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Trump & AOC Agree: “Woke” Bad!

On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to a question about her previous support for “defund the police,” or reducing bloated police budgets. She brushed off any sort of serious engagement of the concerns many Americans have, especially with the domestic terror campaign the Trump Administration has waged against the American public, with simply:

This is quite concerning, as while America did have limited stay-at-home orders and remote schooling in 2020, we did not implement any serious “lockdowns,” especially when compared to other nations which employed much stricter measures. It was the conservative think tank AIER who campaigned to brand any form of public health intervention as a “lockdown” that does nothing except grave harms. Is AOC implying that our limited use of non-pharmaceutical interventions drove everyone crazy? In another clip, she repeated a colleague stating “Woke 1 was crazy:” a nasty reactionary framing and gross rewriting of a long and painful history:

It’s upsetting to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly admit on camera that she is now aligned with the Trump Administration’s bizarre hatred of anything “woke,” a political term originally coined by Black Americans to reckon with the racial oppression they have faced all throughout America’s history. Now, “woke” means anything Trump & his cronies don’t personally like and must be destroyed. This is not leadership. This is the mind poison of liberal “Centrism” at work: Letting yourself be dragged further and further to the right like a dog on a leash.

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Just Where Did “Defund the Police” Come From?

In the leadup to 2020, years of brutal executions of unarmed (mostly Black, with some exceptions) Americans, including children, led to a wave of nationwide protests against police violence. Taking a critical look at municipal budgets, police funding is disproportionately obscene compared to other much more essential services. This taxpayer money is often dedicated to purchasing military hardware that is much more appropriate for a paramilitary occupation than a civilian policing force. A great example of this is the evolution of the LEGO police Minifig over the decades:

It’s worth noting that the law is not enforced equally in America: the nation’s greatest form of larceny, wage theft, is almost entirely unprosecuted. Former Attorney General Eric Holder’s 1999 “Collateral Consequences” memo - which argues for replacing federal prosecution with paltry fines - is now the standard for letting private corporations such as Facebook flagrantly and repeatedly violate the law. The entire genAI “industry” is built upon colossal amounts of theft that federal authorities pretend isn’t a crime. On the opposite end of the nation, the essentials the homeless need to survive are regularly destroyed by police-led sweeps, with no real help offered. Broke single mothers driven to shoplifting baby formula and diapers just to survive, however, are slapped with lifelong criminal records and the lowest moment of their life is turned into monetized social media content.

In the 2020 general election, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw her full support behind Joe “Shoot Them in the Leg” Biden, who previously championed the invasion and occupation of Iraq - in which hundreds of thousands of Muslim lives were slaughtered in a war based on false claims of weapons of mass destruction, as well as horrific torture camps. In exchange, Biden pledged to veto Medicare-for-All and zero support for other polices AOC claims to support. At the same time, the Brennan Center’s Mike German would publish a report titled: “Hidden in Plan Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement: The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has been strikingly insufficiently.” In summary: America’s police departments are chock full of neo-Nazi pigs. The total lack of impact this report will have on Democrat policymaking is astounding.

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The American Rescue Sham: Arm Nazis, Abandon Schools

Having crushed & humiliated the progressives, Biden would narrowly secure a Presidential election victory that came down to ~40,000 votes in a few key swing districts. Taking office in 2021, one of Biden’s first priorities was a pandemic relief bill named the American Rescue Plan Act. Now one might understandably conceive that the number one priority of a pandemic relief bill would be to prevent COVID-19 deaths. Alas, we are not dealing with logical thinkers.

Here are some creative thinking challenges: Just how many COVID-19 deaths can be prevented by an AR-15 assault rifle? Can we train the next generation of doctors on shooting ranges? What purpose does an armored personnel carrier serve in preventing COVID-19 deaths? Do surveillance drones help get vaccines into peoples’ arms? How about $350 billion for all of this, nationwide? Even better, much of this money goes to an AI surveillance firm so that cops can stalk and harass their partners & exes!

American schools, on the other hand, received less than half that amount with a paltry $123 billion in comparison for “general purposes,” which instead of being used to help schools protect students & teachers from COVID-19 outbreaks, largely went to renovating football fields and contracts with standardized testing companies. This does not end well in the 2021-22 school year, with hundreds of children dying and many more disabled as unsafe schools drown in COVID-19. It does however lead to Joe Biden whining in January 2022:

This did not keep schools open. Paxlovid, a COVID-19 antiviral from Pfizer, cannot be given to young children. It does nothing to prevent infections or keeping schools functioning normally. Weeks later, Biden will double down during the 2022 State of the Union on diverting even more pandemic relief funding to buy military toys for white supremacists to terrorize their communities:

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Oops, Unelectable!

Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars of military hardware into violent white supremacists, the Democrats did not become any more electable in 2024. They will find themselves completely humiliated in the 2024 election, losing every single swing state - even after all the cute sunglass selfies AOC took with a champion of endless war. Hundreds of thousands died and millions were disabled by the virus the Democrats campaigned on dealing with. Biden’s pitiful political career would end in a pathetic whimper as little more than further expanding upon the turnkey tyranny he spent decades building, only to casually toss the keys to Donald Trump yet again.

Perhaps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would like to go door to door to the working-class Black and brown families of Queens and the Bronx that she once claimed to represent and explain just why it’s so important to put even more military hardware in the hands of white supremacists, especially over funding public education. After proving she has no real commitment to realizing a Green New Deal or Medicare for All, AOC is now choosing to defend “MAHA activists.” Having largely abandoned all the positions that made a name for herself to instead prove her loyalty to Democrat leadership, the Right isn’t contemplating supporting AOC for President; they are instead loudly laughing at her showing that she stands for nothing.

To imply that “lockdowns” drove people mad into demanding to divert police funding to more constructive purposes is utterly ridiculous. We’ve already suffered through years and years of absurd propaganda that “lockdowns” caused all sorts of horrors, including widespread suicides, far worse than COVID-19 itself. It helps nobody to imply they’re responsible for critics against unbalanced municipal budgets used to purchase military toys for white supremacists.

If you simply cannot articulate & commit to a meaningful and constructive alternative to MAGA’s sadistic and cruel worldview, then you will do nothing more than achieve the same humiliating defeats that Democrats suffered in 2016 and 2024, with only Trump’s mismanagement of COVID-19 resulting in a narrow victory. Liberal austerity and corporate handouts, most notably to arms manufacturers, is simply no longer a viable electoral strategy. Failing to reckon with this national reality leaves one flailing about, blaming “lockdowns” for political views the majority of Americans support.

The lessons to be learned from the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Biden’s failed response, are instead being drowned out by reactionary myths.

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Read enough supernatural tales, and you will often hear of a centuries-long “shadow war” hidden from the public eye between vampires, werewolves, and other creepy-crawlies that go bump in the night. Secret societies, vampire hunters, and other ridiculous conspiracies make for fun movies and bedtime reading, but we all generally understand that these are entertaining absurdities.

Except for Blade, the hard-hitting 1999 documentary starring Blade, directed by Blade, all about how awesome Blade is. That is all very real and completely happened. Let’s not be ridiculous, people!

Now what if I told you that there actually is a very real war that has been waged over centuries, but all within the public’s eye? It’s tragic and the casualties are enormous. But they are all part of one struggle: the war of industry against the public’s health.

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Freedom is When I Profit from Killing Babies

Let us go back in time to the America of the late 1800s. A working class mother goes to the grocer to buy brown sugar to bake a birthday cake for her son, and fresh milk for the boy’s newborn sister. Upon returning home, she opens the container of sugar to see lice jump out: for this is no brown sugar but instead ground up insects packaged and sold as brown sugar. As for the baby’s milk, well...

She will tragically die upon drinking it. These are the sort of common practices that were the standards of the late 19th century American food industry. Deborah Blum’s most excellent book The Poison Squad is an essential history of the depravity of greed and the years-long struggle to institute basic food safety regulations we have too quickly forgotten. Not even candy was safe!

Just as John Snow waged a war against cholera in London, with the wealthy and powerful opposed to basic water sanitation & sewage treatment, American chemist Harvey Wiley (a notorious misogynist who compared women to jackals) crusaded against industry, mercenary academics, journalists, and even his own boss. It must seem obscene in retrospect, that anyone could oppose ensuring that children don’t die needlessly of such easily preventable causes. You would hope that upon hearing that someone was killing American babies, the first thing a Congressman would do is roll up his sleeves and slap on his ass-whooping boots to go knock together the skulls of those responsible. And yet, in Harvey Wiley’s time...

Congress took the side of industry against American babies multiple times. This is in part thanks to open legislative war was waged by industry, demanding that we recognize their divine right to murder American children for profit, and that any regulatory attempt to prevent this is a grave violation of their freedoms. Would it not be self-defense to then drag these sadistic industrialists through the streets and mount their heads onto pikes as a warning to others who are tempted by such greed? It would take years of political struggle, and a final convincing of President Theodore Roosevelt (well after he led soldiers given formaldehyde contaminated beef rations) to finally convince Congress to pass the beginning of food safety regulations in 1906.

Sadly, the nation is currently suffering an extended campaign to destroy what little progress we have made 120 years later. All in service of a dogma that industry has a divine right to kill in service of profit. Even when that includes your own children.

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The Medical Disinformation Industry

While public health disinformation has existed for centuries, the World-Wide Web and the monetization of social media has poured kerosene onto the fire in a way few could predict. In the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you could make a pretty penny (via ad revenue, brand deals, and subscriptions) spreading utterly obscene lies about every aspect of the crisis possible, screeching and howling like jackals at those trying to prevent needless death. One of the end results is countless horror stories of parents who had to bury their unvaccinated child dying of COVID-19 because they listened to these lies.

Under the failed leadership of COVID-19 pestilence sycophants Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Beth Hoeg, the Food & Drug Administration completely failed to complete regular food safety inspections, and Americans are getting very sick and even dying as a result. Meanwhile, the corporations responsible for these outbreaks continue to report record profits, having exploited the pandemic to engage in price gouging. Children are also getting very sick and dying of measles, as a result of years of disinformation from those who claim to rally under the banner of “Make America Healthy Again.”

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With COVID-19 in most Americans’ rear-view mirror, these cheerleaders for disease now strive to profit over sensationalist attacks against those trying to prevent deaths from contaminated produce, or measles, or every other disease in the book. They need a constant stream of ongoing public health crises in order to profit from attacking those who are working and struggling to prevent death, especially those of children. Your family’s constant sickness is their profit.

The Trump Administration’s deregulatory slash-and-burn agenda is ensuring that they’ll be making a steady income for years and years to come. Sadly, Democrats are failing to seize upon an easy opportunity to drum up public support.

Their endgame is that you should all grow quite comfortable with Americans dying regularly from causes that we’ve previously eradicated. That you should relish in the demonization and ruthlessly attack those who’d dare to save lives. That you should become as damned and perverse as themselves; loyal followers practicing in their demented rituals of human sacrifice.

The murderous scam artists of 21st Century America, just like 19th Century America, have no place in civil society. They have nothing of value to say and nothing of value to contribute. Like the common pests you’d find while working on a family farm, they are the ones who should be recoiling in fear at the sight of everyday people.

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Long time readers of the PAI will know that I grew up a fisherman, often getting up at 2AM to hit the water before dawn. At one point, my father and I set a personal record of hitting 49 weeks in a row catching at least a single fish. I was even published in a local periodical showing off the highly effective “Butt Ugly” fly fishing lure that I designed and tied myself.

The hard technical science of baiting and catching fish (Rule No. One: If You Don’t Go, You Don’t Catch Any!) does not come naturally to many. It takes hard work, dedication, and patience in order to put food on your family’s table. Tricking a smallmouth bass into thinking he’s chomping down on a minnow instead of a one-way ticket to deep-fried tartar town takes some cleverness.

Like fishing lures, not all scientific research studies are created equal. As we all remember, there is a long history of COVID cranks attacking studies which invalidate their uninformed opinions to be “Covidian” and effectively worthless. On the other hand, these sorts of “Evidence-Based Medicine” gurus just love cherry picking individual studies that validate their personal opinions, no matter how flawed they are.

Which brings us to a recent trial evaluating the effectiveness of HEPA air filtration units in care homes that was endorsed by John Mandrola of Sensible Medicine, liberal COVID minimizer Adam Gaffney, and Alasdair “Immunity Debt” Munro. It was written up in The Conversation UK by Paul Hunter, Professor of Medicine of the University of East Anglia. Now, Paul has produced an extensive stream of unscientific pro-pestilence propaganda over the years, even going so far to claim in 2021 that people positive for COVID-19 should be encouraged to spread a deadly & disabling virus around their community as if they had the common cold.

Looking critically at the study these men endorsed, “High-Efficiency Particulate Air Filters to Prevent Winter Respiratory Infections in Care Homes” published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the errors are obvious. For starters, the researchers ran the devices at the lowest settings - at 2 ACH (Air Changes Per Hour) against the consensus of aerosol engineers, which is at least 6 ACH to reduce the transmission of airborne viruses. There was no control group - thus not an RCT, so time to STFU! The researchers also didn’t bother to measure indoor air quality, a critical metric. If I was intentionally designing a bunk study as bait for EBM zealots, this would be it.

The only conclusion one can gleam from reading it is that not knowing what you’re doing, refusing to learn from those with relevant experience & credentials, and doing a half-assed job simply doesn’t work! I could have told you that for free!

The thing about the arrogance of EBM Zealots is that, if you spent years advocating for the abandonment of any and all precautionary measures COVID-19 related - even going so far to compare pediatric COVID-19 to head lice, in Munro’s case - and there are effective technologies that work to prevent the onward transmission of awful deadly and disabling viruses, then you start to come off looking like a massive jerk. So at this point in 2026, you’re committed to the gimmick. This is the problem with improper use of social media in medical and scientific debates: You have to be humble enough to admit error when the evidence contradicts you. This simply doesn’t happen if you’re a mercenary academic advancing the agenda of wealthy interests.

That agenda is the same one we have fought for centuries: that industry simply doesn’t like public health in any way, so they’ve went ahead and decided that you can’t have any. The public simply needs to get used to…seeing babies die from poisoned milk, or their neighbors shitting themselves to death from cholera, or their loved ones dying or being disabled by SARS-CoV-2 as human sacrifice for others’ profit. Academics who enable this conduct with their “expertise” should be discredited, not paraded around the media as critical voices worth listening to over those who actually have the relevant knowledge and experience.

See, the thing is, if we can prove the effectiveness of technologies such as HEPA air filtration (or FarUVC lighting, respirators, etc.) to prevent the spread of airborne viruses, then it suggests that perhaps we should be deploying them in schools and workplaces to prevent needless death. It implies that perhaps the government needs to get involved and facilitate this happening, even if industry - after centuries of temper tantrums over government regulations against public health hazards - needs to be dragged by the ear year again, pissing and moaning the entire way, into a new, better era. All these “Evidence-Based Medicine” propagandists are doing everything they can to keep us in the past.

It must feel weird to work at a university while dedicating yourself to making sure people know less about the world.

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In 2020 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - alongside his best buddy Andrew Wakefield, who intimately violated young children to produce fraudulent study results - rallied German neo-Nazis (worked out so well the first time!) to attack public health mitigations. Soon after, Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya would repeatedly tweet out “Heil Hitler” dog whistles in support of Canadian neo-Nazis who threw up swastikas, defecated in public, and terrorized their fellow citizens to sabotage the COVID-19 response. For years, both men peddled inflammatory and ridiculous lies about the COVID-19 vaccines, fanning the flames of hate that led to an explosion of harassment, abuse, and real-world violence (including murder) against medical professionals and scientists.

This would come to a head on August 8th, 2025, when a man attempted a mass shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Firing hundreds of bullets, including into the windows of the CDC Campus, he would only succeed in taking one life: David Rose, a 33-year-old father of two with a third on the way, was cut down defending the targets of years of obscene lies. A year later at the CDC memorial service to David Rose, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. proceeded to attack the staff of the CDC further with more outrageous falsehoods, subtly implying that they were at fault for Rose’s death. RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya both absolved themselves of any responsibility for how countless others would pay a horrific toll for their narcisscism.

All across America, there are thousands of parents who had to undergo the horror of having to bury their child after being infected with a SARS virus that RFK Jr., Bhattacharya, and their fellow social media trolls profited from insisting was harmless to them. In their fantasies of an alternative 2020, all of those children would have quickly died in the Spring of 2020 as a virgin sacrifice to the economic gods and soon forgotten. These pediatric COVID-19 deaths are overwhelmingly unvaccinated, with countless stories of parents who regret listening to the anti-vaccine lies that vile pestilence sycophants such as RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya profited from peddling.

These revolting narcissists, with refried feces for brains and a sarlacc pit where a heart should be, gleefully paraded themselves as heroes along a river of blood. Sadly, many who should know better propped them up as serious thinkers with legitimate insights. This includes Stanford University’s Jonathan Levin, Brown University’s Ashish Jha and Emily Oster, Princeton University’s Steven Macedo and Frances Lee, The New York Times’ Zeynep Tufekci and Ross Douthat, and numerous others who insisted that a mercenary academic who promoted a useless online petition produced by a Koch-funded propaganda outlet was a credible voice who was somehow the real victim of the pandemic, as Jay Bhattacharya has frequently insisted:

During the memorial for David Rose, a display was set up in the CDC offices featuring an AI-generated image of Jay Bhattacharya; a cartoonishly grotesque caricature of performative masculinity:

With muscles he did not earn, much less the supposed genius he clearly lacks - as the economist frequently struggles with basic arithmetic - Captain COVID wears the championship title over his shoulder of a wrestling promotion that maintained a rape dungeon on the executive floor of its corporate headquarters for the sexual abuse of employees and produces propaganda on behalf of a monarchy that publicly beheads women. Previously, the NIH Director had posted to social media an edited photo of himself branding the same face tattoo of a sadistic rapist employed as a mascot for a federal handout to factory farming. What a role model!

Across his waist, Captain COVID wears the title of “Public Health Champion,” which can be earned only after defeating numerous children in a Casket Match. This happened when he was in charge of Florida’s COVID-19 response. While the most obvious joke of “fringe,” a-la Macho Man Randy Savage, is missing, the ring attire of Bhattacharya’s cringeworthy caricature features padded kneepads - crucial joint support for the many hours he spends on his knees publicly fellating a billionaire rapist pedophile (he just claimed Trump would end the HIV/AIDS epidemic this past week) among the other repugnant billionaires Jay services. The cape is for flying away when Bhattacharya is confronted with real questions, or risks interacting with a woman that actually knows what she’s talking about.

Bhattacharya posed with the standee on social media, on the Twitter account which he has blocked the many actual doctors who wasted their time treating COVID-19 patients instead of recording podcasts, as well as the many actual scientists Jay childishly branded “Covidian.” In the digital safe space of his delusional fantasies, not too dissimilar from those final moments of pedophiles just before Chris Hansen walks in, Bhattacharya can completely disconnect from tangible reality and abandon all self-awareness. If you look closely, a video of the memorial to David Rose is playing over the shoulder of the “Captain COVID” standee:

Here is public health’s Caligula, gleefully celebrating himself over the grave of an everyday American father killed by a man radicalized by the years of anti-vaccine incitements to violence that Bhattacharya participated in. As a celebrity of the conservative speaking circuit, Bhattacharya should understand that among some traditional cultures, committing an act so disgraceful and dishonorable leaves you with only a single course of action: ritual suicide. I would settle for resignation and a public apology tour, personally. If Bhattacharya truly respected the actual beliefs of his “MAGA” colleagues, he would pack up his family’s things and move overseas, offering up his role as NIH Director to an unqualified mediocre white man. As we all know, only those who lack melanin, estrogen, and especially empathy can truly unlock the secrets of the universe.

Every university, every medical association, and every media outlet across America should be issuing a public condemnation of this vile, revolting insult to human life. Our national safe space for pestilence sycophants is costing more and more American lives every day we refuse to stamp it out. There are no more excuses: David Rose deserved an America in which he could live to raise his children.

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With the show trial in Congress blaming Fauci for the pandemic this past week, as taxpayer funded jackals squeal that “infection is the best protection” against a SARS virus, you might be surprised to learn that we are still learning about the devastating impacts of COVID-19. Having read through hundreds of studies over the years that have been casually omitted from the flood of poisonous disinformation & garbage opinion editorials meant to sabotage the pandemic response, there is still ample reason to protect yourself from repeated infections with COVID-19. This virus is still killing and disabling Americans at a steady pace, even after we collectively delude ourselves into insisting that this horrible event is behind us, having simply accepted a much higher threshold of pestilence.

Having maintained this resource since 2022, I would like to extend a thanks to the many subscribers who have supported this effort. While this was originally designed to help medical professionals and assist researchers in getting their work read, I greatly appreciate everyone who has supported the PAI financially, shared this with their communities, or just read through these compilations. It’s greatly appreciated!

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Without further ado, here is your regular COVID-19 research update.

Children & COVID-19

• “…post-COVID-19 children exhibited marked post-acute impairments in school functioning, increased emotional and behavioral problems followed by heterogeneous recovery trajectories.” (Nature Scientific Reports)

• “…patients reported experiencing elevated levels of fatigue (82.4%), loss of motivation (72.9%), concentration and attention deficits (71.8%), a worsened mood (53%), and a higher level of anxiety (31.8%).” (BMC Infectious Diseases)

• Antibody repertoire associated with clinically diverse presentations of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infection (Nature Scientific Reports)

• “…children attending school after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were three times more likely to be chronically absent” (PLOS One)

• Retinal microvascular alterations consistent with endothelial dysregulation in paediatric post-COVID-19 syndrome (Nature Scientific Reports)

• “Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2” (The Lancet Infectious Diseases)

• “LC in school-age children and adolescents was negatively associated with functional school-related outcomes” (Academic Pediatrics)

• Is BA.3.2 Disproportionately Infecting Children? A Look at the Age Distribution Data (Lungfish)

• Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the paediatric age group and associated factors (Frontiers in Public Health)

• Impact of COVID-19 infection on the sleep of infants and toddlers (BMC Pediatrics)

• Immune-metabolic trajectories delineate subgroups in paediatric long COVID (Nature Communications)

Cognitive & Neurological Impairment (Brain)

• Understanding the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Nature Reviews Neurology)

• “…SARS-CoV-2 directly infects the brain, induces neuroinflammation, pericyte death, and multiple perivascular changes in the brain.” (MDPI Viruses)

• Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Affect Adult Females More Severely Than Males (Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology)

• A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in long COVID (Cell)

• Long COVID neuropathy: The role of mast cells (Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology)

• “Essential workers who developed COVID-19 have white matter dysregulation” (Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health)

• Persistent neurological and behavioral alterations after SARS-CoV-2 infection (Frontiers in Microbiology)

• “…post-COVID-19 patients with subjective cognitive decline had objective cognitive deficits affecting attention, long-term memory, executive functions and verbal fluency.” (Brain Communications)

• Dopaminergic vulnerability in long COVID: striatal PET imaging at the brain-body interface (eBioMedicine)

• “…advanced COVID-19 is genetically associated with accelerated global brain aging.” (Medicine)

• Association of Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease-Like Features in Long COVID (Journal of Sleep Research)

• Choroid plexus alterations in long COVID and their associations with Alzheimer's disease risks (Alzheimer’s & Dementia)

• “Post-COVID-19 [Herpes Zoster] is associated with an increased risk of peripheral nervous system disorders” (International Journal of Medical Sciences)

• Unraveling the Link Between COVID-19 and Memory Deficits: The Role of Brain Microglia Activation (Neurologia)

Eyes, Ears & Nose

• Long-term ocular symptoms following COVID-19 linked to immune dysregulation, dysautonomia and peripheral neuropathy (Nature Communications)

• Ocular Symptoms in Long COVID (Dove Medical Press)

Heart, Lungs, and Cardiovascular Health

• Cardiac Arrhythmias and Autonomic Dysfunction Associated With COVID-19 (American Heart Association)

• “…long COVID is associated with the subsequent development of [Cardiovascular Disease]” (Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology)

• Impact of COVID-19 history on the prevalence of coronary slow flow (Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine)

• “Long COVID is associated with increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease, particularly cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and coronary artery disease” (eClinicalMedicine)

• Respiratory viral infections prime accelerated lung cancer growth (Cell)

• Sex-Dependent Metabolic Alterations in Red Blood Cells During COVID-19 (Biology)

• SARS-CoV-2 infection of 3D in vitro cardiac spheroids models the activation of antiviral, inflammatory, fibrotic, and contractile responses in a dose-dependent manner (Biofabrication)

• “…SARS-CoV-2 infection in non-hospitalized, community-based individuals could lead to significant alterations of the [Upper Respiratory Tract] mycobiome” (medRxiv)

• Dopaminergic vulnerability in long COVID: striatal PET imaging at the brain-body interface (eBioMedicine)

Immune System & Cancer

• “SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months.” (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)

• Fatigue after COVID-19 infection is associated with peripheral immunometabolic alterations affecting neuroimmune responses in the hippocampus (Translational Psychiatry)

• “…multiple chronic viruses reactivate during acute COVID-19” (Nature)

• COVID-19 as a Potential Trigger for Tuberculosis (Journal of General and Family Medicine)

• New-Onset Myasthenia Gravis (auto-immune disorder) Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection (MDPI, Life)

• “Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 burden was strongly associated with pandemic-era [Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease] incidence…findings are consistent with SARS-CoV-2-associated immune dysregulation” (medRxiv)

• Persistent T cell phenotypic alterations and early innate immune dysregulation as potential biomarkers of Long COVID (Journal of Infection)

Livers, Kidney, and the Gut

• The risk of kidney disease increases following SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to influenza (Nature Communications Medicine)

Long COVID & Disability

• Overview and Pathophysiology of Long COVID (COVID)

• Current status and future perspectives on the mechanistic and pathophysiological understanding of long COVID (Nature Communications Medicine)

• “…the most common post-acute symptoms were fatigue or extreme tiredness, body aches, and difficulty remembering things.” (MDPI, Occupational Health)

• “…up to 3 years after initial infection…less than 2% having resolved” (Lancet Regional Health Americas)

• Endothelial activation and thromboinflammation in Long COVID (Nature Pediatric Research)

• “…long COVID was associated with a change from baseline functioning and health.” (PLOS One)

• Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest (Nature Communications)

• “…approximately 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 developed [Long COVID]” (JAMA Network Open)

• “…new cases of long COVD could create a major drag on the economy amounting to USD 135 billion per annum” (OECD)

• “…Long COVID is characterized by persistent inflammation and endothelial stress, involving necroptosis, and autophagy pathways.” (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

• “[Long COVID] symptoms persisted up to four years after aSCV2 infection in a substantial proportion of HCWs” (Infection)

• Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19: In vivo evidence of structural autonomic dysfunction (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)

• Autonomic small fiber involvement in painful long COVID (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

• Microbiota-derived extracellular vesicles link intestinal dysbiosis to neuroimmune activation in long COVID (bioRxiv)

• Prevalence and symptoms of post-COVID-19 syndrome in active-duty military personnel (The American Journal of the Medical Sciences)

Overall Mortality

• “…995,787 COVID-19 deaths in the US from March 2020 to December 2021 and 155,536 unrecognized COVID-19 deaths.” (ScienceAdvances)

• COVID-19 was associated with an estimated 290,000 to 450,000 hospitalizations and 34,000 to 53,000 deaths from July 2024 to June 2025 (CDC)

Pregnancy

• “…SARS-CoV-2 infection in human foetal brain in association with haemorrhage, disrupted endothelial integrity and infiltration of immune cells in the developing cortex.” (Oxford Brain)

• “Developmental delay at 22 months may be identified among infants with in utero exposure to SARS-CoV-2” (Journal of Perinatology)

• “In utero exposure to SARS-CoV-2 resulted in altered neonatal brain volumes in gray matter white matter & left hippocampus.” (Brain, Behavior, and Immunity)

• “Bacterial superinfections…are relatively common in ICU-hospitalized pregnant women with COVID-19 and strongly linked to worse outcomes, including higher mortality.” (Journal of Infection and Public Health)

• “…SARS-CoV-2 genetic material can persist in placental tissue long after maternal infection” (American Journal of Reproductive Immunology)

Reproductive Health

• “[Abnormal uterine bleeding] was associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, stress, and age” (BMC Infectious Diseases)

Viral Persistence

• Persistent Viral Reservoirs in Post-COVID Patients: Current Evidence and Clinical Implications (COVID)

COVID-19 Prevention & Transmission

• “Receipt of COVID-19 vaccination was not associated with increased odds of sudden death” (PLOS Medicine)

• “…COVID-19 vaccination may have an indirect benefit of decreasing transmission and thus reducing overall exposure to SARS-CoV-2.” (JAMA Network Open)

• Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy (Cambridge University Press)

• “…masking, where appropriate, can significantly reduce nosocomial infections, protecting patients and HCWs” (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)

• Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol and surface samples in high acuity hospital settings during community epidemic waves (Respiratory Medicine)
  

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Closing Thoughts

Thank you for your time, for reading, and the willingness to reject the years of propaganda we’ve been subjected to. I hope you’ve gained some useful knowledge out of this series of compilations. I’d humbly ask that you consider supporting the Pandemic Accountability Index either through a one-time donation or an annual subscription, which is discounted by 35% for the next week. This feature will continue as long as humanly possible, made possible thanks to the support of readers like you.

Stay safe, stay healthy, and don’t let the pestilence sycophants fool you.

Little attention has been paid to Ashish Jha after leaving the Biden Administration as White House COVID Response Coordinator (COVID Czar, but the former Brown University Dean of Public Health has taken a rather reactionary shift in his tone. It’s worth remembering that just before the pandemic, Jha was attacking Medicare-4-All and in 2020, endorsed Emily Oster’s fraudulent propaganda before smearing public schoolteachers as “irrational” for not wanting to be disabled or killed by COVID-19. As COVID Czar, Jha did little more than justify the Biden Administration’s decisions on cable news while thousands of children died, millions of Americans became disabled by Long COVID, and schools across the country shut down regularly as a result of unmitigated in COVID outbreaks.

Jha instead spouted off numerous reactionary unscientific myths, leading to quotes such as “There’s no study in the world that masks work that well,” insisting that “most of us can finally ignore COVID,” sharing fake statistics that Long COVID is magically going away thanks to waves of mass infection & reinfection, denying the well documented impacts of COVID-19 on the immune system, or even going so far to declare that the “radical fringe left who still mask indoors” are just as dangerous and unscientific as MAHA anti-vaccine cranks:

After this completely failed to save the Harris campaign in 2024, Ashish Jha publicly endorsed Marty Makary, Jay Bhattacharya, and Mehmet Oz to lead the FDA, NIH, and CMS respectively. He also tweeted out that children don’t need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, after it’s already killed and disabled so many. Jha would later publicly declare that Oz was doing a “very good job” running CMS, which has actually been an absolute disaster. While this earned him zero respect amongst anti-vaccine cranks on Twitter, Ashish Jha continues prostate himself before the MAHA altar.

Garbage I Read on Twitter is Evidence Now!

In a recent CNN appearance, Ashish Jha declared himself to be a believer in the “Lab Leak” theory of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that he had “compelling evidence.” There is a history of lab leaks, and a separate history of pandemics, but a lab leak leading to a global pandemic would be a historically unprecedented event, and such claims would have to be supported by strong evidence, instead of circumstantial sensationalism. So just what does the former Brown University Dean of Public Health & White House COVID Czar consider to be “compelling evidence?”

On Twitter, Ashish Jha shares a tweet from former Clinton staffer and Joe Rogan podcast guest Jamie Metzl, a self-described “futurist” think-tank dork that regularly whines about the Democratic Socialists of America and has shared bizarre conspiracy theory videos produced by anonymous trolls under the banner “Project EPSTEIN.” Jamie also made a big deal out of asking an AI chatbot to “distill thousands of years of human wisdom into ten commandments” as “A New Moral Code for Humanity,” spinning an entire joke of a book out of it that he has pitched to churches and clergy.

So no, not a reliable source for medical and scientific information. Doubling down, Jha insists “no one in America knows for sure,” that “Anyone telling you they do is selling you something.” This is the rabbit hole that “Enlightened COVID Centrism” leads you down: Legitimizing absurd conspiracy theories based off of unscientific garbage you read on Twitter. So, it should come as no surprise that Ashish Jha is the one trying to sell you something: he has gone on to become the CEO of a generative AI scam start-up.

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Public Health by Chatbot

Generative “Artificial Intelligence,” a broken, janky software that does not work to a reliable professional standard, has already become a public health crisis in multiple ways. This includes, but is certainly not limited to:

• Punching extra holes in peoples’ heads

• Generating child sexual abuse material

• Children receiving detailed guidance on how to take their own lives

• People boarding up their windows because the pollution of these data centers is physically unbearable

• Producing fraudulent citations in government reports

• A flood of dangerous medical disinformation across social media

As more and more of the general public turns against this exploitative matryoshka doll of scams, both leading Democrats and Republicans have insisted that this is the future, and that the public’s opinion simply does not matter. Seeing dollar signs in his eyes, Ashish Jha has decided to get in on this self-destructive reactionary spiral with a new AI-powered startup called “BioRadar,” playing directly to the lab leak crowd:

BioRadar promises to be “America’s AI Powered Biological Intelligence Service,” that will “detect emerging threats before they spread, characterize risk in real time, and deliver decision-ready intelligence,” alongside a Call to Action to “request a briefing” to receive “Mission-Grade Biological Intelligence,” as if this is like one of those crummy spy procedurals your boomer parents doze off to on CBS.

Jha’s BioRadar claims that “The world is saturated with high-risk labs: BSL-3 and BSL-4 facilities have doubled worldwide since 2020, across dozens of countries with widely varying biosafety oversight.” Major cities around the world have had virology research labs long before 2020, with zero lab leaks leading to global pandemics. Straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, they insist that “Engineering pathogens is now fast, cheap and accessible: What once required a nation-state now requires a lab bench. AI, synthetic biology, and gene editing have permanently lowered the barrier.” Needless to say, BioRadar provides no evidence to support this claim.

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BioRadar Wants Your Tax Dollars

What is the unintentionally hilarious, and quite frankly most damning, is that the frontpage of BioRadar features a bizarre animated graph that claims to be tracking metrics such as “Wastewater,” “Behavioral,” “Syndromic,” and “Environmental,” with a “STATUS: NOMINAL” and “THREAT LVL: LOW” readout at the bottom. It more closely resembles the work of user interface designers for Hollywood blockbusters like Iron Man, The Dark Knight, or Prometheus than anything science based.

With Ashish Jha’s chatbot powered “mission grade biological intelligence,” it claims that they will convert “complex biological data into prioritized threat assessments, early warning alerts, and operational guidance for leaders” that will “establish normal biological profiles for each community,” as well as “visual intelligence dashboards and action-oriented operational guidance.” Just what might that operational guidance be?

Jha has some answers! Pitching to Pete Hesgeth’s Department of War Crimes, he insists that BioRadar’s genAI chatbot will “protect the warfighter.” Pitching to “Public Health Agencies,” BioRadar insists it will help them “Deploy targeted interventions instead of broad, damaging shutdowns,” and “build public confidence” in state & local governments. Let me explain to you how this will work, prospective government official looking to light taxpayer money on fire: Ashish Jha (or some other schmuck in BioRadar’s employ) is going to open Claude, ChatGPT, or some other sycophantic chatbot, and “prompt” it to generate a report with fancy looking graphs. This chatbot is then going to suck up other people’s research & data from across the Internet, butcher it, and then remix it to meet the demands of the prompt it’s given.

In a nutshell, Ashish Jha wants to take your tax money and give it directly to himself and the world’s most vile, reactionary tech companies in exchange for bastardized versions of other people’s work.

In the real world, we know what this will result in: fraudulent data, hallucinated citations, and horrific policymaking decisions that get people killed. It would be reasonable to assume that BioRadar is never going to put out a report recommending mask mandates or other non-pharmaceutical interventions in case something like H5N1 (bird flu) or other pandemic-level threats emerge again in our lifetimes. BioRadar will instead produce unscientific propaganda justifying a hands-off approach that gets countless people killed. If BioRadar’s “briefings” inform terrible policy decisions that get countless people killed, it’s likely that Ashish is going to shrug his shoulders & absolve himself of responsibility for selling a fraudulent service.

The only value of “BioRadar” is to point and laugh at it simply as yet another case study in how genAI is anything but intelligent.

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Some issues are a matter of science. Some are a matter of politics. Some are but neither; instead, a matter of my professional field of advertising. “Make America Healthy Again” is a marketing brand for all sorts of scam artists, exploitative quacks, and reactionary grifters who are repackaging a mountain of revolting bullshit and selling it as liberation from The Medical Establishment. This is not a “movement,” nor a grassroots gathering of everyday Americans with legitimate concerns. Anyone insisting otherwise is trying to sell you something.

It’s a damned shame that even now in 2026, there are still those among us who fail to comprehend that the decades-long yet always wrong, anti-vaccine crusade against modern medicine can never be placated. There is no magical number of concessions you can make that these bloodthirsty sadists will consider a reasonable compromise. There is no limit to the number of human lives you can sacrifice to Pestilence that will satisfy them. Their “politics” is rooted in domination, humiliation, and dragging you like a dog on a leash further and further down the drain into their anti-intellectual human centipede of reactionary filth.

The Atlantic: America’s Leading Medical Disinformation Hub

Now it’s worth remembering that The Atlantic has spent the COVID-19 pandemic becoming a central hub for the widespread distribution of medical disinformation. This flood of unscientific opinion editorials includes embarrassing diatribes such as:

• “Schools Aren’t Super Spreaders” by economist Emily Oster

• “Your Unvaccinated Kid is Like a Vaccinated Grandma” by economist Emily Oster

• “Governments need to give Americans an off-ramp to the post-pandemic world” by genAI fanboy Derek Thompson

• “The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown” by Emma Green

• “Why Are We Even Talking About Using COVID Restrictions” by Ross Barkan

• “Stop Wasting COVID Tests, People!” by Benjamin Mazer

• “The Case Against Masks At School,” published in January 2022 - just after the pediatric COVID death toll had doubled in a few short months and during the worst month for pediatric COVID deaths on record

• “Masking Policy is Incredibly Irrational Right Now” by economist Emily Oster

• “Immunity Debt Was Worth It” by Benjamin Mazer

• “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” by Emily Oster, an economist

• “It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Pandemic: Biden is Paying the Price for America’s Unprocessed COVID Grief”

The Atlantic did not learn any lessons from its years of enabling MAHA’s rise to power. Instead in 2026, they are green-lighting such garbage as “Public Health Needs MAHA,” by Craig Spencer, a once-respected medical professional from the same Brown University that turned a blind eye to the gross misconduct of faculty members Emily Oster and Ashish Jha. In it, Spencer unironically argues that public health is “too cautious, setting the bar for evidence too high,” and that they “must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.” This was met with considerable and predictable backlash, which led to a longform defense by podcaster Tom W. Johnson, host of Why Should I Trust You, titled: “Why Dr. Craig Spencer Got It Right: His article, ‘Public Health Needs MAHA,’ describes an opportunity. We see it too. His detractors are missing its message.”

What you might not know is that Craig has spent a considerable amount of time appearing on the podcast Why Should I Trust You alongside anti-vaccine propagandists Tom has gleefully invited on, such as Bret Weinstein, who has demanded public executions of doctors & scientists. Another WSITY guest is close associate of RFK Jr. and anti-vaccine propagandist Del Bigtree. Here is Bigtree inciting violence:

This is who Craig and Tom, two fellow well-off white men, want us to reach across the aisle and break bread with. Del Bigtree makes his money peddling lies and conspiracies that are completely detached from reality and has no incentive to ever admit error. Craig and Tom insist that this astroturfed “movement” is something we must approach with humility, admitting guilt to their many obscene accusations:

Craig is not alone in this. Katelyn Jetelina of the popular Substack Your Local Epidemiologist has also appeared on Why Should I Trust You? and written extensively about her time breaking break with MAHA reactionaries, whitewashing their actual beliefs with paywalled articles such as “What I’m learning from MAHA: And why public health needs to catch up with the curiosity-driven movement” - achieving nothing except producing free marketing for those actively campaigning to destroy public health in its entirety. This is a disservice to the public, a betrayal of professional colleagues, and to be frank: disgustingly exploitative of a crisis.

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The Cowardice of Selective Amnesia

Craig Spencer opens his Atlantic screed by admitting that he spent hours upon hours subjecting himself to the manipulative propaganda of MAHA scam artists, not realizing that he himself is not impervious to their dishonest influence upon his thinking. He takes the side of MAHA, insisting that his professional colleagues in science and medicine are all foolish for refusing to legitimize their scams and ridiculous accusations. The only way you can possibly believe we can reach some sort of acceptable middle ground with MAHA is by willfully ignoring what they have actually said and done, such as using genAI to generate fraudulent citations:

This also requires that we ignore a mountain of dead children who have died of vaccine-preventable causes, simply because their parents were deceived by anti-vaccine scam artists such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Del Bigtree. Here is Scott and Tom’s buddy Bret Weinstein, not a pediatrician, arguing that children should receive zero vaccines on RFK Jr.’s anti-vax propaganda hub:

What is to be “learned” from someone who profits from spreading lies that result in absolutely nothing except dead children? There are countless stories of parents who were misled by these cranks and as a result having to bury their unvaccinated child after they suffered a painful, agonizing death caused by COVID-19. These horror stories have to be completely erased in order to even begin to pretend that there is anything we can learn from MAHA crackpots.

Instead, we should be listening to voices such as Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkamp of Death Panel, who clearly see MAHA for what it is: health fascism.

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The Spectacle of MAHA Fascism

Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, scientists, and public health officials have been the target of an unwavering onslaught of abuse, including harassment, death threats, and real-world violence (such as murder and mass shootings) incited by MAHA ringleaders such as Bret Weinstein & Del Bigtree. Their commitment to use violence & intimidation to suppress & censor the facts is an undeniably fascist tactic. Their ideology is rooted is eugenics, a fascist worldview, as explained by virologist James Alwine & epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs. They are not afraid to speak the truth:

It is completely obscene for someone like Tom W. Johnson, a podcaster with no real-world responsibility, to censor the actual beliefs of MAHA - including demands for show trials & public executions - while insisting that medical professionals should grovel on their hands and knees, prostrating themselves upon the MAHA altar. This podcaster insists that MAHA is not to blame for their own actions because public health is “shunning” and “lashing out” at them, and that “the smart thing to do” is a “mindset change” in which they engage in a “dialogue” with the same people who want to watch them die.

What Tom is doing, with the help of credentialed public health professionals such as Spencer and Jetelina, is profiting from the anti-vaccine war on science by mining the “controversy” for content. This is what is called “infotainment,” something James Spader’s Alan Shore was ranting about on Boston Legal over two decades ago as FOX News surged in popularity. Lending credibility to MAHA propagandists by insisting they have legitimate concerns & important, meaningful things to say is only made possible by completely erasing their actual words and actions. MAHA crackpots, who will believe any sensationalist conspiracy theory they hear on Twitter, are not going to be magically dissuaded by treating them with kid gloves or ignoring their bloodlust. Craig and Katelyn are betraying their professional colleagues and ultimately sabotaging their difficult work in order to elevate their own profiles.

The sad reality is Craig and Katelyn have abandoned any sort of commitment to science and medicine to instead pursue a career in becoming media figures, without a care for who gets hurt as a result. They are helping MAHA figureheads spread their exploitative propaganda & profit from scamming the public. It’s shameful, insulting, and frankly obscene. It’s Spencer and Jetelina, not their colleagues in public health, who need to go back to class and learn just what happens to those who choose to collaborate with fascists.

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After losing the War on Influenza, Secretary of Whimsy Pete Hesgeth has now mandated jabs of testosterone in servicemembers over 30 that do not pass unnecessary and invasive screenings. Now if you’ll remember, rage against government mandated injections was a major sticking point of the “Make America Healthy Again” anti-vaccine war on science, and Trump supporters as a whole. Suddenly, these howling jackals are all silent when the government is mandating jabs that can result in a number of nasty side effects that come from abusing hormone injections. These very manly health complications include:

• Reduced sperm count (something RFK Jr. is obsessed with)

• Acne (show me your war face!)

• Increased risk of blood clots (great in times of blood-pumping danger!)

• Increased risk of heart attacks and strokes (who needs a bleeding heart in a war?)

• Testicular atrophy (ow!)

• Gynecomastia (aka excessive breast development in males)

You should also understand that when your body receives more testosterone than it can process, your body converts that into estrogen, which is considered a feminine, wimpy hormone that our “warfighters” should have zero amount of. These are very serious medical decisions that should not be made by doctors, not social media blowhards desperate to perform masculinity on the taxpayer’s dime. After decades of humiliation from Vietnam to the Middle East, in which America’s armed forces can produce little more than a mountain of slaughtered civilians, the Trump Administration is regressing into flaccid dick-waving pageantry.

Why are these protestors nowhere to be found in 2026? Where are their leaders? In the federal government, you say? Cowardly censoring themselves? Why, that’s impossible! Just years ago, you couldn’t get them to shut up!

The Eternal Cowardice of Lockdown Jay

Now if you’ve been paying attention, it should be shocking that National Institutes of Health (and Not-Acting CDC Director) Jay Bhattacharya has not resigned in protest, after wasting so many years on social media screeching and howling about mandated injections. Neither has Martin Kulldorff, or anyone else who exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to promote themselves and rise to power under the “Make America Healthy Again” banner. As it turns out, they were simply performing for a captive audience and aren’t actually opposed to the government mandating harmful injections!

On top of this, Bhattacharya has also been silent about the harmful impacts of his favorite virus against our armed forces, including serious complications such as Long COVID. Lockdown Jay has previously attacked such credible medical research, branding them “Covidian,” and he has abandoned all of his principals to destroy the freedoms of everyday Americans he has received awards for pretending to defend.

This is doubly embarrassing for the academics of prominent universities such as Princeton & opinion editorial pundits of outlets such as The New York Times, including: Ross Douthat, Zeynep Tufekci, Ashish Jha, Emily Oster, Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee, and others who have insisted that Jay Bhattacharya was a serious, credible person whose useless online petition was based in sound science, instead of obnoxious crankery. Jay Bhattacharya’s silence as the Administration he serves mandates harmful injections is deafening, and a final death knell in not only his own credibility, but the credibility of everyone who publicly defended this obnoxious social media troll and taxpayer-funded podcast guest.

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The Sunk Credibility Fallacy

These “intellectual influencers” (thanks, Juan Pabo Pardo-Guerra) are silent as well, offering no apologies for the consequences of the quackery they legitimized and elevated. Whenever they open their mouth to comment on any issue in the future, remind them immediately that they went to bat for an absolute fraud who believes in absolutely nothing, letting themselves be seduced by an obscene charlatan who will say anything to promote himself. Thus, whatever they might have to say about the issues of our time is completely worthless until they are willing to make amends and offer apologies to those of us who tried to warn the public.

The reputation of Stanford University, which previously employed Bhattacharya as a member of faculty and hosting a COVID-19 disinformation artist playdate before publicly congratulating him on his nomination to National Institutes of Health Director, is also permanently stained. Turning a blind eye to the immature, anti-scientific antics of a social media troll in your employ, only to celebrate his ascension into overseeing demolition of federal funding for critical research that will inevitably end with the demolition of the world’s leading hub for scientific research, is a pathetic legacy for a once highly respected university.

All so a narcissistic podcaster can hog the spotlight atop the colossal mess he has made for others to one day try and clean up.

If you’re somebody who wasted the years between 2020-2024 insisting that the initial signers of a useless online petition written by the American Institute for Enterprise Research, including an economist who struggles with basic arithmetic, a crackpot who branded people protecting themselves from COVID-19 to be dangerous “anti-herders” in April 2020, and an erotic fiction writer were serious, credible scientists whose “concerns” about any form of public health intervention - all branded “lockdowns” - then you are a mark who got worked into a shoot on behalf of reactionary billionaires. You should be embarrassed. You need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself just how you let yourself get fooled by such chicanery, and work on ensuring that you won’t let yourself be made a fool of again.

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Answering the Booty Call of Duty

Without handwaving away the atrocities our armed forces have inflicted across the world, killing tens of millions of innocent people across dozens of countries since the end of the Second World War, America’s frontline soldiers have developed all sorts of serious, long-term health issues in service of absurd, unwinnable crusades for the profit of arms manufacturers and private contractors ripping off the American taxpayer. Limbs blown off, skin melted off, chunks of their skull removed, PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome, etc. - and the idea that adding to this by mandating potentially harmful and completely unnecessary hormone injections is utterly obscene. Is the government mandating America’s “warfighters” roll the dice on infertility and developing massive honkers going to suddenly turn us into the world’s greatest fighting force? Here’s a bold guess: Probably not.

Secretary of Whimsy Pete Hesgeth is turning the military into pageantry; a performance of what his childish perception of masculinity, informed by Hollywood and Call of Duty, thinks being a “warfighter” is. Ironically enough, he is validating the criticism that gender is largely cultural and performative, instead of rooted in some sort of binary. This impotent chest-beating as we slaughter innocent fishermen and schoolgirls does nothing except show how truly weak America is.

It should come as no surprise that the weak-minded, weak-willed Jay Bhattacharya, who stands for absolutely nothing but hearing the sound of his own voice, is gleefully proud to be part of such a colossal national failure.

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By now, you have no doubt heard about the contaminated lettuce that is causing explosive diarrhea all across the country via Cycloporiasis. It has spawned memes about “the parasite” haunting the nation’s grocery stores, restaurants, and general food supply. Like clockwork, economist Emily Oster has taken to The New York Times to insist that yet another public health crisis is actually no big deal, and a scare invented by the fearmongering media:

It’s worth noting that FOX News and other reactionary blowhards at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic also used this same logic to downplay the threat. On the Substack blog Emily Oster calls herself the “CEO” of, Oster has compared media reporting on pediatric COVID-19, which has killed and disabled countless American children, to that of shark attacks. Her latest screed in The New York Times is employing this same tactic of downplaying the significance of any threat to the public’s health.

Why does Oster do this? As an economist who no real medical or scientific credentials, who is paid to write her opinion in the newspaper, Oster is far removed from the consequences of her words. One of the core tenets of modern American economics theory - following in the footsteps of vile racist Milton Friedman - is that government intervention and regulation, in any form, is stifling the economy and a grave trespass against freedom. This includes prohibiting the sale of unpasteurized (or “raw”) milk, which provides zero nutritional benefit and has put numerous children in the hospital, something Emily Oster has said we shouldn’t be concerned with - as exploitative scam artists call themselves “pioneers.”

These cyclospora outbreaks are caused by feces contamination and inhumane working conditions, and a lack of regulation enforcing sufficient sanitation. So no, you shouldn’t be surprised to see an economist influencer defending the conditions which has led to thousands of Americans nearly shitting themselves to death. How else will she get funding from wealthy corporate executives who are united in pursuing a dismantling of government regulations?

I have warned since the very beginning of this second Trump administration that eliminating federal regulatory authority in its entirety, and this would naturally result in compromising our food supply. Unfortunately, this process did not begin in January 2025, as a 2024 listeria outbreak which killed 10 Americans can be directly linked to meddling by the Biden Administration in the wake of a hands-off pandemic response which killed and disabled millions of Americans. From a September 2024 report by Alexander Tin of CBS News:

To be in compliance with food safety regulations, a company has to expense some percentage of their budget. In an economy focused on infinite, often unsustainable growth, eliminating all “unnecessary” expenses becomes a priority. If thousands of Americans have to nearly shit themselves to death, that’s a sacrifice they should be willing to make for the glorious economy. It’s worth noting that ancient pagan societies routinely practiced human sacrifice in the hopes that the Gods would deliver a good harvest.

What Oster is doing on behalf of her wealthy benefactors, including MAGA-aligned billionaires such as Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg, is selling the public on accepting a higher threshold of sickness and death from future viral outbreaks caused by climate collapse, and a contaminated food supply caused by reckless deregulation. It also gives RFK Jr. cover from accepting any responsibility for what a major part of his job as the Secretary of Health and Human Services is. Modern American economics theory does not comprehend that one of the essential pillars of a strong economy is the American people knowing that spending their hard-earned dollars at the grocery store won’t poison their children. It haphazardly argues that this relentless pursuit of unsustainable short-term economic growth at all costs will trickle down into prosperity for all, even as America’s disparities grow worse year after year.

These aren’t wise economic insights, nor well-informed public health guidance. It’s the same unrepentant calmmongering rooted in a hands-off, do-nothing approach to public health that Emily Oster has championed for decades, being wrong on everything from Hepatitis B to HIV/AIDS to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to COVID-19 to raw milk, and now an increasingly contaminated food supply. She has even gone so far as to argue that the precautionary principle of public health is oppressive to women in defense of drinking during pregnancy. As a wealthy and comfortable empty-headed pundit, there is no bottom that will be a line too far for Oster. Emily Oster is a complete fraud; a broken record who should be rambunctiously laughed out of the room whenever she opens her mouth. Shame upon The New York Times and every other media outlet that continues to platform her as a serious, legitimate voice.

Regardless of whatever tired, old Friedman era myths you’ve heard, the market is not going to magically regulate itself. It will justify selling poisoned food on the marketplace if it saves a few bucks, and everyday Americans need to simply shoulder the burden for the wealth and luxury of a few, no matter what form that comes in, even if happens to be explosive diarrhea.

You don’t need to be a bloodless quant to see how absurd this is.

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Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was published in 2006 by Penguin Books.

Upon hearing the shocking news that RFK Jr., a supposed man of the people, is now reduced to goofing off on his phone on the taxpayer dime, I was reminded of a wonderful book on my to-read list that I needed to finish. Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy is an incredible work that should be required reading for every American. It dispels a number of post-war myths about the Nazi war machine and really puts into perspective just how doomed the Third Reich was from the very beginning.

There’s an incredible number of parallels between Adam Tooze’s history of Hitler’s failed quest to turn Eastern Europe into Germany’s version of Manifest Destiny and the HHS Secretary’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda; another foolish attempt to reshape the world. Both are stalwart believers that the federal government exists to turn public taxpayer dollars into private profits:

You can see similar parallels with the MAHA promise to crush “wokeness” and “DEI” across the board, with the full backing of the state. Vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez has identified the MAHA agenda is little more than a federal handout to anti-vaccine scam artists, wellness grifters, and other crackpots. More importantly, Hitler’s project had support similar to the many “MAHA” doctors like Joseph Marine or Vinay Prasad. One study has found that doctors were first in line to join the Nazi Party:

Most important of all is that both RFK Jr. and the Nazi leadership are notorious, exploitative scam artists. The fact that the Volkswagon automobile brand is still allowed to operate today should be a personal affront to every decent human being:

Not a single American will be made healthier by RFK Jr., either.

Lots of Planes

A great deal of Nazi economic policy came down to making up a bunch of fake numbers and hoping nobody looks too deeply into them, something that both Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and acting CDC/NIH Director “Lockdown” Jay Bhattacharya commit frequently. This is not a wise strategy when you are attempting to conquer all of Europe, or simply hold a serious grown-up job in the federal government:

The truth is that Hitler’s Germany never possessed the industrial capacity to truly conquer Europe, especially caught between the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. No matter how long the war was stretched out, the project was doomed to fail from the very beginning. Nobody wanted to lose their spot in Hitler’s cool kids’ club, however, and the absurd fantasies continued:

This vision thankfully never came to pass. The harsh reality is that Hitler, much like RFK Jr., had no clue what he is doing:

Neither RFK Jr. or Jay Bhattacharya or any MAHA sycophant has ever had a coherent view of COVID-19 or other public health matters. They simply wanted to destroy others, all while portraying themselves as the real victim of some sort of grand international conspiracy, be it Jewish or otherwise.

RFK Jr. never had a coherent plan to “Make America Healthy Again,” either. Instead, he engaged in numerous obnoxious social media stunts, which included publishing an edited photo of himself wearing the face tattoo of a convinced rapist. This improved zero Americans’ health.

Hitler also had another problem; a sort of Eldritch horror looming on the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean: the oversized disembodied head of President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, who wielded the power of the state to manufacture an unhealthy number of warplanes for himself and all his friends:

Hitler’s Luftwaffe was producing around 10,000 planes per year at their peak, and simply getting shot down faster than they could be replaced. They also faced a severe shortage of fresh recruits, the same recruitment crisis the United States military is now facing while RFK Jr. is obsessing over the sperm of young boys:

Luckily, those young warriors would have the air cover provided by the amazing engineering feats of the Luftwaffe, such as...

One could reasonably predict that RFK Jr.’s peptides obsession and Pete Hesgeth pumping the troops full of hormones will likely end the very same way.

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Flaming Out for Christmas

Well, that’s okay, even if top Luftwaffe brass are shooting themselves after horrifying defeat after defeat. Because we’ve got the next best thing: horseys!

Somehow, winter jackets did not make the inventory list:

Obviously, it’s their own darn fault for all that feminizing woke soy in their diet! Regardless, it’s important to compare the insistence of MAHA figureheads like Mehmet Oz who insist you have a civic duty to be healthy for the economy’s sake, with the inherent contradictions of the reactionary Reich:

From the domestic terror campaign carried out by ICE, to the work requirements for food stamps, it’s blatantly clear that the MAHA Agenda has been caught up in these same inherent contradictions. A drug-addled, half-dying Hitler insisted that this cruelty would inevitably pay off massive dividends for private industry:

Well, that didn’t quite happen now, did it? However, this is the same “Golden Era” promised by Trump and RFK Jr. - that by crushing the “degenerates” America’s economy will finally be “great again.” Just as Hitler was forced to retreat to the dank shadows of his bunkers, RFK Jr. is now hiding in his smartphone, totally cuckolded by the reality that no, you can’t turn America into a vaccine-free petri dish for pestilence overnight. But hey, he got the woke food DEI out of ice cream and the fries are drowning in beef tallow again!

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The MAHA Legacy

RFK Jr. seriously thought he could walk into the office of HHS Secretary and with no real pushback destroy the pediatric vaccine schedule, guaranteeing that many more American children die of vaccine-preventable causes. That all of America would march in lockstep in service of his narcissistic vision with the full authority of the Trump Administration behind him, is a complete farce and further goes to show how little in touch he is with reality.

Tragically, just like Hitler, RFK Jr. will ultimately be responsible for millions of deaths by the end of his term in office. That responsibility is shared by everyone past and present who enthusiastically went to work under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - which includes University of California San Francisco Professor Vinay Prasad, who is now back on Sensible Medicine attacking anti-depressants, in alignment with the HHS Secretary’s agenda to “Make America Healthy Again” by taking away lifesaving medication.

Both Hitler and RFK Jr. believe in the elimination of “inferiors,” and any enthusiastic participant in the MAHA scam should be forced to wear a permanent mark of shame for the rest of their pitiful, pathetic lives. As it turns out, the anti-vaccine crackpots are right - America is going to need its own Nuremberg trials.

Except it’ll have to be for their “heroes.”

Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was published in 2006 by Penguin Books.

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Perhaps if you’re some sort of freakin’ commie or terrorist or illegal, you might have missed the news this past weekend that freedom-loving America got her big, beautiful taint locked down on her freakin’ birthday! That’s right! Me and all the pestilence sycophants were hootin’ and hollerin’ to offer up virgin sacrifices for the economy on the National Mall last Saturday night only for the Administration which employs the heroic freedom fighter Lockdown Jay to crash the party due to “inclement weather?!” What are we, a nation of wimpy weenies who love to suffer under tyranny?

If you’ll recall, Stanford health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s claim to fame was to insist that any sort of government intervention on behalf of the public’s health is a “lockdown” and a violent infringement upon civic liberty!

Whatever happened to “Protect the Vulnerable,” Lockdown Jay? Why are you suddenly silent about this latest grave government assault on personal liberty?! Or was it all just bold talk from a coward hiding behind a keyboard?! Or did you secretly foster a kink for ruining children’s essential experiences just like all the “Covidians” you once raged against?! Tell the American taxpayer the truth!

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Sure, we fired all of the weather scientists who could have predicted such a calamity might happen, based upon random accusations of “woke” and “DEI,” and yes, we put in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency someone who gets off on destroying the environment, but how dare you suggest that there are negative consequences for our poor choices?! That’s not what freedom means! Freedom means getting to choose if I die in a raging storm as a result of my willful stupidity, abandoning my wife and children to prove just how manly I am!

My kids choking down the smog and developing lung cancer are proud to sacrifice and pay the price for freedom with their lives!

Was “No More Lockdowns” just a joke, Mr. CDC/NIH Director? Or was it all just a ruse for your real agenda, MALA Man?! Yeah, that’s right! Make America Lockdown Again! That’s what this was all about! Everybody suddenly wanted to hear what this useless health economist had to say in 2020, and now, nobody could care less for your impotent prattling! So now you gotta get big bad Trump to ruin the Fourth of July just so we’re all stuck at home reading yet another one of your useless opinion editorials about what an amazing job you’re doing!

To Make America Great Again, to build the greatest economy mankind has ever seen, we have to smoke up so many dinosaur bones that children start coughing up a storm when they play outside again, damnit! And that means more pandemics like COVID-19! It means more chaotic weather events! We’re gonna have to learn to live, and yes die, with new viruses and more chaotic weather events so that we don’t lose the next Cold War to Lockdown China!

So Lockdown Jay needs to stop hiding behind the podcast microphone and get out there and start speaking to the masses in hurricane force winds!

I thought the whole point of Making America Healthy Again, and obsessing over the sperm of young boys, was so that we could have a big beautiful nation of strong young white men who can handle a few pesky raindrops! Or are these big mouthed ranters nothing more than a bunch of economic girly-men?! Now the whole world is laughing at our cowardice!

Read your Twitter profile photo, Jay Bhattacharya, and practice what you preach: Resign and Condemn the Trump Administration’s July 4th Lockdown now! It’s not like your best buddy Scott Atlas isn’t already calling for the NIH to be abolished and have you fired, or anything! Man up and face the lightning!

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I woke up this morning with bizarre gaps in my memory, and upon consulting one of my concealed off-site cold backups, discovered mountains of writing that suggests the Food & Drug Administration used to employ three individuals by the name of Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Beth Hoeg. Known for spreading dangerous anti-vaccine, pro-pestilence propaganda on behalf of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. My writing then suggests that they would later be employed by the Health and Human Services Secretary, whose meat sack is theorized to be under the control of an off-world extra-intelligent parasite. All three of them were recently ousted or fired from the Food & Drug Administration in recent months.

The Food & Drug Administration has since taken a number of actions to essentially erase any trace of evidence suggesting that these three ever worked at the Food & Drug Administration. Headlines include:

• “Former FDA Cancer Drug Chief Under Consideration to Return”

• “FDA Gives Third Rare-Disease Drug Another Shot, Regenxbio Says”

• “A Dose of Good News at the FDA: The agency gives a Huntington’s disease treatment a new look.”

• “FDA advisory panel endorses Moderna mRNA flu vaccine that was subject of controversy”

• “Memo details Høeg’s role in blocking Tzield approval: Former Acting CDER director overruled career scientists, failed to document evidence supporting her decisions”

• “Truly evil” FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted”

Marty Makary has since gone silent after approving flavored nicotine vapes in the misguided hope that this will win over young voters to the Republican Party. Tracy Beth Hoeg, who was already an untrustworthy, morally depraved, and disingenous raving freak prior to joining the Trump Administration, has since been trawling the gutters of conspiracy theorists on social media, insisting that she and her cohorts were the victim of an organized conspiracy by Big Pharma. This is supposed to somehow explain her actions at the Food & Drug Administration, including posing with a huge smile on her face alongside someone exploiting their child’s death to become an anti-vaccine celebrity in the federal agency’s lobby.

Last but not least we have Vinay Prasad, who upon having posted his way into power to become the Food and Drug Administration Center for Biologics Evaluation and Review (CBER) Director, immediately began acting like a petty, erratic tyrant. This led to countless headlines and culminated in Prasad writing an intentionally leaked memo claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines have killed a number of children; an utterly false claim.

Strangely enough, Vinay Prasad is both back at the University of California San Francisco as if this isn’t a very grave act of serious misconduct - a blatant handout to his favorite anti-vaccine scam artists - but he has also returned to Twitter, Youtube, and Substack as if nothing happened and he has learned absolutely nothing. That’s right, Prasad is back to doing the only thing he knows how to do: Attack vaccines and public health in its entirety.

Having made a fool of himself on the national stage, and destroying whatever reputation he might have had amongst credible medical professionals, Prasad is back in his safe space selling quackery from behind seemingly legitimate credentials. After his grave misconduct at the FDA falsely claiming the COVID-19 vaccine killed children, he should be permanently exiled from science and medicine forever.

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Back to the Fake Lab

Vinay Prasad and his ilk are literally incapable to do anything but tear others down, which is precisely why whatever seemingly legitimate criticisms they might make can be casually discarded without a second thought. As regular PAI-heads might recall, Makary, Prasad, and Hoeg were all in the pocket of ex-Enron crook & libertarian billionaire John Arnold. This included funding a vanity “laboratory” in Vinay Prasad’s name: VKPrasadLab.

Now, this lab often produced opinion editorials dressed up as scientific research to attack everything COVID-19 related. Just prior to joining the Trump Administration, Tracy Beth Hoeg and Vinay Prasad wrote one attacking hospital visitation restrictions from the dark days of 2020. Because if you’re dying on a ventilator in an overwhelmed ICU, the first thing you want to be doing is infecting your loved ones so they can die in the hallway of the same disease killing you! Titled: “Lessons from COVID-19 patient visitation restrictions: six considerations to help develop ethical patient visitor policies,” they squeal:

Ah yes, and as we all know, there’s nothing harmful about spreading a virus to a loved one that results in their death. It certainly doesn’t have negative impacts at all! I will skip to the end of this trash and lo and behold, it’s another demand for impossible and unethical randomized control trials - which means we should just let people die horribly from noscomial COVID-19 infections:

This should make it blatantly obvious that Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Hoeg have never treated COVID-19 patients, and instead exploited the pandemic to build a paying social media following.

They’ve also argued that the term “Long COVID” should be abolished entirely - Vinay Prasad has shared sentiments that those suffering are merely “lying fake disease grifters on social media.” This is a tired revival of old “hysteria” garbage that did nothing but harm and exploit vulnerable patients, disproportionately women. These are not scientific research papers, they are garbage opinion editorials from people with zero relevant credentials or expertise on the matters they’re opining on.

The “VK Prasad Lab” is a propaganda hub, not a scientific laboratory. It’s a stain upon the reputation and credibility of the University of California San Francisco that they still associate with these exploitative and cruel frauds. He should be dismissed and forgotten, preferably ranting out of a cardboard box under a freeway overpass for the rest of his days - and completely forgotten.

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There is a funny thing that happens whenever a reactionary takes an obscenely fascist action, in which liberals will put their hands on their hips and squeal: “What are we, a bunch of stinkin’ commies?!” This is indicative of a grave historical & political illiteracy crisis in America and is exhausting to read when talking about RFK Jr. & the ongoing war on American science & medicine. It also makes the fascist overjoyed: it shows just how easily the liberal mindset can be controlled & manipulated, and the past quarter century has shown how readily liberals will accept the expansion of the state’s capacity to engage in authoritarian measures. From mass surveillance to remote murder, the 2000s is the era of America’s turnkey tyranny.

You will often hear the term “Lysenkoism” when describing Trump and RFK Jr.’s war against American science, but this isn’t quite right. As scientifically minded people, we should strive to use only the most accurate terms. Here is one recent unattributed Bluesky post which illustrates the problem:

“Lysenkoism of the ‘40s caused devastating famines, 15-25 million deaths, lost scientific advancement & brain drain. What an expensive mistake.”

Certainly, absolutely nothing else was happening in the Soviet Union around the 1940s which might have been the root cause of famine. But I digress. The MAHA crusade isn’t merely a “mistake,” but a reactionary campaign with specific goals, much like a certain other campaign being carried out the 1940s.

The Soviet crackpot Lysenko, and his denial of germ theory with regards to managing crop growth, undoubtedly caused serious hardship for the Soviet Union. This is not up for debate, and I am not defending Lysenko or Stalin. However, statements such as the one quoted above are often repeated, and worth interrogating to see if they withstand scrutiny. To quote Chairman Mao:

Flaws in Attribution Calculation

A common meme in American political discourse is to claim that the ideology of communism has claimed 100 million victims globally. There even is or was a sign in the putrid heart of consumer crapitalism, Times Square, which states this. One might dare ask just how does one attribute a death to a specific political or economic ideology. If the same people who made such a claim found that capitalism was responsible for more deaths, would they erect a “Victims of Capitalism” memorial? This would naturally include the brutal famines inflicted by the British Empire, the genocide of Native Americans by the United States, the napalm bombings of Korea and Vietnam, on top of countless other for-profit atrocities.

This “100 million victims” figure comes from a long-debunked Black Book of Communism which proclaims that Nazis and their collaborators, who sought to eradicate the Jewish & Slavic peoples of Europe with a fantasy of the “American Frontier” in their eyes, are somehow “victims” of communism. A pretty great advertisement for Communism: “Only communism can convert fascists…into victims.” This “black book” number also blames communism for the deaths of countless imaginary people that were never ever born; a ridiculous proposition.

When you hear claims of massive numbers attributing so-and-so to tens of millions of deaths, such as claims that the COVID-19 vaccine has killed 17+ million Americans or a dozen children, it’s worth interrogating just how those figures are constructed. Like it or not, but the American public is one of the most propagandized & willfully ignorant nations in the world. We love making up fake statistics & absurd stereotype about other parts & peoples of the world that simply don’t hold water.

If we are to be scientifically minded people rallying against reactionary quackery, then we must apply higher standards to ourselves.

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A Minor Skirmish of the 1940s

The “skeet” quoted above implies that nothing else going on during the 1940s might have been the root cause of the famines the Soviet Union faced. Would you consider it an indictment of capitalism if we calculated the countless deaths attributable to the miasma theory which dominated 1800s Europe? In reviewing Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map, he argues that many leading doctors and scientists were naturally driven to embrace the pseudoscience of miasma theory due to the overwhelming stench brought on by the Industrial Revolution. One could argue that the gene theory denial of Lysenkoism could also be linked to the trauma of the Second World War: the untold loss of life combined with an apocalyptic devastation of infrastructure and countryside caused by an enemy who believed in their genetic superiority certainly made bringing in the harvest quite difficult.

The Soviet Union never had an easy go of things: from The Great War to a pandemic to a brutal revolution, the fact that the Soviet Union could even begin to mount an effective defense - against not just Hitler’s Germany, but Imperial Japan - is quite an achievement on its own. The Second World War was an apocalyptic event that took the lives of countless millions, and for the people of the Soviet Union, was a fight for their very survival. Even literal witches got involved:

It’s not absurd to suggest that a peoples subjected to such unspeakable horrors might be primed to embrace gene theory denial, however wrong it might be. In shallow liberal criticisms of communist history, they often handwave away what came before, just as HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has washed his hands of responsibility for the recent explosion of measles. Criticisms of China’s revolution for example, will make no mention of a long history of hardship that left behind a great deal of obstacles: the Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion, late Qing dynasty decline, warlord era, the invasion of Imperial Japan, a Second World War, and the Chinese Civil War all back-to-back can make founding a government quite difficult!

China is now one of the most dominating influences upon the world while we are undergoing The Century of American Humiliation.

To better describe the pseudoscientific regime of Trump, RFK Jr., and the larger anti-vaccine war on science, we must turn away from mid-20th century Moscow, and instead shift our gaze west towards a bunker in the woods to find the crackpot giving one charismatic German dictator nearly 30 pills a day:

Theo Morell.

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Defining Morellism: A Condensed History

Theo Morell was a major quack of his time, as detailed by Norman Ohler in his excellent book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. Just like RFK Jr., Morell was also reported to be a serial liar who could not stop running his mouth. Couped up in a cramped and stuffy bunker as the one civilian amongst Hitler’s inner circle, Morell was not having a fun time whilst the Third Reich’s conquest of Russia failed.

The key to the Third Reich’s early success was not superior technology, tactics, or fighting spirit, but instead luck and a lot of Pervitin, a form of...you guessed it! Meth. If your army doesn’t need to sleep for three day, you sure can quickly cover quite a lot of ground! This inevitably led to widespread addiction, which the Wehrmacht was forced turned a blind eye to as a result of massive casualties caused by the arrogance of their leaders. An early 1941 attempt to conquer Moscow resulted in tens of 1000s of Wehrmacht casualties due to a lack of winter coats & reliance upon horse & wagon.

Morell’s preferred treatment to breathe life back into an overstressed Hitler shitting himself to death was an absurd concoction Theo designed himself: combining the muscle, adrenal cortex, liver, and pancreas of pigs and other farm animals, this somehow restored the Fuhrer’s health when combined with opioids. (RFK Jr. is presently on a carnivore diet, supplemented by sauerkraut he makes his wife carry in her Chanel handbag) Not at all the idea of a hypermasculine strongman the world was led to believe. Other medications Theo Morell would prescribe his genocidal patient included: a veterinary stimulant, a body-building supplement that was the by-product of uterine blood, a derivative of bulls’ testicles to treat depression, and another supplement made from the prostates of young bulls.

Are you starting to see why “Morellism” is a more appropriate term to describe RFK Jr. and MAHA?

As the state of Hitler’s war effort grew ever more dire, locking himself away in the cramped shadows like an incel, the Fuhrer began to require so many injections that Morell had to place a special order to Berlin for extra needles. The heroic Red Army turning the tide of the war at Stalingrad led to Hitler developing serious heart problems. If only Karl Marx could have lived to see his most devoted workers literally bring a genocidal monster to his knees.

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Morrell and MAHA’s Exploitative Profiteering

While his most important patient was rapidly declining, Morell was busy making himself filthy rich through his connections in the Third Reich. From “Vitamultin” to vitamin & hormone supplements, Theo Morrell was raking in the big bucks. He even took it upon himself to found the world’s first “organotherapeutical factory,” turning all sorts of animal blood, glands, livers, stomachs, spinal cords, testicles, prostates, ovaries, bladders, lungs, and hearts into profitable supplements. Animal livers especially were of great importance to Morrell, believing they raised energy levels, strengthened the immune system, and other absurd nonsense.

Vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez has said that “MAHA” is little more than a federal handout to wellness influencers and scam artists taking advantage of the American public, and Theo Morrell’s financial empire is the blueprint. Even when new medications were banned from being introduced to the market in 1943, Theo Morell exploited his government connections to attain a special exemption. Sadly, he could not find an elixir of youth to reverse the progression of his favorite patient’s condition: losing a World War that he himself started.

After being humiliated at Stalingrad and the Red Army reversing the progression of the war, Hitler’s condition worsens further. Unable to keep food down, Theo Morell begins prescribing his patient the highly addictive Oxycodon, which is synthesized from opium. Juiced to the gills, Hitler was now able to meet with Axis leaders and convince them that victory was near, browbeating them into submission. Suddenly, that anti-drug PSA with the egg & the frying pan makes a lot more sense:

While Hitler’s hopeless crusade continued to rage, Morell multiplied his financial gains by becoming an opium producer. Hitler would quickly become dependent on the needle just to get through rare public appearances. Meth soon became a requirement for those meeting with the drug-addled Fuhrer. Much of the Reich’s leadership became dependent upon cocaine and heroin.

This is the proud “ubermensch” tradition that America’s Health and Human Services Secretary, who has openly admitted to snorting cocaine off of toilet seats and being hooked on heroin, is following in the footsteps of.

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From Übermensch Valhalla to Addict Row

On the historic day that young heroes from America, Canada, and Great Britain stormed the beaches of Normandy, Hitler could be found raving over lunch about how the strongest animals in the world, elephants, abhorred eating meat just as he did. Morell would later inject him with another concoction extracted from animal guts. In the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt, a second doctor would begin administering a “Jewish degeneration drug” to the Fuhrer: cocaine.

Morell, much like the quacks that uphold the tenets of MAHA, was constantly on the defense from skeptics or physicians who actually knew what they were doing. Many became suspicious of his “treatments” and wondered if perhaps Hitler was being taken advantage of, or even poisoned. They would be quickly dismissed, with Morell enjoying his safe space as Hitler’s most trusted dealer.

Both Theo Morrell and the MAHA leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services have fought to circumvent transparency, becoming aggressively defensive at the drop of a hat. Most recently, NIH/CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya squealed “I’m in a political position and you’re not!” at a senior NIH staffer. These childish antics are not the actions of serious medical or scientific professionals.

As Hitler’s World War grew more dire towards the end of 1944, the constant injections grew less and less effective. Years of abusing concoctions derived from animal organs ruined his body’s ability to produce dopamine, and the harder stuff wrecked regular organ function entirely. Outside his fortified bunker, Hitler’s “Master Race” became hooked on meth to cope with the constant humiliation.

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One Last Hit

The problem with having a serious drug addiction whilst leading a nation being invaded on all sides is that it starts to become quite difficult “get your fix.” People start “tweaking.” People start coming up with some really bad ideas, especially in the wake of a traumatic event like being on the losing end of D-Day.

Many are familiar with the dramatic images of the landing boats crashing into the Normandy beachhead, under fire from “Hitler’s Typewriter.” Few recall the Nazis’ “genius” response to this. Strapping a bunch of Hitler Youth kids into tiny 2-man submarines and pumping them full of a mix of cocaine, meth, and opioids so they couldn’t sleep for four days, the plan was to disrupt the Allied supply lines with a horde of these tiny submariners. Forced to defecate in used ration tins, many would drown in their own filth after being shot to pieces by Allied air patrols.

Hitler would become hooked on meth before the start of the final year of his life and the Second World War, alongside his regular regiment of injections derived from parasite-afflicted livers; which would see you imprisoned if you administered such a treatment today. New Year’s Day 1945 would see the feared Luftwaffe, also abusing meth, be soundly humiliated for the final time by not only Allied pilots, but their own anti-aircraft guns - possibly also due to meth abuse. Meanwhile, the factories producing all of these amazing drugs for Hitler and his “Master Race” are being bombed into oblivion.

The command bunker at the heart of a besieged Berlin soon found its drug supply quickly drying up. Hitler starts getting pissy with his dealer, who can no longer provide a quick fix for what ails him. Forced to go cold turkey as a consequence of the World War that he started, Hitler became a pathetic, erratic wreck. Like a fable of ancient myth, sugar was all this supposed titan amongst “lesser races” had left to feel anything.

After running out of meth, Germany’s most powerful drug dealer was quickly fired and ejected from the Fuhrer Funhaus. Theo Morell would attempt to salvage his supplements empire, or what little of it was left in a wartorn hellscape now occupied by multiple superpowers - even going so far to beg for an extension on filing his taxes. He wound up captured & interrogated by the Americans for two straight years.

Over 100,000 Nazis followed their leader.

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The Morrell Revivalism of MAHA

In our modern times, the drug addict turned HHS Secretary RFK Jr. obsesses over young men being healthy to fight in the military; but against whom? America’s long history of violent foreign expeditions after defeating Hitler has resulted in countless humiliations and a mountain of atrocities; estimated to have killed between 20-30 million across 37 nations. RFK Jr.’s heroic fantasy of commanding a legion of healthy young Übermensch will never be realized, ending just the same as Hitler’s.

The reason “Lysenkoism” is the term liberals use to describe the MAHA ideology over the much more accurate “Morellism,” especially when it comes to medical quackery and profiteering, is because we don’t want to take a hard look in the mirror as a nation and admit that we have a great deal in common Hitler’s Germany, and we didn’t get here overnight. Treating the world as a murder playground, slaughtering innocent people on a massive scale, harboring delusional fantasies of masculine superiority over supposed inferiors. This is not the hallmark of a healthy culture.

Much like Hitler’s Germany, we are destroying ourselves in an impossible and unsustainable crusade of explosive dominance whilst our own state of affairs grows progressively worse. By shouting “Lysenkoism!” and making lazy, inaccurate comparisons to communist regimes, we can - much like a drugged-up Fuhrer - unplug from the reality we’ve made for ourselves. A politics of liberal austerity and snarky retorts, as championed by the Democrats’ 2028 favorite Gavin Newsom, will not be enough to repair the damage done and turn the ship around. Going down that path ends with the streets of Manhattan looking like Dresden, 1945.

We must hold ourselves to a higher standard.

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I have found myself in rare disagreement with my friend and fellow COVID Commentator Dr. Jonathan Howard of Science Based Medicine. He suggests in a recent article that the Great Barrington Declaration’s fantasy of which the American public got their marching orders and hundreds of millions of unvaccinated Americans embraced the SARS-CoV-2 virus with a patriotic smile was impossible, because people would have still chosen to avoid the virus. This is similar to an argument that I myself have made in a previous article and am rebuking upon further study. Jonathan writes in the excellent “The COVID Amnesia Project: Erasing Your Free Will to Preserve the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic”:

Unfortunately, I now have to disagree. The premise of the Great Barrington Declaration relied upon stripping people of any choice to try and avoid a SARS infection. In the laisses-faire dystopia of the United States, most Americans are required to work a job in order to earn a wage so they may afford the basic necessities of survival. In the GBD’s proposed fantasy of a 2020 where they were in charge, there would be no pandemic relief: No stimulus, no unemployment, no remote schooling, no eviction moratorium. Just “three to six months” of the virus.

The general public would not be allowed to say no to COVID-19, under threat of utility shutoffs, starvation, eviction, and homelessness.

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A Human Sacrifice to the Economic Gods

You have to remember that the prelude to the Great Barrington Declaration was in early 2020 when a British crackpot, Toby “The Era of Vaccines is Over” Rogers, demanded that hundreds of thousands of Brits die of COVID-19 as quickly as possible in order to rapidly end the pandemic. In April 2020, Martin Kulldorff was squealing in Spiked Online that “anti-herders,” those protecting themselves from infection, were just as selfish and dangerous as anti-vaxxers. Working with the Koch-funded think-tank AIER to fine-tune their messaging, the Great Barrington Declaration served as capital’s demand that government use their authority, backed by a monopoly on violence, to force the virus upon the public.

Prior to a vaccine ever being available, an infection with the new SARS-CoV-2 virus that was overwhelming hospitals and killing so many Americans in rapid fashion in early 2020 would become an innate requirement of earning a wage or getting an education. Employers and school administrators would be empowered and encouraged to bar workers, teachers, and students from masking, and even demand them to show up to work sick. Everyday Americans would be forced bring the virus home to their family, or their child would bring the virus home from school. If one became disabled by Long COVID and was now too sick to work, they would be fired and immediately replaced. With no way to earn a wage, and no welfare benefits, you would soon fall into poverty, homelessness, and deaths of despair.

As a part of “normal life” during these times, people who needed hospital care because of car accidents, heart attacks, etc. would die, as a result of hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Mass graves dug by prisoners, and overwhelmed morgues would become an everyday fixture of American life. While all of this chaos unfolded, officials would - just like Hamburg’s Chief Medical Officer during a deadly 1893 outbreak of cholera which killed thousands - insist there is simply nothing that can be done to prevent COVID-19 deaths, or worse yet, suggest that it’s the dead’s own fault for not being “metabolically healthy.” Government officials would fabricate statistics, and mercenary academics would misrepresent them to mislead the public that everything was actually going just fine.

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The Dictatorship of the Workplace

The reason much of this would happen if the GBD authors got their way in 2020, is because it did happen, except it was under the Biden Administration. When teachers and students in Chicago walked out in protest over the dire state of COVID-19 in schools, Ashish Jha branded them as “irrational” on a podcast with Emily Oster before joining the Biden Administration. One single Black mother in Chicago, who tried to isolate her and her son from the virus until the authorities got involved, died soon after because her son brought SARS-CoV-2 home from school. Hundreds of thousands of children have played a role in the death of a primary caregiver after bringing COVID-19 home from class.

Rochelle Walensky’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the COVID-19 isolation guidelines from 10 days to 5 in response to a letter from the CEO of Delta Airlines in December 2021, further empowering employers to force infectious workers back to the workplace to spread SARS-CoV-2 around their community, before later reducing it to zero days. In March 2022, when the CDC rolled out its new “Community Levels” guidance system that artificially raised the threshold for the CDC to even recommend masking, based upon hospital bed capacity, employers were further empowered to bar their workers from masking. As one anecdotal example from earlier in the pandemic, a grocery worker was forced by his boss to downgrade from an N95 respirator to an inadequate patterned cloth mask, out of some misguided fear that the mere sight of an N95 would somehow scare customers off. I have heard from multiple people with qualified, excellent resumes being turned down for jobs because they still wear a respirator: that taking COVID-19 precautions essentially renders you unemployable.

Workers who became too disabled by Long COVID to work were quickly fired from their jobs, and there is no welfare or benefits to support them - with still no treatment or cure, contrary to a Boston Globe article that Final COVID Czar Ashish Jha wrote soon after leaving the White House, telling Americans to “forget” COVID-19 and “live with the virus.” There are multiple tragedies of people disabled by SARS-CoV-2 having taken their own lives which are too quickly forgotten as part of the COVID-19 Amnesia Project. They often had no choice after our society forced the virus upon them and then stripped them of access to the basic essentials for survival.

To top it all off, in 2023 the California Supreme Court at the behest of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ruled in the case of Kuciemba vs. Victory Woodworks, when a woman was hospitalized and nearly died on a ventilator in 2020 because her husband’s employer violated California’s public health orders at the time. The court ruled that even though the plaintiff’s claim was correct and tangible harm was done, they decided to take this opportunity to legislate from the bench and throw their case out, fearing some hypothetical doomsday scenario in which a flood of lawsuits destroyed the American economy. The precedent had been established that your employer has no liability should you or a loved one be killed or disabled by a viral outbreak caused in an unsafe workplace.

The Biden Administration, having specifically promised OSHA workplace safety guidelines for COVID in their 2020 campaign that never materialized, said nothing. Workers were brutally crushed, time and time again, while Biden paraded as some sort of hero. He himself claimed that he “ended the pandemic,” even bragging about forcing American workers through “wave after wave of COVID” that killed and disabled many.

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Just What Did This Achieve?

The Great Barrington Declaration authors cheered when tens of millions of American children, many of them unvaccinated, became very sick, hospitalized, disabled, and even died of COVID-19. The American Institute for Economic Research and their billionaire masters got what they wanted from the Biden Administration, and what did the Democrat Party get in return?

They did everything in their power to make it 2019 again: Nobody’s wearing masks anymore, and Donald Trump’s the President again. Mission Accomplished!

Having done their job, the Democrats were quickly cast aside into a shallow ditch and rendered irrelevant, making pathetic displays of impotency and cowardice. Not a single Democrat pointed out Jay Bhattacharya’s many errors regarding COVID-19 during his confirmation hearing for NIH Director, to the celebration of rabid anti-vaccine cranks on Twitter, squealing “we’re winning!” Now many have vocally subscribed to the COVID Amnesia Project, with leading Democrats and liberal influencers such as Rep. Auchincloss, Pete Buttigieg, Ashish Jha, and Scott Galloway saying that schools should have been fully in-person in 2020.

This is the bi-partisan consensus that will be guiding us through the next pandemic, made more frequent as a side-effect of climate collapse. Get ready for a bloodbath.

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In many workplaces across America that pay substandard wages, you will find no shortage of signage scolding the “wagies” to stay off of their cellphones during work hours. In this new era of the Department of Health and Human Services under RFK Jr., goofing off on your phone all day, when you do manage to bother to show up to work, seems to be a requirement of senior leadership roles. As reported by The New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg on June 7th:

Well, well, well. It was not so long ago that journalist Liz Highleyman suggested that we could “work with” RFK Jr. on “good policies”:

It turns out he’s not working at all, he’s just goofing off on his phone! Let us also not forget either the deluge of propaganda The New York Times has produced legitimizing this anti-vaccine scam artist in the past. From the ancient past of September 18th, 2024 by Emily Baumgaertner:

The New York Times causally omits that part of RFK Jr.’s opposition involved marching with German (!) neo-Nazis. I guess The New York Times, having previously praised Adolf Hitler, doesn’t think that’s so bad. Having already gotten the blood of dozens of American children on his hands, The New York Times pretended that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. somehow has a genuine concern for the health of America’s kids:

Or perhaps, Little Miss “Paper of Record,” these were all simply bad-faith attacks from a social media obsessed provocateur who, upon being given real power and responsibility, simply goofs off on their phone all day while autistic children are pumped full of ketamine and injected with of stem cells by exploitative quacks. Similar behavior among other members of RFK Jr.’s goon squad has also been reported.

Before being ousted from the Food & Drug Administration, former Commissioner Marty Makary produced an endless stream of social media videos whilst his agency fellow into chaos and disarray. Before being ousted twice in a year, it’s rumored that Vinay Prasad would neglect patients to goof off on Twitter while at UCSF Medicine. Jay Bhattacharya, as NIH Director and Acting CDC Director, has neglected his responsivities to appear on countless podcasts and smear his face across Twitter. HHS’ Martin Kulldorff is generating AI-generated slop for official presentations.

This should come as no surprise; spewing harmful disinformation and cheap insults on social media is how these people became public figures & plucked to serve in the second Trump Administration. Yet, liberals such as Ashish Jha called these social media trolls “reasonable,” Leanna Wen called them “surprisingly strong,” and Princeton’s Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee have championed Bhattacharya with a completely fictionalized retelling of his actions around the COVID-19 pandemic.

So why are we still waiting for these 5,000 word apologies from the liberal-minded, COVID-minimizing MAHA fluffers acknowledging that they have proven to be terrible judges of character? Where is the acknowledgement that those of us who correctly connected all of the terrible and often harmful garbage they said about COVID-19 was proof that they would fail in leading these critical federal agencies? Simply because you also supported repeatedly infecting unvaccinated children with COVID-19 doesn’t mean that these cranks were acting in good faith.

Our media outlets have done the American public a grave disservice, especially in the opinion editorial writers they chose to let ramble on endlessly about COVID-19. While RFK Jr. is goofing off on his phone, Leana Wen is still writing that we should just give up on kids winding up hospitalized because their parents fell for a “raw milk” scam, instead of advocating for Democrats to legislate these harmful scam artists out of business.

Now if Democrats wanted to be really clever, they would introduce legislation to protect employees’ rights to goof on their phone in the workplace. If it’s good enough for the Trump Administration, it’s good enough for the rest of America! Make America Goof Again! Or even better, how about a new federal regulation that the leaders of public health agencies are restricted to social media free flip phones?

In truth, and this is a major part of the thesis of my upcoming book, political pundits embraced dangerous medical disinformation they read on Twitter, then repeated it to the public in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Policymakers, including the Biden Administration, read these garbage opinion-editorials and made terrible decisions that harmed countless American lives. Did it save the Democrats in 2024? No? Is RFK Jr. not pissing his pants about accurate reporting of how he’s doing a terrible job? Also no!

Perhaps it’s time to recalibrate our thinking.

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Taking a massive step out of my comfort zone today, here is a bold proposal informed by many of the mistakes made in our collective response to COVID-19. We clearly need a new model for organizing & quantifying the validity of opinions, especially those generated in the onset of a pandemic crisis. Thus, I am proposing a D.S.A. model (no relation to the Democratic Socialists of America) for pandemic information management. It stands for Doctors, Scientists, and Academics - in that order. Where we gravely went wrong with COVID-19 is that often times, “A” cut to the front of the line and created massive problems for the rest of us when the media treated their supposed insights as valuable.

The earliest most obvious example of this (of which there are many) is Stanford’s John Ioannidis. While hospital ICUs in New York City were being wildly overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, John sat comfortably in his university office and proclaimed non-pharmaceutical interventions to be, loosely paraphrasing, akin to an elephant attempting to avoid a housecat and being so stricken with fear that they inadvertently jump off a cliff. He tortured datasets to proclaim that Americans were merely dying with COVID-19, not from it. This obscene myth would tragically become a mainstream liberal talking point in the winter of 2021.

Another fantastic example is Brown University’s Emily Oster, an unqualified economist who peddled all sorts of obscene myths about COVID-19 and children. When medical research was published contradicting her claims, she attacked the research instead of admitting error. Pediatric Long COVID is now the leading chronic illness in children, overtaking asthma. Oster has offered no apology while raking in millions, leaving a colossal mess for everyone else to deal with.

Stage One: Doctors

In the onset of a pandemic, doctors who see their hospitals overwhelmed with new patients showing similar systems are the first in line to generate an understanding of how this new disease functions and the threat it poses to the public. This obviously means that the media is wasting its time interviewing cranks like radiologist Scott Atlas, or the Brookings Institute’s (a conservative think-tank) Leana Wen, who hadn’t practiced medicine in years. The media has done the public such a massive disservice in serving up misleading, minimizing narratives to sabotage decision making.

What has actually happened is that the media is prioritizing doctors that are readily available for interview or comment, which is why you’d see Leana Wen, Monica Gandhi, or other wannabe celebrities exploiting the pandemic to raise their profile, even if they had nothing to do with actually treating COVID-19 patients. This drowns out the legitimate information the public is entitled to and allows misleading fictional narratives to be elevated into the mainstream. It’s irresponsible and much of journalism owes the public an apology.

Stage Two: Scientists

One of the greatest mistakes of the early days of the COVID-19 response comes from the willful ignorance of how Arabian Numerals function. For SARS-CoV-2 to exist, that implies the existence of a SARS-CoV-1. A decade prior to 2020, we already had published research showing that a significant percentage of people infected with SARS-CoV-1 developed serious long-term health complications, which completely invalidates any proposal of “herd immunity via mass infection.” Instead, tens of millions of Americans got to learn this sad reality the hard way.

Following doctors, scientific researchers with relevant expertise, experience, and credentials are the next important pillar of informing and shaping a pandemic response. This excludes “political scientists” Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee of Princeton, who are forced to resort to outright lying when defending the fraudulent & unethical COVID-19 seroprevalence sham that economist Jay Bhattacharya concocted on behalf of an airline CEO. This excludes economists like Emily Oster, who committed data fraud on behalf of reactionary billionaires like Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg.

We need scientific research to uncover the impact of the virus, its potential for harm, how to best prevent and mitigate those harms - and develop new tools to fight this virus. Instead, fraudulent propaganda masquerading as science was deployed to mislead the public into embracing the virus, killing and disabling many. Political pundits such as David Leonhardt of The New York Times was especially notorious for peddling unscientific disinformation to millions of readers, and never admitted his many errors. It should be worrying that he was personally endorsed by Biden, according to a Politico article.

Upon building a body of evidence and concrete understanding, we can move forward with a more ethical and scientific approach to developing pandemic policy.

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Stage Three: Academics

From the very beginning of the pandemic, academics who have the luxury of sitting in a comfortable university office behind a keyboard, torturing abstract data sets in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, decided that cutting to the front of this line was somehow constructive behavior. Having no real knowledge of the virus and its potential for harm, they insisted that there was nothing more to learn that might inform policymaking decisions. Economists, sociologists, and other “soft science” academics were willing to gamble with the health and lives of strangers. This torrent of garbage has never stopped.

We see this now in 2026, most recently an article in Wired Magazine titled “The Painful Truth About Long Covid”, in which a male religious studies professor tries to revive tired old medical myths around “hysteria” when it comes to Long COVID, an often-debilitating condition that disproportionately impacts women. Suggesting that harmful pseudoscientific scams such as “brain retraining” are the “way forward for Long COVID treatment - if only you were allowed to talk about it,” religious studies professor Alan Levinovitz completely discards a mountain of hard scientific evidence around the tangible impacts of COVID-19 on the brain.

It’s worth noting than Levinovitz has a new book coming out called Demons By Another Name, about…psychogenic illness, which Long COVID is absolutely not. Exploiting the crisis of Long COVID to sell his book, this is yet another tragic tale of a man who has no idea what he’s talking about it masquerading as an authority to make a quick buck. Everyone defending Levinovitz should be ashamed for treating this blatantly unethical profiteering as worth entertaining.

Sorry WIRED’s editorial staff, but I doubt the former Joe Rogan Experience guest & author of “Slaying the Chinese Jabberwock” has much to offer the millions of Americans still suffering without a real treatment or cure.

Closing Thoughts

We’ve had far too many willfully ignorant diatribes published in major outlets desperately trying to write off Long COVID as merely some form of mental illness, and it won’t be the last. The purpose of these articles is to stigmatize those suffering, absolve the ruling class of responsibility, and pretend that COVID-19 doesn’t remain an ongoing threat. If someone you know if suffering from Long COVID and isn’t getting better, it’s because there’s something wrong with them as a person and they simply don’t want to get better! It’s journalistic malpractice for Wired to have published this, but it’s also a grim reminder that American news media primarily operates as propaganda on behalf of the wealthy and powerful.

The work on SARS-CoV-2 and Long COVID’s impact on the brain has already been done by plenty of experienced, credentialed scientists, and the role of journalism is to not censor their work by instead giving the spotlight to a bunch of cranks who are in fact running the risk of actually harming those suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown major flaws in our news media, and the importance of supporting independent journalism (such as the PAI, subscribe today!) that takes their responsibility seriously. We need a major refresh of how we assign value to supposed claims that upon critical review fail to be supported by hard evidence.

We don’t have to keep repeating the same mistakes.

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Hello, all! I recently announced that I am writing my first book, a history of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 response. My inspiration for doing so is the horror I have felt recently in watching the rising tide of vile propaganda attempting to rewrite recent events to suit a fantastical, absurd narrative to cover for a horrific political agenda that cost many lives.

As a premium feature, I thought I would journal my experiences in writing such a challenging and painful history. If you would like to follow this journey, please take out a paid subscription to the Pandemic Accountability Index. I promise to give regular updates, and to humor you with all of the trials and tribulations of undertaking such a project.

Thank you so much for your continued support. Without it, such an undertaking could not be possible.

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There is an excellent podcast by the name of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy, hosted by Brent Lee and Neil Sanders, who did an extensive four-part deep dive into the saga of Twitter troll David Cartland, a former British GP (general practitioner, aka standard medical doctor) who completely immolated his professional career out of dedication to his social media fan club of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. The whole series is worth a listen, but I wanted to compare and contrast Cartland’s well-documented downfall in the United Kingdom with another medical professional who was also publicly humiliated in the news recently: Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who calls the University of California San Francisco home.

David Cartland was once a well-respected and upstanding member of his community of Cornwall, a village in the South of England, where he proudly served as a medical professional. Prior to 2020, UCSF’s Vinay Prasad was considered a rising star in medicine, and his book Ending Medical Reversals was held in high regard. While unscientific misinformation & disinformation has been a feature of numerous pandemics of the past, COVID-19 was the first pandemic in which social media was readily available to amplify destructive garbage like never before.

A Mutual Abandonment of Science

David Cartland and Vinay Prasad were staunch critics of masking and other non-pharmaceutical interventions, with both making wholly inappropriate comparisons to Nazi Germany. Cartland would be marched out of the hospital where he worked and kicked to the curb, while UCSF turned a blind eye to Prasad calling his employers stupid for implementing a hospital mask mandate and rallying his social media followers to agitate (literally using the word “resist” in the title of one Youtube video) against measures to prevent patients from dying of a hospital-acquired virus.

David Cartland and Vinay Prasad both grew a following from fearmongering about the COVID-19 vaccine, especially in children and pregnant women, while downplaying the threat of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, calling it a “cold” on multiple occasions; a basic myth that Some Dare Call It A Conspiracy’s Neil Sanders, who to my knowledge is not a medical professional, explains quite simply: that the symptoms of COVID-19 similar to a flu or cold have less to do with the disease and are in fact resulting from the immune system fighting the virus. Becoming hooked by what SDCIAC calls “lovebombing” by anti-vax conspiracy theorists on social media, Cartland and Prasad both abandoned science to impress jerks on the Internet.

Cartland would then allow himself to be bamboozled into the ridiculous belief that the COVID-19 vaccines somehow make you magnetic, which is utterly hilarious on its face. Stateside, Vinay Prasad would endorse the utter nonsense pseudoscience of “immunity debt,” suggesting that children were now constantly ill in 2022 not because of the new SARS virus they were being repeatedly infected with, but because of remote schooling and masks from 2020. Both abandoned a professional commitment to medical science in order to lend the legitimacy of their credentials to absurdity.

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Harassment of Medical Colleagues

David Cartland & Vinay Prasad also lost all respect amongst many of their professional colleagues in medicine, with neither refusing to acknowledge their basic, basic errors when corrected. What would eventually see Cartland stripped of his medical license, however - rendering the years of his life dedicated to med school a complete waste - was the same sort of vile vulgarity that Vinay Prasad regularly engaged in, egging on their respective fanclubs of abusive trolls. To quote the description from the Some Dare Call it Conspiracy podcast:

It’s hard to argue that Vinay Prasad has not engaged in similar behavior across social media platforms such as Twitter, Substack, & Youtube. Prasad has frequently attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, blaming him for the pandemic - as an example, he tweeted: “To me it’s obvious that the reason Fauci supported lockdown & school closure was a misguided attempt to atone for the fact that he funded the work that led to the pandemic. No one acts more irrationally than the guilty. The house subcommittee has damning evidence.” In reality, no such “damning evidence” was presented, and does not exist. Fauci has faced numerous threats upon his life as a result of such conspiracy theories that Prasad, a UCSF faculty member, endorses.

In another tweet, Vinay Prasad attempted to pin the blame for the murder of a healthcare CEO on popular comedian and medical professional “Dr. Glaucomflecken,” stating “Glaucomflecken is not actually a student of health policy. He doesn’t understand insurance. Denying coverage does not increase their profits. That idea may have gotten someone murdered. Sad”

As another devastating example of unprofessional misconduct, Vinay Prasad peddled the conspiracy theory that remote schooling in 2020 caused an uptick in suicides & the sexual abuse of children and attempted to pin the blame on Dr. Peter Hotez, who has also been targeted with harassment and threats upon his life. In his tribunal, David Cartland was found to repeatedly insinuate that a professional colleague was a pedophile and was forced to pay significant financial penalties as well as issue multiple public apologies after repeating the behavior. Not a single member of his social media fanclub could save him from what happened next.

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A “Hero” on the Internet, a Scourge in Reality

Having an extended meltdown in the public eye, Cartland seemed to face significant pushback in his local community, resulting in him calling his fellow Cornwallers “a bunch of inbreds.” This did him no favors and ended with him being thrown out of his local church and publicly scolded in the local Facebook group. But wait, it gets worse for “The Honest Doctor!” - a moniker Cartland assigned himself as part of his current “Health Coach” grift.

Sacrificing his medical career upon the altar of a delusional martyrdom complex fueled by social media, Cartland returned to his passion of soccer, becoming a referee. This would not last in the wake of losing his medical license. After admitting to producing fraudulent vaccine exemption letters for travel, David Cartland found himself on the UK’s Disclosure and Barring Service’s Children’s Barred List, forbidding him from employment that involves working with children & vulnerable adults. The local football association then suspended him from refereeing immediately after being notified of Cartland’s prestigious new membership. Taking to social media, Cartland cried that he had “committed no crime” and was the true victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thanks to award-winning journalism from the same village full of “inbreds,” in Cartland’s words, David had effectively rendered himself unemployable. A self-proclaimed “family man” who can no longer provide for his wife and children, reduced to begging his anti-vaccine fanclub for help after giving them everything he had - with nothing to show for it but an Amazon.com bestselling author ranking in the... 9000s. For someone who regularly engaged in homophobia on social media, Cartland had proven himself to be quite un-masculine & weak in the end.

For once, accountability had finally caught up with an anti-vaccine grifter.

The Cowardice of American Medicine

Across the Atlantic Ocean, such antics would be rewarded by one of America’s leading medical schools: the University of California San Francisco, in a saga that the PAI has covered for years. In 2025, it would see Vinay Prasad elevated to the Food & Drug Administration, where he was ousted twice in less than a year of proving that his enthusiasm lied with impressing his anti-vaccine fans on Twitter, instead of a dedication to upholding any sort of professional or scientific standards.

Most notably, Vinay Prasad produced an intentionally leaked memo in which he claimed that the Food & Drug Administration had and would soon present “evidence” in which the COVID-19 vaccines killed at least 10 children. There was no evidence - this was merely a federal handout to anti-vaccine grifters on social media, like Prasad’s Twitter BFF & deranged misogynist Alex Berenson. Even Benjamin Mazer of The Atlantic, who has never resisted the opportunity to lend credibility to anti-vaccine myths such as “immunity debt,” treated Prasad’s e-mail rant as credible. The actual report found no evidence of such claims, with Mazer and The Atlantic failing to issue a public apology and redaction of the article. Prasad engaged in an incredibly serious act of misconduct that is on the level of Andrew Wakefield, who violated young children in the production of fraudulent “evidence” suggesting the MMR vaccine causes autism.

Wakefield lost his medical license before running away to the United States to play the victim. Prasad on the other hand, after engaging in numerous instances of serious misconduct which required bringing in an outside firm, was allowed to return to the University of California San Francisco and Sensible Medicine as if nothing had ever happened. What UCSF is teaching the future doctors and scientists of America is that the best way to advance your career is to be a reactionary and abusive social media troll, no matter who gets hurt in the process.

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Vinay Prasad’s co-author on numerous opinion editorials masquerading as scientific literature, Tracy Beth Hoeg, was also kicked out of the Food & Drug Administration and immediately ran to anti-vaccine slopagandist Maryanne Demasci to insist that they were victims of a conspiracy by Big Pharma. This is precisely the same claim made by Andrew Wakefield. Whereas British medical authorities correctly understood cranks like David Cartland to be a threat to patient health and safety, UCSF and California’s Medical Board has instead established a standard in which such behavior is encouraged, and clearly a role model for students to follow in the footsteps of.

This cannot stand. While California Democrats are presently humiliating themselves by rallying behind the former Health & Human Services Secretary who couldn’t be bothered as tens of millions of Americans were disabled by COVID-19, the state’s medical institutions are helping to drag the nation further into an anti-intellectual reactionary spiral into utter irrelevancy. There is no justifiable reason for why the United Kingdom can have the decency to drop the hammer on obnoxious quacks, while the United States allows such pestilence sycophants to prosper unimpeded.

In closing, it’s worth restating that the podcast Some Dare Call it a Conspiracy and their four-part deep dive into the saga of David Cartland, hosted by Brent Lee and Neil Sanders, is a must-listen for anyone with concerns about the intersection of social media and medical quackery. It’s clear that America’s universities & other institutions have much to learn from our friends across the ocean, if we are to ever reverse course.

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California has had the misfortune of having some truly awful governors, such as Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and the vatborn nightmare that is Gavin Newsom - an early frontrunner for the Democrat Party’s Presidential Nomination in 2028, with the full backing of Roblox shareholder Nancy Pelosi. This year, the state’s Democrats are holding a primary election, and Xavier Becerra is a major contender with a SuperPAC that has all sorts of “interesting” donors. They include the following:

• California Association of Realtors

• Pacific Gas & Electric Company

• McDonalds

• Chevron

• AirBNB

• Uber

• Meta (aka Facebook)

Y’know, just a smorgasbord of all the worst jerkwads making California (and America as a whole) all the more miserable of a place to live in. It’s not like these companies are throwing this money around in support of Becerra’s campaign out of the goodness of their heart, or some genuine belief that he’s the best choice for millions of working Californians. No, in fact, it’s a reflection of the same mentality that guided the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 pandemic response: that the whims and demands of corporate America come first - no matter who gets hurt as a result. If elected governor, the needs of working Californians will not be a concern to Becerra.

Instead, Xavier’s priority will be answering to every whim of the corporations that have worked to make much of the state unlivable and render its major cities into dystopian theme parks for the wealthy. Many not in the know are backing him as the “most qualified” candidate. Being overshadowed by the ongoing horror show led by the brain-worm from space currently operating the cerebral controls of the current Seceretary of Health and Human Services, many seem to forget that Becerra was the previous HHS Secretary under the Biden Administration. So just what did HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra do when it came to the national crisis of COVID-19?

Secretary of HHS: Heh…Heh…Schwoopsie!

Claimed That Only “Severity” Matters: As the pediatric COVID-19 death toll doubled from just over 500 to over a thousand before Christmas 2021, Xavier Becerra told CNN that when it came to the Omicron variant “It’s not about cases. It’s about severity,” an unscientific meme that was laundered into the mainstream. Millions of Americans would go on to become disabled by “mild” cases of COVID-19 (not being hospitalized or dying) that winter, and tens of millions more in the years that followed. Trying to suggest that the Biden Administration’s failed vaccine-only strategy hadn’t played a part in schools and workplaces being overwhelmed with COVID-19, and hundreds of children dying in just a matter of months, Becerra was more than happy to absolve himself of responsibility for what was unfolding.

Schools drowning in unmitigated outbreaks, with classrooms full of coughing and vomiting children, ceased to be able to educate kids. Becerra simply shrugged his shoulders while the virus burned through tens of millions of children, largely unvaccinated. This is the mentality he will bring to the governorship of California:

• Prematurely Declared the Pandemic Over: On September 19th, 2022 just after Biden declared the pandemic “over” at the Detroit Auto Show because nobody was wearing masks, HHS Secretary Becerra chose not to correct the President’s false statement, but instead played good little soldier, stating, “The President is correct.” Hundreds of thousands of American would die and millions would be disabled by COVID-19 between when this statement was made and the humiliating 2024 Presidential election. Oh, dear. How embarrassing.

• Oversaw Nation’s Largest Medicaid Disenrollment: With the ending of the Public Health Emergency in May 2023, states begin the rapid mass disenrollment of tens of millions of Americans who were receiving expanded Medicaid coverage. Politico reports that many of these Americans lost Medicaid coverage due to a software glitch caused by a third-party contractor, DeVoit, which received a $340 million dollar taxpayer-funded contract. In a total lack of response, Becerra writes a pathetic letter to states suggesting that they merely “space out” these mass disenrollments. This is the sort of cowardly deference to private corporations that you can expect from a Governor Becerra. This same mentality led to child poverty doubling under the Biden Administration.

• Said Dying of COVID-19 Was Yer Own Dang Fault: On June 6th, 2023 Becerra declares that “The people who are still dying of COVID are unvaccinated or undervaccinated...If you’re dying of COVID today, you didn’t take precautions.” While anti-vaccine disinformation certainly did kill hundreds of thousands, that’s not the sole cause of these deaths. Since 2021, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (which falls under the HHS umbrella) quietly began tracking COVID-19 deaths by vaccination status, only making the data public in April 2022.

  
  Well…between the beginning of September 2021 and the end of Februrary 2022, over 99,500 vaccinated Americans died after doing everything right, according to Becerra’s HHS: They got vaccinated, they took off their masks, got really sick with COVID-19, and died. When the first 100,000 Americans died of COVID-19, The New York Times printed all of their names on the front page and called it “An Incalculable Loss.” Popular podcasts such as This Week in Virology wrote off these deaths as irrelevant and not worth preventing, while smug liberals twisted their spines into a pretzel whining about the “base rate fallacy,” completely ignoring the fact that these are the very tangible casualties that resulted from abandoning masking another other non-pharmaceutical interventions in a deathmarch towards a fantasy of “normalcy.” For Becerra to outright lie to the American people about the cause of many of these deaths, blaming them for their own demise because they listened to his HHS, is utterly obscene and disqualifying.
  

• Made a Mockery of Long COVID: On July 31st, 2023 speaking with WHEC, HHS Secretary Becerra feigned ignorance about Long COVID, which we had known about since 2020 and has disabled millions of Americans since, stating: “If I get 10 people I get 10 answers of what Long COVID really is.” Instead of employing the precautionary principle of public health and advising greater precaution to prevent the COVID-19 infections which lead to Long COVID, Becerra stood idly by as millions more developed the condition. It is now the leading chronic illness in children, overtaking asthma.
  
  On September 20th 2023, claiming that “treatment of Long COVID is a major focus for HHS,” HHS awarded a pathetically miniscule $45 million to Long COVID clinics, with no approved treatment or cure available to this day. As governor of California, you can expect more pitiful token gestures that do little to actually address the problems everyday Californians are facing. Just like California’s most beloved hero, Awh-nooooooold!

• Feigned Helplessness in the Face of Internet Trolls: After his failed leadership contributed to a humiliating defeat in the 2024 election, The Washington Post gave Xavier Becerra an opportunity to reflect upon his tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Feigning powerlessness, Xavier Becerra whined that “I can’t go toe-to-toe with social media,” as if anti-vaccine disinformation was the sole cause of which hundreds of thousands of Americans died of COVID-19 and millions became disabled. Becerra whines that, as the head of a multi-billion dollar agency with seemingly infinite resources at his disposal, he was simply helpless. Seriously?
  
  You can’t think of a single thing the entirety of the Department of Health and Human Services could have done in response to a rising tide of anti-vaccine disinformation? What did the U.S. Government do after crushing the fascist powers, Mr. Becerra? They made movies!

  We do know what Becerra did, which was to insist that the people who died of COVID-19 were responsible for their own demise. While anti-vaccine disinformation is certainly responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths, for the leader of the Department of Health & Human Services to throw his arms in the air & shrug truly shows how little he cared, and how little he will care about everyday Californians as Governor. This is not acceptable leadership, especially with everything that has happened since Trump took office - California needs a leader that will stand up on their behalf, not quivering on his hands and knees for the approval of corporate oligarchs like a trained circus animal.
  

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Final Verdict

Xavier Becerra already had his chance to prove himself as a trusted leader in a national crisis, and completely blew it: As Secretary of Health and Human Services in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Becerra sat idly by as hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed by COVID-19 - many of them having done everything right according to his HHS - and millions more Americans disabled by COVID-19, of which he never took seriously. He wants to be just like his hero, Gavin:

California is a state in the midst of numerous crises from affordability to homelessness, to climate collapse and wildfires. When faced with a crisis, Becerra revealed the true nature of his character as a leader: He absolved himself of responsibility, deferred to the whims of corporate interests, and allowed the crisis of COVID-19 to grow exponentially worse under his tenure. If this is the best the Democrat Party has to offer the American people, then it might as well disband.

The absolute gall of Xavier Becerra to have completely failed in a major leadership role during a crisis, only to turn around & decide he’s entitled to become Governor of California, is absolutely revolting. Electing Becerra as governor of California would merely reward such behavior, and in exchange, you would get an empty suit that acts as nothing more than a middleman for the actual leaders of California: reactionary billionaire creeps that see you as nothing more than uppity disposable serfs.

What a waste of a legacy.

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It’s been some years since starting the PAI. Looking back, the reason for starting the Pandemic Accountability Index was twofold:

1) To produce a digestible periodical for the public which compiles and shares the latest scientific research on the impacts of COVID-19, something which has been left almost entirely out of pandemic policy debates and endless opinion editorials. There has to be a sweet spot between highlighting single studies and dumping hundreds of thousands of studies that no single person can read & understand.

The “What COVID-19 Does to the Body” series, followed by the “Answered” series of guides on how COVID-19 impacts different parts of the body, have hopefully helped shine a light on the gaps in people’s knowledge.

2) The horror of watching the advertising playbook being used to sell a deadly and disabling virus is too much to bear. The general public needs a hard look at many of the “experts” who have dominated discussions around COVID-19, making countless basic errors that you don’t need a medical or scientific background to point out. The Profiles the Pandemic Accountability Index has assembled should help better inform the public on whom is trustworthy, if and when another public health crisis happens.

Here are a few of the best and most informative articles the Pandemic Accountability Index has produced:

RESEARCH

• What Do We Know About Long COVID?

• Is COVID-19 Harmful to Children?

• Can COVID-19 Be Prevented?

• Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain?

• Does COVID-19 Impact the Immune System?

PROFILES

• Emily Oster, Brown University Economist

• “Covidians” & Cults: Jay Bhattacharya’s Immature Fantasies

• Leana Wen, Brookings Institute & Washington Post

• Nick Coatsworth, Former Australia Deputy Chief Health Officer

• Ashish Jha, Final COVID Czar

• Vinay Prasad, UCSF (Ousted from the FDA)

• Monica Gandhi, UCSF Professor of Medicine

• Anders Tegnell, Former Swedish State Epidemiologist

• Zeynep Tufekci of the New York Times

• Francois Balloux, University College of London

REVIEWS

• Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years by Richard J. Evans

• The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

COMMENTARY

• RFK Jr. Fanboys Owe You An Apology

• HHS Just Admitted They Screwed Up Massively

• Vox’s Kelsey Piper Is Indefensibly Ignorant About COVID-19

• COVID-19 & The 2024 Election

• What You Can Learn From Kevin Bass

If this is your first time visiting the Pandemic Accountability Index, I hope this guide was helpful. If you’re a recent subscriber and haven’t dug through the archives, I hope you appreciate this look at some of the classics! If you’ve been a longtime subscriber, thank you so much for your support!

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