The Post-Partisan Emporium

Jab Them All! Vaccine safety pioneer challenges trial leader's claim about COVID risk to children under age 1. T he Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is being tested on infants across the country, even as medical experts question the wisdom of moving so fast on novel vaccine development in a population with such low risk from COVID. Seventy-nine locations in 31 states are listed as participating in the so-called KidCOVE study , which started with children ages 6 to "less than 12," followed by ages 2 to less than 6, and finally 6 months to less than 2 years.  The infant trials have received sporadic media attention. CBS Miami and WCNC Charlotte ran features on local infant participants a month ago, followed by features last week for  Colorado's KDVR and Oklahoma's Fox 23 . New attention came Monday when the University of Wisconsin medical school announced that "dozens" of children under age 6 were participating in its trial

Confessions of a dangerous extremist By Tom Penn WORDS rule the world. Depending on the context,  yes  or  no  can mean life or death,  terrorism  or  self-defence  war or peace. In the eyes of the State I am an  anti-vaxxer , despite, as an adult, having had almost every vaccine under the sun advised for travel in the developing world. In the eyes of the State I am an  anti-masker , despite the fact that if I worked in a factory handling toxic chemicals, I was a surgeon or firefighter, Covid-19 had an infection fatality rate in the otherwise healthy of 10 per cent, or I wished simply to protect myself from an icy wind, I would accept the importance of wearing a face covering.   Consequently, in the eyes of the State I am not a  citizen,  I am a dangerous  extremist , and appropriate punitive measures should be taken against me as befit the Humanitarian Intervention model of warfare, until I am either dead or a refugee within my own country. To this day scarcely ever is a soul reported

Long Covid doesn't exist, volume one zillion A huge French study shows BELIEVING you had Covid is associated with many later symptoms. But ACTUALLY having had Covid isn't associated with any (except loss of sense of smell). Alex Berenson The Journal of the American Medical Association has another stunning paper out, this one on post-Covid symptoms in almost 27,000 French adults. Researchers asked people to report whether they had had Covid and whether they had any of 18 lasting symptoms like insomnia, fatigue, or cough. They found that self-reported Covid was very strongly associated with nearly every symptom. But the scientists then went a step further. They also had Sars-Cov-2 antibody test results for the people they had surveyed, so they didn’t have to depend on self-reported Covid. They  knew  who really had had Covid and who had not. They then compared self-reported symptoms in people with antibodies - that is, people who had actually been infected and recovered from Covi

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article... Our fossil fuel energy predicament, including why the correct story is rarely told by   Gail Tverberg There is more to the fossil fuel energy predicament than we usually hear about. Strangely enough, a big part of the confusion regarding the nature of our energy problem comes from the fact that virtually everyone wants to hear good news, even when the news isn’t very good. We end up seeing information in the Mainstream Media mostly from the perspective of what people  want to hear , rather than from the perspective of  what the story really is . In this post, I explain why this situation tends to occur. I also explain why our current energy situation is starting to look more and more like an energy shortage situation that could lead to economic collapse. This post is a write up of a presentation I gave recently. A PDF of my talk can be found at  this link . An mp4 video of my talk can be found at this link:  Gail