Maggie's Farm

He is not quite 100% wrong about masks and vaccines, but he's close. It has the marks of relying on some general medical knowledge but not bothering to do any, you know, hard thinking or actual research. He has been "treating actual patients" but I cannot find on the internet exactly what his medical(?) specialty is nor what he does. Which is very typical of this sort of lazy, shoot-from-the-hip, smartest guy in the room sort of doctor who writes for equally sloppy places like American Thinker. Really good masks would be best, and some people wear them cosmetically, but that does not mean they are only effective against debris and such and are ineffective against viruses. You might ask, oh, every surgeon and hospital infection control supervisor in the country about that. Rather than some guy who thinks that because viruses can get through masks that every bit of them always does and the masks therefore don't help.

To say that because vaccines to not prevent every case they aren't useful is rather like saying that weapons are useless because they don't always slay all your enemies, or that wars aren't real wars if all the people on one side don't die. He has not read the now-abundant literature on the subject, but wants to pontificate about it.

As to the car prices, that is supply chain issues, mostly computer chips, not much attributable to Biden. I don't like the guy and he hasn't helped, but only the inflation piece is even partly under his control at present.

Your first paragraph is simply wrong. All vaccines are only partially effective, but they do reduce illness. (Three of polio is very close to 100%, but that is the gold standard). Everything we do in life is only partially effective, but we do it because of the effect it does have. You - and you are not the only one here - have this bizarre idea in your head about 100% or nothing, which has only come up around covid. It originates in the antivaxx and natural medicine crowd. Read my second paragraph again. It is not just about weapons and wars, but about teaching reading, and flirting with girls, and repenting during Lent, and writing a poem. Everything, everything is partial and we do the best we can. Masks help some. Distancing helps some. Vaccines help a lot more. Ask the people with skin in the game - always my first source.

Anyone find out what kind of practitioner Peter is? There's a dentist in NY with that name, and a psychiatrist in Australia. He could honestly say he has been "treating actual patients" if either of those were true, but that would be "one of the truths people use to lie with," as a friend of mine used to say. Exactly the sort of thing that an intentionally deceptive person - and publication - would leave out.

Yeah, he's the dentist. that's where we're getting our covid info, from an elderly dentist. Great.

@ GoFigure - no, that cute list is not accurate. No one ever claimed a vaccine would do more than reduce incidence, contagion, or symptoms. They guy across the street from you may have believed that, but that doesn't mean it was ever claimed. People very rapidly moved to claiming that various authorities claimed this, because they have their own political and cultural agendas - much more than the CDC, actually.

The real balance question has always been the number of lives saved versus the economic damage. I think that is a legit discussion. But the safety measures were exactly that, saving lives. They did not kill anyone. If you have anyone out there in your "investigation" who is telling you differently, take a walk and never go back to that site again. They are either stupid or lying.

It's not those other people who are the sheeple, dude. It's you. Stop doubling down whenever someone gives you uncomfortable information.