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by Florin_Andrei 1767 days ago
> there are billions of dollars of economic incentives for suppression of early treatment, because vaccines are still under EUA that could be questioned by the availability of therapeutics with decades of safety data

Conspiracy theory. Rather old and naive, I should add.

Zero Hedge is a cesspool of pseudo-science when it comes to COVID. The best data source can be twisted into complete nonsense when folks have political agendas - so namedropping JHU in that context is just empty rhetoric.

Well, maybe it's not "empty" rhetoric, since clearly some naive folks are persuaded by it.
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betwixthewires 1767 days ago
What you're doing is called a character attack. I agree with you about zero hedge, but that doesn't change what you're doing. A character attack is usually used when one doesn't have a counterpoint against the point being countered.

"There are financial incentives to sell vaccines" might be a conspiracy theory, but anyone not considering this reality a factor is delusional. I don't think they're selling us snake oil and scaring us into getting it, but there is definitely a motive beyond (but probably including) public health and that is to recoup the cost of development of the vaccine, at the very least.

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Florin_Andrei 1767 days ago
If you don't make it clear that bullshit is bullshit, if you pretend like it belongs to the realm of sanity, then the debate becomes a farce - some kind of Monty Python absurd comedy.
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betwixthewires 1766 days ago
Sure, but "there are financial incentives to push vaccines" is not bullshit. It is very real, and probably a non negligible factor in how the PR around them is being handled. Not to say public health is not a factor, probably the largest factor, but profit is always a factor as well and in this case would be a very real perverse incentive.
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Florin_Andrei 1766 days ago
Drowning in details, missing the larger point that actually matters - are you a software engineer?
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walterbell 1767 days ago
Is there a better analysis of cross-region variations in Delta cases and deaths in India, which identifies non-Ivermectin factors for the difference in outcomes?
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