospective player, “If he's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good?” The scouts all have solid explanations, at least in their minds, of why a prospect might be a good hitter, from the sound of the crack of the bat when they hit the ball to the player’s good looks.

These explain why the player should be a good hitter, but what if the numbers, from batting average to on-base percentage, tell a different story? The question Billy poses is obvious in its simplicity, good hitters should hit good. And if they don’t, then perhaps they are not really good hitters.

What if we ask the same question about COVID vaccines, rephrased as “If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?”

This is the time when I must add the necessary disclaimer that I am not anti-vaccine, having been personally fully vaccinated almost a year ago. Nor am I offering medical advice, only an analysis of current news of COVID cases rising in many highly vaccinated locales, seemingly against common sense.

Some readers have asked why such a disclaimer is necessary. I am a practicing physician, although I don’t treat COVID patients, administer vaccines, or offer medical advice regarding COVID to my retina patients. But today, just having an opinion can be hazardous to one’s livelihood.

The American Federation of Medical Specialists makes it clear, “Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license.”

Hopefully asking thoughtful questions and observing how the medical authorities like Dr. Anthony Fauci have changed their own positions on vaccines is not considered “misinformation.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: briancjoondeph; covid19; safeandeffective; thankewescience; thankyouscience; vaccines
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1 posted on 11/22/2021 2:13:16 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The inability to discuss things objectively and non-politically is bad.

With the vaccines there is so much obfuscation, defensiveness and politicization that the can’t be assessed objectively.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 2:22:27 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin

One must not tell the Emperor that he has no clothes; the naked truth is much too counter-revolutionary, and the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.


3 posted on 11/22/2021 2:22:43 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kaslin
“If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?”

Anti-Vaxer! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!

4 posted on 11/22/2021 2:39:58 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Kaslin

‘ Hopefully asking thoughtful questions…’

Would be refreshing but the political climate just won’t allow it at the moment. Eventually we’ll get around to it…I hope. Let’s be clear though. It’s the left who’s stifling discussion because of their need to be always right.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 2:49:40 AM PST by 556x45
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To: Kaslin

Meanwhile...

Disclose.tv
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NEW - White House vaccinations coordinator Dr. Bechara Choucair to step down on Monday (Bloomberg)
5:26 AM · Nov 22, 2021


6 posted on 11/22/2021 2:58:46 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Kaslin

A very thoughtful and insightful read.

“Despite the shaming and ridicule, here we are, almost two years into the COVID pandemic, with a mostly vaccinated population, and hospitals and ICUs are overrun with COVID cases. This pandemic should be in the rear view mirror, yet in some respects it is bad as it was last year. Leaving Billy Beane to ask, “If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?””.


7 posted on 11/22/2021 3:59:05 AM PST by LordOddsocks
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To: Kaslin

Is Joondeph suggesting that all vaccines should be 100% effective?


8 posted on 11/22/2021 4:02:38 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Kaslin

Because it’s a mass murder shell game to depopulate the earth and secure its perverted rulers in place?

Only One Brain Cell Left..country jazz by me

https://rumble.com/vpl7jb-only-one-brain-cell-left.html


9 posted on 11/22/2021 4:02:42 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: ifinnegan

It’s the roadrunner cartoon show..the only way to get it off tv is stomp it till the tube is dark..

Only One Brain Cell left..by me

https://rumble.com/vpl7jb-only-one-brain-cell-left.html


10 posted on 11/22/2021 4:04:44 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Psalm 73

Spray with judeo Christian ethics at will, watch it wither..a song I just finished, usually I only produce judeo Christian music, and although political, never jumped in, I am tired of taking back seats to the mob, time for liberty or death to me..

Only One Brain Cell Left..country jazz by me..

https://rumble.com/vpl7jb-only-one-brain-cell-left.html


11 posted on 11/22/2021 4:08:21 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Kaslin
From Upstate NY. Is this due to CoupFlu, to the vaxxes...?

Research links COVID-19 in pregnancy with stillbirths

12 posted on 11/22/2021 4:17:15 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Kaslin

“This is the time when I must add the necessary disclaimer that I am not anti-vaccine...”

__________

So tired of this deep state-imposed script...


13 posted on 11/22/2021 4:30:49 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Kaslin

They’re working. Just not the way the recipients were told they would.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 4:36:22 AM PST by Old Yeller (You can’t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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To: Kaslin

Just like with the flu - these things mutate.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 4:40:08 AM PST by fruser1
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To: DoodleDawg
Is Joondeph suggesting that all vaccines should be 100% effective?

Vax shills just have to shill.

Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

Show us where he even suggested such instead of trying to discredit him by implying that he did.

There’s a world of difference between not 100% which results in a few cases of illness, and the tsunami of cases overwhelming the most vaxxed areas.

But since you are obviously literate, I can conclude that you actually know that.

16 posted on 11/22/2021 4:41:12 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: Kaslin

The word vaccine in the context of how it is used is where it all begins. The JAB is more accurate as it is most truthful as to what people are getting. A vaccine offers protection. A JAB stab doesn’t indicate anything until you know what is in the jabbing stabbing! The fraudsters of the Faucianity religious cult by this time know that people are being killed when taking the jab. Not everyone is being killed but there are people dying. Now people will have to be jabbed every six months to stay in communion with lord Fauci. This is like the alcoholic that you may know in your circle of people in your life. Fauci keeps telling lies to your face but that bottle … They must get back to that bottle! That bottle has the magic potion to keep them happy and well! pFauci 2020 everclear is what people of the cult must have to stay alive! They are addicted by this time! With each coming to the store the nurse will say these words as they depart … au revoir (see you later)! God help them and have mercy on them.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 4:57:09 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Kaslin
Alex Berenson: "If you work in a PCR testing lab or have access to broad datasets of CT counts, let me know."
18 posted on 11/22/2021 5:08:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Kaslin
I am not anti-vaccine, having been personally fully vaccinated almost a year ago

Well aren't you special.

Now, if a "vaccinated" person truly "follows the science" and considers the reams of data generated over the past year about the "vaccine's" ineffectiveness and its lethal dangers they must know that being "vaccinated" they are a threat to healthy unvaccinated people.

They have a duty to society -- the "collective" -- to lock themselves away until they are no longer a threat (however long that is); until they recover from the "vaccine" ... that is, if they truly believe in "following the science".

19 posted on 11/22/2021 5:21:33 AM PST by glennaro (Although I don't believe in "big conspiracies", neither do I believe in "big coincidences")
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To: Kaslin

Why aren’t the fake vaccines working 🤔

That’s a real brain buster 🤪


20 posted on 11/22/2021 5:52:49 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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