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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

The sickest and the most spiritually miserable people I know are those with Very good insurance coverage and above average incomes. They run to their doctor for the slightest hint of Not feeling well and follow the Doctors advice as though it comes from God. Instead of making a lifestyle change that would most likely solve their wellness issues.

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Ellen, I’m not vaccinated and now not ever getting flu vaccine again. Stopped 2 years ago. Got covid, had sore throat, no cough, no fever, no aches. Went to local urgent care for sore throat thinking I had strep. Tested for covid, flu, strep. Positive for only covid. Took z-pack 5 days but recovered in 3. All that fear about covid is overblown. I’m 73 and did fine. With not taking covid jab, I don’t worry about sudd effects and vax injuries.

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I worked with a large vaccine manufacturer. The comment that stuck with me was “They are never effective, almost all of our product gets thrown out, and we make a fortune as long as we can deliver on time. USG does not care, they just need to spend the money every year.” Indicating zero accountability. Probably 20 years ago. Obviously, this was good information to have, but since I had already been injured in the 60’s, I did not need it.

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Here is one conscientious person who seeks less medical care. I wonder if conscientious people are easier to fool, or do educated people tend to be more trusting of other educated people? The last time I visited the doctor, about a year ago, I mentioned to the nurse that, while I trust doctors and nurses, medicine is broken. She nodded her head and agreed.

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"Just remember that I'm right here with you for the whole ride. I'm holding your hand."

Obviously the most valuable quality for computational-phobic to hang in there but this was especially nice balance of prose to problem solving like a Happy Valentine's Day math lesson thank you!

"This really doesn't look good for the vaccine pushers who are likely aware of every bit of data that I have showing HUB = VE, and plenty more."

Super happy to see what not looking good looks like & understanding what we're looking at! <3

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Or when HUB is finally exposed in no small way as BUB (Brainwashed User Bias), we get to witness the deliberate discharge of liabilities and wealth by the healthiest and "smartest" via clever democide.

It was always harder to kill those with healthier natural immune systems as function of HUB with legacy vaccines, hence the mRNA poisons.

I received an update from the NYC apartment building that we escaped in late 2021 and there have been increases in "sudden" heart attacks and various other deaths; my ex-neighbor said, "there's death all around me." That building resides in one of the most affluent zip codes in the USSA. There's your WUB + EUB rolled up into a great big dying CogDis BUB.

Edit: my ex-neighbor sadly lost her husband to a "sudden" heart attack last week, and adopted her 3rd dog from a "suddenly" dying neighbor no longer able to take care of her beloved pet.

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thanks for a very clear exposition of this effect - it's a surprise to see how significant it is.

I'd be interested to hear your take on the nocebo effect during the covid hysteria. People were scared witless by the pervasive propaganda and many otherwise intelligent individuals seemed to think they would certainly die if they caught Covid. Do you think it's possible to tease out that confounder?

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

If the "vaccines" have zero efficacy, how to explain an elderly "vaccinated" person who tested positive on multiple rapid tests and had no symptoms? Trying to make sense of that (Mom), and don't see any other way to understand it besides that her "vaccines" gave her some protection. (Last dose was months before the positive test).

No doubt that these injections are a criminal disaster and not at all worth the risk, for anyone .. but if there's no efficacy at all .. what about when high risk "vaccinated" people end up doing fine with covid?

(Not defending the injections, jus tryin to make sense of things ... )

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Feb 15, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Great article. And here is one showing the unvaxxed have a 10x higher risk of diabetes

https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/people-unvaccinated-against-covid-at-10-times-higher-risk-of-diabetes/

Does the vax cure diabetes? Or is it that the unvaxxed are on average predisposed to other health conditions? Something tells me that Pfizer isn't going to market their "safe + effective" treatment as a way to prevent diabetes, although if there was something that you took once or twice a year, with no side effects, that reduced diabetes rates by 10x, whoever invented such a thing would make a lot of money!

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

So... that Chinese study says education, healthy body weight, healthy diet, exercise, sleep, regular physical examination, hand washing, using sanitizers, wearing masks, social distancing, decreasing social gathering activities, and abstaining from smoking and drinking were all predictors of vaccination receipt. All of these are risk factors potentially. If you believe in face masks you got a problem. Hand washing definitely does have an effect so that's a big problem...

I've done a lot of research on "confounding by contraindication". It is a whole other beast where the people at highest risk of the adverse outcomes of interest are also the most likely to avoid vaccines. The math gets to be a bit mindboggling. I've modeled it in vaccines and autism. Been too sick to finish it though. Will publish some years from now...TLDR, I can conservatively prove that MMR-autism studies are off by at least a factor of 1.5.

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Feb 14, 2023·edited Feb 14, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Excellent explanation of the effect. I remember Norman Fenton pointing out an artifact in the UK data showing all cause mortality rising in the unvaxxed (way above actuarial life tables) as the rollout ramped up in each age group then converging overtime. If the healthiest were getting vaccinated first and the unhealthy were the stragglers you’d get the hump he pointed out and what looks like “waning” over time as the less healthy join the vaccinated group cancelling out the HUB. However, the official UK narrative is the vulnerable were the ones getting priority access to the vaccines.

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Feb 26, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Mathew, what does it look like if you plot total deaths per capita for each county in 2019 (or a pre-pandemic five year average) against vax rate in say April 2021? Would be interesting to see how the older user bias interacts with the HUB by looking at pre-pandemic death rate and later vaccine take up.

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OK, I tell the mass formationed non-Einsteins, follow along with me here:

a.) What does a vax do? Any vax? Heck, use Edward Jenner's cowpox vax 200 years ago. Just answer me what it does.

b.) Well, says our leftist somnolent wokester dolt (if they even know!), why they give you an attenuated version of the virus, gives you a light case, and it creates antibodies.

c..) Great! I say. Same with the Phfoozer shot, right? (At this point, they know they've been had). They have to agree, cuz that's what a vax does.

d.) So.... tell me, Einstein wokester, HOW LONG does this effect last? Answer: Pfizer is STILL in Phase IV trials, but we don't really know. Maybe 6 months, maybe foreover. Heck, we can't see Pfizer's data for 75 years, so who knows really. But at minimum it is MONTHS. (Oh, and by the way, we DO know, per the Lund University study, that it DOES go into the DNA, and it DOES go into the uterus, testes, crosses the blood brain barrier, etc. but that's all gravy)

e.) So, I say, we are agreed that it stimulates your immune system for a long, long time, right? That's what a vax usually does (just talking the typical vax).

f.) So, dear wokester, go out to your car now with a full tank of gas. Floor it/redline it AND LEAVE the pedal to the metal until the gas runs out, maybe 8 hours. Now, Einstein, what happens to your engine? Of course, it burns it out.

Exactly what the shot does to your immune system. It's called Antibody Dependent Enhancement or Paradoxical Immune Enhancement. They tried making a mRNA vax for the SARS pandemic ~ 15 years ago, gave it to test animals (today, WE and our freaking KIDS are Pfizer's "test animals"); upon re-exposure to another coronavirus a few months later, ALL THE TEST ANIMALS DIED.

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I just ran into a guy the other day who told me a long story about how his digestive health changed for the worse after he started getting yearly colonoscopies at 50...and then how he was misdiagnosed with stage 4 cancer at 55, told he had less than 6 months to live, and put on extremely aggressive chemo treatment that almost killed him...before finding out that it was all a mistake and he only had a benign abdominal tumor that could be removed by surgery.

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Talking specifically about the Flu vax, here in Ontario they push it hard for everyone. Anyone who sees a doctor will have it "strongly recommended" for them to the point where you have to be strong-willed to decline it. But perhaps they push it even harder for people over 50, or people over 60. So I'm curious what percentage of various age groups actually get the flu vax each year. Maybe those between 30 and 50 who see a doctor more often are more likely to get it, but then I'd call it the Paranoid User Bias.

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I don’t understand why alcoholics are “obviously” vaccine averse?

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