Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Reading Is For Dummies Says Pfizer" video.

  1. Remember all those heart-warming stories about how parents of a child with a rare disease did their own research and then found a therapy that saved the child? Remember how it was pitched as a Miracle of the Internet?
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  2.  @peterpeters2412  Those were rarely given press, much less had movies made about them (see for example Lorenzo's Oil ), unless they were cases of child neglect based on religious fanaticism. Then they were usually prosecuted.
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  3.  @peterpeters2412  Wait. The children died because the parents "did their own research and then found a therapy that saved the child?" Hm. That was a verbatim quote of what my post said. Strange, you seem not to have read it, or something else went wrong. I hope that's not side effects of something or other?
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  4.  @peterpeters2412  Read where? The autism link was proved to be spurious, but research as to the vaccines schedules of other developed countries is reasonable to do, and is now hard to find. Naturopaths are not real doctors. Why are they licensed in half the American states? Who gave them that imprimatur? Whose fault is that? Is it unreasonable to decline a COVID vaccine for your 14-year-old, and to insist they get their first meningitis shot instead? And to point out that we do NOT have data on how these two vaccinations might be combined, if at all? No, it is not unreasonable. There isn't clinical research on the question. In a young adolescent, the Precautionary Principle should rule.
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  5.  @peterpeters2412  You miss the point. "Doing your own research" was once universally lauded. Now it is universally denounced. That is what is called propaganda. That is what we are being subjected to. You're stating there is a sound argument for caution when advocating doing your own research. You're right. No question. But no one is making any argument. Instead, people with legitimate concerns have been subjected to jeering, defamation, vilification, being fired from their jobs, and every other abuse you can think of short of beatings or prisons. And it's all been based on lies, half-truths, and assertions that no one could make because we simply didn't know certain things about the vaccines in January 2021. I had a doctor lie to me. He told me categorically that no one had died of any COVID vaccine, at a time when it was already established that one of the vaccines was the probable cause of lethal strokes, and it was paused for that reason. Why did he do that? If I were not an avid reader, I would not have known. He lied to me, and I have a Master's in ancient philosophy and philosophy of science, and a JD. How free does he feel to lie to "ordinary" people? Now we know the mRNA vaccines have been implicated as well. Clearly they are not suitable for everyone, yet given the way they have been politicized, doctors are afraid to make the appropriate risk/benefit analysis when counseling their patients. (The real disgrace is that any doctor can look at the websites of the ministries of health of other nations, like France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries, and see what they are recommending, and compare it to our CDC. That alone should open some eyes.) What a sh*t show of shameful manipulation this has been.
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  6.  @peterpeters2412  We both know how badly this pandemic was managed. You can't lie to people -- no matter how ignorant you think they are, and no matter how ignorant they actually are. You can't browbeat them, while declining to provide universal health care, or even take a vote on universal healthcare. It's still their life. You can't coerce vaccination, then jeer at those injured by it or minimize what they're going through. The malpractice lawsuits, not against the manufacturers but the doctors who minimized serious side effects -- some of which were truly rare and unexpected, granted -- are unlike any I've seen before. When a woman comes to an ER with symptoms and she is sent home with tranquilizers three times, and only when she comes back a fourth time is it established that she has Guillen Barre syndrome (probably more unusual from a COVID vaccine than the flu vaccine some years, and very rare from those), that is unacceptable. I have met well-educated people who have declined a flu vaccine ever since the swine flu debacle in 1976, which was not a catastrophe and was rectified quickly. No one tried to bury the truth -- once a problem was detected, of course the information was shared. I don't understand why over 40 years later they mistrust a flu shot, but that should tell you what happens once you lose trust. While Trump was still in office, the main players in the DNC (Biden, Harris, Pelosi) assured us that there would be no vaccine mandates, and that medical privacy would not be suspended. We all know where that went. And when you add in the rampant censorship and the obvious effort to cover up the origins of the virus, what do you expect people to think? People have a right to be disgusted. Comics help diffuse that. It's poor solace in my book.
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  7. Sad how this thread got censored, both of us. That's why people don't have confidence. They feel manipulated.
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  8.  @malumachado4561  I mentioned it. Looks like that post was shadowed.
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  9. Stop it, Jimmy. Reading is for rich people.
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