Omicron = endemic COVID?

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PhD = Doctorate = Doctor, and with around half a century of workplace experience in medical environments worldwide I'm convinced that Dr John has more than enough wisdom to evaluate the research data he bases his presentations on.

There is no shortage of people who are working in professional positions other than that which their university qualifications denote them as being 'expert' in. In my experience a university degree is as much proof in an individual's ability to understand and process scientific data as a relegation into a rigid field of work focus.

Also many of the COVID 'experts' that continually front our media broadcasts are aligned to tertiary institutions so are beholden to towing the accepted line in terms of public health measures. Dr John is independent as a retired professional and the fact that his YouTube videos remain online two years into this pandemic would be proof that the powers that be haven't had grounds to contest the interpretation of facts that he presents. He is a breath of fresh air in the current climate of redacted info and political double speak regarding COVID.

Why would an official organisation contest the views produced by an amateur commentator - amateur because Campbell has no recognised expertise in epidemiology or public health? All contesting these views does, is validate what could be a load of dingoes kidneys. Populism, especially in science, does not appeal to me.

The taking down of all manner of 'alternative' views towards COVID such as ivermectin, vitamin C & D, vaccine injuries, etc. are all too common and for Dr Campbell's posts to remain still is evidence in itself that what he is presenting is an accurate appraisal of publicly released and often peer reviewed data. Science in itself is dictated by group consensus and when many of the institutions that produce and support the scientific community that decide that consensus are beholden to public funding I tend towards cynicism in regard to unquestioning belief in the info we are fed by them, especially when that info is filtered through the typically scientifically illiterate media and our politicians. The lingual gymnastics that Dr Campbell refers to in his video on vaccine advice (below) where he interprets the UK NHS's "Slightly less rare" vaccine risk as also meaning 'more common' is one such example of the sales spin we are exposed to by publicly distributed information. I would sooner have a expert in evaluating such data than some wet behind the ears journalist.