COVID-19: A Second Opinion

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Recommends loceng · 2022-02 · on “Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes”

Have you seen this yet? "COVID-19: A Second Opinion" - [this video] "On January 24, 2022 Senator Ron Johnson invited a group of world renowned doctors and medical experts to the U.S. Senate to provide a different perspective on the global pandemic response, the current state of knowledge of early and hospital treatment, vaccine efficacy and safety, what went right, what went wrong, what should be done now, and what needs to be addressed long term. This 38 minute video highlights the 5-hour discussion." The 38 minute compilation is a great, easily consumable summary - however here's the link to the full 5+ hours of testimony - [LINK] - which obviously has far more depth to it. The reason I ask if

Cites twofornone · 2022-01 · on “Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates”

I don't think you understand how many assumptions are baked into the current conclusions that vaccines and masks are effective. This relies on accurate reporting of vaccination status and accurate reporting of breakthrough cases. Meanwhile in the real world covid is spreading unabated, record case counts, regardless of vaccination rate or mask compliance. Clearly something isn't adding up. Meanwhile the rosy estimates of safety and effectiveness have been repeatedly and consistently walked back. I think it's time to recognize that our institutions have had their analyses and recommendations tainted by strong and pervasive political and social biases, from the laypeople who have no incentive

Cites loceng · 2022-02 · on “Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes”

It's quite telling that your standards are so low, and that you think an app purposefully designed to prevent reporting of adverse events is somehow me expecting "perfectionism." That component on its own is not a complex problem - it's blindingly obvious. You're trying to gaslight to categorize something as simple and obvious is a "conspiracy theory" is "classic" attempt to lazily smear and demonize, meanwhile you actually avoid addressing my specific points. So let's address 1 of my specific points shall we, and not claim that I'm merely being a perfectionist to dismiss discussing it? Is it a problem, yes or no, that the adverse events that could be reported by participants in at least the

Cites alex1138 · 2026-01 · on “Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin's Unretirement Is a Lesson for the Rest of Us”

So if we're linking stuff (and please don't scream at me for Rumble, Youtube loves removing videos) here's one [LINK] I was initially trying to make a point that the ideological lines that people have drawn have made it so they automatically think RFK is anti-science and they as a consequence have a whole host of assumptions for which I don't even blame them if they haven't spent time reading up about it. I apologize for not countering every single point and going to covid but it's kind of worth pointing out that RFK a) raises some very substantive charges against Fauci for frankly war criminal like actions throughout his unfortunate history of practicing medicine and b) it wasn't "mismanage