Covid Conflicts Of Interests Galore

I've discovered.

Reuters CEO until 2020 Jim C. Smith sits on the Pfizer board.

Reuters 'fact checks' vaccine misinformation. 

This is not a good way to build trust nor does it give any credence that journalism is objective.

Pfizer has its tentacles everywhere.

Let us not forget who Pfizer is.

A very naughty company. 

In law, character plays a role for any witness. If a person has a shady past or is a criminal, the theory is they are, not unreasonable, not trustworthy or worse. 

I don't see why this concept is not applied to Pfizer (and the mercurial Moderna) and the vaccines. Why are people putting so much trust and faith in a corporation with a track record of foul behaviour?

Character matter does it not?

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One of the biggest cheerleaders for the vaccines out there is Medscape editor and cardiologist Eric Topol. 

An author who Legault sometimes retweets so I decided to do some superficial digging after perusing his Twitter account. Topol keeps asserting the efficacy of the vaccines are high but I would argue there's actually enough evidence to question this claim as a study in The Lancet recently showed when it differentiated between the relative risk (RRR) and absolute risk (ARR). The former is where the infamous '95% effective' derives but the latter shows efficacy of 1%-3%.

What does that mean? It means it's advertising fraud.

And that natural immunity is better.

Even at 95% efficacy, we have a 99.9x% chance at survival. They never mention this that's why they focus on even more specious claims of 'long Covid' as reason why you should take the experimental vaccine.

The flouting of informed consent is astonishing.

Kids especially have a very strong immune system against Covid.

But Dr. Topol et al still think they should be vaccinated en masse cherry picking data all kinds along the way. I especially don't appreciate the consistent ignoring of the absence of LONG-TERM DATA.

This didn't stop Topol from penning an opinion piece in the New York Times (where I imagine the majority of its readers believe they 'fucking love science' are accept this is a plague from nature) demanding the FDA approve the vaccines because 'the stakes have never been higher'.

The stakes are always never been higher when you're wallowing in a moral panic.

I bet you this virus is endemic and weak at this point and the powers that be know it but they need to keep those brown envelopes and bribes going.

The death rates are negligible at this point but that's a data point best be ignored.

It's all about cases, transmission and variants - which means little.

In any event, Dr. Topol founded Scripps Research.

Scripps is closely associated with Fauci and NIH (waves red flag furiously. The same NIH accused of gain of function research and may be in the middle of a historic medical scandal) and gets, in part, funding from.....wait for it.....the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Money.