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America’s at Risk of Going FULL Australia | Pat Gray Unleashed

Sep 28, 2021


BlazeTV


Biden has a new percentage that we need to hit for vaccinations in order to return to normalcy, this one being somewhat high. With the Australian situation continuing to escalate, concerns arise on what’s keeping America from getting to this point.
 

marsh

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Sept 23, 2021 ACIP Meeting - COVID-19 vaccine booster doses Benefit/risk discussion
Sep 28, 2021


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


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Sept 22, 2021 ACIP Meeting - Pregnancy: Safety monitoring

Sep 28, 2021


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


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Sept 23, 2021 ACIP Meeting - Vote

Sep 28, 2021


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


Vote: COVID-19 vaccine booster doses This video can also be viewed at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/videos/l...
 

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4:42 min

America’s at Risk of Going FULL Australia | Pat Gray Unleashed

Sep 28, 2021


BlazeTV


Biden has a new percentage that we need to hit for vaccinations in order to return to normalcy, this one being somewhat high. With the Australian situation continuing to escalate, concerns arise on what’s keeping America from getting to this point.
We are past the point and don’t even hold up a sign on a street corner.
 

JPMorgan Concludes That Delta Variant Was "Less Infectious Than Feared'

TUESDAY, SEP 28, 2021 - 12:30 PM

Now that the Delta variant in the US has peaked in terms of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, media fearmongering surrounding the latest round of the covid pandemic has understandably been quietly pulled from the front pages at least until such time the mu variant, or some other virulent strain du jour, makes a triumphant appearance and Fauci is again trotted across the mainstream media to distill a fresh round of fear and set the scene for a new round of restrictions and lockdowns, a cycle that will repeat at least until the mid-term elections which predictably will have to be conducted largely by mail.

And while we wait we wanted to remind readers that last week, JPMorgan made a remarkable discovery: looking at the number of delta variant infections in emerging markets, JPMorgan policy research analyst David Mackie found that "the Delta wave was much milder than expected: none of these countries saw the gains in Re that we anticipated."



This prompted JPMorgan to wonder if "the Delta variant may be less infectious than initially assumed."

Needless to say, such a finding would blow up the carefully scripted narrative promulgated by the likes of Anthony Fauci, that Delta was far more contagious and "potentially" more deadly than previous variants.

So fast forward to today when JPMorgan completes its analysis by looking at the Ro or - basic reproduction number (R0) for the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 - for all countries, not just a handful of emerging nations. As JPM explains, R0 is important "because it is R0 that determines the underlying infectiousness of the virus, and thus what level of immunity in the population, or what manner of changes in behavior, are needed to stabilize new infections as the variant spreads."

In the note which could have tremendous implications for public health policy - assuming it ever sees the light of day - JPM's Mackie estimates what has happened to R0 in a number of countries over the period 1 May to 15 September, except for India and the UK where we started the analysis on 1 February and 1 April respectively due to the earlier arrival of the Delta variant in those two countries, as a way of gauging the pressure coming from the Delta variant.

The stunning results are presented in Table 1.


They show that at the global level, "the message is clear": as JPM puts it, "the increased infectiousness of the Delta variant as expressed in the implied change in R0 is very low, below the bottom end of the widely accepted range. An estimated increase in R0 of 0.76 due to the spread of the Delta variant would put the level of R0 for the Delta variant at 4.76, assuming that R0 for the Alpha variant is 4.0."

Such a "modest increase" in R0 explains why the Delta wave of infection has been so benign on average around the world. Global daily new infections picked up from around 360,000 in mid-June to around 660,000 in late August, but this wave faded fairly quickly and new infections now stand at around 380,000.

It also flies in the face of any and all previous claims that Delta was much more "contagious" than previous variants.

Looking across the world, JPMorgan finds that the modest estimated increase in R0 is not evenly distributed. On average the estimated increase in R0 in developed markets has been around 1.5, towards the bottom end of the range of 1.0 to 4.0 estimated by academics. However, across emerging markets the increase has generally been smaller on average, especially in Latin America.

According to JPM, "it is hard to fully understand the DM/EM difference." One explanation proposed by JPM is that it is "possible that under-reported infections are larger in EM. Take Brazil, for example, where the estimated increase in R0 due to the Delta variant is 0.96. If actual infections had been five times larger than reported infections, then the implied increase in R0 in Brazil would be 1.5, the same as the average increase in the US, Western Europe and Japan."

Other countries are harder to rationalize in this way. Take Indonesia, for example, where the estimated increase in R0 due to the Delta variant is 0.24. Actual infections would have to have been forty-two times greater than reported infections in order to get an implied increase in R0 in Indonesia of 1.5.

And here another stunning observation from JPM, one which also trounces the Biden admin's feverish attempts to downplay natural immunity. As JPMorgan writes, "If under-reporting of infections explains why estimates of the increase in R0 are small in some EM countries, then this is good news looking forward if we assume that immunity from infection and recovery is the same as that from vaccination."

JPMorgan concludes with the provocative observation that "the infectiousness of the Delta variant is at the lower end of the range estimated by academics early in the summer" a range which was estimated to be between 1.0 and 4.0 but in reality the number was around 1.5!
And so, with the global Re currently at close to 1.0 and falling, and the Delta variant fully absorbed, the largest US bank, "the world looks well placed to see a steady pace of infections in the coming months" JPM says, adding that "overall, the global Delta infection wave has been modest thus far and is expected to remain so."

Now if only one of the numerous "impartial", "objective" TV anchors would ask media celebrity Dr. Fauci during any of his upcoming TV appearance about the finding of this study...
Was there any consideration of IVM use? Mention was made of India, but nothing about IVM use.
 

marsh

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Australia's Astonishing Tyranny Keeps Growing

TUESDAY, SEP 28, 2021 - 10:45 PM
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Gold

In the early summer of 1798, an Irish stone mason named Philip Cunningham reached his breaking point.


Cunningham was sick and tired of English rule in Ireland. And along with 50,000 of his fellow Irishmen, Cunningham picked up a weapon and started in uprising against Great Britain.

Their rebellion was a complete disaster; the rebels hoped that the British army was too weak to resist after their defeat in the American Revolution.

But within a few short months the British had regained tight control of Ireland.

Naturally their first order of business was to round up all the remaining rebels— and Cunningham was among them.

His punishment was being shipped off to a British penal colony in the south Pacific, in a place that was generally known at the time as “New Holland”.

Today we call it Australia.


Cunningham wasn’t one to accept his fate easily. Even while en route to Australia, he and other prisoners briefly managed to take over the ship… though British marines eventually regained control and gave Cunningham 100 lashes.

But Cunningham still wasn’t finished. A few years later in March of 1804, he led about 300 Australian prisoners in yet another rebellion against their British jailers.

That rebellion was so severe that the British governor was forced to declare martial law— the first, but certainly not the last time in Australia’s history this would happen.

It’s ironic that, each year, ‘Australia Day’ is celebrated on January 26, which commemorates the day that the British Navy first sailed into Sydney Cove, hoisted their flag, and declared the land their penal colony.

So Australia Day does not celebrate the birth of a nation so much as the ribbon-cutting of a giant prison.

Clearly in 2021, Australia has simply been returning to its roots as the world’s largest prison.


You know the story by now— “two weeks to control the spread” of COVID-19 became “indefinite dictatorship and total suspension of basic human rights.”

Over the course of the last 18 months, Australia’s state and federal governments have:
  • Banned citizens from leaving the country without permission.
  • Banned citizens from entering the country, with threat of five years in prison.
  • Banned citizens and residents from crossing state borders.
  • Banned citizens and residents from traveling further than 5k from home without permission.
Ironically, an Australian government website lays out citizens’ “right to freedom of movement” and says that this very basic human right “cannot be made dependent on establishing a purpose or reason for leaving.”

But Australia doesn’t have to follow its own rules, nor care about the human rights of all the little people, because it’s an emergency.

In the name of COVID Australian police and government officials have also:
It is also now illegal to plan, publicize, or participate in protests.

The right to peaceably assemble and hold public protests against unjust government actions is enshrined in the Western legal tradition. But for organizing protests against the Australian government’s tyranny, Anthony Khallouf has been sentenced to several months in prison.

His “crimes” include not complying with COVID decrees, and “encouraging the commission of crimes”— that is, sharing information about the time and location of protests.

He is a political prisoner, like many of his forebears.

But at least Philip Cunningham was imprisoned because he engaged in actual violence.

Khallouf, on the other hand, was found guilty of… illegally crossing Australian state borders.

That hasn’t stopped the protests however.

Thousands of Australian construction workers, for example, protested because they refuse to be coerced into vaccination against their will.

They actually were peaceful protestors. For real. They literally sang the national anthem.

Yet police pepper sprayed them and fired rubber bullets into the crowd of thousands (which included children).

Perhaps even more diabolical is that the government restricted the media from showing footage of the event as it was happening, and restricted airspace to prevent media helicopters from filming.

That didn’t stop people on the ground from recording it with their phones.

In one exchange, a protestor filmed a police officer agreeing, “I’m just as over this ****ing [lockdown] as you are,” but, “we get paid to do this [fire on peaceful protestors] mate…”
I’m just doing my job. I’m just following orders.


Other police were caught on video going door-to-door to ask residents if they planned to attend, or knew of any planned protests.

They asked one homeowner if he is on any social media platforms, but declined to tell him why they targeted that particular address.

What’s really crazy is that this authoritarianism goes beyond COVID hysteria.

Australia’s parliament has passed a new bill eradicating Australians’ right to digital privacy.
It’s called “Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021.”

It gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) sweeping new powers to not just surveil Australian citizens online, but also take over and run their online accounts, lock the actual user out of the account, and add or delete data.
The police never have to notify a person that their account has been hacked by the government.

What they are calling “warrants” actually do not always require an actual court or judge to sign off.

An “emergency authorisation,” allows police to bypass the courts entirely. And why should anyone be concerned about that? It’s not like the Australian government has ever abused its emergency powers before…

The right to travel, the right to protest, the right to privacy, the right to due process, the right to leave your home and earn a living— these are basic human rights that are now gone in Australia.

It should be obvious by now to every citizen of any Western nation that never-ending “emergency powers” can easily snowball into a full-blown dictatorship.

There is no reason it couldn’t happen to other formerly free nations as well.

And that means, more than ever before, it’s time to think about a Plan B.
 

marsh

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Biden's Vax Mandate To Be Enforced By Fining Companies $70,000 To $700,000?

TUESDAY, SEP 28, 2021 - 10:05 PM
By Adam Andrzejewski, CEO/Founder of OpenTheBooks.com; originally published in Forbes

President Joe Biden didn’t just announce a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on companies employing 100 or more people, he plans to enforce it.

On Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House quietly tucked an enforcement mechanism into their $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill, passed it out of the Budget Committee, and sent it to the House floor.

Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that “willfully,” “repeatedly,” or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.

The increased fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for willful or repeated violations—almost three-quarters of a million dollars for each fine. If enacted into law, vax enforcement could bankrupt non-compliant companies even more quickly than the $14,000 OSHA fine anticipated under Biden’s announced mandate.

The Biden Administration has already started implementing its vaccine mandate enforcement blueprint:
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) set precedent this summer and published an emergency Covid-19 rule in the Federal Register taking jurisdiction over and providing justification for Covid-19 being a workplace hazard for healthcare employment.
  • Early in September, Biden announced his 100-or-more employee Covid-19 vaccine mandate and tasked OSHA with drafting an enforcement rule to exert emergency vaccine compliance authority over companies with 100 or more employees.
  • The legislative provision that passed the Budget Committee raises the OSHA fines for non-compliance 10 times higher – and up to $700,000 for each “willful” or “repeated” violation. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not announced when the House will vote on the reconciliation bill that includes the new OSHA fines.
  • If the legislation is enacted, OSHA could levy draconian fines to enforce Biden’s vaccine mandate, a move that could rapidly bankrupt non-compliant companies. The Biden mandate affects employers collectively employing an estimated 80 million workers.
The Democrats are playing hardball.

President Biden embraced an aggressive stance earlier this month when he challenged Republicans who are threatening lawsuits over what they decry as his federal overreach: “Have at it. … We’re playing for real here. This isn’t a game.”

The Legislation
The provision tucked in the House reconciliation budget bill (on page 168) that increases OSHA fines reads:
SEC. 21004. ADJUSTMENT OF CIVIL PENALTIES.
(a)
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970.—Section 17 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 666) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘$70,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$700,000’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘$5,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$50,000’’;
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘$7,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$70,000’’; and
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘$7,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$70,000’’
That provision would change existing law relating to OSHA’s enforcement fines, the very same section of law whose fines OSHA referenced in its June Covid-19 healthcare worker rule and is likely to use again to enforce its forthcoming vaccine compliance rules.
The Existing Law
29 U.S.C.§ 666 lays out OSHA enforcement fine levels. The 1970-enacted law reads:
29 U.S. Code § 666 - Civil and criminal penalties
(a) Willful or repeated violation
Any employer who willfully or repeatedly violates the requirements of section 654 of this title, any standard, rule, or order promulgated pursuant to section 655 of this title, or regulations prescribed pursuant to this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than $70,000 for each violation, but not less than $5,000 for each willful violation
(b) Citation for serious violation Any employer who has received a citation for a serious violation of the requirements of section 654 of this title, of any standard, rule, or order promulgated pursuant to section 655 of this title, or of any regulations prescribed pursuant to this chapter, shall be assessed a civil penalty of up to $7,000 for each such violation [emphasis added].
Each year, OSHA adjusts these penalties for inflation, so for 2021, the fines are not actually capped at $70,000 and $7,000, but $136,532 and $13,653 per violation. If House Democrats get their way, by enacting the page 168 changes, those fines would increase to $700,000 for willful and repeated violations and $70,000 for serious violations.
Section 654, cross-referenced in the OSHA enforcement penalty code, outlines the law requiring workplaces to be “free from recognized hazards” causing harm or death:

29 U.S. Code § 654 - Duties of employers and employees
(a)
Each employer
(1) shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees;
(2) shall comply with occupational safety and health standards promulgated under this chapter.
(b) Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to this chapter which are applicable to his own actions and conduct [emphasis added].
OSHA has already published a rule this year claiming Covid-19 is a workplace hazard, and the agency is using this provision of law to assert and enforce its authority. It is likely the new rule to enforce Biden’s mandate will also use this authority, and by extension use the fines upon enforcement.

Huge Crippling OSHA Fines, Likely By Design
The crippling change described on page 168 of the Democrats’ bill isn’t a typo or a clerical error. It was inserted by design and, likely, with the hope that no one would notice before Democrats ram the bill through Congress.

If enacted, it could bankrupt a whole host of companies that do not believe they should have to comply with the Biden administration’s mandate or harbor the cost of intrusive, weekly tests.

In its June 2021 emergency rule affecting health care workers, OSHA complained it was having a hard time motivating employers with its paltry $13,653 fine:

“OSHA has been limited in its ability to impose penalties high enough to motivate the very large employers who are unlikely to be deterred by penalty assessments of tens of thousands of dollars, but whose noncompliance can endanger thousands of workers …”

The Critics
Some have openly discussed businesses defying the mandate and taking their risks with OSHA fines. For example, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) tweeted that businesses “should openly rebel” against any OSHA rule.

It’s one thing to defy a $14,000 fine. It’s quite another to risk incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. One or two disgruntled employees, for example, could bring an employer $70,000-$140,000 in OSHA fines. If considered “willful,” as per Rep. Roy’s tweet — just three “violations” could quickly become a $2.1 million OSHA fine.

Conclusion:
If its provision becomes law, the Biden administration may force American businesses to choose between vaccinating their employees, testing them weekly for Covid-19, or going bankrupt under crippling OSHA fines.

In September, Biden warned the tens of millions of Americans who have declined vaccination against Covid-19, “We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us.”

Now the Democrats in the House are hoping to make employers foot the bill for that “cost” in the form of fines and bankruptcy.

Republicans might want to read page 168 of the Democrats’ bill. After all, as we like to say at OpenTheBooks.com, the text of the bill is online in real time.
 

marsh

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Most Americans No Longer Trust Biden's COVID Info, New Poll Finds

TUESDAY, SEP 28, 2021 - 07:25 PM

Americans' trust in President Biden continues to slide, according to the latest Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. The poll found that fewer than half of the respondents trust the president regarding accurate information about COVID-19, a 13-percentage decline since his inauguration in January.

Axios/Ipsos found trust in President Biden, the federal government and the mainstream media to deliver accurate information about the virus pandemic slumped in tandem with no end in sight.

Only 45% of respondents said they trust the president to provide accurate information about the virus, down from 58% in January. The result of this poll is exemplified in Biden's outlandish comment on Monday about pre-pandemic life can only return if 97% of Americans are vaccinated.



Compared with rating earlier this year, Biden is losing trust among Democrats (an 11-percentage point decline to 81% trust a great deal or fair amount) and Republicans (a 10-point drop to 11%). He has experienced the most significant decline in confidence among independents (a 17-point decline to 42%).



Similarly, less than half of Americans (49%) trust the federal government to provide accurate COVID-19 information, down from 54% earlier this month.
"Delta and other issues have undermined the public's perception," Cliff Young, president of Ipsos public affairs, told Axios. He said that no clear resolution to ending the pandemic is the main contributor to the decline in trust.
What's not helping with regaining trust is the administration's sweeping new federal vaccine mandate for 100 million Americans (with no discussion of natural immunity), many of which are private-sector employees as well as health care workers and federal contractors. People across the country, if they're in health care or law enforcement, among others, are walking off the job in droves because of the mandate.

The survey was taken with a little more than 1,100 adults between Sept. 24–27 and has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

These findings are a big concern for the Democratic president and his party ahead of the 2022 midterms. It appears Biden's honeymoon period is over, and the first real glimpse of this was in late July when a Gallup opinion poll found his approval ratings were slipping.



Compound the botched exit of Afghanistan, Mexico–US border crisis, and soaring food, gas, and rent prices, the president's ratings continue to tumble.

Meanwhile, former President Trump received a healthy boost in support following the Republican National Convention last month.
 

marsh

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Biden vaccine mandates causing another pandemic: hospital staff shortages
Hospitals are shutting down or limiting healthcare services because of personnel shortages, as non-compliant employees are forced out.

Updated: September 28, 2021 - 11:24pm

The Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers at facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding, in addition to statewide vaccine requirements, are causing hospital staff shortages across the country, as those who are unvaccinated are forced to leave their jobs.

These shortages are forcing some hospitals to shut down or scale back on healthcare services like delivering babies. In at least one known case, hospital rooms aren't receiving clean linens and the cafeteria is unable to serve hot food because of staff shortage.

Brownfield Regional Medical Center in Texas may close down if the federal vaccine mandate is enforced because so many staff will have to be fired, according to KCBD in Lubbock.

"[P]robably 20 to 25 percent of my staff will have to go away if that's the case," said Jerry Jasper, CEO at Brownfield Regional Medical Center.

The hospital cannot afford to lose its Medicare and Medicaid money either, since it makes up 80-85% of their funding.

"It's huge in our rural community as all the other rural communities," Jasper said. "We all have high poverty levels and stuff like that, so a lot of Medicaid usage in our communities and stuff like that."

As of Friday, Lewis County General Hospital in New York is no longer delivering babies because six of their maternity unit employees resigned to avoid getting the COVID-19 vaccine, according to WWNY-TV. Seven other maternity unit workers are undecided on taking the vaccine.

Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer said his hope is that this is a temporary situation as he works with the state Department of Health to ensure the maternity unit doesn't permanently close.

"If we can pause the service and now focus on recruiting nurses who are vaccinated, we will be able to reengage in delivering babies here in Lewis County," he said.

There are 165 hospital employees who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine, which is 27% of the workforce, Cayer said. The other 73%, or 464 employees, have already received the vaccine.

St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., is consolidating operating rooms because of the staffing shortage, according to the chief medical officer, Dr. Philip Falcone, Spectrum News reported.

Elective surgeries are continuing, but scheduled procedures are being reviewed every week to adjust capacity according to the number of staff available, Falcone said.

As of Sept. 21, 77% of St. Joseph's staff are vaccinated.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Monday to help with the hospital staffing shortages. Monday was also the deadline for medical workers to receive their first COVID-19 shot, according to an earlier executive order by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The state of emergency allows out-of-state licensed healthcare workers, including those from outside the U.S., to practice in New York and medical practitioners to volunteer or work at other facilities where they are not employed.

A federal judge granted an emergency injunction in a civil rights lawsuit on Sept. 14, forcing New York to allow for religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. On Sunday, Hochul told worshippers at Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn that God wants them to get vaccinated, the Washington Examiner reported.

On Monday, Novant Health — a North Carolina-based hospital system with 35,000 employees across four states — announced it had fired about 175 workers who refused to comply with a company vaccine mandate.

Novant had previously suspended roughly 375 employees for non-compliance and given them five days to comply with the company’s mandate — or lose their jobs. Following the ultimatum, "nearly 200 additional team members came into compliance, increasing that rate across Novant Health to over 99 percent," company spokeswoman Megan Rivers said Monday.

In Memphis, Mo., CEO of Scotland County Hospital Dr. Randy Tobler told NPR that they lost five nurses during the 18 months of the pandemic to higher-paying positions elsewhere. He tried to attract more employees with their lack of a vaccine mandate, but that was two days before Biden announced the nationwide mandate, negating that incentive.

Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, Wisc., has seen about 15% of its 7,600 employees choose to not get vaccinated, according to Wisconsin Spotlight. The health system announced in August that all employees must be vaccinated by Nov. 1 or they will be fired.
"If you ask for a religious exemption, they sit you down in front of a panel and grill you," a nurse, who has been at Gundersen for about 10 years, told the news outlet. "They are testing people's religious exemptions. I suspect at some point in the future they will start disallowing those exemptions. There is pressure for that as well."

There is already a severe shortage of workers at Gundersen, even beyond medical staff.
"We've never seen a staffing situation this bad, and that's from people who have worked here for 20, 30 years," according to the nurse. "If you look at the lower-wage staff, laundry, custodial, kitchen, we have a lot of vacancies, and it's really impacting patient care. Rooms can't get clean towels and sheets. The cafeteria is serving cold cut sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly because they don't have enough people to serve hot meals."

A spokesperson for Indiana University Health — with 35,800 employees, the largest hospital system in Indiana — told Newsweek that "125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full-time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization."

Because of these shortages, some healthcare leaders are calling for the Biden administration to take action to provide more workers.

CEO of the National Rural Health Association Alan Morgan is calling for the Biden administration to create strike teams to compensate for the shortage of qualified people to take the open healthcare jobs during a pandemic in a lot of regions. "Morgan suggested that teams could be drawn from the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Guard or the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help rural hospitals," NPR reported.

American Hospital Association President and CEO Rick Pollack said in a statement on Sept. 9 that while his organization supports hospitals choosing to implement vaccine mandates, "As a practical matter, this policy may result in exacerbating the severe workforce shortage problems that currently exist."

Pollack called on the administration to partner with hospitals "in developing aggressive and creative strategies to address this matter to ensure that hospitals and health systems on the front lines of fighting the battle against COVID-19 have the necessary Human Resources."

The American Nurses Association sent Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a letter on Sept. 1, writing, "it is imperative that the Administration acknowledge and take concrete steps to address ... a crisis-level human resource shortage of nurses that puts our ability to care for patients in jeopardy."

The association urged the administration to "declare a national nurse staffing crisis and take immediate steps to develop and implement both short- and long-term solutions."

The vaccine mandate for healthcare workers "absolutely creates a challenge," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky acknowledged Monday in an interview on "Good Morning America."

"What I would say is [we need] to do some work, to educate these healthcare workers, to meet them where they are, to understand where their hesitancy is so we can get them vaccinated and get them back to work," she said.

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1442449117670621191
1:15 min

These hospitals represent just a few examples of staffing shortages across the U.S. Many hospitals elsewhere in the aforementioned states and others such as California, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Virginia are also experiencing similar issues with staffing shortages.
 

marsh

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Breaking: Google-YouTube to Ban ANY CLAIMS that “Vaccines are Ineffective or Dangerous” despite the Death Numbers – Suspends Robert F. Kennedy’s Account

By Jim Hoft
Published September 29, 2021 at 11:33am
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Google-YouTube is now banning any claims that the COVID vaccines are “ineffective or dangerous” from their platform.

And the social media giant suspended several accounts that questioned the vaccine including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.



Message from YouTube:
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It’s time to move your content to a different platform.

This is despite the increasing amount of evidence that the vaccines are dangerous and deadly.

The VAERS website released its most recent weekly numbers on Thursday, September 17th.

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There are now 15,386 reported deaths from the COVID vaccine in the United States, according to the latest numbers.

There were 11,405 reported deaths from the COVID vaccine in the United States back on July 24th

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The number of deaths linked to the CDC-promoted vaccines this year has absolutely skyrocketed, according to the CDC’s own data.

The VAERS database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. The CDC government website links to VAERS platform.

In June, VAERS reported 6,985 deaths due to the COVID vaccines.

YouTube will no longer allow you to report on this data from the CDC-linked VAERS website.
 

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Unvaccinated Students Ordered to Wear Armbands So They Can Be Identified

By Jim Hoft
Published September 29, 2021 at 2:04pm
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Here we go.

The University of Bath is handing out armbands to freshman students to signal whether they have been double-vaccinated. The unvaccinated freshman have to wear a different colored armband.


Zero Hedge reported:
First year students at the University of Bath have been given armbands by authorities to signal whether they’ve been double-vaccinated, with unvaxxed students having to wear a different color.

“Freshers have been given wristbands to signal whether they are vaccinated against coronavirus amid anger at emerging “two-tier” university campuses,” reports the Telegraph.

“Students arriving this week at the University of Bath have been given a different coloured wristband on club nights if they can prove in advance they are double jabbed, or have Covid-19 immunity.”

Those who cannot prove they’ve been vaccinated are forced to enter a different queue in a clear example of segregation.

Bath is a notoriously left-wing city, as is its main university.

Vaccine passports are being enforced on campuses despite the government’s inability to impose them on the country after studies found they would be discriminatory and ethically unsound.

Students at Sheffield University must also prevent a COVID pass to gain access to enter freshers events or union nights out, meaning those who fail to comply will miss out on a social life altogether, with one student revealing how he felt “excluded” and feared being “shamed in front of friends.”
 

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Crazy Fauci Moves the Goalposts Again — “Fully Vaccinated” Now Means 2 Shots Plus One Booster

By Jim Hoft
Published September 29, 2021 at 4:02pm
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At some point the rest of the world will wake up to see this man is absolutely crazy.

Dr. Fauci just moved the goalposts again.

In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Fauci now says fully vaccinated means two COVID shots plus on booster shot.

This latest rule will be in effect until the next booster shot is forced on the public.
PJ Media reported:
Dr. Anthony Fauci has moved the goalposts on what it means to be “fully vaccinated,” and I’m sure you can guess how it has changed.

For many months now, being “fully vaccinated” meant that you had to have two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine, but now, according to Fauci, you’re not fully vaccinated unless you get the booster shot.

“It is likely, for a real complete regimen, that you would need at least a third dose,” Fauci told The Atlantic in an exclusive interview.

Ed Yong of The Atlantic noted that Fauci has been “bullish about using boosters,” and that he defended the Biden administration’s “decision to talk about widespread availability before the FDA had a chance to weigh in.”

Then he asked, “What is your stance on the role that they should play in the pandemic going forward?”

“I’ve made it clear that my opinion has always been that I believe that a third-shot booster for a two-dose mRNA [vaccine] should ultimately and will ultimately be the proper, complete regimen,” Fauci said. “The vaccine is very successful. The durability of it is something that’s a subject of considerable discussion and sometimes debate.”
 

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DeSavage [DeSantis] says what we’re all thinking…
Posted by Kane on September 29, 2021 4:38 pm

View: https://youtu.be/0XwtX4PTToI
2:51 min

Is Australia any freer than Communist China — Governor DeSantis

“That’s not a free country. It’s not a free country at all. In fact, I wonder why we would still have the same diplomatic relations when they’re doing that. Is Australia freer than communist China right now? I don’t know. The fact that that’s even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails with some of this stuff.”

“I think what we have insisted on is we’re not just going to subcontract out people’s freedom and livelihoods to some health bureaucrat like Fauci, who quite frankly doesn’t care about your jobs, doesn’t care about your business, and has no regard for how his policies affect people’s everyday lives.”

People were better off fishing, boating and enjoying the outdoors, he added.

“Especially growing up in Florida, this idea that Fauci says just stay in your house and never leave, that is just so destructive to people’s overall well-being. Do not police their social lives. They’re college kids.”
 

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Jim Jordan — Biden is threatening to fire Unvaccinated border patrol agents…
Posted by Kane on September 29, 2021 3:34 pm

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4:19 min

Jim Jordan with Laura Ingraham last night

Biden won’t test illegal invaders for Covid, but he’s preparing to fire Border Agents who aren’t Vaxxed.
 

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2021-09-29 07:00 by Karl Denninger
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CDC Beclowns All Mandates

It's over folks.
Seriously, there are now two -- and only two -- possible paths.

  • Sue, on the basis below. You will win if the judiciary is competent and so is your counsel.

Competence is not in my wheelhouse; that is up to you. If you file bull**** you will lose, and should. But if your counsel is competent and your argument clear and concise you win because the CDC has documented that your position is correct -- the vaccines are in fact worthless from a public health perspective beyond a period of about four months and you win on the balance of harms in that circumstance for reasons I will explain below.
  • If the judiciary is no longer an arbiter of fact then you have to choose between slavery and revolt. That's all that's left if you are in a position that this is impacting your ability to earn a living or otherwise do something necessary. Yes, that gets ugly fast. I would hope the judiciary understands exactly how ugly, and how fast and thus does its job.
The bottom line is right here, in this study:

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A prison is highly analogous to a hospital or other health-care setting. Both are "conjugal" living arrangements. Both have a locked in component (the patients in one, the prisoners in the other) and a working and mingling in society component (the doctors, nurses, orderlies, janitors, etc. in one, the guards, cooks, janitors and similar in the other.) In both cases the locked-in persons are not really free to leave; in both they typically leave only when allowed by the working component (yes, you can sign yourself out against medical advice in a hospital, but few actually do.)

Both confine people, typically two to a room but sometimes one, among the conjugal and locked-in persons. Both therefore are highly-effective places to spread disease -- especially airborne pathogens.

But -- in the prison it is now documented that after four months the vaccine's effective rate of protection was statistically zero.

The argument for forcing vaccinations in these highly-confined environments, say much less those which have fewer constraints, such as colleges, secondary and primary schools and other workplaces is that people are put at "unreasonable" risk by unvaccinated individuals.

Yet the data is that four months post-vaccination there is no statistical difference between vaccinated and not when it comes to attack rates. By the CDC's own data the vaccines are worthless to protect others after four months.

Let me point out a few other inconvenient facts. First, the companies and CDC likely knew this prior to the jabs going into widespread use, since their effectiveness is basically zero compared against unvaccinated controls within four to six months. The original EUA trials were about four months in duration, which means they, or the firms, had this data -- and with a high degree of certainty either ignored indications of it or deliberately concealed it. That's fraud and upon proof retroactively voids liability protection back to the first EUA-administered jab, including that provided by the PREP Act as willful misconduct is outside of PREP Act and other applicable legal liability protection.

Second, the FDA standard for a vaccine, which they formally adopted for Covid-19 vaccines, requiring that they must be at least 50% effective in preventing the disease in question over the period of concern. Since a seasonal respiratory virus is, as the name implies, an annual risk that would place the period of time at "one year." None of these jabs, on the CDC's own evidence, are licensable under the FDA's standards and thus none can be mandated in any way.

We now know why the JAMA study, which found 83% population immunity as of May which is sufficient to suppress Covid-19 given its experimentally-determined R0, failed to do so. 63% of population was not immune by former infection; they were immune by vaccination and by June and July enough of those vaccinated people had their protection age off sufficiently to be worthless against infection and transmission. This is why, on the facts, the summer surge happened.

Now, you might argue that this means the government can force jabs every four months. Indeed Israel is attempting to do exactly that.

Nope. That is neither lawful or Constitutional in the United States.


Remember the law on accommodations when it comes to those with a "disability" (who cannot choose and thus cannot consent): An accommodation is lawful if and only if it is not an unreasonable burden on the person forced to make the accommodation. If the accommodation would be "unreasonably burdensome" it cannot be required.

Thus you can be forced, when remodeling your commercial building (or building a new one), to put in a ramp, an electric door opener and a button for someone in a wheelchair because it's not an unreasonable accommodation to do so.

You can't be forced, as an employer, to put in a completely separate air feed, a separate means of entrance and egress, and hermetic seals around a workspace so a person with a void immune system (aka "bubble boy") can be hired as an employee without immediately being exposed to a bacterial or viral agent that will kill him or her yet would be harmless or of minimal significance to someone with a functional immune system.

You also can't be forced, as a homeowner, to put in that same ramp because it is unreasonable to force you, who do not need such an accommodation, to suffer the expense because someone might come to your private residence (or may purchase same from you in the future) who does.


So can an employee ever be forced to be vaccinated on the premise of protecting others?

Maybe. If all of the others can choose to protect themselves for no more risk than the employee is required to take then the answer is no. In other words you can't make me wear a mask so you don't have to. But you might be able to make me wear one if you can't wear one and you can prove there is less or equivalent risk to me from doing so than not.
And here we get into the next problem for the CDC, which is their own data once again:


Divide all those numbers by 10 to get "per-100,000" rates.

So for someone under 17 the risk of death from Covid-19, assuming you get infected, is 2/100,000 (or 0.002%)
For someone 18-49 it is 50/100,000 (or 0.05%)
For someone 50-64 it is 600/100,000 (or 0.6%)
And for someone 65+ it is 9,000/100,000 (or nine percent)

These are obviously too-broad ranges but they're the CDC's numbers. We could take a stab at disentangling them using the NYC Coroner data, for example, and I have -- but we don't have to in this case because the CDC has provided enough data on their own, within the Federal government, to complete the analysis.

VAERS says the risk of death shortly following vaccination for Covid-19 is at least 15,386 / 200,000,000 (remember, this is "died with" not "died of" in both cases of vaccination and infection) or 7.69/100,000. This, by the way, is wildly higher than that for the flu shot (about 20-30 deaths per year across 170 million shots delivered) and thus is very unlikely to be a coincidence.

Here's the problem -- this rate of risk is per vaccine delivered. For someone under 17 the risk of the vaccine exceeds the risk of their dying from Covid-19. For someone in 18-49 the math looks better -- if you only take one shot ever. But that's not the paradigm, is it? Nope. So the risk of the vaccine over three shots a year is 21/100,000 and over six shots in total, or approximately 18 months, it is virtually the same as the disease. Yet over the first 16 months or so -- most of which was during a time when there were no vaccines -- only 20% of the population was infected. The risk is taken when you get jabbed (is certain), but the risk of infection is only taken if you get infected (is not certain.)

In other words since we now know from the CDC itself that the vaccines are not durable and must be repeated every four months for someone under 50 the cross-over of risk occurs in less than two years after which they are better off being infected. For someone under 18 they are always better off being infected.

Remember that infection confers sterilizing immunity and, on the science, is durable. How durable we do not know precisely but we do know that other coronaviruses, including OC43, were believed to cause a similar pandemic (specifically in the 1890s) and now cause colds and mild flus in most people. In addition persons infected with the original SARS were shown to still have protection against reinfection seventeen years later. In other words if you choose natural immunity and get infected the odds are you permanently protected against a severe (hospitalized) or fatal outcome, although at some point you will get it again, likely more than once in your lifetime.

Now here's the punchline: To argue that you must take the jab "for others" the argument is in fact that you must risk your own life to save other's lives because the common good, albeit diffuse and indistinguishable from person to person, mandates you place yourself at risk of permanent disability or fatal outcome and the risk of that disabling or fatal outcome is, over time, higher than that which would occur if you did nothing and risked a natural infection.

This is simply not supportable under our Constitution or law and in fact is a violation of your pre-political rights.

Contemplate this scenario which is exactly the same as those arguing for and imposing "mandates": We clearly need more children in the United States. As of 2018 the birth rate is 1.73 live births per woman and it has fallen further in recent years, down 20% since 2007. At a birth rate under approximately 2.1 per woman your nation and society eventually go extinct since that is the number required to maintain your population.

It is a clear societal yet diffuse "good" to have children born to at least replace those persons who die. Without same over sufficient time there is quite literally nobody left!

This outcome absent change is guaranteed to occur. Long before you actually all go extinct, however, the government will fail due to lack of the ability to collect the taxes and fund itself necessary to operate. In other words the destruction of your society doesn't happen when the last person dies -- as I'm sure you can realize it happens long before then when there are insufficient people to maintain the infrastructure necessary to keep a modern way of life operating.

This is identical to the "risk" posed by Covid-19. It is diffuse and uncertain, yet statistically it will do harm. That it will harm some specific person cannot be determined in advance; indeed, among my close associates I had an older married couple, both with serious morbidities. One was killed by this virus in early 2020, the other untouched despite sleeping in the same bed. Similarly, who will get harmed as the population dwindles cannot be determined in advance either, but that it will happen is a mathematical certainty.

Therefore the government and private businesses have the right to forcibly impregnate women who do not otherwise get pregnant and force them in each case to carry the fetus to term so as to prevent that from happening -- right?

Uh, of course not.

Why not?

Because the personal risk of harm -- physical, medical, psychological and financial -- to any given woman may, at some time and indeed most of the time over time, exceeds the diffuse societal benefit from her giving birth to said child. Therefore even though it is clearly not only in the interest of the public as a whole for the rate of child-bearing to be at least replacement it is not lawful to intrude into a person's body to cause it to be so.

The exact same analysis applies here. Yes, protection of the public health is a proper function of government since public health is diffuse yet personal health is, by definition, personal and thus not diffuse. When the two align mandates are supportable. A cost of personal health (or risk thereto) that is de minimis or is literally zero of course argues for the public interest.

For example quarantining someone known infectious with reasonable scientific certainty with an infectious disease is reasonable because the public benefit is clear and the personal cost limited in time and impact, with a zero risk of mortality due to temporary constraint on personal movement. In the context of mandated vaccinations the USSC has been clear as well; for a disease (e.g. smallpox) where the fatality rate was 30% and the vaccine killed you one or two times in a million the argument held for this reason. You had a tiny risk of dying from the vaccination (personal harm) but the public benefit with a disease that killed 30% of the time was immense. Further, for all persons not previously infected the personal risk .vs. reward odds were always positive by utterly ridiculous ratios. When your personal risk of the smallpox vaccine killing you was 1/500,000 (0.0002%) yet the disease killed 30% of the time in non-vaccinated persons there's little argument to be had.

This is clearly not the case here; in those under 50 repeated vaccination is, on balance, more-dangerous than the virus and in those under 18 it is always more-dangerous even from the first use. Never mind that the jabs contribute nothing to population immunity (a public good) since you can still be infected and become contagious while infection and recovery does.

Biden's position, and that of the Federal Government, is unsupportable on both the facts and the law.

There is no debate on the facts when those arguing for mandates prove with their own claims and data that their argument is unsupportable both as a matter of fact and as a matter of law. A viable disagreement to be submitted to a court requires that a trier of fact have some set of facts in dispute. The CDC, an organ of the government itself, has admitted there are no facts in dispute; the vaccines are ineffective and are, on their own data, more harmful than the infection in a large percentage of the population. The public health argument thus fails on its first premise.

We are either a nation bound by law or we are not. If we are not, and the government and judiciary so-declare they must understand that this declaration means exactly what you think it might.
 

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Australia warns the Unvaccinated will face total social isolation INDEFINITELY when lockdown ends…
Posted by Kane on September 29, 2021 12:52 pm

View: https://youtu.be/okduGGZp9dk
4:30 min

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Sydney residents who are not vaccinated risk being barred from social activities even when they are freed from stay-at-home orders in December, state Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned on Tuesday.

Under a roadmap to exit lockdown in Australia’s biggest city, unvaccinated people are already subject to delays in freedoms that will be gradually granted to inoculated residents between Oct. 11 and Dec. 1.

Berejiklian said people who choose not to be vaccinated could be barred entry to shops, restaurants and entertainment venues even after the state lifts all restrictions against them on Dec. 1.

“A lot of businesses have said they will not accept anyone who is unvaccinated,” Berejiklian told Seven News on Tuesday. “Life for the unvaccinated will be very difficult indefinitely.”

The two-tier system has been criticised for both penalising vulnerable groups who have not had access to inoculations and for falling short of providing a real incentive for the vaccine hesitant.

The Delta-fuelled outbreak has divided state and territory leaders, with some presiding over virus-free parts of the country indicating they will defy a federal plan to reopen internal borders once the adult population reaches 80% vaccination, expected in November. The national vaccine rate is currently around 52%.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt welcomed the New South Wales roadmap and urged people to get vaccinated as soon as possible. “The strongest possible reason to be vaccinated is to save your life,” Hunt said.

New South Wales reported 863 new cases on Tuesday.

In New South Wales, the number of people hospitalised dipped to 1,155 from 1,266 a week ago.

Continue reading…
 

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CORONAVIRUS
British Government Trying to Bypass Parliament to Implement Vaccine Passports

Sordid scheme is back again under the guise of a ‘public consultation’.

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28 September, 2021
Paul Joseph Watson
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The British government has been accused of trying to bypass Parliament in an effort to implement vaccine passports via the backdoor, with the scheme under review AGAIN despite assurances it wasn’t being considered.

As we highlighted earlier this month, just a day after health secretary Sajid Javid asserted that the system had been scrapped, the government announced that vaccine passports would form an ‘integral’ part of its winter response to COVID if cases and hospitalizations rose.

Under the government’s ‘Plan B’, vaccine passports will form a “first-line defence” against a winter wave of COVID, despite their widespread use in Israel having proven to have zero impact on minimizing COVID cases.

Aware that it may struggle to get a vaccine passport system through a Parliamentary vote, the government is now launching a ‘public consultation’ in an attempt to enlist support for the scheme.

“The plans seemed to have been put on the backburner but on Monday night the Government launched a consultation, asking the public for views on the use of vaccine passports this autumn and winter if Covid-19 cases threaten to overwhelm the NHS,” reports the Telegraph.
“The Plan B proposals also open the door to the number of venues being widened beyond nightclubs, music venues, outdoor festivals, concerts and sports events.”

With the government refusing to commit to a vote, many respondents saw the move as the start of an effort to sidestep Parliament.

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The utter stupidity of the scheme is proven by the fact that it will eliminate the option to provide a negative test to enter any of the venues.

In other words, proving that you don’t have the virus won’t be good enough to gain entry, but proving you’ve complied and taken a vaccine with dodgy efficacy that means you could still be carrying the virus anyway will be good enough to gain entry.

The government has consistently lied to the public about its intentions regarding vaccine passports, initially claiming they weren’t being considered while funding their creation, then announcing they’d be introduced at the end of September, then backtracking, and now they’re back on the agenda again.
 

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'State of crisis': Canadian Medical Association calls for lockdowns in Alberta and Saskatchewan
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Health systems suffering from relaxed restrictions, says national association


The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 29, 2021 10:21 AM MT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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As of the update on Sept. 28, 1,100 people in Alberta are being treated for COVID in hospital, 263 of whom were in intensive care beds. (Kyle Green/The Associated Press)

The Canadian Medical Association is calling for lockdowns in Alberta and Saskatchewan to protect their "crumbling" health-care systems.

Both western provinces are setting hospitalization records for COVID-19, with intensive care capacity running slim.

Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the national association, is urging the federal and provincial governments to take immediate action.

The association is calling for short, controlled lockdowns, often called "firebreakers" or "circuit-breakers," which would close schools and non-essential businesses.
 

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Pathologists reveal astonishing results of investigation into ten deaths linked to the Covid-19 Vaccines

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Posted by Editor, cairnsnews
By Daily Expose on September 26, 2021

On Monday September 20th, two top pathologists held a press conference in Germany to reveal their findings of an investigation into ten deaths linked to the Covid-19 vaccines, and what they revealed is shocking.


The press conference took place at the Institute of Pathology in Reutinglen, Germany; of which Professor Arne Burkhardt has been in charge of for over eighteen years. Professor Burkhardt held the press conference alongside another experienced pathologist, Professor Walter Yang who has headed a private institute specialising in lung pathology for the past 35 years, among other appointments.

In collaboration with several other anonymous pathologists, Professor Arne Burkhardt and Professor Walter Yang investigated ten deaths that had occurred after the person had received the Covid-19 vaccine, and this is what they found…

Of the ten deaths, the two Professors confirmed that they concluded five were very likely due to the Covid-19 vaccine, two were probably related to the vaccine, one was inconclusive, and two they concluded had no relation to the Covid-19 vaccine.

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However, what they found astonishing, is the similarities among the deaths that they concluded were linked to vaccination.

In three cases, they found rare autoimmune diseases; one of them so rare that they only discovered it when they looked closely at the digitised image.

They were Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune-triggered hypothyroidism; leukoclastic vasculitis, an inflammatory reaction in the capillaries that leads to skin bleeding; and Sjögren’s syndrome, an inflammation of the salivary and lacrimal glands.

Although deaths with suspected vaccine reactions are far from a representative sample of the population, three autoimmune diseases in a total of ten is a strikingly high rate.

The most striking finding, however, related to lymphocytes.

“The lymphocytes are running amok in all organs,” Professor Lang called it.

Not only did he show accumulations of lymphocytes in a wide variety of tissues, from the heart muscle to the kidney, liver, spleen, and uterus; he also showed images in which the tissue was massively attacked as a result, and a whole series of lymphocyte follicles, which are small, developing lymph nodes in completely the wrong place, for example in lung tissue.

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Tissue with lymphocytic infiltration. (Blue dots: lymphocytes). The tissue is inflamed.

It also showed detachments of endothelial cells – which are the smooth cells that form the wall of blood vessels – clumps of red blood cells that ultimately cause thrombosis, and giant cells that formed around trapped foreign bodies.

Lang said he had not seen anything like these clusters of lymphocytes in hundreds of thousands of pathological studies. Normally, other white blood cells, the granulocytes, are found in inflammations. In these cases, however, these are hardly found, and instead there are masses of lymphocytes.

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Detachment of endothelial cells from the vessel wall.

Further investigations are needed to determine which type of lymphocyte is involved in this process and how exactly it is triggered in order to prove a watertight connection with the vaccination; however, the histological examinations required for this would still take at least six months.

Still, he said, the results available so far are important enough to make known in advance in the form of this press conference.

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Erythrocyte clumping inside a vessel. Thrombosis.

The two Professors also revealed images of unidentified foreign bodies suspected to be either contaminants or the adjuvants in the Covid-19 vaccines –

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Foreign bodies which they discovered in highly inflamed lung tissue –

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“We’re missing out on 90 percent,” he said of the number of fatal vaccine reactions. That is not the fault of forensic scientists and pathologists, he said; after all, you can only see what you know, and forensic medicine can’t do histological examinations anyway. But it is urgently necessary to perform more autopsies on such cases. Unfortunately, he said, that is often hindered.

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“Our task is to educate people about risks and side effects,” he said of the goal of his work. A task that would actually have to be fulfilled by institutions such as the Paul Ehrlich Institute in the case of experimental vaccines with emergency approval.

The findings of the experienced pathologists from an investigation into ten deaths following Covid-19 vaccination come after another pathologist, Professor Peter Schirmacer, director of the pathological institute of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, sounded the alarm over his findings following over forty autopsies of people who died within two weeks of having a Covid-19 vaccine.

Schirmacher stated that 30 to 40 percent of people he examined died from the vaccine and that in his opinion, the frequency of fatal consequences of vaccinations is “underestimated.”

Following his findings, Schirmacher called for more autopsies of vaccinated people to further determine whether the vaccines are linked to deaths. He has warned that the high number of unreported cases of vaccination deaths is partially due to the fact that “pathologists do not notice anything about most of the patients who die after and possible from a vaccination”.
 

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COVID-19 mortality risk correlates inversely with vitamin D3 status, and a mortality rate close to zero could theoretically be achieved at 50 ng/ml 25(OH)D3: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis

View ORCID ProfileLorenz Borsche, View ORCID ProfileBernd Glauner, View ORCID ProfileJulian von Mendel
doi: COVID-19 mortality risk correlates inversely with vitamin D3 status, and a mortality rate close to zero could theoretically be achieved at 50 ng/ml 25(OH)D3: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.


Abstract
Background Much research shows that blood calcidiol (25(OH)D3) levels correlate strongly with SARS-CoV-2 infection severity. There is open discussion regarding whether low D3 is caused by the infection or if deficiency negatively affects immune defense. The aim of this study was to collect further evidence on this topic.

Methods Systematic literature search was performed to identify retrospective cohort as well as clinical studies on COVID-19 mortality rates versus D3 blood levels. Mortality rates from clinical studies were corrected for age, sex and diabetes. Data were analyzed using correlation and linear regression.

Results One population study and seven clinical studies were identified, which reported D3 blood levels pre-infection or on the day of hospital admission. They independently showed a negative Pearson correlation of D3 levels and mortality risk (r(17)=-.4154, p=.0770/r(13)=-.4886, p=.0646). For the combined data, median (IQR) D3 levels were 23.2 ng/ml (17.4 – 26.8), and a significant Pearson correlation was observed (r(32)=-.3989, p=.0194). Regression suggested a theoretical point of zero mortality at approximately 50 ng/ml D3. [Emphasis mine]

Conclusions The two datasets provide strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than a side effect of the infection. Despite ongoing vaccinations, we recommend raising serum 25(OH)D levels to above 50 ng/ml to prevent or mitigate new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.
 

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1) THE CONTINUOUS PRESENCE OF SPIKE PROTEIN WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY CAUSE MALE STERILITY VIA m6A METHYLATION. METFORMIN SUPPRESSES m6A METHYLATION!
COVID-19 IS NOT A BLOOD VESSEL DISEASE. IT IS A DISEASE OF IMPAIRED METABOLISM AND AUTOPHAGY (INDUCING SENESCENCE) CAUSED BY THE SPIKE

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2) PROTEIN’S MASSIVE UPREGULATION OF m6A METHYLATION. THE ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IS FROM THE SPIKE PROTEIN’S SUPPRESSION OF AUTOPHAGY AND SIMULTANEOUS ATTACK ON ACE2 RECEPTORS. EPIGENETIC CHANGES ARE REVERSIBLE. A CONSTANT PRESENCE OF SPIKE PROTEIN WILL MAINTAIN THE DELETERIOUS

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3) ENVIRONMENT.
Once again, the medical establishment is completely incorrect as to the origins of the bioweapon that is SARS-CoV-2 and the disease that it causes. We are dealing with a VERY sophisticated bioweapon that impairs autophagy, metabolism and ion channels. I believe
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4) the hypercoagulation being observed is from the body being unable to clear the massive number of dead cells caused by the spike protein. THE SPIKE PROTEIN BOTH CAUSES MASSIVE DAMAGE AND PREVENTS ITS “CLEANUP. “

It has been determined that SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers a global
5) increase in host m6A methylome, exhibiting altered localization and motifs of m6A methylation in mRNAs. M6A Methylation is also a hallmark of aging and is involved STERILITY. m6A modification could alter testosterone synthesis and develop oligospermia or azoospermia.

These 6) findings emphasize the essential role of m6A RNA modification in the regulation of autophagy and testosterone synthesis. THIS MAY RENDER MALES STERILE.

As a result of increased m6A, m6A levels are increased on the mRNAs of ATG genes, and the transcripts of these genes became 7) highly susceptible to degradation. Hence autophagy is suppressed. Recent research reveals that both m6A demethylases (FTO and ALKBH5) could positively regulate autophagy and showed that m6A modification is inversely associated with the autophagy process.

Several studies have 8) suggested that there is a correlation between autophagy and the endothelial NO function. It has been shown that autophagy induction is associated with increased eNOS expression, whereas decreased autophagy is accompanied by down-regulation of the eNOS expression.

It has been 9) observed that in COVID-19 pathophysiological alterations lead to an imbalance NO production. Also, reduction of eNOS-derived NO production causes endothelial dysfunction, which represents a risk factor for severe COVID-19.

It is without a doubt that repeated exposure to the 10) spike protein must be avoided. Period.
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Talk is cheap
Tennis Pro Says ‘Season Is Over’ After COVID Vaccine Injury; NBA Players Stand Firm Against Getting Vaccine
By Megan Redshaw
September 28, 2021


Professional tennis player Jeremy Chardy — formerly ranked 25th in the world — said his 2021 season is over thanks to a “series of problems” he experienced after getting a COVID vaccine.

Chardy, 34, received his Pfizer vaccine between the Olympics and U.S. Open — where he was knocked out during the first round by Matteo Berrettini.

“Since I had my vaccine, I have had a problem, I’ve had a series of struggles,” said Chardy. “Suddenly, I cannot train, I cannot play. I prefer to take more time to take care of myself and be sure that in the future I will not have any problem, rather than trying to get back on the court as quickly as possible and find myself still having health problems.”

Chardy told AFP he was suffering from movement-limiting pain — which caused violent pains all over his body as soon as he made any physical effort.

“I don’t know what to do,” Chardy said. “The problem is that we have no hindsight on the vaccine. There are people who had similar [side-effects], but the durations [of the issues] were really different.”

Chardy said he regrets taking the vaccine, but he couldn’t have known.

“Now I have been to see two doctors, I have done some tests so I know what I have, and the most important thing is to take care of myself,” said Chardy.

Last month, Stefanos Tsitsipas, ranked No. 3 in the world, expressed reluctance about getting vaccinated.

“The COVID-19 vaccine has not been tested enough because it is new and has some side effects,” Tsitsipas said in August. “I know some people who’ve had them. I’m not against it, I just see no reason for someone in my age group to be vaccinated [yet].”

Tsitsipas said:

“For us young people, I think it’s good to pass the virus because we’ll build immunity. I don’t see it as something bad. As I said, it isn’t obligatory, everyone has freedom to decide for themselves what’s right and what’s not.

“At some point we should all do it, I’m not saying the opposite. The time will come when we will not be given many options, but until then I want to see a better version of the vaccine that gives us more pluses than minuses.”

As it stands, Chardy cannot estimate a time when he will return to competition. “In my head, it’s difficult, because I don’t know how long it will last,” Chardy said. “For now, my season is stopped, and I don’t know when I’ll start again.”

Chardy is not ruling out a possible retirement in the short term, as early as 2022.

“I turn 35 in February, so for the moment I’m maybe a little bit negative, but this is the first time the idea that next season might be my last has crossed my mind,” Chardy said. “I’m thinking about it … It’s difficult because I was enjoying myself and I wanted to play longer.”

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NBA Players Stand Firm Against COVID Vaccines

More than 90% of NBA players have been vaccinated against COVID, according to the league, and the remaining team personnel will be, too, by the season’s start in three weeks.

However, a few high-profile players are standing firm in their positions against COVID vaccines, while others, like lead scorer Kyle Irving with the New York Nets, have declined to say whether or not they will comply with vaccine mandates.

On Monday, at Orlando Magic Media Day, Jonathan Isaac answered questions about his decision not to get the vaccine — a decision that potentially could lead to missing games based on the NBA’s protocols in various cities.

His response came days after he was labeled “proudly unvaccinated” in a Rolling Stone article on the NBA’s anti-vaxxers, which Isaac said on Monday “badly misrepresented.”

“I am not anti-vax, I’m not anti-medicine, I am not anti-science,” Isaac told reporters Monday. “I didn’t come to my current stance by studying Black history or watching Donald Trump press conferences (as the story states). I have nothing but the utmost respect for every healthcare worker and person in Orlando and all across the world that have worked tirelessly to keep us safe.”

Isaac explained:

“My mom has worked in healthcare for a really long time. I thank God and I’m grateful that I live in a society where vaccines are possible, and we can protect ourselves and have the means to protect ourselves.

“But with that being said, it is my belief that the vaccine status of every person should be their own choice. Completely up to them without bullying, without being pressured, without being forced into doing so. I’m not ashamed to say that I’m uncomfortable with taking the vaccine at this time. We’re all different. We all come from different places. We’ve all had different experiences and hold dear to different beliefs. And what it is you do with your body when it comes to putting medicine in there should be your choice, free of the ridicule and the opinion of others.”

Isaac said he had COVID in the past and acquired natural immunity.

“I understand that the vaccine would help if you have COVID, you’ll be able to have less symptoms from contracting it,” Isaac said, “but with me having COVID in the past and having antibodies, with my current age group and physical fitness level, it’s not necessarily a fear of mine.”

Isaac noted the vaccine could decrease his chances of having a severe reaction to the virus, but could open him up to the possibility of having an adverse reaction, “albeit rare,” to the vaccine itself.

“I don’t believe being unvaccinated means infected or being vaccinated means uninfected. You can still catch COVID with or with not having the vaccine,” Isaac said. “I would say honestly the craziness of it all in terms of not being able to say that it should be everybody’s fair choice without being demeaned or talked crazy to doesn’t make one comfortable to do what said person is telling them to do.”

When addressing a question on vaccine hesitancy, Isaac said he is hesitant at this time because he doesn’t feel that it is “anyone’s reason to come out and say well this is why or this is not why, it should just be their decision.”

“Loving your neighbor is not just loving those who agree with you or look like you or move in the same way that you do. It’s loving those who don’t,” Isaac said.

Bradley Beal told reporters on Monday he also has not received a COVID vaccine. The Washington Wizards guard who missed the Olympics because of his non-compliance with COVID protocols, cited “personal reasons” for his refusal, while questioning reporters on breakthrough cases, natural immunity and the COVID vaccine’s inability to prevent COVID.

Beal confirmed during Monday’s press conference he already had COVID, and thus, acquired natural immunity.

Andrew Wiggins, Golden State Warriors forward, also declined to take a vaccine and applied for a religious exemption with the NBA to opt out. The NBA denied his request last week — putting his status for Warriors home games in jeopardy, Yahoo! sports reported.

Wiggins didn’t explain his rationale for avoiding COVID vaccines saying, “It’s none of your business” — and was reluctant to engage the subject at all during his first meeting with reporters since the season ended in May.

“Anything that has to do with my status, vaccination, it’s a private matter,” Wiggins told reporters. “So, I’m going to keep it personal and private.”

While the NBA has not mandated players be vaccinated, local regulations in San Francisco and New York City require that Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks players be vaccinated to gain access to their home arenas.

If Wiggins doesn’t get vaccinated, he won’t be allowed to play in Warriors home games, NBC Sports reported.

“Back is definitely against the wall,” Wiggins conceded. “But just going to keep fighting for what I believe, whether it’s one thing or another, get the vaccination or not get the vaccination. Who knows? Like I’m just going to keep fighting for what I believe and what I believe is right. What’s right to one person isn’t right to the other, you know, vice versa.”

What’s clear is that Wiggins’ principles are guiding his resistance, NBC Sports.com reported.



 

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The COVID Caste System

WEDNESDAY, SEP 29, 2021 - 10:00 PM
Authored by Dinesh D'Souza, op-ed via The Epoch Times,

Caste systems are not merely unjust; they are also ugly to behold. Commenting to me once on India’s caste system, when I was a child, my father said, “People in this country still use the word ‘untouchable,’ which is if you think about it a very unlovely term.”

While India’s caste system persists despite being outlawed, America traditionally has not had a caste system.

Until now.

We can see emerging, right here in America, a sharp divide between progressive elites and ordinary citizens.



This divide can be seen in multiple areas.

Progressive elites have high walls protecting their homes, even as they declare that “walls don’t work.”

They have private security, even as they insist Americans don’t need guns to protect themselves.

They somehow elude accountability even when they break the same laws that get ordinary citizens into major trouble.


Nowhere, however, is the new American caste system more evident than with COVID-19.

Did you see Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at the Met gala? The publicity focused on her “Tax the Rich” dress, but just as notable was the video, released by Vogue magazine, of AOC in full Cinderella mode, flanked by multiple attendants, straightening out her hair, fixing her dress, holding up the long train, adjusting her heels. They were all masked; she was not.

This was hardly an isolated case. Shortly before the Met gala, the Obamas held a massive party to celebrate Obama’s 60th birthday. Again, the guests that included political leaders, business moguls, and Hollywood celebrities were all unmasked. The chefs, the servers, the valets, and the other staff were all masked. An upper caste and a lower caste, both playing their roles in Obama’s large tent.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, also just had a birthday, and video showed a small, unventilated room in which Jayapal and her maskless friends all partied together. It was the same story with San Francisco mayor London Breed, who violated her own mask mandate while partying at a club. “I was feeling the spirit,” she explained, “and I wasn’t thinking about a mask.”

The Emmys, too, featured clip after clip of unmasked actors, producers, and directors walking the press photo line, and only when they crossed over to the other side could you see all the staff and attendants, masked of course, taking them back to their seats. Asked about this double standard, LA County’s Health Department put out a statement saying that mask “exceptions are made for film, television and music productions,” because “persons appearing on the show are considered performers.” The virus, evidently, has no interest in infecting “performers.”

To understand what’s going on in its widest significance, consider the true meaning of the famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal.” What does this phrase mean? At one level, certainly, it means that we enjoy equality of rights. The Constitution goes on to specify not merely equality of rights but also equal treatment under the law.

This concept of equality of rights should not, as Abraham Lincoln emphasized, be confused with equality of outcomes. Human beings are obviously unequal in height, in speed, in beauty, in intelligence, even in moral character. An equal start in the race does not mean, obviously, that all individuals or even all groups must hit the finishing tape at the same time.

Yet at the same time there’s a broader meaning to the equality provision that goes beyond rights. We are not merely equal as human beings, we are “created” equal. This means that we are equally the children of God, and it follows from this that God loves us equally and therefore there’s an equal dignity in persons that derives, ultimately, from the fact that they’re created by a transcendent God.

How does this equal dignity play out in American life? It simply means that someone—say Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates—might have more money than you or me, but they are not better than you or me. In America, we have maids but not servants, and in many restaurants we call even the waiter “Sir,” as if he were a knight. The political philosopher Irving Kristol once said there’s no restaurant in America to which a CEO could go in the absolute assurance that he would not also find his secretary dining there.

So the Declaration of Independence affirms a social equality that is the very antithesis of a caste system. Yet precisely what our founding documents reject, the progressive elite, mostly made up of Democrats, is attempting to create for the first time in America a society divided into an elite upper caste and a mass lower caste, with separate rules applying to each group, in accordance with their caste status.

It’s unlovely. It’s downright ugly. It’s also immoral. And it’s certainly un-American.
 

marsh

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Australia's Corporations Rebel Against Government's Draconian COVID Lockdowns

WEDNESDAY, SEP 29, 2021 - 09:40 PM

Australia's corporate sector has finally had enough of the ongoing lockdowns that have left the country's economy hobbled and its people cut off from the rest of the world for months.

Increasingly frustrated by a slow vaccine rollout and the ongoing lockdowns, the leaders of many of Australia’s biggest companies, including BHP, Macquarie and Qantas have signed a letter demanding that the government acknowledge it's time to "learn to live with the virus," as many other countries have done, since "COVIDZero" has finally been exposed as an impossible dream.



In the letter - which was reported on by the FT - the signatories allege that Australia is making “big mistakes” in failing to reopen to the world. By making the lockdowns so severe (and so unceasingly long), the Australian government is putting politics before the well-being of the Australian people ahead of the federal elections that must be held by the end of May - when the Senate's present term is slated to expire.

The companies that signed the letter "...employ almost one million Australians" and warned that lockdowns were having "long-lasting" effects on the economy. However, this shouldn't be news to Australia's political elite: Economists at Australia's central bank, the RBA, already lowered their growth projections after a stronger-than-expected Q2 GDP print.

But all the incremental data seen so far suggests that Q3 could be a disaster - well that, coupled with the intensifying economic pressure from Beijing, which is trying to win a geopolitical stare-down contest with the Australian government by blocking a growing number of imports.

As for Australia's infamous "drawbridge" border policy, the letter's signatories insisted that the decision to close Australia's borders was a colossal mistake.
"The borders should have never been closed,” Graham Turner, chief executive of travel company Flight Centre, told the Financial Times. “We’re making some very big mistakes here.”
"It’s time for corporate Australia to turn its disquiet and rumblings into a roar,” said Greg O’Neill, the chief executive of Melbourne fund manager La Trobe Financial, one of the signatories to the open letter sent by the Business Council of Australia. “It is time for courage and honesty. Not politics.”
Australian COVID cases have finally plateaued...



...Yet, the country still has among the lowest vaccination rates in the developed world. Only 41.4% of the population is fully inoculated — well behind the UK (66.7%) and Canada (70.4%) and below the US, where 54.7% are inoculated.

In the letter, the Business Council of Australia also warned about a quiet "mental health crisis" plaguing the country, a result of the lockdowns and other anti-COVID measures - "some of the impacts of current lockdowns are hidden, and the effects will be long lasting."

Corporate behemoths aren't the only ones struggling with Australia's COVID rules. Groups representing small businesses have made similar complaints. Alexi Boyd, CEO of the Council of Small Business Organizations, said the refusal to reopen internal and external borders has hampered the country's economic recovery.

Anti-lockdown protests have flared in Melbourne in recent weeks, leading to hundreds of arrests and chaos like protesters shutting down a major highway. The government in Victoria tried shutting down construction sites in the area after workers participated in the protests. Unsurprisingly, this only made demonstrators angrier.

In recent weeks, the Aussie government has shown some acknowledgement that they might have chosen the wrong course. But with his conservative Liberal Party trailing the Labor opposition in the polls, PM Scott Morrison is under a lot of pressure to stay the course and pray that the latest delta-driven wave finally subsides.
 

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Here Is How Immunity To COVID Varies By Country: Goldman

WEDNESDAY, SEP 29, 2021 - 07:00 PM

As evidenced by Goldman Sach's decision to cut its growth outlook for China to zero in the face of the unfurling energy crisis plaguing the world's second-largest economy with unexpected blackouts, the coronavirus is no longer the single biggest threat to global growth (particularly as Europe faces a potential energy crisis of its own).

That being said, gauging the global population's present (and projected) immunity levels is critical to an investment bank's broader global economic forecasts (along with being the subject of frequent client inquiries, we suspect). And so, after assiduously monitoring the global delta wave (with forecasts that have been mostly accurate with a few exceptions) Goldman's team is taking on the task of gauging global immunity. It's a hefty undertaking: after all, plenty of Democrats refuse to even acknowledge natural immunity, even as some studies have shown it might be even more effective against delta than the Pfizer jab.

Goldman's forecast relies on a few critical assumptions that are at least partly borne out by "the science":
  • Vaccine efficacy against hospitalizations remains close to 90% for most vaccines six months after vaccination.
  • This implies elevated effective protection rates against hospitalizations across most major economies, at around 70% in the US, the UK, and the Euro Area, 60% in China and India, 50% in Japan, and 65% on a global GDP-weighted basis, nearly 50pp higher than six months ago.
  • Presently, 80% of the American population now has some immunity through either vaccination or infection.
  • We find an effective protection rate against infections of around 60% in the US, the UK, and the Euro Area, 55% in India, 45% in Japan, 40% in China, and 50% on a global GDP-weighted basis, all below the theoretical herd immunity threshold required to eliminate the highly transmissible Delta variant.
Goldman points out that recent studies confirm that vaccine protection wanes over time and the rate varies by vaccine. But Goldman calculated an average rate and charted how odds of infection vs. hospitalization and death (which are much, much lower) decline over the first few months after vaccination.



Exhibit 2 shows Goldman's latest US immunity estimates. The analysts estimate that 80% of the American population now has some form of immunity through either vaccination or infection.

Combined, that leaves us with an effective protection rate against infections of 60%.



Looking at the emerging world, immunity rates are understandably significantly lower - by roughly 20% on average compared with the US.



Here's how that breakdown looks for the developed world.



According to Goldman, their analysis effectively comes with some good news, and some bad news. The bad news is that, since herd immunity is effectively out of reach for humanity at this point, reviving certain types of economic activity like nightclubs, concerts, and other live events to their pre-pandemic levels will be difficult. The good news is at least humanity's resistance to COVID is improving, not degrading.
 

marsh

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Fox Guarding The Henhouse? Yes, Indeed!

WEDNESDAY, SEP 29, 2021 - 06:00 PM
Authored by Terry Paulding via AmericanThinker.com,

The compulsion to find out whether the Wu Flu started in the Wuhan lab, and at whose behest the research was done, has been almost as strong as the desperate drive to stop anyone from finding the answer. On Sunday Morning Futures, Maria Bartiromo discussed this with Devin Nunes, wishing for the answer. Concurrently with watching the show, I opened my email and found a link from Alex Berenson to the March 24, 2018 document outlining the gain of function research.
The document is a detailed description of the proposed research, complete with a chart of expected milestones (page 31).
Page 10 has an easy, colorful chart (unlike the density of the verbiage) showing us laypeople what they intend.
Page 22 shows a management plan, divided into Host-pathogen prediction and Intervention development stages. This one document is the "holy s---!" origin proof.

Notice that Peter Daszak wrote it.
Besides being the head of EcoHealth Alliance, which proposed and arranged for the research in Wuhan, he was the only U.S. representative in the WHO's investigation of...COVID's origins — the same man oft-quoted as saying there is "NO evidence" that the lab leak theory is true.

Daszak has ties to Fauci.
Before this research started, Fauci provided $600,000 to the Wuhan lab supporting it. That information was obfuscated, and emails between the two were redacted but finally released in July.



I think if I were to put together a Venn diagram of COVID, the central connector would be one Dr. Fauci. He funded EcoHealth Alliance, which funded and administered the Wuhan research. Fauci also has close ties to Moderna, including the fact that NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), which he's chaired since 1984, funded the Moderna trial. He pushed Remdesivir, an expensive drug that didn't work to cure COVID patients. And he was a key player in denigrating and banning hydroxychloroquine, the first cheap, easily obtainable drug that worked to stop COVID's progress.

Fauci's been at it a long time, and there's a world of history to follow if you want. His wife, Christine Grady, heads the department of bioethics at the NIH (National Institutes of Health). You know, the body that presides over the ethical questions of testing vaccines.

I could go on, but I want to get to my "part two."

After plowing through the Daszak document (I admit I have an unhealthy inability to stay awake when reading scientific papers, but I got enough to know it's real), I listened to Dr. Scott Atlas in a lengthy interview the Epoch Times sponsored. It's an hour you won't regret if you have the time.

Atlas, who you may remember served briefly on Trump's advisory committee on COVID, has a book, A Plague upon Our House, coming out in November. He's a measured, reasoned voice.

I don't agree with everything he says, but he talks about the ethics of vaccinating children and the unknown long-term effects of the vaccines.


View: https://youtu.be/eSiUT0ID0vg
1:04 min

Atlas makes a lot of good points. He talks about the politicization of virus and vaccines as a mistake. Starting around minute 23, he talks about the heart inflammation issues in young males. He talks about censorship and how it has destroyed our trust in professors and doctors.

If you can't listen to the whole thing, I recommend picking up at minute 23 and listening for the next 10 minutes or so. His ethical questions about using our children as shields for our own health are logical and impactful. You may find yourself going back and listening from the beginning.'

We now know beyond a doubt that the whole pandemic has been mishandled, and is continuing to be mishandled, in the U.S. and elsewhere. We also can see alternative approaches: Norway, for instance, just decreed that normal life should resume, downgrading the pandemic to an endemic problem, meaning something that will always be with us, like the flu.

It's time to take a critical look at our COVID response and then to change it drastically. With no leadership from the top, this may be impossible.

Dr. Fauci is still the voice of COVID USA. He's had his hand in every aspect of the virus, from creating it to masking us, shutting society, and resisting early treatment, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths. His current stance, that everyone should be vaccinated regardless of age, health status, or previous COVID infection, is destructive to our lives and economy.

Far from being the face of our public health, Fauci is the face of destruction. It's time he was indicted, not extolled. It's also time we stood up and said "no" as loudly as possible — no to vaccinating our children, no to mandates, no to masks, and no to all the rules that keep us from living free lives. The more of us do that, the faster this will end.
 

marsh

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"Mu Variant" Has Been Eradicated From US, Data Show

WEDNESDAY, SEP 29, 2021 - 05:40 PM

Looks like Dr. Anthony Fauci may have been right about something (for once).

Scientists are saying that the "Mu" variant - also known as variant B.1.62 - which once sparked fears of igniting yet another wave of "breakthrough" infections has already been "eradicated" within the US. According to the most recent data on on the virus-tracking website Outbreak.info, Mu-related infections are accounting for 0% of new infections in the US.


Previously, the "Mu" strain had been found in nearly every US state. The variant peaked back in June when it accounted for just 3% of all new cases.

The strain was first detected in Colombia back in January. Since then, it has been detected in at least 40 countries.

As of Sept. 26, some 8,557 cases of Mu have been detected since it was first seen, the website said.

For those who haven't been following the whole "Mu" variant situation, the WHO and CDC have three categories of COVID variants that make up their watch lists: variants of interest, variants of concern—which includes Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma—and variants of high consequence.

The WHO officially labeled the Mu variant a "variant of interest" on Aug. 30, which was around the peak of the "Mu" hysteria. The variant has genetic differences to the other known variants and is causing infections in multiple countries, meaning it might present a particular threat to public health.

The news comes as researchers in a Japanese study released on Monday showed that the Pfizer jab seems to offer "adequate" (76% effective) protection against Mu.
 

marsh

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Why "Natural Immunity" Is A Political Problem For The Regime

WEDNESDAY, SEP 29, 2021 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

Since 2020, public health technocrats and their allies among elected officials have clung to the position that absolutely every person who can possibly get a covid vaccine should get one.



Both the Mayo Clinic website and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, for example, insist that “research has not yet shown” that people who have recovered from covid have any sort of reliable protection. Moreover, the CDC page points to a single study from Kentucky claiming that people with natural immunity are more than twice as likely to contract covid again, compared to people who have been vaccinated.

This narrative is reflected in the fact that the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates are a one-size-fits-all policy insisting that virtually all adults, regardless of whether or not they’ve already had the disease, receive a covid vaccine. The official position is apparently this: nothing except the vaccine can provide any sort of resistance or immunity. So get a vaccine. No exceptions!

Health technocrats have repeatedly insisted that “the science” points unambiguously toward everyone receiving a vaccine, even to the point of pushing vaccines for children. All this in spite of the fact the risk to children from covid is far less than the risk a dozen common daily risks, such as riding in an automobile.

The regime has attached itself closely to a vaccinate-everybody-no-matter-what policy, and a sudden u-turn would be politically problematic. So it's no wonder there's so little interest in the topic.

Indeed, in a September 10 interview, senior covid technocrat Anthony Fauci claimed that the matter of natural immunity was not even being discussed at government health agencies. Fauci’s response suggested that the facts of natural immunity warranted discussion at some point in the future. But the comment certainly fit the dominant regime narrative nonetheless: the facts of natural immunity don’t matter for now. Everyone should just get vaccinated:
CNN's Sanjay Gupta asked if people who have already recovered from COVID-19 should still be required to get the vaccine.

"I don't have a really firm answer for you on that," [Fauci] said Thursday on CNN. "I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously."
Maybe someday they’ll get to talking about it.

But some physicians aren’t as obsessed with pushing vaccine mandates as Anthony Fauci, and the evidence in favor of natural immunity is becoming so undeniable that even mainstream publications are starting to admit it.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post last week, Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine argues that the medical profession has hurt its credibility in pretending that natural immunity is virtually irrelevant to the covid equation. Moreover, the dogmatic "get vaccinated" position constitutes a lack of honesty about the data. Rather, Makary concludes:
[W]e can encourage all Americans to get vaccinated while still being honest about the data. In my clinical experience, I have found patients to be extremely forgiving with evolving data if you are honest and transparent with them. Yet, when asked the common question, “I’ve recovered from covid, is it absolutely essential that I get vaccinated?” many public health officials have put aside the data and responded with a synchronized “yes,” even as studies have shown that reinfections are rare and often asymptomatic or mild when they do occur.
And what are these studies? Makary continues:
More than 15 studies have demonstrated the power of immunity acquired by previously having the virus. A 700,000-person study from Israel two weeks ago found that those who had experienced prior infections were 27 times less likely to get a second symptomatic covid infection than those who were vaccinated. This affirmed a June Cleveland Clinic study of health-care workers (who are often exposed to the virus), in which none who had previously tested positive for the coronavirus got reinfected. The study authors concluded that “individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from covid-19 vaccination.” And in May, a Washington University study found that even a mild covid infection resulted in long-lasting immunity.
The policy bias in favor of vaccines ignores many other facts as well, such as the relative risks of vaccines, especially for the young:
The current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention position about vaccinating children also dismisses the benefits of natural immunity. The Los Angeles County School District recently mandated vaccines for students ages 12 and up who want to learn in person. But young people are less likely to suffer severe or long-lasting symptoms from covid-19 than adults, and have experienced rare heart complications from the vaccines. In Israel, heart inflammation has been observed in between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 6,000 males age 16 to 24; the CDC has confirmed 854 reports nationally in people age 30 and younger who got the vaccine.

A second dose of the two-shot mRNA vaccine like that produced by Pfizer and Moderna may not even be necessary in children who had covid. Since February, Israel’s Health Ministry has been recommending that anyone, adult or adolescent, who has recovered from covid-19 receive a only single mRNA vaccine dose, instead of two. Even though the risk of severe illness during a reinfection is exceedingly low, some data has demonstrated a slight benefit to one dose in this situation. Other countries use a similar approach. The United States could adopt this strategy now as a reasonable next step in transitioning from an overly rigid to a more flexible vaccine requirement policy. For comparison, the CDC has long recommended that kids do not get the chickenpox vaccine if they had chickenpox infection in the past.
The nonscientific, ideology-induced blind spot for natural immunity also prompted The BMJ (the journal of the British Medical Association) to note that "[w]hen the vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than one quarter of Americans—91 million—had been infected with SARS-CoV-2…. As of this May, that proportion had risen to more than a third of the population, including 44% of adults aged 18–59."

And yet, the authors note this fact doesn't appear to be a part of any policy discussion at all:
The substantial number of infections, coupled with the increasing scientific evidence that natural immunity was durable, led some medical observers to ask why natural immunity didn’t seem to be factored into decisions about prioritising vaccination.
This problem is reflected in the Biden administration’s drive for booster shots—announced in mid-August—even before there was any clinical research on booster shots at all. Even by mid-September, as one hospital’s chief medical officer put it, “the data is not compelling one way or another.”

But those sorts of details don’t trouble federal “public health” officials, and the Biden administration quickly moved toward pushing booster shots for everyone.

This Is Why There Should Be No Mandatory Medical Treatment
Of course, mandating vaccines—like mandating any medical treatment—would still be immoral even if we could list a dozen studies suggesting boosters are a boon and that natural immunity is no good.
What if there were twenty-five studies "proving" vaccines are better than natural immunity, but only twenty studies "proving" natural immunity is better? Would coercive vaccine mandates then suddenly be justified? Unfortunately, that's exactly how many advocates for repressive covid policies think the world should work. For these people, policy is just a matter of adding up the number of studies "proving" their side is right, and then claiming this justifies forcing mandatory medications on millions of human beings.

(It never works in reverse, of course. The fact that there's a lot of evidence—as Makary points out—against vaccines for those who have natural immunity, the dominant narrative is nonetheless that vaccines are “necessary” and “worth it” for everybody, always and everywhere.)

In the real world, however, many medications—including these new vaccines—come with risks that must be weighed against potential benefits. These decisions can only be made at the individual level, where patients must make their own decisions about what substances to put into their own bodies. In other words, blanket policies proclaiming "everyone must receive this medical treatment immediately, or else" contradicts the realities of the uncertainties and varying risk levels that affect individuals. The facts of uncertainty and informed consent were once considered a mainstay of medical ethics—and of any political ideology that actually respects self-determination and basic human rights. Unfortunately, the philosophy of "public health" appears to be uninterested in such trivialities.

At this point, it would be embarrassing for the regime to admit what actual scientific inquiry has shown: that natural immunity is generally superior to receiving the vaccine.

The regime doesn't like to be embarrassed, and neither do the countless doctors and nurses who have long toed the regime's political line. So expect more of the same.
 

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United Airlines Prepares to Fire 600 Employees for Refusing Covid-19 Jab

By Cristina Laila
Published September 29, 2021 at 8:09pm
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United Airlines is preparing to fire nearly 600 employees who refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

In August, United said all of all its 67,000 US-based employees must be vaccinated for Covid by September 27 unless they had a religious or medical exemption.

593 employees have yet to get jabbed after the September 27 deadline passed.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

United Airlines Holdings Inc. is moving ahead with plans to terminate close to 600 employees who didn’t meet its Covid-19 vaccination deadline, company officials said Tuesday.

Now the Sept. 27 deadline has passed, and while most of the airline’s employees complied, United is starting the process of firing 593 employees who didn’t get the shots, company officials said. Those workers can still save their jobs if they opt to get vaccinated in the coming days before their official termination meetings, airline officials said Tuesday.

“We know for some, that decision was a reluctant one,” United Chief Executive Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart wrote in a letter to employees Tuesday. “But there’s no doubt in our minds that some of you will have avoided a future hospital stay—or even death—because you got vaccinated.”

The potential terminations apply to United employees who chose not to get vaccinated. Another roughly 2,000 United employees have sought exemptions for religious or medical reasons, company officials said.

United had planned to put employees who received those accommodations on unpaid leave starting Oct. 2, but has postponed that until Oct. 15 while it contends with a lawsuit challenging the accommodations it has offered to such employees.
Last week United Airlines employees sued the company in a federal court in Texas over its Covid vaccine mandate.

Attorneys for the employees argued the airliner’s vaccine mandate violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

According to the employees, United is not accommodating religious or medical exemptions as promised – rather, the employees are being put on six years paid leave.

United is fighting the lawsuit and a hearing is scheduled for October 8.
 

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Sebelius: Unvaccinated Are ‘Like Secondhand Smoke’ — They Can Make Me and My Family Sick

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Former Obama administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Americans who have not received a coronavirus vaccine are like “secondhand smoke” in that they can make people sick.

Sebelius said, “I think what President Biden has done is balance between what the science says and trying to cajole, encourage, make it easy for people to follow the science. When that turned out not to be as effective, then he turned to more hardened mandates. But what people don’t have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people’s lives, risk children’s lives. So I think the president has been walking a line of balancing science and safety and security at every step along the way. Hoping that the mass majority of the American public would follow that lead.”

She added, “It’s a lot like secondhand smoke. You have a right to be a smoker. The science is very clear what smoking will do to you, what cancer will be caused, what kinds of health conditions. You have a right to be a smoker. You don’t have a right to smoke next to my desk, to blow smoke on people, on my children, to force me to live in a housing facility where I am subjected to more smoke. That is a line that we have in this country, which delineates what your individual rights are. I think we’re looking at very much the same situation. OSHA, you’re absolutely right, has always provided guidance and mandates about safety in a workplace. This is not a safe workplace if I’m working with a person that may make me and my family sick.

That’s not acceptable.”
 

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Mayorkas: 1-in-5 Border Crossers Arrive to U.S. Sick with Illnesses
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ROMA, TEXAS - AUGUST 14: Immigrants walk towards a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico on August 14, 2021 in Roma, Texas. Recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show more than 200,000 people were apprehended at the border in July, the highest number …
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says about 1-in-5 border crossers arriving at the United States-Mexico border are sick with illnesses.

During remarks at Georgetown University this week, Mayorkas revealed the extent to which federal immigration officials are encountering sick border crossers who are carrying viruses and diseases.

“We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20 percent,” Mayorkas said, according to the Daily Mail.

“When one is speaking of 7,000 or 7,500 people encountered at the border every day, if one takes a look at that the system, it is not built for that in a Covid environment where isolation is required,” Mayorkas continued.

The comments came after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended imposing proof of vaccination requirements for American citizens while allowing border crossers and illegal aliens to flout such rules.

“They’re not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time,” Psaki said. “I don’t think it’s the same thing. It’s not the same thing.”

Days later, Mayorkas conceded that DHS did not test roughly 13,000 Haitian border crossers for the Chinese coronavirus before releasing them into the interior of the U.S. In early August, top DHS officials admitted in court briefs that federal immigration officials were seeing “significantly increased rates” of border crossers arriving in the U.S. while carrying coronavirus.

The Biden administration’s facilitation of bringing sick foreign nationals to the U.S. is not only a policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. As Breitbart News has reported, the administration’s massive resettlement of Afghans across the U.S. has posed serious public health concerns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned.

This month, CDC officials confirmed that Afghans brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration have spurred outbreaks of measles, varicella, mumps, tuberculosis, malaria, leishmaniasis, hepatitis A, and coronavirus.
 
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