Alex Berenson

2022-08-25 21:49:55 I will keep saying this until someone pays attention: NO ONE EXPECTED DEATHS TO REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL ONCE COVID DEATHS FELL.

In fact, demographers and scientists generally assumed the opposite would occur. Covid deaths typically occur in people near the end of their lives, either from advanced age, morbid obesity, or other severe comorbidities. So demographic experts generally imagined deaths would run below average for months or years after Covid ended or nearly nearly ended.

Instead the opposite has occurred. (2/4) Open / Comment

2022-08-25 21:49:42 Another week with deaths far above normal in Europe
Excess deaths are now HIGHER continent-wide in 2022 than either 2020 or 2021 - even with Covid deaths far lower.

The strange and seemingly unending rise in all-cause deaths in the mRNA vaccinated countries continues.

This morning, European researchers released their most recent weekly report on deaths across the continent:

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The countries that report to this network include all the large countries in Western Europe. Week after week in 2022, they have posted death counts well above normal.

Overall deaths are now higher at this point in 2022 than they were at the same point in either 2020 or 2021. (1/4) Open / Comment

2022-08-23 18:59:20 Journalists who hate journalists (and journalism)

The gold mine that is Berenson v. Twitter keeps spitting nuggets:

It wasn’t just the White House that was after me last year… my fellow members of the Fourth Estate were in touch with Twitter too. (It appears that at some point, Twitter’s Trust & Safety Team turned into the Dealing With Angry Karens Unit, and then it became the Easier To Switch Than Fight Division.)

Without further ado, here’s CNN’s one and only Oliver Darcy, complaining to Twitter in August 2021 that it was “promoting” me. Twitter was doing lots of things to me in August 2021; promoting wasn’t one:

And here’s Ashley Gold, a “tech and policy reporter” at Axios, more or less begging Twitter to jam me.

Ashley and Oliver appear to be firm believers in the ever-popular doctrine of “free speech is for me, not for thee”.

More to come… Open / Comment

2022-08-23 00:14:41 Jesse Jackson can't swim*

*Don't shoot me, it's the punchline to an old (and not racist) joke

When he was running for President, Jesse Jackson used to say that if he walked on water, the next day’s headlines would proclaim “Jesse Can’t Swim.”

I’m starting to understand how he felt.

(Email chain among Twitter employees, March 14 and 15, 2021, before the White House began applying months of public and private pressure to force the company to ban my account: “He avoids making demonstrably false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines.”)

(Yes, this is a new document from Berenson v. Twitter. Also, what’s blocked in blue is also very interesting - more to come on that.)

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2022-08-22 20:08:02 With Covid death rates plunging in 2022, vaccine advocates have tried to give the mRNA jabs the credit, claiming endlessly that the shots reduce deaths and severe outcomes even after they stop working against disease.

But considerable circumstantial evidence - both epidemiologic and cellular - suggests otherwise. Among the most important points:

Deaths have fallen even faster in countries that did NOT use the mRNA jabs;

In most mRNA countries, deaths are now overwhelmingly in the vaccinated;

Highly mRNA vaccinated countries that did not have earlier Covid waves, such as Australia and New Zealand, have had some of the highest death rates this year, suggesting that immunity from earlier infections rather than the shots is crucial to reducing deaths;

Studies of cellular-level immunity suggest that the mRNA shots do not build T-cell immunity against Omicron - which is the major theoretical reason they might reduce deaths even after they fail against infections.

Now this paper builds on the evidence that Paxlovid - which has been given to millions of Covid patients around the world - is playing an important role in the drop in deaths this year.

And who makes and sells Paxlovid? Pfizer, of course!

Yes, the same company that has sold tens of billions of dollars in mRNA vaccines that do little against Omicron and may actually increase the risk of infection with new variants over time. Now it’s now selling tens of billions of dollars in an anti-viral pill that - for now - does seem to work against every variant. Further, Paxlovid is likely to add to Pfizer’s profits for years, even as demand for the vaccines collapses.

Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief executive, may no longer be the world’s favorite veterinarian - as the hammering he took last week after announcing on Twitter he had Covid suggested.

But Paxlovid’s success suggests that he remains a very, very lucky man. (4/4) Open / Comment

2022-08-22 20:07:52 Again, these patients had Omicron, not Delta or another variant. Their average age was only 57. They received advanced medical care. They were not healthy but by the standards of American middle age not particularly unhealthy either. Only about 20 percent were obese, and a similar number diabetic.

The researchers did not include a unvaccinated group in the study, so even a theoretical comparison of jabbed to unjabbed people is impossible. But a 1 percent death rate in this group of people is hardly impressive evidence that the vaccines work to prevent severe disease and death.

The study was a review of medical records and not a randomly controlled clinical trial, so it does not prove that Paxlovid caused the reductions. The patients who received Paxlovid might have been subtly different than those who did not.

But the study supports the findings of Pfizer’s clinical trial of Paxlovid, which showed a similarly sized benefit last year. But Pfizer ran that trial only in unvaccinated people, leading some researchers to question whether the medicine would work as well in the vaccinated. This paper suggests it does. (3/4) Open / Comment

2022-08-22 20:07:37 In two equally sized and carefully matched groups of vaccinated people with Omicron at high risk for Covid complications, none of those who received Paxlovid died over the next 30 days - compared to 10 people who did not get the medicine. The people who received Paxlovid also had about a 45 percent lower chance of visiting a hospital emergency room.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that death and hospitalization rates were strikingly high among the vaccinated people who did NOT receive Paxlovid, even though they were relatively young. The researchers tracked 1,130 people in each group, so 10 deaths is a mortality rate of almost 1 percent in the group that didn’t receive Paxlovid.

(Ten dead is more than zero dead:) (2/4) Open / Comment

2022-08-20 18:21:58 Unfortunately, the ministry does not provide any information on the causes of death in any age range, so it is impossible to determine whether myocarditis or other cardiac conditions played a major role in the higher-than-expected figures.

Further, the number of extra deaths is very small on an absolute basis and could be due to chance, as the ministry explains. Again, though, deaths in vaccinated people should be well below normal in the days following vaccination, not above.

Just another potential red flag about the mRNAs health authorities around the world seem to have no interest in pursuing. (4/4) Open / Comment

2022-08-20 18:21:51 But for people under 30, and especially between 10 and 19, the data present a very different picture.

Not only were deaths not lower in vaccinated people in those age ranges in the three weeks after the shot, they were actually higher after the first dose. The shift between the under 30 and over 30 groups is remarkable. (The fact no one under 10 is included in the “observed death” category may represent reporting lag.)

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The higher death rates continued for people under 20 after the second dose, though not for people between 20 and 30.

So what’s specifically behind the deaths? At this point we don’t know. (3/4) Open / Comment

2022-03-02 19:17:29 If I decide to do this, I will look to raise money to back the suit. I don’t actually think it will be particularly expensive, but I would like as many small donations as possible, mainly to show how many people think equating speech with terrorism is a travesty and must stop.

I assume there will be money left over, potentially lots - it can go to some worthy free speech cause.

In the meantime, please join me here: Open / Comment