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Government Corruption
Twitter Crosses Red-Line, Censors Florida Surgeon General's Recommendation
2022-10-10
[REDSTATE] On Saturday, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, made waves by becoming the first major health official in the country to recommend against males 18-39 getting the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. That came after an extensive, multi-year study showed an 84 percent rise in cardiac-related deaths among the age group. That backed up prior studies which had also pointed to an increased risk of heart issues.

Ladapo’s job is to make those determinations and give his recommendations to the general public. That would be the same general public that chose to elect Ron DeSantis, who appointed the surgeon general, as governor of Florida.

Unfortunately, Twitter has long shown it is a ward of the politicized CDC and quickly moved to censor Ladapo’s announcement. As far as I can tell, it was an unprecedented move to silence a duly-appointed health official of a major state.

Think about how Orwellian and perhaps dangerous Twitter’s move was. They chose, supposedly of their own volition (but likely with a wink and nod from the Biden administration), to directly interfere in the public health decision of a US state. Again, a massive social media company decided it should have the power to override and ignore the recommendation of a duly-elected administration, dictating to the public instead.

It’s hard to fathom how that kind of thing became acceptable, especially after so many "conspiracy theories" during COVID-19 ended up being confirmed. You’d think Twitter would be more cautious, at least when dealing with an official of Ladapo’s stature. Besides, in this case, Florida has the data to back up what was decided. The study in question covered a year and a half of vaccinations of all age groups and it was careful to only consider cardiac-related deaths. It is a more credible a study than much of the rushed garbage appearing in medical journals these days.

There is a good ending here, though. Twitter faced such focused, immense backlash for what they did that Ladapo’s message was eventually restored.

With Elon Musk set to buy Twitter, hopefully, this kind of thing won’t be happening in the future. Still, it is good to see that public pressure, even from the right, can force a company’s hand. Twitter should release a public statement explaining what happened here, but they won’t. In the absence of that, we can only assume they regretted their decision to censor Ladapo and moved to sweep it under the rug.
Posted by:Fred

#6  An indispensable daily roundup of the madness is available at Substack.

Florida attorney Jeff Childers is one of the best chroniclers of this idiocy — shrewd analysis and expert legal commentary that exposes all the ways these shits have lied, cheated, battered and looted their way through this debacle. Did you know that Pfizer and Modena were granted complete immunity from prosecution fir the monstrous harm they’ve inflicted?

Here is Childers’ Substack - worth reading everyday:

Coffee and Covid
Posted by: Truth Teller   2022-10-10 01:29  

#5  ZERO - Twitter Removes, Then Reinstates Florida Surgeon General's Covid Vaccine Warning Tweet
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-10 01:25  

#4  Dr. Makary of Johns Hopkins and 8 other distinguished researchers from top medical schools have published a devastating preview of their research into this gene therapy’s nightmarish cost-benefit ratio.

For each hospitalitization that the gene therapy prevents fir young people, there have been 18 to 98 serious adverse events, most notoriously severe myocarditis in young men and menstrual irregularities and infertility in young women.

“[For each] 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.”

from
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for Young Adults: A Risk-Benefit Assessment and Five Ethical Arguments against Mandates at Universities
50 Pages
Posted: 12 Sep 2022

AUTHORS:
Kevin Bardosh
University of Washington; University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Medical School

Allison Krug
Artemis Biomedical Communications LLC

Euzebiusz Jamrozik
University of Oxford

Trudo Lemmens
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Salmaan Keshavjee
Harvard University - Harvard Medical School

Vinay Prasad
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Martin A. Makary
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Surgery

Stefan Baral
John Hopkins University

Tracy Beth Høeg
Florida Department of Health; Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
Posted by: Truth Teller   2022-10-10 01:23  

#3  As far as I can tell, it was an unprecedented move to silence a duly-appointed health official of a major state.

What else can one call it ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-10 01:22  

#2  This isn’t just another spat between woke idiots and Musk.

This is a criminal conspiracy to suppress deadly serious information that has grave implications for public health. The data are crystal clear: this horrific gene therapy imposed on our young people is unsafe. It is ineffective. It was never subjected to proper scrutiny and the trials data was suppressed for over a year. As was all the mountain of evidence of its horrific side effects.

The treatment is literally worse than the disease. To suppress this clinical fact, at this point in the debacle, with all the evidence of failure that’s accumulated across the world, is nothing short of criminal.
Posted by: Truth Teller   2022-10-10 01:06  

#1  I will so enjoy the grinding of teeth when Musk fires the WOKE at Twitter.
Posted by: 3dc   2022-10-10 00:22  

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