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Biden and Fauci Botched the Covid Pandemic Response.


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2022 Jul 7, 7:19pm   722 views  17 comments

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Instead of protecting the vulnerable, they bet too heavily on vaccines to achieve herd immunity.

There are many lessons to be gleaned from the U.S. pandemic response. House Democrats don’t care to study them.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis last month issued a deeply partisan report demonizing doctors who purportedly espoused “a dangerous and discredited herd immunity via mass infection strategy.” The report took aim at the Trump administration’s embrace of the October 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, in which epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) advocated protecting the elderly and vulnerable while allowing schools and businesses to reopen. This wasn’t a strategy to infect masses of people on purpose. The goal was to minimize deaths and social and economic harm until the country reached herd immunity through infection or vaccination.

The Great Barrington strategy of “focused protection” helped minimize the pandemic’s collateral damage until vaccines became available. The Biden administration then undertook a strategy of herd immunity via vaccination. But when this strategy failed, it doubled down with vaccine mandates.

From the outset of the pandemic, the mainstream medical establishment and government bureaucracy were aligned behind a lockdown-at-all-costs strategy. The Trump White House tapped Scott Atlas, a Hoover Institution fellow and radiologist, for a contrarian perspective. Dr. Atlas endorsed the elements of the Great Barrington strategy. The House report criticizes him for a memo in which he argued that “stopping all cases is not necessary, nor is it possible. It instills irrational fear into the public. Non-prioritized testing is jeopardizing critical resources for truly critical testing and is creating problematic delays in test results for the most important populations.”

He was right on every point. Indiscriminate use of a scarce resource reduces public welfare. When tests were in short supply, Dr. Atlas’s recommendation to save them for high-risk groups such as nursing-home residents made eminent sense. His prescriptions and those of the Great Barrington Declaration aimed to maximize public welfare.

Democrats claim in their report that 130,000 lives could have been saved with more “mitigation,” but this is doubtful. California and New York, which adopted mask mandates and lockdowns during the 2020-21 winter, fared no better than Florida and Texas, which didn’t. What’s more, employment continues to lag significantly in liberal lockdown states. Had all 50 states stayed shut down until vaccines were available, with the federal government paying tens of millions of people not to work—as Democrats ostensibly would have done—we might now be experiencing high unemployment and even higher inflation.

Vaccines ultimately saved the day by reducing the Covid disease burden and giving Democratic states a reason to lift their destructive lockdowns. But the Biden administration bet too heavily on vaccines to confer herd immunity. In December 2020, Anthony Fauci projected that a 75% to 85% vaccination rate could provide a “blanket of herd immunity.” This proved too optimistic.

An ever-mutating and increasingly transmissible virus, combined with waning vaccine effectiveness, made herd immunity a moving target. By spring 2021, Pfizer’s clinical trial data showed that its vaccine was becoming less protective against infection as time passed. Four months after the second dose, vaccine efficacy had declined to 84%, making breakthrough infections more likely and imperiling the Biden administration’s goals. Yet Pfizer honcho Albert Bourla writes in his new book, “Moonshot,” that federal public-health officials feared disclosing this waning efficacy would breed more vaccine hesitancy. The Biden administration kept it under wraps until July, when breakthrough infections in Provincetown, Mass., made it impossible to deny. Stories in the media were corroborated by a study from Israel the same month showing vaccine protection against infection falling to 39%.

Only after the Washington Post published a leaked Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slide presentation showing that vaccine efficacy was declining did the agency acknowledge it. Still, Dr. Fauci in August insisted that herd immunity could be achieved “really easily if we get everyone vaccinated.” He should have known by then that was false.

None of these realities stopped the Biden administration from mandating vaccines for private workers and arguing in court, despite evidence to the contrary, that doing so was “necessary to protect unvaccinated workers from the risk of contracting COVID-19” and “that vaccines dramatically reduce the risk of contracting and transmitting COVID-19.” After the Supreme Court blocked the mandate in January, the administration pivoted to a strategy of focused protection—e.g., distributing antiviral and monoclonal-antibody treatments and booster shots to the vulnerable. Alas, the administration’s orders were too little, too late to help when deaths and hospitalizations soared in winter 2021-22.

Nearly 600,000 Covid deaths have occurred on Mr. Biden’s watch despite vaccines and better treatments—about 180,000 more than under Donald Trump. One lesson is the importance of diverse opinions. The Biden administration paid too much heed to experts such as Dr. Fauci and ignored those who argued against placing all its eggs in the vaccine basket.

Another lesson is that science evolves, and there’s no shame in admitting error. Most scientists were wrong about what it would take to achieve herd immunity. But it’s better to correct mistakes than compound them, which is what the Biden administration did. Why it did is something for a future GOP Congress to investigate.

Ms. Finley is a member of the Journal’s editorial board.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-fauci-botched-the-covid-response-infection-vaccine-paxlovid-testing-11657211031?st=pmnnrgt1jpie69k&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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2   Ceffer   2022 Jul 7, 7:32pm  

This is still 'exonerating propaganda', taking the posture that the principles were acting in good faith, which they were not. It is part of the new propaganda of premeditated 'prison guard defense' postures by MSM.

Covid was a fraud, the tests were a fraud designed to give credence to a non-existent rubric that was just a basket of seasonal viruses all wrapped up into one scare tactic. This was known and nobody cared as long as the Globalist money fountains continued to corrupt them, and is still corrupting them, though the spigot is running dry now. Everybody is running for the hills pointing fingers at somebody else to blame for the carnages to bodies and social economics. MSM will, of course, never acknowledge the part they play, but will just offer buffering articles like this to soft shoe their way out of blame.
3   Onvacation   2022 Jul 7, 7:59pm  

Ceffer says

Covid was a fraud,

Whatever I got was real. It was unlike any cold I ever had before and downright mild compared to the worst colds I have had.

I think it was a dud bioweapon.
4   PeopleUnited   2022 Jul 7, 8:05pm  

Ceffer says

the tests were a fraud designed to give credence to a non-existent rubric that was just a basket of seasonal viruses all wrapped up into one scare tactic.

Onvacation says

Whatever I got was real. It was unlike any cold I ever had before and downright mild compared to the worst colds I have had.
I think it was a dud bioweapon.


I think you are both right. It was a bio weapon that did not live up to the hype. It was deadly for some, but a nothingburger for most. And the tests are a scam. Most positives were false positives and that was deliberate to sell he fear. And the biggest scam of all is the vaxx. God help us all, they have lied us into submission and destruction.
5   richwicks   2022 Jul 7, 8:10pm  

Onvacation says


Ceffer says


Covid was a fraud,

Whatever I got was real. It was unlike any cold I ever had before and downright mild compared to the worst colds I have had.

I think it was a dud bioweapon.



It was just another fucking coronavirus. I just got over being sick. Worse than a cold but not as bad as my worst flu.

PeopleUnited says

I think you are both right. It was a bio weapon that did not live up to the hype. It was deadly for some, but a nothingburger for most. And the tests are a scam. Most positives were false positives and that was deliberate to sell he fear. And the biggest scam of all is the vaxx. God help us all, they have lied us into submission and destruction.


They lied a lot of people into the importance of fucking paying attention, you know, the most BASIC civil duty we ALL have? People don't give a fuck if the government lies us into bombing a 3rd world nation and causing a mass starvation there but they DO pay attention when their 35 year old coworker drops dead of a heart attack.
6   PeopleUnited   2022 Jul 7, 9:04pm  

richwicks says

It was just another fucking coronavirus

Cooked up in a lab though. Weaponized with gain of function research.

richwicks says

They lied a lot of people into the importance of fucking paying attention, you know, the most BASIC civil duty we ALL have?

What the fuck are you saying here? That the people need to obey/pay attention to the government? I think you got that backwards bub. The government should be obeying the people, and if you believe in America, the government is bound to the laws of a higher power.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government …”
7   BayArea   2022 Jul 7, 9:12pm  

Half the country will never admit fault or learn from any lessons
8   PeopleUnited   2022 Jul 7, 9:20pm  

BayArea says

Half the country will never admit fault or learn from any lessons

Which half?
9   Patrick   2022 Jul 7, 9:26pm  

BayArea says

Half the country will never admit fault or learn from any lessons


Right, it's hard to imagine them admitting fault after shrieking TAKE THE VAXX over and over for so long.

But all we really need is one country to publish the truth and ban that shit forever.
10   AmericanKulak   2022 Jul 7, 9:27pm  

Forgot Orwell's term - doublethink maybe - that Lefties can praise Sweden but studiously ignore Sweden's ultra light mask/social distancing/no school cancellation policies in 2020.
11   richwicks   2022 Jul 7, 11:36pm  

PeopleUnited says

richwicks says

It was just another fucking coronavirus

Cooked up in a lab though. Weaponized with gain of function research.


Yep. Now I know I don't have to worry about a biological agent from my stupid fucking government run by retarded assholes.

PeopleUnited says

What the fuck are you saying here? That the people need to obey/pay attention to the government? I think you got that backwards bub. The government should be obeying the people,


But the government doesn't pay attention to the people or obey them.

Our responsibility is over-sight, and almost NOBODY does that.

Shit, 1/2 the population might have just been poisoned over a "pandemic" virus that has a 99.8% survival rate. Who speaks up?

PeopleUnited says

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government …”


"We gave you a republic, if you can keep it"...

This is the point of civic responsibility. It's only a republic as long as you do oversight, and barely anybody does.

Our election was stolen in 2020. Think the government that stole it will fix it?
12   PeopleUnited   2022 Jul 8, 12:13am  

I like to tell you what I think but we try to keep it civil here at Patnet.
13   Ceffer   2022 Jul 8, 1:58am  

Basic epidemiology for respiratory viruses dictates that even IF there were a Covid 19, it would have been quenched by herd immunity by Fall of 2020. However, that's a big IF, since NOBODY has ever cultured or isolated it. Nobody has a sample that can be studied by academia. They have asked, and there is NO PROVEN COVID SAMPLE THAT CAN EVEN BE STUDIED. It's all based on presumptive immunologic data that beg the question and faked science. Everything since Fall of 2020 has been a fiat publicity lie given force of government to get people taking vaccines one after the other, all agenda driven, nothing to do with science, facts or disease.

The relentless push for PCR tests over and over on everybody was simply designed to create fraudulent positives to promote the agendas and inflict vaccines. Does anybody happen to remember anybody EVER being tested over and over, week after week, for any previous respiratory virus, cold or flu? No, because nobody gave a shit, you just got over it with rest, fluids etc, nobody needed to fake prove its existence over and over. Doctors wouldn't even run tests because by the time they got them back, the colds/flu would already have run their course. Nobody tests for the flu, except for spot tests by epidemiologists, never routine testing of populations much less those who are often asymptomatic. The fake tests themselves created the 'epidemic'. Remember that Nobel Prize winner who invented PCR saying it should NEVER be used as a medical test?

There are hundreds of viruses with lots of different symptoms of varying severity. Just because you got something that you don't remember having before, or something that had different kinds and severities of symptoms, does not mean you had Covid. Your brain just settled on what the propaganda has been force feeding you as the most convenient explanation. They succeeded in creating a disease religion and getting everybody to parrot the fiction.
14   GNL   2022 Jul 8, 6:23am  

It was a compliance and IQ test.
15   PeopleUnited   2022 Jul 8, 6:32am  

WineHorror1 says

It was a compliance and IQ test.

Exactly, and your choice to test, WAS the test.
16   Patrick   2022 Jul 8, 1:52pm  

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/fed-report-finds-75-800-billion-paycheck-protection-program-didnt-reach


Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn't reach employees
Study found that taxpayers shelled out $4 for every $1 in wages and benefits received by workers from the Paycheck Protection Program.
17   Patrick   2022 Aug 26, 5:14pm  

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/dont-look-up-your-scienceherd-immunity


“Don’t Look Up” Your Science—Herd Immunity or Herd Mentality? A Call to Action for Dr. Meryl Nass
Published in Microorganism by Botond Z. Igyártó

James Lyons-Weiler
46 min ago
With mainstream academics publishing articles like this, “Public Health” will never be able to repeat what they tried from 2020-2022. Of course, many will disagree with Dr. Igyártó re: the call for vaccines, and a few other clearly obtuse points. The full article is open access. I’m calling on Dr. Meryl Nass to correct Dr. Igyártó on his interpretation of the hydroxychloroquine studies, but I’m sure she’s a bit too busy to educate someone who should know better.

“The virus fatality rate did not support lockdowns, blanket restrictive measures, and non-selective mass vaccinations. There was no solid scientific rationale to adopt the untested mRNA-LNP platform over other well-established vaccine formulations to fight COVID. Scientists, experts, government officials, the media, and scientific journals, all contributed to suppressing alternative ideas on how to manage the pandemic. Some of these groups are still promoting the scientifically debunked idea that the present vaccines protect you from catching COVID and becoming sick [116], and that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated [117]. Unfortunately, the virus is likely here to stay in one form or another, and we must learn to live with it. How effective the lockdowns and other restrictive measures were in reducing COVID deaths are still a matter of debate [118,119,120,121], but we likely lost, or we will lose a lot more people, from the direct and indirect effects of these measures. The excess of global deaths is often exclusively attributed to COVID [122]. However, these reports fail to factor in the direct and indirect effects of COVID-related restrictions. Many people died because they did not have access to healthcare during this period (they were afraid of going to the hospitals, or the hospitals did not accept them). Furthermore, a significant increase in suicide rates, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, obesity, economic hardships, vaccination-related events, etc., likely contributed to excess deaths. If the vaccines do not prevent infections and spread, it is time to stop coercing people to get vaccinated, vilifying unvaccinated people, and giving extra perks to the vaccinated. It is neither feasible nor economically sustainable to ‘vaccinate’ everyone every few months or perform continuous testing, and more importantly, there is no scientific rationale for doing so. We must focus our resources on the vulnerable population and provide them with efficient treatment options and possible preventative steps in the form of lifestyle changes, supplements, and effective, long-lasting, safe, and affordable vaccines.”

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