Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> Gregg Gonsalves
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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 !
>
> Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

Just please do likewise as our LORD Jesus & I have done for you,
Michael, and http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be
https://bit.ly/Wonderfully_Hungrier more blessed by GOD right now
(Luke 6:21a).