By: Dr. Eeks The Art of the Napkin Risk-Benefit Analysis for COVID and the War on Misinformation: “Dear Bo, Once again, they are trying to get people vaccinated by calling them dumbf*cks. I’ll be here all winter.” Imagine if we were writing letters home from our various perspectives of the war on misinformation? What […]
Detox the Vax Recipes are another toxic extension of the toxic communication that has been a hallmark of this pandemic. There are several Detox the Vax Recipes floating around the ‘grams, meaning Instagram and Telegram. Though I haven’t found a scientific basis for any of them, I noticed that they get a lot of comments […]
Natural Immunity…Shh! Don’t Say Those Words! by: Dr. Eeks This morning I flipped through a couple of my Epidemiology books from public health school, trying to figure out why “natural immunity” became taboo. I always just assumed that herd immunity included both natural immunity and if there was a vaccine available, vaccine-induced immunity. […]
To hear the podcast version of this, please click here: Causes or Cures Boosters. But my voice isn’t that great, so you know, maybe not. By Dr. Eeks Whenever I think about the public health response to COVID-19, I don’t just think about the current pandemic. I think about the next one, and if […]
By: Dr. Eeks The White House’s war on COVID-19 “misinformation” took a major hit in the last week when Ben Wakana, Deputy Director of Strategic Communications & Engagement of the White House COVID-19 Response Team, lambasted the liberal-friendly New York Times and Washington Post for their tweets about COVID-19 transmission for the vaccinated versus […]
On The Battlefield of Misinformers, Dissenters & Staunch Stakeholders of the Almighty Narrative By: Dr. Eeks Throughout the pandemic, I’ve worked as a public health analyst and have been part of several scientific communication initiatives dealing with how and what information is relayed to a particular audience. These include tasks like explaining how mRNA […]