Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fweoqu/some_of_our_top_schools_are_embarrassing/
>>>
>>>
>>> Some of Our Top Schools Are Embarrassing Themselves Over Covid
>>> Why are places like Stanford and Johns Hopkins hosting gatherings of
>>> well-known coronavirus cranks?
>>>
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>>> Stanford University President Jonathan Levin.
>>> Stanford University president Jonathan Levin
>>>
>>> (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
>>> Today, Stanford University is holding an all-day gathering on the Covid
>>> pandemic, with its new president making opening remarks. It’s the second
>>> such meeting at a prestigious university in recent months, after Johns
>>> Hopkins hosted a “symposium on health policy” in September. They may
>>> seem fine on the surface, but both events should be a source of
>>> embarrassment for the institutions involved. (I have a personal stake in
>>> the former gathering: I’m spending my time this fall at Stanford with a
>>> group of wonderful, truly talented researchers, who I hope do not get
>>> sprayed with the stink of this misbegotten affair.)
>>>
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>>>
>>> While the organization and funding for these two meetings isn’t
>>> explicitly linked, the cast of characters at both are eerily similar.
>>> They each feature a collection of well-known Covid contrarians: those
>>> who, in the early days of the pandemic thought we should “let ’er rip”
>>> and get as many people infected as possible, with a performative nod to
>>> protecting the vulnerable; suggested that vaccine and mask mandates were
>>> somehow akin to Nazi totalitarianism; told us not to worry about
>>> variants (“variants, schmariants,” as one of them remarked months before
>>> Delta and Omicron blasted their way through the US); and said we’d have
>>> herd immunity by April 2021.
>>>
>>> If you want just one piece of evidence about the kind of cranks we’re
>>> talking about, consider this: A late addition to the Stanford meeting is
>>> a senior editor of the Epoch Times, a far-right publication that not
>>> only dabbles in Covid conspiracies but is a frequent purveyor of climate
>>> change denialism.
>>>
>>> While the organizers have tried to add a few reasonable voices to the
>>> meeting, it doesn’t change the overall thrust of these gatherings. As
>>> former Texas governor Ann Richards said, “You can put lipstick and
>>> earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it’s still a pig.”
>>>
>>> Health reporters like Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times blew the
>>> whistle on the Stanford conference in mid-September, and others who have
>>> focused on debunking the pseudoscience of this crew have written about
>>> the meetings on both coasts. The faculty at both institutions who are
>>> pushed for and are behind these convocations have defended them on the
>>> grounds of academic freedom—a defense that, in our current era of
>>> freakouts over “cancel culture,” neither Stanford or Hopkins would have
>>> had an easy time overcoming. Chalk one up to the contrarians for putting
>>> these schools in an impossible situation—though that still does not
>>> explain why Stanford’s president feels the need to personally show up today.
>>>
>>> The architects of these meetings come with bags and bags of right-wing
>>> funding, some of it laundered through think tanks and other
>>> institutions. They have met with Trump officials in the White House and
>>> guided Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Covid-19 policy. Some of them
>>> even got a shout-out from Bret Stephens at The New York Times last week.
>>>
>>> They whine on and on about how terribly they’ve been treated, but, far
>>>from being persecuted, they are celebrated on the right, even if the
>>> mainstream members of their professions have, time and time again,
>>> considered their ideas and roundly rejected them on their merits.
>>>
>>> My question is: Why host these meetings now and in these venues?
>>>
>>> Some have suggested this is about “auditioning” for the next Trump
>>> administration as much as it is trying to rewrite the history of the
>>> pandemic. Both are in part probably true. But if you zoom out and think
>>> about these meetings in the context of the right’s war on higher
>>> education, I believe the purpose becomes clearer.
>>>
>>> These Covid contrarians—who have found little support for their views
>>> among their peers—have decided that the science has been turned into “a
>>> dogmatic tool of oppression” for rejecting them. In their minds they are
>>> Galileos against the church, and now they are tilting their fury against
>>> the institutions themselves. This tack is of course reminiscent of the
>>> right’s attacks on the universities as bastions of woke, left-wing
>>> ideology, which either need to be reformed (by hiring more conservative
>>> faculty) or gutted and rebuilt to their liking (e.g., New College of
>>> Florida).
>>>
>>> In this light, these two meetings are about establishing a
>>> beachhead—building credibility in what many of the organizers would
>>> consider the liberal bastions of academia. If you cannot convince your
>>> colleagues of the worth of your arguments, then you can cry out that
>>> you’re being discriminated against for simply having “differing views.”
>>> But things don’t work like that in science: we don’t teach intelligent
>>> design alongside evolution, or alternative theories of the cause of
>>> AIDS. Supporters of those discredited ideas would say we need to “teach
>>> the controversy” and not be dogmatic, but there is no controversy to be
>>> had: the preponderance of the evidence supports evolution and HIV as the
>>> cause of AIDS. Similarly, many of the Covid contrarians’ favorite claims
>>> have withered in the sunlight of scientific scrutiny.
>>>
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>>> But just as the Federalist Society has established influence over law
>>> schools and the judiciary, the Covid contrarians and their supporters
>>> would like to do the same for medicine and public health, by
>>> mainstreaming their views—both in academic settings and then in public
>>> policy—by sheer brute force. They won’t give up, and they have the money
>>> and resources to continue their campaigns. Should former president Trump
>>> regain the White House, their fortunes will rise and these threats to
>>> academic integrity, and to the public health itself (through adoption of
>>> their views in practice) will go into overdrive.
>>>
>>> And for anyone who thinks this is all academic, in mid-September, the
>>> surgeon general of Florida recommended against the use of mRNA Covid
>>> vaccines, just as we’re heading into respiratory virus season,
>>> endangering the lives of the residents of the state with quackery and
>>> pseudoscience. Of course, it’s the same Covid contrarians who have
>>> organized these meetings, who have been advising the DeSantis
>>> administration for several years now on pandemic policy. Shame on them.
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

Source:
https://narkive.com/JC5QyhQt.5

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart

....because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare