USA Today goes full Bagdad Bob in its defense of the genocidal Pharma regime
Number Needed to Vaccinate continues to be the metric that the Stasi do NOT want you to talk about
I got hit by USA Today on Friday. The hit piece was cartoonish and vapid. The “fact checkers” are either getting lazy off of all that Pharma largesse or they’ve had too many neurons killed by too many shots; they are not even trying to make sense anymore.
As someone who is in the public eye whose every keystroke is closely watched by the pharmaceutical industry I’m of course always worried that I might get something wrong. But then when the Stasi swing and miss this badly in reply, well, it lets me know that my analysis was right on target and survived hostile external review without a scratch.
Among the gems by narrative checker Daniel Funke, a recent journalism grad from the University of Georgia:
“There is no evidence to support these claims,” Kit Longley, a Pfizer spokesperson, said of the Gateway Pundit article [that cited my original Substack post]. “The FDA, CDC and health authorities around the world have reviewed data on the vaccine and recommend its use.”
He literally called a Pfizer spokesperson to get the “facts”! 🤡
And then this gem:
Martha Sharan, a spokesperson for the CDC's COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, said in an email that monitoring systems “have found no evidence that COVID-19 vaccination is causing – or contributing to – deaths in children.”
That’s weird because the CDC’s own data, that I linked to, showed there were 128 reports of fatal side effects following mRNA injections in people 12 to 24. It’s up to 148 fatalities now. And we know that this is a significant undercount of the actual total (probably by a factor of 41). (When I wrote my article, these shots were not allowed in children under 12 so that’s why the data only covers people ages 12 to 24.)
It is ghoulish and criminal for the bougie mainstream to try to cover up these fatalities.
Okay but here’s the most fascinating part. My original Substack article was about the Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNTV) in order to prevent a single fatality from coronavirus. NNTV is a standard metric. The FDA’s own guidance document states that a proper risk benefit analysis must estimate absolute risk reduction and NNTV. What I pointed out is that the FDA risk benefit document never used the term NNTV. So then I dug further and discovered that there was no absolute risk reduction in severe outcomes in the Pfizer clinical trial in kids, so the NNTV is infinite (technically speaking it’s “undefined”. NNTV is calculated by dividing 1 by the absolute risk reduction but the absolute risk reduction was zero and one cannot divide by zero). Anyway, the USA Today narrative checker refused to even use the words Number Needed to Vaccinate!
Do you get what a huge concession this is?
My whole point was that the FDA refused to discuss NNTV because the number is so bad that no parent would ever subject their kid to the shot if they knew the actual risks and benefits. And USA Today confirmed that by refusing to even mention the topic of my article in a hit piece about that article. Wow, wow, WOW!!!
One additional point. A very astute reader commented that one could interpret a chart on page 34 of the FDA risk benefit document as suggesting an NNTV of 1,000,000 (in kids 5 to 11) even though the FDA refused to use the term NNTV. My estimate was between 630,775 for 1 shot and 1,261,550 if one is looking at the two-dose regimen.
So on the one hand, USA Today is arguing that any estimate of this standard metric is a vast right wing conspiracy because There is Nothing to See Here(TM). On the other hand, one way of reading the FDA document puts their estimate right in the middle of my range — even though the FDA does not want to talk about it because if people understood the implications of this they would never take the product the FDA is pushing. If NNTV is 1,000,000 then the risks of the shots will obviously outweigh the benefits and the Pfizer EUA application must be rejected — that’s why FDA did not mention it.
Onward. A revolution is coming. And nope, not gonna link to the hit piece, fascists do not deserve clicks.
I rate the USA Today “Narrative Check” 11 clowns (out of 10) for their preposterous defense of a dangerous and deadly product.
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What the mainstream gatekeepers do not seem to realize is that everyone already knows that the Emperor has no clothes. Every time they defend the corrupt established order their credibility sinks even further such that now, no one trusts anything they say anymore. In defending Pharma, the bourgeoisie has destroyed the credibility of the entire "meritocratic" system. All mainstream institutions in the U.S. are now damaged by this taint of corruption and the self-evident inability of the mainstream gatekeepers to course correct or acknowledge their deadly failures.
Keep up the good work, Toby. A revolution _is_ coming.