The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Narrative in Retreat BY   RAMESH THAKUR   The  Lockdown Files  have dished up a curious exchange among Britain’s top policy advisers in early 2020. On February 29th, responding to a WhatsApp message from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Chief Adviser Dominic Cummings that Israeli scientists were just weeks away from developing a Covid vaccine and if this was credible, Chief Scientist Sir Patrick Vallance replied “Short answer is no”. Chief Medical Officer  Chris Whitty  explained: “For a disease with a low (for the sake of argument 1%) mortality a vaccine has to be very safe so the safety studies can’t be shortcut. So important for the long run.” England’s highest  mortality rate  was in April 2020 at 0.6%, falling to 0.55% in January 2021 and 0.04% by January 2023. Based on the original Phase 3 trial data,  Bart Classen  showed as early as August 2021: “Results prove that none of the vaccines provide a health benefit and all pi...

Dissecting The New Plea for COVID Amnesty Recapping the mistakes that were made throughout COVID-19, and what can be done to prevent them from happening again. A Midwestern Doctor Many of you may remember Emily Oster’s disingenuous plea for amnesty in  The Atlantic . The responses to it were almost all “How about [insert your preferred profanity].” My favorite response was someone choosing to pay to fly this over her house after  the article  came out: In Oster’s plea for amnesty, I felt she was providing an excellent example of a pseudo-apology—she “asked for forgiveness” but simultaneously refused to admit she was in any way at fault for any of her previous actions, and used a variety of linguistic constructs to try to both have her cake and eat it too. I really hate when people do that, so I decided to write a response to her  article : The Forgotten Side of Medicine Dissecting the Deceptive Plea for COVID-19 Amnesty One of the difficulties with most forms of medi...