Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?
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The Daily Mail and NY Post and a couple of others have written articles on it, mainly detailing criticism he received on Twitter with some quotes. But yeah, you're right. I don't think he's chatting shit, but exaggerating the backlash maybe. I don't have Twitter, though, so...
Another great source from dRoss.
McCullough has been making a name for himself in his broad campaign against vaccine mandates and the vaccine itself. A group of Houston nurses have hired him as a so-called "expert witness" in their appeal against a vaccine mandate at Houston Methodist.
Throughout the evening, McCullough made multiple claims that are largely uncorroborated by the scientific community. Among them is that a person who has already had COVID-19 does not need the vaccine and that it can be harmful to those who already have natural immunity.
That, too, has been disproven. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that the vaccine does provide protection and that research has not proven that having had the virus protects you from having it again.
Malik said that all of the large studies point in the same direction - that vaccines work, are safe and help prevent severe infection and death.
One of McCullough's biggest claims of the night was that 15,937 Americans have died after taking the vaccine, which Malik said is taken completely out of context.
This number is taken from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that these reports are not proof that the vaccine caused the deaths. The FDA requires healthcare providers to report any deaths among people who received the vaccine to VAERS, even if it’s unclear that the vaccine was the cause.
McCullough also blatantly told the audience that there is not a vaccine safety board. Yet Malik points to the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) that oversaw the vaccine trials. The board included 11 experts from four countries who are not employed by government or pharma companies.
While McCullough asserts that the vaccines provide no protection from the Delta strain and claims more vaccinated people are getting the Delta strain than unvaccinated people, both Malik and the CDC say the vaccines have been proven highly effective against COVID-19, including the Delta variant.
In fact, Malik said of the 3,500 patients he and colleagues have treated since the pandemic began, 550 have died and more than 95% of them were unvaccinated.
McCullough shared what he said was a threatening letter from the American Board of Internal Medicine warning that he could lose his certification for spreading misinformation.
There is likely a good reason for his concern about losing certification. A Dallas County court granted a temporary restraining order against him in July on behalf of Baylor Scott & White Health for continuing to claim titles, including vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center, even after he was fired from Baylor in February.
In addition, an article in Medscape, an online global news source for physicians and healthcare professionals, reported that Texas A&M College of Medicine, Texas Christian University and University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine have also cut ties with McCullough for spreading misinformation.
Anecdotally, my mate has had three jabs and just caught covid for the second time in four months.
Thing is, he's fine. You can pull apart stats anyway you want, but since the vaccine rollout shitloads less people are getting seriously ill or dying despite record numbers of cases.
Thing is, he's fine. You can pull apart stats anyway you want, but since the vaccine rollout shitloads less people are getting seriously ill or dying despite record numbers of cases.
The goalposts have been moved now, and the high cases are being used to justify tighter restrictions. The decrease in deaths is irrelevant now.
Yeah, I had a quick look at his Wikipedia before. That said, I trust the CDC about as much as I trust this guy. Everyone is chatting shit.
Says the man who relies on fact checkers who admit they just give their own opinion on things.
Yeah but that's a separate issue.
1) the vaccines are doing their job
2) govt are talking the piss
did he go the brewery?
That will be spun into terrible news. The fear mongering has been in overdrive the past few days
Has anyone sat on a bus/train lately. The voiceovers are glorious. I swear to you they got the same lady who does the loudspeaker voiceovers in dystopian apocalyptic future movies to the drone-like population. "Please wear a mask covering your nose and mouth at all times, it's for all your safety". Repeat 5 seconds later. Aaaahahahahahaaa you're all fucked. Aaaaaaaaaaaahhahahahahahahahaaaaahahaha.
You love to hear it.
You love to hear it.
Apart from the safety angle that sounds exactly like the everyday morning commute on public transport 🙂
Cases appear to have peaked in SA and if so, another couple of weeks before hospitalisations peak.
Not sure we can expect UK cases and hospitalsations to peak as quickly as SA given the differences in temperatures right now.
Gauteng currently 30c. We know the virus prefers UK winter temperatures.
The vast majority of those Covid hospitalisations in South Africa are incidental, too. I can't remember the exact figure, but it was mentioned in one of the videos I posted from Dr John Campbell.
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John L. Campbell is a British social media influencer and retired nurse who achieved attention during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic for his explanatory videos and updates on the virus. Campbell received a diploma in nursing from the University of London and Bachelor of Science in biology from the Open University. He subsequently earned a Master of Science in health science from the University of Lancaster and a Ph.D. in nursing education from the University of Bolton.
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A nurse with a doctorate in educating nurses. That's like relying on Lucas to win you the league, nice guy, honest, hard working, but ultimately you're fucked.
This might partially explain Australia
Though I'm not against vaccines, (even though I would be considered an anti-vaxxer by the advocates of Newspeak) I thought this was a bit of an unfortunate Freudian slip, too...
As for the UK, it was fucking depressing being bombarded and bludgeoned over the weekend with messages from the media using terms like tidal wave, tsunami, alert level raised, overwhelmed etc etc by Omicron, and virtually zero mention of the positive data coming out of South Africa. They've had their first martyr dying WITH the virus here now apparently, too. This shit is literally never going to end.
Operation deflection in full effect
I’m more bothered at the moment about at the state of NHS. 6 million people still on waiting list, thats 10% of the UK population. The blockage on health service and public service is truely worrying for all especially with the staffing only expected to get worse with Brexit.
You mean the NHS didn't get the £350m a week they were promised?
What's that? It went to Boris' chums for PPE and the likes?
Shock.
According to a report today there are as many hospitalizations from Omicron as Delta in Denmark.