Oh, swell. Covid warnings are back. Mask up or be a anti-vacc, anti-science dope.
Must we blindly follow the advice of "experts" who have been wrong before?]
As soon as the CDC recommended that everyone as young as six months [!!] should get the new Covid vaccine, attacks were renewed on anyone, including scientists and health professionals, who dared question the efficacy and safety of the new concoction.
Those scientist are called “anti-science deniers” even though any fair-minded, intelligent person should take their questions seriously. The scientists decried the lack of data and evidence demonstrating that the new vaccine would work, or not have negative health consequences.
Their concerns were met with derision and nasty personal attacks. Among them was a USAToday columnist and fabulist Rex Huppke. He struggled to find a metaphor to explain to we idiots how anyone who disagrees with this is a jerk: Questioning the CDC advice is like hiring an electrician who would rap an electrical wire in dry hay and duct tape while placing a gallon of gasoline nearby. You should try again, Rex.
Michael Hiltzig, in the Los Angeles Times, attacked a roundtable of scientists, assembled by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, that explained in detail why they wanted more research. Hiltzig waved away their concerns. “The roundtable,” he said, “as one might have predicted, was an agglomeration of misinformation, misunderstanding and misrepresentation that amounted to a public health threat in real time.”
For DeSantis’ legitimate recommendation for an”abundance of caution” about the vaccines, he was called bubble headed, crackpot, a threat to public health, a political opportunist, anti-vaccer, a Trump clone and more. Hardly a story appears without suggesting the DeSantis is using Covid as a political ploy to boost his campaign to be the GOP presidential nominee
If any of his critics actually listened to the round table—the complete 40 minutes—and actually thought it justified the personal attacks, they are the kind of “anti-science deniers” they love to ridicule.
You can see the roundtable for yourself here. If you have paid attention to the critics of these medical professionals, please, please watch the video. It can get technical, but that’s what this debate is about, (I would post the youtube video, but youtube has removed it,)
These specialists argue that the lack of reliable data make it difficult for a health care provider to give a confident answer when patients ask if they should get a new booster shot.
Here are some other observations from credential scientists and medical professions that raise important questions. To be clear, I’m not saying they’re right; I’m not saying they’re wrong. I’m only asking that all sides of science be considered and not waved away as something sinister.
Wastewater surveillance finds the spread of Covid may be plateauing.
Was new Covid vaccine tested on eight mice?
Check out the argument that serious flaws exist in a “study” that claims that adolescent boys need not worry about Myocarditis: