Category: Safe and Effective

Famous last words

Little Known Facts nannystate Safe and Effective 132 Comments

In the business world, anyone with this track record for prediction would be out on their ear. But in Sovietized medicine, the powers that be overlook these failures as though selective memory was the fast track to promotion.

the revisionist history around vaccines is getting pretty extreme. let’s be VERY clear:

  • yes, they were promised to stop spread, contagion, and provide herd immunity.
  • yes, those promises were made by the same “experts” currently claiming “vaccines were never supposed to stop spread, just reduce severity.”
  • yes, they were so committed to this that they literally changed the definition of “herd immunity” to EXCLUDE natural immunity.

To be fair though, the message is also being embraced by a population that finds sleepwalking disturbingly comforting.

I am literally gobsmacked by the lack of memory and discernment.

This level of credulity leaves me wondering how the entire country has not already lost its savings in some internet scam.

Covid Chaos Continues

Safe and Effective Wuhan Flu 92 Comments

Ontario’s vaxxed population takes the lead.

Here it is on the provincial website. 

Today in Manitoba 947 new cases identified, 143 are in individuals who were not fully vaccinated. In other words 85% of the cases were fully vaxxed.

Hockey night in Covid Land- No World Juniors for you. 

Global shortage of tests

UK hospital admissions jump almost 40 per cent in a week as Omicron continues to surge, new figures reveal.

Tim Moen sums up Alberta healthcare standards for the year.

Update: Coming soon to a Hospital near you. 

Soviet medicine

Let Them Eat Taser Safe and Effective Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 26 Comments

Several Canadian doctors discuss their frustrating interactions with the Covid cops in the health care regulatory authority in this video. The interactions would be better characterized as harrassment.

Patrick Phillips and Sam Dube discuss the premise that we are in the midst of a mass psychosis.

Patrick Phillips relates an anecdote about being denied the right to prescribe vitamin D to his Covid patients. Just the Covid cases, mind you. He can prescribe it to anyone else.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Democrats Let Them Eat Taser Safe and Effective Truinnerashuvaduprezure 36 Comments

December 12, 2020.

December 27, 2021.

This too.

Booster Bollocks?

Safe and Effective There Goes The Narrative Wuhan Flu 18 Comments

el gato malo – if boosters stop the spread of covid, why don’t we see it in the data?

I think we can say with fairly high confidence that there is nothing in this data that supports the idea that widespread booster usage is stopping spread or contagion of covid. The issue of whether they are, in fact, making spread worse remains open and the data seems mixed and wants for greater explanation, though several studies seem to show negative vaccine efficacy for boosters on case counts (link below), so I have a hunch there may be something to the notion and will keep scratching at it.

Took a quick look and I’d say things look the same in Gibraltar.

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A Merry Oma Krahn Christmas

Safe and Effective Wuhan Flu 20 Comments

New York Post- Cops had to step in Friday as a crowd mobbed a Brooklyn corner where the city was giving away free at-home COVID-19 tests. Tempers flared as the larger-than-expected crowd descended on Flatbush and Church avenues, one of five spots in the Big Apple where city health officials were doling out tests amid a surge in demand over the holidays and lack of supply.

WCAX- COVID-positive Vermonters with no symptoms clog up ERs

NewsNow- CDC updates quarantine guidelines for healthcare workers amid continued staffing shortages

Metro- NHS is ‘grinding to a halt’ as even triple-jabbed staff fall ill in Covid surge

Sky News- COVID-19 boosters available on Christmas Day in NHS ‘jingle jab’ campaign amid surging infection rates

The Telegraph- Fourth jabs possible as Covid booster immunity may fall for millions by new year. Protection against getting sick with omicron is as low as 35 per cent 10 weeks after a booster, according to government data.

Update:  Reuters- U.S. airlines scrap nearly 1,000 Christmas Day flights due to Omicron

 

Good Job Everyone!

Safe and Effective There Goes The Narrative Wuhan Flu 59 Comments

After all the lockdowns, masks, mass vaccinations, mandates, and passport systems you finally flattened the curve (along the wrong axis) and reached all time high case counts. Just in time for Christmas.

We’ve been watching overall case numbers in the fully vaccinated increase for some time now, but in Ontario the rate per 100,000 people (second chart below) just crossed over the parity line. Judging from the trend its probably not going to stay there.

   

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Remember One and Done?

Safe and Effective Science Wuhan Flu 54 Comments

A few short months ago this was the recommendation.

CTV- Second doses of COVID-19 vaccines can be given up to 4 months after first, NACI now says

They didn’t think the second shot was particularly necessary, and now…

The Times of Israel- In world first, Israel set to give 4th COVID shot to over 60s, at-risk groups

Meanwhile … Quebec considers asking hospital workers with COVID-19 to stay on the job

Shiny Pony shows us how its done. Trudeau says three personal staff and three members of security detail are positive for COVID-19

And surprise, surprise the testing system is now getting overwhelmed. 

Trust The Experts

Safe and Effective Unsettled Science 25 Comments

Science Alert;

Millions of people take antidepressants each day, but a major new review of the data brings up some concerns with how the drugs are currently prescribed.

In fact, when taken over long periods for mild and moderate depression, antidepressants may be doing patients more harm than good, the review explains.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t use antidepressants at all – in many instances, they save lives and work well.

But the authors of the new review, which appears in the British Medical Journal’s Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, suggest doctors should prescribe fewer antidepressants for shorter periods of time, and focus on people with severe depression.

In other cases, the evidence is unclear on how effective the drugs really are – and whether the benefits outweigh the side effects.

But wait, there’s more.

One of the big issues highlighted by the review is that most clinical trials only look at the efficacy of the drugs over a six- to 12-week study period. In the real world, however, people are prescribed antidepressants for years.

Good grief.

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