I read your Newsweek piece and I wanted to offer constructive criticism. I assume you’re a real person who means what they say. Though in the bigger picture that sort of message (from Newsweek) doesn’t go nearly far enough. Trying to “restore trust” without first achieving justice for wrongs can only ever be apologetics for the status quo. We should NOT return to 2019 levels of trust and confidence in “science” and “democracy.” 2020-2022 revealed how vacuous the expertise of claimed authorities was and STILL IS. The solution isn’t to let the authorities apologize and move on, the solution is to pursue justice for all the wrongs and do root cause analysis followed by hard institutional changes so it can never happen again. Only then, and after many years of good behavior, can authorities ever hope to deserve regaining trust.
Kevin I write this not to attack you. I assume you mean well. I encourage you in the strongest possible terms to adopt the mantle of radical transparency, justice for all wrongs, root cause analysis, and hard institutional changes so this never happens again. Apologies are a great thing on a 1:1 basis and I accept your apology as one human being to another. Though as a public person who is trying to make the world a better place your public apology works against your own goal when it's not coupled with awareness of and action toward FIRST solving the problem(s) that led us to here. Until and unless authorities DESERVE trust, we shouldn't try to repair their image let alone give them trust. Currently they don't DESERVE our trust, as the evidence amply indicates up to and including today. The FDA and CDC (etc) haven't changed their bad behavior let alone become transparent let alone pursued justice for their wrongs let alone done root cause analysis or made hard changes: NONE OF THAT HAS HAPPENED! So it's a terrible idea to try and "restore trust." Trusting people and institutions who don't deserve to be trusted is what a battered spouse does. "But next time will be different, I really love you!" That's what a mere apology means, without justice and a lot more.
I intend for this to be constructive and not an attack on you -- I agree with most of your message in that Newseek article. I hope that comes through. Have a great day!
I agree with the sentiment, and while it's technically true that the adverse event % is higher in the booster arm compared to the placebo, when you look at Table 2 from the paper and consider the specific adverse events recorded it's clear almost all of the additional adverse events in the booster arm are transient injection site reactions or the day or two of myalgia/headaches/mild fever common after the vaccine. Presenting the information as a 25% chance of adverse events vs 6.5% without brings to mind clotting complications, myocarditis, and other severe potential consequences of the vaccine for readers less familiar with the topic or those who don't check the paper, which due to sample size did not seem to capture such complications. This may strike some as misleading. The crux of the argument is still valid though: especially for those not at high risk of severe COVID infection, the tradeoff for getting a booster and resigning to a small but guaranteed risk of potentially severe complications is not clearly superior to incurring a small but only potential risk of complications from the virus itself. Pressure on the FDA to provide a single, definitive pro-COVID vaccine message still seems to still be winning out over the logical stratified approach of recommending boosters only for those at high risk.
Mr. Bass, Dr. Paul Alexander would like to interview you on your recent about-face concerning Covid Policies. It would be a great opportunity for you to explain yourself.
Interesting that the study this opinion writer links to specifically states, "A third dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine, as compared with the primary two-dose series, provided strong protection against Covid-19 in healthy persons 16 years of age or older, with no new safety concerns."
I have a quick question for you Kevin. Would you mind it if we chatted for a second? For context, this is my story (I’m the subject of this Austin TV station’s news report & a former news anchor myself, now semi-retired in Texas):
I’m trying to understand and help others understand how and why our healthcare and legal systems have changed over the past 10-30 years such that it is borderline impossible for anyone to admit they were wrong or backtrack on advice they previously considered scientifically supported and sound. You understand how this affects patients.
Your piece in Newsweek was an important part of the bigger conversation. I thought it needed to be said, & I know if my beloved stepfather (a surgeon trained prior to WWII) were alive, he’d be thanking you as well.
I’d also like to commend Newsweek for running it. ;)
ALL THE PROOF NEEDED FOR REAL COVID TREATMENT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED FROM EARLY 2020, WITH PANDEMIC TIMES, "GOLD STANDARD" EVIDENCE – THE RESULTS FROM REAL DOCTORS WHO TREATED REAL COVID PATIENTS.
ALL THE PROOF NEEDED for 1) the early outpatient treatment for covid, for 2) the asap covid treatment in the ER (or doctors' office outpatient "ER") which either stabilizes the the covid patient and sends them home with prescriptions or begins proper treatment prior to hospital admission and for 3) the best in hospital covid treatment, - all using combinations of safe and effective, low cost, available drugs etc HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED, from early in the pandemic, noised abroad to "people" in the cdc and niaid and all, and continually improved WITH THE PANDEMIC "GOLD STANDARD EVIDENCE" – THE RESULTS FROM REAL DOCTORS WHO TREATED REAL COVID PATIENTS.
Dr. Didier Raoult, Dr Zelenko, Dr George Fareed and Dr Brian Tyson, Dr. Ben Marble and the doctors of “My Free Doctor”, Dr Darrell DeMello (who introduced early treatment, ER level treatment for the outpatient and long covid treatment to India), Dr Shankara Chetty with his outpatient "emergency room" 8th day protocol (teaching many Doctors and saving 10,000+ Africans and many others at a covid stage where they would be admitted to hospital then mis, dis and mal treated to either prolonged injury or death in most all US hospitals), Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr Paul Marik, Dr. Joseph Varon, Dr. Syed Haider and other doctors using the FLCCC protocols, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Richard Urso and numbers of other REAL DOCTORS who treated REAL COVID PATIENTS across the world. These Doctors treated 100’s of Thousands of high risk covid patients with near elimination of hospitalization and death with early treatment and with proper, asap, "ER" type treatment and these doctors demonstrated a great reduction of in hospital death with the best known practices.
These DOCTORS TOLD THE TRUTHS, about covid treatments, with actually safe and effective, low cost generic drugs etc, TO THE POWERS THAT CHOOSE TO SUPPRESS AND SABOTAGE REAL TREATMENT FOR COVID. Powers that choose to push big pharma, not safe and not effective as used, high priced remdesivir etc and to push and compel a neither safe nor effective "vaccine" only path as a money maker and opportunity to force regulatory approval of the Mrna technology as a "vaccine" platform, not requiring further human testing, which they accomplished with the Mrna bi-valent covid "vaccine" shots
EVERY ONE OF THESE DOCTORS DEMONSTRATED AN END TO THE “PANDEMIC”. 100% EASY for fda, cdc, nih, who, niaid and fauci et al, as they were informed about working treatments, TO SEE AND KNOW the way to end the “pandemic”, which they, et al, willfully, with treatment knowledge presented to them, CHOOSE NOT TO HEED while “they” SABOTAGED effective treatment protocols and doctors using these life saving protocols and thereby DEPRAVED-HEART MASS MURDERED MILLIONS. (DEPRAVED-HEART (indifference) MURDER see definition from wicked-o-pedia below)
FEW DIE FROM COVID – MANY TORTURED AND MURDERED – BY FAILURE TO TREAT
From wicked-o-pedia – “In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a “depraved indifference” to human life and where such act results in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person. If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a “depraved indifference” to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.[1][2] In some states, depraved-heart killings constitute second-degree murder,[3] while in others, the act would be charged with “wanton murder,”[4][5] varying degrees of manslaughter,[6] or third-degree murder. If no death results, such an act would generally constitute reckless endangerment (sometimes known as “culpable negligence”) and possibly other crimes, such as assault.”
Can we talk about what 'Covid' actually is? If we ban the test and ban the new word, "covid" will go away. There are NO specific symptoms, and the study only found 2 "severe cases" in the placebo group which were defined as, "peripheral blood oxygen saturation level" (which is a lab test not a clinical event) and only by the FDA definition. Nobody met the CDC definition of "severe covid" in either group - so zero efficacy.
As to the definition of "covid" - it's just one of the following: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, muscle pain, loss of taste or smell (which is very subjective), sore throat, diarrhea, or vomiting and a "positive" nucleic acid test. That's nothing. All we have is an epidemic of a new word "covid" and a new problematic test to just rename the common cold and the flu.
"It's not as bad as it would have been" used to sell flu shots is a logical fallacy, similar to the old Asian proverb about the Tiger: "This shot keeps away tigers" "Well how do you know it works?" "See the tiger?"
From what I'm understanding, what the plan is to do is to have annual coronavirus vaccine be more like the flu vaccine, but as of now, the virus is mutating so much, that by the time the vaccine is available, the vaccine is likely to be out of date and of no use. The flu vaccine is a best guess in terms of what strain will be spreading. That's not even close to the case with the booster. It's honestly not worth it anymore to be offering vaccines/boosters for the coronavirus.
I read your Newsweek piece and I wanted to offer constructive criticism. I assume you’re a real person who means what they say. Though in the bigger picture that sort of message (from Newsweek) doesn’t go nearly far enough. Trying to “restore trust” without first achieving justice for wrongs can only ever be apologetics for the status quo. We should NOT return to 2019 levels of trust and confidence in “science” and “democracy.” 2020-2022 revealed how vacuous the expertise of claimed authorities was and STILL IS. The solution isn’t to let the authorities apologize and move on, the solution is to pursue justice for all the wrongs and do root cause analysis followed by hard institutional changes so it can never happen again. Only then, and after many years of good behavior, can authorities ever hope to deserve regaining trust.
Kevin I write this not to attack you. I assume you mean well. I encourage you in the strongest possible terms to adopt the mantle of radical transparency, justice for all wrongs, root cause analysis, and hard institutional changes so this never happens again. Apologies are a great thing on a 1:1 basis and I accept your apology as one human being to another. Though as a public person who is trying to make the world a better place your public apology works against your own goal when it's not coupled with awareness of and action toward FIRST solving the problem(s) that led us to here. Until and unless authorities DESERVE trust, we shouldn't try to repair their image let alone give them trust. Currently they don't DESERVE our trust, as the evidence amply indicates up to and including today. The FDA and CDC (etc) haven't changed their bad behavior let alone become transparent let alone pursued justice for their wrongs let alone done root cause analysis or made hard changes: NONE OF THAT HAS HAPPENED! So it's a terrible idea to try and "restore trust." Trusting people and institutions who don't deserve to be trusted is what a battered spouse does. "But next time will be different, I really love you!" That's what a mere apology means, without justice and a lot more.
I intend for this to be constructive and not an attack on you -- I agree with most of your message in that Newseek article. I hope that comes through. Have a great day!
https://epistemologist.substack.com/p/do-not-trust-any-authority-without
I agree with the sentiment, and while it's technically true that the adverse event % is higher in the booster arm compared to the placebo, when you look at Table 2 from the paper and consider the specific adverse events recorded it's clear almost all of the additional adverse events in the booster arm are transient injection site reactions or the day or two of myalgia/headaches/mild fever common after the vaccine. Presenting the information as a 25% chance of adverse events vs 6.5% without brings to mind clotting complications, myocarditis, and other severe potential consequences of the vaccine for readers less familiar with the topic or those who don't check the paper, which due to sample size did not seem to capture such complications. This may strike some as misleading. The crux of the argument is still valid though: especially for those not at high risk of severe COVID infection, the tradeoff for getting a booster and resigning to a small but guaranteed risk of potentially severe complications is not clearly superior to incurring a small but only potential risk of complications from the virus itself. Pressure on the FDA to provide a single, definitive pro-COVID vaccine message still seems to still be winning out over the logical stratified approach of recommending boosters only for those at high risk.
Mr. Bass, Dr. Paul Alexander would like to interview you on your recent about-face concerning Covid Policies. It would be a great opportunity for you to explain yourself.
Why not?
You are a fraud in the fact that Tucker Carlson had you on his show is a disgrace.
Interesting that the study this opinion writer links to specifically states, "A third dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine, as compared with the primary two-dose series, provided strong protection against Covid-19 in healthy persons 16 years of age or older, with no new safety concerns."
I have a quick question for you Kevin. Would you mind it if we chatted for a second? For context, this is my story (I’m the subject of this Austin TV station’s news report & a former news anchor myself, now semi-retired in Texas):
https://www.kvue.com/mobile/article/news/investigations/medical-device-dangers/fda-does-not-test-most-devices-implanted-in-humans-and-many-are-paying-for-it/269-c41ad14d-031f-4166-a18b-4361e8e22cfd
I’m trying to understand and help others understand how and why our healthcare and legal systems have changed over the past 10-30 years such that it is borderline impossible for anyone to admit they were wrong or backtrack on advice they previously considered scientifically supported and sound. You understand how this affects patients.
Your piece in Newsweek was an important part of the bigger conversation. I thought it needed to be said, & I know if my beloved stepfather (a surgeon trained prior to WWII) were alive, he’d be thanking you as well.
I’d also like to commend Newsweek for running it. ;)
Yours,
Frances Scott
512.960.7788 text first, if possible.
Barbraphillips@aol.com (Barbra is spelled like Streisand)
bass missed the elephant in the room
No amnesty for DEPRAVED-HEART MASS MURDER
ALL THE PROOF NEEDED FOR REAL COVID TREATMENT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED FROM EARLY 2020, WITH PANDEMIC TIMES, "GOLD STANDARD" EVIDENCE – THE RESULTS FROM REAL DOCTORS WHO TREATED REAL COVID PATIENTS.
ALL THE PROOF NEEDED for 1) the early outpatient treatment for covid, for 2) the asap covid treatment in the ER (or doctors' office outpatient "ER") which either stabilizes the the covid patient and sends them home with prescriptions or begins proper treatment prior to hospital admission and for 3) the best in hospital covid treatment, - all using combinations of safe and effective, low cost, available drugs etc HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED, from early in the pandemic, noised abroad to "people" in the cdc and niaid and all, and continually improved WITH THE PANDEMIC "GOLD STANDARD EVIDENCE" – THE RESULTS FROM REAL DOCTORS WHO TREATED REAL COVID PATIENTS.
Dr. Didier Raoult, Dr Zelenko, Dr George Fareed and Dr Brian Tyson, Dr. Ben Marble and the doctors of “My Free Doctor”, Dr Darrell DeMello (who introduced early treatment, ER level treatment for the outpatient and long covid treatment to India), Dr Shankara Chetty with his outpatient "emergency room" 8th day protocol (teaching many Doctors and saving 10,000+ Africans and many others at a covid stage where they would be admitted to hospital then mis, dis and mal treated to either prolonged injury or death in most all US hospitals), Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr Paul Marik, Dr. Joseph Varon, Dr. Syed Haider and other doctors using the FLCCC protocols, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Richard Urso and numbers of other REAL DOCTORS who treated REAL COVID PATIENTS across the world. These Doctors treated 100’s of Thousands of high risk covid patients with near elimination of hospitalization and death with early treatment and with proper, asap, "ER" type treatment and these doctors demonstrated a great reduction of in hospital death with the best known practices.
These DOCTORS TOLD THE TRUTHS, about covid treatments, with actually safe and effective, low cost generic drugs etc, TO THE POWERS THAT CHOOSE TO SUPPRESS AND SABOTAGE REAL TREATMENT FOR COVID. Powers that choose to push big pharma, not safe and not effective as used, high priced remdesivir etc and to push and compel a neither safe nor effective "vaccine" only path as a money maker and opportunity to force regulatory approval of the Mrna technology as a "vaccine" platform, not requiring further human testing, which they accomplished with the Mrna bi-valent covid "vaccine" shots
EVERY ONE OF THESE DOCTORS DEMONSTRATED AN END TO THE “PANDEMIC”. 100% EASY for fda, cdc, nih, who, niaid and fauci et al, as they were informed about working treatments, TO SEE AND KNOW the way to end the “pandemic”, which they, et al, willfully, with treatment knowledge presented to them, CHOOSE NOT TO HEED while “they” SABOTAGED effective treatment protocols and doctors using these life saving protocols and thereby DEPRAVED-HEART MASS MURDERED MILLIONS. (DEPRAVED-HEART (indifference) MURDER see definition from wicked-o-pedia below)
FEW DIE FROM COVID – MANY TORTURED AND MURDERED – BY FAILURE TO TREAT
From wicked-o-pedia – “In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a “depraved indifference” to human life and where such act results in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person. If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a “depraved indifference” to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.[1][2] In some states, depraved-heart killings constitute second-degree murder,[3] while in others, the act would be charged with “wanton murder,”[4][5] varying degrees of manslaughter,[6] or third-degree murder. If no death results, such an act would generally constitute reckless endangerment (sometimes known as “culpable negligence”) and possibly other crimes, such as assault.”
PLEASE pass this on if you will. James
Can we talk about what 'Covid' actually is? If we ban the test and ban the new word, "covid" will go away. There are NO specific symptoms, and the study only found 2 "severe cases" in the placebo group which were defined as, "peripheral blood oxygen saturation level" (which is a lab test not a clinical event) and only by the FDA definition. Nobody met the CDC definition of "severe covid" in either group - so zero efficacy.
As to the definition of "covid" - it's just one of the following: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, muscle pain, loss of taste or smell (which is very subjective), sore throat, diarrhea, or vomiting and a "positive" nucleic acid test. That's nothing. All we have is an epidemic of a new word "covid" and a new problematic test to just rename the common cold and the flu.
"It's not as bad as it would have been" used to sell flu shots is a logical fallacy, similar to the old Asian proverb about the Tiger: "This shot keeps away tigers" "Well how do you know it works?" "See the tiger?"
From what I'm understanding, what the plan is to do is to have annual coronavirus vaccine be more like the flu vaccine, but as of now, the virus is mutating so much, that by the time the vaccine is available, the vaccine is likely to be out of date and of no use. The flu vaccine is a best guess in terms of what strain will be spreading. That's not even close to the case with the booster. It's honestly not worth it anymore to be offering vaccines/boosters for the coronavirus.