This Week in Murderous Tikvah Tablet Vaccine Denialism (8/15)
David Shasha
Tikvah Tablet The Scroll Reads a Poll Blaming the Educated for Vaccine Denialism
On Tuesday our Trumpist friends at Tikvah Tablet The Scroll were on the job again:
https://mailchi.mp/1f18537f770a/what-happened-today-june-16-809245?e=4b6f9b46a8
Here is the very confused note:
The most “vaccine hesitant” group in the United States is
people with PhDs, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University
and the University of Pittsburgh. While “the largest decrease in hesitancy
between January and May by education group was in those with a high school education,”
the study finds hesitancy held steady over the same period among the holders of
postdoctoral degrees.
Read it here: https://www.upmc.com/media/news/072621-king-mejia-vaccine-hesitancy
Indeed, I had to waste a lot of time trying to actually figure this one out:
The study also highlights key differences in hesitancy by race and age subgroups. For example, in May, younger Black people are more hesitant than younger white people, while the reverse is true in older populations. Generally, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was higher among the young (ages 18-24), non-Asian people and less educated (high school diploma or less) adults, and those with Ph.D.s, with a history of a positive COVID-19 test, not worried about serious illness from COVID-19 and living in regions with greater support for Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
The syntax of the final part of the list is rather confusing. Are the PhDs Trumpers? The UPMC post does not go into detail on the Trump factor and does not explain who these PhDs actually are.
The following article from Forbes makes things somewhat clearer:
This is their breakdown based on an NPR/PBS/Marist poll:
Republican men: 49%.
Trump supporters: 47%.
Republicans: 41%.
White men without a college degree: 40%.
White evangelicals: 38%.
Latinos: 37%.
Rural Americans: 36%.
Generation Z and Millennials: 36%.
Naturally, given their White Jewish Supremacist proclivities, there is no mention of the problem of the unvaccinated in many New York Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, as we see in the following Bloomberg report:
I am really not sure about the PhD thing, but the Tikvah Tablet implication is that it is not uneducated Trumpers who are the problem, but the very Ivy Leaguers that the Whore of Trump and her minions hold in such contempt:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/dont-go-to-college-do-this-instead
I tried to find other media outlets who picked up the Pittsburgh report, but could only find this from something called the UnHerd:
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/
I then, naturally, had to find out about the UnHerd:
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-weird-history-of-the-cow-site
The media has become quite weird in our time, and it is necessary to sniff out the wingnuts.
So, who knows if the UnHerd is wingnut or not.
But the PhD thing does seem to be a Gaslight from the Right in a way that twists the research in order to favor Trump.
The Ongoing Shame of Alana Newhouse: Defending Trumpscum Rand Paul
As the country sinks further into the Delta Variant Crisis, the Whore of Trump shows us what she is really made of:
https://mailchi.mp/2ee96dd98e2d/what-happened-today-june-16-809261?e=4b6f9b46a8
Wednesday’s lead story in Tikvah Tablet The Scroll was not about the crisis and the toll it is taking on the country, it was about the venal Rand Paul:
The most far-reaching campaign of censorship in modern
U.S. history caught up to Sen. Rand Paul Tuesday when YouTube suspended his
account after he posted a video questioning the effectiveness of cloth masks in
preventing COVID-19. Paul blamed “left-wing cretins” at YouTube for suspending
him over a video that he said “quotes two peer-reviewed articles saying cloth
masks don’t work.” The Google-owned company’s COVID-19 misinformation policy
prohibits content that “contradicts local health authorities or the World Health
Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19.” But that means that
by YouTube’s own criteria, Paul could have been banned for endorsing masks last
year when the WHO was still officially against them.
Paul’s suspension comes as the federal government pressures digital information
brokers such as Google and Twitter to go after supposed political extremists
and spreaders of COVID-19-related “misinformation,” labeling them dangers to
public health and national security and pushing them out of the public square.
Last week Twitter banned the account of a popular right-wing character calling
himself “Bronze Age Pervert,” whose persona mixing Nietzscheanism and
reactionary prejudices with online meme culture had garnered him 70,000
followers. Aside from being controversial, there’s no evidence that BAP, as he
was known, had endorsed violence or broken any laws. Twitter has not provided a
reason why the account was banned. The bans are also targeting people with no
public controversy around them, merely for expressing dissenting or unpopular
views. Alex Gutentag, an Oakland public school teacher and left-wing writer who
has contributed to Tablet, recently had her Twitter account suspended for 10
days for what Gutentag says was simply citing “publicly available data.”
Read it here: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/11/rand-paul-youtube-ban-face-masks-503742
It is difficult to understate just what a Trumpscum killer Paul is:
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/sen-rand-paul-claim-trump-incited-capitol-riot-is-big-lie
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article253378148.html
We will recall his recent exchange with Trumpenemy Dr. Fauci, where he showed his true Tikvah Tablet-approved conspiracy lies:
“If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you”!
The liar is a key part of the Trumpublican Sedition Caucus, and an enemy of public safety measures:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-rand-paul-continues-making-false-claims-2020/story?id=75446712
And corrupt as well, as we learned this week when it was reported that his wife bought stock in Remdesivir in true Insider Trader fashion, which was later approved by the FDA as a COVID therapeutic:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/politics/rand-paul-wife-stock-gilead-sciences/index.html
KA-CHING!
The Whore of Trump is ignoring the ongoing threats presented by Paul and his Lysol allies, and seeking to keep him on YouTube so he can continue to spread his specious lies:
We have seen how this COVID Sedition works in real time, as the Trumpmobs are now attacking those who support life-saving Mask Mandates for children returning to school:
https://news.yahoo.com/anti-mask-tennessee-parents-caught-161834776.html
Rather than commending YouTube, Tikvah Tablet is condemning it:
Paul’s suspension comes as the federal government pressures digital information brokers such as Google and Twitter to go after supposed political extremists and spreaders of COVID-19-related “misinformation,” labeling them dangers to public health and national security and pushing them out of the public square.
Given that Tikvah is all about White Jewish Supremacy, it is little wonder that there is a healthy dose of PILPUL false equivalence whataboutism added to the mix:
But that means that by YouTube’s own criteria, Paul could
have been banned for endorsing masks last year when the WHO was still
officially against them.
We continue to wonder what the Whore of Trump would have done in the face of Nazi demagoguery in the 1930s:
“Fake News” was one of their favorite tactics to promote lies and racism.
We know that Rand Paul is all in with the Alt-Right neo-Nazis and Klansmen:
https://praiseindy.com/433241/5-reasons-rand-paul-is-a-racist-conspiracy-theorist/
This is the filth that is supported by Tablet magazine.
America can just go to hell!
Vaccine Denialism from a Neo-Con ROOSKIE Comedian!
On Wednesday we got this gem from the Mothership:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/vaccines-konstantin-kisin
I had never heard of the ROOSKIE author, so I googled him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Kisin
He is a perfect Zalman Bernstein fit:
In 2018 Kisin made headlines when he refused to sign a "behavioural agreement" form explaining a "no tolerance policy" with regard to racism, sexism, classism, ageism, homophobia, biphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-religion and anti-atheism[2] when asked to perform at a fundraising gig for UNICEF at SOAS, University of London. The form explained those topics were not banned, but stated the topics should be discussed in a "respectful and non-abusive way" and must be presented in a way that is "kind".[3][4] After Kisin refused to agree to those terms and chose not to perform, the UNICEF on Campus society at SOAS apologised and clarified they did not wish to "impose that guests would have to agree to anything they do not believe in". The SOAS Students' Union said that it did not require external speakers to sign any contract before appearances, and that the UNICEF on Campus society had been "overzealous" in interpreting the guidelines.[5][6][7][8]
Now that is some Tikvah Rufo Institute CV!
I predict that he will have a big future in the cabal.
Maybe he will get a gig at the Bari Weiss Substack!
The article is a whiplash-inducing PILPUL that recounts all the things that were not supposed to happen in order to assert that the vaccines are not safe:
Imagine you’re a normal person. The year is 2016. Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media. You believe polls are broadly reflective of public opinion. You believe doctors and scientists are trustworthy and independent. You’re a decent, reasonable person who follows the rules and trusts the authorities.
Of course, doctors and scientists are not trustworthy – unless they are whackjob Norman Doidge:
https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/norman-doidge
That is who we should trust!
Our Tikvah ROOSKIE pal decides that the vaccine deniers are “normal” and not seditionists:
The supposedly racist conspiracy theory that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan is now also open for discussion. It even looks like the most credible explanation of the origins of the virus. Imagine your horror as you learn that the reason thousands of people died in the first wave of the pandemic was that elderly patients with COVID were allowed, and sometimes compelled, to be released back into nursing homes. In fact, it was a personal decision by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, brother of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo. Gov. Cuomo’s publisher later suspends promotion of a book he wrote in the meantime. It’s about his leadership during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Texas and Florida, which largely remained open and avoided draconian lockdowns, seem to have made out OK. Kids have been going to school, businesses have stayed open. You look at COVID death rates by state, and neither Florida nor Texas cracks the top half.
That wingnut Trumpist flourish is about a good a précis of the Tikvah Tablet Lysol worldview as you can get.
Caring for your neighbor by getting the vaccine is definitely not the Whore of Trump way!
White Racist Wingnuts: The Tikvah Tablet Idea of Empiricism
This is what Tikvah Tablet believes is Empirical:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assault-empiricism-wilfred-reilly
Because the Empirical is what The Tikvah Fund is all about.
Just ask Norman Doidge!
For the record, the author Wilfred Reilly is a Right Wing extremist with an impeccable pedigree in Trumpworld:
https://www.commentary.org/author/wilfred-reilly/
https://www.prageru.com/presenter/wilfred-reilly
The Proud Boys are not White Supremacists!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/30/wilfred-reilly-insists-proud-boys-arent-white-supr/
Indeed, it is often hard to stomach these things.
David Shasha