Before vaccines, Mina was advocating having widespread availability of low cost rapid tests.
Instead, we relied on PCR tests that were slow to give results, less convenient, and more expensive, making them less effective for pre-event or daily testing that could have made a significant difference.
Even today, rapid tests are not cheap in the US ($8+ each once you use up the small supply delivered by the USPS), compared to in some other places (0.50€ each from one vendor in Germany).
We shut down questioning…the biggest of which was where did this thing come from… If lab leaked and thus tailored to infect humans on an above average level…we should have handled things differently
We did not adjust as data became available. One prime example…we learned from the UK that spacing the timing of the original two jab series farther apart than the 3 week protocol resulted in BETTER immune response. But we kept with the published script. And AFAIK…we still follow that outdated script.
We shut down valid experts in the field that asked questions that were not allowed to be asked.
We knew early on that after Delta the vaccines did not prevent infection or spread…yet the messaging continued to espouse just that.
We still do a scatter bird shot approach - vaccinate everyone from 6 months up…again against available data.
We shut down discussions which did not follow a prescribed narrative.
We shattered the public trust.
Thanks for sharing. Excellent interview. I highly recommend reading the entire thing before jumping in with posts that vaccines do not work.
From the article
’ But this failure had some pretty concrete impacts. When reinfections began popping up, people were surprised, they were scared, and then, to some degree, they lost trust in vaccines. And the people they were turning to for guidance — not only did they not warn us about that; they were slow to acknowledge it, as well.
It had dramatic impacts and ripple effects that will last for years to limit our ability to get populations properly vaccinated. I know from pretty firsthand experience that both White Houses at different points were not making their decisions purely by the book."…"nstead, we set society up for failure, since people feel like the government failed everyone, that biology failed us and that this was a crazy virus that has broken all the rules of our immune system, when it’s just doing what we’ve always known it would do.’
’ Of course, by and large, babies didn’t get very sick from this disease.
Babies are immunologically naïve, but they are also resilient. A virus can tear up a baby, but a baby can repair its tissue so fast. Adults don’t have that. It’s just like a baby getting a cut. They’ll heal really quick. An adult getting a cut — you go by age, and every decade of age that you are, it’s going to take exponentially longer for that wound to heal. Eventually get to 80 or 90 and the wound can’t even heal. In the immunology world, this is called “tolerance.” Adults don’t have it as much. What they have instead is a well-trained immune system. And so, taking that view, you have to say, what would happen to an adult who doesn’t have that tolerance but also lacks all immunity?’
Hence the broken trust
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