Growing list of covid era oddities. This is by no means exclusive - I am sure I am leaving some out and many of these have nested problems beneath the surface but the purpose of this is to capture an incredible list of issues that demand explanation at the very least
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The Cell paper from May, 2026 has a critical omission.
https://t.co/VkeyhMvTpU
Can you believe that in the human cohort they did not provide the COVID vaccination status of the people who developed or did not develop lung cancer??
Imagine that.
This is important because the cohort developed severe COVID related respiratory illness at a time when most people were vaccinated.
If the vast majority of those who became severely ill were vaccinated, you have to ask the question why they became so sick and are they representative of the general population.
I would say we do not understand why the vaccine didn’t prevent severe respiratory illness in those people.
I would say they do not represent the vast majority of individuals in the general population.
Instead of being dismissive, it is important to be honest and open about what we know and what we do not know.
Please tell me how the journal Cell published that paper with no mention of the COVID mRNA vaccination status of the human cohort.
I would add, and I have said this before, that the COVID mRNA vaccines increase PD-L1 expression in tumor cells.
Of course this makes the tumors more sensitive to immune checkpoint blockade.
But why not address PD-L1 some other way like epigenetic drugs, chemo or radiation, agents that actually have an anti-tumor effect.
Increasing PD-L1 by using agents that do not have an anti-tumor effect is by itself an immune evasion tumor promoting effect.
BTW, this is shown in the October, 2025 Nature paper whose discussion reads like marketing.
https://t.co/5yPjsaDQPy
Both NSCLC and melanoma respond to immune checkpoint therapy much better than other tumors with possible exception of MSI-high tumors.
Melanoma already has approved use of interferon therapy that is part of the COVID mRNA vaccine mechanism in that Nature paper.
Why not use IFN. Oh it’s because it’s pretty toxic.
The strategy suggested in the Nature paper has issues.
But, I did say it is OK to conduct clinical research with informed consent within a population that has very different risk:benefit considerations from the general population.
Oh, but we don’t have informed consent for the COVID mRNA vaccines as I said under oath a couple of days ago I don’t believe we have informed consent. https://t.co/gVxAWrWG4l
And those who participated in this violation of informed consent will spend the rest of their days burying any hypothesis of that reminds them of the crime.
Ludwig von Mises's most enduring contribution to economics is the calculation problem. Socialism fails, he argued, because a central planner without market prices cannot calculate. Strip away prices and you lose the only valid measure for weighing one use of labor or a commodity against another. The planner is left to guess.
Friedrich Hayek, his protégé, took the point further. A price, Hayek showed, is not merely an accounting figure. It is how a society gathers the knowledge scattered across millions of minds assessing billions of data points. Price is total knowledge, aggregated into a single number.
The vaccine era — the years since the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act — exposes a failure neither man foresaw. Let’s call it the calculation problem under regulatory and epistemic capture. Socialism abolished the price outright. Capture in a mixed market economy is subtler: it leaves a price standing and corrupts it from within until it is worse than meaningless.
Mandates, government purchasing, and insurance rules guarantee sales no matter what the product actually does. School-entry laws force sales upon captive customers (e.g. children who want to go to school). Liability protection removes the price that disciplines a defective product — the damages a court would otherwise make the manufacturer pay. The buyer is compelled and the producer is protected so no meaningful price can form.
Making matters worse, price aggregates what buyers believe about the thing they buy, however regulatory and epistemic capture distort those beliefs. The FDA launders bad data on behalf of the manufacturers and declares the product “safe and effective.” Social media platforms erase the testimony of the injured. Academic journals censor scholars who dissent. Universities blacklist professors who challenge the conventional narrative. So society’s dispersed knowledge about the product and its defects never gets properly communicated or aggregated.
Creating a market for vaccines again would require removing all mandates, repealing liability protection, rescinding insurance rules, and ending government purchasing programs. However creating a MEANINGFUL price (that communicates the risks and benefits of the product to society) would also require stopping regulatory capture and epistemic capture (i.e. control of the journals and universities by Big Pharma).
@LawrenceGostin No. The origin of covid is actually the most interesting and important scientific question in infectious disease. The fact that no one in the field wants to discuss it speaks volumes.
@FordWealth@fleckcap@turtlespeed2020 No singular reason IMO. The price is going to start to run and there will be a rush to the door. But can certainly see POs being one of the triggers.
Is the Gain-of-Function Cabal finally unraveling?
Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in detecting the smuggled monkeypox and arresting those responsible.
A thorough investigation is necessary to identify all co-conspirators and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.
https://t.co/VgStBpPmkv