In the past few weeks, a series of analyses published by highly respected researchers have exposed a truth about public health officials during Covid: that much of the time, they were wrong – writes Dr. Marty Makary in the New York Post. He sets out “10 myths told by Covid experts — and now debunked”. Here are the first four.
Misinformation #1: Natural immunity offers little protection compared to vaccinated immunity
A Lancet study looked at 65 major studies in 19 countries on natural immunity. The researchers concluded that natural immunity was at least as effective as the primary Covid vaccine series.
In fact, the scientific data was there all along — from 160 studies, despite the findings of these studies violating Facebook’s ‘misinformation’ policy.
Since the Athenian plague of 430 BC, it has been observed that those who recovered after infection were protected against severe disease if reinfected.
That was also the observation of nearly every practicing physician during the first 18 months of the Covid pandemic.
Most Americans who were fired for not having the Covid vaccine already had antibodies that effectively neutralised the virus, but they were antibodies that the Government did not recognise.
Misinformation #2: Masks prevent Covid transmission
Cochrane Reviews are considered the most authoritative and independent assessment of the evidence in medicine.
And one published last month by a highly respected Oxford research team found that masks had no significant impact on Covid transmission.
When asked about this definitive review, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky downplayed it, arguing that it was flawed because it focused on randomised controlled studies.
But that was the greatest strength of the review! Randomised studies are considered the gold standard of medical evidence.
If all the energy used by public health officials to mask toddlers could have been channelled to reduce child obesity by encouraging outdoor activities, we would be better off.
Misinformation #3: School closures reduce Covid transmission
The CDC ignored the European experience of keeping schools open, most without mask mandates.
Transmission rates were no different, evidenced by studies conducted in Spain and Sweden.
Misinformation #4: Myocarditis from the vaccine is less common than from the infection
Public health officials downplayed concerns about vaccine-induced myocarditis — or inflammation of the heart muscle.
They cited poorly designed studies that under-captured complication rates.
A flurry of well-designed studies said the opposite.
We now know that myocarditis is six to 28 times more common after the Covid vaccine than after the infection among 16- to 24-year-old males.
Tens of thousands of children likely got myocarditis, mostly subclinical, from a Covid vaccine they did not need because they were entirely healthy or because they already had Covid.
Dr. Makary blasts the CDC for weaponising research by “putting out its own flawed studies in its own non-peer-reviewed medical journal, MMWR“.
“In the final analysis, public health officials actively propagated misinformation that ruined lives and forever damaged public trust in the medical profession,” he adds.
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There is a small mistake in the title – The Myths Told by Covid Experts
It should be – The Myths Told by Covid ‘Experts’
“Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.” – W. Churchill
A wise historic choice, with Churchill’s statement as to the relevance of so-called ‘experts’. In the last half hour or so, there was a discussion on GBN about today’s Telegraph publication about the lack of competence in the Government a few years ago. There was even a printed version of it on display briefly. The upshot of it seemed to be that quite a few commentators would like to draw a veil over the whole thing, and let them get away with it. We’ll see, won’t we, especially if there are different national Inquiries as to the behaviour of politicians and so-called ‘experts’ over the last three years.
Indeed. Aviation became safer and safer year on year and that was not achieved by pilots or engineers wanting to ‘move on’ or ‘draw a veil’ over any incidents/accidents.
A few years ago NHS Health Education England carried out a survey of Pilots, and medical personel (Surgeons, Nurses and Residents) with the intention of finding out what the different attitudes to accidents and safety were.
Below are the questions and the % who answered yes – The first numbers are the Pilots responses and the second numbers are from the medical personel.
[1] Does fatigue negatively impact your performance?…74%…30%
[2] Do you reject advice from juniors?……………………………3%…45%
[3] Is error analysis system-wide?……………………………..100%…30%
[4] Do you think you make mistakes?…………………………100%…30%
[5] Easy to discuss/report mistakes?………………………….100%…56%
These question should also be asked of all those ‘managing’ the ‘fight’ against Covid, such as Hancock, Fergusson and Susan Michie, and of course all those involved at the WHO and GAVI. I imagine their responses as follows:
[1] Does fatigue negatively impact your performance?…(not applicable)
[2] Do you reject advice from juniors?…………………………100%
[3] Is error analysis system-wide?…………………………………0%
[4] Do you think you make mistakes?…………………………….0%
[5] Easy to discuss/report mistakes?……………………………..0%
Doctors are deities, pilots aren’t.
In addition to those “10 myths told by Covid experts”, here are more myths/lies told by Covid ‘experts’:
Pfizer, 13 Jan 2021:
“The ability to vaccinate at speed to gain herd immunity and stop transmission is our highest priority”.
https://twitter.com/pfizer/status/1349421959222853633
Bill Gates, 27 January 2021:
“Everyone who takes the vaccine is not just protecting themselves but reducing their transmission to other people and allowing society to get back to normal.”
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-beat-ari-melber-1-27-21-n1259236
CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky, 29 March 2021:
“Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-director-data-vaccinated-people-do-not-carry-covid-19-2021-3?r=US&IR=T
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, April 1, 2021:
“Excited to share that updated analysis from our Phase 3 study with BioNTech also showed that our COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective in preventing #COVID19 cases in South Africa. 100%!”
https://twitter.com/AlbertBourla/status/1377618480527257606?lang=en
Dr Fauci, 17 May 2021:
“When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected.”
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-all-chris-hayes-5-17-21-n1267740
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vkxcQ0Mo3U
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-spreaders-of-misinformation
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, May 2022:
“You vaccinate not only for yourself, you vaccinate also to protect society, in particular to protect those that you love the most.”
https://twitter.com/rubiconcapital_/status/1580894884818726913?lang=en-GB
https://twitter.com/douglaskarr/status/1580995317297983488
Dr Fauci, 2 June 2021:
“We have all the vaccines we need, we just need our people to take it: (a) for their own protection, for the protection of their family, but also to break the chain of transmission…You want to be a dead end to the virus, so when the virus gets to you, you stop it.”
https://frontline.news/post/reuters-nobody-said-vaccine-would-stop-transmission
Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, August 2021:
“If you don’t want to get vaccinated, that’s your choice. But don’t think you can get on a plane or a train beside vaccinated people and put them at risk.”
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1428787905611374595?lang=en-GB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSBk0AxUM64
“If they minimalize Maddie’s reaction to the vaccine like this, I wonder what really happened to those in the clinical trials who had a reaction to the 1st dose, that means they’re out of the trials, they’re disqualified. I wonder what else was hidden?”
https://thehighwire.com/videos/stephanie-and-maddie-de-garay-testimony/
With this and the Hancock files…
At what point do the government apologise for not only spreading misinformation, but also demonising those who were trying to give the public actual scientific information during this time?
This situation was the same across most countries and all led by Mr Tedrous at the WHO. Mr Gates wanted the entire planet vaccinated with the ‘new and exciting’ mRNA and emphasized ‘you don’t have a choice’. I would say that the western world, comprising of free and open societies, has been sabotaged. If at the end of this people in sovereign nations turn against their governments and institutions then it’s win-win for the CCP.
But, I agree with what you write, and there needs to be apologies and recompense from all those in authority that deserted their responsibility to the citizen. First, refund all lockdown fines and compensate fully all those that were driven out of business.
Only when they have their neck on the block. In today’s submissive society that’ll be never… unless maybe we could start a petition?
In a word, never.
I’ve worked in medicine for 21 years. Only as a thick Paramedic though and therefore not an ‘expert’, and I continue to maintain that you have all been barking up the wrong tree.
The only place that Covid 19 exists is in the mind. It does not, and never has, existed in reality.
Therefore not a single solitary person on planet earth has died from this “illness”
The only illness that does exist is an illness called Mass Psychosis, commonly known as Mass Hysteria.
Properly understand that explanation and EVERYTHING makes sense.
I said the exactly the same thing right at the beginning of this fiasco, that most deaths would be caused by the psychological expectation of death especially amongst the elderly and vulnerable.
nocebo/nəʊˈsiːbəʊ,nɒˈsiːbəʊ/
noun
a detrimental effect on health produced by psychological or psychosomatic factors such as negative expectations of treatment or prognosis.
I believe that all the deaths occurred due to the Doctors (ventilation and midazolam) the politicians (lockdowns and effective closure of the health service) Scientists (vaccines) and the media aided and abetted by imposing censorship.
Just like the witches in Medieval Europe, they didn’t die from being witches but at the hands of others who BELIEVED they were ‘infected’.
I can see where you are coming from but what did I catch 18 months ago ? my taste & smell went just as they said it would !
Agreed. I didn’t imagine my symptoms and loss of smell
I had something that was not a flu – and survived nicely.
Death rate from Rona was maybe 0.3 % or less.
Hardly a ‘pandemic’
The post above is not wrong. Not a single proof exists of Sar II 1 of 300.000 Coronaviruses being isolated in a human cell, proven to make someone ill or kill them. None.
You caught a cold bet you managed to convince yourself that it was ‘different’.
A loss of taste and smell can’t be tested for in a laboratory, it is a subjective symptom that can easily be made real by a combination of psychosomatic illness, confirmation bias and suggestion. It is meaningless to be able to differentiate 2 separate illnesses clinically.
Put it this way, if you’d had those symptoms in, say, 2017 (when the world was still sane) would you have leapt out of bed declaring you had a new virus in you? No, you would have concluded you had a cold and felt rough for 2 or 3 days and thought nothing more of it.
If you had been around folk injected with the bioweapon, shedding of spike protein is what will have made you unwell. Shedding is real & is the danger to those who refused the bioweapon injection.
Fear of disease is what whipped up the hysteria & enabled the worldwide coordinated response to control populations. The PCR test is a fraud & therefore unable to identify let alone diagnose anything. Treatment withdrawal & administration in the NHS of protocols NG163 & NG191 caused numerous deaths, a small fraction of which were directly due to the disease process called covid.
Wuhan & Northern Italy had both been subject to intensive flu injection campaigns in 2019 earlier than is usual. As shedding of spike protein is now acknowledged & the components of vaccine adjuvants is undisclosed (enabling the hiding of a plethora of unknowns), coupled with the no virus school of thought, there is the theory that the bioweapon was seeded into the world via the 2019 flu vaccine campaign as folk within this cohort had a greater risk to showing disease, as evidenced in a clinical study in US military comparing the flu jabbed with the unjabbed for incidence of what was termed covid in relation to the 2019 flu jab campaign. Another school of thought is that the bioweapon was seeded via chemtrails.
Military personnel around the globe identified it as a bioweapon in early 2020. So you’re correct that it wasn’t a winter respiratory pathogen like flu or the common cold but it did & does cause real symptoms which have a different impact on the host body than those caused by other respiratory pathogens.
The spike protein binds via the ACE2 receptor, which is racially specific, & it is this factor which accounts for the disease severity. White European ACE2 has the greatest affinity for the spike protein to bind to, hence the over representation of this group in infection, severe disease & death data.
Australia & New Zealand weren’t seeded with the pathogen until the bioweapon injection roll-out. The data speaks for itself. It is the inflammatory response which causes the severe disease & death not the initial infection. Speaking as someone who had something nasty in March 2020, which felt like being hit by a steam engine, resulting in a severe worsening of symptoms from day 8, bugger all treatment as the GPs had shut up shop & only still here thanks to my dog waking me up when I couldn’t breathe, it wasn’t one of the usual respiratory pathogens as it didn’t respond one jot to salbutamol which is normally the case for me. It was only taking my steroid inhaler at max dose which gave some respite & 3 courses of hospital strength antibiotics to clear up the resulting chest infection. All very, very different. The cytokine storm caused such damage that I’ve now recovered from an initial low of 10% of pre-infection function to 20% of pre-infection function on a good day.
So, it isn’t just something like the flu. It was developed by DARPA & is a military bioweapon (see Dr David Martin, Balliwick News Katherine Watt & Karen Kingston for the paper trail confirming this). Thus with the release of this bioweapon, we have had war waged upon us, courtesy of our own governments & supranational agencies.
Unfortunately Dr Makary doesn’t mention those myths debunked before the pandemic. e.g. epidemics grow exponentially.
To paraphrase the above article regarding the lessons I’ve learnt over the past 3 years:
1/ The reach and control of Big Pharma over politicians, media, medical journals and the medical profession is beyond anything I previously suspected.
2/ The weakness of the medical profession in standing up for patients against external influences, and in exercising critical thought is extreme.
3/ MSM is an amoral cancer that cares only for ratings and profits.
4/ Politicians are more unprincipled than I ever imagined and will use fear readily to maximise power.
5/ The critical thinking ability of 90% of the population is non-existent.
6/ The public/civil service is what “Yes Minister” parodied, but significantly more dangerous to individual freedom.
Would you also include social media in your “amoral cancer” definition?
Thanks for pointing out that glaring omission!
Skinner is not entirely right to place “experts” in quote marks. They may well be experts, but they are the wrong experts. When considering any potentially fatal disease one should use as experts those who understand why it is potentially fatal and have, or will devise treatments to make it non-fatal. Thereafter acquisition of the cause, here a virus, becomes an irrelevance. So,as I have bleated for years now, the right experts were and are not public health doctors and epidemiologists, least of all modellers, but clinicians. Who deals with autoimmune diseases daily? Rheumatologists among others, and even retired ones like me came up with the right treatment answers months before the “experts” but were ignored. Given the disastrous consequences it gives me little satisfaction to have been proved right.
The growing consensus that getting the infection provides as good protection as a vaccine, not least because antibodies are directed against the viral body rather than the constantly changing spike; the failure of masks; the understanding of the mechanisms of systemic complications; and more, also underline how “The Science “ is not immutable. A recent post by the blogger Eugyppius outlines how through history new research has been gradually incorporated into the mainstream, a process beset by obstruction, pig-headedness and derision.
That article is just the tip of the mountain of lies we have been told over the past 3 years.
CDC and others should admit their mistakes and errors.
Unfortunately the studies mentioned are rarely mentioned in most of the media so few people know about them.
A better unbiased media would help.