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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1kn24i0
a_ragtag_group_of_covid_truthtellers_go_to/
>>>
>>>
>>> A Ragtag Group of Covid Truth-Tellers Go to Washington
>>>
>>> Kelley Krohnert, a wife and mother who lives just outside Atlanta,
>>> started a website in 2020 to hold government agencies accountable for
>>> their Covid data. (Kendrick Brinson for The Free Press)
>>> During the pandemic, they were ostracized. Now, they’re influencing
>>> public policy.
>>> By Carrie McKean
>>> 05.14.25 — Health and Self-Improvement
>>> --:--
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>>> Upgrade to Listen
>>> 5 mins
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>>> 211
>>> Earlier this week, we ran a collection of pieces by the new leaders of
>>> American public health—doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Vinay
>>> Prasad—all of whom just happen to have contributed to The Free Press.
>>> Five years ago, they raised serious questions in our pages about
>>> lockdowns, shuttered schools, and vaccine mandates—questions for which
>>> they were vilified. Now, all of them have been not only vindicated, but
>>> promoted to some of the highest offices in public health. But these
>>> leaders are only part of the story. Behind them is a ragtag group of
>>> ordinary Americans who also asked questions during the Covid era, and
>>> kept asking them, even though they were belittled, discredited, and
>>> ostracized. In today’s piece, reporter Carrie McKean profiles these
>>> individuals, and asks them: How can we move forward? How can these new
>>> leaders restore our faith in public health?
>>> —The Editors
>>>
>>>
>>> Five years ago, Kelley Krohnert, a wife and mother who lives just
>>> outside Atlanta and runs a small photography business, was, like most of
>>> us, filled with dread and confusion. It was the early days of Covid. At
>>> the time, the Georgia Health Department wasn’t keeping a public record
>>> of the number of cases. So Kelley, who’s in her forties, began plugging
>>> numbers she saw on the news into her own spreadsheet and started a
>>> website, Covid-Georgia.com, to share her data, gaining a wide following
>>> on Twitter (now X) under the handle @KelleyKGa.
>>>
>>> It didn’t take long for Krohnert to start noticing statistical errors,
>>> which grew only more common as time went on. The CDC’s own “unofficial”
>>> Covid Data Tracker of cases from across the nation often reported higher
>>> pediatric death counts than the official numbers on the National Center
>>> for Health Statistics website. And the media often reported those higher
>>> numbers. As time went on, the CDC reported that 4 percent of Covid
>>> deaths were children, when their own data showed it was .04 percent. In
>>> 2022, she discovered that a frightening study cited by the CDC during
>>> its push for a pediatric Covid vaccine vastly inflated the disease’s
>>> risk to children; for example, it compared 26 months of Covid-associated
>>> deaths to one year of deaths from other causes.
>>>
>>>
>>> “These were mistakes and errors a middle-school student wouldn’t make,”
>>> Krohnert said of errors she found in CDC Covid data. (Angela Weiss/AFP
>>> via Getty Images)
>>> “These were mistakes and errors a middle-school student wouldn’t make,”
>>> Krohnert told me. She didn’t start out with any inherent suspicion of
>>> the government. She expected officials to be a trusted source of
>>> information and to deliver level-headed guidance. But the more she
>>> burrowed into the Covid numbers, the more problems she saw. And
>>> remarkably, all the errors she identified made things seem worse and
>>> more dangerous than they were.
>>>
>>> Krohnert did get some recognition and vindication. After she alerted the
>>> authors of the study about their errors regarding Covid’s risks to
>>> children, they immediately made corrections, and the CDC eventually
>>> stopped claiming Covid was one of the top five killers of children. Yet
>>> Krohnert said the agency never responded to her directly. It also
>>> characterized her as just “a person with a web page or a blog” in an
>>> email that became public following an FOIA request to the study’s
>>> authors. And it plowed ahead with approval of the childhood Covid
>>> vaccine. After Krohnert replied to a post by Surgeon General Jerome
>>> Adams that defended Covid vaccine trials, he posted a thread. “You trust
>>> your electrician / plumber / tax preparer. You should trust your doc,”
>>> Adams wrote.
>>>
>>> As for the inflated case numbers? Eventually, the CDC quietly removed
>>> 72,277 misattributed deaths from the Covid Data Tracker, a data
>>> correction attributed to Krohnert’s advocacy by The BMJ (formerly the
>>> British Medical Journal).
>>>
>>> Looking back now through the fog of Covid, it is easy to overlook the
>>> data nerds, virologists, epidemiologists, and ordinary citizens like
>>> Krohnert who, scattered across the country, doggedly fact-checked the
>>> U.S. government. For their efforts, they were censored and shadow-banned
>>> on social media, scorned by polite society, and discredited as
>>> dangerous, science-denying conspiracy theorists by high-level government
>>> officials and the mainstream media. But they persisted, and 40 to 50 of
>>> them eventually connected on Twitter, creating an informal group they
>>> dubbed “Rational Ground/Team Reality.”
>>>
>>>
>>> In 2022, Kelly Krohnert discovered that a study cited by the CDC during
>>> its push for a pediatric Covid vaccine vastly inflated the disease’s
>>> risk to children. (Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Images)
>>> And since then, times have changed. Today, Team Reality is seeing their
>>> recommendations adopted by the federal government.
>>>
>>> One of the medical experts who broke with the consensus during the
>>> pandemic and joined forces with Rational Ground, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a
>>> professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, is
>>> now the director of the National Institutes of Health. Two weeks ago, in
>>> one of his first official actions, Bhattacharya announced that the NIH
>>> will accelerate the rollout of a plan to make available to the public
>>> all data gathered from taxpayer-funded NIH scientific research studies.
>>> It’s a policy recommendation consistently put forth by members of
>>> Rational Ground.
>>>
>>> “I believe very strongly that the products and data produced by
>>> scientific projects paid for by the public should be available to the
>>> public,” Bhattacharya told me in an email. Just 26 percent of Americans
>>> have a great deal of confidence that scientists are working for the
>>> public good, a recent poll found. Bhattacharya said rebuilding that
>>> fractured trust is at the core of what he must accomplish in his new job.
>>>
>>>
>>> “It was a kind of pinch-me moment,” said Justin Hart, a 53-year-old data
>>> and marketing consultant based in San Diego, about a gathering a few
>>> weeks ago with Bhattacharya near Washington to celebrate the appointment
>>> of the “fringe epidemiologist,” as he was baselessly called by former
>>> NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, to run the agency.
>>>
>>> Just two years ago, Hart, his wife Jenny, their toddler daughter, and
>>> Bhattacharya had walked the halls of Capitol Hill, passing out a
>>> one-page Rational Ground advocacy sheet and fruitlessly seeking
>>> conversations with lawmakers willing to consider their heterodox views.
>>>
>>> Hart and Bhattacharya connected in the early days of the pandemic thanks
>>> to mutual friends at Stanford. A small group gathered to meet after
>>> reading an article by Dr. John Ioannidis, a Stanford statistician and
>>> professor of biomedical data science. He said some of the same things
>>> they had all been thinking, including his warning in March 2020 that
>>> public-health officials were making consequential decisions without good
>>> data and calling the Covid response a potential “fiasco in the making.”
>>>
>>> From there, Team Reality grew. They became supporters of the Great
>>> Barrington Declaration, a document written by Bhattacharya and two
>>> colleagues, advocating for focused protection for those most vulnerable
>>> to Covid, and a return to close-to-normal life for the rest of society.
>>> The team plowed ahead with their advocacy, taking solace in their ragtag
>>> community when they faced the scorn of the mainstream.
>>>
>>> “We had people who were apolitical, people who were Democrats, people
>>> who were very conservative Republicans,” said Hart. “It’s amazing how
>>> unifying it can be when the government starts pushing around our kids
>>> and impinging our freedoms.”
>>>
>>>
>>> Matt Shapiro, who goes by the handle @PoliticalMath on X, describes
>>> himself as a right-of-center, “insatiably curious”
>>> artificial-intelligence engineer. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)
>>> Matt Shapiro, who goes by the handle @PoliticalMath on X and lives
>>> outside Atlanta, signed up early in the pandemic to process data for The
>>> Atlantic’s Covid Tracking Project, the most complete data repository of
>>> Covid’s impact in the U.S. Shapiro describes himself as a
>>> right-of-center, “insatiably curious” artificial-intelligence engineer
>>> with a background in data management, and he was eager to put his
>>> data-mining skills to work for the common good. His work became a
>>> “full-time Covid hobby,” he said. Shapiro joined other volunteers—“good
>>> people trying to do an important thing”—to input data, analyze trends,
>>> and make data-based recommendations to help shape public health.
>>>
>>> But when the data told a story that contradicted the Centers for Disease
>>> Control and Prevention’s recommendations, for example, that Covid spread
>>> as quickly in places with mask mandates as it did in places without
>>> them, his mostly left-leaning colleagues on the team went silent. “All
>>> my data friends that I had made doing all this work together were just
>>> like, ‘Not touching that,’?” he recalled.
>>>
>>> Shapiro said he was mocked and isolated for questioning the predominant
>>> narrative that shuttering schools and businesses was lifesaving. More
>>> alarming to him were the massive implications such conformity had for
>>> society. “That’s not the story we’re telling ourselves about who we
>>> are,” he told me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tracking Covid data became Matt Shapiro’s “full-time hobby” during the
>>> pandemic, he said. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)
>>> It was different with Rational Ground/Team Reality. Members of the group
>>> worked to provide data for Dr. Scott Atlas, a Covid adviser during the
>>> first Trump administration, who used their findings to refute CDC
>>> assessments at briefings. They advised governors and state-level Covid
>>> task forces, like that of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and federal
>>> lawmakers such as Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Dan Crenshaw of Texas, all
>>> Republicans. They held regional gatherings and relentlessly pursued
>>> grassroots campaigns to correct and call out errors wherever they found
>>> them.
>>>
>>> In such a diverse group, there was often sharp disagreement. “We’ve had
>>> people rage-quit,” said Hart. “Like in any human endeavor, we definitely
>>> have our moments where people don’t see things in the same way, but we
>>> had an open forum where we felt like we could hash it out and discuss
>>> things.”
>>>
>>>
>>> Five years later, Team Reality is still advocating for institutional
>>> reforms based on what they saw during the pandemic. Under the leadership
>>> of Bhattacharya, some of those changes are already happening. They want
>>> safeguards to protect the American people from overreaching government
>>> authority, and they think that constraining power and increasing
>>> transparency will ultimately help restore trust in public health.
>>>
>>> To achieve this, they want public-health policy discussions to be
>>> robust, with dissenting voices and a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis
>>> of any public-health policy proposal before it becomes enforceable, even
>>> in emergency situations.
>>>
>>>
>>> “Government scientists do not have a monopoly on the truth,” NIH
>>> director Jay Bhattacharya told The Free Press. (Andrew Harnik via Getty
>>> Images)
>>> “Public health policy decisions need a high quality of evidence
>>> demonstrating a good amount of benefit for a small amount of
>>> imposition,” said Krohnert. “With Covid, we got the opposite:
>>> low-quality evidence demonstrating a small amount of benefit with
>>> massive impositions and untold costs.”
>>>
>>> They also call for radical transparency. Because CDC guidance during
>>> Covid was often based on desired outcomes rather than actual data-driven
>>> science, Shapiro said, data from any publicly funded study should be
>>> publicly available. “If you collect data with our taxpayer money, it’s
>>> our data, and you should have to show it to us, rather than only showing
>>> it if it achieves some end-policy goal,” he said.
>>>
>>> Bhattacharya agrees. “Government scientists do not have a monopoly on
>>> the truth, which is most likely to be found by a spirit of open-minded
>>> investigation, including by members of the public with access to the
>>> same data as public-health officials,” he told me.
>>>
>>> Humility is an uncommon virtue for top government officials, but
>>> Bhattacharya knows better than most how the experts can get things
>>> wrong. “On topic after topic. . . Rational Ground analysts outperformed
>>> and corrected government agencies,” he told me. “Rational Ground often
>>> relied on data that agencies like the CDC had made publicly available to
>>> correct the CDC itself on its misinterpretations of its own data.”
>>>
>>>
>>> Matt Shapiro said he was mocked and isolated for questioning the
>>> predominant narrative during Covid that shuttering schools and
>>> businesses was lifesaving. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)
>>> Opening the data to the public could help extremists misrepresent data
>>> and take it out of context, but the benefits outweigh the risks, said
>>> Krohnert. “Blocking access to data is not going to prevent bad actors
>>>from spreading misinformation. If anything, it adds fuel to the fire,
>>> because they can make up what they want and claim it’s from some study
>>> the government ‘doesn’t want you to see,’?” she said.
>>>
>>> Other hoped-for reforms go far beyond data reporting. It’s about what
>>> gets studied to begin with. During the pandemic, policy decisions with
>>> enormous effects, such as universal masking or standing six feet apart,
>>> we now know were based on flawed research, or often just guesswork. But
>>> according to Hart, the federal health agencies resisted funding studies
>>> that might refute CDC recommendations.
>>>
>>> Then there is the matter of institutional conflicts of interest. For
>>> example, Hart was dismayed to learn that the same people who sit on NIH
>>> grant committees to decide where funding goes also make policy
>>> recommendations.
>>>
>>> Such conflicts are a problem. After watching the CDC make so many
>>> errors—and always in the same direction—Krohnert co-wrote a paper for
>>> the open-access Social Science Research Network, with Dr. Vinay Prasad,
>>> the new head of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics
>>> Evaluation and Research, calling for a firewall between the government
>>> entities that gather statistics and those setting policy as a shield
>>> against “real or perceived systematic bias.”
>>>
>>> Krohnert also thinks there need to be better conversations about the
>>> nature and efficacy of CDC recommendations, which can be overly cautious
>>> and reflect a low tolerance for risk, such as its recommendation not to
>>> eat raw cookie dough. As a result, the general public often ignores the
>>> CDC’s advice.
>>>
>>>
>>> “Blocking access to data is not going to prevent bad actors from
>>> spreading misinformation,” Krohnert said. “If anything, it adds fuel to
>>> the fire.” (Kendrick Brinson for The Free Press)
>>> Since their recommendations can take on the force of law, official
>>> recommendations by the CDC ought to include room for dissent—or at least
>>> some wiggle room, depending on the circumstances, Krohnert said. For
>>> example, a recommendation to wear masks to prevent the spread of disease
>>> might come with a qualification that it might not be appropriate in
>>> every situation, so that pediatric speech-therapy clinics and preschools
>>> needn’t worry about getting sued for failing to follow the agency’s advice.
>>>
>>> And though they do want sweeping reform, Team Reality don’t want to burn
>>> the house down completely. Krohnert said she doesn’t want to render the
>>> CDC useless. Just the opposite. She believes that Americans need
>>> entities they can trust, though government power usually should be
>>> limited to the ability to recommend and not compel.
>>>
>>> “Public-health enforcing isolation of very sick, very contagious people
>>> is not particularly controversial,” she said. “But during Covid, we had
>>> public-health enforcing quarantine of healthy individuals.
>>>
>>> “We just seemed to skip over all the ethics of that.”
>>>
>>> There is, understandably, some concern that, as the editors of The Free
>>> Press wrote yesterday in an editorial about public health, “this
>>> administration’s approach to reform often uses a hacksaw when a scalpel
>>> is called for.” And yet, the people Trump has selected to lead the NIH,
>>> CDC, and FDA are highly credentialed, well-respected, and extremely
>>> competent, and they are advocating policies that are as careful as they
>>> are radical. “These aren’t Robespierre lieutenants being elevated to
>>> judge, jury, and executioner when the revolution was won,” said Hart.
>>> “These are the people who should’ve been running things in the first
place.”
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
USENET source:
https://newsgrouper.org/sci.med.cardiology/204802/204824
Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2028 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
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