He's a serious scientist - thoughtful, respectful, open to debate. For too long, the biomedical establishment has seen (and run) itself as an unaccountable priesthood. Jay will lead the defrocking.
The most telling comment I recall was early in 2020 when the Cleveland Clinic prepublished their study of their own employees showing that employees who had already had COVID infection didn’t get it again, and therefore could forgo the “vaccine,” reserving it for people who were seronegative and especially those with underlying medical conditions. Made perfect sense.
I remember distinctly one comment to the preprint saying “This shouldn’t be published. People will get the wrong idea!” What?!? Don’t publish the facts because people won’t agree with your narrative or your designs?!? 🤦
A big part of the problem is many people do not understand the "fallacy of the common good".
And because of this, it was easy for them to deploy moral trick-boxes through occult-malice levels of mental brutality to dial up social tyranny, i.e., the two most diabolical (and brilliant) slogan phrases ever:
1. My mask protects YOU.
2. wE'Re alL iN iT tOGeTHeR!
This is why the "social contract" is a myth.
To the extent that I care about what is good for anyone other than my family, it's pretty much my call. When it comes to putting myself or my family at risk for some whacked out virtue-signaling scheme, no matter how good it makes you feel about yourself, count me out.
If you are telling me that I need to have a foreign substance injected in my body so thyat someone else might not get sick, I'm going to tell you to take your "social contract" and put it where the sun doesn't shine.
No, I don't have to accept your assurances that the vaccine you want to stick into me or mine is safe and effective; I get to ask questions and demand proof.
This appointment alone is enough to justify having voted for Trump. In the hysteria of the campaign, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that presidential power is exercised largely through personnel, and Trump has shown exceedingly fine judgment with Bhattacharya's selection.
great news indeed... to see how they characterize him in the left is mind blowing. you can criticize his work (though you better have data) but to attack his motives, integrity, and character really shows we are dealing with an unhinged left... I hope they regain their senses one by one, as the saying goes... I see some sign of that, though it is taking a very long time
There's no going back because reality is kryptonite to their worldview; they'd have to face up to sunk costs and the fact that they are not morally superior.
The worst case in my life is my husband's cardiologist. At our visit last week he was still wearing an N95 mask & nitrile gloves. A deep disappointment; he was one of the few MDs that I trusted (after 50 years in nursing I can count them on one hand). Two years ago he tried to get me to take statins. When I refused he actually used the phrase "the science." So sad - & infuriating!
Like putting people on ventilators. And in Florida, when the Biden admin limited the availability of monoclonal antibody therapy treatments. That treatment saved my mother's life. (We live in TX.)
The official death toll is still suspect - so many folks dying of other causes were documented as dying from the virus so the hospital could make extra money. There was out and out fraud in addition to the died "with" rather than because of the virus. All this in addition to deaths caused by inappropriate treatments as well as withholding of treatment protocols.
The majority of the people who are claimed to have died from Covid were killed by their medical care. The protocols killed; ventilators had a death rate over 90% and Remdisver has. Death rate over 50%. Throw in isolation which allowed for the medical staff to ignore basic human needs like nutrition and hydration and the fact that a dead Covid patient was worth more than a live Covid patient and you get a lot more dead people.
There was a huge chill to discussion in the medical community. I suspect fear and paranoia were compounded by isolation and the subset of loud crusaders (I recall one very judgmental physician posting screeds on LinkedIn... It was the shaming du jour... Now I think he's railing against RFKJ but I don't read him anymore).
I met Jay Bhattacharya at a Hoover Institute event earlier this year. He discussed the Great Barrington Document, a simple letter with a bunch of common sense on a one-page piece of paper. I was struck by what he spoke about that night—mostly about censorship. I went up to him afterwards, thanking him and mentioning that I have been reading your substack. He was so appreciative of your fight, Alex, and said you could use all of the help that you could get. I was touched by how much support and admiration he has for you. It's hard to be the upstander.....I'm grateful for you both this Thanksgiving Day!
With Dr. Battacharia, Dr.Makarty, Dr. Oz and RFK in charge we God willing won't have a repeat of the nightmare everyone experienced through Covid, and people will become more educated and less brainwashed about what did happen and who was responsible.
I suspect most of the death count, in addition to being exaggerated, was also due to the malfeasance of medical and health authorities. People were turned away from ERs, told to return when they had breathing problems and in the meantime take aspirin etc as per a cold. This, despite rapidly emerging and inexpensive, readily available, and tried-and-true home treatments for inflammation and respiratory issues. Once admitted, people were put on ventilators, which have a high mortality rate; they were given remdesivir, which had a high mortality rate; they were denied any of the rapidly developing and inexpensive treatments: IV Vitamin C; vitamin D; tried and true inhalers to assist the lungs; steroids to help the inflammation everywhere. ERs are centers for contagion: small, cramped, poorly ventilated, mobbed with visibly sick people. (I avoid them all now!)
I will never go to a hospital for a future pandemic, unless I can ascertain aforehand they are open to ANY sort of treatment that might help, and are tracking the arising developments out in the TRUE science-based medical sector. (Good luck with that information!)
YES...let the defrocking commence! Dr. Jay was one of my top resources during the great PLANdemic, and pretty certain was for many of you here too. I am grateful Trump made this choice! Now don't get me started on his choice for surgeon general WTF! Sure the position is more of a mouthpiece non decision making position, but again WTF! Gobble Gobble to ALL...
Does anybody remember at the time thinking - "this is how they plan to defeat Trump." I just felt like the whole psychotic response to COVID was like a hail Mary to defeat Trump who was having a very successful presidency to that point (and even surprisingly successful to me as a Cruz guy who supported Trump). I think it is important to consider the political context as well. The D primary field was essentially the B team at that point and that is why we wound up with Biden. Things were going great in late 2019 and early 2020 on any number of fronts. I think it all fits together- the censorship, the deep state coordination, the corporate media deceptions, the beautification of Fauci, the laughable scapegoating of pangolins. The explosive development of the know nothing world where almost no one asks questions or bothers to find answers (How many people really died in China? Did we fund the Wuhan lab so we could keep tabs on what they were doing there? BTW, how many people have died in the Russia/Ukraine war, why don't we see daily footage like we did in every other war?)
To be sure, Trump didn't play his part perfectly for sure, trusting too many people who were undermining him. So, I think this crisis was blown up in part to end Trump's reign and that is why anyone who questioned the reaction was viciously attacked and numb sculls like Cuomo, Newsom and Whitmer (does anyone want to call her something else, as a joke, she wears a lot of black and red and is pretty totalitarian) were lauded. So, it is good that one of the heroes (and Alex you are one of the heroes as well), Dr. Bhattacharya is now going to be playing a critical role. One final question, my assumption all along is that we could not be permitted to have successful treatments because that would nullify the emergency use authority of the vaccine. Am I right about that? I wonder if some of the ones that people swore by like Hydroxychloroquine were not necessarily medically effective but psychologically. In other words, people believed they would work (and were working) and it helped them not fall into despair and keep fighting. I wonder how many people despaired and died because they believed in getting COVID, they were being handed a death sentence? I think there is still a lot of accounting to be done. I hope it gets done.
To everyone who reads this message Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone. I agree with you 💯 on Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD. A great man for the job.
A great choice for the NIH. Quite a contrast to Fraudci.
The most telling comment I recall was early in 2020 when the Cleveland Clinic prepublished their study of their own employees showing that employees who had already had COVID infection didn’t get it again, and therefore could forgo the “vaccine,” reserving it for people who were seronegative and especially those with underlying medical conditions. Made perfect sense.
I remember distinctly one comment to the preprint saying “This shouldn’t be published. People will get the wrong idea!” What?!? Don’t publish the facts because people won’t agree with your narrative or your designs?!? 🤦
A big part of the problem is many people do not understand the "fallacy of the common good".
And because of this, it was easy for them to deploy moral trick-boxes through occult-malice levels of mental brutality to dial up social tyranny, i.e., the two most diabolical (and brilliant) slogan phrases ever:
1. My mask protects YOU.
2. wE'Re alL iN iT tOGeTHeR!
This is why the "social contract" is a myth.
To the extent that I care about what is good for anyone other than my family, it's pretty much my call. When it comes to putting myself or my family at risk for some whacked out virtue-signaling scheme, no matter how good it makes you feel about yourself, count me out.
If you are telling me that I need to have a foreign substance injected in my body so thyat someone else might not get sick, I'm going to tell you to take your "social contract" and put it where the sun doesn't shine.
No, I don't have to accept your assurances that the vaccine you want to stick into me or mine is safe and effective; I get to ask questions and demand proof.
I WILL NOT GIVE UP MY AGENCY FOR ANYONE.
That common good fallacy is the source of many other evils as well.
"For the common good” is the most common excuse for uncommon evil.
Those slogans made naive people believe they could be a “hero” just by following that nonsense.
Voltaire: anyone who can get you to believe absurdities, can get you to commit atrocities. (Or something like that).
Exactly this
3. Follow the science
4. Vaccine Hesitancy
5. Social Distancing
Oh yeah definitely.
"DENIER" and "ANTI" this and that...
Labeling is a powerful tool.
Or even the absence of labeling for one side of a debate.
Like you say about the FALLACY of the common good!
Yes, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Absolute power, or the attempt to gain it, corrupts absolutely as 2020 showed.
This appointment alone is enough to justify having voted for Trump. In the hysteria of the campaign, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that presidential power is exercised largely through personnel, and Trump has shown exceedingly fine judgment with Bhattacharya's selection.
great news indeed... to see how they characterize him in the left is mind blowing. you can criticize his work (though you better have data) but to attack his motives, integrity, and character really shows we are dealing with an unhinged left... I hope they regain their senses one by one, as the saying goes... I see some sign of that, though it is taking a very long time
A few are. But many are lost.
There's no going back because reality is kryptonite to their worldview; they'd have to face up to sunk costs and the fact that they are not morally superior.
Who would want to confront that?
The worst case in my life is my husband's cardiologist. At our visit last week he was still wearing an N95 mask & nitrile gloves. A deep disappointment; he was one of the few MDs that I trusted (after 50 years in nursing I can count them on one hand). Two years ago he tried to get me to take statins. When I refused he actually used the phrase "the science." So sad - & infuriating!
One other factor that must be included. How many early deaths were from the inappropriate treatment or therapy withheld....
Like putting people on ventilators. And in Florida, when the Biden admin limited the availability of monoclonal antibody therapy treatments. That treatment saved my mother's life. (We live in TX.)
Thankfully, our governor stepped up & got monoclonal antibodies in spite of the Feds.
Thank God!
The suppression of monoclonal ab use was criminal. That would have been a far better investment in that phase than all the vaccine money.
My mother is convinced the treatment is the future of medicine.
I meant to say ventilators…. Can’t figure out how to edit my comment on my phone
It sucks. You can't edit in the app until someone "likes" your comment.
I uninstalled the app and that took care of it fyi
I edited my comment above (changed one word) and it made all the likes disappear. I haven't had that happen before!
I gave you 1 here.
Thanks! Now it looks like the “likes” are back LOL. There seem to be differences between using phone app and reading Substack on my laptop.
The official death toll is still suspect - so many folks dying of other causes were documented as dying from the virus so the hospital could make extra money. There was out and out fraud in addition to the died "with" rather than because of the virus. All this in addition to deaths caused by inappropriate treatments as well as withholding of treatment protocols.
The majority of the people who are claimed to have died from Covid were killed by their medical care. The protocols killed; ventilators had a death rate over 90% and Remdisver has. Death rate over 50%. Throw in isolation which allowed for the medical staff to ignore basic human needs like nutrition and hydration and the fact that a dead Covid patient was worth more than a live Covid patient and you get a lot more dead people.
100%. On the money.
There was a huge chill to discussion in the medical community. I suspect fear and paranoia were compounded by isolation and the subset of loud crusaders (I recall one very judgmental physician posting screeds on LinkedIn... It was the shaming du jour... Now I think he's railing against RFKJ but I don't read him anymore).
Ventilators and Remdesivir
Many more than most people realize. Many....
Minimum Ten’s of thousands if not one hundred thousand in US.
Many, if not most.
After everything he went through, I'm happy for the good doctor. Happy Thanksgiving, Alex.
I met Jay Bhattacharya at a Hoover Institute event earlier this year. He discussed the Great Barrington Document, a simple letter with a bunch of common sense on a one-page piece of paper. I was struck by what he spoke about that night—mostly about censorship. I went up to him afterwards, thanking him and mentioning that I have been reading your substack. He was so appreciative of your fight, Alex, and said you could use all of the help that you could get. I was touched by how much support and admiration he has for you. It's hard to be the upstander.....I'm grateful for you both this Thanksgiving Day!
This Canadian wishes all my loving neighbors to the south a Happy Blessed Thanksgiving. Enjoy the day with family, friends and neighbors. Cheers.
And a Happy Thursday to you!
Thank you so much.
With Dr. Battacharia, Dr.Makarty, Dr. Oz and RFK in charge we God willing won't have a repeat of the nightmare everyone experienced through Covid, and people will become more educated and less brainwashed about what did happen and who was responsible.
Hoping & praying these good people will continue to lead our nation for many more than just the next 4 years!
Thank God for your publishings! What if we had only NYT to tell us what to think!! What does "official Covid death" mean anyway???
Died from or died with or _______????
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/opinion/covid-trump-cabinet.html
I suspect most of the death count, in addition to being exaggerated, was also due to the malfeasance of medical and health authorities. People were turned away from ERs, told to return when they had breathing problems and in the meantime take aspirin etc as per a cold. This, despite rapidly emerging and inexpensive, readily available, and tried-and-true home treatments for inflammation and respiratory issues. Once admitted, people were put on ventilators, which have a high mortality rate; they were given remdesivir, which had a high mortality rate; they were denied any of the rapidly developing and inexpensive treatments: IV Vitamin C; vitamin D; tried and true inhalers to assist the lungs; steroids to help the inflammation everywhere. ERs are centers for contagion: small, cramped, poorly ventilated, mobbed with visibly sick people. (I avoid them all now!)
I will never go to a hospital for a future pandemic, unless I can ascertain aforehand they are open to ANY sort of treatment that might help, and are tracking the arising developments out in the TRUE science-based medical sector. (Good luck with that information!)
As the nurses referred to it run-death-is-near (remdesivir).
Excellent comment. This is what I have always thought too.
Even worse, they recommended acetaminophen which depletes your glutathione, making it harder for your immune system to fight the infection.
Had not thought of that but makes perfect sense.
Happy Thanksgiving! We have a lot to be thankful for! To start… thank you,Alex.
YES...let the defrocking commence! Dr. Jay was one of my top resources during the great PLANdemic, and pretty certain was for many of you here too. I am grateful Trump made this choice! Now don't get me started on his choice for surgeon general WTF! Sure the position is more of a mouthpiece non decision making position, but again WTF! Gobble Gobble to ALL...
Who remembers Dr. John Ioannidis from them Covid days?!
Yes! Not all at Stanford are bought and paid for hacks
Exactly!!! He was my main man during Covid!!!
Does anybody remember at the time thinking - "this is how they plan to defeat Trump." I just felt like the whole psychotic response to COVID was like a hail Mary to defeat Trump who was having a very successful presidency to that point (and even surprisingly successful to me as a Cruz guy who supported Trump). I think it is important to consider the political context as well. The D primary field was essentially the B team at that point and that is why we wound up with Biden. Things were going great in late 2019 and early 2020 on any number of fronts. I think it all fits together- the censorship, the deep state coordination, the corporate media deceptions, the beautification of Fauci, the laughable scapegoating of pangolins. The explosive development of the know nothing world where almost no one asks questions or bothers to find answers (How many people really died in China? Did we fund the Wuhan lab so we could keep tabs on what they were doing there? BTW, how many people have died in the Russia/Ukraine war, why don't we see daily footage like we did in every other war?)
To be sure, Trump didn't play his part perfectly for sure, trusting too many people who were undermining him. So, I think this crisis was blown up in part to end Trump's reign and that is why anyone who questioned the reaction was viciously attacked and numb sculls like Cuomo, Newsom and Whitmer (does anyone want to call her something else, as a joke, she wears a lot of black and red and is pretty totalitarian) were lauded. So, it is good that one of the heroes (and Alex you are one of the heroes as well), Dr. Bhattacharya is now going to be playing a critical role. One final question, my assumption all along is that we could not be permitted to have successful treatments because that would nullify the emergency use authority of the vaccine. Am I right about that? I wonder if some of the ones that people swore by like Hydroxychloroquine were not necessarily medically effective but psychologically. In other words, people believed they would work (and were working) and it helped them not fall into despair and keep fighting. I wonder how many people despaired and died because they believed in getting COVID, they were being handed a death sentence? I think there is still a lot of accounting to be done. I hope it gets done.
Almost word for word what I think went down.
Well said.
Thanks! I think your comments have been spot on as well.