I’m not commenting on health policy or media here, just on the science. In emergency situations people made judgement calls on safety policy using more limited data. I’m skeptical that people are worse off with vaccine than without, however (especially with long covid) but open to reviewing contradictory data.
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Any actual science kinda went out the window when they discarded unfavorable data and lied about it, like they did with Maddie de Garay.
Who is they? What is the discarded data?
'They' includes at least everyone at Pfizer who lied about Maddie de Garay in the trials (she was paralyzed and they claimed she just had a "stomachache"). And it includes everyone at the FDA and CDC who were told about the fraud publicly and approved it anyway. And it includes everyone in the media who knew about it and, again, lied over and over for years. And it includes the heads of the NIH who made the choice to use PCR tests to generate false positives. And it includes the heads of every hospital that got paid tens of thousands of dollars per flu patient to misdiagnose and murder them with Remdesivir and ventilators.
Lying about data is unacceptable. Recommending a vaccine is another thing if severe reactions are rare, again, an issue with policy.
I’m more skeptical of claims that Covid pcr tests are false positive prone—design and testing would be trivial, and many labs, like literally dozens, would be cross checking the primers and ringing alarms if they sucked, for example. Literally should take less than a week to have a robust pcr assay for any given target of interest.
Now, some 3rd party testing services may be sloppy and contaminate samples, but most labs will handle it well with standard practices in place. Can’t see this being a widespread issue that would skew data too much. Unless the false positive you refer to means you can detect dna from “dead” noninfective virus, which may be true but at the time, when blocking transmission was key given we knew little about Covid effects, policymakers are more likely to lean on the side of caution.
The Covid vaccines have helped many and have many of the downsides we see with other medicines. The difference that is impressive that I am pointing out is that they were made very fast because of the brute force cash injection the pharmas got, which allowed them to take multiple shots on goal simultaneously. (As someone in the industry, this is not always the case, sometimes you have one shot only!) Lesser vaccines and drugs have taken decades to get 1/10th as far. Bodes well for health broadly if you step back imho