Martin Kulldorff
@MartinKulldorff
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Epidemiologist, Biostatistician, Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Vaccine Safety, Shared Parenting. @gbdeclaration @NatlParentsOrg
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Joined May 2014
"Since COVID-19 operates in a highly age specific manner, mandated counter measures must also be age specific. If not, lives will be unnecessarily lost."
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I am no longer a professor of medicine at @Harvard. Here is the story of my Harvard experience until I was fired for clinging to the truth.
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Two weeks to flatten the curve became two years to flatten the working class.
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Finally realizing they were wrong on Covid, many journalists have gone silent on the topic.
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As people stop fearing Covid, politicians start fearing people.
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What Fauci got wrong: natural immunity, not protecting the elderly, school closures, masks, useless and wasteful contact tracing, collateral public health damage, .
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I do not understand why anyone is okay with LinkedIn/Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube/Google and Twitter having censored factually correct covid information.
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Florida @GovRonDeSantis is setting up an evidence based Public Health Integrity Committee as we can no longer trust CDC. I am honored to serve as one of its members together with @DrJBhattacharya, @TracyBethHoeg, @StabellBenn, @BretWeinstein, @stemplet74, @JosephFraiman et al.
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After trying to monopolize the megaphone for almost three years, the Covid Faucists will soon find themselves lonely and frustrated in a small, ridiculed minority.
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Truckers tend to be smart and well informed, spending hours on the road listening to podcasts, radio and audiobooks.
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The denial of natural immunity after Covid disease is the worst unscientific folly in the past 75 years. How will universities and hospitals recover public trust after that?.
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Trust in medicine is broken. The culprits? A vocal minority of MDs who got the pandemic wrong: promoting school closures and other lockdowns, not protecting high-risk elderly, denying natural immunity, pushing mask and vaccine mandates, and censoring/slandering oponents.
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Vaccine mandates illegal in New Zealand. They are "now calling for the suspended workers to return to their jobs immediately, saying many have given decades of service to their community.".
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For thousands of years, disease pathogens have spread from person to person. Never before have carriers been blamed for infecting the next sick person. That is a very dangerous ideology.
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From the #TwitterFiles: I was not only blacklisted and temporarily suspended by Twitter. When I gave accurate #CovidVaccines information, some Twitter dude labelled it misleading and suppressed it by prevented comments and likes.
21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”
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Based on close interaction with a variety of people, from illiterate Guatemalan peasants to Harvard professors, my anecdotal conclusion is that there is not much correlation between education and intelligence.
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By firing staff with natural immunity after Covid recovery, hospitals got rid of those least likely to infect others.
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Astonishing that some public health officials still impose mask mandates. The only two randomized trials on covid masks, in Denmark and Bangladesh, showed zero to minimal efficacy. We need to return to evidence-based public health.
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The pandemic will end, but it will take a generation to repair public health.
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What competent epidemiologists knew in March 2020 should now be obvious to all. Covid cannot be suppressed. Lockdowns just postpone infections and prolong the pandemic while causing collateral damage on public health and education.
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If we had done focused protection, as outlined in the Great Barrington Declaration, the pandemic would have been over now with fewer Covid deaths and less collateral public health damage.
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First the Canadian government threw science and the basic principles of public health out the window. Now they are throwing democracy and the basic principles of human rights out the window.
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In ~500 BC, we learned that the earth is not flat, but a sphere. In 430 BC, during the Athenian plague, we understood natural immunity. Now universities only believe in one of the two.
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Infection-aquired immunity is stronger than vaccine-aquired immunity. University presidents with vaccine mandates deserve the same respect as flat-earthers.
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As a Harvard professor I analyzed vaccine data for two decades and helped develop CDC's vaccine safety system. It's illuminating to realize that @KelleyKga, a mother with no science degree, understands epidemiological data better than former surgeon general @JeromeAdamsMD.
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After pushing covid lockdowns, @BillGates admits that he and his foundation experts "didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly"; basic facts known in early 2020. He should stay away from public health.
Absolute and total ass covering bullshit from Bill Gates. We KNEW the IFR from COVID was low, and we KNEW it targeted the elderly in early Spring 2020. We cannot let these people pretend like this is new. They broke the world, and must be held accountable.
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"Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.".- my op-ed with @DrJBhattacharya .
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When politicians are scared, they try to marginalize and divide people.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the #TruckersForFreedom convoy is a "small fringe minority" who holds "unacceptable views." #cdnpoli
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Today I was erased by @Microsoft/@BillGates owned @LinkedIn. Rewriting history, they also removed my April 2020 article where I argued for focused protection of high-risk older people instead of lockdowns, a strategy that would have saved countless lives.
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Infectious disease epidemiology can be counter intuitive. If you trusted the media "experts" but now realize the devastating impact of ineffective Covid restrictions, we welcome you with open arms. Let's make sure this ends and never happens again.
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A luxury of the laptop class, lockdowns were an assault on the working class. Why did Sweden act differently? Maybe because it is one of few countries that was led by an actual worker, with a very intelligent welder as prime minister.
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By mandating covid recovered staff to be vaccinated, universities and hospitals denied natural immunity from infection. That is stunning. Time for basic scientific knowledge to return to universities, medical schools and hospitals.
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I am suing the government (@POTUS, @CDCgov, Fauci, etc) for colluding with @Twitter, @facebook, @LinkedIn and @YouTube to censor our free speech during the pandemic, jointly with @Eric_Schmitt, @JeffLandry, @DrJBhattacharya, @akheriaty & @HealthFreedomLA.
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In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease [95%CI:13-57, adjusted for time of vaccine/disease]. No COVID deaths in either group.
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If young and afraid of #COVID19, you are welcome stay at home, but please don't impose your irrational fear on others with closed schools, universities and small businesses; by killing the arts or by demanding #VaccinePassports.
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Scientists speaking up against the official pandemic narrative are not doing it for personal or financial gains. Such accusations are nuts; as that would be nuts. We do it for public health.
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In 2020, I was a lonely voice in the Twitter wilderness, opposing lockdowns with a few scattered friends. In 2022, I am preaching to the choir; a choir with a wonderful, beautiful voice. Thank you for singing!.
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The idea that Covid is spreading because we didn't lockdown, mandate, contact trace or mitigate enough is farcical. Never before have people complied with more public health edicts. In good faith, people did its part. It was the ineffective and damaging policies that failed.
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News of new Nu variant, but WHO is jumping the alphabet to call it Omicron, so they can avoid Xi.
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It's problematic when the same person (Fauci) directs both pandemic policy and the largest funder of infectious disease research (NIAID). Scientists must be able to oppose public health policies without fear of losing research funds.
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If you want to mask school children, conduct a randomized trial to prove it works. That is the scientific method. Until you do, shut up!.
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Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health. #1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease like #COVID19. It is important to also consider harms from public health measures. #totalharms.@collateralglbl.
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The vocal pro-lockdown "public health scientists", with their limited knowledge of infectious disease epidemiology, will be the last to recognize the public health disaster they created.
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AIDS pandemic: blame the sick, stigmatize gays, fearmongering, ignore the poor, slow with treatments, NIAIDs Fauci. COVID pandemic: blame the sick, stigmatize unvaccinated, fearmongering, lockdowns harm the poor, slow with treatments, NIAIDs Fauci . When will we ever learn?.
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A scientific community that engages in and tolerates slander, bullying, silencing and ad hominem attacks, is a scientific community that destroys itself and its reputation.
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The Canadian government complained that the truckers disrupted businesses, and now the government is now closing businesses again.
Ottawa police are now going after local business owners who served the truck drivers, like this coffee shop that served coffee to them, thanks to tips by local residents. They are forcing them to close.
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Not even the #zerocovid people believe in zerocovid anymore. But boy, did they cause a lot of damage, suffering and death!.
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Too bad we got herd thinking before herd immunity.
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Back in March, there were no evidence that lockdowns would work to protect older high-risk people. Now there is evidence. They didn't.
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Vaccinated people were 6.72 times more likely to get infected than those with natural immunity from prior #COVID disease.
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1. @Twitter suspends scientist @RWMaloneMD.2. Malone joins GETTR (@GETTRofficial) .3. Malone mentions GETTR on @joerogan .4. Joe Rogan joins GETTR.5. Mass of people join GETTR.6. Twitter kicks itself.
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To think one can supress a very contagious respiratory virus is stupid and arrogant. We need leaders that are smart and humble.
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The world is slowly waking up from a two-year nightmare. Good morning! Time to go to work. We now need to repair and restore.
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To appoint a @CDCDirector who questions natural immunity after infection, that's like appointing a @NASA director who questions if the earth is round a flat. Let's return to the basics.
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As a vaccine epidemiologist I have focused on scientific evidence, letting the chips fall where they may. In the current fight between vaccine fanatics and anti-vaxxers, the walls have now closed in from both sides. I can no longer support my family doing vaccine safety research.
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When making unscientific claims, media often refer to "health officials" or "experts" without citing anyone. I challenge @Twitter to name vaccine experts believing that everyone, including children and those with prior immunity from natural infection, MUST be Covid vaccinated.
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Lockdowns harmed children, the poor and the middle class. This tweet was censored by @Twitter for almost two years, but it can now be viewed again. Thank you @elonmusk.
BOLOGNA, ITALY: The conscience of a country's population standing against their politicians speaks through this woman who says her life has been destroyed by lockdowns & has nothing to eat or to feed her 3 year old child:.
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By avoiding lockdowns, Sweden had the lowest excess mortality in Europe.
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The problem for the scientific community is not that its leaders got the pandemic wrong. To err is human. It's that they abandoned:.1) Evidence-based medicine.2) Basic principles of public health.3) Open scientific discussion.4) Academic freedom.
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"The comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right." - Dr. Martin Luther King.
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A shocking realization during the pandemic is the lack of political leaders capable of independent thinking with information from multiple sources. They talk and follow each other. Herd thinking at the highest level. That is dangerous.
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During the 16th century reformation, many lay people understood the bible better than most priests. During the 21st century pandemic, many lay people understood science better than most scientists. Long terms implications will be equally profound.
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The catastrophe that never came: "Sweden's low death toll is an uncomfortable truth for the media and politicians in many countries. It proves that millions of peoples lived unfree to no avail." - @johananderberg.
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Surprising how many scientists prefer to engage in smears, slander, bullying, abuse, lies and ad hominem attacks rather than scientific discourse. Not very scientific.
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US @Surgeon_General asked all 50 states for examples and impact of covid misinformation. Indiana attorney general @ToddRokitaIN responded with a long list of misinformation pushed by @CDCgov.
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Faucism and Fascism are not the same, but there are some similarities.- Blind belief in an all-knowing leader.- Government-corporate partnership.- Censoring and blacklisting opponents.- Disregarding scientific principles and knowledge.- Harming workers and the poor.- Scapegoating.
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Children with bigger feet are better at mathematics, . because they are older. Florida has higher mortality, because they are older. Nobel laureate @paulkrugman could learn a thing or two from children with big feet.
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To be a true scientist, one has to seek the truth with an open mind, while ignoring politization, herd thinking and career considerations.
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To avoid suspension, I cannot tweet about vaccine safety, something I have done research on for two decades. For such information, you may instead follow me on @GETTRofficial, @getongab or Speaqs.
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Why do Twitter "fact checkers"/censors think they know more about public health than public health scientists?.
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Because of public pressure on governments, the dominos are now falling, one by one. Thanks everyone!
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Natural immunity after Covid recovery is superior to vaccine immunity. To fire the unvaccinated was pure discrimination. Honest employers would reinstate them with an apology and backpay.
In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease [95%CI:13-57, adjusted for time of vaccine/disease]. No COVID deaths in either group.
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Many lockdowners have gone silent on Twitter, but a few still don't comprehend the devastating effects that ineffective lockdowns had on children, the working class and the poor around the world.
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Lockdowns did not protect older high-risk people from covid, but they harmed education, public health and the economy. Children, the working class and small businesses took the brunt of the damage.
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Lockdowns:.- Postpone infections, prolonging the pandemic.- Generate more contagious variants, increasing herd immunity threshold needed for endemic stage, so more people infected.- Cause collateral damage on other health outcomes.- Put biggest burden on kids and working class.
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The pandemic exposed the true character of people. It has been both stunning and fascinating to watch.
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"Lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years. We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation" -Dr Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford.
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Lockdowns just postponed the inevitable, while causing enormous collateral damage on cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, mental health, education, . .
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With open schools and no masks for ages 1-15 in Sweden, there were zero COVID deaths among its 1.8M children during first wave. Teachers had lower risk than average of other professions. So, we knew early on that schools are safe without masks.
2/ 2. While understanding masks are effectively generally at preventing transmission, I don’t know of any peer reviewed studies of mask mandates *in schools*. I get “better safe than sorry” but is there peer reviewed data? I haven’t seen any —.
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Ouch. The lockdowns @JeffBezos advocated for closed small businesses while he made billions. Not realizing that lockdowns also caused inflation is a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.
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“My wife . worked at the hospital that had the highest Covid death rate in all of NYC. She went down hard w/Covid . recovered and went back. For 15 years she served the poor . She resigned on Friday . These #VaccineMandates must fail.”
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In 2020, @NIHDirector Francis Collins called @DrJBhattacharya a "fringe epidemiologist" while calling for a devastating take down of our anti-lockdown @gbdeclaration. After proven right, Jay has now been nominated as the next @NIHDirector. Truth prevails!.
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Many hospitals demand that employees with prior COVID disease get vaccinated, despite already having stronger longer lasting immunity. If hospitals cannot get the medical evidence right on this one, how can we trust them with other aspects of our health?.
In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease [95%CI:13-57, adjusted for time of vaccine/disease]. No COVID deaths in either group.
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Why is the government setting up a Disinformation Board when CDC is already doing a swell job spreading their covid disinformation? Is the purpose to expand their spread of disinformation to other areas?.
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The doubt/denial of immunity after prior COVID disease, and the resulting vaccine passports/mandates, is gravely damaging the confidence in both public health authorities and vaccines.
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If you are pro-vaccine, you should be against vaccine mandates.
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Study after study have shown that natural immunity after covid infection is superior to vaccine immunity. Just as one would expect. Forcing the vaccine on everyone is a stain on hospitals, universities and public health officials. How can we trust them on other matters?.
Yes, @dockaurG, this @NEJM article is great not only bc it shows natural immunity (A) provides greater protection than vax (B) against future infection, but it calls into question the very idea of "hybrid immunity":.An extra vax dose (C) doesn't seem to add much to nat immunity
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Microsoft News republished our op-ed on 'How Fauci Fooled America' with his public health edicts. Most comments are positive and positive comments have more likes. The tide has turned. Politicians, journalists and science leaders will follow.
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29 scientific studies showing that the earth is round, oh, I mean, showing strong long lasting natural immunity after #COVID disease.
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As the laptop class is now getting infected with Covid, it is nice to hear more voices arguing against shaming the sick. We are returning to basic public health principles, slowly.
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Lockdowns caused enormous collateral public health damage, which we now much deal with. Lockdowns harmed the economy, which we now must deal with. Lockdowns exposed ignorance and herd thinking in universities, public health agencies and the media, which we now must deal with.
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We all lost. Especially children, the working class and the elderly. That the Great Barrington Declaration (@gbdeclaration) was proven right hopefully means that devastating pandemic restrictions will never ever happen again.
Congrats, Great Barrington Declaration folks. You won. August 11th, 2022, you won.
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The people who closed down our schools harmed children.
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To restore trust in public health there needs to be a brutally honest covid commission recognizing all the mistakes made.
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Those who have had #COVID and do not want the vaccine are not anti-vaccine. They simply understand science and natural acquired immunity.
In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease [95%CI:13-57, adjusted for time of vaccine/disease]. No COVID deaths in either group.
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