The relative safety of COVID-19 vaccines depends on who you are and where you are, and pending further updates … and other information not known at this time …
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Category Archives: Healthcare
Pandemic of the vaccinated
Stop calling it the pandemic of the “unvaccinated”. The infection rates can’t be ignored.
Vaccine passports will create a ‘global digital infrastructure of surveillance’: Former Ontario privacy commissioner
“Temporary” measures introduced during emergencies seldom go away.
Who are these COVID-19 vaccine skeptics and what do they believe?
The ranks of the so-called vaccine skeptics include a Who’s Who of the world’s leading scientists. Few in the public know of them because they’ve been silenced, censored, and sidelined.
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The more Israel doubled down on COVID, the worse things got
Israel was everyone’s model of how to tackle COVID. How did Israel become a cautionary tale?
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Israel’s vaccine treadmill
Israel’s early determination to fully vaccinate its population—when two shots were defined as fully vaccinated—led to it being heralded as a huge success story. But suddenly, the coronavirus cases are back, and with a vengeance.
Freedom Alert: Vaccine Passports
Why when faced with societal problems, does the State respond with zero-sum solutions? That is, in an attempt to remedy the problem, it is always at the expense of our privacy and freedoms. This has been the case with the war on drugs, terrorism and now on disease. And we will live with the unintended consequences.
The prognosis
The decisions made at the beginning of this pandemic will have consequences that reverberate far into the future. Perhaps we have been afraid of the wrong things. This think piece on the response to COVID-19, published last year by Canadian writer and broadcaster David Cayley, is even more impressive in hindsight.
COVID-19 vaccines could be spurring variants, say Israeli and European experts
The possibility that new variants might be created by vaccines is a danger heightened by lockdowns. Research emerges to suggest sedentary lives thanks to shutdowns and COVID-19 vaccines ineffectual against ever-more-virulent mutant viruses of their own making could see those previously infected with COVID-19 and the vaccinated succumb to infection from variants.
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Vaccine skepticism is soaring amid heightened government hype and steps to hide unwelcome data
Without high vaccination levels, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention won’t reach the levels it believes are needed to reach herd immunity. That might be a blessing in disguise.
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