"I'm no epidemiologist," writes Slater.
The eleven-time world surfing champion, the greatest surfer who’s ever lived etc, Kelly Slater, is leveraging his formidable social media platforms to create what he hopes, naively I would suggest, a non-politicised debate around the use of vaccines to fight COVID-19 and its sequels.
The British pharmacologist Michael Yeadon, a former VP of Pfizer, the makers of a popular COVID-19 vaccine, has become the poster-boy of anti-vaxxers for his belief that there’s gonna be a few side effects we don’t know about yet.
On Instagram, Slater posted an excerpt from an article Yeadon wrote for Daily Sceptic last October,
“There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I’ve never heard such nonsense talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease. You also don’t set about planing to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human subjects.”
Adding an addendum Slater writes,
“Something to ponder. But I’m no epidemiologist.”
In a story from March, news agency Reuters tore hell out of Yeadon and his claims etc.
Go Kelly! My Body My Choice
Our band’s reggae/rock song “My body my choice, don’t silence my voice. Your body your choice, don’t surrender your voice … reject injection.”
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I’m not a nutritionist… But eat shit.
did you make up 35%?
I’m no smelly skater fan but there are way too many people thinking that the same giant corporate money grabbers that have brought us death and corruption are now here to save the day while making billions. The same folks telling me to stay away from goo but put an experimental drug shot into me. Very confusing. Don’t trust big media, pharma, ag, insurance, and the corporatist.
what is it about florida vs.basic common sense and science?
Kanoa would like a word….
Did you ever get measles or mumps or chickenpox when you were a kid?
Still got the rash or swollen neck?
That might help you join the dots.
I got chickenpox in my 30’s while in Indo. The time off work laying a calamine bath all day when I got back was awesome.
It’s a real buzz killer
Lego !
We , The Mediocre , can avoid the SIN OF HUBRIS !
In classical Greek ethical and religious thought hubris or hybris meant an “overweening presumption suggesting impious disregard of the limits governing human action in an orderly universe. It is the sin to which the great and gifted are most susceptible, and in Greek tragedy it is usually the hero’s tragic flaw”
Sounds familiar ? Since Oedipus Rex was a boy ….
just because you probably can understand a sentence……now I make sense…LOL!!!
I’m no epidemiologist but I’m pretty sure that any new anecdote is better than a vaccine. Just ask the guy who’s mom is a night nurse or any of the foam-flecking Trumpists who proudly post on this site. So yeah, don’t let them put a chip in your bloodstream or disrupt your RNA or expose your lineament to moral corruption. Don’t get vaccinated!!
Last time I checked, we still live in a free country, these vaxes were brough to market very fast and we don’t have any long term data to look at. If you want the shot, go ahead and take it. And now, the cdc basically admits that if you are vaxed you can still get covid and still transmit it to others, the only benefit seems to be a lessening of symptoms. The swine flu vax in 1976 was halted after 25-50 reported deaths, these vaxes according to vaers eclipse that number yet nobody seems too concerned about it.
Hi kel!
Slater has reached his level of relevance
“it’s not a feature it’s a bug”
I think Kelly’s(now evident) extreme narcissism might have propelled him to become the greatest surfer of his generation. He can no longer hold the fame he needs with his surfing ability and instead of ageing gracefully he is raging at the dying of the light.
Upvoted for “greatest surfer of his generation”. Lol that’s a savage burn.
The goat has bleated once too often.
Some hospitals have up to 95% of their covid ICU’s being occupied by people that did not take the shot .
Something to ponder…
Woah!!
They should be shot.
They’re no sheriffs.
Defunded?
Progressive.
Forward to misery!!
nah , if they chose to not have the shot……just deny them treatment…..at least you won’t die of the flu bexy ,
You never surprise me
Is “some” +/- 5? 10? 20? 25?
Remember, statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do.
How long have these “some hospitals” been at 95% capacity? One day? A week?
You refer to “Covid ICUs”. Is the stat referring to any given hospitals total ICU capacity, or just quarantined ICU beds?
Do you attach these unvaccinated patients to any particular political party, or leanings?
You are aware that NY for instance has a black population that is only 32% vaccinated, right? Surely they can be deemed to have political leanjngs, or voting history that doesn’t favor Republicans. Why such low black vaccinatio rate?
Probably a made up number by the government to scare us into taking the shot so they can finally put the last of the 5G satellites in operation.
When are you going to start pushing the latest bullshit rumor I’m hearing, that people who got the vaccine are now “shedding” the virus?
IF they couldn’t shed the virus, they wouldn’t be recommending masking for the vaccinated, I’ve been seeing a lot of vaccinated people getting it from vaccinated people in my sphere.
bullshit….in some areas of the world (including U.S. states) have up to 75% of their ICU beds currently being occupied with vaccinated patients
That’s literally bullshit and I’ll wait for your source.
see: “f l o r i d a “
Yeah, that’s why if you are medically able, getting vaxxed is a no brainer. And we now can clearly see who the n0-brainers are…
This was way before those guys arrived on the scene. It was around the time quik published his biography.
There’s a lot of dickheads in surfing but kel is the GOAT.
Pro vaxx dudes seem very insecure down below.
Man,all these doctors, nurses, microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, and other researchers, keep saying covid 19 is dangerous, but all these other people,who barely passed science at high school,keep saying its not!
It’s so hard to know who to believe anymore.
Trust your balls
Got my balls caught up in a sliding door once,now that was a moment!
“This isn’t about me…but we can change that”