We all knew he was lying then, and it is infuriating to know that so many of his supporters will never know this information (or will dismiss it). His actions have caused incalculable harm and I can only hope that he will be shamed and punished legally.
We all knew he was lying then, and it is infuriating to know that so many of his supporters will never know this information (or will dismiss it). His actions have caused incalculable harm and I can only hope that he will be shamed and punished legally.
We didn't ALL know. So many just went with the political tide. So many believed him and rejected those of us asking for more information to back up their claims. As this is all coming out I keep wondering what the previously sanctimonious and dismissive members of my family are thinking now. Do they say to themselves, "gee, I should call Laura and talk through what may have been very difficult for her. And apologize if I offended her." And, of course, multiply that a million times to see what this friction did to our communities.
That sad story doesn't get enough attention. These policies broke up families and ended life-long friendships. You can multiply your tale by millions of people.
Its so true. There was a San Francisco organization hosting their annual gala with AF as guest speaker. The term "guided us through..." was used in their promotional material. I contacted the party organizer , via email, and politely (more bees with honey as they say) advised her to look at the links I had attached or at least do a more thorough search on AF as not being the great guy they think he is. I felt I was doing my small part in educating as many people as I can on the evils of AF. I never did get a response. oh well.
By fall of 2021 I fully awoke, screaming into the U Rochester (NY) FB parent group void. Surely other тАЬsmart, liberalтАЭ parents recognized by then that our students needed to be released from the matrix of masks, testing, tracking, distancing, on-line classes from their dorm rooms??!! Nope. I quickly learned that supposedly тАЬsmart, liberalтАЭ parents not only had drunk the koolaid, they were righteously drunk on the Fauci Koolaid. I was an instant outcast on that parent FB page for criticizing admin for said draconian measures that were doing untold harm to young people. I was pilloried as a heretic.
What a gut check. What an awakening. And what a waste of $80k/year!! None of this resembled academia that I once knew.
Then I learned that AF was the keynote speaker at my elite alma materтАЩs (Washington University, St. Louis) graduation in Spring 2023, the same year my effectively imprisoned daughter graduated from UR. Wash U parents posted this nugget with pride, sure they had witnessed the second coming.
To describe all this as disorienting is an understatement. It was a complete undoing. Personally, it was a true awakening, its clarity only sharpened w these continued findings. Findings, facts, sinister truths from a time that literally changed everything. And everyone (per sentiments above). I/we are still processing. IтАЩm still trying to put that matrix to rest. But the truth is, I think weтАЩre all still in it.
Yes a true awakening. Not shocking on how you were vilified. It took a lot of courage to speak out and up on this back then. I tried by asking questions "so if the vaccine does not prevent transmission how does someone who hasn't been vacd effect you?" It would make people uncomfortable but they never changed their position. My daughter was also in school during the big lie. Missed her HS graduation and also her 1st year of College. Her mental health truly suffered all the while AF runs around trying to cover his ass. And yes the processing is still happening. I'm trying to move on from my anger but it's not easy.
As long as he didnтАЩt mislabel an expense on a check he shouldnтАЩt need to worry. Lying to congress , lying to the public, lying to the world, everybody does that. LetтАЩs just move on.
Between covering our well paid butts, book writing and bleaching our email accounts I think we can stay pretty busy in our twilight years.
Sarcasm noted, but letтАЩs not just move on. LetтАЩs expose the checks/funding to ecohealth alliance/wuhan institute of virology written by AF/NIH for sinister coronavirus gain-of-function research. LetтАЩs put AF in his rightful (shameful) place in history. AFтАЩs twilight must be dimmed accordingly.
I do wonder what the appropriate punishment is for someone that recklessly funded a super virus that killed tens of millions, then covered it up - and what else donтАЩt we know? The only shocking thing to me is that this isnтАЩt being treated in a similar way to the greatest atrocities of the 20th century that killed tens of millions. This situation is inexplicable to me.
Except the "tens of millions" is probably a WAY over-exaggerated accounting. Prior to covid, medical professionals NEVER listed secondary causes of death, say the flu or a cold, as the PRIMARY cause of death. So if you died of a heart attack, and you also had the flu, the primary cause of death would be the heart attack, and the secondary was the flu. When covid struck, however, even if you died of a massive heart attack (which is generally 20+ years in the making), if you tested positive for covid, using a test that was only 70% accurate, you were counted as a covid death! How ridiculous. So in fact, almost anyone who died during the "covid years" could have been counted as a covid death. They even tested people who died in car accidents and counted them as covid deaths if they also had covid!!!! Mind boggling.
Remember that covid has existed for thousands of years. The genetically-engineered covid is now defunct (it mutates very quickly), but covid will continue to exist forevermore... just as the common cold will.
Also bear in mind that hospitals and clinics were able to get paid MORE if they could show that the patient had covid.
Bear in mind also, that NEVER in the history of medicine, did doctors test for an unsuspected virus as a matter or course. Medical schools strongly advise AGAINST such practices... So, for example, you don't get tested for strep unless the doctor suspects that you have it. Why? Because EVEN 95% accurate tests can create false positives, and you don't want to treat a patient for something they don't have! The only time a doctor will test you for say, strep, is IF you have symptoms that look strep-like. The same should have been done for covid, but instead the medical community and political entities and businesses, schools, etc, etc... made EVERYONE test for covid whether or not they even had symptoms, and they used tests there were only 70% "accurate" or less. 70% accurate is essentially an oxymoron. It means that 30% of time it's wrong! It's a useless test. And OF COURSE, people just kept retesting and retesting until they got the result they wanted. So even if a hospital or clinic only ran one test (but most did re-testing) they had a HUGE increase in positive tests and therefore money in their pockets for covid.
When you go to the doctor for your annual physical does he or she start testing you for strep, the flu, ghonerea or heart failure, etc etc etc even if you don't any signs of it??? Of course not. They ONLY test you for things for which you have symptoms. That is how good medicine is practiced.
Not to quibble...but the best estimate of COVID caused deaths is 26.98 million people worldwide, so "tens of millions" is actually a pretty fair statement. The gold standard for measuring COVID caused deaths is the "excess mortality" algorithm. This approach looks at deaths from all causes, and measures the difference between COVID-era deaths and what can be actuarially predicted, based on actual data, as normal deaths. That algorithm, which is now widely accepted by scientists and epidemiologists worldwide, estimates a range of COVID caused deaths of between 19 and 35 million people, with 26.98 million as the central estimate. See here for reference: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
So Richard's central question remains completely valid: "I do wonder what the appropriate punishment is for someone that recklessly funded a super virus that killed tens of millions, then covered it up". I wonder exactly the same thing.
Sure fair enough. But my point is that significant harm was done whatever the final number, and if the organization/individuals that created and stands by that number is at fault, they should still be charged with whatever numbers of harm they themselves generated in their own accounting. Even if the real number were zero which itтАЩs not, they should still be held fully accountable in whatever fiction they created and spread.
We all knew he was lying then, and it is infuriating to know that so many of his supporters will never know this information (or will dismiss it). His actions have caused incalculable harm and I can only hope that he will be shamed and punished legally.
We didn't ALL know. So many just went with the political tide. So many believed him and rejected those of us asking for more information to back up their claims. As this is all coming out I keep wondering what the previously sanctimonious and dismissive members of my family are thinking now. Do they say to themselves, "gee, I should call Laura and talk through what may have been very difficult for her. And apologize if I offended her." And, of course, multiply that a million times to see what this friction did to our communities.
That sad story doesn't get enough attention. These policies broke up families and ended life-long friendships. You can multiply your tale by millions of people.
Don't hold your breath.
Its so true. There was a San Francisco organization hosting their annual gala with AF as guest speaker. The term "guided us through..." was used in their promotional material. I contacted the party organizer , via email, and politely (more bees with honey as they say) advised her to look at the links I had attached or at least do a more thorough search on AF as not being the great guy they think he is. I felt I was doing my small part in educating as many people as I can on the evils of AF. I never did get a response. oh well.
By fall of 2021 I fully awoke, screaming into the U Rochester (NY) FB parent group void. Surely other тАЬsmart, liberalтАЭ parents recognized by then that our students needed to be released from the matrix of masks, testing, tracking, distancing, on-line classes from their dorm rooms??!! Nope. I quickly learned that supposedly тАЬsmart, liberalтАЭ parents not only had drunk the koolaid, they were righteously drunk on the Fauci Koolaid. I was an instant outcast on that parent FB page for criticizing admin for said draconian measures that were doing untold harm to young people. I was pilloried as a heretic.
What a gut check. What an awakening. And what a waste of $80k/year!! None of this resembled academia that I once knew.
Then I learned that AF was the keynote speaker at my elite alma materтАЩs (Washington University, St. Louis) graduation in Spring 2023, the same year my effectively imprisoned daughter graduated from UR. Wash U parents posted this nugget with pride, sure they had witnessed the second coming.
To describe all this as disorienting is an understatement. It was a complete undoing. Personally, it was a true awakening, its clarity only sharpened w these continued findings. Findings, facts, sinister truths from a time that literally changed everything. And everyone (per sentiments above). I/we are still processing. IтАЩm still trying to put that matrix to rest. But the truth is, I think weтАЩre all still in it.
Yes a true awakening. Not shocking on how you were vilified. It took a lot of courage to speak out and up on this back then. I tried by asking questions "so if the vaccine does not prevent transmission how does someone who hasn't been vacd effect you?" It would make people uncomfortable but they never changed their position. My daughter was also in school during the big lie. Missed her HS graduation and also her 1st year of College. Her mental health truly suffered all the while AF runs around trying to cover his ass. And yes the processing is still happening. I'm trying to move on from my anger but it's not easy.
As long as he didnтАЩt mislabel an expense on a check he shouldnтАЩt need to worry. Lying to congress , lying to the public, lying to the world, everybody does that. LetтАЩs just move on.
Between covering our well paid butts, book writing and bleaching our email accounts I think we can stay pretty busy in our twilight years.
Sarcasm noted, but letтАЩs not just move on. LetтАЩs expose the checks/funding to ecohealth alliance/wuhan institute of virology written by AF/NIH for sinister coronavirus gain-of-function research. LetтАЩs put AF in his rightful (shameful) place in history. AFтАЩs twilight must be dimmed accordingly.
I do wonder what the appropriate punishment is for someone that recklessly funded a super virus that killed tens of millions, then covered it up - and what else donтАЩt we know? The only shocking thing to me is that this isnтАЩt being treated in a similar way to the greatest atrocities of the 20th century that killed tens of millions. This situation is inexplicable to me.
Except the "tens of millions" is probably a WAY over-exaggerated accounting. Prior to covid, medical professionals NEVER listed secondary causes of death, say the flu or a cold, as the PRIMARY cause of death. So if you died of a heart attack, and you also had the flu, the primary cause of death would be the heart attack, and the secondary was the flu. When covid struck, however, even if you died of a massive heart attack (which is generally 20+ years in the making), if you tested positive for covid, using a test that was only 70% accurate, you were counted as a covid death! How ridiculous. So in fact, almost anyone who died during the "covid years" could have been counted as a covid death. They even tested people who died in car accidents and counted them as covid deaths if they also had covid!!!! Mind boggling.
Remember that covid has existed for thousands of years. The genetically-engineered covid is now defunct (it mutates very quickly), but covid will continue to exist forevermore... just as the common cold will.
Also bear in mind that hospitals and clinics were able to get paid MORE if they could show that the patient had covid.
Bear in mind also, that NEVER in the history of medicine, did doctors test for an unsuspected virus as a matter or course. Medical schools strongly advise AGAINST such practices... So, for example, you don't get tested for strep unless the doctor suspects that you have it. Why? Because EVEN 95% accurate tests can create false positives, and you don't want to treat a patient for something they don't have! The only time a doctor will test you for say, strep, is IF you have symptoms that look strep-like. The same should have been done for covid, but instead the medical community and political entities and businesses, schools, etc, etc... made EVERYONE test for covid whether or not they even had symptoms, and they used tests there were only 70% "accurate" or less. 70% accurate is essentially an oxymoron. It means that 30% of time it's wrong! It's a useless test. And OF COURSE, people just kept retesting and retesting until they got the result they wanted. So even if a hospital or clinic only ran one test (but most did re-testing) they had a HUGE increase in positive tests and therefore money in their pockets for covid.
When you go to the doctor for your annual physical does he or she start testing you for strep, the flu, ghonerea or heart failure, etc etc etc even if you don't any signs of it??? Of course not. They ONLY test you for things for which you have symptoms. That is how good medicine is practiced.
Not to quibble...but the best estimate of COVID caused deaths is 26.98 million people worldwide, so "tens of millions" is actually a pretty fair statement. The gold standard for measuring COVID caused deaths is the "excess mortality" algorithm. This approach looks at deaths from all causes, and measures the difference between COVID-era deaths and what can be actuarially predicted, based on actual data, as normal deaths. That algorithm, which is now widely accepted by scientists and epidemiologists worldwide, estimates a range of COVID caused deaths of between 19 and 35 million people, with 26.98 million as the central estimate. See here for reference: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
So Richard's central question remains completely valid: "I do wonder what the appropriate punishment is for someone that recklessly funded a super virus that killed tens of millions, then covered it up". I wonder exactly the same thing.
Sure fair enough. But my point is that significant harm was done whatever the final number, and if the organization/individuals that created and stands by that number is at fault, they should still be charged with whatever numbers of harm they themselves generated in their own accounting. Even if the real number were zero which itтАЩs not, they should still be held fully accountable in whatever fiction they created and spread.