What is the evidence that asymptomatic transmission (as opposed to pre-symptomatic) was a clinically significant factor in the spread of COVID-19. Keith Dudleston
Thank you for doing this! Here is one of the main questions that I, as a pediatrician, get these days, I would love your opinion on it: given that the medical establishment (FDA, AAP, etc) blatantly torched its credibility in recommending Covid shots for children and adding them to the immunization schedule, should we still believe them about the rest of the childhood immunization schedule? Is the corruption/deception/groupthink entirely a post-Covid product, or do we need to reassess all the 1980s/1990s recommendations, too? I know for a fact that the pediatric Covid vaccine trials were a joke because I followed them in real time, but the other vaccines were already on the schedule before I even got to med school and I took them for granted - are those studies to be trusted?
Hi Rav & Jay.... I am pleased to support your independent journalism venture as a “Founding Member,” not because I’m wealthy (which, I’m not..... I’m a Social Worker) but because I want you, Rav, to have a solid start to a long career as an independent journalist. I had not heard of you, Rav, or read anything that you had written before this project. I must confess...... your association with the esteemed Dr Jay Bhattacharya is what immediately convinced me that you must be well worth paying attention to (and supporting). Dr B, along with Zubin Damania, Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary have kept me well-informed (and sane) over the past 3+ years. I apologize for any tackiness with this question...... weren’t there other benefits for asking questions/getting input directly on current issues and public health for Founding Members? I thought that I read that when I “signed up.” - Best regards, Marcy
Thank you so much for your support, Marcy. It’s very appreciated. Yes, there are other founding members features! There will be an email going out to all founding members with more details soon. Stay tuned!
Rav..... I greatly appreciate your reply. I am excited to help support you in building the foundation for your career in independent journalism. - Marcy
I was fired for refusing the jab 9/21. My religious exemption was denied, I showed proof I had Covid and recovered. A doctor advised not to take the shot due to my natural/acquired immunity, that it could do more harm than good and sent a letter advising my former employer as such. Nothing mattered. The mandate came out after Walensky acknowledged the shot’s effectiveness wanes and was already recommending boosters. I’m suing, just want to thank you 2 for your Substack. Dr Jay has helped uplift me knowing I did the right thing.
Beyond Covid, reasonable to assume any development of medications, for rare diseases/afflictions, won't meet the profitability attraction that more "novel", wide-spread illnesses will?
The current CDC guidance still says that if you have a positive COVID test, you should wear a mask through day 11 unless you have two negative tests within 48 hours before day 11. Is there any medical reasoning behind this? And a follow-up to the "how does COVID spread" question - does wearing a mask in the house actually prevent your family from getting infected?
I am from British Columbia and have been following the official COVID response and stats quite closely. The Provincial Health Officer (PHO) has actively suppressed: anti-body testing [made impossible to obtain for clinical purposes or otherwise]; any data on true case rates via reductions in COVID-19 testing and not undertaking any prevalence studies of any kind; she also effectively ended all COVID testing (Dec 2021 - 80k tests, Mar 2022 4k) exactly at the point where Omicron hit the Province and it was clear from the data that the vaccinated were catching COVID at higher rates that the unvaccinated. My question for you is this: how common, in other jurisdictions, has this type of systematic data suppress/ manipulation been? The worst aspect of the situation in BC is that they have decided to actually not collect data.
Masks, face shields, hand sanitizers, goggles...all of these and more were offered as countermeasures to "stop the spread", yet clearly they did not do that. Their failure begs two very simple questions: how does COVID spread, and is there any credible scientific backup for whatever "official" explanations there might be? John Hamann
whether old or young, an asymptomatic or mild covid case should indicate very low viral load. Why was this concept not considered when "protecting" grandparents and teachers from the germ infested children? In fact, such a low-titer reservoir might be protective, in that older adults get exposed to low dose, giving their immune system more time to respond. I think your colleague from Oxford discussed this early on, but it seems this principle should be considered for health policy.
Do you think the novel coronavirus was spreading outside of China BEFORE mid-November 2019? If this is true, would this be significant news ... and why?
You can read more about the evidence of "early spread" I have compiled at my Substack newsletter.
Please forgive the long-windedness of this, but I believe the context is important to my question. The Australian governments (Federal and State), in concert with medically-qualified people who hold non-science based agenda, were particularly egregious in prosecution and censorship of views which went against the government-approved approaches. Vast swathes of government employees had their time diverted from the normal course of government administration to inventing enormous amounts of “Covid-Safe” practices. (For example, there was even a policy for the safe handling of golf flagsticks to prevent Covid transmission. Just as well, really, since, up to then, the cemeteries were filling up with headstones reading “Here lies poor old Joe, who handled a Golf Flagstick without a clean cloth”).
People with different views were conspiracy-theorists, flat-earthers, tinfoil hat wearers and granny killers.
Musical celebrities were brought together, Bob Geldof-style, to produce a music video, catchily entitled “Stay The F**k at Home”. Protests by dissenters were brutally crushed by police (other than, for some reason, BLM protesters!!) and forced to the ground to have masks fitted.
The state sponsored TV channel in Australia, The ABC, reported on nothing but the official narrative and took pains to lambast the dissenters. In short, the governments hijacked every channel of popular “news” dissemination to mount a serious PsyOps campaign.
So, once you were given the label “Fringe” the war was, essentially, lost. (To see how this looks from inside the government, watch “Wag The Dog” a great movie about how to mould perceptions to whatever the government wishes.)
So, finally, to my question: Wouldn’t it be a good idea for you and other likeminded experts to form a highly-visible, supranational body which endorses all of your qualifications and formalises a GBD-like approach to future public health panics? I’m sure most people believe a foil to the WHO is an absolute necessity. The World Council for Health has made a start on this, but it seems to focus on expert-to-expert communities. Something is required to prevent governments dominating what should be an evidence-based process.
I just joined the Illusion of Consensus on Alex Berenson's recommendation and was so looking forward to listening but it was an enormous struggle to hear as the volume was so low and there was no way to increase it (no volume control of any type). Could you fix this please and soon! Thank you.
What is the evidence that asymptomatic transmission (as opposed to pre-symptomatic) was a clinically significant factor in the spread of COVID-19. Keith Dudleston
Great question.
Thank you for doing this! Here is one of the main questions that I, as a pediatrician, get these days, I would love your opinion on it: given that the medical establishment (FDA, AAP, etc) blatantly torched its credibility in recommending Covid shots for children and adding them to the immunization schedule, should we still believe them about the rest of the childhood immunization schedule? Is the corruption/deception/groupthink entirely a post-Covid product, or do we need to reassess all the 1980s/1990s recommendations, too? I know for a fact that the pediatric Covid vaccine trials were a joke because I followed them in real time, but the other vaccines were already on the schedule before I even got to med school and I took them for granted - are those studies to be trusted?
Thank you!
Gaty.substack.com
Ps my post on Covid vaccine absurd’s kiddie trials here:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/immunobridge-in-brooklyn-for-sale
we’ll address your question!
Hi Rav & Jay.... I am pleased to support your independent journalism venture as a “Founding Member,” not because I’m wealthy (which, I’m not..... I’m a Social Worker) but because I want you, Rav, to have a solid start to a long career as an independent journalist. I had not heard of you, Rav, or read anything that you had written before this project. I must confess...... your association with the esteemed Dr Jay Bhattacharya is what immediately convinced me that you must be well worth paying attention to (and supporting). Dr B, along with Zubin Damania, Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary have kept me well-informed (and sane) over the past 3+ years. I apologize for any tackiness with this question...... weren’t there other benefits for asking questions/getting input directly on current issues and public health for Founding Members? I thought that I read that when I “signed up.” - Best regards, Marcy
Thank you so much for your support, Marcy. It’s very appreciated. Yes, there are other founding members features! There will be an email going out to all founding members with more details soon. Stay tuned!
Rav..... I greatly appreciate your reply. I am excited to help support you in building the foundation for your career in independent journalism. - Marcy
I was fired for refusing the jab 9/21. My religious exemption was denied, I showed proof I had Covid and recovered. A doctor advised not to take the shot due to my natural/acquired immunity, that it could do more harm than good and sent a letter advising my former employer as such. Nothing mattered. The mandate came out after Walensky acknowledged the shot’s effectiveness wanes and was already recommending boosters. I’m suing, just want to thank you 2 for your Substack. Dr Jay has helped uplift me knowing I did the right thing.
Beyond Covid, reasonable to assume any development of medications, for rare diseases/afflictions, won't meet the profitability attraction that more "novel", wide-spread illnesses will?
Thoughts on prophylactic ivermectin before travel...
The current CDC guidance still says that if you have a positive COVID test, you should wear a mask through day 11 unless you have two negative tests within 48 hours before day 11. Is there any medical reasoning behind this? And a follow-up to the "how does COVID spread" question - does wearing a mask in the house actually prevent your family from getting infected?
I am from British Columbia and have been following the official COVID response and stats quite closely. The Provincial Health Officer (PHO) has actively suppressed: anti-body testing [made impossible to obtain for clinical purposes or otherwise]; any data on true case rates via reductions in COVID-19 testing and not undertaking any prevalence studies of any kind; she also effectively ended all COVID testing (Dec 2021 - 80k tests, Mar 2022 4k) exactly at the point where Omicron hit the Province and it was clear from the data that the vaccinated were catching COVID at higher rates that the unvaccinated. My question for you is this: how common, in other jurisdictions, has this type of systematic data suppress/ manipulation been? The worst aspect of the situation in BC is that they have decided to actually not collect data.
Masks, face shields, hand sanitizers, goggles...all of these and more were offered as countermeasures to "stop the spread", yet clearly they did not do that. Their failure begs two very simple questions: how does COVID spread, and is there any credible scientific backup for whatever "official" explanations there might be? John Hamann
whether old or young, an asymptomatic or mild covid case should indicate very low viral load. Why was this concept not considered when "protecting" grandparents and teachers from the germ infested children? In fact, such a low-titer reservoir might be protective, in that older adults get exposed to low dose, giving their immune system more time to respond. I think your colleague from Oxford discussed this early on, but it seems this principle should be considered for health policy.
Do you think the novel coronavirus was spreading outside of China BEFORE mid-November 2019? If this is true, would this be significant news ... and why?
You can read more about the evidence of "early spread" I have compiled at my Substack newsletter.
Thank you!
- Bill Rice, Jr.
https://substack.com/@billricejr
Please forgive the long-windedness of this, but I believe the context is important to my question. The Australian governments (Federal and State), in concert with medically-qualified people who hold non-science based agenda, were particularly egregious in prosecution and censorship of views which went against the government-approved approaches. Vast swathes of government employees had their time diverted from the normal course of government administration to inventing enormous amounts of “Covid-Safe” practices. (For example, there was even a policy for the safe handling of golf flagsticks to prevent Covid transmission. Just as well, really, since, up to then, the cemeteries were filling up with headstones reading “Here lies poor old Joe, who handled a Golf Flagstick without a clean cloth”).
People with different views were conspiracy-theorists, flat-earthers, tinfoil hat wearers and granny killers.
Musical celebrities were brought together, Bob Geldof-style, to produce a music video, catchily entitled “Stay The F**k at Home”. Protests by dissenters were brutally crushed by police (other than, for some reason, BLM protesters!!) and forced to the ground to have masks fitted.
The state sponsored TV channel in Australia, The ABC, reported on nothing but the official narrative and took pains to lambast the dissenters. In short, the governments hijacked every channel of popular “news” dissemination to mount a serious PsyOps campaign.
So, once you were given the label “Fringe” the war was, essentially, lost. (To see how this looks from inside the government, watch “Wag The Dog” a great movie about how to mould perceptions to whatever the government wishes.)
So, finally, to my question: Wouldn’t it be a good idea for you and other likeminded experts to form a highly-visible, supranational body which endorses all of your qualifications and formalises a GBD-like approach to future public health panics? I’m sure most people believe a foil to the WHO is an absolute necessity. The World Council for Health has made a start on this, but it seems to focus on expert-to-expert communities. Something is required to prevent governments dominating what should be an evidence-based process.
Thank you - looking forward to it! I think highly of Jay and I'm really looking forward to hearing more from (and about) you.
Hi there
I just joined the Illusion of Consensus on Alex Berenson's recommendation and was so looking forward to listening but it was an enormous struggle to hear as the volume was so low and there was no way to increase it (no volume control of any type). Could you fix this please and soon! Thank you.
Our sound is going to be far better moving forward. We have much more advanced equipment.