You are welcome to believe in anecdotal evidence if you like. I do not, and it has stood me in good stead.

I have had to revise very little that I’ve written or believed about COVID so far. From the start I’ve been skeptical about a lot of official claims, but I am also skeptical about a lot of “skeptics'” claims. Rightly so, for the most part, in both cases.

And you know very little about studies if you think they ordinarily take five or ten years. There are plenty of well-done studies of COVID that have come out, starting just a few months into the pandemic. Your snark is quite misplaced.

As far as that tweet you offer goes, where research is concerned you can find a study about something that says almost anything. The only way that one can find anything approximating the truth is to look at a lot of studies on the subject. Fortunately, we have a lot of studies on COVID vaccines. I have been reading assiduously from the beginning, and those studies cited in that tweet are very atypical of what was claimed. From the start there have always been varying degrees of effectiveness claimed that were and are very much short of 100%. And AstraZeneca vaccine in particular was known early on to have one of the worst efficacy profiles of them all.

Just to take an example of typical early problems that were reported and responded to and not ignored by officials, see this, for example.

I could go on and on and on with details about this, but it’s a waste of time at this point. If you really want to put in some time and effort, read my posts on COVID research right from the start, in particular my posts on vaccines, such as this one as well as this and this. And by the way, early vaccine research findings regarding the original variant are different than those following the later variants; for the most part, vaccines were more effective against transmission of early variants, but have been significantly effective in diminishing the number of serious cases of COVID and death from all strains.

https://twitter.com/SebStub/status/1591011343439519744

Where is the doctor’s data about disease progression in vaccinated versus unvaccinated patients? He presents none. Until he publishes statistics comparing cancer progression in boosted people matched for age, type of cancer, and pre-boosted cancer stage to those of non-boosted people, his observations are meaningless.

Good luck in finding a lot of cancer patients who haven’t had a booster, by the way.

The letter is at Gateway Pundit and Daily Skeptic, two sites I have found consistently unreliable in the past. That doesn’t mean everything on there is false or misleading, but I never link to either any more.

I agree that vitamin D is essential, regardless of the recent flurry of articles suggesting it does no good.

I’ve had covid twice– once early April 2020, before there was testing, so I can only assume it was covid, since I’ve never had the symptoms like it before. Then January 2022. I only know it was covid because my wife tested positive, so I got tested. Something like a bad cold.

In August 2021, I helped my nephew, who was very ill with covid, at his house. Every day for two weeks I spent an hour or so at his house. Drove him several times to the doctor (half hour drive each way). Never got it, but I did use an N95 mask whenever I was in contact with him. Supplemented with D, Quercetin, zinc, NAC. We would have used ivermectin, but by this time, it was impossible to find. He has a stubborn German ancestry, and refused to go to the Doctor at first. Finally went after a week. Had low O2 level, but the doctor said he couldn’t prescribe supplemental O2 unless he went to the emergency room– which he wouldn’t do. So I set him up with supplemental oxygen using industrial oxygen with a bubbler water filter. His oxygen levels dropped into the 70’s without oxygen, but maintained around 90% with. The doctor did proscribe Dexamethasone, which I think made a huge difference. We went through a lot of oxygen, and I later calculated he was getting around 80 ml/hr. Pretty obvious this was the delta variant.
In November, his brother became sick. Same stubborn German stock– he refused to do anything. I wasn’t aware he was even sick until he went to the Doctor around two weeks in. They put him in the hospital, but there is little that can be done once it’s in the lungs, and he died a few weeks later, after he made the decision to take him off the respirator. Heartbreaking.
I don’t know if he might have had the same outcome as his brother, had he taken it more seriously, since his brother was in excellent shape (power lifter).

As to stan’s comment about your mask making you sick– they do need to be replaced regularly.

“Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a renowned oncologist practicing in the UK, recently wrote an open letter to the editor-in-chief of the medical journal The BMJ, urging the journal to “make valid informed consent for COVID vaccination a priority topic” because cancers and other diseases are rapidly progressing among “boosted” people.

Angus George Dalgleish, 72, is a professor of oncology at St George’s, University of London, best known for his contributions to HIV/AIDS research and is one of the most sought-after doctors in London.”

Logic is better. Try it. Health professionals simply repeat whatever the CDC tells them. The CDC is proven to be corrupt, dishonest and incompetent. Repeatedly. About practically every single important aspect of Covid. In many specialties, any doctor who gives advice against the party line will lose their board certifications, hospital privileges and even their license to practice. Not exactly an atmosphere for the best advice.

BTW — your mask increases your risk of getting sick. Seriously. Check the science. Not the advice of corrupt, incompetent bureaucrats like Fauci. The science.

—
JD Keene,

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” — Richard Feynman, America’s greatest physicist.