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Jen Young's avatar

You’re not alone. And thank you for so beautifully articulating it.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Thanks, Jen.

Not easy to go against the grain, but I am grateful to be able to write things that some people read and hopefully consider, such as they are.

I am not mad at Jay or about the appointment. Indeed, I predicted it many months ago to friends and watched the pieces move into place.

That's not a bad or wrong thing. It's politics in America.

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Jennifer Smith, PhD's avatar

While you most certainly have a unique perspective on this, I would contend we most assuredly had a pandemic. There was a testing pandemic. Never before in history have we deployed mass testing of healthy people and defined a supposedly contagious disease solely based on a positive PCR test. There certainly are a lot of questions that remain to be answered but for some there will never be definitive answers.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

"Unique" is one word for it! 😉

If you need mass testing to substantiate a pandemic, is a pandemic by any definition a real thing?

Me: Nope!

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Jennifer Smith, PhD's avatar

The question really is, if you need to test someone to determine if they are 'sick', are they really?

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Bingo.

Sorta like, "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound...?"

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Edward's avatar

Agree! The only consolation is Battacharya would replace the very SS Medical Riech Directors —Ferret Fauci & Country Bumpkin Collins —who smeared Bhattacharya— but beyond that—Pyrrhic Victory — for now, shows us the God Damn stack of death certificates for NYC mass murder

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Recognizing that we are all sinners in need of a Savior, I nevetheless submit that Francis Collins must publicly repent of his simultaneous weaponization, mis-use, and complete ignorance of Scripture with regard to the COVID shot

Every signatory of this statement is due for re-examination https://biologos.org/statement?campaign=539861

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Roc Findlay's avatar

And Francis Collins the liar & hypocrite should NEVER be allowed to sing again.

https://youtu.be/jBopklQUzPQ?feature=shared

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Edward's avatar

Collins bamboozled members of congress with his hokey guitar playing and his “born again Christian” hokum. he fashioned himself as agent of god— appointed to find a “gene” for every disease..this leads to covid scam

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Edward's avatar

If you want to be educated about Francis Collin’s corruption of NIH and his relationship with Pfizer and Illuminia Corp-his usurpation of tax payer dollars poured into “genomics”. must read: Tyranny of the Gene” “Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health” by James Tabery. this shows the lead up to mRNA scam. all of it “in silico “ con

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Michael Carter's avatar

I'm ok with him only because he is so much better than what went before. We still need better/complete separation of church and state. Church being the Covid vaccine producers/worshipers and state being all our health agencies. It's just become one giant corporate health group out for money with the word health buried under all the gold. Dismantling most is probably the only way for us, all the little people, to survive.

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Pete Ross's avatar

Though I walk through the silicon valley of...

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Ron N's avatar

Thank you. Jay doesn't really want to be ostracized from the medical establishment, he just wants to play the hero to certain groups. I guess he's better than some alternatives.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Appreciate your comment

I can't speak to motives or desires - and getting an appointment like this is a huge professional achievement that anyone of his academic pedigree and institutional affiliations would want and should be proud of.

That he has been Heroized is true, of course, but "wanting" to be a Hero is another matter altogether. I would characterzize it as being politically strategic and taking care not to upset too many apple carts.

Looking at it objectively, I don't think it's the case that Jay Bhattacharya holds one set of "actual beliefs" which he keeps at bay for the sake of not upsetting the medical establishment. Every sign points to him believing the things he says about pandemics, lab leaks, the COVID event, mRNA, "focused protection", etc because he really believes those things.

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Ron N's avatar

Valid points. I'm not trying to imply that he's hiding his actual beliefs. But he's a smart man at least capable of considering whether there was really a pandemic, so the fact that he won't even ask those questions while asking other questions that still support the pandemic narrative makes me wonder whether there is some subconscious understanding that he should not upset the powers that be too much. But you're right that it's purely speculation on my part.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Completely agree - and understand whence the inference. You are at least saying out loud what many people do wonder but will not say: Is Jay Bhattacharya nice and naive, or nice and strategic, or nice and compromised, etc?

I prefer to deal more objectively with the positions he has articulated and take those at face value.

The record shows he believes there was a pandemic and that pandemics are an ongoing threat we need to anticipate and for which we should prepare (invest in).

I strongly disagree, as do others.

He thinks the questions we find critical are not criticsl - and has asserted that we are purity-testing by attempting to engage him and others in those questions.

Onlookers shall interpret what transpired as they will and can at least concede my saying I oppose his appointment to NIH Director is unsurprising and consistent with my positions.

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Ron N's avatar

I appreciate your kindness toward others. I've seen his "purity-testing" argument to you before and I don't understand it. It seems evasive and puts you in an unfair position. Where is the "purity" in asking if the whole thing was cooked up? It seems to be more "purity" to ignore that question altogether. If you got me drunk I would probably lean toward "nice and strategic." :)

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Thank you - most people think I am a Mean Girl, so I appreciate hearing the minority perspective on that! 🙃

In the event you start drunk-posting, just use the appropriate emoji signal to let us know. 🥃 🍺 🍷 😉

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Ron N's avatar

Funny. Still can't find the emojis on this thing...

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Tennislady82's avatar

I have these types of discussions with family and friends who want accountability and truth for what happened. However, they can’t get to “Covid” was not a virus. They can’t believe it was all a fraud.

Thanks for pursuing this. You are not alone and those of us with no voice appreciate your work

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Ron N's avatar

Jay knows where his bread is buttered. It's weird that he and his alleged brave covid critic colleagues won't countenance the slightest thought that it was all a hoax. But I guess he's an improvement, sad to say. (I just upgraded to pay.)

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

When one of your high-profile predecessors is Francis Collins, there is nowhere to go but up. :)

The problem is not so much that Jay Bhattacharya believes the WHO pandemic declaration was justified and caused by a lab leak from GoF research, it is that he believes there is no debate/no worthy debate currently to be had around the pandemic question.

As far as I can tell, most serious analysts among COVID Dissidents agree with him.

It's an odd thing when two outlets known for their "scepticism" and willingness to publish opinions the mainstream media reject a reasonable proposition for robust discourse around a key question:

https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/question-everything-except-that-thing

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Ron N's avatar

Sorry I posted this because I didn't think my previous post showed up, still figuring out substack.

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