Tag: morality ethics
Covid vaccines are far worse than covid itself and mandating them for young adults is glaringly unethical ~ study
Abstract
Students at North American universities risk disenrollment due to third dose COVID-19 vaccine mandates. We present a risk-benefit assessment of boosters in this age group and provide five ethical arguments against mandates. We estimate that 22,000 – 30,000 previously uninfected adults aged 18-29 must be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent one COVID-19 hospitalisation. Using CDC and sponsor-reported adverse event data, we find that booster mandates may cause a net expected harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented in previously uninfected young adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily activities. Given the high prevalence of post-infection immunity, this risk-benefit profile is even less favourable. University booster mandates are unethical because: 1) no formal risk-benefit assessment exists for this age group; 2) vaccine mandates may result in a net expected harm to individual young people; 3) mandates are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission; 4) US mandates violate the reciprocity principle because rare serious vaccine-related harms will not be reliably compensated due to gaps in current vaccine injury schemes; and 5) mandates create wider social harms. We consider counter-arguments such as a desire for socialisation and safety and show that such arguments lack scientific and/or ethical support. Finally, we discuss the relevance of our analysis for current 2-dose CCOVIDovid-19 vaccine mandates in North America.
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for Young Adults: A Risk-Benefit Assessment and Five Ethical Arguments against Mandates at Universities
Ukrainian deaths due to futile offensive done for politics
Eastern European men and boys doing what they were raised to do—be disposable. ABN
“I have been asked to disseminate the following among those who may have injuries or have been discriminated due to [vaccine] mandates” ~ Robert Malone
At 2:00 pm Central Time on Tuesday, August 30th – details below), senior FAA official Bruce McGray will publicly present, for the first time, his sworn declaration and supporting exhibits (links at very bottom) against the agency for its involvement in the vaccine mandate and the resultant fallout. The presentation will be aired via Zoom and we need as many of our members as possible to join the call. The purpose is both to present the complaint and ensure that all members have the information necessary to rescue their lives and their careers. If you hold an FAA medical and fear its loss as a result of vaccine complications, solutions will be presented.
Mr. McGray is represented by Todd Callender of the Disabled Rights Advocates Law Firm (part of the legal coalition representing USFF as well, and whose letter & invitation is pasted below), and will be joined by a who’s-who of the fight we are engaged in. Many more agency whistleblowers who are coming forward will be on the call as well.
Realize that the call is not just for pilots! If you or someone you know is COVID vaccine injured, please join us.
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Brett Sutton provides a good example of a really bad apology
This “apology” feels wrong. We sense the speaker is doing several things so badly he may be insincere. Sutton is the Chief Health Officer of Victoria, Australia. From a Buddhist point of view, which I think can stand for a universal ethical point of view, an apology should: 1) clearly recognize fault and state specifically what it was; 2) explain why the fault occurred without excusing it in any way; 3) apologize for the fault and accept full responsibility for your part; 4) make amends where possible or pay forward; 5) vow to never do it again. ABN
“The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society”
Why the GOP would rather LOSE to Democrats than lose control of their base
~If we accept or acknowledge the RNC and DNC are private corporations, existing like all other corporations to the fulfilment of their for-profit charter, to make money; and
~If we accept or acknowledge their business model is structured around people and businesses giving them money; and
~If we accept or acknowledge that in the process of raising money their interests may or may not align with the goal of those contributing to the business; and
~If we accept the history that Mitch McConnell and the RNC worked purposefully to remove the influence of the Tea Party; then:
[…] “the GOP (club) would rather lose to Democrats than lose control of the [club] to it’s base.” Electability boils down to the right kind of approved candidate.
That is an accurate context for this midterm election cycle. Factually, the income stream for the RNC improves if they have the ability to campaign against the opposition club. The larger the outrage, the more substantial the fundraising. The corporation makes more money in defeat, or in the minority, than it does when it wins or holds majorities.
As a result, there is a disconnect between the financial incentive of the corporation and the expressed intent of the corporation. When the RNC club wins, they have a more difficult time raising money, because people who previously contributed are now looking for results.
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“Nobody really talks about the consequences of socially transitioning, especially in kids. I missed out on a lot of important female socialization. While I got to watch my peers enter relationships and grow as people, I was alone, telling myself and everyone else a lie”
Nobody really talks about the consequences of socially transitioning, especially in kids. I missed out on a lot of important female socialization. While I got to watch my peers enter relationships and grow as people, I was alone, telling myself and everyone else a lie.
I started binding after being groped at 13, and continued to do so until I went under the knife. Long after my breasts are gone, my ribs are still malformed, because binders work by pushing breasts into the ribcage. I was about a B cup and my binder fit perfectly.
It also caused my breasts to lose their shape and I hated the look of it, I thought that I would never recover. This was one of several factors that led to me getting a mastectomy.
Social transitioning is a gateway drug.
Originally tweeted by Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) on August 21, 2022.
Continue reading ““Nobody really talks about the consequences of socially transitioning, especially in kids. I missed out on a lot of important female socialization. While I got to watch my peers enter relationships and grow as people, I was alone, telling myself and everyone else a lie””“I cannot see any way that a Buddhist can support any medical professional doing this” ~ ABN
From a Buddhist point of view, “identities” (such that there even is such a thing) are to be understood and seen through as being evanescent, “empty,” not deeply real, fundamentally delusional. The Diamond Sutra says:
All conditioned things
are like dreams, like illusions,
like bubbles, like shadows,
like dew, like lightning
and all of them should be contemplated in this way.
For an adult to allow, let alone encourage, a child or adolescent to take “puberty suppressants” or undergo surgery based on an “identity” that is “like a dream” is extremely harmful to both the adult and the child. The “doctors” who provide these services are profoundly mistaken. They are playing with the beautiful minds of vulnerable young people whose brains are nowhere near fully developed. Interfering with the natural course of their development while encouraging the mental illness of their parents are deeply wrong actions based on pride and ignorance. I cannot see any way that a Buddhist can support any medical professional doing this. ABN
‘How to make patients stay long’: Chinese hospital’s marketing plan stirs outrage
This is indeed outrageous but it’s “just” happening at some small hospitals trying to keep operating in China. Compare to government mandated perverse incentives for American hospitals, which have been and still are being rewarded for misdiagnosing and maltreating covid patients to the point of killing hundreds of thousands of them. Also, one million American doctors with few exceptions (brilliant, wonderful exceptions) violated the most basic oath of medicine by refusing to treat covid at all. “Failure to treat” is the most basic form of malpractice there is. ABN
Sundance is not only a great analyst, he is also a generous spirit
Several people, some very influential people, have written or made contact asking permission to extract the Four-Part series I wrote, updated and posted yesterday. A few want to put the articles into a published format of some sort. My response, go for it.
Everything I research, write and share is free for the taking.
Download it into a pdf form, modify the internal citations as footnotes, proofread, add, subtract, modify it, change the language, simplify it, do whatever you want to make it your own in whatever format suits your needs. No attribution or citation is needed.
This is a battle to save our nation from a corrupt enterprise. I put no parameters on any tool or intellectual weapon you may find of benefit. That just isn’t me. Those who have been around a while know where I stand…. which is right next to anyone who is in the fight. Getting the message out is the urgent and important part; how it arrives, is of no issue for me.
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A true artist! ABN
Feminism vs Reality
Critic of congressional probe into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan gain-of-function study
A prominent scientist who has denounced a congressional investigation into gain-of-function research helped fund Wuhan Institute of Virology gain-of-function work flagged by congressional investigators.
Peter Hotez, dean of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, has been a fierce critic of potential hearings next year into a possible lab origin of COVID-19 and whether the National Institutes of Health prematurely discredited the hypothesis.
Hotez decried the hearings as nothing less than “a plan to undermine the fabric of science in America” in a viral tweet thread last week. Hotez also dismissed as an “outlandish conspiracy” the possibility that a lab accident sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, Hotez’s own 2012 to 2017 NIH grant for the development of a SARS vaccine had the stated aim of responding to any “accidental release from a laboratory,” in addition to a possible zoonotic spillover of the virus.
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