What Public Health Did that was not Forgivable
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, who was fired by Harvard for telling the truth (and who has still not been rehired):
More on Kulldorff's firing by Harvard. Excerpt:
On March 10, 2020, before any government prompting, Harvard declared that it would “suspend in-person classes and shift to online learning.” Across the country, universities, schools, and state governments followed Harvard’s lead.Yet it was clear, from early 2020, that the virus would eventually spread across the globe, and that it would be futile to try to suppress it with lockdowns. It was also clear that lockdowns would inflict enormous collateral damage, not only on education but also on public health, including treatment for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health. We will be dealing with the harm done for decades. Our children, the elderly, the middle class, the working class, and the poor around the world—all will suffer.
Schools closed in many other countries, too, but under heavy international criticism, Sweden kept its schools and daycares open for its 1.8 million children, ages one to 15. Why? While anyone can get infected, we have known since early 2020 that more than a thousandfold difference in Covid mortality risk holds between the young and the old. Children faced minuscule risk from Covid, and interrupting their education would disadvantage them for life, especially those whose families could not afford private schools, pod schools, or tutors, or to homeschool . . .
Every honest person knows that new drugs and vaccines come with potential risks that are unknown when approved. This was a risk worth taking for older people at high risk of Covid mortality—but not for children, who have a minuscule risk for Covid mortality, nor for those who already had infection-acquired immunity. To a question about this on Twitter in 2021, I responded:
Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should. COVID vaccines are important for older high-risk people and their care-takers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it. Nor children.If Harvard and its hospitals want to be credible scientific institutions, they should rehire those of us they fired ...
Most Harvard faculty diligently pursue truth in a wide variety of fields, but Veritas has not been the guiding principle of Harvard leaders. Nor have academic freedom, intellectual curiosity, independence from external forces, or concern for ordinary people guided their decisions.
Harvard and the wider scientific community have much work to do to deserve and regain public trust.
COVID and the Amish
As a group, the Amish suffered no greater “excess deaths” during Covid, and arguably had fewer deaths, all without shutting down their schools, social life, and economy; without testing an experimental vaccine; and without spending untold amounts of money on testing, treatments, and hospitalizations.The above excerpt is from the article, "Update on the Amish Approach to CovidAs a result of my challenges, journal makes multiple corrections to scientific article."
Another shortfall in this process of scientific integrity lies in the fact that the government and study authors refuse to turn over the communications and materials I requested that could shed light on what specific people were backing the taxpayer funded study and why; and could tell us how the study shortfalls slipped past all the peer reviewers.
Both autism and vaccination rates are low in Amish communities. Steve Kirsch comments:
Autism rates for Amish are more than two orders of magnitude lower than the rest of America....It’s not genetics. Other groups that don’t vaccinate have some really low rates of autism. If you don’t vaccinate, your rates of autism are always super low. I’ve never heard of any exceptions to this rule. Genetics has absolutely nothing to do with it.
House Committee: COVID Conspiracies Are True
The House [The Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic] released a 500-page report on COVID 19 pandemic. Key findings COVID 19 likely originated from a lab related incident in Wuhan, China. Crazy you get banned from YouTube for saying that banned Okay. Over $200 billion in relief funds lost to fraud, with criminals exploiting weak oversight, prolonged lockdowns and arbitrary mandates caused severe harm, economic devastation, mental health crisis and historic learning loss, while lacking robust scientific support, policies ignored natural immunity, pushing mandates that eroded trust and harmed public perception of science. Absolutely. WHO and CDC compromised by political interference, offering inconsistent, unscientific guidance that fueled public distrust. And the key players included federal agencies and Cuomo administration actively obstructed oversight efforts and hid critical evidence. The Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic basically said all the conspiracy theorists were correct, every single one of them, no repercussions, no retractions, no apology from Rachel Maddow. None of it.
Doctors and General Health
Based on personal stories (myself and close friends) I've lost trust in doctors too. I find this distinction between general health and going to the orthopedist for a broken arm a useful on. Too many doctors reach for pills because that is what they are taught. They earnestly tell you to take statins and ace proton inhibitors without any meaningful investigation into the cost-benefit analysis of these medication and without any apparent cynicism aimed toward Big Pharma.
This Dana White video dovetails well with recent videos by RFK, Jr., Callie Means and Casey Means. Here is an example.