Run Your Mouth Podcast

Thank you to Gene Epstein for Joining us on RYM. Check out Gene’s debate series here: https://www.thesohoforum.org/ Topics in order: (Please put in the rough Time stamps) 1 - The Utility of Government imposed lockdowns 2 - Herd Immunity  3 - Covid Vaccine  4 - Wall street bailout talk  5 - Voter Fraud  6 - Reading Human Action  ---------------- Further reading on Vaccines from Gene: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4058 The first question is whether the right endpoints are being studied. Contrary to prevailing assumptions (including those of a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner), none of the vaccine trials are designed to detect a significant reduction in hospital admissions, admission to intensive care, or death.9 Rather than studying severe disease, these mega-trials all set a primary endpoint of symptomatic covid-19 of essentially any severity: a laboratory positive result plus mild symptoms such as cough and fever count as outcome events (table 1). These studie