And the winner is:
Today marks the inaugural JACKASS Award and it is given to someone who showed outstanding banal, incredibly idiotic and destructive behavior from among our nations’ politicians, health officials, leaders, academia, media etc.; someone who distinguished themselves across the prior week in terms of pure stupidity, ineptness, incompetence, corruption, malfeasant, moronic behavior, and as someone who we judged (based on a struck up board who will vote) as pure destructive to the nation and globe and who stood out. This weekly award is indeed prestigious and the winner represents someone who is in a class of idiocy all by themselves. A complete dolt and moron yet in an important enough societal position that their actions and policies and statements are destructive. The aim is to reward them with this acolade of topdog JACKASS for the week. To highlight them and thus to generate debate on a weekly basis.
Please send in your nominations by Thursday each week to:
Jackass_award@yahoo.com
The weekly winner will be crowned at 3 pm EST each Friday.
Let us begin with this inaugural award.
We have several hot contenders this week and each on their own can take the prize yet we culminate the nominations with the winner.
1)Dr. Peter Marks:
Marks was someone who did not initially make the Horsemen of the COVID Apocalypse list that has now grown to 25 Horsemen, and he has forced his way onto that growing and informative prestigious list. His recent support and advocacy for the XBB.1.5 booster from Moderna given the fact that the mRNA vaccines have failed (negative effectiveness) and are very harmful and deadly, and that they function to drive infection (re-infection) in the vaccinated, as well as selective pressure that generates sub-variants, makes him a hot contender. His advocacy for the XBB.1.5 booster is as ridiculous and reckless and dangerous as his prior support for the BA.4/BA.5 bivalent booster that failed. He knows fully well that the XBB.1.5 booster spike will not hit (not match) the potentially dominant EG.5, FL.1.5, BA.2.86 and other sub-variant spike antigens and as such, he is partaking in an action that would IMO harm Americans and by extension, the world. He knows that there will be viral immune escape as a consequence, that original antigenic sin (immune priming, fixation, prejudice to the initial prime or exposure) will play a strong role with recall antibodies to the initial prime/vaccine, that antibody-dependent enhancement of infection (ADEI) and disease (ADED) will result, and that there will be substantial Darwinian natural selection pressure (that drives sub-variants to emerge) due to mounting sub-optimal population immunity while there is mismatched circulating infectious pressure from a mismatched variant. He knows that the new booster like the prior bivalent booster and the prior mRNA vaccine was non-sterilizing, non-neutralizing, and did not and never stopped viral infection, replication, or transmission. Yet he persists in lying to the public.
He knows this, all that I just wrote and he saw this play out since February 2021 with the failed mRNA technology (Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech) gene vaccines. Yet he now persists with this XBB.1.5 booster that will not match the circulating antigens and thus there will be massive failure and we fear generation of a variant that is virulent that could threaten humanity.
He is now on record saying as to the new coming XBB.1.5 booster that is already failed and which is based on 20 mice and not human data, with no conrol group, using antibody levels as a measure of immunity etc.:
"Vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death," said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, in a statement. "The public can be assured that these updated vaccines have met the agency's rigorous scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality. We very much encourage those who are eligible to consider getting vaccinated."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/11/1198719166/new-covid-vaccines-get-fda-approval
He should be forced to resign for this specious, deceitful, duplicituous statement and should hide his head in shame. He has failed the American people.
I know him personally based on my stint at HHS under POTUS Trump, when OWS was being ramped up. My dealings with him were scientific and I found him then to be professional and very smart on the science. Yet Peter has lost his way and is contending for the JACKASS Award. This is why he is on this nomination list this week.
2)Dr. Ashish Jha:
Not to be outdone and distinguishing himself as a strong contender for this week’s JACKASS award, Jha has distinguished himself across COVID, for 3 years now, including in-person Senate testimony with Senator Ron Johnson, to be a fool, idiot, inept, very stupid on basic medical science, and just a pure dumb technocrat. He never understood anything he actually stated and made a fool of himself repeatedly in media. He lacked basic immunology and virology acumen and was rewarded with a position in the Biden administration and it was expected. This recent statement below regarding the new XBB.1.5 booster coming for the fall (is reckless and uninformed) that he knows will not match the circulating variants, shows you his penchant for lying and misleading (matched only by Walensky in terms of lying), and it is why he lands on this week’s list. He knows if allowed to debate someone like McCullough, myself, Geert Vanden Bossche, Risch, Makis etc. that he will not be able to defend that insane statement below. He knows there is no human data, only rodent data, and that there is no safety data and that the booster is not needed and will drive more variants to emerge…he just does not care. He knows Biden INC. declared the emergency over on May 11th 2023 and thus there was no need to seek EUA from FDA for the booster as there is no emergency:
"The data so far suggest that the new COVID vaccines should be really quite effective against even the new emerging variants that we have seen come up in the last weeks," Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown School of Public Health who served as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. "So I'm actually quite optimistic this new vaccine is going to be protective."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/11/1198719166/new-covid-vaccines-get-fda-approval
Remember also when this dolt told us:
Jha stated: ‘God Gave Us Two Arms’ So We Can Get COVID And Flu Shots At The Same Time, Jha Says; “I really believe this is why God gave us two arms: one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot'
I hope then you understand why Jha makes this list. This guy advises the White House. Imagine that.
3.)Dr. Rochelle Walensky:
There is so much to say about Walensky and the lies she spewed across COVID during her reign as CDC Director. Yet I will focus on Walensky’s recent lie to congress and how it is explained by Dr. Tom Jefferson.
‘“You put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it would be more effective,” Fauci told NBC News.
“What Fauci doesn’t understand is that cloth and surgical masks cannot stop viruses because viruses are too small and they still get through,” said Jefferson.
He laments that public figures have tried to undermine the Cochrane review, despite it representing the gold standard of evidence.
And former CDC director Rochelle Walensky misled Congress after claiming the Cochrane review had been “retracted” which was patently false.
As it stands, the Cochrane review will continue to be the subject of attacks because it presents a major roadblock for implementing masking policies. Jefferson says he doesn’t know what motivates people to ignore the facts.
“Could it be part of this whole agenda to control people’s behaviour? Perhaps,” he speculated.
“What I do know,” said Jefferson, “is that Fauci was in a position to run a trial, he could have randomised two regions to wear masks or not. But he didn’t and that’s unforgivable.”’’
Tom Jefferson punishes Fauci & Walensky over their lies & deception on COVID mask effectiveness, citing a Cochrane Review that they discounted, showing lack of evidence of effectiveness; “What Fauci
My colleague shared this and I cannot cite their name as no permission to use name YET but if I do, I will, but here is this interesting sharing: ‘Fauci advocated for the use of cloth masks, and even encouraged double-masking in the absence of evidence.
For this reason, Dr. Walensky has made the list for the recent blatant lie she told to congress about the Cochrane review on masks by Jefferson et al. She openly lied!
4.)Dr. Mandy Cohen, current CDC Director:
Dr. Mandy Cohen is the current CDC Director and recently endorsed the new XBB.1.5 booster from Moderna, advising that her family will now take the booster along with her flu shot. But it was incredible that this person is the CDC director and made these statements. Why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/opinion/covid-booster-fall-2023.html
Dr. Mandy Cohen: ‘We have come a long way since the early days of 2020. Back then, I was the head of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services and working alongside Gov. Roy Cooper to navigate the uncertainty, the challenges and the fear around Covid-19. My extended family was in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. I didn’t realize then that it would be over a year until I saw them in person again. All I wanted was for them to be safe.
Now, as I lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we are in such a different place — no federal mandates, no travel restrictions. With vaccines, testing and treatment, we are once again enjoying fun-filled family vacations and celebrating milestones together.
While we would all love to leave Covid-19 in the rearview mirror for good, the virus is still here. And it will probably always be with us. The good news is that we have the tools to help people avoid serious illness, hospitalization, death and long Covid symptoms. We can minimize the virus’s damage to our lives by using one of our most effective tools in combating the virus: updated Covid-19 vaccines.
As a doctor, a mother and the head of the C.D.C., I would not recommend anything to others that I wouldn’t recommend for my own family. My 9- and 11-year-old daughters, my husband, my parents and I will all be rolling up our sleeves to get our updated Covid-19 vaccines along with our flu shots soon. I hope you and the people you care about will do the same.’
Yet Cohen knows full well that the vaccine has failed (with rapid waning of any vaccine-induced immunity) and is driving the vaccinated to become infected. It is non-sterilizing in that it does not stop infection, replication, transmission. It does not neutralize the virus. She knows full well that the vaccine is DOA and any new booster e.g. XBB.1.5, will not change things, in fact, the booster will make it worse.
Clearly, Cohen followed Walensky in terms of stupidity and lack of honesty to the public. I do not think however, that she has the gravitas Rochelle had in terms of the propensity to lie boldly to the public. Straight faced. Not even blinking.
Rochelle will forever retain that CDC Director title, ‘the liar-in-chief’ of CDC…but let us face it, being a credible technical scientist who understands data, can read the data, and is academically driven and intellectually capable, that is, not academically sloppy, is not the optimal descriptives of Cohen. In fact, she is the opposite and just plain dumb. I saw that in her earlier stints.
Cohen is an incompetent ding dong if I may use gentle words here. An example of someone with degress but is stupid. Kind of like Njoo and Tam and Sharma of Health Canada and PHAC of Canada who have approved the XBB.1.5 booster based on simply reviewing the failed FDA’s approach and unsubstantiated EUA.
She Cohen, clearly has no clue about original antigenic sin (OAS) and the impact of immune imprinting and fixation, a prejudice to the initial vaccine prime or pathogen exposure. As a vaccinated person, the initial injections you took primed the immune system and wired it such that your immune system will respond (with antibodies etc.) to the new challenge by recalling and churning out memory antibodies that were geared to fight the initial original Wuhan legacy variant, that is long gone. It does not exist. Even as you ‘update’ the booster with a new spike. Does not matter.
In fact, had the vaccine maker studied it or presented data, it will show that the XBB.1.5 booster spike will still respond to the legacy Wuhan variant spike way better (in fact mainly) than the existing circulating variants. In fact, she knows that the CDC and FDA played with data from the vaccine maker (Moderna) that was based on mice, 20 mice I believe, and NOT humans. That there was no suitable control, placebo group, and that the decisions were based on elevated antibody titers. Antibody surge is not a measure of immunity. She knows that all of this was a lie and fraud and that she and the CDC and FDA are misleading the public AGAIN, as was done by the CDC and FDA even before she arrived.
She, Cohen, knows that the COVID mRNA vaccines quickly became obsolete and did not sterilize the virus and that no mandate was ever needed. She knows that because the XBB.1.5 booster she is advocating for is MISMATCHED to the circulating sub-variants (coming dominance) e.g. EG.5 (ERIS), FL.1.5, BA.2.86 etc., that there will be viral immune escape, original antigenic sin, antibody dependent enhancement of infection and/or disease, and that the mismatch will cause the sub-optimal non-neutralizing antibodes to pressure the virus yet not eliminate it. Natural selection pressure will drive the emergence of new sub-variants. She knows this, a Grade 10 biology student can describe Natural selection pressure in this model, to her if it escapes her.
Overall, she is lying and does not care, IMO, about the health of the public and I am betting she will not give her child or husband the real booster vaccine, nor will she take it. I am betting it was not just in the Texas hospitals that fake vaccine cards were being distributed.
I am hoping that she, Cohen, comes around. For the sake of Americans and our children who under no condition, should get this booster. Note, across 3 years, no healthy child, not one, ZERO, got exposed to COVID in America, then got infected and then got severely ill or died. Not one!’
Parents should understand this!
For these reasons, for this idiocy, for this falsehood, she has made the list.
WINNER:
The winner of this week’s JACKASS award is:
Dr. Mandy Cohen.
Cohen has demonstrated that she deserves this week’s award, being outstanding in idiocy. There was stiff competition but she has taken the prize. Advocating the XBB.1.5 booster is indeed reckless and dangerous as the CDC Director.
Stay tuned for Next Friday’s award at 3.pm EST.
What a great idea, Dr. Paul. I love it! Jackass Award sounds so fitting. :)
No Critical thinking skills at all. Amazing how many doctors fall into this category.