Potpurri Catch Up
News you may have seen or missed
Ok, let’s start with the election. Most of you know what happened, but here’s my take.
Let’s start with New Jersey:
Biden beat Trump by 16 points!!!! Just a year ago. Over 800,000 votes! The current race (still ongoing, but Murphy will likely win), has only a 20,000 vote difference.
BLUE BLUE BLUE New Jersey, almost went RED? What the heck? Where did all the democrat votes go? I also find this incredibly interesting that this happened considering it’s well documented that people are leaving New Jersey and moving south. While I can’t find a source showing who’s leaving (red or blue), general sentiment could be that (typically) people leave a political climate that they don’t favor, to an area that they DO favor. So possibly, a larger percentage of conservatives would have moved out of the NJ during covid thus diluting the already minority conservative base. So the fact that this flipped this hard, no matter the outcome is very interesting.
Then there’s Virginia. A mostly blue state for over a decade went RED for governor. Biden won Virginia by 10 points last election, almost 450,000 votes.
So what does this all mean. In my opinion, I believe that very extensive and restrictive COVID procedures were drawn on too long and while most everyone “complied”, many many were not happy with it. Yes in the beginning there may have been more grounds to do lockdowns, to restrict businesses, travel and more, but as more and more data came out, it showed those plans did not work or add value and possibly even caused more harm.
Whether true or not, the people have spoken, and it’s very interesting.
OK. next topic. There are many graphs that could be used here, but here is a graph comparing HARDCORE Lithuania and “loosey goosey” Sweden. Interesting. Right?
Then there was a “whisleblower” from within Pfizer. This was published in BMJ, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals. You don’t make the BMJ with opinions and speculation. Remember, almost 250 million doses of this shot have been given.
Here are a few quotes:
“Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.”
“A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.”
“The next morning, 25 September 2020, Jackson called the FDA to warn about unsound practices in Pfizer’s clinical trial at Ventavia. She then reported her concerns in an email to the agency. In the afternoon Ventavia fired Jackson—deemed “not a good fit,” according to her separation letter.
Jackson told The BMJ it was the first time she had been fired in her 20 year career in research.”
“One said that she had worked on over four dozen clinical trials in her career, including many large trials, but had never experienced such a “helter skelter” work environment as with Ventavia on Pfizer’s trial.
“I’ve never had to do what they were asking me to do, ever,” she told The BMJ. “It just seemed like something a little different from normal—the things that were allowed and expected.”
She added that during her time at Ventavia the company expected a federal audit but that this never came.”
There’s ALOT more details, but you get the idea.
For thee but not for me. PM Trudeau.
Take a look at these stats:
Does correlation = causation? No. But What. The. Heck.
There’s so much more. But this is getting long. As always I welcome your thoughts and discoveries. Please share things you find. But please no “bitchute” videos with “experts” and unverified data. I see all of those but choose to stay away from them, even if they are correct.
I’ll put some thoughts out about FDA approval for kids soon.