Dr. Vinay Prasad: Stop Trusting the Public Health Establishment
Join Reason on YouTube at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of mRNA vaccines and America's public health establishment with UCSF's Vinay Prasad.
"Trust is justified based on how an organization or system performs," writes Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. "And the truth is, the entire public health apparatus, failed."
Join Prasad and Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller for the YouTube premiere of a discussion of America's public health system, mask policies, vaccine and booster mandates, and the ongoing threat that the federal and state governments' expansive use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic poses to Americans' civil liberties this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern. Chat live with Zach Weissmueller on YouTube during the premiere of the pre-recorded interview.
Mentioned in the show:
COVID-19 vaccines: history of the pandemic's great scientific success & flawed policy implementation, by Vinay Prasad
"How Democracy Ends," by Vinay Prasad
"The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly," by Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola
Circulating Spike Protein Detected in Post–COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis
CDC and FDA Identify Preliminary COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal for Persons Aged 65 Years and Older
"Germany, France Restrict Moderna's Covid Vaccine For Under-30s Over Rare Heart Risk—Despite Surging Cases," by Robert Hart
COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis in young males: A systematic review, by Benjamin Knudsen and Vinay Prasad
Effectiveness of mRNA-1273 against SARS-CoV-2 omicron and delta variants
United States: COVID-19 weekly death rate by vaccination status
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If you have to be told not to trust the public health establishment at this point...
In God we trust.
All others bring evidence of correctly applied logic and science as proof.
All others bring evidence of correctly applied logic
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
*gasp*
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This from a Nazi scum who is too stupid to understand the concepts of "relevance" and "evidence".
Maybe he thinks it’s a Jewish conspiracy.
These fuckwits have never refuted anything that I’ve said.
When challenged to prove their baseless claims they run away like the lying waste of skin cowards they are.
Every time. Hahaha
"These fuckwits have never refuted anything that I’ve said..."
See, told ya so. Asshole's been handed his hat many times, but replies with more arm-waving and "nun-uh!".
Fuck off and die, shit-pile.
Coward.
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The fact is that a lot of people still do need to be told that. And I think Prasad is a very good person to tell them. He's definitely a lefty politically, and he would like to be able to trust public health (not a big positive in my book, but it is for a lot of people). But he has been honest and unwilling to compromise on science and data and willing to say exactly what he means. If he can't convince people on the left then no one can.
You're welcome, Reason.
If the CDC would just stick to detecting and monitoring incoming acute threats to the public health, it might be pretty good at it. But once they started wasting resources on advising us to lose weight, stop eating meat and eggs, control our blood pressures and avoid jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, it doomed both their credibility and their effectiveness. The Public Health Service used to have a good reputation for responding to outbreaks and intervening and mitigating the public health fallout. Some very heroic peeps have earned well-deserved medals for their putting themselves into harm's way to save lives. Now that good will has been squandered for a cheap political narrative. Very sad ...
Mission-creep; seems impossible to avoid given the primary goal of any bureaucracy is survival.
It would be wonderful if congress sun-setted every one on a 10 year cycle, but those bureaucracies represent a lot of pork to be handed out. How do you think the engineering control of space flights originating in FL ended up in Houston?
Don't forget their anti-gun bias.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.html
Robbie not available as an interviewer? Another Fauci grilling coming?
Grilling won't work. Braising or stewing to get any flavor out of his old bones.
>>the entire public health apparatus, failed
ya, there exists no public health so how can the apparatus succeed?
"Trust is justified based on how an organization or system performs," writes Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Really? What universe is Prasad from? Here on Planet Earth, sometimes called the Kingdom of Primates, trust is based on family and tribal affiliation, given to preferred authorities, reinforced by religious indoctrination, and modified for expediency and lust. Trust based on some objective assessment of actual outcomes is just crazy talk.
It’s more than crazy talk-it’s racist, sexist, and transphobic hate speech!
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Wait what? Reason featuring an anti vaxxer? Is he a Christian Nationalist too?
Mask denier.
He probably doesn't even think the way to stop COVID is through extensive contact tracing.
BTW, there is, also at UCSF, an MD preaching that mask-wearing will be permanent.
SCIENCE!
Probably gives him a boner just thinking about it. Face fetish.
Well, luckily, I estimate at least 10% of my local population is 900% on board.
Surprised he hasn’t been lynched by SFans, or burned at the stake for being a science denier
My question is who the hell ever trusted Public Health in the first place after the Tuskegee Airmen Syphilis Experiment, Public Health should remain forever an institution of disrepute?
Uh-oh.
When did **my** health become "public" health?
When evil fuckers like Fauci decided they knew more about your health than you did.
It's really interesting to see the people like Prasad who are definitely of the political left and believe that good government is a sensible proposition, but have noticed how fucked the public health establishment is and how terribly they have handled all things covid. Dr. John Campbell is another good one in the same vein who posts frequently on YouTube. It's been really something to see how his perspective has changed over the past year or so.
It's really fucking sad that it's a remarkable thing to see a few people honestly assessing the evidence.
"...but have noticed how fucked the public health establishment is and how terribly they have handled all things covid. Dr. John Campbell is another good one in the same vein who posts frequently on YouTube..."
Many years ago, an author referred to this as the "Gel-Mann effect" (just to get attention).
You read something where you have some expertise and know the author is full of shit, but you read another subject where you have little knowledge, and you assume it's probably true.
It ain't.
BTW, some (lemme think...) 35 years ago, I'd acquired a specific historical artifact. A friend at the time was a 'stringer' for several magazines wanted to do a feature on it for one of them.
No problem at this end, but after he filed it (phones at the time) got a call from the 'fact-checker' at the magazine who enquired regarding the provenance.
She (yes) got chapter-and-verse (titles, authors, page numbers (X at least 5 or 6), until she seemed satisfied.
I got a courtesy issue of the magazine (not a subscriber); they got my name right.
I haven't trusted the health establishment ever, and it drives my doctors nuts. I only go to get a diagnosis and options, I decide what I will or will not do. It drives doctors crazy, they think they are dictators and you have to follow their recommendations. I study the subject and decide myself. I refuse to take statins, refused and the new 'better" covid jab. I refused the old mRNA jab too. It is your life, you are in control. I have even "fired" my doctor, and told them exactly that and why. I will not be bullied or lied too.
How terribly the COVID pandemic was handled in the US by the public / private healthcare disconnect, dysfunction and resulting disservice to health.
The general stupidity of the population didn’t help.
Over a million US COVID related deaths. Up there with other shithole countries.
More civilized countries dealt with it with a unified front and have moved on.
Endless comments endless article billions of dollars or poubds squandered on Sport. Art. Drama.Hobbies . Shut down 80% media. Retrain military. Impose strict discipline and total fairness with no more victims. Heres more-
3.3.23. From UK. To Reason Site.
Here we go again comments totaly ignored. the situation re heakth is much worse than depicted here which is normal for media. Heres what happoen in UK and the situation elsewhere is little different with commonn cause.
No not opinion its sworn statements of witnessed reality and truth.. No this is not 'off subject' its world wide problem not confined to USA. The human beings failure to change over 1000s yrs is behind the Waco scam. Its also behind the US Embassy offering us violence.We now and then put comments on here. we realise its a waste of time because the public will forget the whole thing within hours then pursue some more journalist bait' however fueled by a growing anger re that public shallowness and paranoid dissociation we would still advise the people of US to consider what we found goin on in UK cos its not much different to US. Heres extract from 1000pp gathered whilst looking for help for victims in Cent London for 12 yrs then elsewhere. You in US and elsewhere are failing to grasp that the solution is not journalism but action taken by the public to erase corruption and selfishness which is an epidemic.See below-
INDICTMENT OF THE HM COURT. PRISON. PARLIAMENT. CPS. BAR COUNCIL. LOCAL GOVT. MEDIA. POLICE. HOME OFFICE. HEALTH. CHARITY. EDUCATION JUDICIARY. ELECTORAL. UNIVERSITY SCAM.
The HM Court System, which offered to kill us, has now admitted corruption. They have persuaded a Patsy to state this- Nothing Can Be Done About The 'Justice Secretary'. Thats an admission about accepting establishment manslaughter. Wheres Art six gone? Can anyone suggest how so many highly paid people can be devoid of conscience. Is it the drugs.We will see of course what Justice Secretaries constituents think of that.Heres a statement by Local Govt- We don't care About The public We only Care About The Councillors So F-Off'. heres more- 'The Public Are Not Affected By Decisions Made By Cent Govt.' And more- 'We Talk To a TV Pundit But Dont Have Time For Time for The Public'.
Today 3.5.16 Found out that the failure to reply by the giant Southern Health is a cover up. They are involved with a Charity but the name of it is erased from all info. They have done that to
prevent us exposing it. We had asked Southern Health to provide name of one Mental Health Expert. they failed to do that. The Charity is Mal funded by among others the drug companiesand Camelot Lottery, behind that is as woman who is on the board at Manchester university which acts as a PR organization for the NHS and the GMC and A Judge who is involved with the House Commons hence no replies from MPs.. its where the M-h deception is hatched helped by
the Manchester Evening News which is owned by Trinity Mirror who wont respond. and the idea or intention is, it keeps the Health System protected. They are also like Age UK (part of that University). involved in drugging the elderly. We also suspect the whole thing is assoc with Police and Hants County Council. That would explain the Police attacks we are getting because of the financial scandal.. its corruption on a scale not imaginable 20 yrs ago. propping all this up is around five Law Universities and many others pretending to do M-h research which is in fact a drug marketing scheme backed by drug companies like Pfiizer and others who ares in league with Utrecht University in Holland and 17 Universities in UK. The key corrupt M-H Universities in UK are Bristol, Manchester Anglia. Notts others Exeter (Cameron visits it) Southern Health has branches all over South so earnings s isparamount. As of today no response has been recd from the little known Queens representatives in Hants .Nigel Atkinson who's address is listed as Serle's House Gar St. Winchester, He was asked to provide contact details for the 30 or so 'deputy's he harbours. He was asked why he had not noticed what's going on throughout the area he is supposed to monitor.NO REPLY
The uk police have said, after knocking the lunch plate off a dying man's lap (the most effective MH therapist in UK) that if we picked up the food we would be arrested. They added that religions and Local Govt councils want us silenced. They added that nothing that we ever wrote (1000PP evidence advised by BBC-'hide it abroad' would ever be read by Police They also said the evidence must never be read by public.We had to manhandle them off this land. A few weeks later pictures of the same police appeared within the website of a gigantic college near here. Complaints made to them got no reply. We know./knew about 200 people in BBC TV/RADIO but we were told to Hide The Documents Abroad. Ch4 TV told us Too Much Evidence.
EEC Office Statements.
It was the Euro Parl Office Cent London who told us that nothing can be done about corruptMEPs and that the EEC is about earnings and trade not people
There was re a stabbing at the giant Hosp whose clients were coming to us in desperation. That's the place where when we complained about the state of the clients the Psych said-Competence in Mental Health Has No Value In other words she killed people. this was confirmed by the staff who said the cover ups were conducted by Local Press. Police. HM Coroners at Horseferry Road SW1 etc and the local press Newsquest (High Wycombe Head Office) and Dimbleby. plus of course Courts. They were protecting their jobs. Although we were working on clients from that Hosp, if we went near the place the police would offer violence. Saville child molester was welcome there. he was no threat to the mngt
We were told by the Health system that the clients were they were 'incurable' They needed tween three and six hours work. One of them was a dancer at Covent gdn she had been going for help to the NHS and private systems, the result was we had to break the door open as she was lying semi conscious on a settee, her Doctor bf had abandoned here. We spent three hours on her and she suddenly got up went to a cupboard and tipped about six bottles drink down the sink. She went back to work. Another client had recd 22 yrs of Health system abuse and needed three hours. They had told him he was 'Psychotic' and that he could be killed the buried in the grounds cos the public thought he was ill and therefore would not interfere.We were told by NHS that they had no one with our skills and that we had to accept £160.000. Within two months the system cut off comms and phones hung up. We were told not to do the work because we were affecting jobs within the system We then found out there was a scheme to use vulnerable people as cheap labour. We also found out that the Private Med insurance firms had a policy of using incompetent clinicians to appease the Govt but, it took us ten yrs to find out that behind the scam was 17 universities aligned with drug companies. We began to experience Police attacks and death threats. Our cars had windows smashed and they sent funeral services round. We circumvented it by pretending to be religious. This convinced the police that we were corrupt like them which meant that we would not 'blab re the deaths caused there. We went to a public meeting at the Hosp and found a Councillor sitting on the board. he knew nothing about M-H so was ideal as a committee member. We were very alarmed because they sat there whispering. We then began to experience Police attacks.
That will have to do for now cos our lives are in danger. We do not have firearms. We only have pick axe handles. my family came here to escape certain death after hiding from Soviets and 3rd Reich. We came with two suitcases and 80 yrs old granma. We did not know English language. We were washing up in Hotels and tasking scraps food home. had we known that we would be forced into poverty in UK we would not have come here.
The indictment? 20-30000 avoid deaths over 40 yrs The Queens Coroner Cent London was one of a handful of people who broke ranks to agree with what we know..No we cant network any texts because the entire media has banned it and Facebook and Twiiter are part of that. They are corrupt. Dont just dosomething sit there. What we are finding is mirror image Germany 1920-1945 and that incl the Universties and Students Unions. No member of HM Parliament will respond.
GO ON DO THIS- 'ITS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME'
Nicht Guilty / JA ! See You Down The Wagner Concert?
You need to take your pills.
Good
3.3.23. From UK. To Reason Site.
Here we go again comments totaly ignored. the situation re heakth is much worse than depicted here which is normal for media. Heres what happoen in UK and the situation elsewhere is little different with commonn cause.
No not opinion its sworn statements of witnessed reality and truth.. No this is not 'off subject' its world wide problem not confined to USA. The human beings failure to change over 1000s yrs is behind the Waco scam. Its also behind the US Embassy offering us violence.We now and then put comments on here. we realise its a waste of time because the public will forget the whole thing within hours then pursue some more journalist bait' however fueled by a growing anger re that public shallowness and paranoid dissociation we would still advise the people of US to consider what we found goin on in UK cos its not much different to US. Heres extract from 1000pp gathered whilst looking for help for victims in Cent London for 12 yrs then elsewhere. You in US and elsewhere are failing to grasp that the solution is not journalism but action taken by the public to erase corruption and selfishness which is an epidemic.See below-
INDICTMENT OF THE HM COURT. PRISON. PARLIAMENT. CPS. BAR COUNCIL. LOCAL GOVT. MEDIA. POLICE. HOME OFFICE. HEALTH. CHARITY. EDUCATION JUDICIARY. ELECTORAL. UNIVERSITY SCAM.
The HM Court System, which offered to kill us, has now admitted corruption. They have persuaded a Patsy to state this- Nothing Can Be Done About The 'Justice Secretary'. Thats an admission about accepting establishment manslaughter. Wheres Art six gone? Can anyone suggest how so many highly paid people can be devoid of conscience. Is it the drugs.We will see of course what Justice Secretaries constituents think of that.Heres a statement by Local Govt- We don't care About The public We only Care About The Councillors So F-Off'. heres more- 'The Public Are Not Affected By Decisions Made By Cent Govt.' And more- 'We Talk To a TV Pundit But Dont Have Time For Time for The Public'.
Today 3.5.16 Found out that the failure to reply by the giant Southern Health is a cover up. They are involved with a Charity but the name of it is erased from all info. They have done that to
prevent us exposing it. We had asked Southern Health to provide name of one Mental Health Expert. they failed to do that. The Charity is Mal funded by among others the drug companiesand Camelot Lottery, behind that is as woman who is on the board at Manchester university which acts as a PR organization for the NHS and the GMC and A Judge who is involved with the House Commons hence no replies from MPs.. its where the M-h deception is hatched helped by
the Manchester Evening News which is owned by Trinity Mirror who wont respond. and the idea or intention is, it keeps the Health System protected. They are also like Age UK (part of that University). involved in drugging the elderly. We also suspect the whole thing is assoc with Police and Hants County Council. That would explain the Police attacks we are getting because of the financial scandal.. its corruption on a scale not imaginable 20 yrs ago. propping all this up is around five Law Universities and many others pretending to do M-h research which is in fact a drug marketing scheme backed by drug companies like Pfiizer and others who ares in league with Utrecht University in Holland and 17 Universities in UK. The key corrupt M-H Universities in UK are Bristol, Manchester Anglia. Notts others Exeter (Cameron visits it) Southern Health has branches all over South so earnings s isparamount. As of today no response has been recd from the little known Queens representatives in Hants .Nigel Atkinson who's address is listed as Serle's House Gar St. Winchester, He was asked to provide contact details for the 30 or so 'deputy's he harbours. He was asked why he had not noticed what's going on throughout the area he is supposed to monitor.NO REPLY
The uk police have said, after knocking the lunch plate off a dying man's lap (the most effective MH therapist in UK) that if we picked up the food we would be arrested. They added that religions and Local Govt councils want us silenced. They added that nothing that we ever wrote (1000PP evidence advised by BBC-'hide it abroad' would ever be read by Police They also said the evidence must never be read by public.We had to manhandle them off this land. A few weeks later pictures of the same police appeared within the website of a gigantic college near here. Complaints made to them got no reply. We know./knew about 200 people in BBC TV/RADIO but we were told to Hide The Documents Abroad. Ch4 TV told us Too Much Evidence.
EEC Office Statements.
It was the Euro Parl Office Cent London who told us that nothing can be done about corruptMEPs and that the EEC is about earnings and trade not people
There was re a stabbing at the giant Hosp whose clients were coming to us in desperation. That's the place where when we complained about the state of the clients the Psych said-Competence in Mental Health Has No Value In other words she killed people. this was confirmed by the staff who said the cover ups were conducted by Local Press. Police. HM Coroners at Horseferry Road SW1 etc and the local press Newsquest (High Wycombe Head Office) and Dimbleby. plus of course Courts. They were protecting their jobs. Although we were working on clients from that Hosp, if we went near the place the police would offer violence. Saville child molester was welcome there. he was no threat to the mngt
We were told by the Health system that the clients were they were 'incurable' They needed tween three and six hours work. One of them was a dancer at Covent gdn she had been going for help to the NHS and private systems, the result was we had to break the door open as she was lying semi conscious on a settee, her Doctor bf had abandoned here. We spent three hours on her and she suddenly got up went to a cupboard and tipped about six bottles drink down the sink. She went back to work. Another client had recd 22 yrs of Health system abuse and needed three hours. They had told him he was 'Psychotic' and that he could be killed the buried in the grounds cos the public thought he was ill and therefore would not interfere.We were told by NHS that they had no one with our skills and that we had to accept £160.000. Within two months the system cut off comms and phones hung up. We were told not to do the work because we were affecting jobs within the system We then found out there was a scheme to use vulnerable people as cheap labour. We also found out that the Private Med insurance firms had a policy of using incompetent clinicians to appease the Govt but, it took us ten yrs to find out that behind the scam was 17 universities aligned with drug companies. We began to experience Police attacks and death threats. Our cars had windows smashed and they sent funeral services round. We circumvented it by pretending to be religious. This convinced the police that we were corrupt like them which meant that we would not 'blab re the deaths caused there. We went to a public meeting at the Hosp and found a Councillor sitting on the board. he knew nothing about M-H so was ideal as a committee member. We were very alarmed because they sat there whispering. We then began to experience Police attacks.
That will have to do for now cos our lives are in danger. We do not have firearms. We only have pick axe handles. my family came here to escape certain death after hiding from Soviets and 3rd Reich. We came with two suitcases and 80 yrs old granma. We did not know English language. We were washing up in Hotels and tasking scraps food home. had we known that we would be forced into poverty in UK we would not have come here.
The indictment? 20-30000 avoid deaths over 40 yrs The Queens Coroner Cent London was one of a handful of people who broke ranks to agree with what we know..No we cant network any texts because the entire media has banned it and Facebook and Twiiter are part of that. They are corrupt. Dont just dosomething sit there. What we are finding is mirror image Germany 1920-1945 and that incl the Universties and Students Unions. No member of HM Parliament will respond.
GO ON DO THIS- 'ITS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME'
Nicht Guilty / JA ! See You Down The Wagner Concert?