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Inventor of mRNA Technology: Vaccine Causes Lipid Nanoparticles to Accumulate in ‘High Concentrations’ in Ovaries

On the “Dark Horse Podcast,” Dr. Robert Malone, creator of mRNA vaccine technology, said the COVID vaccine lipid nanoparticles — which tell the body to produce the spike protein — leave the injection site and accumulate in organs and tissues.

by Megan Redshaw
June 18, 2021

Inventor of mRNA Technology_ Vaccine Causes Lipid Nanoparticles to Accumulate in ‘High Concentrations’ in Ovaries
View: https://youtu.be/aMB1dRJNHe8
15:01 min

On June 10, Dr. Robert Malone, creator of mRNA vaccine technology, joined evolutionary biologist Brett Brownstein, Ph.D., for a 3-hour conversation on the “Dark Horse Podcast” to discuss multiple safety concerns related to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

In this short outtake from the full podcast, Malone, Brownstein and tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch touch on the implications of the controversial Japanese Pfizer biodistribution study. The study was made public earlier this month by Dr. Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist.

They also discuss the lack of proper animal studies for the new mRNA vaccines, and the theory, espoused by virologist Geert Vanden Bossche, Ph.D., that mass vaccination with the mRNA vaccines could produce ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants.

As The Defender reported June 3, Bridle received a copy of a Japanese biodistribution study — which had been kept from the public — as a result of a freedom of information request made to the Japanese government for Pfizer data.

Prior to the study’s disclosure, the public was led to believe by regulators and vaccine developers that the spike protein produced by mRNA COVID vaccines stayed in the shoulder where it was injected and was not biologically active — even though regulators around the world had a copy of the study which showed otherwise.

The biodistribution study obtained by Bridle showed lipid nanoparticles from the vaccine did not stay in the deltoid muscle where they were injected as the vaccine’s developers claimed would happen, but circulated throughout the body and accumulated in large concentrations in organs and tissues, including the spleen, bone marrow, liver, adrenal glands and — in “quite high concentrations” — in the ovaries.

The mRNA — or messenger RNA — is what tells the body to manufacture the spike protein. The lipid nanoparticles are like the “boxes” the mRNA is shipped in, according to Malone. “If you find lipid nanoparticles in an organ or tissue, that tells you the drug got to that location,” Malone explained.

According to the data in the Japanese study, lipid nanoparticles were found in the whole blood circulating throughout the body within four hours, and then settled in large concentrations in the ovaries, bone marrow and lymph nodes.

Malone said there needed to be monitoring of vaccine recipients for leukemia and lymphomas as there were concentrations of lipid nanoparticles in the bone marrow and lymph nodes. But those signals often don’t show up for six months to three or nine years down the road, he said.

Usually, signals like this are picked up in animal studies and long-term clinical trials, but this didn’t happen with mRNA vaccines, Malone said.

Malone said there are two adverse event signals that are becoming apparent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of them is thrombocytopenia — not having enough platelets, which are manufactured in the bone marrow. The other is reactivation of latent viruses.

Malone found the ovarian signal perplexing because there is no accumulation in the testes.

Malone said the original data packages contained this biodistribution information. “This data has been out there a long time” within the protected, non-disclosed, purview of the regulators across the world, he said.

According to Malone, the FDA knew the COVID spike protein was biologically active and could travel from the injection site and cause adverse events, and that the spike protein, if biologically active, is very dangerous.

In fact, Malone was one of many scientists to warn the FDA about the dangers of the free spike protein.

Malone suggested autoimmune issues may be related to free-circulating spike protein which developers assured would not happen. To pick up autoimmune issues, a 2- to 3- year follow-up period in phase 3 patients would be required to monitor for potential autoimmune consequences from vaccines — but that monitoring didn’t happen with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Pfizer and Moderna also didn’t conduct proper animal studies, Brownstein said. What the animal models give us is a signal that alerts us to what we need to follow up on in humans.

Brownstein said:

“We’ve got very alarming short-term stuff. We’ve got short-term stuff that is alarming on the basis of where we find these lipids, where we find the spike proteins — those things are reasons for concern because it wasn’t supposed to be this way. We’ve also got an alarming signal in terms of the hazards and deaths or the harms and the deaths that are reported in the system and there are reasons to think they are dramatic under-reports.”

Vaden Bossche got it right
One of the potential harms from the vaccines, Brownstein said, was made famous by Vanden Bossche, a vaccinologist who worked with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle, and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization in Geneva.

Earlier this year, Vanden Bossche put out a call to the World Health Organization, supported by a 12-page document, that described the “uncontrollable monster” that a global mass vaccination campaign could potentially unleash.

Vanden Bosshe said a combination of lockdowns, and extreme selection pressure on the virus induced by the intense global mass vaccination program, might diminish the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the short-term, but ultimately, will induce the creation of more mutants of concern. This is what Vanden Bossche calls “immune escape” (i.e. incomplete sterilization of the virus by the human immune system, even following vaccine administration).
5 seconds...

Immune escape will in turn trigger vaccine companies to further refine vaccines that will add, not reduce, the selection pressure, producing ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants.

The selection pressure will cause greater convergence in mutations that affect the critical spike protein of the virus that is responsible for breaking through the mucosal surfaces of our airways, the route used by the virus to enter the human body.

The virus will effectively outsmart the highly specific antigen-based vaccines being used and tweaked, depending on the circulating variants. All of this could lead to a hockey stick-like increase in serious and potentially lethal cases — in effect, an out-of-control pandemic.

Malone said:
“Vanden Bosshe’s concern is not theoretical. It is real and we have the data. We’re stuck with this virus or its downstream variants pretty much for the rest of our lives and it’s going to become more like the flu. We will have continuing evolution and circulation of variants, and that is an escape.”
 

marsh

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WATCH: CNN guests stand up for civil liberties, shoot down leftist narrative

CNN's "Pulse of the People" on Friday had multiple people from a panel speak up against their rights being trampled and talking about the "religious mentality" of many people on the left regarding vaccination, among other related topics.


WATCH: CNN guests stand up for civil liberties, shoot down leftist narrative


James AnthonyThe Post Millennial

June 18, 2021 1:37 PM2 Mins Reading

CNN's "Pulse of the People" on Friday had multiple people from a panel speak up against their rights being trampled and talking about the "religious mentality" of many people on the left regarding vaccination, among other related topics.

Jenin Younes was asked first about what her "hesitancy" to take the COVID-19 vaccine is "based on."

"I've had COVID in Feb., so I have natural immunity. There's no reason for me to get the vaccine; there's no reason for me to take the vaccine doses from vulnerable people in this country or in other countries who need it more than I do."

"You just don't know how long your natural immunity will last," replied the host, Alyson Camerota.
"You don't know how long the immunity from the vaccine will last," Younes shot back. "This has taken on a religious mentality, in my opinion, on the progressive-liberal side of the spectrum."

"Has this experience with COVID changed your politics?" asked Camerota.

"Yes, it's changed my politics. Now, I will vote for anybody who cares about civil liberties, and who doesn't allow the trampling of our rights that we've seen over the past year."

At this point, QuickSilva, a radio host, DJ and club owner, interjected on how the government has been "taking away our First-Amendment rights":

".... What this did to businesses, a lot of businesses will never recover. I know the governor tried to do certain PPP, but all the big major billion-dollar Fortune 500 companies, they got all the big grants."

"A lot of us small businesses, especially black-owned businesses, we were left with crumbs. You get what you can get, and now you gotta pay it back. It just ... all of this has become so unfair and so political."

Camerota turned to Jennifer Bridges, another guest, asking her, "Your boss says that everybody needs to get the vaccine by Jun. 7 or lose their job. Are you willing to lose your job as a result of not getting it?"

"Absolutely. I've actually had multiple companies reach out to wanna hire me now, because they respect the fact of what an advocate I'm being. And I am totally prepared to lose my job."

She's willing to lose her job for something she believes in," added QuickSilva. "I respect that more than someone who does something just because the world says it’s the right thing to do."
 

Pinecone

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From post #54,197 . . . .

"Malone said there needed to be monitoring of vaccine recipients for leukemia and lymphomas as there were concentrations of lipid nanoparticles in the bone marrow and lymph nodes. But those signals often don’t show up for six months to three or nine years down the road, he said."

Holy Shit! How will this affect patients with blood cancers who were told by their Primary Care doctors and Oncologists that they really needed to take this vaccine because they were at the highest risk of severe outcomes with covid? Did they just doom those patients? $^&*#_@^#($) This is criminal negligence! I am so angry right now. But I do thank the OP for the article.
 

naegling62

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Inventor of mRNA Technology: Vaccine Causes Lipid Nanoparticles to Accumulate in ‘High Concentrations’ in Ovaries

On the “Dark Horse Podcast,” Dr. Robert Malone, creator of mRNA vaccine technology, said the COVID vaccine lipid nanoparticles — which tell the body to produce the spike protein — leave the injection site and accumulate in organs and tissues.

by Megan Redshaw
June 18, 2021

Inventor of mRNA Technology_ Vaccine Causes Lipid Nanoparticles to Accumulate in ‘High Concentrations’ in Ovaries
View: https://youtu.be/aMB1dRJNHe8
15:01 min

On June 10, Dr. Robert Malone, creator of mRNA vaccine technology, joined evolutionary biologist Brett Brownstein, Ph.D., for a 3-hour conversation on the “Dark Horse Podcast” to discuss multiple safety concerns related to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

In this short outtake from the full podcast, Malone, Brownstein and tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch touch on the implications of the controversial Japanese Pfizer biodistribution study. The study was made public earlier this month by Dr. Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist.

They also discuss the lack of proper animal studies for the new mRNA vaccines, and the theory, espoused by virologist Geert Vanden Bossche, Ph.D., that mass vaccination with the mRNA vaccines could produce ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants.

As The Defender reported June 3, Bridle received a copy of a Japanese biodistribution study — which had been kept from the public — as a result of a freedom of information request made to the Japanese government for Pfizer data.

Prior to the study’s disclosure, the public was led to believe by regulators and vaccine developers that the spike protein produced by mRNA COVID vaccines stayed in the shoulder where it was injected and was not biologically active — even though regulators around the world had a copy of the study which showed otherwise.

The biodistribution study obtained by Bridle showed lipid nanoparticles from the vaccine did not stay in the deltoid muscle where they were injected as the vaccine’s developers claimed would happen, but circulated throughout the body and accumulated in large concentrations in organs and tissues, including the spleen, bone marrow, liver, adrenal glands and — in “quite high concentrations” — in the ovaries.

The mRNA — or messenger RNA — is what tells the body to manufacture the spike protein. The lipid nanoparticles are like the “boxes” the mRNA is shipped in, according to Malone. “If you find lipid nanoparticles in an organ or tissue, that tells you the drug got to that location,” Malone explained.

According to the data in the Japanese study, lipid nanoparticles were found in the whole blood circulating throughout the body within four hours, and then settled in large concentrations in the ovaries, bone marrow and lymph nodes.

Malone said there needed to be monitoring of vaccine recipients for leukemia and lymphomas as there were concentrations of lipid nanoparticles in the bone marrow and lymph nodes. But those signals often don’t show up for six months to three or nine years down the road, he said.

Usually, signals like this are picked up in animal studies and long-term clinical trials, but this didn’t happen with mRNA vaccines, Malone said.

Malone said there are two adverse event signals that are becoming apparent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of them is thrombocytopenia — not having enough platelets, which are manufactured in the bone marrow. The other is reactivation of latent viruses.

Malone found the ovarian signal perplexing because there is no accumulation in the testes.

Malone said the original data packages contained this biodistribution information. “This data has been out there a long time” within the protected, non-disclosed, purview of the regulators across the world, he said.

According to Malone, the FDA knew the COVID spike protein was biologically active and could travel from the injection site and cause adverse events, and that the spike protein, if biologically active, is very dangerous.

In fact, Malone was one of many scientists to warn the FDA about the dangers of the free spike protein.

Malone suggested autoimmune issues may be related to free-circulating spike protein which developers assured would not happen. To pick up autoimmune issues, a 2- to 3- year follow-up period in phase 3 patients would be required to monitor for potential autoimmune consequences from vaccines — but that monitoring didn’t happen with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Pfizer and Moderna also didn’t conduct proper animal studies, Brownstein said. What the animal models give us is a signal that alerts us to what we need to follow up on in humans.

Brownstein said:

“We’ve got very alarming short-term stuff. We’ve got short-term stuff that is alarming on the basis of where we find these lipids, where we find the spike proteins — those things are reasons for concern because it wasn’t supposed to be this way. We’ve also got an alarming signal in terms of the hazards and deaths or the harms and the deaths that are reported in the system and there are reasons to think they are dramatic under-reports.”

Vaden Bossche got it right
One of the potential harms from the vaccines, Brownstein said, was made famous by Vanden Bossche, a vaccinologist who worked with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle, and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization in Geneva.

Earlier this year, Vanden Bossche put out a call to the World Health Organization, supported by a 12-page document, that described the “uncontrollable monster” that a global mass vaccination campaign could potentially unleash.

Vanden Bosshe said a combination of lockdowns, and extreme selection pressure on the virus induced by the intense global mass vaccination program, might diminish the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the short-term, but ultimately, will induce the creation of more mutants of concern. This is what Vanden Bossche calls “immune escape” (i.e. incomplete sterilization of the virus by the human immune system, even following vaccine administration).
5 seconds...

Immune escape will in turn trigger vaccine companies to further refine vaccines that will add, not reduce, the selection pressure, producing ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants.

The selection pressure will cause greater convergence in mutations that affect the critical spike protein of the virus that is responsible for breaking through the mucosal surfaces of our airways, the route used by the virus to enter the human body.

The virus will effectively outsmart the highly specific antigen-based vaccines being used and tweaked, depending on the circulating variants. All of this could lead to a hockey stick-like increase in serious and potentially lethal cases — in effect, an out-of-control pandemic.

Malone said:
“Vanden Bosshe’s concern is not theoretical. It is real and we have the data. We’re stuck with this virus or its downstream variants pretty much for the rest of our lives and it’s going to become more like the flu. We will have continuing evolution and circulation of variants, and that is an escape.”
This is one of the most important posts of this thread. We need to dig this up and look at it a year from now.
 

von Koehler

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This is one of the most important posts of this thread. We need to dig this up and look at it a year from now.

Indeed. Just imagine what is going to happen when people start getting seriously ill from the "vaccine" in about a year or two.

Or when women have serious fertility problems?
 
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Pinecone

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University of Florida Lab Finds Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks
BY MEILING LEE

June 19, 2021 Updated: June 19, 2021

A laboratory at the University of Florida that recently analyzed a small sample of face masks, detected the presence of 11 dangerous pathogens that included bacterias that cause diphtheria, pneumonia, and meningitis.

Gainesville parents in Florida concerned about the harm caused to their children wearing face masks all day at school in 90 °F weather sent out six masks—five that were worn by children ages 6 to 11 for five to eight hours at school, and one worn by an adult—to be analyzed for contaminants at the University of Florida’s Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center.

Of the six masks, three were surgical, two cotton, and a poly gaiter. Masks that have not been worn and a t-shirt worn at school acted as the control samples.

Five of the masks were found to be contaminated with parasites, fungi, and bacteria, according to Rational Ground. Only one mask was found to contain a virus that can cause a fatal systemic disease in cattle and deer. Other less harmful pathogens that can cause ulcers, acne, and strep throat were also detected.

None of the controls were contaminated with pathogens, while “samples from the front top and bottom of the t-shirt found proteins that are commonly found in skin and hair, along with some commonly found in soil.”

Amanda Donoho, a mother of three elementary school children, teamed up with other parents to send the masks to the lab because her sons broke out in rashes from prolonged mask-wearing.

“Our kids have been in masks all day, seven hours a day in school,” Donoho told Fox & Friends on June 17. “The only break that they get is to eat or drink.”

Donoho said that while students do not have to wear a mask outside at school since April 2021, masks were still required when they were within six to eight feet of each other. Masks must also be worn on school buses.

Further research is needed to better understand what is being put on children’s faces, says Donoho.

Superintendent Carlee Simon at the Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS) in Gainesville, Fla. did not respond to a request for comment.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that kids should continue to wear masks and social distance until they are able to get vaccinated, despite data showing that children are minimally affected by COVID-19 and are not super-spreaders of the virus.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed an executive order on May 3, suspending all COVID-19 emergency restrictions, including mask-wearing. However, certain school districts like ACPS kept their mask policy in place for the remainder of the school year, while masks were optional within the community.

ACPS says masks will be optional for the 2021–22 school year but would continue to be required on school buses until mid-September unless the federal transportation regulation changes.

The CDC says masks are still required on planes, trains, buses, and at airports.

In an updated June 17 guidance, masks are no longer required in “outdoor areas of a conveyance (like a ferry or the top deck of a bus)” and fully vaccinated individuals may resume everyday activities that were done prior to the pandemic without mask-wearing or physically distancing unless required by federal or state law.

People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second shot of a messenger RNA vaccine or after a single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The CDC did not give guidance for people who’ve recovered from COVID-19 and have natural immunity.

The Epoch Times has contacted the CDC for comment.
 

marsh

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REVEALED: Google & USAID Funded Wuhan Collaborator Peter Daszak’s Virus Experiments For Over A Decade.
Google funded research conducted by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance – a controversial group which has openly collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on “killer” bat coronavirus research – for over a decade, The National Pulse can today reveal.

The unearthed financial ties between EcoHealth Alliance and Google follow months of big tech censorship of stories and individuals in support of the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory.

Google funded research conducted by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance – a controversial group which has openly collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on “killer” bat coronavirus research – for over a decade, The National Pulse can today reveal.

The unearthed financial ties between EcoHealth Alliance and Google follow months of big tech censorship of stories and individuals in support of the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory.

The Google-backed EcoHealth Alliance played a critical role in the cover-up of COVID-19’s origins through its president, Peter Daszak.

Daszak served on the wildly compromised World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 investigation team. He championed the efforts to “debunk” the lab origin theory of the virus, despite mounting support for the claim first made by experts on Steve Bannon’s War Room: Pandemic podcast in early January 2020.

Left-wing websites masquerading as “fact checkers” still call the lab theory “false,” despite the shift in tone from the Biden regime, leading world scientists, and intelligence officials.

EcoHealth Alliance also funneled hundreds of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to its research partner, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to conduct studies on “killer” bat coronaviruses.

And Google.org, the charity arm of the tech behemoth, has also been funding studies carried out by EcoHealth alliance researchers including Peter Daszak since at least 2010.

‘The Generous Support of the American People’.
The decade-plus relationship is evident in a 2010 study on bat flaviviruses, which lists Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance Vice President Jonathan Epstein as authors, that thanks Google.org for funding. A 2014 study on henipavirus spillover, which was authored by Daszak, similarly declares it was partly “supported by Google.org.”

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GOOGLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ON THE FLAVIVIRUS STUDY.

And a 2015 paper focusing on herpes, which lists EcoHealth’s Daszak and Epstein as authors, reveals it was “supported by funding from the US Agency for International Development’s Emerging Pandemic Threats: PREDICT program, the Skoll Foundation, and Google.org.”

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USAID SUPPORT LISTED.

In 2018, EcoHealth Alliance researchers authored a paper entitled “Serologic and Behavioral Risk Survey of Workers with Wildlife Contact in China” that was “made possible” by the financial contribution of Google.org.

The 14-page paper’s abstract summarizes:
We report on a study conducted in Guangdong Province, China, to characterize behaviors and perceptions associated with transmission of pathogens with pandemic potential in highly exposed human populations at the animal-human interface. A risk factor/exposure survey was administered to individuals with high levels of exposure to wildlife.

The paper appears to lay the groundwork for the theory that SARS-like coronaviruses could originate in a wet market in a province close to the city of Wuhan – the likely epicenter of COVID-19.

“The majority of human infectious diseases have an animal origin, therefore understanding the human-animal interface as it relates to disease emergence and risk is of upmost importance The increasing frequency and variety of human-wildlife interactions in China provide opportunities for the transmission of zoonotic pathogens from animals to humans,” the paper begins.

The paper also highlights how SARS has “emerged in humans and other mammals in wet markets”:
Handling, transporting, and butchering of hunted or farmed wildlife poses a risk of pathogen spillover into humans. In southern China provinces, including Guangdong, a significant percentage of the population obtains fresh meat for consumption from wet markets, community markets that specialize in selling and butchering live animals, including animals that are rare and endangered. Research has demonstrated that human-animal interfaces, such as within these wet markets, provide an ideal environment for infectious disease emergence, transmission, and amplification.

See full doc. on website
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marsh

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COVID-Tracker App Installs Itself Without User Consent, Including On Parental-Locked Devices.


Massachusetts state officials recently announced the launch of the “voluntary” MassNotify app, which monitors the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The only problem is the app appears to be installing itself on residents’ and their kids’ smartphones, unbeknownst to users, and without their consent.

The news creates a disturbing new dimension to privacy laws and even private property concerns as hundreds of users have reported their Android phones have had the app surreptitiously installed, without their prior knowledge.

“Thank you MA/Google for silently installing #MassNotify on my phone without consent. But I have a request: Can you also silently install an app that makes my phone explode and k*ll me?” wrote Twitter user Justin Jacobs. Others have taken to the Android app store to register their complaints.

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COMPLAINTS LODGED ON THE APP STORE.

The MassNotify app was developed in cooperation with both Apple and Google, and claims to work anonymously and “not track” users’ private information. This claim was made by Republican Governor Charlie Baker, who said this week: “As we embrace our new normal, MassNotify is a voluntary, free tool to provide additional peace of mind to residents as they return to doing the things they love.”

The app notifies users who have been near a person that tested COVID positive, and the tracking is conducted using the Bluetooth. The app claims that the tracking will be “completely anonymous, with no location tracking or exchange of personal information”. Furthermore, it promises to not share any location data or personal information with Google, Apple, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or other users.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaki...-describing-studies-using-u-s-taxpayer-money/
Now, nearly 300 users have reviewed the instrusive app on the Android app store, leaving it with a one star rating.

User Callie M wrote: “App automatically installed without consent. Weirdly it has no icon and I can’t find any way to open it and see if it could be useful. Bizarre that the state did something like this the very day the state of emergency ended, when over half of adults, myself included, are vaccinated. What info could possibly be necessary with this egregious level of invasiveness NOW? A year ago it would have made sense.”

The app is also managing to install itself despite parental restrictions, as illustrated by user Lex Neva:

“This installed silently on my daughter’s phone without consent or notification. She cannot have installed it herself since we use Family Link and we have to approve all app installs. I have no idea how they pulled this off, but it had to involve either Google, or Samsung, or both. Normal apps can’t just install themselves. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but this doesn’t count as “voluntary”. We need information, and we need it now, folks.”

Steven Nassor wrote: “Installed itself without consent, my rights have been violated and feel as if I’ve been spied upon.”

The plethora of negative reviews can be read, here.

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MORE USERS’ COMPLAINTS.

The implementation process of the app clearly contradicts the notion of voluntary participation, as well as raising concerns as to what else might be installed remotely without users’ knowledge.

Many in the state had no idea the app had been pushed to their devices until they got a notification. The app also appears to be reinstalling itself once forcibly removed by users.

“Ghost installed without my permission, and keeps sending me push notifications. I removed it and it reinstall itself. This isn’t something I want in my phone, it’s not something that has permission to be on my phone nor should the commonwealth or any other place/company be allowed to put something on my phone without my permission,” said user Beth Silvaggio.
 

northern watch

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The delta variant is the most dangerous SARS-CoV-2 mutation yet
It is the most transmissible form of the virus—and probably deadlier, too. Fortunately vaccines are still effective against it

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The Economist
June 16th 2021

BUSINESSES IN ENGLAND had been eagerly anticipating June 21st—the “freedom day” when all coronavirus restrictions were to be lifted. But on June 14th Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, dashed their hopes. It was “time to ease off the accelerator” he said. Cases, hospitalisations and admissions to intensive care were rising. Ireland, France and Germany are among countries that have tightened restrictions on travellers from Britain. The cause for concern is the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes covid-19).

Previously known as B.1.617.2, the variant was first discovered in India in February, where it contributed to a horrific wave of infections which started in the spring: The Economist estimates that there have been more than 1m covid deaths in India this year. The delta variant has spread rapidly across borders, too. According to GISAID, a data-sharing initiative for corona- and influenza-virus sequences, the mutation has been identified in at least 70 countries. It seems to be the most prevalent SARS-CoV-2 strain in places including Canada, Indonesia, Pakistan, Portugal and Russia. Britain was slow to close its borders to travellers from India after the new variant was detected there; as a consequence the variant has spread more quickly than it might otherwise have done.

Like the alpha variant before it (first discovered in Britain), the main reason people worry about the mutation is transmissibility. In Britain the delta variant already represents more than 90% of new cases. A study published this month by Public Health England (PHE), a government agency, suggests that it could spread nearly 2.5 times as quickly as the original SARS-CoV-2 virus did (though the estimate has a wide confidence interval). That is a big step up from the alpha variant, which was about 1.5 times as transmissible as the original strain. In fact, delta is probably more contagious than any other variant, including gamma (P.1), first discovered and still spreading in Brazil; beta (B.1.351), which is prevalent in South Africa; and epsilon (B.1.427-9), first discovered in America.

As well as being more transmissible, the delta variant seems to lead to more severe disease. On the basis of lab experiments, America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suspects that both problems could be linked to the delta variant’s ability to circumvent antibody defences, regardless of whether antibodies were induced by past infection or vaccination. PHE reported that the risk of hospitalisation from the delta variant increases by between 32% and 289% compared with alpha. That may make it more deadly, too.

The vaccine findings were less alarming. Compared with the alpha mutation, delta lowered protection from symptomatic infection from 50% to 33% after one dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca, but only from 88% to 80% after the second, with vaccine protection expected to increase further over time. That inoculation still works so well highlights the urgency of administering jabs, particularly in the poor world. Lower protection afforded by past infections—be it from SARS-CoV-2 or other coronaviruses—is terrible news for countries such as Afghanistan, where about a third of the population was infected by August last year, according to antibody surveys. Hospitals in Afghanistan are currently overrun with covid-19 patients, with delta as the suspected cause. That makes it essential to jab more people more quickly. Without widespread vaccination, it could only be a matter of time before a mutation that is more resistant to vaccination develops.

The delta variant is the most dangerous SARS-CoV-2 mutation yet | The Economist
 

marsh

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[COMMENT: The planned deconstruction of America - just clearing the tracks for the Great Reset.]

New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed | Brad Polumbo

New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed

The picture painted is one of working-class destruction.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
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Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo

Founding father and the second president of the United States John Adams once said that “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” What he meant was that objective, raw numbers don’t lie—and this remains true hundreds of years later.

We just got yet another example. A new data analysis from Harvard University, Brown University, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation calculates how different employment levels have been impacted during the pandemic to date. The findings reveal that government lockdown orders devastated workers at the bottom of the financial food chain but left the upper-tier actually better off.

The analysis examined employment levels in January 2020, before the coronavirus spread widely and before lockdown orders and other restrictions on the economy were implemented. It compared them to employment figures from March 31, 2021.

The picture painted by this comparison is one of working-class destruction.

Employment for lower-wage workers, defined as earning less than $27,000 annually, declined by a whopping 23.6 percent over the time period. Employment for middle-wage workers, defined as earning from $27,000 to $60,000, declined by a modest 4.5 percent. However, employment for high-wage workers, defined as earning more than $60,000, actually increased 2.4 percent over the measured time period despite the country’s economic turmoil.


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The data are damning. They offer yet another reminder that government lockdowns hurt most those who could least afford it.

Some critics argue that the pandemic, not government lockdowns, are the true source of this economic duress. While there’s no doubt the virus itself played some role, government lockdowns were undoubtedly the single biggest factor. It’s pretty intuitive that ordering people not to patronize businesses and criminalizing peoples’ livelihoods would hurt the economy. This intuition is confirmed by data and studies showing as much. And don’t forget the fact that heavy lockdown states have consistently had much higher unemployment rates than states that took a more laissez-faire approach.

Others might insist that the mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 accomplished by lockdowns justifies this economic fallout. But this argument fails to account for the many peer-reviewed studies showing lockdown orders did not effectively slow the pandemic’s spread, or the painfully inconvenient fact that most COVID-19 spread occurred not in workplaces, restaurants, or gyms but at home. (Making “stay-at-home orders” seem like an astonishing mistake in hindsight.)

So, all lockdowns really seem to have accomplished is at best a mild delay in the pandemic’s trajectory in exchange for a host of lethal unintended consequences such as a mental health crisis and skyrocketing drug overdoses. And, as we now know, a highly regressive economic fallout for the working class.

Of course, Ivy League researchers almost certainly did not intend to expose the failings of big government pandemic policies when they set out to catalog employment data. But, as Adams said, facts are stubborn things.
 

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Grim new study: COVID is causing patients to lose brain tissue, and not just very sick patients either

ALLAHPUNDIT Jun 18, 2021 3:43 PM ET

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I saw a headline about this last night and ignored it, assuming the study wasn’t all that persuasive and that it would only be touted by alarmists hoping to scare vaccine holdouts into getting their shots. I was wrong on both counts. More than one doctor who discussed the findings on television today praised the study’s methodology as compelling. And one of those doctors was Scott Gottlieb, former head of the FDA under Trump, who’s spent much of his time on air over the past few months nudging the CDC to relax its guidance for vaccinated people, not tighten it.

Gottlieb’s not an alarmist. If anything, he’s been the guy who’s been reality-checking the alarmists in the federal science bureaucracy. And he’s concerned about the results here.

The most ominous takeaway is that loss of brain tissue in COVID patients doesn’t appear to correlate to the severity of their symptoms. Even people with “mild cases” had less grey matter after contracting the disease than they did before.
UK Biobank scanned over 40,000 participants before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it possible to invite back in 2021 hundreds of previously-imaged participants for a second imaging visit. Here, we studied the effects of the disease in the brain using multimodal data from 782 participants from the UK Biobank COVID-19 re-imaging study, with 394 participants having tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection between their two scans. We used structural and functional brain scans from before and after infection, to compare longitudinal brain changes between these 394 COVID-19 patients and 388 controls who were matched for age, sex, ethnicity and interval between scans. We identified significant effects of COVID-19 in the brain with a loss of grey matter in the left parahippocampal gyrus, the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the left insula. When looking over the entire cortical surface, these results extended to the anterior cingulate cortex, supramarginal gyrus and temporal pole. We further compared COVID-19 patients who had been hospitalised (n=15) with those who had not (n=379), and while results were not significant, we found comparatively similar findings to the COVID-19 vs control group comparison, with, in addition, a greater loss of grey matter in the cingulate cortex, central nucleus of the amygdala and hippocampal cornu ammonis (all |Z|>3). Our findings thus consistently relate to loss of grey matter in limbic cortical areas directly linked to the primary olfactory and gustatory system. Unlike in post hoc disease studies, the availability of pre-infection imaging data helps avoid the danger of pre-existing risk factors or clinical conditions being mis-interpreted as disease effects.
There’s no obvious alternate explanation for why those who were infected would consistently have lost brain tissue relative to those who weren’t.

We’ve spent the past 15 months reading about some COVID patients losing their sense of smell or having it change in bizarre ways, making formerly delicious foods smell repellent to them. All along I’d assumed that the virus had done something to affect the receptors in their nose but Gottlieb points out that the new study raises a different possibility: Maybe people can’t smell because they’ve suffered localized damage in the part of the brain that processes scent. Possibly some or all of those cells will regenerate over time or the capacity to smell will be “rerouted” through other brain cells, but if COVID patients are losing grey matter then it’s anyone’s guess what sort of long-term problems they might have. Will they be at greater risk for dementia or other neurological problems later in life?

Watch Gottlieb:

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Leana Wen is concerned too:

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Both end on the same point. If the virus is causing brain damage of unknown severity then the risks from infection are greater than we had assumed. It’s one thing to let a 20-year-old chance it in the belief that the worst they’ll have to endure is a fever for a few days before shaking it off. It’s another when you know they might lose brain tissue during their recovery. A crucial question that scientists will now need to answer is whether the neurological angle warrants vaccinating children as a precaution against infection even though they almost never have serious complications from the disease. Are kids also losing grey matter to COVID?

Because if not, given the tiny but real risk of a serious side effect from vaccination, maybe they’re better off not getting the shot until they’re older:
As of June 10, the government’s vaccine monitoring systems detected 226 cases of myocarditis or a related condition called pericarditis after vaccination in people younger than 30. Normally, fewer than 100 cases would be expected for this age group, said Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office…

As the pandemic appears to be winding down across the United States and its limited toll on children has been tallied, it’s no longer clear that immunizing children will bring the outbreak to a faster close, said Dr. Martin Makary, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins University.

Makary is urging his colleagues to “think twice” before recommending universal COVID-19 vaccination of healthy kids. Given the data in hand, “there’s no compelling case for it right now,” he wrote this month in MedPage, a website widely read by physicians.

On the other side of the scale is the fact that more than 450 kids have died of COVID, more than 20,000 have been hospitalized, and more than 4,000 have developed “multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children” after recovering from infection. All of that might have been prevented with vaccination. Now we have loss of brain tissue too — maybe — to worry about in infected kids.

There’s another vaccination question the feds need to answer urgently, especially in light of today’s study. With the B.1.617 Indian/Delta variant spreading quickly here in the U.S. and on its way to becoming the dominant strain, should Americans who received Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine be running to CVS for a Pfizer or Moderna booster? I ask because B.1.617 is already notorious for being capable of infecting people who’ve received only a single dose of an mRNA vaccine:

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A single dose of Pfizer or Moderna provides roughly 80 percent protection against the original coronavirus while J&J’s single dose provides 72 percent protection. If B.1.617 can evade immunity generated by one mRNA dose, one might assume it can evade J&J as well. In fact, one well-known virologist has already called for J&J recipients to get a booster because of the risk they may be at from B.1.617. If that risk also now includes losing brain tissue, a federal recommendation that they go out and get a second shot becomes that more urgent. So why aren’t we hearing more from the feds about it?
 
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‘It will get very bad’: Experts warn on #Indonesia COVID surge Government is blaming Delta variant for latest jump in cases, but experts say policy failures are to blame. And the fact that Indonesia relies mainly on useless #Chinese vaccines.
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Does Indonesia use IVM or depend on vaccines?
 

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Thousands Of Women Report Period Problems Potentially Tied To COVID Jabs

MONDAY, JUN 21, 2021 - 06:00 PM
The UK's vaccine watchdog is "closely monitoring" claims that 4K+ women have suffered period problems after receiving the COVID-19 jab. While side effects like sore arms, lethargy, soreness and muscle aches are included in warnings about potential drawbacks of receiving the vaccine, there are no warnings about period-related complications.

Nowhere are period irregularities listed as a potential side effect of vaccination, so British regulators are trying to determine whether there is actually a link between the complaints and the vaccines.



Official data obtained by The UK's Sunday Times show that the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - better known as MHRA received 2,734 reports of period problems linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, 1,158 related to the Pfizer jab, and another 66 linked to the Moderna vaccine as of May 17.

Complaints focused on "heavier than usual" bleeding, and it's possible that this could have affected many more women who didn't think to report their issues. The majority of issues were reported by women aged between 30 and 49. ;

So far, at least, MHRA says that there's no evidence that it should add period complications to the list of side effects. That is, the "current evidence" don't suggest an "increased risk of period problems following the jab, the regulator said.

But others are calling for more data to be collected. For example, Dr. Sue Ward, vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said "anecdotally some women seem to be reporting heavier periods after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine and we would support more data collection in this area to understand why this might be the case. If you do notice any bleeding that is unusual for you, we would recommend you contact your doctor."

Complaints haven't only been seen in the UK. In the US, some women have taken to Reddit to share their experiences.



Victoria Male, a reproductive immunologist at Imperial College London, said more women were likely to have been affected than the number of case reports. "It’s definitely true that not everyone will be reporting any menstrual changes they have noticed to Yellow Card [the MHRA’s scheme for people to report suspected side effects] simply because not everyone knows that it exists and that they can file a report."

Although a clear link between the COVID jab and menstrual disorders hasn't been established, "lots of people have contacted me to tell me about changes that they have noticed in their periods following vaccination," Male said. "The kinds of things they are telling me about, mostly periods that are heavier or later than usual, are very similar to the reports we are seeing in Yellow Card."

Angharad Planells,a 34-year-old from Cheltenham, said her period had been 11 days late following her second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. "My whole life I’ve been pretty regular and I track my period on an app. It was super late," she said. "When it did start, it was one of — if not the — most painful periods I’ve ever had, to the point where I felt a bit nauseous." Planells, who reported the suspected adverse reaction to the MHRA, added: "I would still have the vaccine again. I have had family members die from COVID. It’s just the lack of information out there."
 

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China Expands Lockdowns, Mass Testing To Manufacturing Hub Of Dongguan

MONDAY, JUN 21, 2021 - 11:45 AM
Despite China's success in reining in COVID-19 cases, a recent outbreak in Guangdong, China's most populous province, has apparently spread even further despite lockdown measures that were first imposed in late May, before being tightened earlier this month. And on Monday, Reuters reported that despite these restrictions, the outbreak has spread to the manufacturing hub of Dongguan, which is also situated in Guangdong Province.

The city launched mass testing on Monday and even blocked off certain communities after detecting the first infections tied to the current outbreak. Officials have said that the "Delta" mutant strain - first discovered in India - has been driving the latest outbreak.



According to Reuters, Dongguan reported two cases since Friday. City authorities have told residents not to leave, except for "essential" reasons. Those who wish to leave must show negative test results from within the last 48 hours before departure.

Entrances to highways that would lead drivers to other cities were closed, while shuttle buses between airports in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and a check-in terminal in Dongguan, were also closed. Some museums and libraries in the city were also closed to visitors. Factories were still running, however.
"(Workers) need to do COVID tests, but it's not a prerequisite for them to be able to enter factories," said King Lau, who helps manage a metal coating factory.
"My staff will do (their COVID tests) after work, although there will be long queues."
In total, Guangdong has reported 168 confirmed infections since May 21, with nearly 90% of the cases tied to its capital, Guangzhou.

The outbreak is smaller than earlier clusters found elsewhere in China. A prior outbreak centered around Hebei, a region in northeastern China, recorded more than 1,150 infections between late December and early February. It marked the worst domestic outbreak in the central city of Wuhan, where the virus emerged in late 2019.

Chinese officials said Guangzhou's battle against the Delta variant was a warning to other cities not to get complacent. Meanwhile, strict disinfection and quarantine measures implemented on May 21 have led to congestion of vessels waiting to berth in one of China's busiest container ports, Yantian International Container Terminal in Shenzhen, according to the NYT.
But the latest problem in Shenzhen, the world’s third-largest container port after Shanghai and Singapore, is making the difficulties even worse.
The shipping delays are related to the Chinese government’s stringent response to a recent outbreak of the virus. Shenzhen, a metropolis of more than 12 million, has had fewer than two dozen locally transmitted coronavirus cases, which city health officials have linked to the Alpha variant, which was first identified in Britain.

Shenzhen has responded by ordering five rounds of coronavirus testing of all 230,000 people who live anywhere near Yantian container port, where the first case was detected on May 21. All further contact between port employees and sailors has been banned. The city has required port employees to live in 216 hastily erected, prefabricated buildings at the docks instead of going home to their families every day.
If these delays continue, "the impact would be bigger than the Suez Canal incident," said Patrik Berglund, chief executive of Xeneta, an ocean freight rate benchmarking firm headquartered in Oslo.
As of Monday, 50 vessels were waiting outside the port, and more than 160 were being affected.
"We've seen exporters who cannot wait for the port congestion to ease turning to trucks to send the cargoes from China to Europe."
Right now, it's expected that normal operations will resume by end-June. Even as congestion at Yantian eases, traffic at the Shezhen port of Shekou and the main Guangzhou port of Nansha is expected to remain high.
 

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"We Can't Let It Get The Upper Hand" - 'Delta' Variant Threatens To Derail Europe's COVID Recovery

MONDAY, JUN 21, 2021 - 12:24 PM
The FT reported in today's edition of the paper that the Delta COVID mutant first identified in India has swept across the UK while also becoming the dominant strain in Portugal and Germany, with the strain threatening other countries as well, just as Europe is suffering multiple setbacks to its vaccine rollout.

According to an FT analysis of European infection data, the new strain is gaining ground, though it's not quite the dominant strain in the EU. Delta accounts for 96% of sequenced COVID infections in Portugal, more than 20% in Italy and about 16% in Belgium.

The small but rising number of cases have raised concerns that the Delta variant could halt the progress the EU has made over past the two months in bringing new infections and deaths down to their lowest level since the fall.
"We are in the process of crushing the virus and crushing the pandemic, and we must in no way let the Delta variant get the upper hand," said French Health Minister Olivier Véran, who told reporters at a Paris vaccination center on Tuesday.
Véran said only 2%-4% of virus samples being analyzed in France were showing as the Delta variant, "you might say this is still low but it is similar to the situation in the UK a few weeks ago." The FT's analysis suggested that the percentage of Delta cases being identified in France might be higher.

Speaking on Monday in Germany, Health Minister Jens Spahn warned that the Delta variant could spark Germany's "Fourth Wave". To combat this, Germany must find "the right balance" as it prepares for cases to climb into the fall and winter months.



In Portugal, community transmission of the Delta mutant has been detected in the greater Lisbon area, where more than 60% of the country’s new coronavirus cases in the past week have been located. Non-essential travel to and from the city has been banned in an effort to prevent a spread in cases to the rest of the country.



Now, scientists are looking to the UK (where Delta accounts for 98% of new infections) for clues about what might be in store for the Continent.

PM Boris Johnson said Monday that England is "looking good" when it comes to further relaxation of coronavirus restrictions, but warned that the country could face a "rough winter" ahead. Earlier this month, BoJo announced plans to extend England's lockdown by another 4 weeks due to the resurgence of new cases and hospitalizations caused by Delta.

Europe isn't the only region seeing a surge in new cases. Colombia has seen caseloads rising following a regional outbreak. Mongolia, once viewed as a success story thanks to the generous allotments of vaccine doses it received from neighboring China and Russia, has seen case numbers bounce back.

Could the EU be in for a similar rebound?
 

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Heart problems in vaccinated students trigger medical, legal scrutiny of campus COVID mandates

"Even a slight risk of a serious vaccine adverse reaction could tip the benefit-risk calculation" for young people, medical professors say.


By Greg Piper
Updated: June 21, 2021 - 8:50am

As the government reviews several hundred reports of heart inflammation in young people following COVID vaccination, high-profile medical and legal scholars are calling on colleges to scrap their COVID vaccine mandates, calling them unnecessary and potentially harmful to students.

University of California-Irvine medical ethicist Aaron Kheriaty and University of Notre Dame law professor Gerard Bradley went so far as to invoke the post-Nazi Nuremberg Code in urging universities to abandon their mandates, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week.

Though many universities already offer exemptions based on medical history and religious objections, the professors suggest two more: the emergency use authorization (EUA) status of the COVID vaccines and widespread natural immunity.

Younger adults and children have "extremely low" risk of mortality from COVID, epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford Med wrote in an op-ed for The Hill Thursday.

(Kulldorff, a pioneer in vaccine safety, didn't share the op-ed on his newly unlocked Twitter feed. "Twitter does not allow vaccine scientists to freely discuss vaccines, but you can find it on my LinkedIn and Gab accounts," he tweeted Thursday, referring to his monthlong suspension for questioning the protective power of masks.)

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"Even a slight risk of a serious vaccine adverse reaction could tip the benefit-risk calculation, making the vaccine more harmful than beneficial," Kulldorff and Bhattacharya wrote, accusing universities with mandates of ignoring "basic benefit-risk analyses, a staple of the toolbox of scientists."

Benefits versus risks of mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) for adolescents and young adults are on the agenda for this week's meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It will also tackle reports of myocarditis developing after vaccination. (Originally scheduled for June 18, the meeting was moved to June 23-25 on account of the new Juneteenth federal holiday.)

Carlos Del Rio, executive associate dean at Emory University medical school's affiliated hospital, tweeted that the CDC committee could recommend a single dose of mRNA vaccine for young people, forgoing such vaccines altogether or using an adenovirus-vectored vaccine.

Even the American Medical Association (AMA) pushed back on COVID vaccine mandates for the time being at a "special meeting" of its house of delegates Wednesday.

In a press release it did not share on Twitter, the group urged institutions including schools to reject mandates until the vaccines receive "full approval" from the FDA through a Biological Licenses Application. In doing so, it rejected the EUA rationale used by colleges to justify mandates for students.
"Individuals subject to the mandate [should] be given meaningful opportunity to voluntarily accept vaccination," and its implementation should "not exacerbate inequities or adversely affect already marginalized populations," the AMA said, alluding to racial disparities in vaccine hesitancy.

It's not evident that universities with mandates plan to inform students of the potential risks their age group may face from the COVID vaccines.

Northwestern University failed to mention that a student who died last week suddenly developed heart problems after taking her second Moderna shot. It told the Daily Northwestern that 19-year-old Simone Scott died of "pneumonia-related issues" following an emergency heart transplant, but her parents told journalist Alex Berenson they believe the vaccine played a role and was a "coincidence that is too big to ignore."

A Brown University epidemiologist who has closely followed post-vaccination myocarditis reports and reviewed Berenson's report on Scott's recent history of treatment told Just the News he would attribute her death to "vaccine-induced myocarditis."

The freshman suffered "serious, near fatal myocarditis post C19 vax with all other plausible causes of that fulminant [sudden and severe] myocarditis ruled out" and died shortly after her transplant, Andrew Bostom wrote in a Twitter direct message.

"In other words, her failure to 'engraft' contributed to her death from the severe complications of her rapidly progressive myocarditis," he said. "The fulminant presentation IS unusual, and let's pray VERY uncommon."

A spokesperson for Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Scott was treated and died, referred Just the News to the university when asked what besides the vaccine could have contributed to Scott's sudden death. He declined to confirm Berenson's claim that her doctors have "no other explanation" following a pathological examination of her original, removed heart.

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More than 500 colleges require COVID vaccination for students, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education tracker, though some states have banned the mandates. Gov. Doug Ducey recently overturned Arizona State University's strict rules for unvaccinated students via executive order.

Myocarditis has been flagged as a potential result of COVID vaccination at least since February, when Italian researchers submitted a case study on a newly vaccinated 30-year-old. Their paper completed peer review a month ago and was published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology last week.

But the risk did not get mainstream media credibility until a June 10 CDC presentation to the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

Though they accounted for only 9% of administered mRNA vaccines, 12-24 year-olds represented more than half (277) of myocarditis and pericarditis reports through May 31, according to Tom Shimabukuro of the CDC's Vaccine Safety Team.

That's nearly three times the high end of the "expected" report rate, based on "background incidence rates of medical conditions for use in safety assessment of COVID-19 vaccines."

Cody Meissner, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the Tufts Children's Hospital in Boston, said after the presentation that "it is hard to deny that there's some event that seems to be occurring in terms of myocarditis," NBC News reported.

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Reports of heart problems following vaccination for young people
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University COVID vaccine mandates are "unprecedented — and unethical," Kheriaty and Bradley, the medical ethicist and law professor, wrote in their op-ed this week. "Never before have colleges insisted that students or employees receive an experimental vaccine," which a court struck down when the U.S. military forced soldiers to be "guinea pigs" for an anthrax vaccine.

They cited the increased risk of heart inflammation for college-age people and the "huge number of students" who have natural immunity from previous infections. Recovered patients were "deliberately excluded" from clinical trials, "thus subjecting them to novel experimental risks."

The professors scoffed at university justifications that rely on making the community "feel safe" enough to reopen, which is a "psychological placebo to those who don't care enough to consider basic scientific facts."

Bradley and Kheriaty told Just the News they couldn't immediately answer questions about the legal risks colleges could face from retaining mandates, how their in-house lawyers could have shaped mandates, and why medical ethicists did not have a louder voice on mandates.

"This is a mess, generated by Administrators whose unfounded fears of liability and desires for virtue-signaling have put them on a collision course with science and the law," Catholic University of America law professor Robert Destro wrote in an email to Just the News.

He has previously argued for challenging college vaccine mandates on health privacy and disability grounds, and said the issues raised by Kheriaty and Bradley are also valid.

"The data are not clear about risks … the benefits of a broad mandate are unclear," and the vaccines are "contraindicated" for recovered people, he said. If data on alternative treatments such as Ivermectin had been available when the vaccines were first reviewed, "it's not clear that EUA would have been available."

College mandates "harm public health" because the vaccines don't clearly benefit young people, and "rare but serious adverse reactions" could emerge in a few years, Kulldorff and Bhattacharya argue.

Myocarditis and blood clots are known risks for young people, and for those already recovered vaccination "simply adds a risk, however small, without any benefit," they wrote in The Hill.

The Great Barrington Declaration coauthors responded to Just the News queries but didn't specifically answer how colleges should respond to Simone Scott's death at Northwestern.

"Since the risk of a severe outcome from COVID is so low for the young, almost any chance of a serious adverse event from the vaccine militates against taking the vaccine," Bhattacharya wrote in an email. "Given the emerging evidence on serious adverse events like myocarditis ... universities should rethink their mandates."

Unvaccinated students pose "little to no additional risk" to vaccinated faculty, he said.

"For younger people with a very low risk of COVID mortality, we do not yet know whether the benefits outweigh the risks," Kulldorff wrote. "Under such circumstances, it is unethical for universities to mandate COVID vaccination. Any subsequently detected problems with a mandated vaccine will erode trust not only in that vaccine but also in other critically important vaccines."
 

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Lockdown truth…
Posted by Kane on June 21, 2021 3:44 pm
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Michael Sanger explains how lockdown policies are directly tied to Xi’s regime.

“The entire lockdown narrative is propaganda. The idea that the CCP just locked down Wuhan for 2 months that it simply eliminated the virus from all of China… This narrative is absurd. It’s science fiction. The fact that lockdowns became a global policy is is terrifying and it’s a horrible crime and a horrible fraud.”





 

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June 19, 2021 - 09:00 AM EDT
CDC can't regulate cruises: judge

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A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) coronavirus-era sailing orders were an overreach of power, issuing a preliminary injunction temporarily barring the CDC from enforcing the guidelines.

Judge Steven Merryday for the Middle District of Florida in his ruling sided with the Sunshine State in its argument that the "CDC's conditional sailing order and the implementing orders exceed the authority delegated to CDC."

As a result, Merryday approved Florida's motion for a preliminary injunction suspending the mandatory guidelines for cruise ships, writing that the CDC is "preliminary enjoined from enforcing against a cruise ship arriving in, within, or departing from a port in Florida the conditional sailing order and the later measures."

The injunction will stay in place until July 18, at which point the "conditional sailing order and the measures promulgated under the conditional sailing order will persist as only a non-binding 'consideration,' 'recommendation' or 'guideline,'" as is the case for other industries such as restaurants, railroads and hotels, according to the ruling.

The cruise industry had previously been under a conditional sailing order issued by the CDC since the end of October, under which cruise lines were required to commit to a phased approach of implementing testing and other safety measures before they could start sailing.

The conditional sailing order followed the end of the CDC's no-sail order amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the CDC last month released the final guidance for cruise lines to apply to run test ships with voluntary passengers.

Merryday wrote in his ruling Friday, "Never has CDC conditioned pratique as extensively and burdensomely as the conditional sailing order; and never has CDC imposed restrictions that have summarily dismissed the effectiveness of state regulation and halted for an extended time an entire multi-billion dollar industry nationwide."

"In a word, never has CDC implemented measures as extensive, disabling, and exclusive as those under review in this action," he added.

Friday's ruling resulted from an April lawsuit filed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on behalf of the state against the CDC and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arguing that the sailing orders and health requirements issued by the CDC for cruise lines were "arbitrary and capricious" and amounted to an unconstitutional overstepping of the agency's authority.

DeSantis, who has long railed against coronavirus safety restrictions, praised the judge's Friday ruling, writing in a statement issued by his office, "The CDC has been wrong all along, and they knew it."

"The CDC and the Biden Administration concocted a plan to sink the cruise industry, hiding behind bureaucratic delay and lawsuits," he continued. "Today, we are securing this victory for Florida families, for the cruise industry, and for every state that wants to preserve its rights in the face of unprecedented federal overreach."

The Hill has reached out to the CDC for comment on Friday's ruling.
 

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We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired

A new study finds that lockdown orders didn’t reduce overall mortality, and may have even increased it.
Monday, June 21, 2021
Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo

Life under lockdown was hard for all of us. From economic destruction to social isolation, the costs of restrictive government policies intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have been steep. But now, yet another study suggests that the benefits wrought by our collective sacrifice were negligible at best—and that stay-at-home orders may even have increased overall mortality.

In a new paper, economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation examined the effectiveness of “shelter-in-place” (SIP) mandates, aka stay-at-home orders, using data from 43 countries and all 50 US states. The experts analyze not just deaths from COVID-19, but “excess deaths,” a measure that compares overall deaths from all causes to a historical baseline.

The authors explain that lockdown orders may have had lethal unintended consequences in their own right, such as increased drug overdoses, worsened mental health problems, increased child abuse, deadly delays in non-COVID medical care, and more. So, to find out whether stay-at-home orders truly helped more than they hurt, examining excess deaths, not just pandemic outcomes, is key.

The results aren’t pretty.

“We fail to find that shelter-in-place policies saved lives,” the authors report. Indeed, they conclude that in the weeks following the implementation of these policies, excess mortality actually increases—even though it had typically been declining before the orders took effect. And across all countries, the study finds that a one-week increase in the length of stay-at-home policies corresponds with 2.7 more excess deaths per 100,000 people.

The lockdowns simply didn’t work.

“We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries/U.S. states that were slower to implement SIP policies,” the authors explain.

And their finding is no outlier. A number of other credible studies have similarly concluded that lockdowns were ineffective at slowing the spread of COVID-19. Plus, other research now shows that most COVID-19 spread occurred at home, not out in the world, making stay-at-home orders all the more absurd in hindsight.

Of course, there is tremendous resistance to acknowledging the fact that the sacrifice we all, to varying extents, endured evidently accomplished nothing—and may have even left us worse off. But we must acknowledge and grapple with this painful truth to ward off similar mistakes in the future.

The takeaway here is not just that stay-at-home orders are an ineffective public policy. It’s that politicians will always claim they can solve our problems if just given enough centralized power. But we must not fall for their rhetoric and focus only on the seen, tangible benefits of government action—like potentially slowing the spread of COVID-19. We must also consider the unseen and unexpected second-order effects and consequences.

WATCH: SENATE TESTIMONY: Child Suicide & Lethal Lockdown Consequences

View: https://youtu.be/s82ugduPGlM
5:43 min
 

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New Study Links Ivermectin To "Large Reductions" In COVID-19 Deaths

MONDAY, JUN 21, 2021 - 10:20 PM
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies has found that using antiparasitic drug ivermectin could lead to “large reductions” in COVID-19 deaths and its use could have a “significant impact” on the pandemic globally.

A health worker shows a bottle of Ivermectin as part of a study of the Center for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Studies, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020. (Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images)

For the study (pdf), published on June 17 in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just over 3,400 participants. The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.

Using multiple methods of sequential analysis, the researchers concluded with a moderate level of confidence that the drug reduced the risk of death in COVID-19 patients by an average of 62 percent, at a 95 percent confidence interval of 0.19-0.79, in a sample of 2438 patients.

Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was found to be 2.3 percent among those treated with the drug, compared to 7.8 percent for those who were not, according to the review.

“Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease,” the authors wrote.

A health worker shows a box containing a bottle of Ivermectin as part of a study of the Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Studies, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020. (Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images)

Since the start of the pandemic, both observational and randomized studies have evaluated ivermectin as a treatment for, and as prevention against, COVID-19 infection.

“A review by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance summarized findings from 27 studies on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection, concluding that ivermectin ‘demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy’ against COVID-19” the researchers wrote, referring to one recent review, which was based on data from both peer-reviewed studies and preprint manuscripts.

They cited another recent review that concluded that ivermectin reduced deaths by as much as 75 percent, while noting that neither the National Institutes of Health in the United States nor the World Health Organization (WHO) have recommended the use of ivermectin outside clinical trials for use in the fight against COVID-19.

[ZH: Meanwhile in India]


The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in a note on “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19,” warns that it has received “multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.”

“Using any treatment for COVID-19 that’s not approved or authorized by the FDA, unless part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm,” the FDA said in the note, adding that it has not reviewed data to support the use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients.

The WHO said in March that “the current evidence on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients is inconclusive” and that, until more data becomes available, the agency recommends that “the drug only be used within clinical trials.”

The authors of the ivermectin efficacy study argued, however, that the drug has an “established safety profile through decades of use” and “could play a critical role in suppressing or even ending the SARS-CoV2 pandemic.”

The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally,” they argued in the study abstract.

The authors noted in their publication that all the studies on which they based their conclusions have been peer-reviewed.
 

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The State Convinced People It Was Dangerous For Them Not To Be Watched, Now Many Believe Surveillance Tech Is "For Our Own Good"

MONDAY, JUN 21, 2021 - 08:20 PM
Authored by Aden Tate via The Organic Prepper blog,

Yet another consequence of 2020 was the growth of public surveillance (aka Big Brother state) disguised under the umbrella of COVID. When you can convince a populace it is dangerous for them to be unobserved, you create the mindset that public surveillance is for the good of all.


Big Brother is bigger than ever
I work within the security industry.

One newer piece of technology that we can now install is AI fever monitoring cameras. Many buildings throughout the US now have a camera with thermal capabilities monitoring your every move when you walk in.

Should you be deemed somebody with a temperature outside of the preset bounds, the system will use facial recognition to lock onto you. As you travel throughout the facility, security staff/management is notified.

How is this any different from giving a polygraph to every person without their knowledge or consent?

Is this information the world at large needs to know?
Must you tell every business owner from here on all your recent health history to be admitted into the building? In the future, do I have to reveal every medical procedure I’ve had? Do I also have to report my sexual history, what foods I eat, and other private information before being allowed inside?

Consider the invasions of privacy that come from the utilization of thermal technology. The front desk staff now knows who has a problem with armpit sweat, how hot your crotch is, and whose butt is sweating.

Do HIPPA requirements apply here at all?
What happens if it’s discovered that heart rate is linked with an infectious disease? Will we then incorporate heart rate monitors throughout our facility? I hope you don’t get nervous speaking to that person you find attractive. What if an employee who doesn’t like you works the cameras? Isn’t that a violation of privacy?

What if it’s determined that abnormal sweating patterns are associated with an infectious disease? In this case, let’s say that it’s a sweaty butt. Are thermal cameras going to monitor everybody’s backsides in such an event?

Do you see how this can quickly grow into a terrifying experience?

Privacy is foundational to freedom
The Founding Fathers of America fully understood the importance of privacy when it came to freedom. It’s for this reason that the Fourth Amendment was written.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”

Is it not a violation of the Fourth Amendment for someone to use a camera to collect your biometrics without your consent? Are you secure in your person and effects in such a case? Are we now subject to rights violations each time we enter a grocery store, doctor’s office, or gas station? Does modern American society demand that our rights be violated so that we can live within that society?

Surveillance of US citizens and sensitive data collection reached epic proportions
COVID tech used to monitor the American people during the past year and a half collected more sensitive data than ever before.

Want proof?
  • Alabama State University purchased thermal imaging and facial recognition-equipped drones to enforce social distancing and masking in public.
  • Some US school districts required their students and staff to wear a Bluetooth armband to monitor their temperature.
The end result of these types of policies is to have authorities dictating your oxygen intake and whether or not you’re allowed to hug your friends.

Want more proof?
Online classrooms – intended to protect students against COVID – were turned into the ever-present TV cameras from 1984.
  • Twelve-year-old Isaiah Elliot of Colorado flashed a toy gun across his screen during one of his lectures and was then suspended. Police were then sent to his house for a welfare check.
  • Things were no different in Maryland. An 11-year-old boy had the police called on him by his teacher. The teacher saw a BB gun hanging on his bedroom wall during a Google Meet class.
When government employees get to decide which toys your children play with and what they decorate their bedrooms with, you have a public surveillance problem.

The end result of policies such as these is authorities demanding to violate your right to health privacy, then threatening your child with potential kidnapping (via Social Services) if you refuse to send your child to school.

Is the abolition of cash for your health or control?
The push for the abolition of cash was heavy throughout 2020. For example, the CNN article “Dirty money: the case against using cash during the coronavirus outbreak.” wrote:

The ongoing spread of coronavirus is forcing institutions around the world to rethink one particularly germy surface that most consumers touch every day: cash.

What’s the end result of this movement? A cashless society, and therefore, the monitoring and controlling of every purchase you make.

And now we have the vaccine passport
Now Americans must “state your name and race” before using certain transportation services, entering certain buildings, or going to certain churches. And it’s only going to continue to grow in use.

What does a vaccine passport do? First, it gives people the ability to know everywhere you’ve ever been.

And, should it become digitally uploaded, to see where you are right now. Also, it lets them know whether or not you’re willing to comply with tyranny or not. Those who don’t – those who haven’t been placed on the list – are easier to find.

And when you’re easier to find – well, you end up in a situation very akin to Soviet Russia, do you not?
“These are the people who have not pledged loyalty to Stalin! Do with this list as you will!”

Public health is the perfect guise for tyranny
It’s based on fear, and fear is a potent motivator. If you can get most people to seek security rather than freedom, slavery is not far behind. As FA Hayek said regarding security in his masterpiece The Road to Serfdom, “the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravest threat to it.”

Do you enjoy your freedom? Do you enjoy your right to privacy – not having a peeping Tom invading every aspect of your life? Then pay attention to what is being done with COVID tech. Watch both where and how it is being used.

Because I think you’ll agree with me: it’s not in your best interest.
 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVi6skV7XY
5:29 min

DELTA Variant COVID and Why It's Concerning!
Jun 21, 2021


Doctor Mike Hansen

DELTA Variant COVID and Why It's Concerning! Delta Variant COVID, aka B.1.617.2, has been spreading across the globe. It will soon be the dominant form in the US. Is it more contagious? Will the vaccines work against it? Is it a deadlier disease with worse symptoms? Timestamps ⏩ 00:00 Intro 00:45 Does the Delta Variant Cause more Severe Disease? 01:05 How Contagious is the Covid Delta Variant? 03:31 Are Covid Vaccines Effective against the Covid Delta Variant? 04:26 Delta Variant COVID and Different Symptoms

In a study done in Scotland, which was published in The Lancet, researchers showed that the risk of being hospitalized with the COVID Delta variant is double that of the alpha variant. Recently the covid delta variant has made its way to the US, constituting 10% of COVID cases. However, that figure is doubling every two weeks, and it's only a matter of time before it becomes the dominant strain. It makes up about 25% of cases in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming in the Midwest.

In a study done in the UK from May 20 to Jun 7th, the researchers, led by Steven Riley, looked at their data, which suggest that the covid delta variant is about 60% more transmissible than the alpha, which was the variant first identified in the UK, which was more contagious than the original strain that originally emerged from Wuhan. Furthermore, they showed a doubling time of 11 days with the delta variant and an estimated R (reproductive) number of 1.44. And those younger than age 50 were 2.5 times more likely to be infected than older people.

The data showed that the covid Delta variant's affinity for the ACE2 receptor was slightly better than the original Wuhan strain. One of the delta’s mutations in its RBD is what allows for this. The virus uses its spike protein to bind to the ACE2 receptor in the body. It’s the key in the lock analogy. The virus then fuses with the cell membrane. This process relies on cleavage. Meaning enzymes on the cell membrane cut the spike protein at two different sites, triggering the cell to engulf the virus. A second delta mutation is in one of these cleavage sites. Better cleavage, better reproduction.

Another takeaway from this study is that the authors concluded that the neutralization of both viruses is reduced compared with the original Wuhan strains. Still, there is no evidence of widespread antibody escape. However, they said the data did suggest that those previously infected with COVID may be more susceptible to reinfection by the new delta variant.

Also, it looks like monoclonal antibody treatments are ineffective at treating the delta variant. The big concern is “vaccine escape,” meaning that the current vaccines will become far less effective as the virus evolved. So far, it hasn’t happened, but eventually, we will need new covid vaccines for the variants, likely a yearly thing. The good news? Covid Vaccines are still protective against the Delta variant. According to research released by Public Health England: For the Pfizer vaccine, after both doses, it was 88% effective in preventing symptomatic disease, 96% effective at preventing hospitalization. The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was 92% effective at preventing hospitalization if they had both shots. If you only get one shot of either of these covid vaccines, the effectiveness is pretty low, around 30-40%. More studies will soon be available when it comes to the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

Doctor Mike Hansen, MD Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care Medicine
 

Heliobas Disciple

TB Fanatic
The WHO is not recommending that children get the COVID vaccine.

(fair use applies) EXCERPT

COVID-19 advice for the public: Getting vaccinated

(SNIP)


WHO SHOULD GET VACCINATED

The COVID-19 vaccines are safe for most people 18 years and older,
including those with pre-existing conditions of any kind, including auto-immune disorders. These conditions include: hypertension, diabetes, asthma, pulmonary, liver and kidney disease, as well as chronic infections that are stable and controlled.
If supplies are limited in your area, discuss your situation with your care provider if you:
  • Have a compromised immune system
  • Are pregnant (if you are already breastfeeding, you should continue after vaccination)
  • Have a history of severe allergies, particularly to a vaccine (or any of the ingredients in the vaccine)
  • Are severely frail
Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.


(SNIP)
 

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Nearly 4,000 People in Massachusetts Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus After Being Fully Vaccinated

By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published June 22, 2021 at 7:45am
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Nearly 4,000 people in Massachusetts have tested positive for the coronavirus after being fully vaccinated, according to the state’s Department of Public Health.


These breakthrough cases have occurred in approximately one in 1,000 vaccinated people.

Fox News reports that “as of June 12, there were 3,791 coronavirus cases among the more than 3.7 million fully vaccinated individuals in Massachusetts.”
“We’re learning that many of the breakthrough infections are asymptomatic or they’re very mild and brief in duration,” Boston University infectious diseases specialist Davidson Hamer told the Boston Herald. “The viral load is not very high.”
“Breakthroughs are expected, and we need to better understand who’s at risk and whether people who have a breakthrough can transmit the virus to others,” he claimed. “In some cases, they’ll be shedding such low levels of the virus and won’t be transmitting to others.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that “a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19.” Their studies have found that Pfizer and Moderna are about 90 percent effective against infection two weeks after the last dose. The single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine is about 72 percent effective against “moderate to severe disease.”

“Testing to identify current infection remains critical to control of COVID-19,” a DPH spokeswoman told the paper. “People with current infection can spread the virus to others and isolation of cases and identification of close contacts (individuals who may have been exposed) is a foundation of public health response.”
 

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Dr. Fauci Declares Delta Variant of Covid-19 “Greatest Threat” to the United States (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published June 22, 2021 at 3:24pm
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Dr. Fauci is now telling Americans that the “Delta variant” of Covid-19 is the “greatest threat” to the United States.

The globalists are desperate to keep the Covid hysteria going in order to convince people to take the experimental vaccine.

The Democrat-media complex won’t stop talking about the “Delta variant” that supposedly came out of India and will soon spread like wildfire in the US.

According to Fauci, the Delta variant now makes up 20% of all new cases of the China Coronavirus, up from 10% two weeks ago.

“Similar to the situation in the U.K., the delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate Covid-19,” Fauci said.

VIDEO:
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1407411816876101633
1:17 min

But don’t worry, the experimental vaccine will protect against the Delta variant, according to CDC Director Walensky.

“As worrisome as this delta strain is with regard to its hyper transmissibility, our vaccines work,” Walensky said on “Good Morning America.” If you get vaccinated, “you’ll be protected against this delta variant,” she added.
 

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Kamala Harris Tells Activists to Knock on Doors and Harass People Who Haven’t Been Vaccinated in Desperate Push to Meet 4th of July Goal (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published June 22, 2021 at 12:02pm
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Kamala Harris told left-wing activists to knock on doors to pressure people to get vaccinated as Biden’s July 4th vaccine goal is likely to fall short.

The Biden Admin set a goal to fully vaccinate 70% of Americans by July 4th.

Americans are refusing to get the Covid vaccine for many different reasons, but the Biden Admin is pushing for 70% vaccination so they can wield power over the unvaccinated.

This has nothing to do with saving lives.

It’s all about power.

Kamala Harris told so-called ‘volunteers’ in Atlanta to knock on doors and harass people who may be hesitating to get the vaccine for one reason or another.

Harris even gave the activists several pointers on how to overcome objections.

“For example, if you knock on the door and someone says they ‘don’t have the time to get the vaccine’ — because people are busy. They’re just trying to just make it through the day. Or they say that pharmacies are never open when they do have time, well, let’s address that. Because now, you can let them know that pharmacies across our country are keeping their doors open for 24 hours on Fridays in June, including today. Because we need to meet people where they are! Some folks are working two jobs…” Harris said.

“And what if they say they can’t miss work? Well, you can tell them that there are employers across the country who are offering paid time off for their employees to get vaccinated and we want to encourage and challenge more employers to do the same,’ she said.

Have young children? Kamala’s got you covered.

“Other folks who need time to recover after they get the shot, right? And may need a little moment where they need some help with their kids. So we have partnered with the YMCA, with KinderCare, and the Learning Care Group to provide free childcare for both vaccination and recovery. We need to meet people where they are.”

“You might run across people as you’re out talking and knocking, folks might say, ‘I don’t have a car’ or ‘there’s no public transportation or bus that comes by my house.’ And that’s fair, because how can we expect them to get to a vaccination site? Well, now, as part of the solution, rideshare companies are giving free rides to and from vaccination centers,” Kamala said.

VIDEO:
View: https://youtu.be/KVXL2IBihhI
18:12 min
 

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Biden Set To Miss Vaccine Goal As "Delta" Strain Spreads Across Southern US

TUESDAY, JUN 22, 2021 - 01:06 PM

President Joe Biden and his advisors are preparing to acknowledge that the US won't meet his goal of having 70% of American adults receive at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before July 4. As we reported earlier this week, the US has surpassed 150MM "fully vaccinated" patients.



However, the pace of vaccinations has fallen substantially.




The CDC released a report yesterday arguing that it's particularly important to reduce "vaccine hesitancy" in 18 to 39-year-olds, who are among the demographics least likely to take the vaccine. Polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that about 13% of Americans are planning to avoid the vaccine no matter what, while another 12% saying they are waiting before making a decision.

The US is missing this goal not for lack of supplies: rather, it's the demand side of the equation that's creating problems for Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the other architects of the American COVID-19 response. And as Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to arrest citizens who refuse the vaccine, we can't help but wonder whether the US will eventually embrace more heavy-handed tactics, especially as vaccination rates in some southern states remain stubbornly low.



As the map below shows, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi (which has the lowest vaccination rate in the entire country) are lagging their fellow southern states and the rest of the country. Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah have also lagged, along with the sparsely populated western states of Wyoming and Idaho.


Source: mSightly

As fears about the "Delta" strain have intensified, hospitalizations, particularly hospitalizations involving younger patients, have started to climb.

In Missouri, Arkansas and Utah, the 7-day average of hospital admissions linked to COVID has climbed by more than 30% in the past two weeks. In Mississippi, the hospitalization rate is up 5% during the same period, per Bloomberg. Health experts have recently argued that as COVID testing has fallen off, hospitalizations will be a more reliable indicator of COVID spread. As is the mainstream media's want, describing these trends in percentage terms makes them appear significantly scarier than they actually are, since the 'surge' in Mississippi translates to a total of still less than 1 patient per 100K.


Source: Bloomberg

An analysis by the genomics firm Helix showed that the 'more' contagious "Delta" strain is the main driver of new cases in these states.

So far, the US has given at least one jab to more than 53% of the population. But all the states with mounting transmission trail the national average, sometimes substantially. Mississippi has given a single jab to just 35%. Young people are less likely to be vaccinated than older groups.

In Arkansas, Missouri, MIssissippi and Utah, hospitalizations are surging while testing for COVID has dropped off significantly, with the 7-day average nationwide plummeting 55% in the past three months. This makes case counts a less reliable indicator, forcing officials to rely more on hospitalizations.

Some are worried that public health officials are getting too complacent, citing the seasonal nature of the virus. However, as last summer's surge across the Sun Belt showed, there's still a risk that the virus could come roaring back if a mutant strain gains enough of a foothold in a population that it can continue to mutate.
"Delta is driving surges around the world, and I suspect it’s going to be the same here," said William Lee, the vice president of science at Helix. Delta is growing more than twice as fast as gamma in under-vaccinated communities.
But Delta isn't the only threat: the gamma variant, which appears better at evading vaccines, was found to be more prevalent in counties with higher inoculation rates. The Helix research, which hasn’t yet been subject to peer review, is to be published in an upcoming pre-print online.
 

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Google Accused Of "Force-Installing" COVID Tracking App On Phones

TUESDAY, JUN 22, 2021 - 10:49 AM
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

Americans in the state of Massachusetts with Android phones have accused Google of installing a COVID tracking app automatically without user consent.



People reported that the ‘MassNotify’ app appeared on their phones mysteriously without them opting in to the feature.

The app tracks people’s movements and issues notification alerts if a possible exposure to COVID-19 happens.

Writing in the review section of the Google Play app store, one user noted that the app “Automatically installed without consent. It has no icon, no way to open this and see what it even does, which is a huge red flag… I think it’s spyware, phishing as the DPH (Department of Public Health).”

Another wrote “Force-installed with no authorization or approval. App is hidden on the device to prevent uninstallation. Government overreach and corporate complicity should never be tolerated.”

Another person described the app as an “unethical breach of privacy and a forceful misappropriation of personal property,” adding, “The degree to which my data is collected or distributed through it has not been disclosed neither in active nor inactive form… I can only conclude and caution others that it is disclosing your whereabouts and social contacts without permission.”



Many complained that the app had ‘force installed’ on their phones

Google issued a statement to 9to5Google, which does not addressing the claims that the app stealth installed on phones.

The statement reads:
We have been working with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to allow users to activate the Exposure Notifications System directly from their Android phone settings. This functionality is built into the device settings and is automatically distributed by the Google Play Store, so users don’t have to download a separate app. COVID-19 Exposure Notifications are enabled only if a user proactively turns it on. Users decide whether to enable this functionality and whether to share information through the system to help warn others of possible exposure.
ARS Technica notes that there are two different versions of the Mass Notify app on the Play store, and that one only has around 1000 installs and no complaints that it auto-installed, where as the other has been slammed by people claiming they didn’t ask for it to appear on their phones and has over a MILLION installs. That is odd because only 6.8 million live in the State, and if 50% of them have Android phones (which they don’t) then around a third have supposedly downloaded the app themselves.
“Did they roll this out to every device in Massachusetts?” ARS Technica questions.
The report notes “Both apps are listed under the ‘MA Department of Public Health’ developer account, which—uh—does not exist? The link for the developer just 404s, which really does not inspire confidence in the app’s legitimacy.”

Others reported that the auto-installed version of MassNotify does not actually have app icon or a public health statistics UI, and only appears in the phone’s system settings under the title “Massachusetts Department of Heath.”

At best the rollout can be described as odd, and at worst a creepy attempt to stealthily track the movements of everyday Americans.

As we have previously noted, COVID tracking apps have been used by the State in China as an excuse to ramp up surveillance, in combination with the onerous social credit score system. There are signs that this system is being adopted by Western governments as a method of further controlling their populations.
 

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Why Lockdown States May Shut Down Again This Fall

Flu or COVID, pro-lockdown mysticism remains a widespread phenomenon

by Jordan Schachtel
June 22, 2021

Why Lockdown States May Shut Down Again This Fall



The vast timeline of human history shows us that here is no avoiding the annual respiratory season, commonly referred to as “Flu Season,” and unfortunately, all of the indicators seem to point to the strong possibility that lockdown states will once again lock down in a matter of months.

Article by Jordan Schachtel from The Dossier.

During COVID Mania, many became convinced that this annual reality can be stopped by the “new science” human interventions (lockdowns, masks, curfews, and the like), and these same citizens, politicians, and “public health experts” may demand more of the same in the coming months, when either COVID or Flu comes back into play.

Here in much of Florida, COVID-19 isn’t really a conversation topic anymore. Although a disturbing chunk of the world is still bogged down by COVID Mania, at least in Florida, only the most loyal of corporate press sycophants and hyper political activists remain tuned into the latest pandemic fear mongering and public manipulation. Sure, people without real hobbies or interests still enjoy having a conversation about what vaccine they had, but the rest of the pandemic topics seem a bit stale and unproductive to most residents here.

Talk about variants is largely disregarded as paranoid, unhealthy behavior. A person who wears a mask outdoors is generally identified as someone visiting from out of town or an individual that has become permanently scarred by the past 18 months of insanity. Under Ron DeSantis, Florida is never locking down again. You can take that to the bank.

The same can’t be said about large swaths of the U.S., unfortunately. After spending some time in the northeast in recent weeks, I found that the topic is still very much consuming the public. While the masks are finally coming off, and people are reentering society in a somewhat normal fashion, their minds have been programmed to accept a potential reset back to square one.

The powers that be are using same old tactics to plant the seeds for future submission.

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1407412894841647106
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First and foremost, I can personally attest to the reality that the “Delta variant” scaremongering has been registering with the general public in places like Washington, D.C. and New York City. Americans are being fed with ultra high doses of fear programming so that if something goes wrong, they will accommodate further draconian insanity during the next respiratory season. They know that the claimed Mother Of All Variants is out there, and as Fauci is known to say, it’s best to “keep your guard up.”

Why are there still mask mandates and other general restrictions, you ask? Why is there still plexiglass barriers all over the place? Why are retail stores still maniacally wiping down counters after every purchase? The answer you’ll probably receive goes along the lines of, “well, there’s variants we don’t know about out there!”

You can expect the same answer from the hordes of individuals who continue to wear masks post vaccination, as they are under the belief that the variants may overcome both their vaccines and whatever else they are doing to put themselves under the impression that they are putting up a noble defense against a submicroscopic infectious particle.

As two COVID-19 seasons have shown us, upticks in positive cases follow a seasonal pattern. Just like last summer, the COVID numbers are currently incredibly low throughout the country. This information, however, never seems to infiltrate the corporate press and the political landscape in lockdown states, so individuals living there are hopelessly unaware of this dynamic. They are under the impression that it is not the end of respiratory season, but it is the mRNA vaccine (and their magical cloth masks) that are entirely responsible for curbing a virus.

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Given that we will almost certainly get a bump in cases during the upcoming respiratory season (the alternative is the first ever non-respiratory season in… human history?), politicians and “public health experts” will undoubtedly answer this predictable situation by demanding that the public accommodate another mask and lockdown regime.

Moreover, the coming uptick in cases will serve as a major booster (pardon the pun) for Big Pharma, which will be more than happy to embrace and pour gasoline on the situation. This time around, their solution will come in the form of an already planned booster vaccine. Both Pfizer and Moderna have invested heavily in their “third dose,” and they need millions of willing arms and accommodating governments to cash out.

With billions of dollars at stake, the marketing campaign for the third dose will be just as, if not even more relentless, than the push for the first two doses. Pfizer and Moderna are currently laying the groundwork for the Fall booster shots, claiming that they are absolutely necessary for the next season, and that recurring COVID vaccine boosters may become indefinitely necessary for future seasons.

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This is where the Delta variant comes into play. Since these politicians and public health bureaucrats have convinced the public that they alone can control the spread of a virus, they will have to find an excuse for why they once again failed to control a virus. The Delta variant, or whatever variant is the flavor of the month during our next respiratory season, will be the excuse for what overcame our “public health” defenses.

Of course, the evidence behind the supposedly unprecedented dangers of this Delta variant is entirely baseless, as with almost everything else related to the scaremongering surrounding COVID Mania.

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And if, say, there is a harsh Influenza season in the Fall, remember that most people in these states are under the impression that CCP lockdowns and masks can stop a virus. With the same principles in play, they will demand restrictions on themselves to stop the Flu, too.
 

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On TB every waking moment

June 22, 2021
mRNA vaccines appear to be damaging red blood cells
By John M. Contino

Citing experts at the Meedan Digital Health Lab, Reuters Fact Check vigorously asserts that the spike proteins induced by the COVID vaccines do not kill or damage cells.

Perhaps so, but something from the vaccines is causing deformations and apparent inflammation in red blood cells, as evidenced by images from microscopy photos. Images of blood cells taken before and after the vaccines can be seen starting about two minutes into the five-minute video. Postvaccine red blood cells exhibit rough instead of smooth edges, irregular shapes, and grouping together over time which is described as the “beginning form of thrombosis,” or blood clots. More research is needed to determine exactly what is causing these cell deformations.

There are also numerous tiny white particles in the photographs which are presumed to be lipid nanoparticles (LNP). The delicate mRNA fragments from Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are encased in LNP, which serves to protect the mRNA from disintegrating before it can do its job in our bodies. Pfizer conducted a biodistribution study where they injected rats with bioluminescent RNA-encapsulated LNP and found that the LNP had traveled not only beyond the injection site, but throughout the circulatory and immune systems, and had accumulated in virtually every organ in the body.

Meanwhile, Spain and Russia are reportedly advising citizens to avoid air travel if they have been vaccinated for COVID-19. It’s common knowledge that flying frequently, especially on long-distance international flights, can cause blood clots, but talk about mixed signals! What’s next? Non-vaccination passports? The takeaway here ought to be that whether or not someone gets vaccinated should be a personal decision and that the practice of forcing people, especially students and younger adults, to get vaccinated, should be abandoned.

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Heliobas Disciple

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Israel faces fresh Covid surge and calls for teens to be jabbed as even the fully-vaccinated catch Delta variant of the virus
By Chris Jewers
Published: 16:15 EDT, 22 June 2021 | Updated: 18:35 EDT, 22 June 2021
  • Israel recorded 125 new cases on Monday - the most cases per day since April
  • New cases come as Israel rolled back nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions
  • Nearly a third of the new cases recorded in the past week have been found in vaccinated people, with many of the new infections being the delta variant
  • More than 55 percent of Israel's population - some 5.2 million people - have received both doses of the vaccine
Israel is facing a fresh surge of coronavirus cases leading to calls for teenagers to be given jabs as even the fully vaccinated are catching the Delta variant of the virus.

Israel recorded 125 new cases on Monday - the most per day since April, in a country where more than half the population has been fully vaccinated.

The country's latest outbreaks were identified in several schools during random testing and came after Israel rolled back nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions.

According to local newspaper Haaretz nine fully-vaccinated teachers in two schools were among those who contracted the virus, as were three fully-vaccinated members of the military, the Israeli Defence Forces announced.

At the peak of the country's outbreak in January, Israel was recording some 10,000 daily cases but has since been able to get it under control thanks to its world-leading vaccination programme.

On Tuesday, newly-elected Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned of a 'new outbreak' of coronavirus in Israel after the rise in infections, that he said was likely due to returning travellers carrying the Delta variant.

'Our goal is to end it, to take a bucket of water and pour it on the fire when the fire is still small,' Bennett said at Ben Gurion airport, where the government announced an expanded testing facility would be set up.

Bennett noted that a recent spike in infections appeared to be due to the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus that likely came from overseas.

An outbreak in the town of Binyamina, north of Tel Aviv, saw more than 1,000 people quarantined and appeared to be due to travellers returning from Cyprus, he said.

'Whoever doesn't have to fly abroad, please don't,' Bennett added.

Last month, the country expanded its vaccine eligibility to include teenagers, but left the decision up to parents.

Defence minister Benny Gantz has ordered the military and the civil defence to renew its efforts to test the population and to keep the contract department open that was shut down.

On Tuesday, the health ministry announced that 49,044 tests had been conducted over the past day, with a positivity rate of 0.3 percent.

Bennett, who ousted former premier Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, said he was reconvening a 'corona cabinet' to handle the challenge.

'We reached an initial decision to treat this as a new outbreak,' Bennett said.

Israel launched a sweeping vaccination campaign after obtaining millions of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

More than 55 percent of Israel's population - some 5.2 million people - have received both doses of the vaccine.

Nearly a third of the new cases recorded in the past week have been found in vaccinated people, with many of the new infections being the delta variant.

Bennett urged parents to get their children vaccinated too, calling for children aged 12 and older to get jabs 'as quickly as possible'.

Health ministry figures show that young people aged 10-19 were the most affected by the virus last month.

On June 15, Israel lifted its requirement to wear face masks in enclosed public places - one of the last measures in force to fight the country's outbreak.

IN total, the country has recorded over 840,000 novel coronavirus cases, including 6,428 deaths.
 
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