David Zweig
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193 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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started writing for the free press, or maybe it was on my own sub stack, but I had written for the Atlantic and the New York times and New York, plenty of these types of contrarian pieces. And she said, well, where's the article? Where's it coming out? And my wife said, it may have been my, my sub stack or the free bet. She said, well, if it's not in the Atlantic, then I don't believe it.
And she said, but it's David, you, you know him, he's the same reporter. He wrote other things. And she was like, yeah, I'm not interested. It's not. So to have that like imprimatur of these certain institutions meant everything.
And, and this, the problem is the idea that like most, I think regular people, at least some of them are on particularly on the left. So all these things are like, it made intuitive sense. It's like, well, of course, if you're closed schools, all those snot nose kids, that's going to help or mask. I think maybe having something in front of my face might.
The problem is, and I give all these crazy examples through history, our intuitions are often wrong. And that happens especially within medicine. That's why we need randomized studies. That's why we need actual, like a structured, what's known as evidence-based medicine. But instead, during the pandemic, over and over...
We were just told it's basic physics that masks work, but that's not how human beings work. A child might pull it off. It doesn't stay glued to your face. They were using studies done on mannequins where the masks were glued to their face. And this is the stuff that the CDC and other people were citing as evidence that everyone needs to wear a mask.
Our intuitions are wrong all the time, but yet we didn't actually look at science. We were told we're just following the science. There was no following the
I mean, I was, I believe, the first journalist in a mainstream publication to interview Dror Mavorak, who was the Israeli physician who initially found the signal of myocarditis in young males. And, you know, again, this is just completely radioactive. It doesn't mean that the vaccines weren't necessarily beneficial for old people and those who are vulnerable. I'm not making that statement.
I'm not talking about that one way or the other. What is true... is that there is this effect from the vaccine, particularly for young males, not exclusively to them, but they were affected far more than any other group. And there's reasons for that we don't need to get into. And this was essentially ignored and kind of like buried by the CDC when the signal came out. And I give examples of that.
I mean, the thing that's interesting is setting that aside, how these sort of danger signals were buried. Teachers were prioritized for vaccines in much of the country in many locations, yet they still didn't go back to school in many locations even after that. So they were put ahead of sometimes more vulnerable people. And you can look this up. This isn't me making this up.
This isn't a conspiracy theory. You can see the different levels of sort of priority that the CDC and various health governing bodies put out. They prioritize teachers in many locations. Okay, I got it. You want to be protected? And they still didn't go back to school.
But meanwhile, and this goes back to what we talked about in the very beginning, how class-based the whole entire pandemic response was.
So there's that. I don't... I don't suggest that there was criminal behavior. I don't know enough about, you know, those angles. What I would say is Fauci was sort of the figurehead. He was the face of the response in our country. And Anthony Fauci, along with many, many others,
overstated evidence over and over again and they said kids couldn't go back to school until it was safe with a contrived list of reasons and that there was never any support behind them and not only was there not support for them we had an enormous amount of evidence right across the atlantic showing millions of children in school without consequence without doing any of this stuff he
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