Hello friends,
Welcome to another edition of Weekly Crystallizations, a weekly newsletter where I highlight tweets (and now Telegram messages) from people making sense of what’s going on in the world today!
In this week’s edition:
Pro-Russian and Pro-Ukrainian war updates
Interview with the author of the Danish study showing no net all-cause mortality benefits for mRNA vaccines
End of the pandemic?
War updates
Russia's counter-sanctions
Pro-Russian takes
Pro-Ukrainian takes
Other takes
Misc
Excess deaths and the Vaccine harm hypothesis
Interview with author of the Danish paper I shared 2 weeks ago showing that the mRNA vaccines have no nett effect on all-cause mortality. Great interview where Freddie asks the right questions (e.g. does this mean mRNA vaccines are causing as much deaths as they're preventing?) TLDR; we can't tell yet, because the results aren't statistically significant, but it's cause for concern according to the author. What's more, since the difference between mRNA and adeno-vector virus *is* statistically significant, and in favor of Adeno-vector vaccines, one could argue that the wrong vaccines were pushed.
Professor Morris dives into UK excess mortality figures and reminds us that often weird population level results are explained when you break down the data set into smaller subgroups. What's still concerning here (I think) is the higher all cause mortality among the young.
Many pics of all kinds of supposed vaccine-induced rashes in this thread.
Ben has looked into excess death stats a lot recently. It's even his username. For him to come to this conclusion is striking.
COVID
Meta-analysis wizard and one of the most cited living authors in academia Professor Ioannidis from Stanford came out with a paper titled "The end of the COVID-19 pandemic" calling for just that.
Personal risk of the vast majority of the global population was already very small by end 2021, but perceived risk may still be grossly overestimated. Restrictive measures of high stringency have persisted in many countries by early 2022. The gargantuan attention in news media, social media and even scientific circles should be tempered. Public health officials need to declare the end of the pandemic. Mid- and long-term consequences of epidemic waves and of adopted measures on health, society, economy, civilization and democracy may perpetuate a pandemic legacy long after the pandemic itself has ended.
Pfizer Docs
It's still early days and these claims should be treated with caution, but some suspicious themes are emerging from the Pfizer papers.
It seems that 13% of trial patients came from 1 military hospital in Argentina.