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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1312814)	8/14/2021 3:23:35 PM
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1312814)	8/14/2021 3:30:52 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By Broken_Clock Respond to of 1583347

alexberenson.substack.com EXCERPT: They don’t ever even acknowledge that months ago, they said vaccines would sharply reduce coronavirus infections and transmission. No. Instead they insist that the vaccines are working just as advertised, by sharply reducing serious illness and death. “Don’t Lose Sight of the Fact That Covid Vaccines Are Working,” Bloomberg News wrote on Friday. “Doctor says COVID-19 vaccines are ‘working phenomenally well,’” CBS News reported in early August. “Our vaccines are working exceptionally well," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director the CDC, told CNN on August 6. "They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death -- they prevent it.” It is astonishing Walensky made that statement, which is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. In both Israel and Britain, most deaths are in fully vaccinated people. — Put aside the fact that the Israeli and to a lesser extent British data have now undercut the claims that the vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 95 percent, much less 97 or 99 percent, as vaccine advocates have claimed. Put aside that a very worrisome paper in the Journal of Infection on August 9th suggested a risk of what is called “antibody dependent enhancement” in vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant (more on this to come in another Stack). Focus only on the fact that public health advocates and reporters have simply tossed aside what they said only months ago - and that they are now warning that even healthy adults are likely to need booster shots to keep even THIS level of protection going forward. It is beyond clear at this point that vaccines will not just not end Covid, they so far seem to have made at best - at best - a marginal difference in the course of the epidemic. In fact, to look at Israel’s experience against that of Lebanon and other neighboring countries with much lower vaccination rates is to wonder if they have done any good at all. (I hope to come back to that question, too, in another Stack.) It’s okay to be wrong - as public health advocates have been, over and over and over. It’s not okay to lie about being wrong. But they can’t help themselves.