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Claudia's avatar

Here's a CNBC article about Trump getting a booster shot about 6 months ago. There is a twitter video of him in the piece confirming that: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/trump-says-he-got-covid-booster-shot-tells-fans-not-to-boo-him.html

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This was while he was touring with Bill O'Reilly. I am aware of it. I do not believe he actually took the booster. There is no video of it, that I am aware of. As far as the Stanford paper, it is a scam. No one must of looked at any of the links provided. Here is one:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29896/w29896.pdf

Brad Larsen , one of the six authors of the Stanford paper, has no previous experience on this topic, as you can see:

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Brad Larsen

Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Industrial Organization

> Bargaining/Negotiation

> Occupational Licensing

> Online Markets

> Auctions

Applied Econometrics

WORKING PAPERS

Using Donald Trump’s COVID-19 Vaccine Endorsement to Give Public Health a Shot in the Arm: A Large-Scale Ad Experiment with Tim Ryan, Steven Greene, Marc Hetherington, Rahsaan Maxwell, and Steve Tadelis NBER Working Paper 29896 | SIEPR Working Paper 22-08 | Trump YouTube Vaccine Ad | Vaccine Confidence Fund Grant

Press: NY Times. CNN. Science. Business Insider. Bloomberg. SF Examiner. SLT. Tribune-Democrat. Stanford. Berkeley

How Well Does Bargaining Work in Consumer Markets? A Robust Bounds Approach

with Joachim FreybergerRevise and resubmit, Econometrica

NBER Working Paper 29202 | SIEPR Working Paper 21-045 | NSF Grant SES-1530632 | Slides

Quantifying Bargaining Power Under Incomplete Information: A Supply-Side Analysis of the Used-Car Industry with Anthony Zhang Subsumes some material from "A Mechanism Design Approach to Identification and Estimation" (NBER Working Paper 24837)

Fairness in Incomplete Information Bargaining: Theory and Widespread Evidence from the Field with Dan Keniston, Shengwu Li, JJ Prescott, Bernardo Silveira, and Chuan Yu

NBER Working Paper 29111 | SIEPR Working Paper 21-042

Intermediaries in Bargaining: Evidence from Business-to-Business Used-Car Inventory Negotiations

with Carol Lu and Anthony Zhang

NBER Working Paper 29159 | SIEPR Working Paper 21-043 | Press: CEC

Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

with Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, and Erik Brynjolfsson

NBER Working Paper 26601 | SIEPR Working Paper 20-013 | RSF Grant | Press: SIEPR. MIT. HBS. Forbes. NBER Digest. Union Leader.

The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution

with Ziao Ju, Adam Kapor, and Chuan Yu

NBER Working Paper 28158 | SIEPR Working Paper 20-050 | RSF Grant | Data and Code | Slides | Video Presentation

Press: SIEPR. Council of State Governments. NCTQ.

Dynamic Competition in the Era of Big Data

with Patrick Kehoe and Elena Pastorino

NSF Grant SES-2017957 | Stanford HAI Grant | Slides | Press: Bloomberg

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Here is part of the introduction. The study was not peer reviewed.

"This research is approved under IRB-59690 (Stanford University). We benefited from financial support from the Vaccine Confidence Fund and from conversations with Cameron Ballard-Rosa, James Chu, Isabella de Vere Hunt, Pascaline Dupas, Brigham Fransden, Matt Gentzkow, Paul Gertler, Bryan Graham, Guido Imbens, Joshua Kalla, Pat Kline, Lars Lefgren, Randall Lewis, Eleni Linos, Mike MacKuen, Santiago Olivella, Linda Ong, Christopher Palmer, Kurt Ribisl, Jason Roberts, Darcy Sawatski, Hal Varian, and Robb Willer. We also benefitted from collaboration on related vaccine messaging efforts with the National Military Family Association and the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications."

Read that study and tell me if you don't think it stinks to high heaven. They spread something he said once over 100,000 times and calculated the results of 103 people getting vaccinated after seeing it in one county. They never asked the people if they had planned to be vaccinated prior to seeing the clips of DJT promoting the vaccine in April 2021. It was broadcast in October. This is a prime example of mass formation psychosis by the readers of the Stanford paper. If you want to learn more about that read THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM by MATTIAS DESMET

I rest my case...

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Claudia's avatar

You might be right on all counts, but why would Trump say he took the booster even if he didn’t?

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Deborah Butler's avatar

Claudia, if DJT is the Republican candidate for president in 2024 and you decide that the alternate candidate is preferable, in your opinion, by all means, vote for him/her. But don't be complaining about the condition of the country after you make this important decision...

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