COVID Propaganda: Peter Hotez Gets His Knickers in a Twist

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Peter Hotez has meltdown over symposium reviewing Public Healthโ„ข COVID response

The theme of this roundup is four years late.

Four years late to the party, Stanford University has finally decided it might be a good idea to have some public discussion about what the governing authorities did to the population they are tasked with serving during the COVID-19 era.

Viaย Stanford Health Policyย (emphasis added):

โ€œBringing together esteemed academics, public health practitioners, journalists, and government officials from all sides of the COVID-19 policy debate in conversation with one another with an eye toward reforms in science and public health to better serve the public.

With millions of lives lost, the COVID-19 pandemic wrought havoc on the world. Despite decades of planning for the โ€œnextโ€ pandemic, public health systems faced tremendous stress and often buckled and failed. Universities served as centers for valuable scientific work but failed to support their academic freedom mission by sponsoring vigorous discussion and debate on matters of pandemic policy. To do better in the next pandemic, we need to learn the lessons of the COVID-19 era.โ€

In response to this eminently reasonable gathering, we get the typical reaction weโ€™ve come to expect from the overlords of the biomedical state.

Via Science-Based Medicine (emphasis added):

โ€œIf there was one thing that I would not have predictedโ€”but, arguably, should have been able to predictโ€”regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, itโ€™s the degree to which my fellow academics, particularly physicians and scientists, would contribute to public fear, misunderstanding, and doubt about public health interventions utilized to mitigate the worst of the pandemic. If I had been able to predict the level of complicity of my fellow academics in advocating for just letting the disease rip in a futile bid to achieve โ€œnatural herd immunity,โ€ opposing tried-and-true interventions to slow the spread of respiratory diseases (e.g., masking) using a narrow fundamentalist interpretation of evidence-based medicine (EBM), promoting unproven โ€œrepurposed drugsโ€ as near miracle cures, and even fear mongering about vaccines, I might have been able to predict that Stanford University would end up being the epicenter of such activities, if only because of its tight affiliation with the right wing think tank, The Hoover Institution. If that werenโ€™t enough, then the fact that one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, the document advocating a โ€œlet โ€˜er ripโ€ approach to the pandemic promising โ€œnatural herd immunityโ€ in six months, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, is Stanford faculty should have helped. So should the fact that Dr. John Ioannidis, formerly the greatest EBM guru (whom I once admired) who very early in the pandemic took a heel turn in favor of minimizing how dangerous COVID-19 was and advocatingโ€”you guessed itโ€”โ€natural herd immunityโ€ approaches to the pandemic.โ€

How dare anyone advocate the aggressively anti-science concept of โ€œherd immunityโ€!

Respecting the Scienceโ„ข means never looking back in history to learn anything when it might embarrass the governing authorities.

Peter Hotez has blocked me on X, so I had to do a little extra digging to get the Tweet.

Luckily, Kim Iversen covered it.

Hereโ€™s what he had to say about the COVID symposium, followed by a shameless plug for his propaganda book, โ€œThe Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warningโ€:

โ€œMy goodness, what is happening at Stanford? This is awful, a full-on anti-science agenda (and revisionist history), tone deaf to how this kind of rhetoric contribute to the deaths of thousands of Americans during the pandemic by convincing them to shun vaccines or minimize COVID.โ€

I would say Hotez himself did a grand job of convincing anyone with half a brain to โ€œshun vaccinesโ€ when he constantly shifted the goalposts on national television, as if the internet doesnโ€™t exist and canโ€™t easily archive his lies โ€” not to mention the ironic aesthetics of a bloated, greasy used car salesman who takes his kid to Shake Shack for daddy-daughter time administering advice on personal health.

Francis Collins and wife destroyed at dinner

COVID justice has been a long time coming. And itโ€™s probably still far off, because apparently no one cares except a tiny minority of the population like me and probably you.

So letโ€™s start small, with this rule of thumb:

Mass murderers whose excesses exceed the worst Nazi scientistsโ€™ donโ€™t get to enjoy their dinners in public.

Facebook admits to colluding with government on COVID-19 censorship

Iโ€™m not sure what Zuckerbergโ€™s game is here, but whatever.

I hope whatโ€™s going on here is that heโ€™s afraid of what a Trump administration might do to his stupid platform if he overcomes the landslide fraud by the Democrats that Mark will certainly help facilitate/cover up.

Via Associated Press (emphasis added)

โ€œMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to โ€œcensorโ€ some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again.

In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg alleges that the officials, including those from the White House, โ€œrepeatedly pressuredโ€ Facebook for months to take down โ€œcertain COVID-19 content including humor and satire.โ€

The officials โ€œexpressed a lot of frustrationโ€ when the company didnโ€™t agree, he said in the letter.

โ€œI believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,โ€ Zuckerberg wrote in the letter dated Aug. 26 and posted on the committeeโ€™s Facebook page and to its account on X.โ€

One thing is for damn sure: silly letters to Congress four years too late arenโ€™t going quench my thirst for justice.

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BEWARE!!! Ben Bartee never minces words, so read at your own risk. Ben is a Bangkok-based American journalist, grant writer, political essayist, researcher, travel blogger, and amateur philosopher -- with opposable thumbs. He is the author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.

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