Former NYT journalist Berenson has been a critic of the virus and vaccine policy, and has a big profile, with 1/2m Twitter followers (or should that be had?). Noted for suing to restore his Twitter account after it was censored.
Now he could regret this success. For reasons unknown he has angered his following by tweeting to cast doubt on vaccine injured Angelia Desselle, who featured in a 2021 video as someone with dreadful-looking shakes.
Berenson tweeted this:
“These shake videos are the long Covid of the anti-mRNA movement, and equally credible. The biggest difference is that the middle-aged ladies in them are conservatives and not wokesters. PLEASE STOP. YOU AREN’T HELPING.”
He has taken pelters underneath, with hardly anyone supporting him, except troll types who attack vaccine injured for fun.
Substacker Stephanie Brail, who has had ER treatment for these shaking conditions explains a bit about it.
VAERS received 4,000+ reports of seizures following the covid vaccines in 2021 alone.
How could he possibly know that one particular victim was faking?
It’s a mystery why Berenson should have set himself up like this. Common sense says he would be crucified by many of his own supporters - not least for the heartless manner of his communications to this victim.
Berenson’s form in the latter part of the p(l)andemic is perplexing.
He went out of his way to call Robert Malone a liar on TV regarding him being an inventor of mRNA vaccines.
He publicly and scornfully castigated a former colleague over his Chronic Lyme Disease, again chronicled by Brail:
He also denounces ivermectin.
All of which is unusual behaviour for a notable caller-out of the virus narrative.
I would have presumed that without that cushy NYT job, he needs his substack income.
But these self-inflicted dents in his own popularity would seem to belie this.
Perhaps that is the key to the answer? I hate the term ‘controlled opposition’ but his choice of proiminent targets (Malone, Ivm, vaccine victims, especially those getting sympathy and publicity) and unusually poor aim (for him) could suggest they were not targets of his own choosing; and could also explain his seemingly willing and self-inflicted financial damage.
