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Passengers stuck at sea after Norwegian cancels cruise mid-voyage
By
Jackie Salo
January 16, 2022 10:42am

Cruises can now set their own guidance for sailings

Travelers on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship in the Caribbean have become stuck at sea after the company called off the trip mid-voyage due to COVID-19 issues, according to a report.

Aimee Focaraccio said she boarded the Norwegian Gem from New York for a 10-day trip last Sunday for her birthday, but the vacation became a “nightmare” when the cruise line canceled the voyage four days later and provided no timeline for the ship to return, USA Today reported.

“Without the islands and ports to break up the sea days this is turning into a nightmare. I really can’t imagine four more sea days back to back without much to do,” Focaraccio told the outlet.
She said the prospect of being stuck on the boat was “extremely unsettling.”

“Tomorrow will really be the only nice day to enjoy the outdoors and after that, we will be stuck inside. With limited shows, small crowds, and nothing to do. I’m upset,” Focaraccio told the news outlet.

Others, however, were taking the last-minute changes in stride.


The New York return date for the Norwegian Cruise Line has not been specified.AP / Wilfredo Lee

“We all knew when we booked during such difficult times due to COVID that there would most likely be changes to our itinerary,” Anthony Bivona told the outlet. “It was not the exact itinerary we signed up for but has still been an absolutely amazing cruise.”

No details were provided about the COVID-19 issues that led to the cancelation.

Christine Da Silva, senior vice president of branding and communication for Norwegian Cruise Line, did not specify exactly when the cruise would return to New York but said that it would be “shortly.”



The company called off the cruise mid-voyage due to COVID-19 concerns.Christopher Sadowski

“As we continue to navigate the fluid public health environment, while focusing on delivering a safe experience for all on board, today, we made the difficult decision to cancel Norwegian Gem’s current Caribbean sailing, due to COVID-related circumstances,” Da Silva said.

All passengers on the Gem will receive a full refund, Cruise Industry News reported.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that cruise-goers face a risk of getting and spreading the virus, regardless of vaccination status.

15 Worst Covid Lies That are Now Completely Exposed for All the World to See
These lies went halfway around the world before the truth had a chance to put its mask on.

Big Pharma, tech giants, the mainstream media, “fact checkers,” and public health officials have told innumerable lies during the Covid pandemic.

From “masks work” to “100% safe and effective” to “15 days to slow the spread,” Americans have been bombarded with misinformation from the very beginning.

Even more nefariously, this shadow cabal has insisted that anyone who questioned its narratives were guilty of ‘wrong think’ at best; spreading ‘disinformation’ at worst.

But in the past few months, there have been a number of developments that have proved the critics right regarding many of the most widely spread myths.

Here are 15 of the worst Covid lies that have now been completely exposed for all the world to see.

1. Cloth and surgical masks don't work, time for N95 masks
It has been the prevailing wisdom for nearly two years: Forcing people to wear face coverings for up to 8 hours a day must certainly slow the spread. Right?

The tide has begun to turn on this assessment, however. The Wall Street Journal recently published a study that shows Covid transmission is only insignificantly impaired by masks worn by the general public.

Nate Poon, PhD @natepoon
Useful chart for COVID-19 Omicron transmission comparing cloth vs N95 masks. From @WSJ wsj.com/articles/cloth…


January 6th 2022


Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer board member and former FDA Chief, finally admitted that cloth masks don't work.

“Cloth masks aren’t going to provide a lot of protection, that’s the bottom line,” he said. “This is an airborne illness. We now understand that. And a cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. It could protect better through droplet transmission, something like the flu, but not this coronavirus.”

When confronted with the data that the cloth masks don't work, one expert, frequent CNN guest Dr. Leana Wen, argued that people be forced to wear surgical masks.

"Leana Wen, public health professor at George Washington University and an emergency physician, has urged the public to wear high-quality masks and described cloth masks as, 'little more than facial decorations'," the Hill reported. "She said cloth masks should not be considered an acceptable form of face covering and that the U.S. should require and distribute medical-grade surgical masks."

When Dr. Wen's sage advice was exposed as bogus, however, she moved on without missing a beat to the argument it's now time for everyone to wear N95 masks.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1481396437791518722/pu/vid/640x360/OhHPOiKHvMkAqOKl.mp4?tag=12 .58 min

So there you have it. The cloth and surgical masks are dead, long live the N95 masks!

2. Now, let's force schoolchildren to wear N95 masks
Except N95 masks aren't meant to be worn by the general public for hours a day. Even if we lived in an alternate reality where children were at significant risk from Covid (they're not — especially from Omicron), the CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last January admitted as such.
Walensky explained why the general public should not wear N95 masks for extended periods of time.

“They’re very hard to breathe in when you wear them properly,” Walensky said. “They’re very hard to tolerate when you wear them for long periods of time.”

Doctors and nurses have since been turning to social media to show Americans that N95 masks are not appropriate for the general public, particularly for children.

The Robber Baron @Robber_Baron_
This is what correctly wearing an N95 for 8 hours does to you. Anyone who wants to do this to children is a monster.

January 13th 2022


Forcing children to wear such masks will not be tolerated by most parents. Especially when entire nations in Europe, such as Great Britain, refuse to mask healthy children because they are at miniscule risk from Covid-19.

3. Children exposed to ceaseless Covid hysteria will turn out fine
It now seems that concerned parents in many states are beginning to discover that their virtue-signaling has exacted a steep price. You can detect a sea change among parents, which is conveyed by the mainstream media.

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1475209814611578886/vid/640x360/A9JeqqUXJmcn4AgR.mp4?tag=14 1:40 min

“They will be paying for our generation’s decisions the rest of their lives," Margaret Brennan said about 2021's "most underreported story." Putting aside the fact that she is a journalist on a Sunday morning show, this is what parents have been trying in vain to get across to the 'experts' for two years.

The Surgeon General last month even issued a warning about the Covid pandemic response exacerbating the childhood mental health crisis. The NY Times dutifully reported the news, which all normal Americans saw coming.

Masking children's and adults' faces during critical stages of children's social development will have serious long-term effects.

A study with over 25,000 school-aged children showed that masks are harming schoolchildren "physically, psychologically, and behaviorally," revealing 24 distinct health issues associated with wearing masks for hours each day.

The negative effects were found among 68% of children forced to wear a face covering for even just 4.5 hours per day. The health issues included: increased headaches (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), drowsiness or fatigue (37%), malaise (42%), and sleep issues (33%).

Adding to their trauma, school administrators have even forced children to sit outside and eat lunch in the cold. Here is a stark example from Fairfax, Virginia of children eating outside in freezing weather.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1480962307555532803/pu/vid/480x852/x1kJRoq0ydpLHqf2.mp4?tag=12 .25 min

Here's another example from Portland, Oregon where kids were eating on buckets in chilly temperatures.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1468742429062971397/pu/vid/480x588/M8Q_eU2DusBPwCrR.mp4?tag=12 .09 min

There are other examples, such as schools in Seattle and New York. The contrast with the daily lives of vaccinated adults, who can still spread Covid-19, is unsettling.

Even New York Times writer Michelle Goldberg was disturbed by the schools' mistreatment of the children. New York Post writer Karol Markowicz summed up the 'let them eat cupcakes' attitude.

"Children in New York City public schools eat outdoors, on the ground, because eating around other people indoors can apparently be deadly," she writes. "Their parents are free to take them to a restaurant after school, but that’s totally different because … well, no one really knows, but we have to keep the kids safe. The truly at-risk population, the elderly, can be seen around the city dining at our best restaurants, not sitting alone on the freezing ground."

Civilized people protect the most vulnerable among us. But in the United States, with Woke liberals in charge, children's needs come last.

4. Hospitalizations of sick children are now through the roof
Blue state governors pounced on the news of a highly contagious omicron variant spreading throughout the country to justify a continuation of their failed Covid response policies. The media dutifully reported there was a surge of child hospitalizations.

It wasn't just ill-informed suburban mothers who fell for the alarming "news" — a sitting Supreme Court Justice even fueled the hysteria with wildly inaccurate misstatements.

“We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators,” Sotomayor claimed.

The actual figure was at least 30 times lower: HHS reported it was 3,342. However, between 40 percent and 70 percent of those were "incidental."

"CDC is reporting increasing pediatric COVID hospitalizations, but critical to break numbers down," Dr. Jeanne Noble pointed out. "Between our 2 pediatric hospitals in SF and Oakland, 30% of COVID+ hospitalizations are for COVID illness, and 70% are incidental. 6 kids hospitalized b/c of COVID today at UCSF."

This squares with what even Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted on live television about the matter.

“But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” Fauci said. “And what we mean by that — if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID. And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it’s over-counting the number of children who are, quote, ‘hospitalized with COVID,’ as opposed to because of COVID.”

New York's acting health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett revealed at a governor’s press conference that she exaggerated child hospitalizations in order to frighten parents into “seeking the protection of vaccination.”

“The numbers that we gave on pediatric admissions weren’t intended to make it seem children were having a – you know, having an epidemic of infection,” Dr. Bassett said. “These were small numbers that we reported in our health alert. That was based on 50 hospitalizations. And I’ve now given you some larger numbers, but they’re still small numbers.”

“It really is to motivate pediatricians and families to seek the protection of vaccination,” she admitted.

This is all just a cynical game to these "public health" officials with one end-goal in mind: Get jabbed. If that means lying or exaggerating or misleading people, so be it. Free citizens do not tolerate this kind of disrespect. They demand to "live in truth."

5. Natural immunity is not as good as vaccinated immunity
It is one of the worst-kept secrets of the entire pandemic: Those individuals who are exposed to Covid-19 develop natural immunity from prior infections.

The media's blackout of the known scientific phenomenon is designed with only one aim in mind: Pressure people who don't need the mRNA shots to get them anyway.

Independent medical researchers have found that this type of redundancy is completely unnecessary, however. Indeed, why get exposed to potential adverse reactions from an mRNA shot when one already has natural protection?

"Study findings reveal that individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection do not get additional benefits from vaccination, indicating that COVID-19 vaccines should be prioritized to individuals without prior infection," a Cleveland Clinic study found in 2021.

But what about the Omicron variant? Even three Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech shots do not stop infection or slow transmission of the mutated virus. Prior infection from the "generally mild" variant, on the other hand, is believed to confer immunity to other variants, such as Delta.

A recent study on natural immunity published in the European Journal of Immunology showed that prior infection from Omicron was both durable and long-lasting.

“Most subjects develop antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 following infection,” the study states. “In order to estimate the duration of immunity induced by SARS-CoV-2 it is important to understand for how long antibodies persist after infection in humans... We found that NAb [natural antibodies] against the WT virus [B-lineage variants] persisted in 89% and S-IgG in 97% of subjects for at least 13 months after infection.”

The CDC reports that there have been 65.5 million infections to one Covid variant or another in the United States. In September, there were a reported 146.6 million prior infections. The CDC estimated that there were four (4.0) infections for every "case." The number of Americans with natural immunity from prior infection following the massive Omicron wave thus may exceed 200 million.

In the Washington Post, Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, pointed to 15 studies on natural immunity resulting from prior infections to Covid-19. A famous article from Brownstone listed 30 such scientific studies on the benefit of Covid-19 natural immunity, in addition to adding four more to its comprehensive list of 140 scientific studies on natural immunity.

Nonetheless, millions of Americans, particularly Democrats, don't believe in "natural immunity." A Rasmussen survey conducted a survey on the issue at the urging of Becker News and shared the results.

Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll
@kylenabecker @Peoples_Pundit Update: Fielding in next days. Target for release, Monday 12/20 @ 10:30AM. Thanks, Kyle.

December 15th 2021

“Those who have previously been infected with COVID-19 acquire natural immunity, providing ‘robust protection against COVID-19 for at least six to eight months after infection,’ according to the World Health Organization,” Rasmussen states in its analysis of the results. “The same is true of vaccines. However, most Democrats (61%) believe vaccines are more effective than natural immunity in protecting against COVID-19, while just 17% think natural immunity offers more protection, and only 13% correctly believe vaccines and natural immunity are equally effective.”

But the bubble may have burst on this natural immunity denial this week, when the NCAA announced that it would recognize it for the purpose of in-game attendance.

“A person who has had a documented COVID-19 infection in the past 90 days is considered the equivalent of ‘fully vaccinated’,” the NCAA announced.

(The rest is behind a paywall)

Fully vaxxed teenage ball boy collapses on first day of the Australian Open....

View: https://twitter.com/TheJuggernaut88/status/1483018659732029440?s=20


High temp of around 70 in Melbourne today so can't blame the heat.

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Maine Doctor Loses License, Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation for Treating Covid Patients with Ivermectin, 'Spreading Covid Misinformation' | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Maine Doctor Loses License, Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation for Treating Covid Patients with Ivermectin, ‘Spreading Covid Misinformation’

By Cristina Laila
Published January 15, 2022 at 7:26pm

Dr. Meryl Nass, a Maine doctor with more than 40 years experience cannot practice after her medical license was suspended for ‘spreading Covid misinformation’ and treating Covid patients with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.

Dr. Meryl Nass was also ordered to undergo a neuropsychological evaluation.

“The information received by the Board demonstrates that Dr. Nass is or may be unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to her patients by reason of mental illness, alcohol intemperance, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, or as a result of a mental or physical condition interfering with the competent practice of medicine,” the evaluation order states.

Recall, Dr. Nass was one of the outspoken medical professionals who busted Fauci for lying about the origins of Covid and affordable treatment such as HCQ.

The Board of Licensure in Medicine released a list of allegations against Dr. Meryl Nass when they suspended her medical license.

The board said Dr. Nass spread misinformation online when she questioned the safety of the experimental Covid vaccines.

In other words, Dr. Meryl Nass is under investigation for daring to speak out against the Biden Regime and for daring to question Big Pharma.

Bangor Daily News reported:







There have now been 67 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies that show a 67% improvement in COVID patients.

There have been 298 Hydroxychloroquine studies that show a 64% improvement in patients for COVID-19 patients.

On Monday Project Veritas released never before seen military documents regarding the origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research, vaccines, potential treatments and the government’s effort to conceal everything.

The documents contained evidence that Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were both effective in treating the coronavirus because they both inhibited the viral replication that spread the spike protein around the body.

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criminal!!!!

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Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

States Investigating Surge In Mortality Rate Among 18–49-Year-Olds, Majority Unrelated To COVID-19

SUNDAY, JAN 16, 2022 - 04:30 PM
Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Health departments in several states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they are looking into a steep surge in the mortality rate for people aged 18 to 49 in 2021—a majority of which are not linked to COVID-19.

Deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 2021 compared to the same period in 2018–2019, before the pandemic, according to an analysis by The Epoch Times of death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The agency doesn’t yet have full 2021 figures, as death certificate data has a lag of up to eight weeks or more.


A nurse tends to a non-covid patient on a ventilator at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, on Dec. 17, 2021. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

The surge differed greatly from state to state, with the most dramatic increase in young-to-middle age deaths in the South, Midwest, and the West Coast, while the northeastern states generally saw much milder spikes. Public health authorities in several states with some of the largest increases are examining the issue.

Texas saw the 18 to 49 age mortality jump 61 percent, the second-highest increase in the country. Of that, less than 58 percent was attributed to COVID-19.

“Our Center of Health Statistics is looking at the data,” said Chris Van Deusen, the head of Media Relations at the Texas Department of State Health Services, via email. “We’ll get back with you.”

Florida, which saw an increase of 51 percent, 48 percent of that attributed to COVID-19, is also probing the matter.


A medical worker treats a non-COVID-19 patient in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on Jan. 4, 2022. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

“I am looking into it to see if there is some sort of correlation/causation,” said Jeremy Redfern, spokesman for the Florida Department of Health via email.

Nevada saw the highest increase, 65 percent, of which just 36 percent was attributed to COVID-19.

Shannon Litz, a public information officer at the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, said via email she passed on questions regarding the mortality spike to the agency’s Office of Analytics “for review.”

The District of Columbia experienced an increase of 72 percent, none of it attributed to COVID-19.

Robert Mayfield, spokesman for D.C.’s health authority, referred The Epoch Times to the district’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), which suggested it lacked the expertise to analyze the phenomenon.

“OCME does not currently have an epidemiologist (the position is being advertised) so it has no present ability to analyze the data,” said the office’s spokesman Rodney Adams via email.

Arizona recorded a 57 percent increase, 37 percent of which was attributed to COVID-19.
Arizona’s Department of Health Services couldn’t respond to questions regarding the issue because its data is “not yet finalized,” said Tom Herrmann, the agency’s public information officer, via email.


Fire Department paramedics prepare to transport a man to a hospital in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 15, 2021 in Houston. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Other states with some of the highest increases were Tennessee (57 percent up, 33 percent attributed to COVID-19), California (55 percent up, 42 percent attributed to COVID-19), New Mexico (52 percent up, 33 percent attributed to COVID-19), and Louisiana (51 percent up, 32 percent attributed to COVID-19). None of their health authorities responded to requests for comment.

The mortality surge seemed to be significantly milder in the northeast. New Hampshire saw no increase, Massachusetts had only a 13 percent spike (24 percent of it attributed to COVID-19), and New York, one of the worst-hit by the pandemic in the region, was up 29 percent (30 percent of it attributed to COVID-19).

CDC data on the causes of those excess deaths aren’t yet available for 2021, aside from those involving COVID-19, pneumonia, and influenza. There were close to 6,000 excess pneumonia deaths that didn’t involve COVID-19 in the 18 to 49 age group in the 12 months ending October 2021. Influenza was only involved in 50 deaths in this age group, down from 550 in the same period pre-pandemic. The flu death count didn’t exclude those that also involved COVID-19 or pneumonia, the CDC noted.


Houston Fire Department paramedics transport a man suffering from breathing difficulties to a hospital on in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 14, 2021. (John Moore/Getty Images)

A part of the surge could be likely blamed on drug overdoses, which increased to more than 101,000 in the 12 months ending June 2021 from about 72,000 in 2019, the CDC estimated. About two-thirds of those deaths involved synthetic opioids such as fentanyl that are often smuggled to the United States from China via Mexico.

For those aged 50 to 84, mortality increased more than 27 percent, representing more than 470,000 excess deaths. Some 77 percent of the deaths had COVID-19 marked on the death certificate as the cause or a contributing factor.

For those 85 or older, mortality increased about 12 percent with more than 100,000 excess deaths. There were more than 130,000 COVID-related deaths in this group, indicating these seniors were less likely to die of a non-COVID-related cause from November 2020 to October 2021 than during the same period of 2018–2019.

Comparing 2020 to 2019, mortality increased some 24 percent for those aged 18 to 49, with less than a third of those excess deaths involving COVID-19. For those aged 50 to 84, mortality increased less than 20 percent, with over 70 percent of that involving COVID-19. For those even older, mortality jumped about 16 percent, with nearly 90 percent of it involving COVID-19.

For those under 18, mortality decreased about 0.4 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. In the 12 months ending October 2021, it fell some 3.3 percent compared to the same period in 2018–2019.

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criminal. !!!

If China is battling a respiratory spread of hemorrhagic fever (which is not natural in the wild)... we ain't seen nothing yet. And for those who don't think WWIV has not been waged by the CCP(NWO) and is escalating... then there is no hope for any appropriate response.

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If China is battling a respiratory spread of hemorrhagic fever (which is not natural in the wild)... we ain't seen nothing yet. And for those who don't think WWIV has not been waged by the CCP(NWO) and is escalating... then there is no hope for any appropriate response.

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Why would the sickness be released in China if the CCP is waging war? War against themselves?

A Review of the Science
Exercise and vitamin D3 are beneficial, omicron is mild in children, asymptomatic spread with Omicron is significant

Covid-19: Omicron variant is linked to steep rise in hospital admissions of very young children BMJ(Published 14 January 2022) BMJ2022;376110


Highlights:

• The overall conclusions of this article do not match the fearful messaging of the title.
  Hospital admissions of children under 1 year old have risen steeply, coinciding with transmission of the omicron variant
• The alpha and delta variants were also associated with increased cases in children, raising concerns that children would be more vulnerable to these variants and would become sicker. But this turned out not to be the case.
• And the indications are that children admitted to hospital with omicron are even less sick, as they require less support than children admitted earlier in the pandemic and are discharged earlier.
  • Oxygen use by children aged under 1 admitted in the past four weeks for whom data are available was 12%, compared with 22.5% in the first wave of the pandemic.
  • Admission to intensive care was 9.9% (v 14%),
  • Use of mechanical ventilation was 2% (v 5.8%),
  • Use of non-invasive ventilation was 2% (v 7.2%), and mean length of stay was 1.7 days (v 6.6 days).
• A rapid review by NHS England of 55 babies admitted to hospital with omicron found that most were aged under 3 months and that around half were admitted for observation and received no treatment, “Clinically, this picture is incredibly reassuring,”
• Camilla Kingdon, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said, “As pediatricians, we are accustomed to having busy winters where we see lots of particularly under 1s, typically, with high fevers, often with some kind of respiratory distress.”
• She noted an increase in babies testing positive for omicron but lots of other respiratory viruses also circulating. “The presentation of these babies very much fits in with a mix of what we would expect to see in a busy winter in the UK,” she said.
• Kingdon added that South Africa had also seen a sharp rise in hospital admissions of under 5s associated with omicron but that most had not needed supportive care and had required a shorter length of stay.
• The CDC explained that many children were admitted with covid-19 rather than because of it.

High Rate of Asymptomatic Carriage Associated with Variant Strain Omicron medRXiv January 14, 2022 (not yet peer reviewed)

Highlights:

• Findings of this study strongly suggest that Omicron has a much higher rate of asymptomatic transmission (infectivity) than other variants and this high prevalence of asymptomatic infection is likely a major factor in the widespread, rapid dissemination of the variant globally, even among populations with high prior rates of SARS-COV-2 infection.

Does Regular Exercise Counter T Cell Immunosenescence Reducing the Risk of Developing Cancer and Promoting Successful Treatment of Malignancies? Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2017;2017:4234765. doi: 10.1155/2017/4234765. Epub 2017 Jul 2. PMID: 28751932; PMCID: PMC5511671.
Highlights:

• Moderate intensity aerobic exercise training or regular physical activity is beneficial for immune function.
• For example, some evidence shows that individuals with an active lifestyle exhibit stronger immune responses to vaccination compared to those who are inactive. Encouragingly, poor vaccine responses, which are characteristic of an aging immune system, can be improved by single or repeated bouts of exercise (by association, exercise will also improve the immune system overall).
• In addition, exercise-induced lymphocytosis, and the subsequent lymphocytopenia, is thought to facilitate immune surveillance, whereby lymphocytes search tissues for antigens derived from viruses, bacteria, or malignant transformation.
• Aerobic exercise training is anti-inflammatory and is linked to lower morbidity and mortality from diseases with infectious, immunological, and inflammatory etiologies, including cancer.
• These observations have led to the view that aerobic exercise training might counter the age-associated decline in immune function, referred to as immunosenescence.
• This article summarizes the aspects of immune function that are sensitive to exercise-induced change, highlighting the observations which have stimulated the idea that aerobic exercise training could prevent, limit, or delay immunosenescence, perhaps even restoring aged immune profiles.
• These potential exercise-induced anti-immunosenescence effects might contribute to the mechanisms by which active lifestyles reduce the risk of developing cancer and perhaps benefit patients undergoing cancer therapy.

Vitamin D Status and SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes. Front Public Health. 2021 Dec 22;9:736665. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.736665. PMID: 35004568; PMCID:
PMC8727532.

Highlights:

• The aim of the present meta-analysis was to investigate whether vitamin D status is associated with the COVID-19 severity, defined as ARDS requiring admission to intensive care unit (ICU) or mortality (primary endpoints) and with the susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19-related hospitalization (secondary endpoints).
• Methods: A search in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, and preprints repositories was performed until March 31th 2021 to identify all original observational studies reporting association measures, or enough data to calculate them, between Vitamin D status (insufficiency <75, deficiency <50, or severe deficiency <25 nmol/L) and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 hospitalization, ICU admission, or death during COVID-19 hospitalization.
• Fifty-four studies (49 as fully-printed and 5 as pre-print publications) were included for a total of 1,403,715 individuals.
• The association between vitamin D status and SARS-CoV2 infection, COVID-19 related hospitalization, COVID-19 related ICU admission, and COVID-19 related mortality was reported in 17, 9, 27, and 35 studies, respectively.
• Severe deficiency, deficiency and insufficiency of vitamin D were all associated with ICU admission SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 hospitalization.
• Considering specific subgroups (i.e., Caucasian patients, high quality studies, and studies reporting adjusted association estimates) the results of primary endpoints did not change.
• Interpretations: Patients with low vitamin D levels present an increased risk of ARDS (COVID-19 severity) requiring admission to intensive care unit (ICU) or mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection and a higher susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and related hospitalization.

The COVID infection rate for residents of Dade County, Florida Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 was 3,796 new “cases per 100,000 population”—a rate far higher than any other county in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Public Health. This is an eye-opening statistic as 94 percent of Dade County residents age five and over have now received at least one dose of the vaccine—a vaccination rate among the highest in the country and by far the highest rate in Florida.

If vaccines are indeed “effective” at preventing infection, one might expect residents of this county to have among the LOWEST rates of infection in the nation. Instead, the infection rate in Dade County was more than twice as high as the state average of 1,807.1 cases per 100,000 residents. In data updated this week (See pages 5-7), Dade County continued to lead the state by a wide margin with 3,217 cases per 100,000 compared to the new state average of 1,958/100k.

Indeed, an analysis of the past two weeks’ data shows that residents who live in Florida’s least vaccinated counties typically have the lowest rates of COVID infection. Among Florida counties that reported the lowest infection rates two weeks ago, the average vaccination rate was 48.6 percent compared to the state average of all Florida counties of 72 percent.

In general, Florida counties with the lowest vaccination rates had the lowest infection rates. The opposite was also true. The counties with the highest vaccination rates have recently experienced the highest infection rates.

While proponents of mandatory vaccines emphasize that vaccines are “effective” at preventing “severe cases and deaths,” months after “breakthrough cases” became omnipresent, the CDC website remains replete with references stating that vaccines are effective at preventing “cases” and “infections.” For example, language at CDC sites tells us…

“ … COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing most infections.”
“… The risk of infection remains much higher for unvaccinated than vaccinated people.”
“ … High vaccination coverage in a population reduces the spread of the virus and helps prevent new variants from emerging.”

The following analysis presents the rates of recent COVID infection in one American state on a county-by-county basis with vaccination rates included. Readers can make their own judgments as to why the most heavily vaccinated counties are having the largest rates of outbreaks or why counties with the lowest-vaccination rates are NOT leading the state in “new cases.”

Highest Rates of Infection in Florida per County Jan. 6 – 13th
The following data shows the Florida counties that had an infection rate of 2,000 or more cases per 100,000 population in the past week. Note: State-wide, 72 percent of Floridians age five and older have been vaccinated. The “infection rate” for the entire state this past week was 1958 cases/100k population.

County (Percent Vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000 population
Dade (94 percent): 3,217/100k
Broward (82 percent): 2,453/100k
Alachua (69 percent): 2,392/100k
Madison (51 percent): 2,239/100k
Osceola (80 percent): 2222/100k
Monroe (82 percent): 2,154/100k
Orange: (75 percent): 2,114/100k
Polk (65 percent): 2064/100k
Hendry (58 percent): 2060/100k
Jefferson (56 percent): 2029/100k

Highest Infection Rates by County Dec. 31 – Jan. 6
The NEGATIVE correlation between vaccination rates and “cases per 100,000” was even more striking the prior week (Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 report*). Note: The “Cases per 100,000” average for the week of Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 was 1807/100k.

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000
Dade (93 percent): 3,797/100k
Broward (82 percent): 2,560/100k
Monroe (82 perent): 2,272/100k
Osceola (80 percent): 2014/100k
Palm Beach (74 percent): 1,963/100k
Orange: (74 percent): 1,917/100k

Counties Under 50 Percent Vaccination in Florida—Recent Infection Rates…
Florida has 14 counties where fewer than 50 percent of the county’s population (age 5+) is vaccinated. Here are those counties with their infection rates per 100,000 population this past week (Jan. 7 – Jan. 13).

No Florida county with a vaccination rate under 50 percent experienced “case rates” equal to or above the state average for the week (1,958 cases per 100,000 population):

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000 population
Holmes (32 percent): 1677/100k
Liberty (37 percent): 1731/100k
Calhoun (38 percent): 973/100k
Hamilton (38 percent): 1509/100k
Suwanee (40 percent): 1357/100k
Washington (40 percent): 1720/100k
Dixie (41 percent): 1081/100k
Gilchrist (43 percent): 1103/100k
Lafayette (44 percent): 966/100k
Taylor (45 percent): 1586/100k
Jackson (46 percent): 1551/100k
Hardee (47 percent): 1940/100k
Columbia (47 percent): 1647/100k
Bradford (48 percent): 1353/100k

Florida Counties with Lowest Infection Rates
Of the 18 counties with the lowest infection rates in Florida last week, 14 had lower vaccination rates than the state average of 72 percent. The average infection rate (“cases per 100,000 population”) for all Florida residents was 1,958.1/100,000 of the population.

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Infection rate per 100,000
Glades (53 percent): 790/100k
Sumter (76 percent): 913/100k
Lafayette (44 percent): 966/100k
Calhoun (38 percent): 973/100k
Lafayette (44 percent): 966/100k
Dixie (41 percent): 1081/100k.
Charlotte (74 percent): 1101/100k
Gilchrist (43 percent): 1103/100k
Walton (58 percent): 1200/100k
Flagler (69 percent): 1259/100k
St. Johns (73 percent): 1274/100k
Nassau (63 percent): 1337/100k
Manatee (68 percent): 1337/100k
Hernando (60 percent): 1339/100k
Bradford (48 percent): 1353/100k
Suwanee (40 percent): 1357/100k
Collier (76 percent): 1369/100k
Desota (58 percent): 1384/100k

The data was even more striking the previous week (Dec. 31 – Jan. 6). The 16 counties listed below, which had the lowest infection rates in the state during this week, averaged 607 “cases per 100,000 population”—which is 66 percent lower than the state average of 1807 cases per 100,000 population.

The average vaccination rate for these 16 counties is 48.6 percent—23.4 percent lower than the state average of 72 percent. Nine of the 16 counties below have vaccination rates below 50 percent. Three counties have vaccination rates below 40 percent.

The Florida Department of Health data from Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 also shows the “new case positivity’ rates per county. Of the 16 counties below, the average “new case positivity’ percentage was 23.95 percent. The state average for all Florida residents for this same week was 31.2 percent.

Lowest Infection Rates per County Dec. 31 – Jan. 6, 2022

County (Percent vaccinated 5+): Cases per 100,000 population
Lafayette (44 percent): 295.5/100k
Dixie (41 percent): 489.9/100k
Glades (52 percent): 534.2/100k
Putnam (49 percent): 540.9/100k
Gilchrist (43 percent): 543.4/100k
Sumter (76 percent): 599.3/100k
Liberty (37 percent): 633.7/100k
Union (54 percent): 644.7/100k
Levy (53 percent): 649.8/100k
Holmes (31 percent): 653.1/100k
Desoto (57 percent): 680.1/100k
Washington (39 percent): 708.7/100k
Franklin (53 percent): 715.7/100k
Taylor (45 percent): 720.5/100k
Walton (58 percent): 768.5/100k
Columbia (46 percent): 778.5/100k

*Numbers for Dec. 31 – Jan. 6 have now been replaced with more recent data. The author believes the information he presents above is accurate as of the date it was published.

James Howard Kunstler
CLUSTER**** NATION – BLOG January 17, 2022

No Time for Crybabies

Do you know what most of America wants? I will tell you: America wants Daddy to step up and say, “Okay, you can stop being insane now. Really, enough is enough.” Trouble is, America is short on daddies these days. That’s what happens when you throw The Patriarchy on the old garbage barge. Mr. Trump was a kind of daddy, but to many women, especially, he was the wrong kind, Bad Daddy, the worst kind of daddy, the kind who makes you clean up your room and come home before midnight. They traded him in for demented Grampa. He just wants to fondle you — and not in a good way — but family decorum requires that we don’t talk about that. In the meantime, we can do whatever we feel like.

It’s a fact that more-educated folks are most susceptible to mass delusion, and the reason will surprise you. It’s because of status-seeking. Yes, even more than money. We’re hard-wired for it.

And status is liable to send money in your direction, anyway. Among the educated managerial class, going along with everybody else is crucial because careerism in a bureaucratic system, public or private, demands it. If you seek to rise in the hierarchy, or are just angling for brownie points, you must appear to subscribe to the reigning beliefs-of-the-moment, no matter how crazy, and the punishments are severe for appearing to not go along— like losing your career and livelihood, and all prospects of a comfortable life.

The main belief-of-the-moment is that battling the invisible menace called Covid-19 requires the most extreme measures, and anyone against that is an enemy, a domestic terrorist! Thus, it is most urgent to “vaccinate” every human being in the nation. Why? Because Dr. Tony Fauci, America’s doctor, says so. Why does he say so? Because the Covid-19 “vaccines” are the crowning achievement in his long vainglorious quest to bring forth a world-saving magic cure for a dread disease. And since Dr. Fauci is The Science incarnate, and The Science must be followed (because…come on… we are modern people in a modern world ruled by Science), we must follow Dr. Fauci!

But it’s obvious now, after a year on-the-scene, that the vaxxes work poorly at best to protect against infection or control the spread, and, at worst, induce terrible long-term damage to organs, blood vessels, and the immune system. The vaxxes can kill you or gravely disable you.

The statistics in the CDC’s VAERS registry show this in no uncertain terms: 1,003,992 Covid vaxx adverse event reports including 21,745 deaths linked to them through January 7 — and these figures are said to be deeply understated due to the poor design and difficulty using the VAERS website with its clunky, out-dated code that the CDC refuses to fix.

Dr. Fauci has avoided addressing these adverse reactions and the negative efficacy of the “vaccines.” He simply states that the vaxxes are “safe and effective.” That so many Americans believe him, despite all the evidence, and go along with the crusade to vaxx-up everybody, is proof that they are insane. But now that the whole story is unravelling, they are ever more determined to stick to the script. Covid-19 has been their security blanket for two years. As long as it was in the picture, raging and killing as an invisible demon, it could be the focus of all their free-floating terror.

Terror of what, you might ask? Of the meaninglessness, alienation, and debility induced by the managerial class in its own sick institutions and corporations… in short, the 21st-century America that the managers evolved in and supported — a culture of junk food, junk work, junk art, junk environments, junk government, junk economics, and, lately, junk science… a sickening panorama of systems out-of-control and entering failure mode. Confronting the disaster of its own incapacity to sustain a healthy culture and an economy with a future, the managerial class went nuts. Its insane actions now are killing people while seeking to punish those who refuse to walk sheepishly into America’s version of the gas chamber, the Anthony Fauci “vaccines.”

One way out of a trap like this is to follow your insanity into all-out Götterdämmerung, chaos and destruction. That’s the Hitler way (preceded by a period of psychotic totalitarian social control and sadistic scapegoating). I don’t recommend it. When it’s over, there’s not much left to assist the continuity of the human project. But we are led, at the moment, by a very Party of Chaos that is making all those moves. Check the boxes: social control freakery, check… punishment unto the unvaxxed, check… loony war-drumming, check….

The cries for more lockdowns and punishments grow shrill as omicron burns across the land, presenting a fair chance of putting a stop to Covid 19. We’ll know in a couple weeks where this is going. Will those tell-tale “all-cause deaths” mount in the insurance companies, suggesting that the “vaccines” seeded millions with lurking illness? Will the public turn on Dr. Fauci and run him from public health to rough justice? Will the inept “Joe Biden” regime start World War Three in Ukraine, a place of no real interest to us, or the South China Sea, just to change the channel?

You can feel the paradigms straining to shift under your feet now. For that degenerate managerial class, and its psychotically woked-up minions on the campuses and in the news-rooms, this thing would likely go the Schopenhauer way: the new paradigm is at first ridiculed, then violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident. Snap your fingers and they’ll come out of it, just like that.

The managerial class will try to pretend that they never did the things they did. A few will offer weak apologies. But the damage is done. Before long, an economic rip-tide takes the drowning out to sea. The rest of us left on dry land have a lot of work to do. It’ll be no time for crybabies.

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China's Covid Lockdowns Are INSANE

Jan 17, 2022


China Uncensored

China is facing yet another wave of Covid, and in its infinite wisdom, the Communist Party is trying to fight Covid the same way it struggles against political dissidents: by locking it up. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for more on China's insane lockdowns, how some of the CCP's Covid policies could be making things worse, and how the CCP has dealt with the pushback.

Fauci Trashes US on World Stage at Klaus Schwab’s WEF Summit: ‘We Have Disinformation That is Destructive to a Comprehensive Public Health Endeavor’ (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 17, 2022 at 3:50pm

Monday marked day one of The Davos Agenda 2022 where global leaders will discuss Covid-19, cooperation and the role technology has played in the pandemic.

Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab on Monday excitedly introduced Xi Jinping to open the Davos Agenda.

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Dr. Fauci joined the opening day of The Davos Agenda where he trashed the First Amendment and whined about Covid ‘disinformation’ being spread in the US.

“Omicron is highly transmissible, but apparently not very pathogenic. While I hope that remains the case, but that would depend on what new variants emerge going forward,” Fauci said.

“One of the things the entire world is facing, but we certainly are facing it in a very, very disconcerting way in the United States is the amount of disinformation that is accompanying what should be a problem that everyone pulls together against a common enemy, which is the virus,” he said. “We have disinformation that is entirely destructive to a comprehensive public health endeavor"

Fauci fantasized about a future where people continue to obsess over the Covid pandemic and never stop thinking about it.

“It is very difficult to predict what the new normal would be like. I do not think the people would be walking around with masks on forever, but one new normal I would hope for is greater solidarity with each other. I also hope the new normal would include a strong memory about what a pandemic can do to us,” he said.

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Minnesota Now Offering $200 Gift Cards to Families to Get Their 5-11 Year-Olds Vaccinated

By Jim Hoft
Published January 17, 2022 at 7:25am


The State of Minnesota is now offering $200 gift cards to families, per child to get their 5-11 year-olds vaccinated with the experimental COVID vaccines.

Children have a 99.995% chance of surviving COVID-19. In the UK there is only a 2-in-a-million chance the disease will be fatal in children.

They have a greater chance of drowning.

A CDC panel raised concerns over vaccine-induced Myocarditis in children aged 5-11 who received the vaccine back in December.

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KSTP.com reported:

A new incentive has been announced in an effort to get more children fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Minnesota.

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On Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said families who get their 5- to 11-year-old children fully vaccinated in January and February can get a $200 Visa gift card per child.

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However, in order to be eligible for the gift cards, the first and second doses must be administered between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28. Officials say families are able to receive one gift card for each eligible child who is vaccinated in that time frame.

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Parents and guardians will be able to register their children once they have completed their two-dose series between 10 a.m. on Jan. 24 and 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 28. Gift card requests will be fulfilled throughout March of 2022.

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WATCH: Boston Cops Threaten, Harrass THE WRONG WOMAN Over Vax Card: ‘We Don’t Enforce Mandates, We Protect Rights’

By Alicia Powe
Published January 17, 2022 at 7:10am


After the employee of a Boston pizzeria allowed five unvaccinated women and a girl to order food and bottles of water, the store manager intervened and called the police on the group for not presenting proof of Covid vaccination.

In footage recorded by the women and streamed on Facebook Live, the shop owner asks police to remove the group of females from his restaurant for failing to comply with Boston’s newly implemented mandate requiring proof of vaccination to enter all indoor venues.

But the women stood their ground, continued to drink bottles of water and eat the pizza they purchased while being harassed and gawked at by the cops and store manager in the nearly hour-long encounter.

One of the women, Shana Cottone, a Boston police Sergeant who was placed on leave and relieved of her badge on Jan. 8 over her criticism of the city’s mandate, shamed the officers for choosing money over human rights.

The recently suspended sergeant and leader of Boston First Responders United, a group that organized in opposition to the vaccine mandate, implored her former colleagues “to do the right thing.”



Cottone demanded the name and badge number of each officer, vowing to sue them each individually if they persisted to eject her, the young girl, and the other four women from the restaurant.

After speaking with the shop owner, Office Arigonas warns the women, “I am a police officer and I got called. I am here to talk to you.”

“About what?” Cottone fires back.

“The manager of the establishment says you guys won’t show your vaccination cards,” Arigonas said.

“That’s crap. We don’t show papers,” Cottone maintains.

“Okay, guess what? It’s a private establishment and that’s what they want. They want to see it. It’s mandated by the city and if you guys don’t want to show that, you guys can’t sit down. You can do take-out.”

The officers insist the women leave for failing to provide vaccination proof, but the women don’t budge and remain seated.

“No. You need to leave,” Cottone argues. “Listen. You better watch what you’re doing because you are walking a very thin line right now. The police are not to be enforcing this mandate. You can take yourself and you can leave.”

“I am not doing anything,” Arigonas replies.

“You are. You are violating our rights,” the former sergeant chided.

As Cottone stands up to walk to the restroom, the store owner and police officer proceed to follow her.

“Imagine on Martin Luther King Day, brother, discriminating against other black people,” a woman recording the exchange laments. “You turn your back on your own people. You’re a nazi.”

As the officers continue to awkwardly surveil the women, they maintain they are doing their job.

“That’s the problem! So, we’re the nazis!” one of the women snaps back. “You decide what part of history you want to be on.“

“They did the same shit to Rosa Parks, so, we’ll park our butts right on the bus,” another woman proclaims.

Cottone returns to the table, warning her former colleagues, “If you are not going to stand by your oath, you shouldn’t be on this job. I am enjoying this product that I purchased here, and you’re going to leave me in peace and you’re going to sue you each individually.

The sergeant reminds the officers that she was put on leave for protesting Covid tyranny while another officer, Gino, chose to resign rather than trample on civil rights:

Violating people’s rights is not how policing is done. We protect people’s rights. We don’t enforce mandates, we protect rights. Anthony, don’t walk away from me because you know you’re doing the wrong thing. You can stand up against it, okay?

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Gino Fernandez, my classmate, fourteen years, resigned yesterday. He gave his gun and his badge away. They took my gun and my badge a week and a half ago. Gino gave his back yesterday because he is not going to participate in a corrupt system.

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You guys can do that too, but you’re bribed by money. You’ve been corrupted by money.Money will never make you righteous.

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This is wrong guys. You don’t have to do it.Take your hands out of your vest. That’s not tactically safe, okay?

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“This is the second time today we have been denied service and had the police called on us because we won’t show our papers,” one of the women explained, adding, “Happy Martin Luther King Day.”


Days prior to the showdown with her former colleagues in the pizzeria, Cottone and a small group of demonstrators protested in front of Mayor Wu’s Roslindale home with bullhorns at 7 am.

“Who is the government to tell me I’m not entitled to die?” Cottone told the Boston Globe during the protest.


Boston began implementing Mayor Michelle Wu’s citywide vaccine passport mandate on Jan. 15, requiring proof of vaccination for individuals ages 12 and up when entering indoor spaces.

The mandate requires presenting a Center For Disease Control card, a digital image of a CDC card, an image of an official immunization record of at least one dose of a Covid shot or any City of Boston app proving receipt of at least one dose of a Covid vaccine to enter indoor dining, gyms, bars, nightclubs and entertainment venues. On Feb. 15, the Democrat mayor is demanding proof everyone prove they have received 2 Covid vaccine doses to enter any indoor venue.

Celebrities, performing artists and professional athletes who are not regularly employed by a venue are exempt from the mandate.

Mayor Wu calls the fascistic policy “B Together.”

“The best way for Boston to stay healthy and support our communities, our businesses, and cultural institutions is for more people to get vaccinated. The B Together policy helps us do that,” the city’s website states.

Life insurer refuses to cover Covid Vaccine death…
Posted by Kane on January 17, 2022 5:35 pm



SOURCE — FREEWEST MEDIA

An explosive case is currently being hotly debated on social media: In France, a rich, older entrepreneur from Paris is said to have died as a result of a Corona injection. Previously, he had taken out multi-million dollar life insurance policies for the benefit of his children and grandchildren.

Although vaccination is recognized as the cause of death by doctors and the insurance company, it has refused to pay out. The reason is because the side effects of the Corona jabs are known and published. They argue that the deceased took part in an experiment at his own risk. Covid-19 in itself is not classed as a “critical illness.”

The insurance company justified the refusal of payment to the family by stating that the use of experimental medication or treatments, including Corona injections, is expressly excluded from the insurance contract. The family’s subsequent lawsuit against the insurance company has been unsuccessful.

The court allegedly justified its ruling as follows: “The side effects of the experimental vaccine are published and the deceased could not claim to have known nothing about it when he voluntarily took the vaccine. There is no law or mandate in France that compelled him to be vaccinated. Hence his death is essentially suicide.” Since suicide is not covered by the policy from the outset, the insurance refuses to budge.

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‘Booster shots can damage your immune system’…
Posted by Kane on January 17, 2022 8:47 pm

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Kane Here — If we still need a booster dose after we are fully vaccinated, and we still need to get a negative test after we are fully vaccinated, and we still need to wear a mask after we are fully vaccinated, and we can still be hospitalized after we are fully vaccinated, then it’s time for us to admit we’ve been completely deceived.

Questions about 'equity,' race eligibility for new coronavirus pills raise alarm in Wisconsin
A "risk scoring calculator" used by a health network with hospitals in Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma "provides a 7-point bonus to all patients who are 'non-white or Hispanic,'" according to the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.

By Benjamin Yount
Updated: January 16, 2022 - 11:07pm

There are no real explanations as to how race and "equity" will come into play in deciding who gets the new coronavirus antiviral pills.

Wisconsin's Department of Health Services earlier this month said "equity" would be at the heart of the state's strategy to distribute the new pills from Pfizer and Merck.

"We are committed to distributing these pills equitably across the state, and access will increase as Wisconsin receives more allocations from the federal government," DHS said in a statement.
DHS spokesperson Elizabeth Goodsitt said Wisconsin is following the lead of the federal government.

"Under guidance developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), health care providers are encouraged to prioritize prescribing these new therapeutics to those patients at greatest risk of serious illness or hospitalization from COVID-19," Goodsitt told The Center Square.

But nothing in the guidance from the NIH explains just what equity has to do with distributing the pills. There is also no definition from NIH about what qualifies as "equity."

Brett Healy, president of the MacIver Institute, told The Center Square that the color of your skin should have nothing to do with getting potentially life-saving medicine.

"If you are sick or need treatment, that is all that should matter," Healy said. "If we allow the government to pick winners and losers based on non-health care criteria, it sets a dangerous precedent that will have dire consequences."

Wisconsin is not the only state to prioritize "equity" in its coronavirus treatment plans. And it's not just state governments.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Friday asked SSM Health to stop using a points-calculator that gives people extra points for being "non-white" in deciding who gets their allotment of coronavirus pills.

"The risk scoring calculator provides a 7-point bonus to all patients who are 'non-white or Hispanic,'" WILL said in a letter to SSM. "In other words, non-white patients receive a 7-point head start in your risk scoring calculator and are therefore more likely to receive lifesaving medical treatment based solely on the color of their skin."

SSM has hospitals in Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

"The approach taken by your calculator is not only profoundly unethical and immoral, it is illegal," WILL added. "Federal law forbids race discrimination. Under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, patients may not be discriminated against based on race in any health program or activity 'a part of which is receiving Federal financial assistance.'"

MacIver's Healy said he's bothered that state government seems to be basing its distribution strategy on the same kind of thinking.

"Just as concerning is the fact that the Evers administration and DHS will not share with the public just exactly how equity is being used to steer treatment to the few," Healy said. "It's not surprising that the Evers administration would want to keep such a horrific change hidden but the public deserves to know exactly how this will impact their health care and the availability of life-saving treatment."

Rogue Street Art Appears Overnight In D.C., Mocks Biden & Fauci's COVID Regime

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 12:20 PM
Authored by Jordan Schachtel via 'The Dossier' Substack,

I wanted to turn your attention to a handful of premier art masterpieces that have appeared overnight in Washington, D.C.

The artwork is a brilliant Soviet-style mockery of Joe Biden and Anthony Fauci COVID Mania regime. And seeing it appear in downtown Washington, D.C., the home of America’s ruling class and unquestioning COVID compliance, is the perfect setting for these absolute gems.



The first piece showcases an angry Joe Biden holding an OSHA-labeled mallet surrounded by the word “comply.”

The second illustration, labeled, “good kids are compliant kids,” shows a handful of children in red masks looking up to an injection needle-surrounded Joe Biden.

The third shows a sitting Joe Biden holding the coronavirus in his hand, with the caption, “Mandate! Segregate! Subjugate!”

The last piece of artwork, “Trust The Scientism,” shows Anthony Fauci, dressed in clergy attire, possessing a giant hypodermic needle.

I particularly enjoy the Soviet propaganda style.

Here are the four posters lined up together, courtesy of Leigh Wolf’s Twitter page:



A DC Karen noticed the artwork and started to rip down the posters.

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She was filmed desecrating the artwork by Leigh Wolf, a comms and production professional who happens to be a former colleague of mine at CRTV/Blaze Media Wolf spotted the artwork and took photos of it before it was ripped down.

I reached out to Leigh and asked if he had any inside info about how the artwork ended up in Washington D.C. Wolf told me he has no idea who put them up. I’ll post an update if I can find the artist behind these magnificent creations.

Luongo: We Are All Djokovic, Now!

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 08:30 PM
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,

When I’ve talked in the past about the patchwork tyranny post COVID-9/11, I had more mundane things in mind than the fate of a major tennis star.

Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia on Sunday after his appeal to reinstate his visa failed. And it failed not for health reasons but for political ones.

To me, the kinds of terrible rules put in place for ‘public safety’ always conjure up images of casual oppression. Endless videos of pathetic public servants intimidating priests in churches or police arresting pub owners for serving willing patrons.

But it goes far deeper than that. It’s impossible to even conceive of the ways petty bureaucrats and middle managers around the world have destroyed the lives of ordinary people simply trying to get through the day because of a flu.



Since the beginning of the COVID-19 insanity Australia has been the poster child for this kind of thoughtless crime against common decency.

Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision to revoke Djokovic’s visa was made for political reasons. He didn’t try to hide it. If anything, he was proud of this decision.

Hawke said he accepted Djokovic’s recent Covid-19 infection meant he was a “negligible risk to those around him”, but that he was “perceived by some as a talisman of a community of anti-vaccine sentiment”.

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“I consider that Mr Djokovic’s ongoing presence in Australia may lead to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiment generated in the Australian community, potentially leading to an increase in civil unrest of the kind previously experienced in Australia with rallies and protests which may themselves be a source of community transmission.

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“Mr Djokovic is … a person of influence and status.

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“Having regard to … Mr Djokovic’s conduct after receiving a positive Covid-19 result, his publicly stated views, as well as his unvaccinated status, I consider that his ongoing presence in Australia may encourage other people to disregard or act inconsistently with public health advice and policies in Australia.”

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These are the words of the committed totalitarian. He hides it behind his public responsibilities, in this case the health status of an entire nation. If he’s not being controlled by outside forces (yeah, right) then he’s been infected with that dangerous solipsism which comes with this much raw power.

That corruption cannot be avoided.

But Hawke’s decision stems from Australia’s backing themselves into the corner over COVID-9/11 policy. They cannot be seen as backing down for anyone, especially someone like Djokovic.

To do so, as Hawke points out, would invite questioning the policy. And their policy is sacrosanct.

However, having admitted that Djokovic posed almost no threat of spreading COVID-9/11 the only thing at stake was the Australian government’s power.

This type of decision reveals 1) how deeply unpopular the COVID-9/11 rules are in Australia and 2) how weak the Aussie government’s hold over its people really is.

They could have weathered this if they had just quietly let Djokovic into the country to compete. They could have spun it had they wanted to.

They chose escalating the standoff to make an example of him to the unvaxxed population. There is no hope. You will submit. If we can humiliate Djokovic, just imagine what we can do to you.

And they revealed just how desperate they are.

Bureaucrats like Hawke have no sense of the politics of their decisions. They are order-takers, not order-makers. He was ordered to do this. When this standoff started it was during the height of the big push to drive fear over the Omicron variant of COVID-9/11.

That rollout failed spectacularly.

Omicron has flared up and out so quickly this affair now looks like the most insane application of government paranoia this side of Pyongyang.

Those that started this standoff created the mess and didn’t have the sense to clean it up.
Because they insist on building trailer parks in the face of a Cat-5 hurricane of public anger.

They hoped to send the message that no one can escape the jab. The Davos agenda of health passes and total technocratic control is inevitable. It’s the EU variant of the virus which Hawke’s immigration policies couldn’t stop coming to Australia.

What they wound up with is a whole lotta people shaking their heads.

But, don’t think for a second Australia is done sending messages to the untermenschen. Now, after he’s been deported, barred from competing and earning his living, Djokovic is liable for all the court costs associated with this decision.

Those costs are estimated to be $500,000.

The three judge panel that upheld the lower court ruling avoided any responsibility in the matter, neatly throwing the decision right back on Minister Hawke. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, clearly one of the people pushing this disaster behind the scenes, also left Hawke out to dry.

Next up for Djokovic will a standoff with France over the French Open. France and Davos will hound him until he submits because they think he cares more about his 21st Grand Slam title than he does his own health. It guess they didn’t get his message during the Australian affair.

But their message is very clear. We are in charge. We can make whatever rules we deem necessary. If you challenge them not only will we deny your challenge on arbitrary grounds but we’ll bankrupt you in the process.

And here I thought we in the post-enlightenment West could petition our governments over unjust laws. I thought this was the first world and not some tin pot dictatorship of thin-lipped, fat-headed midwits?

Only the most insane people are cheering this decision today. They are a part of the 29% of Democrats in the US who believe the unvaxxed should have their children taken from them. Sadly, there are still too many in the thrall of the COVID-9/11 mind virus.

But, if you didn’t get the message before the persecution of Novak Djokovic, I hope you get it now. And I hope he continues to be an example for the rest of us.

China Halts All Foreign Mail Due To COVID Threat As Tianjin Reports 80 New Cases

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 08:00 PM
With the Winter Olympics in Beijing set to start in just a few weeks, the CCP is still struggling to suppress a handful of small but alarming outbreaks of COVID, several of which have involved cases of the omicron variant.

And now, in the capital city, Beijing officials are warning locals not to order items and products from abroad, because they're worried that COVID might be carried into the country on the outsides of these packages. Or at least that's what they want the public to think.

Chinese authorities have been warning for years that COVID might be spread on the packaging of foodstuffs and other goods shipped internationally, something that many scientists have questioned, but that Chinese authorities have nonetheless kept alive with their state-controlled media.



One woman who apparently tested positive for the virus, then traces of the virus had been found on the packaging, or so at least Chinese authorities say.

All of this is happening as authorities have imposed tough restrictions on Beijing as it prepares to host the Olympics. For example, all new arrivals to the city must take a virus test within a day of travel to show that they are testing negative, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated or not.

Health official Pang Xinghuo told reporters on Monday that the virus had been found on the surface of a letter the infected person had received from Canada, as well as inside the unopened letter, according to AFP.

Dozens of letters from the same batch were tested, and five showed positive traces of COVID, Pang said, including samples from inside unopened letters. Beijing's CDC said the possibility that the woman was infected by a parcel from another country could not be ruled out.

Nordea's economists still expect China's economy to grow at a pace of 5% over the next year, despite the risk posed by omicron. China's growth outlook stabilized in the last quarter of 2021.

The main factors that adversely affected China's growth prospects in the second half of 2021 were the tight COVID policy and the real estate sector slowdown. They are expected to continue to dampen. And on a positive note, the shortage of electricity has eased since the start of October. Beijing's real problem, according to Nordea, is that it doesn't seem to have an "exit strategy" from its "COVID Zero" lockdown-centric approach.

Meanwhile, in Tianjin, a port city that's just 130 Km from Beijing, another 80 local cases of COVID have been reported, the biggest daily jump yet. The city and the port are still open and running as authorities have locked down a handful of neighborhoods in the city.

For the record, Tianjin, which is situated about 30 minutes by train from Beijing, is one of China's largest cities by population and home to one of its most active ports. It is the "recommended" port of entry for goods for the Winter Olympics and operations have not been affected by the outbreak, according to the state-controlled local media.

AMA Defies Supreme Court Ruling, Own Code Of Ethics, Calls For Employer Vaccine Mandates

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 07:30 PM
By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints

The president of the Chicago-based American Medical Association, Gerald E. Harmon, M.D., wrote on Friday in Crain’s Chicago Business that employers should impose COVID vaccine mandates as a condition of employment.

Last week’s decision by the United States Supreme Court invalidating the Biden Administration’s attempt to force employers to do so “should not,” Harmon wrote, “prevent these employers from doing what must be done in the name of public health: requiring vaccines to protect their workers, our communities and our nation from the ravages of this pandemic.”

“Our only hope is that large employers do what’s right—not only for their own employees and their families, but for the health of our nation,” says Harmon.

If only we could hope that Harmon and his association would honor their own code of ethics. The AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 2.1.1 says this:

Informed consent to medical treatment is fundamental in both ethics and law. Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care. Successful communication in the patient-physician relationship fosters trust and supports shared decision making. The process of informed consent occurs when communication between a patient and physician results in the patient’s authorization or agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention.

That’s a plain statement of the informed consent doctrine, which is among the most widely recognized and time-honored principles of medical ethics here and abroad. Everybody of sufficient age and sound mind is supposed to have right to decide what is to be done to his or her body.

It’s “arguably the most deeply rooted doctrine in contemporary medical ethics,” wrote two medical ethics experts last year in the Wall Street Journal. In that column, a director of the Medical Ethics Program at the University of California, Irvine and a law professor at Notre Dame wrote, “Authorities rushing to implement mandatory vaccination protocols are ignoring available scientific data, basic principles of immunology and elementary norms.”

The AMA’s Code of Ethics is for physicians, not employers, but that’s precisely what makes Harmon’s indifference to the principle of informed consent so egregious. He is effectively calling on employers to override the physician-patient relationship entirely, thereby avoiding the duty physicians would have to honor it.

That workaround may not fly legally since employers may have a legal duty to get informed consent to coerced vaccinations, at least as some mandate opponents see things. I have no opinion on that; the point here is not about the legalities.

The point, instead, is about doing what is right and what is ethical. It’s the principle that matters, and it should matter not just for physicians. The AMA’s code of ethics properly states that principle and it is rightly applied to any person or entity, including employers, who are in a position to force medical treatment on somebody else. Harmon and the AMA apparently care nothing about that principle.

Harmon went on to cite as “evidence of a vaccine mandate’s effectiveness” the case of United Airlines, which imposed a vax mandate on its employees. That’s not scientific evidence. Harmon ignored countless studies now available addressing many points of debate about the vax.

What we do know is that experts seem to agree that the vax significantly reduces chances of hospitalization or death. But it has also become clear that the vax is of little or no value in reducing spread of the virus to others, which we wrote about last week. That destroys any rationale for mandates by employers or anybody else. Vaccinations affect only the vaccinated so the decision should be left to the individual.

The only other possible rationale for an employer mandate is the hospital and staff overload, which is real in many locations. But that overload results largely from mandates themselves, imposed on healthcare workers, many of whom have quit as a consequence. The Supreme Court upheld that mandate on any recipient of federal funding, which includes most every hospital and provider.

The load on hospitals and healthcare workers is also undoubtedly attributable in large part to the indifference of most of the medical establishments to treatments. The best, newest treatments are in such short supply that that they are now rationed by the federal government. The AMA, like the federal government, systematically ignored therapeutics from the start, focusing almost exclusively on the vaccines and masks as prevention, which has turned out to be futile. Had development and distribution of therapeutics been emphasized early, countless victims might never be reaching the hospital. The AMA shares blame for that.

Finally, Harmon complained about politicized science. “It is most unfortunate that politicization of the virus and the vaccines developed to protect against severe illness and death has become a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to defeating the pandemic.”

The AMA and Harmon are perhaps the least credible voices in America to be complaining about politicized science. They have gone to truly absurd lengths inserting woke, racial politics into healthcare, as documented by RealClear Investigations in a two-part series. A lead editorial in the AMA journal’s August special issue dedicated to racial health disparities called systemic racism “a scientific fact beyond dispute and said all medical journals are morally obligated to document it in their research.”

Even The Atlantic, which is very progressive, ridiculed the AMA and Harmon for the damage their racial politics are inflicting on medical science and on the genuine interests of disadvantaged people. And dissenting from the AMA’s racial politics can jeopardize you job, The Atlantic wrote.

Let’s hope employers are more ethical than Harmon and the American Medical Association.

Apple Tells Employees They Have "Four Weeks To Comply" After Becoming Eligible For Booster Shots

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 06:00 PM

Apple is one of the first major corporations going on the record and telling its employees that it doesn't just need to see proof of vaccination, but now it also needs proof of a booster shot.

The company is requiring boosters for store and corporate employees, according to an internal email seen by The Verge.

Employees have "four weeks to comply" once they become eligible for booster shots, or else they will have to take "frequent tests to enter a retail store, partner store, or Apple office starting on February 15th," the report says.

Unvaccinated employees must now always provide negative COVID-19 rapid antigen tests before entering the workplace.



Apple's internal memo reportedly reads: “Due to waning efficacy of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines and the emergence of highly transmissible variants such as Omicron, a booster shot is now part of staying up to date with your COVID-19 vaccination to protect against severe disease.”

The company started requiring unvaccinated employees to take daily tests before entering the office last year. It also required retail workers to test twice a week.

Meta also said this past week that its employees would need to get booster shots before its company-wide return to office in March.

Pfizer CEO Predicts Life On Earth "Will Return To Normal" In The Spring

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 05:00 PM

Just a few days ago, Bill Gates shared some of his (revised) thoughts on the COVID pandemic and the trajectory that omicron has left us on. Several weeks after warning that omicron's heightened infectiousness might send the pandemic into overdrive, the Microsoft founder postulated instead that omicron might hasten the end of the pandemic by leaving the human population with more antibodies against the virus. As a result, SARS-CoV-2 might enter its endemic stage more quickly, Gates suggested.

This view, that the end of the pandemic might finally be at hand after two years of suffering, has become increasingly popular as of late. Take this piece from the BBC: "Endemic COVID: Is the pandemic entering its endgame?".

While the piece mostly focused on the UK, the sense is that the developed world more broadly is closer to the end because of its access to vaccines.

So, is a new Covid-era truly imminent and what will that actually mean for our lives?
"We're almost there, it is now the beginning of the end, at least in the UK," Prof Julian Hiscox, chairman in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, tells me. "I think life in 2022 will be almost back to before the pandemic."
What's changing is our immunity. The new coronavirus first emerged two years ago in Wuhan, China, and we were vulnerable. It was a completely new virus that our immune systems had not experienced before and we had no drugs or vaccines to help.

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It even came with his handy illustration depicting the difference between "pandemic" and "endemic" COVID:


Source: The BBC

Well, it appears the CEO of Pfizer has caught on to this narrative - and he approves. Speaking to the French media, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla that while he expects COVID to continue to circulate for many years to come, he expects future waves won't cause the types of restrictions that people have become used to over the last two years, and that life will return to "normal" in the spring.



Bourla told French news outlet Le Figaro in an interview published Jan. 16 that he expects a "return to normal life" at some point in spring of this year. However, he added the caveat that the mysterious dynamics of COVID's spread make accurate predictions more difficult.

"We will soon be able to resume a normal life," Albert Bourla told the French paper. "We are well positioned to get there in the spring thanks to all the tools at our disposal: tests, very effective vaccines and the first treatments that can be taken at home."

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He also credited improvements in COVID testing, vaccines, and therapeutics for his optimistic outlook, telling BFM TV that he expects the current omicron-driven wave to be the "last with so many restrictions."

But given its affinity for its human hosts, COVID will likely be "very difficult to get rid of," which is why Bourla expects it to become endemic, with the occasional seasonal flareup, like the flu.

Finally, the Pfizer CEO shared details of local partnerships that he said would help France produce more of Pfizer's COVID fighting drug Paxlovid.

With his approval rating at an all-time low, President Biden better hope the likes of Bourla and Gates are right. Ending the COVID pandemic might be the only thing that could help Biden regain some support among the tired and frustrated American electorate.

Beijing Bars Spectators From Winter Games As First Omicron Case Confirmed

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 03:00 PM

It's looking increasingly likely that China's Winter 2022 Olympics will take place in front of mostly crowd-less stadiums, just like last summer's Tokyo Games. Chinese media reported over the weekend that China has halted ticket sales for the Beijing Games. Instead of selling tickets to the public, groups of chosen spectators, most likely CCP elites, will be allowed to attend certain events.



The decision comes after the Chinese capital reported the first confirmed case of the omicron variant over the weekend. The organizers of the Games released a statement confirming the decision.

On Sep.30 2021,the pandemic prevention and control policy principles for the Beijing 2022 Games were released .One of the principles was that no tickets would be sold to spectators from outside China's mainland. Tickets would be sold exclusively to spectators residing in China's mainland who meet the requirements of COVID-19 countermeasures.

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Given the current grave and complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the safety of all participants and spectators, it was decided that tickets should not be sold anymore but be part of an adapted programme that will invite groups of spectators to be present on site during the Games. The organisers expect that these spectators will strictly abide by the COVID-19 countermeasures before, during and after each event as pre-conditions for the safe and sound delivery of the Games.

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Beijing last year announced several measures aimed at keeping athletes and spectators safe, including limiting ticket sales to people residing in mainland China.

More than 3K athletes as well as trainers and support staff are reportedly expected to attend the Winter Games, with all participants expected to remain in a "closed loop" in Beijing.

Attendees entering the loop must be fully vaccinated before arriving in China or face being quarantined, and they will be tested daily for COVID.

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The Lesson From The Downing Street Parties Is: The Rules Were Wrong

MONDAY, JAN 17, 2022 - 04:00 AM
Authored by Noah Carl via The Daily Scheptic,

With Labour now ten points ahead following fresh allegations of partying at No. 10, the Prime Minister’s job hangs in the balance.



While joe public was living life under lockdown, complete with hefty fines for rule-breakers, Boris and chums were living it up in the Downing Street garden. The Prime Minister has said he “implicitly believed it was a work event”. Yet the leaked invitation email told attendees to “bring your own booze!”.

This means either that the Prime Minister’s lying about what he “implicitly believed”, that he’s incapable of distinguishing work events and social events (hint: booze goes with the latter), or that he considers drinking at work to be perfectly fine.

At this point, there have been so many reported parties at 10 Downing Street (including the Daily Mirror’s latest scoop) that it’s hard to keep track of them all. You wonder how Boris and chums ever got any work done. I mean, those sweeping lockdown rules didn’t write themselves.
The public is rightly indignant at the hypocrisy of it all. And indeed, most of the media coverage has focused on this angle. How could Boris say one thing, while he was doing another? (Well, we already knew that his policy on cake is pro-having it and pro-eating it.)

No. 10’s hypocrisy certainly should be condemned. But that’s not the most important lesson here. No, the most import lesson is: the rules were wrong. As Will Jones notes, if Boris ends up resigning, it should be for the absurd, draconian policies that made his behaviour hypocritical in the first place.

The very fact that Boris and chums were comfortable meeting up for “socially distanced drinks” at a time when the official guidance was “stay home, save lives” indicates they knew the rules were pointless. (Either that or they don’t actually care about saving lives.)

Indeed, of all the various curbs and restrictions imposed over the past two years, stay-at-home orders may be the most egregious.

For a start, they constitute a brazen violation of our civil liberties. Although an Englishman’s home is his castle, that doesn’t mean the Government has the right to besiege him there. Recall the scenes of ramblers being tracked across the countryside by drones, like something out of a Jason Bourne movie:



But on top of that, confining us in our homes serves no purpose, when transmission overwhelmingly occurs indoors. To claim the individual pictured above was posing any kind of threat to his fellow citizens is preposterous. Add the fact that staying inside means less exposure to sunlight, and you have a dog’s breakfast of a policy.

Hypocrisy from politicians is one thing. But freedom-wrecking policies are quite another. As Philippe Lemoine notes, “by focusing on their hypocrisy, we encourage the notion that the rules themselves were okay”. They weren’t.

Exclusive — James O’Keefe: Pharmaceutical Companies Drive COVID-19 Media Corruption

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James O’Keefe, founder and CEO of Project Veritas and author of American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century, noted on Monday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with special guest host Jerome Hudson that cable news networks have financial conflicts of interest corrupting their conduct regarding COVID-19 information due to their sales of advertising to pharmaceutical companies.

O’Keefe observed how many news media outlets deceptively market themselves as disinterested observers, rather than shapers, of events. In the context of COVID-19, he said news media outlets’ financial conflicts of interest related to pharmaceutical companies determines what and how they frame information.

“These network news television stations don’t want to be in an exposed position where they’re seen as affecting events rather than just reacting to them,” he stated, “and that’s partially due to the economic issues where they have advertisers that direct their editorial content, and especially pharmaceutical company advertisements.”

He added, “In a time when the number one story in the world is this COVID pandemic, we need independent journalism [that is] not at the beck and call of pharmaceutical companies.”

Project Veritas’s growing acquisition of whistleblowers across varying institutions and sectors is forging a path for journalism in the modern era amid growing corruption across government and industry, O’Keefe held.

“Whistleblowing [is] really the future of journalism,” he remarked. He added, “[American Muckraker] was my attempt to talk about how to do journalism in clown world.”

He continued, “It’s important for everyone to understand what it’s going to take to prevent the collapse of society, and the way to do that is through vis-a-vis information — truthful information — that we have to expose. … There’s a sort of a new era, and there’s a mass movement of people that we’re trying to foster.”

O’Keefe said targets of Project Veritas’s investigations do not sue whistleblowers who reveal information through Project Veritas due to fears of disclosures compelled by the legal discovery process.

He stated, “[Targets of our investigations] stopped suing us, because they quickly realized that we could depose them. So we sued the New York Times for defamation. We’ve been successful, and they do not want to be deposed. They would hate us showing the answers to these questions, and that’s why they don’t sue our whistleblowers, because they don’t want to be exposed for who they are and what they are.”

Hawaii Will Require Visitors to Have Booster Shots to Be Fully Vaccinated

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PAUL BOIS17 Jan 202255

Travelers to Hawaii will now have to show proof of having received the coronavirus booster shot in order to be considered fully vaccinated.

Under the state’s current “Safe Travels” program, visitors to the state must quarantine for five days or test negative for the coronavirus within one day of travel if they are not fully vaccinated, which previously meant two doses of the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The new guidelines will now include booster shots in order for people to skip quarantine.

Speaking to Hawaii News Now, Gov. David Ige (D) said the new guidelines will not be implemented for another two weeks, allowing visitors to adjust.

“We know that the community needs time to react to that, so we would have to provide at least two weeks for those who may not be up-to-date to go to have the opportunity to go and get vaccinated if they need to,” he said.

Ige added that he will discuss with county mayors about whether or not to require booster shots for access to restaurants, bars, and other venues. Ultimately, he said those decisions will be left to local municipalities.

Last month, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino announced that booster shots would be required for locals to be considered fully vaccinated, according to ABC News. The new rule was later postponed to go into effect on January 24 in order to give people more time. Victorino said:

The good news is that most medical providers are seeing a noticeable increase in demand for booster shots in Maui County for people of all ages. Many parents are eager to get additional protection for their teens. Postponing the effective date will give residents and providers additional time to respond to the CDC’s new guidance.

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Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the definition of fully vaccinated still has not changed beyond the initial doses, adding that booster shots render a person’s vaccination status “up to date.”

“Consistent with how public health has historically viewed or even talked about how we recommend vaccines, we are now recommending that individuals stay up to date with additional doses that they are eligible for,” said CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

“The technical definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ — two doses of an mRNA vaccine or one dose of the J & J vaccine — has not changed,” CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund emphasized.

“Individuals are considered fully vaccinated once they have received their primary series.”

Israeli study proves 4th COVID jab ineffective

by Liberty Loft News
January 17, 2022



Jerusalem, Israel — After hearing propaganda for weeks telling us that we must get multiple boosters for protection from Omicron, one study finally tells the truth.

A new study out of Israel says that while antibodies may increase with a 4th shot, it is not enough to prevent you from getting the Omicron variant. The information was shared after a study between antibody levels of individuals with 3 shots versus 4 shots.

The Reuters article on the study said that antibodies were only a little bit higher than after a 3rd dose. Israel has been aggressive with its approach on vaccines, but this report continues to raise doubts about the use and purpose of vaccines.

For Americans, leaders have been spreading propaganda that vaccines are the only way to protect yourself for months. On Sunday, President Joe Biden continued his push for vaccines.



Dr. Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden both said that vaccines would eliminate COVID and end the pandemic. They told Americans that only 2 doses of the vaccine were necessary, before starting to pressure Americans to take booster shots.

They have shifted their language to say it is only to prevent serious illness and death. Omicron does not appear to cause the high incidents of serious illness and death as previous variants, but that has not stopped the lies to Americans.

Amid the continued discussion about vaccine mandates, the question has been raised whether just the initial vaccines are considered fully vaccinated or if booster shots should be mandatory.

Some states and employers have made booster shots mandatory amid their vaccine mandates.

In recent days, some have suggested that Americans need to start preparing to get the 4th booster. The CDC recommended the 4th booster for some Americans just last week.

Democrats have continued to push for vaccines, creating division in America. Now, some are calling to use the National Guard to force unvaccinated Americans to stay in their homes.

Will that push continue as this new data shows the booster shots are ineffective? Research studies, like this one, are the very examples of science that the radical left says are needed to justify decisions. We are betting that nothing changes and they continue to push vaccines on everyone.

Nobel Laureate Warns Doctors: 'Vaccines are Not for Killing, They are for Shielding' (Video)

Renee Nal
January 17, 2022



A critic of the coronavirus “vaccine”, French Virologist Luc Montagnier previously warned that the vaccines are creating the variants.

French virologist and Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier condemned the vaccine and warned physicians that they are “responsible for the future of mankind” if they continue to administer them to trusting patients.

The 89-year-old virologist was invited by Gianluigi Paragone, a journalist and politician who spearheaded the “Italexit” movement in Italy. Modeled after Brexit, the Italexit movement supports a break from the authoritarian European Union.

The comments were made during the “Together to Say Enough” event in Milan at the Piazza XXV Aprile and translated exclusively for RAIR Foundation USA. The event was held to resist the Green Pass, which will prevent non-compliant citizens from taking part in travel, banking, work, shopping, etc.

See a screenshot from the Italian government website (translated):

Screenshot (translated) from Italian Government Website

In April, 2020, RAIR Foundation reported that Prof. Luc Montagnier stated unequivocally that the coronavirus virus (SARS-CoV-2) “was manufactured and leaked from a Wuhan lab in China with HIV (AIDS) DNA.” The comments were “fact-checked” by Singapore-based Flora Teoh of Facebook’s Ministry of Truth, healthfeedback.org. At the time, RAIR noted that Flora Teoh was “available to ‘produce compelling narratives’ in the field of science for a mere $30 per hour.”
Gianluigi Paragone

A longtime critic of the vaccine, as well as the strategy of vaccinating the entire planet, the Nobel Laureate previously warned that the “vaccines” are creating the variants. During his remarks, Montagnier stated that it is now obvious that the vaccines “did not protect against the contagion” which is “n contrast to what they announced at the beginning.”

Not only does the vaccine fail to offer immunity for the coronavirus, it also is responsible for causing illness. “It is not only because of the clinical evidence, but also all the results, all the diseases that this vaccine has caused,” Luc Montagnier explained.

“The spike protein, which is synthesized by the messenger RNA contained in the vaccine, is toxic to the cells,” Montagnier warned. He continued to say that the “vaccine” is “poison,” and reiterated how athletes have been affected. He further stated (and Montagnier has been consistent) that coronavirus vaccines “are likely to cause neurological diseases, very serious brain diseases.”

“Sometimes the neurological signs already manifest themselves after the second booster shot,” Montagnier warned. “And nobody can predict how many vaccinated people will suffer from these neurological syndromes, or not,” he continued.

Vaccines are supposed to offer immunity to illness. But the coronavirus vaccine harms people. “It cannot be tolerated,” the virologist declared. “Vaccines are not for killing, they are for shielding,” he continued. As far as giving the vaccine to children, Montagnier has echoed many others in stating that it is a “crime”.

The coronavirus vaccine was supposed to put an end to the pandemic. It has proven to be harmful, and does not protect against contracting the coronavirus. This is evident for anyone paying attention. At this point, healthcare workers who continue to administer the failed vaccine are complicit.

“So therefore I am asking all my colleagues to stop vaccinating people with this vaccine,” Montagnier pleads in his remarks. ” The physicians who keep vaccinating people are absolutely aware of this [the negative impact of the vaccine]”, he said. “Beware, beware, they are responsible for the future of mankind,” the Nobel Laureate warned.

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Nobel Laureate Warns Doctors: 'Vaccines are Not for Killing, They are for Shielding'
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Transcript:
This poor vaccine can’t walk.
Because these vaccines were synthesized, created on the basis of a strategy which was a mistake.
A bad mistake. This strategy is a huge mistake.
This strategy has been nothing but promoting this product, which is a vaccine, a product of genetic transmission.
And so therefore nature and all the experimentation have showed that these vaccines did not protect against the contagion.
In contrast to what they announced at the beginning.
So…
This is scientifically acknowledged by everyone, nowadays.
It is not only because of the clinical evidence, but also all the results, all the diseases that this vaccine has caused.
It often happens that, instead of preventing the disease from becoming more serious, the vaccines have had the opposite effect: they favor new infections.
Unfortunately they have more serious effects.
The spike protein, which is synthesized by the messenger RNA contained in the vaccine, is toxic to the cells.
It’s poison.
For instance, this protein affects organs such as the heart, and some young athletes died because of their vaccination.
It cannot be tolerated. Vaccines are not for killing, they are for shielding.
So it is a crime to administer this vaccine to children.
There are more serious effects than that.
These vaccines are likely to cause neurological diseases, very serious brain diseases.
There are already dozens of people who died because of these long term effects of the vaccination.
Sometimes the neurological signs already manifest themselves after the second booster shot.
And nobody can predict how many vaccinated people will suffer from these neurological syndromes, or not.
So therefore I am asking all my colleagues to stop vaccinating people with this vaccine.
The physicians who keep…
Ask him if he can answer some questions, after that.
Could you answer some questions?
Yes.
The physicians who keep vaccinating people are absolutely aware of this.
If they weren’t before, they are now.
Beware, beware, they are responsible for the future of mankind.
They forgot about the cures, and they should not focus on prevention only.
And so there is not only the vaccine, there are medicines that work very well.
The medicines that haven’t been used are the antibiotics.

COVID REBOUND COLD

I now have seen way to many coincidences that I need to mention this.

2-4weeks after you get covid, be prepared to get sick again. True cold, URI, type stuff. Sneezing, really runny nose, watery eyes, and a phlegmy cough.

We have had 6 employees out with COVID since Thanksgiving. Every single one of them came down with this crud in that 2-4 weeks PAST the full completion of covid symptoms. Several of them retested and were negative, fwiw. Nearly all needed more time off work to get over illness round 2.

Ok. I figure just the COVID employees with taxed immune systems are passing something around. Annoying, but no biggie.

Until tonight, when I ran across You-tuber MonkeyWerx's latest video, where HE is in that 2-4 week range and getting sick with the same crud my employees are.

????

I have seen no articles about this, or mention of it; maybe I'm drawing conclusions where there are none.

So bottom line, you're not out of the woods once the main symptoms and time frame have passed. Round 2 may be coming for you!!

(Double posted - on Great Reset thread)


It’s Scary How Similar Western Countries’ Covid Responses Are To China’s

BY: HELEN RALEIGH
JANUARY 17, 2022




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It would be wrong to assume that casualties of ‘zero COVID’ rules only occur in authoritarian states such as Communist China.




HELEN RALEIGH

Since the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China more than two years ago, the Chinese government has adopted “zero tolerance” Covid policies and frequently relied on harsh measures such as lockdowns and mandatory quarantines to try to stop the virus.

Most Chinese people chose to comply with the government’s orders and endure any negative consequences quietly. However, in recent days, even the Chinese people have reached a point of “enough is enough” upon learning that a pregnant woman lost her unborn child after a hospital refused to admit her due to its strict Covid-19 policy.

Lockdowns Deny Treatment to Pregnant Mothers
The tragedy took place in Xi’an, a city of 13 million residents. Xi’an has been under a strict lockdown since mid-December. Schools are closed, and most public services are suspended. No indoor dining or outdoor gatherings are permitted. Only one person from each household can go grocery shopping every two days.

So far, the city has reported just more than 2,000 Covid-19 cases (the city likely underreported its case numbers). Reportedly, most cases have been mild, and there is zero death. Still, many hospitals in the city have dedicated their capacity to Covid-19 patients and stopped admitting non-Covid patients, “especially those from at-risk areas.”

Last week, news broke of a hospital that rejected a woman who was eight months pregnant because her Covid test was a few hours too old. Despite her heavy bleeding, the hospital made her wait outside in the cold for two hours before it finally admitted her. She ended up losing her unborn child.

The story prompted a second pregnant woman to report on social media that two hospitals rejected her because of their Covid policies. By the time she got a third hospital to admit her, her baby had already died.

While many Chinese citizens expressed sympathy for her, they couldn’t contain their outrage for the hospitals and, ultimately, the Chinese government’s draconian “zero tolerance” Covid policies. “This is so infuriating,” someone wrote on one of China’s social media platforms. “The death rate of Covid-19 is dropping, while the costs of ‘zero tolerance’ are rising.”

It would be wrong to assume this kind of tragedy only occurs in an authoritarian state such as Communist China. Many western democracies have imposed similar “zero tolerance” Covid policies, which have caused considerable and sometimes irreversible harm. These policies also make democracies indistinguishable from authoritarian states by stamping on people’s freedom.

In Australia, Citizens Defecate in Cars Awaiting COVID Tests
Australia is a perfect example of how “zero tolerance” Covid-19 policies have turned a once-free nation into a tyrannical state. The federal government has closed Australia’s borders since spring 2020, so few people have been allowed to come and go. Australia’s state governments have also closed state borders, preventing most Australians from traveling across state lines.

In addition to strict border closures, Australian states have imposed vaccine mandates and multiple lockdowns, deployed police and even soldiers to enforce lockdown rules, and arrested anti-lockdown protesters. Some states rely on technologies such as facial recognition software to ensure residents comply with mandatory quarantine orders.

Regardless, Australia’s insane “zero tolerance” policies have been largely ineffective, especially against the highly infectious omicron variant.




Australia Daily Confirmed New Cases (7-Day Average), provided by Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg News reported last week that Australia’s case counts had dropped 100,000 for the first time.



The Australian government’s mandates and the rapid spread of omicron cases have caused long lines outside of testing centers nationwide. Since there are not enough toilets at these testing centers and the wait times have been so long, some people reportedly had to relieve themselves in public, in their cars, or consider wearing adult diapers. That free people in a developed nation allowed the state to humiliate them this way is both embarrassing and depressing.

Do not expect sanity to return to Australia anytime soon. Tennis star Novak Djokovic, probably one of the healthiest individuals on this planet, had his visa revoked by the Australian government and was confined in an immigration detention center in Melbourne for getting an exemption from the Covid vaccine.

Never mind that Djokovic has natural immunity because he recovered from Covid-19 recently. Djokovic was finally set free after a federal court ruled in his favor. But on Friday, Australia’s immigration minister announced the country was canceling Djokovic’s visa for a second time.

In America, Students Stunted and Critical Surgeries Canceled
Here in the United States, we have endured the consequences of our own “zero tolerance” Covid-19 policies. Since clinics and hospitals have restricted the number of visitors in the name of Covid, several of my girlfriends who got pregnant last year had to make all their prenatal visits alone. When one delivered a stillborn baby, the hospital would not allow the baby’s grandparents or any family member other than the woman’s husband to visit her and say their final goodbye to the baby.

Emergency rooms in some states are turning away patients and hospitals are postponing non-emergency surgeries due to staff shortages, partially caused by the firing of unvaccinated health-care workers. Frustrated patients have gone to the ER for non-emergency services and Covid testing, contributing to overcrowded emergency rooms and a long wait for patients who need urgent health care.

The most significant casualties of the “zero tolerance” policies are American children and young adults. Their mental health and quality of learning have suffered due to prolonged school closures and ineffective remote learning. Even The New York Times finally acknowledged that American youth have paid a hefty price, and they shouldn’t have to grow up this way. Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University slammed elite universities for their extreme Covid-19 policies that “defy science and reason.”

These “zero-tolerance” Covid policies are cruel and harmful, and dangerous because they try to achieve an impossible goal — stopping Covid-19. Even the Centers for Disease Control admits that while Covid vaccines prevent us from getting seriously ill, they won’t stop the transmission of the virus either, and vaccinated people can still get and spread Covid-19. It’s time we accept that Covid is here to stay, and it is one of the many risks in life that we have to learn to live with.

There is little the Chinese people can do to change their authoritarian government’s “zero tolerance” policies. But here in the United States, we can demand an end to these indefensible policies with all the tools our democracy affords us, such as writing open letters, speaking up at school board meetings, or showing up at the ballot box. It is up to us to reject bad policies, protect our children, and get our lives and liberty back.

Episode 20 - Fight Against Medical Tyranny - Interview with Attorney Greg Glaser 1:03:01 min

Episode 20 – Fight Against Medical Tyranny – Interview With Attorney Greg Glaser On SCOTUS OSHA Decision
by Christine DolanJanuary 17, 202201478
CDMedia Published January 17, 2022

Pfizer Booster Listed As Cause of Death in 26-Year-Old’s Autopsy, Death Certificate After Work-Mandated Jab
ByInfoWars

The family of 26-year-old Joseph Keating is still grieving after a Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine booster jab led to his untimely death from myocarditis last November.

The South Dakota man’s official autopsy report, exclusively obtained by Children’s Health Defense.org, shows he suffered “multifocal myocarditis” just days following his third dose of the experimental mRNA shot, which his family said was required by his occupation.



However, this wasn’t an issue for Keating, who his family described as pro-vaccine.
Keating’s CDC vaccine card documents his first and second doses of Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy on March 26, and April 16, 2021, respectively.

He waited several months before taking a third booster dose on Monday, November 8.

Within days Keating’s health deteriorated and he was no longer able to work due to shortness of breath.

“Tuesday and Wednesday he was fine,” described Keating’s mother, Cayleen, “but Thursday morning — 72 hours after the booster — he called and said he had a sore throat.”

The Defender’s Megan Redshaw reports on how the family had no indications Keating’s heart would soon fail, and believed he was experiencing mild side effects.

Cayleen made her son some hot apple cider and he took throat lozenges and went to work, but within two hours he called her to pick him up because he was so fatigued he couldn’t work.

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When Cayleen asked him what was wrong, Joseph told her he had some muscle soreness, exhaustion and a sore throat.

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[…] Joseph slept through Thursday. On Friday morning, he told his mother he would have to call into work again because he was too exhausted to go in. Cayleen visited Joseph and said he appeared to be normal, other than fatigue and muscle soreness.

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“He wasn’t really acting sick, just exhausted,” she said.

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Cayleen, a critical care nurse of 35 years, took her son’s vitals and noted his temperature was up to 100.2 and his heart rate was elevated to 112. She thought it was related to the fever, so she gave him Tylenol.

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Later that day, Joseph texted his mother that his fever was down. By 4:30 p.m., his oxygen was at 100%, but his heart rate was still elevated.

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Joseph’s father, William, visited his son around 5 p.m. and they had dinner. William left at 6 p.m. Two hours later their son was dead.

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The autopsy report notes Keating’s Apple Watch recorded an extremely high heart rate the morning of his death:

“His Apple watch recorded no cardia activity after 1959 hours. He did not respond to a text at 2100 hours. On November 13th he did not text his mother in the morning as he usually did and his family subsequently found him deceased in his recliner.”

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A death certificate issued by the State of South Dakota and obtained by the Defender lists Keating’s cause of death from “multifocal myocarditis involving the left ventricle and septum,” with a second cause of death listed as “Recent Pfizer Covid-19 booster vaccine.”


Keating’s mother says she’s glad they authorized an autopsy as it’s definitive proof the vaccine was what caused her son’s death.

“It’s documented proof,” Cayleen told the Defender. “He died directly from the Pfizer booster.”

The family says despite the surprising nature of Keating’s death and official documents, they have yet to be contacted by the CDC, the FDA or any other federal health agency about his death.

“You would think the death of a child from a reaction to a COVID vaccine that’s documented on the death certificate and autopsy, the CDC would have reached out to us immediately,” Cayleen bemoaned. “You would think the CDC would have called the pathologist.”

She added: “We’ve heard no response. We contacted the local news station to get the word out that this happened, and they said their hands were tied. We called the pathologist, no comment. The governor, no comment. The health department, no comment. The CDC, no comment. So, nobody’s talking about it.”

The family is now seeking justice for their son by warning others of the potentially deadly consequences of receiving the jabs, which can evidently manifest with little, or no symptoms.

“I want answers and I want Pfizer and the CDC to call me and tell me what went wrong. I want to save another child,” a bereaved Cayleen insists.

Read more on Joseph Keating’s case @ Children’s Health Defense.org.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVAXZPNaMI
26:30 min

Vaccination advice in the age of omicron

Jan 17, 2022


Dr. John Campbell

Has the risk benefit analysis changed now omicron is the variant?

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Germany, Australia creating “quarantine camps,” some located within prisons



German and Australian governments have made a move to place people in government “isolation” facilities that look similar to concentration camps as they continue to ramp up the use of forced quarantine centers to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

A recent survey by a German newspaper found that at least 15 people have been taken into quarantine facilities in some of the largest cities since the beginning of the year. The individuals, who were said to have violated home isolation requirements, include 11 from Munich, two from Stuttgart and one each from Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.

The number is likely higher, however, as cities like Berlin and Leipzig have not submitted their numbers to the paper.

Some of these quarantine facilities are located within prisons. “Most of the federal states have closed areas in hospitals or prisons for quarantine breakers. In Eisenhuttenstadt, Brandenburg, refusals were last housed in a former deportation detention center, in North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, in a Solingen clinic,” the news outlet said.

Germany has long allowed forced quarantine for people who have been suspected of having infectious diseases and refusing to submit to other isolation measures. The German Infection Protection Act of 2000 specifically authorizes the government to put people into a locked hospital or a locked facility, stating that “the fundamental right to freedom of the person can be restricted in this respect.”

Hundreds of thousands of Germans have been subjected to domestic quarantine orders at any given time, with city authorities “checking” them if there is a specific suspicion. Officials in Stuttgart rely on “special tipsters” that include neighbors, acquaintances and relatives.

Finally, the ten largest cities in Germany also initiated more than 250 fine proceedings for violations, with fines ranging between 250 and 1,000 euros, and can run up to 25,000 euros. (Related: Establishment Republican and neocon anti-Trumper Rick Wilson calls for “anti-vaxxers” to be placed into re-education camps.)

Quarantined citizens treated like prisoners
In Australia, the government also took forced quarantine a step further. The country began constructing COVID-19 quarantine camps in some areas, including Victoria and the Northern Territory (NT).

Some centers have already opened. Hundreds of people who tested positive for the virus or had close contact with those who did were relocated to those centers for at least two weeks.

The police also arrested three teenagers after they escaped from a quarantine center in Darwin. The boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, were taken to the Howard Springs camp after being deemed close contacts with people who have COVID. They scaled the walls of the facility but were captured later after the police launched a manhunt and set up checkpoints in the area.

The boys, who came from a small indigenous community, were slammed at a briefing by NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner, saying there was absolutely no excuse for jumping the wall.

“Absconding from Howard Springs isn’t just dangerous — it is incredibly stupid because we will catch you and there will be consequences,” Gunner said.

Gunner, a member of the left-wing Labor Party, imposed the lockdown in Binjari and nearby Rockhole last month after reports of nine positive cases. He also banned people from leaving their homes, except in cases of medical emergencies. The NT has since reported zero COVID deaths and a few hundred cases in a population of 246,000.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison also dispatched around two dozen Australian soldiers to the region at the end of November to help round up close contacts in indigenous communities and transfer them to the so-called quarantine camps.

“We have already identified 38 close contacts from Binjari, but that number will go up. Those 38 are being transferred now,” Gunner said.

Meanwhile, hundreds of households and close contacts have since been flown to Howard Springs, and over 1,300 international arrivals have completed “mandatory supervised quarantine” at the facility that can hold up to 3,000 people.

The rules for these camp detainees are also quite severe, as they are required to stay within their rooms or the small porches attached to the rooms at all times unless permitted to leave by an officer. Masks and social distancing measures are also mandatory regardless of COVID status.

“Quarantine facility staff will remind you about wearing your mask, staying on your veranda and physically distancing through information in your resident booklet, by sending you SMS reminder texts and verbally in person if we see you are not following the direction,” a facility guidance stated.

“All residents in quarantine, including all children, are tested three times during their stay on days 1, 5 and 12. These tests are a nose and throat swabs. If you do not undergo a test, you will be required to remain in quarantine a further 10 days at your own expense.”

At AU$2,500 ($1,780.5) per individual, quarantining in Australia for two weeks does not come cheap, either.

Behavioral control
and the end of the American dream.


Remember those Johns Hopkins Pandemic war games that occurred over the span of decades? Where the outcome usually ended in a need to control the populace, by which behavioral modification techniques are used to enforce cooperation from the populace.

Right now, one can wander over to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and see their current projects include an analysis of “anti-misinformation actions'“, which they call the Environment of Misinformation.

World leaders, governments, big media, big pharma and tech giants are busy planning out the next pandemic response. So, maybe it is time for those of us who believe there is a better way to live than to be controlled, to plan out responses to all these draconian measures. As well as to begin to develop counter measures to a bio-threat that do not use censorship, propaganda, mandates and behavioral modification techniques. You know, the old fashioned way where the government relies on people to use their own critical thinking skills to assess what is best for themselves and their families, after getting all the information available.

So, let’s climb aboard and let’s have a think about how “we” are being controlled, nudged, censored and lied to during this pandemic, and to be aware that governments are already planning how to control us better in the next.

Definition: psyops (From the US Department of Defense)

“Psyops are the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behaviors.”

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The US Department of Defense (DOD) 2004 and 2010 Counterinsurgency Operations Reports define “psyops” as the following:

“The mission of psychological Operations (psyops) is to influence the behavior of foreign target audiences to support US national objectives. A psyop accomplishes this by conveying selected information and advising on actions that influence the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences. Behavioral change is at the root of the psyop mission.”

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Read that last sentence again. “Behavioral change is at the root of the psyop mission.” Sound familiar?

At the heart of a psyops operations are behavioral tools or mind control techniques such as hypnosis, mass formation, censorship, security theater, use of fear to drive anxiety and propaganda.

How does our military use psyops?

“DELIBERATELY DECEIVE
Military deception missions use psychological warfare to deliberately mislead enemy forces during a combat situation.

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INFLUENCE WITH INFORMATION
Military Information Support Operations (MISO) missions involve sharing specific information to foreign audiences to influence the emotions, motives, reasoning, and behavior of foreign governments and citizens. This can include cyber warfare and advanced communication techniques across all forms of media.

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ADVISE GOVERNMENTS
Interagency and government support missions shape and influence foreign decision making and behaviors in support of United States’ objectives.

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PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS FOR RESCUE EFFORTS
Civil Authorities Information Support (CAIS) missions aid civilian populations during disaster relief situations by sharing critical information to support the rescue effort.

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What is the history of Army Psychological Operations?
Founded during World War I to devastate opposing troops’ morale, the PSYOPS unit has played a critical role in World War II, the Vietnam War, and recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, where unconventional warfare provided by PSYOPS has been crucial to national security.”

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What is nudging?

“A nudge is any attempt at influencing people’s judgment, choice or behavior in a predictable way that is motivated because of cognitive boundaries, biases, routines, and habits in individual and social decision-making posing barriers for people to perform rationally in their own self-declared interests, and which works by making use of those boundaries, biases, routines, and habits as integral parts of such attempts.”

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And now - for the fly in the toilet…

One of the best examples of “nudging, is the use of a “fly” in the toilet bowl. First introduced at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam back in 1999, the idea was simple: etch the image of a fly in the urinal and men will aim for it almost every time, that is - well over 80% of the time. Costs of clean-up went way down, without forcing anyone to do anything.

Now that the term nudging and pysops are defined and understood, think about these terms in context of mass formation and the narrative big media generated to the Joe Rogan podcast (link at the end of this article). The article below explains:

REVEALED: AP source who 'fact checked' Mass Formation Psychosis theory encouraged 'behavioral nudging' people into Covid compliance, quoted Goebbels

Van Bavel (the AP source) seems to believe that he is not guilty of either spreading or believing propaganda, manipulating people or being manipulated.

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In a Nature article in 2020, Van Bavel posited that "insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behaviour with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts." What is this if not an attempt to push people to do what they're told?

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The article addresses using fear as a means to control people, in the right doses: "A meta-analysis found that targeting fears can be useful in some situations, but not others: appealing to fear leads people to change their behaviour if they feel capable of dealing with the threat, but leads to defensive reactions when they feel helpless to act. The results suggest that strong fear appeals produce the greatest behaviour change only when people feel a sense of efficacy, whereas strong fear appeals with low-efficacy messages produce the greatest levels of defensive responses."

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So, the expert opinion that fact-checked the term Mass Formation is actually is an expert on the use of behavioral techniques and fear to ensure compliance within a population to support public health. So, denying that mass formation exists, while writing about it in the scientific literature. It doesn’t get more Orwellian, does it?

Political warfare is the art of heartening one’s friends and disheartening one’s enemies. It makes use of ideas, words, images, and deeds to compel or convince friends, foes, or neutrals into cooperation or acquiescence. Effective political warriors know that the best way to prevail in modern ideological conflict is not through killing, but through persuasion, cooption, and influence.

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Frank Gaffney, Jr.

This is full on political warfare, which is effectively using social and MSM media to control the narrative. But this is asymmetric warfare. They have the resources, the power, the money, main stream media, big pharma, tech giants and social media supporting their efforts. When Biden decided by executive order to enforce mandates, which are political in nature (the science does not support mandates as the vaccines do not stop spread of the disease and may create vaccine escape mutants), then mandates became a censored topic. When the government decided that they would not support the use of ivermectin and HCQ, despite our laws that allow such usage, these also became censored topics and taboo to discus. Messages about ivermectin being dangerous and horse-paste were planted though out the Internet and TV. These are examples of censorship and propaganda.

Now, there is a small, but growing guerrilla army of supporters. Mostly on the conservative side. Strangely enough, the resistance has come from the conservatives and now many in the younger generation are taking up the mantle. Indications are that it is becoming hip to be conservative. Will the democrats lose the next generation because of their draconian public health responses to COVID-19?

However, if the resistance speaks too loudly or speaks truth to power too often, they are taken out by warnings and de-platforming. They are losing their right to free speech. Evan some conservative politicians are no longer allowed to use such platforms as youtube or twitter. Senator Ron Johnson, the ranking member for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has lost the right to publish on Youtube. That should scare and shock anyone with a thinking brain. Articles on such subjects as the lab leak are removed from search engines and are not allowed to be republished by the Trusted News Initiative. Professional are losing their jobs, being investigated and are losing their licenses for speaking out and/or treating patients with COVID-19 early in the course of the disease. Some might call these tactics defenestration. As this happens, more and more people are realizing that our very freedoms that made our country what it is are at stake.


The article linked below in the Telegraph shows that governments have gone beyond nudging, and are working in the realm of pysops and totalitarian measures:

Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists: Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods

More recently, one of the largest newspapers in Denmark is apologizing for its journalistic failure during COVID-19, for only publishing the official government narrative without question. This newspaper continued to go along with this plan long after it was clear that the government narrative was crumbling. The link between governments and the media to control the population has become normalized.

“We Failed”

Another very timely article to read is:

Professor Ehud Qimron: “Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure”

Where as a nation, as a society and as individuals do we go from here?

For me, this is a battle that has completely changed my life, my way of thinking and my perspective on my government and world leaders. There is no going back for me. I will not let this great nation, this world go down the road of totalitarianism. That is a recipe for the end of the American dream.

“Inspired” did another video on my audio made from my recent interview on the Kristi Leigh TV. The video above was produced by Kristin & Jean Nolan, the founders of the Inspired Channel. I owe them a huge thank you!

View: https://youtu.be/4NDs55GCfJs
6:10 min

Watch the full interview on the Joe Rogan Experience


(Access through website)

Deep dive on Vaccine failure…
Posted by Kane on January 17, 2022 10:26 pm




Vaccines are not working — Chart

Unfortunately, after a year of vaccination and 9.5 billion doses, vaccine failure is visible to everybody to acknowledge: unforeseen transmission, explosion of cases. We’ve had 240 million infections in 2021 – when we vaccinated like never before. We only had 70 million in 2020 when we had no vaccines.

Read the full deep dive here…

Excellent New Video — Panel of 4 doctors

Video 14:52 min

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3gAkQJf6c8
21:45 min

Bonus - The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Transition Phase with Dr. Monica Gandhi: What Questions Do We...

Jan 18, 2022


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what the COVID pandemic might look like on the other side of omicron peaks. They discuss how to rethink our safety approaches to move towards accepting COVID as endemic, managing other respiratory viruses like flu, and searching for consensus in the path forward. They also discuss an interesting theory about omicron’s origins.