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The arguments of Provost and Derome - that pandemic burden models used to drive policy were dramatically overestimating burden - are supported empirically by my own analyses of US outbreaks.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.03.21256542v2

The paper above also ultimately led to my leaving academia. In peer review, the paper got locked up because one reviewer thought it would be dangerous to publish the possibility that US outbreaks depleted susceptible populations in the Fall of 2020. That paper above has a long story behind it:

https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-science-not-shared

But the big picture is that, as a mathematical biologist with a PhD from Princeton and well versed in epidemiology, I concur with the professors' arguments not only as a fair point one can make, but as an important direction in our scientific debates over pandemic epidemiology. It saddens, but does not surprise, me that university administrators are interfering as referees in a scientific debate, in a field which the administrators have no experience - we saw the same thing with the media throughout COVID, declaring as "misinformation" the science that was just ahead of its time and refuting the publicly stated oversimplifications and old theories from popular epidemiologists.

We can win this longer-term struggle, but only if we get a careful accounting of anomalies that are not explained. Models overestimating burden, even completely outrageous overestimates, can always say the difference between reality and their model is some fudge-factor of our "behavioral changes". For this reason, my paper focused on places close to home like South Dakota which had basically no "behavioral changes" and yet they converged to the same mortality burden as places like NYC that tried to do everything. It's scientifically possible that our mitigation efforts did little to reduce the final burden of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks across vast swaths of US and Europe, with only a few pockets of successful containment that are the exception, not the norm.

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And the insanity continues! It is such a tragedy what is happening to the universities. Academic freedom no longer exists. Professors are regarded as mere employees or minions of a corporatist machine. Truth is no longer valued. This is very troubling indeed.

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The evidence questions the 'safe and effective' mantra is indeed mounting. Ignore it at our peril.

Also, not sure these are vaccines. Even Moderna described it as a 'gene therapy' and it has been asserted once more than two injections are administered, it becomes less a 'vaccine' and more a treatment. In the leaked Fauci emails, he himself and others in the leak described them as 'experimental vaccines'. Listening to the FDA panel, it's become all too clear - as the 'conspiracy theorists alleged from the onset - we're the experiment. Cheers.

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Well said. Given Provost's closing statement, it must be tough to see that even in the fate of his very article, he has been proven all the more correct. This statement by the journalist that surely if something were true we would know it by now (so it can't be), could be applied to so many things that are alarming but dismissed as impossible.

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Prof. Farrow writes, "But perhaps our universities aren't respectable anymore, not even Canada's oldest university." Why "perhaps"?

Universities have been prominent protagonists in the manufactured COVID crisis. In fact most of our vital institutions have failed us by enforcing COVID restrictions. Where universities are really putting themselves beyond redemption, however, is by studiously disregarding the evidence and pushing toxic medical products whose lethal and injurious impacts are becoming increasingly difficult to hide. There will be consequences for contributing to this ongoing cover-up.

It is still hard to grasp the range of harms being done. The harms are being felt widely across many areas including health, sanity, economic viability, and religious freedom. Other domains of devastation include assaults on the surviving remnants of our democracies as well as on the rule of law, protections for human rights, and the integrity of scientific inquiry. This list id far from complete.

Its now clear that all the codified rights outlined in national constitutions and international treaties only apply until we are most in need of having them respected. Universities have contributed significantly to the brutalization resulting from such gross violations of society's highest ideals. What would it take for universities to win back some measure of respectability after such startling exposures of cowardice, stupidity and corruption?

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Great article. How dare anyone try to school this man on RNA! Covid has highlighted how distorted some people’s boundaries are

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There is no "scientific" consensus. Everything is political. I wrote it in my last essay (Lâches, Traîtres & Collabos). Thinking dialogues and debates are still possible in this psychiatric hospital is naive. The last Supreme Court Judgment in the US about abortion shows that the repression is global. It is time to call a cat a cat. Trudeau and his political gangs of collaborators are organizing a putsch on people's sovereignty. We have to dismantle this civilization and rebuilt a new one.

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Speaking of Hachey. Never mind the evolving data trickling in about these shots. The government still peddles claims long since debunked. Today, Duclos made this shocking claim: The vaccines stop transmission and infection. We've known since 2021 that this is not the case. Indeed, Pfizer has said they were never designed to halt transmission. We now know they're also mediocre against infection and the evidence it prevents 'severe disease' (whatever that means) is questionable. There is NOTHING controversial about this and broadly acknowledged. Yet Canada not only promulgates this lie but also maintains a 14-day quarantine for the unvaccinated when we know a 5-day quarantine is more than enough. Even though healthy, asymptomatic people shouldn't be put in quarantine in the first place.

This is why governments began to lift travel restrictions and mandates. The question becomes: What is going on in Canada as we're the only country with such bizarre restrictions while remaining steadfast in misguided and erroneous assumptions about the shots. It's concerning.

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Unavailable to me at the Wayback Machine link supplied in this valuable post, the admirable offending article by Provost can be read at

https://libremedia.ca/article/le-veritable-portrait-de-la-covid-19-au-quebec

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I am still hopeful that more peoples eyes are being opened. 2 steps forward, 1 step back.

I'm beginning to think that the WEF agenda is moving forward; we're focusing on covid and the therapeutics while they're already moved on to greater economic destruction. Here's an interesting video from kitco. I find it encouraging when I see younger people seeing reality.

https://www.kitco.com/news/video/show/Collision-2022---June/4097/2022-06-28/The-Great-Reset-and-Bitcoin-Is-there-a-way-out-of-this-dystopian-vision-of-the-future---Roger-Huang#_48_INSTANCE_puYLh9Vd66QY_=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kitco.com%2Fnews%2Fvideo%2Flatest%3Fshow%3DCollision-2022---June

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Thank you soo much!!

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