I discovered your substack two days ago and I've spent hours reading your articles. What a breath of fresh air!
May I suggest, for revenue purposes, you create more paid-only content? I'm subscribed to a lot of things, yet as a user I can't make economic sense between you publishing everything for free, yet people subscribing (maybe there's a lot of people that see it as a donation... who knows).
If you ever feel revenue is not enough, more subscriber-only posts (or comments for paid subscribers) would incentivize me to buy a membership.
Just food for thought. Thanks a lot for the work you do.
Sidenote: I just subscribed for a year, as a tip for the amazing content you did so far.
Hi Mathew, I am glad you are working assiduously on vaccine safety and effectiveness. I focus on vitamin D and early treatment and so can't properly evaluate the growing number of stories about COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and adverse outcomes. Here are some further items of potential interest:
Eric Starkman on the unseemly haste with which the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine (360,000 pages of information, 4 months) with links to articles on regulatory capture / corruption due to staff seeking lucrative careers in the companies whose products they assess. https://starkmanapproved.com/outsource-the-fda-to-private-equity/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americans-now-say-government-should-take-steps-to-restrict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/ On the suppression of discussion of vitamin D and early treatment as misinformation in the contest of the majority view (governments, companies and an increasingly desperate subset of the public), in the USA there is a marked diversion in the support for government and big-tech efforts to suppress "misinformation" even if it limits freedom of information. In 2018 Democrats and Republicans had similar levels of support for this. In 2021 the Democrats have increased their support while Republicans have reduced it, so there is now a 2:1 ratio between their levels of support for such censorship.
Washington State editorial https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-mandated-vaccinations-who-is-responsible-for-their-risks/ from someone who is struggling to understand what is going on and who expresses very important and I believe totally justified concerns about how the unvaccinated are being blamed for pandemic transmission and resulting harm and death, rather than those suffering from overweight and obesity or who have low vitamin D levels, who suffer most of the harm and death from COVID-19. Likewise why vaccination status is being made the only standard of compliance with the best efforts of society, without regard to (arguably more substantial) infection acquired immunity. Likewise why early treatment is ignored or denigrated. Likewise concerns about vaccinating children. Likewise who is responsible for adverse outcomes in those who were effectively forced into accepting vaccination.
How coronavirus survives for hours in aerosols Chaterjee et al. 2021-08-18 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0059908 - details of droplets drying out leaving viruses with some moisture floating potentially for hours.
I'm sending this to my daughter. She just graduated college with degrees in neurosci & psych. She's rather brilliant (if I do say so myself) and a fantastic writer/editor. Plus, she's as passionate about all this as anybody.
Mathew,
I discovered your substack two days ago and I've spent hours reading your articles. What a breath of fresh air!
May I suggest, for revenue purposes, you create more paid-only content? I'm subscribed to a lot of things, yet as a user I can't make economic sense between you publishing everything for free, yet people subscribing (maybe there's a lot of people that see it as a donation... who knows).
If you ever feel revenue is not enough, more subscriber-only posts (or comments for paid subscribers) would incentivize me to buy a membership.
Just food for thought. Thanks a lot for the work you do.
Sidenote: I just subscribed for a year, as a tip for the amazing content you did so far.
Hi Mathew, I am glad you are working assiduously on vaccine safety and effectiveness. I focus on vitamin D and early treatment and so can't properly evaluate the growing number of stories about COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and adverse outcomes. Here are some further items of potential interest:
"Reports of anaphylaxis after coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination, South Korea", 26 February to 30 April 2021 Eunju Lee et al. 2021-08-18 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.33.2100694 AstraZeneca higher risk than Pfizer. Women at greater risk than men.
Booster 3rd injection improves protection, but the protection from the first two diminishes over time, so why wouldn't this protection diminish over 3 to 6 months as well? (No references or data.) https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-finds-covid-19-vaccine-booster-significantly-lowers-infection-risk-2021-08-22/
Eric Starkman on Israeli ADE research: https://starkmanapproved.com/covid-and-israels-secret-ade-vaccine-risk-data/ cites "Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk for mass vaccination?" Nouara Yahi et al. 20201-08-08 https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/
Eric Starkman on the unseemly haste with which the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine (360,000 pages of information, 4 months) with links to articles on regulatory capture / corruption due to staff seeking lucrative careers in the companies whose products they assess. https://starkmanapproved.com/outsource-the-fda-to-private-equity/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americans-now-say-government-should-take-steps-to-restrict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/ On the suppression of discussion of vitamin D and early treatment as misinformation in the contest of the majority view (governments, companies and an increasingly desperate subset of the public), in the USA there is a marked diversion in the support for government and big-tech efforts to suppress "misinformation" even if it limits freedom of information. In 2018 Democrats and Republicans had similar levels of support for this. In 2021 the Democrats have increased their support while Republicans have reduced it, so there is now a 2:1 ratio between their levels of support for such censorship.
Washington State editorial https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-mandated-vaccinations-who-is-responsible-for-their-risks/ from someone who is struggling to understand what is going on and who expresses very important and I believe totally justified concerns about how the unvaccinated are being blamed for pandemic transmission and resulting harm and death, rather than those suffering from overweight and obesity or who have low vitamin D levels, who suffer most of the harm and death from COVID-19. Likewise why vaccination status is being made the only standard of compliance with the best efforts of society, without regard to (arguably more substantial) infection acquired immunity. Likewise why early treatment is ignored or denigrated. Likewise concerns about vaccinating children. Likewise who is responsible for adverse outcomes in those who were effectively forced into accepting vaccination.
How coronavirus survives for hours in aerosols Chaterjee et al. 2021-08-18 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0059908 - details of droplets drying out leaving viruses with some moisture floating potentially for hours.
I'm sending this to my daughter. She just graduated college with degrees in neurosci & psych. She's rather brilliant (if I do say so myself) and a fantastic writer/editor. Plus, she's as passionate about all this as anybody.
“perhaps I'm a slow worker”
Bahahaha
Moment of levity.