Thadeus Greenson
Member since Jan 15, 2014
Thadeus Greenson
Thadeus Greenson is the news editor of the North Coast Journal.
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Re: “Reporters Wanted!”
Thank you for pointing out our oversight, four clover. We've updated the post accordingly.
Re: “Eureka Recycling Center's CRV Buyback Service is Back”
Chrissy-
Yes, that service has been suspended since a couple days after we posted the story you're commenting on:
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog…
Re: “An 'Alternative Medical System'”
JfW- You are commenting on a letter to the editor — not an article.
Re: “A Letter from 111 Local Doctors: Please Get Vaccinated”
America First-
Well, an "internet survey" is hardly scientific or worthy of anything more than naming the Best Burger of Humboldt County. (Arguable whether it even should be trusted with that.) But the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons? Did you do any research on this group or just look for something that supported your already-held belief and post it?
Let's take a look at the AAPS:
First off, there are roughly 1 million licensed doctors practicing in the United States and fewer than 5,000 are members of AAPS. That's 0.5 percent. The American Medical Association, meanwhile, has roughly 250,000 practicing members and last month came out in support of COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
From Wikipedia:
"The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a conservative non-profit association that promotes medical disinformation, such as HIV/AIDS denialism, the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis, vaccine and autism connections, and homosexuality reducing life expectancy."
From Science and Medicine (2008):
"… a major booster of antivaccinationism, HIV/AIDS denialism, and the now discredited hypothesis that abortion causes breast cancer, while on its pages it regularly attacks the very concept of evidence-based medicine and peer-review."
In fact, it's a group so wing nutty that Sen. Rand Paul dropped from its ranks and distanced himself from it when he was outed as a member in early 2020.
Again, the medical and scientific communities are incredibly united in saying the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Thadeus Greenson
Re: “A Letter from 111 Local Doctors: Please Get Vaccinated”
America First-
The thing is, though, that there aren't 111 doctors locally who don't believe in the efficacy and safety of the vaccines and would write a letter espousing that view. There's no equivalence. Just as the number of scientists who believe the climate crisis is real dwarf the tiny number of those in denial on the fringes, the medical and scientific communities are incredibly united in saying the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. When 99 people are saying the sky is blue but one color blind guy is saying it's green, it's hard to argue "both sides" warrant equal voice.
Thadeus Greenson
Re: “HumCo Hits COVID Hospitalization Record as County Confirms 33 New Cases”
America First-
Sure, it’s very likely all adverse reactions — especially more mild ones — are not reported to the VAERS system. My point was just that we need to take these numbers for what they are — reports, not verified cases — and in the context of how many vaccinations have been administered. In that light, reports of adverse reactions are extraordinarily rare.
And I’m absolutely not aware that there have been more deaths related to COVID-19 vaccinations than “all other vaccinations for the past 20 years.” As of mid July, only three deaths nationally had been causally linked to the 353 million vaccine doses administered in the U.S., all of them related the blood clots that occurred after people got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. If you have a verifiable source for your claim, please provide it.
Similarly, if you have some evidence that COVID death statistics have been distorted/inflated/embellished, that a motorcyclist crashed into a wall and was recorded as a COVID death, please provide it. Your claim seems to suggest that ICU and ER doctors, medical examiners and coroners — across the nation, regardless of political beliefs — have engaged in some kind of conspiracy to inflate these numbers? Because that’s what this would mean. These deaths are reported locally to state and national agencies. It’s not as though CDC agents hop into St. Joseph Hospital or the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office to determine what is and isn’t a COVID death.
Regarding your various data on mortality rates, I’ll just point out that the American Academy of Pediatrics just penned a letter to the FDA urging it to open vaccine eligibility to kids 5 to 12 years old, pointing out that 71,726 COVID-19 cases were recently confirmed in kids in a single week. The nonprofit association representing more than 67,000 doctors who have dedicated their lives to caring for the health of children feels COVID-19 presents a very real risk and the vaccines are safe. I’m sure you’ll understand if I take the word of 67,000 doctors over that of someone anonymously commenting on the internet.
As to you and your personal vaccine decision, it sounds like it’s already been made but I hope you’ll reconsider. If not, please wear a mask and practice physical distancing while you’re “taking your chances." After all, it's one thing to be reckless with your own health, quite another to put others at risk.
And just out of curiosity, if you do wind up getting COVID-19 and find yourself unable to breathe, will you seek medical care from the professionals whose opinions, recommendations and pleas you have chosen to ignore?
Thadeus Greenson
Re: “Undamming (and Restoring) the Klamath”
Scotty-
Thanks for pointing out my error. You are correct, and I'll update the story with a better comparison.
Thanks,
Thad