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Michelle Rabin Ph. D.'s avatar

Diane, thanks for your profound efforts to save the lives of our most precious citizens. I am so disillusioned that this could actually be happening in this country. The level of intentional dis-information from mainstream media AND our public health agencies is horrifying. I have no words suitable to describe this nightmare.

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David 1260's avatar

I submitted the following to the NYT in response to the outrageous "Vaccine Mandates Aren’t an Attack on Freedom" column by Paul Krugman (BTW, "uninformed" is code for propagandized):

As someone on the Left that has intensively studied the medical literature on COVID-19, it's shocking just how uninformed Krugman is. There's so much more to opposition to vaccine mandates than rightwing politics. Because symptoms are suppressed, vaccination enables one to be out in public while sick. CDC now admits that infected vaccinees spread the disease. That destroys the assertion that being vaccinated protects others--the only legitimate justification for mandates.

There is absolutely no excuse for vaccinating children. They have effectively zero risk of death from COVID-19, while the vaccines pose risks significantly greater than zero. The reported deaths of many thousands of people were clustered within a day or two of being vaccinated. FDA claims that these are all coincidences, but can't back that up with evidence from investigations or autopsies. In the absence of risk, it is reckless to expose children to a product with no long-term track record of safety.

If anyone's noticed, the most heavily vaccinated states and countries are now suffering rises in infections, hospitalizations, deaths and--surprisingly--excess deaths. If the vaccines were working, that wouldn't be happening.

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