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COVID commissars financially squeezing, blackballing dissenting doctors

Medical professionals are facing threats to careers and livelihoods for challenging public health orthodoxy on issues including natural immunity, vaccine safety and personal medical autonomy.

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COVID commissars financially squeezing, blackballing dissenting doctors
Medical professionals are facing threats to careers and livelihoods for challenging public health orthodoxy on issues including natural immunity, vaccine safety and personal medical autonomy.

Updated: October 6, 2021 - 11:02pm

Medical professionals are facing threats to their careers and livelihoods for challenging COVID-19 orthodoxy, while an oft-censored Harvard Medical School professor is facing his latest Big Tech kerfuffle.

The University of California put psychiatrist and bioethics professor Aaron Kheriaty on "investigatory leave" after he sued the university system for refusing to recognize natural immunity such as his among exemptions to its COVID vaccine mandate.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Kheriaty had previously invoked the post-Nazi Nuremberg code in urging universities to abandon their mandates.

In his personal newsletter Wednesday, Kheriaty said he'll lose half his income while on so-called paid leave, because he's banned from "seeing my patients, supervising resident clinics, and engaging in weekend and holiday on-call duties."

His contract also bans him from working as a physician outside the UC system to recoup his revenue loss. "The University may be hoping this pressure will lead me to resign 'voluntarily,' which would remove grounds for my lawsuit," Kheriaty wrote.

UC's action came a day after a court refused to issue a preliminary injunction, functionally declaring a draw between each party's scientific arguments about different forms of immunity and what risk vaccination poses for the recovered.
"[M]erely drawing different conclusions based on consideration of scientific evidence does not render the Vaccine Policy arbitrary and irrational," U.S. District Judge James Selna wrote. Protecting "a campus community of more than half a million students, faculty, and staff from a deadly infectious disease ... far outweighs any harm Kheriaty may face" from choosing between vaccination or his job.

The only remaining defendant now is UC President Michael Drake, after Kheriaty agreed to drop the regents this week.

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The professor disclosed he filed another natural immunity federal lawsuit last week, this time against California's vaccine mandate for health professionals. Just the News couldn't find that lawsuit in the docket, and Kheriaty didn't respond to a request to share it or explain how his investigatory leave may affect his UC lawsuit, such as a new retaliation claim.

Canadian physician Charles Hoffe has also lost half his income while under investigation for sharing government data on the COVID recovery rate with patients, who are mostly First Nations members, according to his lawyers at the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).

British Columbia's Interior Health Authority had already warned Hoffe to stop promoting "vaccine hesitancy" after it learned he had been telling colleagues about his patients' adverse reactions to the Moderna vaccine — one death and nine "disabling long-term side-effects."

A dozen European countries had pulled the AstraZeneca vaccine around that time for its association with blood clots, and Hoffe's own investigation found "strong evidence" his patients had the same problems. A provincial health official referred Hoffe to a vaccine safety specialist who dismissed his concerns as "coincidences," according to JCCF.

The government yanked Hoffe's emergency room privileges for the duration of its investigation in tandem with the province's medical regulator, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. That body did not respond to a Just the News query.

'Surgeon General of QAnon'
UC San Francisco medical professor Vinay Prasad is facing accusations of anti-Semitism for sketching a scenario under which "democracy ends" due to COVID policy precedents.

A political progressive and vocal critic of evidence-thin interventions such as masking schoolchildren, Prasad warned that an unusually bad flu season combined with alarmist news coverage could provide the conditions for a right-wing president to enforce lockdowns with the military, take over social media and indefinitely suspend elections.

"When democratically elected systems transform into totalitarian regimes, the transition is subtle, stepwise, and involves a combination of pre-planned as well as serendipitous events," he wrote, citing Adolf Hitler's unexpected rise in Germany.

High-profile doctors on Twitter called the essay anti-Semitic and demanded a response from UCSF Health, where Prasad practices, according to screenshots he shared. A San Francisco OB/GYN and author of "The Vagina Bible" called it "an audition to be the Surgeon General of QAnon."



"Its not a Holocaust analogy," Prasad tweeted. "They are lying to fuel the mob & tweet at my employer" to get him fired for his heterodoxy, because "this is the culture we have created in 2021."

Among those defending Prasad: former Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey Flier. He tweeted that anyone arguing the essay showed anti-Semitism "is either profoundly dense or malevolent, seeking to harm" Prasad for their disagreements with him "or just enjoy the sick pile on experience."

Prasad didn't answer a request to share any blowback he had received at UCSF or from other affiliated organizations, and UCSF didn't answer whether Prasad was the subject of any review.

Harvard Med's Martin Kulldorff, a pioneer in vaccine safety and coauthor of the year-old Great Barrington Declaration, had his second tangle with LinkedIn over an article he wrote.

The Microsoft-owned professional social network removed two of his posts this summer as misinformation. He had said mandates feed vaccine hesitancy and noted Iceland's top epidemiologist recommended natural immunity to complement vaccination.

This time LinkedIn removed posts that shared Kulldorff's most recent article on why hospitals should welcome nurses with natural immunity rather than firing them, according to the Brownstone Institute, which published the article.

Kulldorff's own posts also disappeared.

After a few hours, the network allegedly shifted to removing the preview image, headline and description of the Oct. 1 article, so that only the URL remained, likely reducing reader engagement.

Just the News confirmed Wednesday the link is still bare when shared on LinkedIn, with the disclaimer: "Cannot display preview. You can post as is, or try another link." LinkedIn didn't respond when asked why it continues throttling Kulldorff's new article.

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LinkedIn censors Martin Kulldorff article on natural immunity
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Kulldorff initially moved over to LinkedIn because of a monthlong Twitter suspension for questioning the protective power of masks. He previously told Just the News he is more guarded on Twitter for that reason.

 

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He screwed the pooch at the end.

 

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

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Ivermectin - Truth & Totalitarianism

THURSDAY, OCT 07, 2021 - 12:10 AM
Authored by Justus R. Hope via TheDesertReview.com,

Calling out the lie

"Merck stock surged 10% Friday after it said its investigational pill cuts the risk of hospitalization and death in COVID-19 patients...The pill reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by about 50%,” Merck and its partner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, said in a statement Friday.

"This is a phenomenal result. This is a profound game-changer to have an oral pill that had this kind of effect, this magnitude of effect in patients who are at high risk who are already symptomatic," former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Friday on CNBC about results of the interim analysis.

"Meanwhile, shares of COVID vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna fell 2.5% and 10%, respectively."

This puts Dr. Scott Gottlieb between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand, as a member of Pfizer's Board of Directors, he is paid handsomely to attend a few board meetings per year, yet on the other hand, he must not be too glowing in his praise of the antiviral, which might lead people away from the Pfizer vaccine. Moreover, it could affect sales just as it has already dropped the stock price.

In 2020, Gottlieb was paid $338,587 by Pfizer. In 2020, he also earned $525,850 as a director of Illumina. Due to his former FDA Chief status, Gottlieb is in high demand as one word of favor from him can send a stock price soaring.

He has served on multiple other boards, including Tempus Labs, National Resilience, and the Mount Sinai Health System. It must be a daunting task to walk the line by promoting one corporate interest while not offending any of the others.

But the good news is that soon, Pfizer, too, will be peddling their antiviral drug, which should make up for any drop in their vaccine sales.

"Pfizer is testing whether its pill—PF-07321332—can prevent infection in people exposed to the virus or benefit patients who have not been hospitalized with COVID-19."

Roche and Atea are not far behind with their antiviral pills, and soon all of Big Pharma can get in on the action. They have timed it perfectly.

While shutting down any competition from repurposed drugs like HCQ or Ivermectin, they deftly rolled out the vaccines first, making sure not to confuse the consumer with antiviral pills that would only be allowed AFTER the majority of the population had been vaccinated.

The one glitch is that Merck's Molnupiravir only surfaced AFTER a prominent scandal involving Merck lying three times.

Just as Peter would disown Christ three times before the cry of the rooster, Merck would turn their back on their creation with three lies about Ivermectin before they would accept the payoff from the United States government.

On February 4, 2021, Merck, the corporation behind the monumental Mectizan Program, which rescued the world from River Blindness, told three untruths about Ivermectin.

Lie #1: No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from preclinical studies;
FALSE: The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
Lie #2: No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease.
FALSE: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-...n-on-Ivermectin-use-in-COVID19-2021-01-18.pdf
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-...rials-Evidence-for-Ivermectin-in-COVID-19.pdf
Lie #3: A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.
FALSE: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/36858/pdf/

However, the Monash preclinical study disproved the first statement showing a massive 99.98% reduction in viral load with a single Ivermectin treatment in cell culture.

The second statement is disproved by the FLCCC's Public Statement issued January 18, 2021, that reports colossal evidence for Ivermectin's clinical activity and efficacy against COVID-19 in clinical settings:

a. Large reductions in mortality rates;
b. Shorter durations of hospital stay;
c. Profound reductions in the infectivity rate in both pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis studies;
d. Faster times to clinical recovery;
e. Faster times to viral clearance.

Finally, the third statement concerning "lack of safety data" contradicts the published WHO safety data. In 3.7 billion doses of Ivermectin given over four decades, Ivermectin has proven exceedingly safe.

Moreover, more than anyone, Merck is in the position to know Ivermectin’s true safety profile as they provided those billions of doses for the Mectizan Donation program.

However, lying was required, and the payoff came on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, when Merck got a fat reward. They announced the US government had agreed to pay $1.2 billion for 1.7 million doses of their new antiviral, Molnupiravir, BEFORE clinical testing showed either effectiveness or safety. Our hard-earned tax dollars were irresponsibly handed over to Merck by an agency charged with a fiduciary duty to protect our health.

So in the end, Scott Gottlieb did not endanger Pfizer's bottom line. Just as Moderna was choreographed to go first in the vaccine rollout, Merck was first with the antiviral, and Pfizer first with the booster. They would take turns as there was more than enough profit to go around. Soon it would be Pfizer’s turn at the antiviral trough, but they had to be patient for now. There was an order and method to this.

But the craftiest strategy of all was Merck's: Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.

This quote has been variously attributed to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. Regardless of its source, it has proven remarkably effective as a propaganda tactic throughout modern history, and Merck was betting on this to sell the public on Molnupirivar. However, the move backfired. In the case of Ivermectin, they falsely argued that it was ineffective and unsafe while their own drug suffered from both.

For example, one could argue, "There is a concerning lack of safety data" regarding Molnupirivar. Indeed, it does not have decades of safety data like Ivermectin; it does not even have years. The little safety data pertains to a dearth of Phase II and Phase III clinical trials, which total less than a few thousand patients.

While Ivermectin's safety data with over 40 years of treatment in over 3.7 billion doses is truly robust, Molnupiravir's safety numbers are barely rudimentary. In short, Molnupiravir's safety data is concerning because of its lack.

Of more concern is a recent study showing the alarming potential of Molnupiravir’s metabolite, NHC, to induce mutations. In a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the author writes, “The mutagenic effect of NHC has been shown in animal cell cultures, raising concerns on the potential risk of molnupiravir-induced tumorigenesis and the emergence of detrimental mutations in sperm precursor cell generation and embryo development.”

I don’t know about you, but that would be enough for most of my patients to decide against this drug. With all due respect to Dr. Gottlieb, if the choice were between a drug with a 40-year safety profile of excellence versus a new experimental one that could introduce mutations into germ cells, it would be a no brainer.

As if this were not enough, another group of researchers at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are also concerned.

They write, “The concern would be that mutations in host DNA could contribute to the development of cancer or cause birth defects either in a developing fetus of through incorporation into sperm precursor cells.”

This may be the best time to mention that cheap, repurposed drugs, all FDA approved as safe for other conditions, are one of the best ways to address terminal cancers. They have well-defined and often long-term safety profiles, and cocktails of such old drugs hold great promise as adjuncts in cancer prevention and treatment. Moreover, unlike experimental new medicines with little safety testing, repurposed drugs will not give you cancer.

As for meaningful clinical activity or efficacy in patients with COVID-19, there are also concerns with Molnupiravir. The hospital trials were stopped early. Where is the data for inpatients? Where is the data for patients on ventilators? Where is the evidence for pre-exposure prophylaxis?

The limited trials that have been performed only suggest a correlation between Molnupiravir use and a lower rate of hospitalization and fewer deaths based on low numbers of patients. But the evidence is lacking on safety, prevention of disease, and treatment of late disease. This is where the evidence on Ivermectin is overwhelming.

However, the evidence of effectiveness for Molnupiravir is sketchy at best.

Moreover, on the use of Molnupiravir in mild and moderate disease, we have one study - only partially completed - showing 7.3% death OR hospitalization in the drug group versus 14.1% of those receiving placebo. The fact that deaths were combined with hospitalizations does not mean that 48% fewer in the treatment group died. It means the sum of deaths and hospitalizations was 48% lower in the treatment group.

Moreover, the study only involved 775 patients. This is far too few on which to base an approval. Right? Isn't that what we have been told regarding Ivermectin? After all, we now have over 32 randomized controlled trials of Ivermectin in COVID, reflecting a 58% improvement in the Ivermectin groups compared to placebo. Thus, we have 65 clinical trials in total involving 655 scientists and 47,717 patients. We have been told this is insufficient evidence, so the Merck data on 775 patients cannot possibly be enough if we use the same standard.

With Ivermectin, we see an average of 86% improvement in 14 prophylaxis studies, a 66% improvement in 29 early treatment trials, a 40% improvement in 22 late treatment trials, a 57% improvement in the 26 mortality trials. This data has been updated to October 1, 2021.

c19ivermectin.com

So, even assuming Molnupiravir effectively reduces death PLUS hospitalization by 48%, we still do not know how reliable this figure will be when looking only at death. Ivermectin's reduction in death in mild to moderate COVID-19 surpasses this number.

Assuming more studies confirm Molnupiravir's lesser effect at reducing mortality in mild to moderate disease, we are still left with uncomfortable questions about its safety. However, Ivermectin's excellent long term safety profile is solid, and this alone will lead many to choose Ivermectin OVER Molnupirivar, especially when factoring in the possibilities of mutagenesis and gene toxicity.

The price of around $700 per course of treatment which involves ten pills, makes it vastly more expensive than Ivermectin, which might be fine if it were considerably more effective. But it isn’t, it is less effective, and it is potentially MUCH more dangerous. The fact the choice is being "forced" does not make it more appealing.

Perhaps the most distasteful dimension is that the drug was developed through deceit and propaganda under Merck's scandal with Ivermectin.

It is part of an overall mandated program that robs people of their God-given liberty to choose their own medical treatment.

The mandates have been fraught with division among leading scientists, including Dr. Robert Malone. Dr. Robert Malone discovered in-vitro and in-vivo RNA transfection and invented mRNA vaccines while he was at the Salk Institute in 1988. He helped draft "The Physicians Declaration," which was announced at the Global COVID Summit held in Rome, Italy.

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Part 2 of 2

The Physician's Declaration is not unlike the US Declaration of Independence, as both documents enumerate a series of injustices that create the need for a Declaration.

In the case of the US Declaration of Independence, those injustices included taxation without representation, not providing fair hearings or trials - the lack of due process - and "exciting domestic insurrections amongst us."

In the case of the Rome Physician's Declaration, these injustices include public policymakers who have forced a "one size fits all treatment strategy" to the Pandemic resulting in "needless illness and death." In addition, physicians have been subject to censorship of ideas, barriers from pharmacies, threats of censure, and loss of license for upholding their Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.

Censorship of Senate testimony of Harvard and Yale-educated physicians by YouTube at the behest of government agencies should not be tolerated in a democratic society.

When the WHO and CDC degenerate into captured agencies that no longer serve the medical interests of the people, something needs to change.

The United States declared itself free from oppression from England in 1776 with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

As of today’s date, some 10,000 physicians and health scientists have also signed the modern Physician Declaration and accused the public health agencies of "crimes against humanity."

Physicians have declared through this document that they "must be free to practice the art and science of medicine without fear of retribution, censorship, slander, or disciplinary action" and that physicians shall not be restricted from prescribing safe and effective treatments. A fully informed patient should have the right to choose or decline medical treatment. This absolute right MUST be restored.

Taking a stand for truth is what is essential now. Over the last 18 months, Americans, indeed citizens of the developed world spanning from the United Kingdom to Australia, have been fed a steady diet of propaganda by Big Pharma and Big Regulators being aided and abetted by complicit governments, media, and Big Tech.

These corrupt organizers seem to be driven by a desire for money, power, and control. Most citizens are either willing participants or are those who feel powerless to object. Most physicians who are part of organized medicine dare not speak out for fear of consequences. The NIH influences most of the world’s medical research through the strategic use of its nearly $50 billion annual budget. As a result, it can affect most medical societies, medical journals, most research, and thus it can and does control the way data is analyzed.

The top medical journals have even published fraudulent studies to discredit unprofitable repurposed drugs.

These same medical journals have appointed questionable figures to investigate the origins of COVID-19, those with ties to coverups, and those who are likely to maintain the coverup.

From the AMA to the FDA to the New England Journal to the Lancet, the NIH controls organized medicine around the globe. But it cannot do so alone, especially abroad, which is why the WHO also figures prominently.

The WHO budget is about 10% of the NIH at $5.8 billion.

The Gates Foundation contributes roughly 10% of the WHO budget. Thus both Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID – an arm of the NIH, and Bill Gates, vaccine proponent of the world, play significant roles.

All those physicians who signed Dr. Malone’s Physician Declaration are genuinely courageous, just as were Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Hancock, those men of courage who signed the US Declaration of Independence.

And, whether or not most recognize it, we, the citizens of the United States, those of Australia, and the United Kingdom, are living in an increasingly totalitarian world, run by Big Pharma, Big Regulators, and Big Tech where the politicians and governments are secondary.

This concept is very similar to the “soft totalitarianism” described in the book Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher. In a thoughtful review, Abe Greenwald notes, “Lies are the lifeblood of totalitarianism; to resist, therefore, is to hold fast to the truth.”

Our world’s current soft totalitarianism goes unrecognized by most because it is so different in appearance from that of the Soviet Union, yet it is every bit as deadly. In quoting Dreher, totalitarian society is defined by, “An ideology (that) seeks to displace all prior traditions and institutions with the goal of bringing all aspects of society under control of that ideology…A totalitarian state is one that aspires to nothing less than defining and controlling reality.”

In this Pandemic, those who do not conform to lockdowns, mask wear, or vaccination protocols are vilified, regardless of the science.

As Greenwald observes, our totalitarianism is couched in the guise of “helping and healing others.” We live in a totalitarian “therapeutic culture.” Those who do not conform are branded as “the enemy (of the state).”

Dreher writes, “It masks its hatred of dissenters from its utopian ideology of helping and healing…In therapeutic culture, which has everywhere triumphed, the great sin is to stand in the way of the freedom of others to find happiness as they wish.”

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn often said, the antidote to totalitarianism has always been exposing the truth and then living in truth. It is what is essential now. Just as evil hates the light, lies hate the truth.

Dreher correctly observes that living in truth requires courage to stand up for what is right. For example, he offers this quote from a Slovakian dissident:

“The question is, which is going to win: fear or courage?” he says. “In the beginning, it was mostly a matter of fear. But once you started experiencing freedom—and you felt it, you felt freedom through the things you did— your courage grew. We experienced all this together. We helped one another to gradually build up the courage to do bigger things, like join the Candle Demonstration.”

Fear is now falling while courage is rising. The word is slowly getting out through alternative media. Doctors are organizing resistance groups. Whereas six months ago, few patients had heard about Ivermectin, today most know about it, and many take it.

There is a reason that so many health care professionals are speaking out against the mandates, and it may have something to do with the fact healthcare is their field. For example, if airline pilots, experts in their field, refused to fly on a specific model of 747 aircraft, would an average person wish to know why, or would they blindly jump on that plane – because the FAA declared it safe? Help get the truth out.

To patients everywhere, to all those whose voices have been silenced during this Pandemic, I advise the courage to live in the truth, share this message with others, and never yield to fear by remaining silent. Please share this article with your physician(s), share the link below, and ask them to sign the Physician’s Declaration. We are at 10,000 signatures now. When I started a petition on www.change.org this spring, it was taken down by the censors.

However, this declaration cannot be taken down.

Let us reach at least a million signatures. Then, when the signature box is opened for signing by the general public, please sign as well.

I now invite all physicians and medical scientists to join in truth with Dr. Malone, Dr. Fareed, Dr. McCullough, Dr. Tyson, and Dr. Kory and sign the Rome Physician’s Declaration here. Let us stand for truth, freedom, and Human Rights, which shall always prevail over totalitarianism. Let us honor our sacred Hippocratic Oath.

 

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Anti-lockdown pro-life Catholic becomes premier of Australian state - LifeSite

Following the shock resignation of Gladys Berejiklian, Dominic Perrottet has become the 46th Premier of New South Wales, ushering in a new era in Australian politics.

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BREAKING: Anti-lockdown pro-life Catholic becomes premier of Australian state

Following the shock resignation of Gladys Berejiklian, Dominic Perrottet has become the 46th Premier of New South Wales, ushering in a new era in Australian politics.

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Tue Oct 5, 2021 - 7:36 am EDT

SYDNEY, Australia — On Tuesday morning, 39-year-old conservative Catholic Dominic Perrottet was elected the 46th Premier of New South Wales in a 39-5 landslide.

This followed the shock resignation of Gladys Berejiklian amid corruption investigation, signalling the dawn of a new era in Australian politics.

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During his first speech as the 46th Premier of New South Wales, Perrottet stated: “Today begins a new chapter for NSW and one that we will all write together. I am honoured that my colleagues have asked me to write that chapter as Premier, and I thank them for the confidence that they have put in me.”

After acknowledging the contributions of the recently resigned former NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, Perrottet added, “Being Premier is a great honour, but I want to be clear that the job I have committed to today is not just to lead NSW, but to serve all the people of our state.”

“For the past 18 months together, we have been battling a storm that is COVID-19,” he continued.

“Some have lost their lives. Many have lost their livelihoods. So many sacrifices, big and small, have been made by so many for so long. Not being able to leave our homes, not being able to go to work, not being able to visit our loved ones, parents having to work and balance homeschool at the same time, many have missed weddings, many have missed funerals and the opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones.”

Perrottet then addressed the economy.

“As a former treasurer, I know that a strong society needs a strong economy, and that is why our first priority will be to continue the plan that we have started: keeping people safe, opening up the economy and securing our recovery.” he said.

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“Up until now, all of our Liberal premiers have been infrastructure premiers, building roads, rail, schools and hospitals for communities right across our state, and that will not change with me, but I will also be a family Premier, focusing on how we can make life better for working families, living the Liberal values of opportunity, aspiration and hard work,” the new leader continued.

Perrottet concluded his speech by stating: “We live in the best state in the best country in the world, and together we will make it better.”

The new Premier then responded to an array of questions from reporters. When asked about his Catholic faith and how it will impact his leadership, Perorates responded, “My religious views and my Christian faith is something I am incredibly proud of as many people across our state are.”

“We live in a very diverse society,” he continued. “I think some of the criticism in relation to that diversity has been unfounded and I am proud to live and I love our state and I love the diversity and the multicultural backgrounds and the religious backgrounds.”

“I am very proud of the fact that I have a strong Christian faith” he added. “But I think in the main, people right across our state believe in freedom of religion and freedom of the opportunity to serve in public life regardless of what your ethnic background is or what your religious values are.”

As the former deputy leader of the NSW Liberal Party, and leader of the Liberal Party’s conservative faction, Perrottet established himself as conservative with populist leanings due to public support of US President Donald Trump.

Perrottet has also denounced the “almost religious devotion of the political left to climate change”, opposed same-sex marriage, criticised “pronoun police” who impose gender neutral language, and vehemently challenged Australia’s pro-abortion legislation in 2019. As a devout Catholic, Perrottet declared that he could not support laws that stopped “the beating heart of an unborn child.”



Perrottet has also criticised the expansion of the socialist-style welfare system in Australia that encourages the breakdown of the traditional family structure.

Instead, he has encouraged the reintroduction of traditional family values as the foundation of society. In addition, Perrottet has highlighted the importance of the workforce as the foundation of a classical free market economy to improve the living conditions of Australian families and to increase the strength of Australia as a nation.

Perrottet’s position on these significant issues has drawn the ire from opponents who see his adherence to Catholic social teaching as a threat to their progressive social and political agenda.

Prior to his appointment as New South Wales Premier, Perrottet hinted he would bring about immediate economic reform and end of draconian public health orders. This includes indefinite lockdowns, the restrictions on businesses or places of worship, and mandatory vaccinations.

When NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant suggested the initial extension of lockdowns in Sydney, Perrottet is reported to have responded that Chant and other government officials should sacrifice their own salaries in solidarity with the Australians they were forcing into bankruptcy.

While working under the constraints of the Liberal government’s COVID lockdowns, Perrottet has been praised by the Australian people for his behind-the-scenes work. He is responsible for the reduced COVID-19 limitations on workplaces, particularly in the construction industry; the promotion of government funds to assist business owners; the opening of domestic borders and international travel; and the investment of $5 billion into local governments following the devastating lockdowns.

He is responsible for the reduced COVID-19 limitations on workplaces, particularly in the construction industry; the promotion of government funds to assist business owners; the opening of domestic borders and international travel; and the investment of $5 billion into local governments following the devastating lockdowns.

 

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BREAKING BIG: Sweden and Denmark Halt Moderna Vaccinations on Those 30-and-Under Due to Potential Side Effects | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Sweden and Denmark announced on Tuesday they were halting Moderna COVID vaccinations for those under 30-years-old due to possible side effects.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

BREAKING BIG: Sweden and Denmark Halt Moderna Vaccinations on Those 30-and-Under Due to Potential Side Effects

By Jim Hoft
Published October 6, 2021 at 8:45pm

Sweden and Denmark announced on Tuesday they were halting Moderna COVID vaccinations for those under 30-years-old due to possible side effects.

This is very big news.

The two nations saw ample evidence to ban the vaccine for its youth.

Bloomberg.com reported:

Sweden and Denmark decided to halt vaccinations with Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 shot for younger people because of potential side effects.

The Swedish health authority Wednesday cited new data on the increased risk of heart inflammation as a reason for the pause for those aged 30 and under. Denmark will stop giving the shot to those younger than 18.

Moderna shares fell as much as 5.3% in New York trading.

“We are monitoring the situation closely and are acting rapidly to ensure that Covid-19 vaccinations are constantly as safe as possible, while also providing protection,” said Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist.

The two countries recommended Pfizer Inc.’s and BioNTech SE’s rival vaccine as a replacement. Both vaccinations use messenger RNA technology to prompt an immune reaction.

According to the VAERS tracking website, in the United States, 3,933 Americans have died following the Moderna COVID vaccination. 10,848 have died due to the Pfizer vaccination.

 

[CapeCMom]

He screwed the pooch at the end.

No. He threw their bull back at them.

 

[naegling62]

No. He threw their bull back at them.

I think the far right Nationalist should bury the hatchet and form an alliance of common cause with the blacks. The powers that be would freakout. Plus it would give the anti Covid vax folks some very dedicated activists.

 

[Tristan]

I just entered into a fruitless conversation when I encountered a doctor when I was walking the dogs. Well, they were walking I was on my recumbent three wheeler.

We started talking about vaccines and he was like a posterboy for the official narrative.

Get the vax for everyone else, 99% of hospitalizations are unvaxxed.

I brought up stats and studies he never heard of, I pointed out Fauci's hypocrisy in his own words and he say videos can be doctored. aSo without even knowing myz sources he can discredit them.

I pointed out info about Spike Proteins and ADE, he had never heard of it.


I pointed out the media censorship and he replies they used a fact checker.to only remove inaccurate information.

I then said the fact checkers all had a relationship with the pharmacies and anything provax was removed including peer reviewed studies from respected doctors that didnt fit the narrative.

This is what the CNN crowd thinks, there is no dissuading them with pesky facts.

He has a particularly bad case of "Reliance on Trusted Authority". One of the symptoms is to completely disregard info from any source other than the "Trusted Authority".

There is no known cure, though there are rising instances of spontaneous remission.

 

[naegling62]

Finland has now joined Denmark and Sweden. I bet these adverse reactions are in all age groups. With the above 30's the vaccidents are lost in the numbers because if you're not willing to look at the ratios, you can claim they are natural occurrences.

Get ready folks the Vikings are leading the way!

 

[Tristan]

Finland has now joined Denmark and Sweden. I bet these adverse reactions are in all age groups. With the above 30's the vaccidents are lost in the numbers because if you're not willing to look at the ratios, you can claim they are natural occurrences.

Get ready folks the Vikings are leading the way!

When you're old and develop heart conditions, it's easier to pass off as age-related.

When you're old and die suddenly in your sleep, it's easier to pass off as age-related.

Rinse and repeat as necessary.

 

[marsh]

Prominent Doctor Misled Catholics on Aborted Baby Body Parts in the Pfizer COVID Vaccine (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Project Veritas released video on Wednesday of a whistleblower at Pfizer who accused the pharmaceutical company of trying to hide the connection between its new COVID-19 vaccine and aborted babies.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Prominent Doctor Misled Catholics on Aborted Baby Body Parts in the Pfizer COVID Vaccine (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published October 7, 2021 at 11:32am

Project Veritas released video on Wednesday of a whistleblower at Pfizer who accused the pharmaceutical company of trying to hide the connection between its new COVID-19 vaccine and aborted babies.

In a new Project Veritas video, Pfizer employee Melissa Strickler provided emails from corporate executives asking staff to avoid mentioning the fetal cell lines that the company used to test its COVID vaccine.

“From the perspective of corporate affairs, we want to avoid having the information on fetal cells floating out there,” Vanessa Gelman, senior director of worldwide research at Pfizer, wrote in an email dated Feb. 9, according to the whistleblower.

This directly contradicts earlier remarks by Catholic ethicist Dr. Joseph Meaney who went on national television to say the fizer COVID vaccine did not use aborted babies.

This was not true.

Dr. Joseph Meaney, Ph.D, a bioethicist and president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, joined the EWTN Catholic Television Channel to discuss the Pfizer COVID vaccine.

Dr. Meaney told EWTN viewers that no aborted baby cell lines were involved in the Pfizer COVID vaccine development and production.

Dr. Joseph Meaney, Ph.D.: The good news is not at all. It’s a new type of vaccine, mRNA-type similar to the Moderna vaccine, that does not use any cell lines whatsoever in its production. So, in that case, there are no cell lines involved in its development and production.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1446096340665212932

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** We reached out to the NCBCenter for comment.
^^^^^^^^^^^

[COMMENT: My understanding always was that fetal tissue was used in the development and testing process, but is not in the actual vaccine that goes into your body.]

 

[marsh]

New Data from Department of Defense 'Project Salus' Shows Waning Immunity from COVID-19 Vaccine to its 5.6 Million Vaccinated Medicare Beneficiaries | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

Stock photo Alarming data released by a government-funded project showed that the effectiveness of both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines significantly waned over time. The effects lessen in any fully vaccinated individuals with each passing week.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

New Data from Department of Defense ‘Project Salus’ Shows Waning Immunity from COVID-19 Vaccine to its 5.6 Million Vaccinated Medicare Beneficiaries

By Jim Hoft
Published October 7, 2021 at 8:10am

Stock photo

Alarming data released by a government-funded project showed that the effectiveness of both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines significantly waned over time. The effects lessen in any fully vaccinated individuals with each passing week.

An AI program launched by the Dept. of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) called “Project Salus” has examined data on 5.6 million Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older, 2.7M were vaccinated with Pfizer, and 2.9M with Moderna. The data was posted on October 5th on the Humetrix website, a platform that provides healthcare organizations and government agencies with real-time clinical data management.

This new finding revealed that the majority of those 5.6 million Medicare beneficiaries aged 65+ who are fully vaccinated were infected by COVID-19. This means that transmission may be primarily occurring by vaccinated individuals.
Two studies from Israel and Qatar that were published in the New England Journal of Medicine supported this claim that the effectiveness of the vaccine decreases over time despite the individuals being fully vaccinated.

It was previously reported in Israel on thee rise of COVID-19 cases on fully vaccinated people. According to Dr. Haviv, the vaccinated account for 85-90% of all new hospitalizations and 95% of “severe” cases at the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky this week said the Covid vaccines do not prevent transmission of the China virus.

This newly released data clearly proves that no vaccine is 100% effective. This destroyed the narrative from the left and Joe Biden claiming this is “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

From the JAIC Project Salus report:

The data below shows that out of the 80% vaccinated population 65 years and older, an estimated 71% of COVID-19 cases occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.

The data below shows that the vaccine effectiveness decreases over time. It shows that the breakthrough infections are higher after 5-6 months of receiving the vaccine compared to 3-4 months post-vaccination.

The data shows an upward trend. The question is, what is going to happen after a year or more? Will that mean more COVID-19 cases to the vaccinated?

The data below shows that in this 80% vaccinated 65+ population, an estimated 60% of COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in fully vaccinated individuals in the week ending August 7th.

The graph below shows that ‘vaccine effectiveness’ decreases over time. You can see that those who were vaccinated early nearly doubled in hospitalizations. There’s a high number of people hospitalized 5-6 months after the vaccination compared to 3-4 months post-vaccination.

Here is the summary from the data presented in the report:
Is vaccine effectiveness waning over time?

• Breakthrough infections are rare in this 5.6M cohort of 65 or older fully vaccinated Medicare beneficiaries, being observed in only 2.9% of cases since January 2020
• Hospitalization rate (21% vs 32%) and death rate (4% vs 12%) of breakthrough infections are lower than rates observed in Covid-19 cases in the pre-vaccination pandemic phase in 2020

Is vaccine effectiveness reduced for the Delta variant?

• Estimated VE against Delta breakthrough hospitalization (62%) exceeds VE against Delta infection (41%)
• VE of both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines appears to wane starting 5 months after vaccination

Does the need vary by sub-population?

• Older age groups (75-84 & 85 and older) have reduced vaccine protection against hospitalization in breakthrough infections
• Prior COVID-19 infection has a major additional protective effect against hospitalization in breakthrough infections
• Breakthrough infections occurring 6 months after vaccination have an increased risk of hospitalization (odds ratio = 2.5)

You can read the full report here:

(Scribd doc on website)

 

[marsh]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1446128296404520965

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1446128296404520965
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[marsh]

[Australia]

Neighbors take revenge on woman who tests positive…

A woman’s car has been torched after her infection resulted in restrictions being re-imposed in parts of South Australia. The car was found on fire in the backyard of the woman’s Mount Gambi…

citizenfreepress.com

Neighbors take revenge on woman who tests positive…
Posted by Kane on October 7, 2021 3:11 pm

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzyOLVoUpqA&feature=emb_rel_end
1:53 min

A woman’s car has been torched after her infection resulted in restrictions being re-imposed in parts of South Australia. The car was found on fire in the backyard of the woman’s Mount Gambier home.

The cause of the suspected attack is unknown – but neighbors say “rumors” have been floating around that she was not truthful in her account of her movements. Mount Gambier was plunged into a week of heavy restrictions after the woman tested positive to Covid.

She is currently in hotel quarantine in Adelaide with her children.

SOURCE — 7 NEWS AUSTRALIA

 

[marsh]

Pfizer officially asks to Vaccinate your 5 year old child…

SOURCE — NBC NEWS Pfizer announced Thursday that they had submitted an emergency request to the FDA for authorization of the two-dose Covid vaccine in children age…

citizenfreepress.com

Pfizer officially asks to Vaccinate your 5 year old child…
Posted by Kane on October 7, 2021 2:57 pm

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SOURCE — NBC NEWS

Pfizer announced Thursday that they had submitted an emergency request to the FDA for authorization of the two-dose Covid vaccine in children ages 5 to 11.

“With new cases in children in the U.S. continuing to be at a high level, this submission is an important step in our ongoing effort against #COVID19,” Pfizer tweeted. “We’re committed to working with the FDA with the ultimate goal of helping protect children against this serious public health threat.”

An FDA advisory committee plans to meet to discuss authorization on Oct. 26.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1446095849755455492

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[marsh]

[COMMENT: If you skipped over this post #56,318, may I recommend it. The video shows the path the vaccines have set us upon. It allows more virulent and lethal mutations of the virus to survive and transmit, eventually making continued universal vaccination necessary in order to survive. It shows what Dr. Malone was talking about using a real life issue with chickens.]

Penn State Study: Leaky Vaccines Support Evolution of More-Virulent Variants (2015) 5:02 min

Penn State Study: Leaky Vaccines Support Evolution of More-Virulent Variants (2015)
KanekoaTheGreat Published October 1, 2021
Just as antibiotics breed resistance in bacteria, vaccines can incite changes that enable diseases to escape their control.

A vaccine is a novel selection pressure placed on a pathogen, and if the vaccine does not eradicate its target completely, then the remaining pathogens with the greatest fitness — those able to survive, somehow, in an immunized world — will become more common.

 

[marsh]

[COMMENT: Commie bitch.]

Dr. Leana Wen | You shouldn’t travel to see your family on Thanksgiving if you’re Unvaccinated…

Mao’s Cultural Warrior in USA ‘The U.S. should be more like Canada’ “You can stay Unvaccinated if you want, but you can’t travel to see you…

citizenfreepress.com

Dr. Leana Wen | You shouldn’t travel to see your family on Thanksgiving if you’re Unvaccinated…
Posted by Kane on October 7, 2021 1:23 pm

View: https://youtu.be/5V9fITkh5do
1:41 min

“You can stay Unvaccinated if you want, but you can’t travel to see your family”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1445858917666353154

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1445858917666353154
1:03 min

Wen wants other cities to follow Los Angeles in requiring Vaccine proof…

 

[marsh]

The Market Ticker Error: Post Not Available

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2021-10-07 07:00 by Karl Denninger
in Covid-19 , 9289 references

Stop This NOW

Parents: If you allow this you're monsters.

We used VAERS data to examine cardiac AEs, primarily myocarditis, reported following injection of the first or second dose of the COVID-19 injectable products. Myocarditis rates reported in VAERS were significantly higher in youths between the ages of 13 to 23 (p<0.0001) with ∼80% occurring in males. Within 8 weeks of the public offering of COVID-19 products to the 12-15-year-old age group, we found 19 times the expected number of myocarditis cases in the vaccination volunteers over background myocarditis rates for this age group. In addition, a 5-fold increase in myocarditis rate was observed subsequent to dose 2 as opposed to dose 1 in 15-year-old males.

VAERS is known to materially under-report adverse events. We do not know what the multiplication factor for these findings is as a consequence of that.

Note that in the context of all prior years this basically never happens statistically. The average over the three previous years associated with any vaccination is four.

Further, an extraordinary level of cardiac adverse events are associated with these jabs. This is not uncommon or "rare" as claimed; there are in fact, as of July 9th, nearly 130,000 such reports for Covid-19 jabs. If we accept the CDC's numbers for the number of Americans jabbed this puts the rate of cardiac adverse events are right around one in a hundred!

What's nasty is that while the myocarditis incidence is skewed heavily toward males under 30 the cardiac incidence is not; it is centered in the 20-70 range, or roughly "right up the middle" for the people in the nation as a whole.

Indeed, given the known under-reporting in VAERS a 1-in-100 incidence for a category of serious adverse events is extraordinarily significant. There is every reason to believe we may be causing cardiac injury to as many as one in 25 people who get these shots!

Whether those injuries spontaneously resolve without permanent compromise or worse, degenerate progression is completely unknown as nobody is following up these individual cases to measure blood levels (e.g. troponins, EKGs, etc.) in an attempt to determine whether these events are transient or result in permanent impairment or worse.

The only way to understand how common myocarditis is after COVID-19 vaccination, is to perform a prospective cohort study where all vaccinated individuals undergo clinical assessment, ECG, and troponin measurement at regular intervals post-administration.

Which is not being done, on purpose.

Incidentally the markers indicating potential trouble were present in the original studies. They were not followed up and the reason for not doing is obvious: It would have prevented issuance of the EUAs on the original desired schedule. As a result the firms involved and the FDA deliberately ignored that signal in the original studies and we have now jabbed somewhere around 200 million Americans -- and may have screwed as many as several million of them with irreversible, or even worse degenerate cardiac damage.

We do not know because we intentionally did not look.

COVID-19 injectable products are novel and have a genetic, pathogenic mechanism of action causing uncontrolled expression of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein within human cells. When you combine this fact with the temporal relationship of AE occurrence and reporting, biological plausibility of cause and effect, and the fact that these data are internally and externally consistent with emerging sources of clinical data, it supports a conclusion that the COVID-19 biological products are deterministic for the myocarditis cases observed after injection.

Again, as we knew and as I have documented before these jabs were first released for widespread use -- and again, deliberately ignored.

While this paper describes a specific risk with regard to myocarditis in young people the larger issue of cardiac events must not be ignored. While it is certainly true that it in healthy young people the risk from Covid-19 infection itself is minuscule and thus appears on the data to be outweighed by the risks of the jab even without accounting for incomplete reporting in my opinion the 900lb Gorilla in the china shop does not simply lie there.

Do recall that Vioxx killed 60,000 Americans before we yanked it off the market. There was indication of trouble in the original studies but it was not followed up upon just as it has not been here. It was five years after full approval before that lack of follow-up and study broke through and resulted in the drug being yanked off the market. Cardiac compromise is often "silent" from a symptomatic perspective but usually can be detected through directed lab work if you bother to look. We didn't look with Vioxx and we're not doing it now with these jabs either -- in both cases the data was in the original pre-approval studies.

Many people in their 40s and 50s have incipient, severe cardiac compromise.

Decades of eating fast carbohydrates and listening to the talking heads from the FDA and elsewhere on "what to eat" has many such people 50 or more pounds overweight, hypertensive, in many cases Type II diabetic and at serious risk of a heart attack over the next 10 or 20 years. I remind you that cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and kills about 650,000 people every year.

Even a 5% increase in that rate as a result of Covid-19 jabs will kill over 32,000 people annually. If the increase in risk is 10% then we're talking over 60,000 Americans. Given the now-evident requirement to boost every six months or so this means that 60,000 additional deaths is not a one-off; it will occur every single year for as long as we keep doing this stupid thing.

Yes, stupid. The history of every respiratory pandemic is that it turns into an endemic flu and cold-causer within a year or two even without any intervention of any sort. The 1918 pandemic did so, the 1890s pandemic believed to be caused by a beta coronavirus (of the same general family as Covid) did so and so have many, many others. There have been no exceptions recorded.

I am not against vaccination on general principle. Indeed with damn few exceptions they all have decades-long and well-documented safety records. I am very much against a jab that carries this sort of outsized and apparent risk except on a truly-voluntary, fully-informed consent basis which, on the evidence to date, would lead anyone not at specific and identified very high risk to NOT take it.

Allegedly HHS claims we've "avoided" 30,000 deaths by vaccination. What if we have in fact killed just as many -- or even twice as many -- through elevated cardiac disease risk, and will keep doing so every six months to a year into the future for as long as we jam needles full of this crap into arms?

Far-fetched? Hardly. The data supports this possibility now and while infection is not certain the risk, once you take a jab, is.

Stop the slaughter and the mandates that, on the data, are profoundly dangerous.

PS: Want to talk about how the government can materially cut Medicare (and Medicaid, for people in nursing homes with no money) expenses? Give the above some thought.... you have to make it to 65 to collect anything, you know...

PPS: How's that dive looking $MRNA bulls? That's a black hole you're staring into; at least Pfizer has other products.... you don't.

 

[marsh]

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent vaccine rollout, pharmaceutical giants including Pfizer and Moderna have substantially increased their lobbying efforts, a National Pulse investigation has revealed.

The lobbying apparatuses at both vaccine-reliant companies – in terms of the number of lobbyists hired and the overall budget deployed to influence government officials – have seen dramatic increases since 2019.

The news comes one day after hidden camera footage revealed a Pfizer scientist admitting: “Basically, our organization is run on COVID money now.”

Democrat Operatives Turn Vax Lobbyists.
Many of the new Big Pharma hires have come from consulting firms with deep and historical links to the current White House, and President Joe Biden himself.

In October alone Pfizer tapped Sudafi Henry, Joe Biden’s former legislative affairs director from his days as Vice President.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ARE: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN; BRUCE REED, CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE VICE PRESIDENT; SUDAFI HENRY, ASSISTANT TO THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS; AND ROB NABORS, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. (OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY DAVID LIENEMANN)

Another recent hire is Kwabena Nsiah, a former staffer for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and top aide to director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Nsiah also worked in Congress for over eight years, most recently as Policy Director for the Congressional Black Caucus and on the Joint Economic Committee as a Senior Policy Advisor.

RINOs Turn Vax Lobbyists, Too.
Among Pfizer’s robust lobbying team are alumni of Republican presidential administrations and Congressional offices.

Justin McCarthy, who served under George W. Bush as a Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and Ben Howard, who served as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs under Donald Trump, both lobby for the pharmaceutical giant.

David Schiappa, a longtime Republican staff member of the Senate holding the role of Secretary for Leader Mitch McConnell, is also lobbying for Pfizer.

Pfizer, which recently received approval for a third booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, has substantially increased its lobbying budget. In 2019, the company spent $11,000,000 on lobbying efforts before increasing the total to $13,150,000 – the highest total since 2010.

In 2019, the company retained 77 lobbyists before the total grew to a team of 102 lobbyists in 2020. So far in 2021, Pfizer has declared 92 lobbyists.

PFIZER LOBBYING.
While Moderna retained just one lobbyist throughout all of 2019 and added one lobbyist the following year, in 2021, the company has already hired an additional twelve lobbyists, representing a 600 percent increase in the company’s total lobbying force.

In 2019, Moderna spent $40,000 on lobbying and $280,000 in 2020, and just halfway into 2021, the company has already spent $290,000.

MODERNA LOBBYING.
The real scandal, however, is represented in the sheer number of political operatives who have recently gone on to work for Big Pharma, from both Democrat and Republican offices.

The National Pulse has assembled a list of those declared by Pfizer and Moderna alone, below. The list includes their previous jobs or affiliations. Of the 83 listed below, many come from high level backgrounds such as the White House, presidential candidates, the Speaker of the House’s office, and a number of congressional offices.
Biden Govt, Secret Service, FBI Purchase Drones From Firm Complying With Chinese Government Data Requests.
The swamp, revealed:

Pfizer.

1. Justin McCarthy, Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs under President George W. Bush
2. Brian Arthur Pomper, Chief International Trade Counsel to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus
3. Bill Morley, General Counsel to Senator Arlen Specter
4. Remy Brim, Senior Health Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren
5. Mark Mioduski, Democratic Clerk for the Committee on Appropriations in the U.S. House of Representatives
6. Brian Griffin, Senior Leadership Advisor and Floor Policy Director for Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Senator Byron Dorgan
7. Ben Howard, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs under President Donald Trump
8. Kate Keating, Chief of Staff to Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Congressman Joseph Crowley
9. David Schiappa, Secretary to Senate Republican Leaders
10. Lavita Legrys, Director at the Office of Legislative Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama
11. Mike Mckay, Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Gregory Meeks
12. Cristina Antelo, Legal Fellow with the Senate Democratic Steering Committee
13. Tom Davis, former Congressman
14. Michael Werner, Policy Advisor to Senate Democrats Policy Committee
15. Daniel Elling, Staff Director for the House Committee on Ways and Means
16. Cookab Hashemi, Chief of Staff to Representative Raul Ruiz and Representative Jackie Speier
17. Robert Holifield, Staff Director of the Senate Agriculture Committee
18. Hannah Smith, Legislative Correspondent to Senator Blanche Lincoln
19. Blanche Lincoln, Former Senator and Congresswoman
20. Colin Roskey, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump
21. Thomas Scully, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Bush.
22. Brian Diffell, Legislative Director to Senator Roy Blunt
23. Kelli Briggs, Chief of Staff to Representative Pat Tiberi
24. Anne Wilson, Legislative Director to Representative Anna G. Eshoo
25. Peter Wallace, Legislative Correspondent to Representative Ric Keller
26. Katharine Hayes, Legislative Correspondent to Representative Mark Schauer
27. Akshai Datta, Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative Ami Bera
28. Darrel Thompson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intergovernmental and External Affairs to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
29. Shanti Ochs Stanton, Floor Assistant to the Democratic Leaders Office
30. Natalie Farr, Chief of Staff to Senator Cory Gardner
31. Steven Elmendorf, Chief of Staff to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt
32. Steven Irizarry, Senior Counsel for Senate Special Committee on Aging
33. Stephen Northrup, Health Policy Advisor to Senator Michael Enzi
34. Jennifer Swenson, Deputy Legislative Director to Senator Pat Roberts
35. Catherine Robinson, Law Clerk on the Committee on Ways and Means
36. Emily Mueller, Deputy Legislative Director to Senator Pat Roberts
37. Stephen Claeys, Trade Counsel on the Committee on Ways and Means
38. Paula Burg, Director and Senior Advisor for Health and Entitlements on the Senate Budget Committee
39. Elissa Alben, Senior Counsel for International Trade and Competitiveness on the Senate Committee on Finance
40. Karissa Willhite, Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Robert Menendez
41. Gordon Taylor, Chief of Staff to Representative Chris John
42. Tucker Shumack, Tax and Finance Counsel to Senator Olympia Snowe
43. Todd Novascone, Chief of Staff to Senator Jerry Moran
44. Jerome Murray, Chief of Staff to Representative Stacey Plaskett
45. Moses Mercado, Deputy Chief of Staff to Representative Richard Gephardt
46. Tim McGivern, Chief of Staff to Senator Jim Brownback
47. Chris Giblin, Chief of Staff to Representative John Carter
48. Tony Bullock, Chief of Staff to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
49. Dee Buchanan, Chief of Staff to House Republican Conference
50. Dean Aguillen, Advisor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi
51. Eden Shiferaw, Representative Marcia Fudge
52. Jane Loewenson, Senior Health Policy Advisor to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle
53. Andrea LaRue, Counsel to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle
54. Brady King, Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Kendra S. Horn
55. Joshua Fay Hurvitz, Legislative Director to Representative Anthony D. Weiner
56. Lisa German Foster, Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Jack Reed
57. Irene Bueno, Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton in the Domestic Policy Council and Chief of Staff’s Office
58. Ashley Gunn, Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs to President Trump
59. Monica Popp, Chief of Staff to Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn
60. Hazen Marshall, Policy Director to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
61. Christopher Wilcox, Staff Assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
62. Marti Thomas, Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs under President Clinton
63. Karina Lynch, Legislative Director to Representative Scott McInnis
64. Cheryl Jager, Senior Health Policy Advisor for House Republican Leadership
65. Matthew Hoekstra, Legislative Director for Senator Ben Lujan
66. Susan Hirschmann, Chief of Staff to Representative Van Hilleary
67. Christopher Hatcher, Legislative Director to Representative Scott McInnis
68. Ann Marie Buerkle, Congresswoman
69. Shimon Stein, Senior Advisor to House Majority Leader/Republican Whip
70. Kristi Remington, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice under President Obama
71. Malloy McDaniel, Policy Advisor to Senator Mitch McConnell
72. Craig Kalkut, Chief Counsel of Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
73. Ashley Davis, Special Assistant to Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge under President Bush
74. Greg Nickerson, Tax Counsel to Representative Bill Thomas

Moderna.

1. Darren Willcox, Assistant to Speaker Dennis Hastert for Health Policy
2. Erin Strawn, Legislative Associate to Representative Joe Cunningham
3. Valerie Henry, Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Greg Walden
4. James Derderian, Chief of Staff to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
5. Carmencita Whonder, Advisor on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee to Senator Chuck Schumer
6. Marc Lampkin, General Counsel for the House Republican Conference
7. Araceli Gutierrez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Graduate Fellow
8. Emily Felder, Counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee
9. Nadeam Elshami, Chief of Staff to Representative Nancy Pelosi

 

[marsh]

[France]

Anti-Vax Mandate Protests Continue Across France as Election Season Heats Up. - The National Pulse+

On Saturday, anti-vaccine mandate proponents took to the streets of France for the 12th weekend in a row. Around 50,000 protesters manifested their opposition to the “vax pass” instituted by the French government before the summer. In Paris alone, around 10,000 joined the march. The French...

thenationalpulse.com

On Saturday, anti-vaccine mandate proponents took to the streets of France for the 12th weekend in a row. Around 50,000 protesters manifested their opposition to the “vax pass” instituted by the French government before the summer. In Paris alone, around 10,000 joined the march.

The French vaccine mandate requires citizens to show a QR code demonstrating proof of COVID-19 vaccination or of a negative PCR test conducted within 72 hours in order to access restaurants and entertainment venues, take public transportation, and board planes and trains. Public hospitals have also began putting unvaccinated staff on leave.

The month of October also marked a turning point in the government’s rollout of the mandate. The PCR tests – which offered an alternative means for citizens who wish to remain unvaccinated to receive a QR code – will no longer be free starting October 15th.

While teenagers were initially spared from the vaccine pass requirement, on October 1st, the French government began requiring children aged 12+ to display proof of vaccination to take part in public activities.

Finally, this past week, the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, suggested that the vaccine pass which was only authorized by the National Assembly until November 15th, will most likely be extended until at least the summer of 2022.

While the number of protestors who showed up this past weekend was lower than the last, the remaining opponents of the mandate are fervent and determined.

In Paris, groups were joined by contingents of “Gilets Jaunes” protestors, who have been protesting the policy decisions of Macron’s government since 2018. While these demonstrators seek a political solution to their protests, there are few French political figures who have come out in support of the anti-vaccine mandate base. This is due in part to the fact that the government has successfully amalgamated vaccine mandate defiance with fringe anti-vax ideology.

Amongst the leading opposition candidates for the 2022 Presidential election, only Marine Le Pen has voiced her clear opposition to the “vax pass”, while being sure to point out that she, herself, is vaccinated. Eric Zemmour, the French conservative essayist and journalist who is considering a run for President and surging in the polls, has said he is generally opposed to the vaccine mandate but mostly because he believes it’s an insidious way of requiring mandatory vaccinations for all.

Zemmour feels it would be more honest and transparent for the government to impose a general COVID-19 vaccination requirement although he hasn’t said if he would support such a measure.

Polls conducted at the end of the summer suggested that only 37 percent of the French people supported anti-vaccine mandate protestors, significantly lower than the amount of support the “Gilets Jaunes” movements of 2018 and 2019 received.

 

[marsh]

Zerohedge

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

www.zerohedge.com

WHO-Linked Genetics Expert Explains How Covid-19 Could Have Been Engineered In Lab

THURSDAY, OCT 07, 2021 - 11:55 AM
Two weeks ago we reported on several disturbing grant proposals submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018 by US nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance to release genetically enhanced airborne bat coronaviruses into the wild in collaboration with Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).



One of the proposals, leaked to pandemic origins analysis group DRASTIC, reveals that EcoHealth, headed by WIV collaborator Peter Daszak, planned to combine genetic data of closely related Covid strains to grow completely new viruses.

"We will compile sequence/RNAseq data from a panel of closely related strains and compare full length genomes, scanning for unique SNPs representing sequencing errors," reads the application. "Consensus candidate genomes will be synthesised commercially using established techniques and genome-length RNA and electroporation to recover recombinant viruses."


Now, a genetics expert who works with the World Health Organization (WHO) has explained in detail to The Telegraph exactly how Covid-19 could have been created via genetic engineering in a lab.

The proposal was submitted by the British zoologist Peter Daszak on behalf of a consortium which included Daszak EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the University of North Carolina and Duke NUS in Singapore.

The plans are in addition to other proposals made in the Darpa documents, including inserting a section into existing viruses to make them more infectious to humans and inoculating wild bats with aerosolised engineered spike proteins from viruses.

Experts said if the ultimate aim of the proposal was to create a pan-coronavirus vaccine, constructing an "ideal" average virus would have been a good starting point. -The Telegraph

"This means that they would take various sequences from similar coronaviruses and create a new sequence that is essentially the average of them. It would be a new virus sequence, not a 100 per cent match to anything," said the geneticist, who remains to wish anonymous for fear of reprisals.

"They would then synthesize the viral genome from the computer sequence, thus creating a virus genome that did not exist in nature but looks natural as it is the average of natural viruses," the source continued, adding "Then they put that RNA in a cell and recover the virus from it. This creates a virus that has never existed in nature, with a new 'backbone' that didn't exist in nature but is very, very similar as it's the average of natural backbones."

As the Telegraph notes, "Mr Daszak, currently a member of the WHO team investigating the pandemic's origins, was also behind a letter published in The Lancet which dismissed suggestions that Covid did not have a natural origin as a conspiracy theory."

He also explained in 2019 how easy it is to manipulate viruses:

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Last year, WIV scientists - trying to make the case for a natural origin spillover event - claimed to have found a strain named RaTG13 in bat droppings during a 2013 expedition to a cave in Yunnan province. The strain was 96.1% identical to SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19. According to the report, "RaTG13 could have been included in a set of viral genomes to help create an average sequence."

Suspicious activities
While the grant proposal was rejected by DARPA in 2018, the WIV's database of viral strains was taken offline some 18 months later - making it impossible to see what scientists had been working on or created.

"If Sars-CoV-2 comes from an artificial consensus sequence composed of genomes with more than 95 per cent similarity to each other… I would predict that we will never find a really good match in nature and just a bunch of close matches across parts of the sequence, which so far is what we are seeing," said the WHO source, adding "The problem is that those opposed to a lab leak scenario will always just say that we need to sample more, and absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Scientists overall are afraid of discussing the issue of the origins due to the political situation. This leaves a small and vocal minority of biased scientists free to spread misinformation."

According to the WHO source, he and other scientists had been warned not to go on record with concerns over a lab leak.

 

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Pfizer's Chief Scientific Officer Philip Dormitzer Questioned by Project Veritas Over Leaked Emails

Oct 7, 2021


Project Veritas

 

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[Illinois] Biden Delivers on the Importance of C19 Jab Requirements | Washington DC | USA |

Streamed live 3 hours ago


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Biden Defends "Mass Firings" and "Hundreds of People Losing Their Jobs" Over His Unconstitutional Vax Mandates (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to the greater Chicago area to promote his unconstitutional vaccine mandates.

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Biden Defends “Mass Firings” and “Hundreds of People Losing Their Jobs” Over His Unconstitutional Vax Mandates (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published October 7, 2021 at 4:30pm

Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to the greater Chicago area to promote his unconstitutional vaccine mandates.

Biden delivered remarks from a Clayco Construction site in Elk Grove Village after taking a tour of the facility.

Biden could barely read his teleprompter and struggled to recall the word “telephone.”

At one point Dementia Joe totally forgot where he was: “The Ohio Pennsylvania, the Ohio Pennsylvania, I’m from Pennsylvania,” Biden said gesturing to himself. “The Illinois president.”

Biden also defended “mass firings” and thousands of people losing their jobs because of his vax mandates.

Joe Biden is an expert at killing jobs (and US servicemembers).
He killed tens of thousands of jobs his first day in office and continues to do so to this day.

“When you see headlines and reports of mass firings and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story,” Biden said bragging about his jobs-killing mandate.

VIDEO:

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"Jessica Died as a Direct Result of an Experimental Vaccine" - Grieving Uncle Speaks Out at Jessica Wilson's Funeral, After She Was Killed by a Vaccine She Never Wanted (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier — Jessica Berg Wilson, a young mother and “exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old with no underlying health conditions,” passed away from COVID Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia.

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“Jessica Died as a Direct Result of an Experimental Vaccine” – Grieving Uncle Speaks Out at Jessica Wilson’s Funeral, After She Was Killed by a Vaccine She Never Wanted (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published October 7, 2021 at 3:40pm

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier — Jessica Berg Wilson, a young mother and “exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old with no underlying health conditions,” passed away from COVID Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia.

This occurred after she took the COVID vaccine that she did not want.

Jessica’s family described her battle with power-mad authorities: “She had been vehemently opposed to taking the vaccine, knowing she was in good health and of a young age and thus not at risk for serious illness. In her mind, the known and unknown risks of the unproven vaccine were more of a threat. But, slowly, day by day, her freedom to choose was stripped away. Her passion to be actively involved in her children’s education—which included being a Room Mom—was, once again, blocked by government mandate. Ultimately, those who closed doors and separated mothers from their children prevailed. It cost Jessica her life.”

Big Tech flagged Jessica’s published obituary as “misleading” information. The regime will not allow anyone to speak out against official doctrine, even if it’s an obituary.

On Thursday Infowars posted footage from Jessica Wilson’s funeral. Jessica’s uncle blamed her death on the experimental COVID vaccine.

“Consider these facts: Jessica died as a direct result of an experimental vaccine, a vaccine that she vehemently opposed taking,” her uncle said speaking from a podium.

“Jessica felt coerced. She felt robbed of her ability to choose, her ability to say, ‘No,’ to say, ‘No’ to a medical procedure she did not want was taken from her.”

On Tuesday, the Washington State Department of Health acknowledged Wilson’s death in a news release admitting she died “from a blood clot after receiving the J & J vaccine.”

Read the rest here.

Jessica will be remembered.

At some point, these criminals need to be held responsible.

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Zerohedge

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

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Biden Doesn't Know That Vaccinated Individuals Can Still Spread Covid

THURSDAY, OCT 07, 2021 - 06:50 PM

The sitting president of the United States, advised by the nation's top infectious diseases specialists, doesn't know what is now common knowledge; that vaccinated individuals can still spread Covid-19.


(Susan Walsh/AP)

For those keeping track, this is the second major issue Biden had no knowledge of - the first being an international spat with France over a tri-lateral submarine agreement.

Speaking in Elk Grove Village, Illinois on Thursday, Biden urged more employers to institute strict vaccine requirements - calling them "tough medicine" that will help bring the United States out of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In addition to failing to recognize naturally-acquired immunity for individuals who have recovered from Covid, Biden made clear that he has no idea vaccinated people can still spread the virus.

"If you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have a certainty that the people providing that care are protected from Covid and cannot spread it to you," Biden said, explaining the rationale behind forcing healthcare workers and other professionals to get vaccinated or lose their job.

Watch (relevant portion starts at 50 seconds):

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Biden's latest false statement comes one week after his own CDC director Rochelle Walensky said that vaccines "can't prevent transmission."

"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death - they prevent it, but what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission," she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

"So if you’re going home to someone who is not vaccinated…I would suggest you wear a mask in public indoor settings," she continued.

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Again, this is common knowledge by now:

• Emerging data suggest that Delta could spread more readily than other coronavirus variants among people vaccinated against COVID-19. (Nature, Aug. 12)
• Vaccinated People With Breakthrough Infections Can Spread The Delta Variant, CDC Says (NPR, Jul. 30)
• UC study finds similarities in COVID viral loads between vaccinated, unvaccinated people (KTXL, Oct. 6)
• CDC study says COVID-19 can spread in vaccinated (AP, Sep. 21)

Alas, the president of the United States - or whoever wrote that speech - doesn't follow the science.

Cover photo: Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

 

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LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Will Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he will not enforce the city's vaccine mandate after the City Council approved an ordinance.

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LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Will Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate

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As law enforcement officers and healthcare workers are being forced to choose between getting a vaccine or losing their job, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he will not enforce the city’s vaccine mandate.

In a video released on Thursday, Villanueva said that the issue of vaccines has become “too politicized” and did not wish to lose 10 percent of his workforce due to the mandate.

I’m not forcing anyone. The issue has become so politicized. There are entire groups of employees that are willing to be fired and laid off rather than get vaccinated, so I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5 percent, 10 percent of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate while the same time we are barebones with the defunding effort, so this is like the worst of two worlds.

Villanueva did not say if he would require officers to submit a weekly negative coronavirus test if they decide to opt out of the vaccine.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance requiring vaccine passports for indoor restaurants, bars, gyms, and salons. Pharmacies and grocery stores were exempt from the mandate.

“The ordinance will go into effect beginning on Nov. 4 and is believed to be one of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine-related mandates in the U.S. Bars, gyms, entertainment venues and shopping centers will all be subject to this new requirement,” reported The Hill.

Come November 29, businesses that violate the order will be fined $1,000 for a second offense, $2,000 for a third offense, and $5,000 for a fourth. The city still has not determined what department or agency will enforce the order.

“The city department that will enforce this ordinance has not yet been determined, but the Department of Building and Safety was noted as being the most relevant,” noted The Hill. “However, the department does not have the necessary staffing to enforce the rule.”

A man approaches a van from a Covid-19 vaccine mobile clinic hosted by McDonald’s and the California Department of the Public Health on September 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. – California leads the nation with the lowest rate of Covid-19 transmission as unvaccinated people continue to be more likely infected and hospitalized than those vaccinated. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Villanueva’s opposition to the vaccine mandate comes after he refused to enforce the city’s mask mandate, arguing that it was “not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.”

“The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) has authority to enforce the order, but the underfunded/defunded Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will not expend our limited resources and instead ask for voluntary compliance,” he said. “We encourage the DPH to work collaboratively with the Board of Supervisors and law enforcement to establish mandates that are both achievable and supported by science.”

 

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Joe Biden Frustrated by Opposition to Vaccine Mandates: 'I Don't Quite Get This'

President Joe Biden promoted vaccine mandates for businesses, criticizing Americans who felt they were a violation of their freedoms.

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Joe Biden Frustrated by Opposition to Vaccine Mandates: ‘I Don’t Quite Get This’

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President Joe Biden promoted vaccine mandates for businesses on Thursday, criticizing Americans who felt they were a violation of their freedoms.

“I’ve tried everything in my power to get people vaccinated,” Biden said, flashing frustration that people were resisting his vaccination efforts since taking office in January.

Biden spoke about vaccine mandates at an event in Illinois where state and local officials are more strict than other midwestern states about requiring vaccines.

“Look, I know vaccination requirements are tough medicine, unpopular for some, politics for others, but they’re lifesaving, they’re game-changing for our country,” he said.

The president announced his decision to enact more vaccine mandates in September, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has not released the final text of the rule.

Protestors opposed to coronavirus vaccine mandates and vaccine passports by the government rally at City Hall in New York City on August 25, 2021. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden admitted that vaccine mandates were not his “first instinct” but that he felt it was the only way to get the vast majority of Americans vaccinated.

“Yes. Some object. And some object very strenuously, and some are making a political statement out of this issue,” he said.

He claimed vaccine mandates for employment are “nothing new,” citing vaccine requirements for polio, measles, mumps, and rubella in certain fields.

“I don’t quite get this, you know, why it’s a matter of, ‘No violation of your right to go to school, or get a job,’ etc., but now it’s a great cause célèbre?” Biden asked, mispronouncing the French word on his teleprompter.

Biden argued that vaccine mandates were actually broadly popular with Americans and effective, as people reluctant to get the coronavirus vaccine chose to get vaccinated rather than lose their jobs.

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. President Joe Biden receives a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the South Court Auditorium in the White House September 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. Last week President Biden announced that Americans 65 and older and frontline workers who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine over six months ago would be eligible for booster shots. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“It’s about life and death, that’s what it’s about … it’s about being patriotic, doing the right thing,” he said.

Lowering his voice to a whisper, Biden reminded the audience that even Fox News had vaccine mandates.

“This I always get a kick out of, Fox News. Fox News requires vaccinations for all their employees. Give me a break. Fox News,” he said.

Biden also claimed that unvaccinated Americans were flooding hospitals with coronavirus cases and threatening the economy by making people afraid to leave their homes.

“They’re worried they’re going to get sick,” he said.

 

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'Playing hardball': Biden plans massive new fines for businesses violating vax mandate: watchdog

Under $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, businesses not complying with Biden OSHA vaccine mandate would be subject to fines ranging from $70,000 to $700,000, according to OpenTheBooks.com.

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'Playing hardball': Biden plans massive new fines for businesses violating vax mandate: watchdog

Under $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, businesses not complying with Biden OSHA vaccine mandate would be subject to fines ranging from $70,000 to $700,000, according to OpenTheBooks.com.

Updated: October 7, 2021 - 11:13pm

Tucked inside the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill that passed out of the House Budget Committee are exorbitant new fines — ranging from $70,000 to $700,000 — that would apply to companies defying President Joe Biden's COVID vaccine mandate, alleges Adam Andrzejewski, CEO/founder of OpenTheBooks.com.

If the provisions of the bill are implemented, the fines could bankrupt all non-compliant companies, warns the government spending watchdog.

"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," Andrzejewski writes in Forbes.

Last month, Biden announced by executive fiat that all private-sector businesses with 100 or more employees must comply with his most recent vaccine mandate, or pay a potential fine of $14,000 per violation. The order would impact more than 80 million Americans.

Open The Books argues violators would be subject to the drastically steeper new fines in the budget reconciliation bill.

According to the bill markup, Section 21004 of the OSHA Act of 1970 would be amended to increase fines in the Adjustment of Civil Monetary Penalties section.

The changes made by the Democrat-controlled committee would increase the maximum penalty to $700,000 for willful and repeat violations; increase the minimum penalty to $50,000 for willful violations; and increase the maximum penalty for both serious and failure-to-abate violations to $70,000.

A senior House Democratic aide denied the stiffened penalties are targeted specifically at vaccine mandate non-compliance. Noting the fines fall under the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Education and Labor, the aide argued the provisions are related to labor law enforcement more broadly.
The fines were "marked up in committee and are not explicitly related to vaccines — just generally increase the level of fines that OSHA is able to levy when an employer is in violation," the Democratic aide told Just The News.

The bill markup also amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase penalties and fines. It increases maximum civil penalties to:

• $132,270 for child labor violations;
• $601,150 for child labor violations that cause the death or serious injury of an employee under the age of 18;
• $20,740 for willful or repeated minimum wage or overtime violations;
• $11,620 for tip violations.

It also amends the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act of 1983 to increase the maximum civil penalty for violations of the law to $25,790.

Andrzejewski remains skeptical. "The push to increase the fines up to $700,000 per willful and repeated violation," he countered, "was the anticipated emergency rule that OSHA will publish in the Federal Register allowing them jurisdiction to enforce Biden's vax mandate on private companies. Period."

The House aide "doesn't deny that the fines would be levied as the enforcement mechanism of the president's vax mandate," he added. "That's because Biden and the Democrats are playing hardball. Comply or face bankruptcy."

Just The News contacted OSHA to provide clarification on whether enforcement of new fine ceilings will be applied to vax violators, but did not receive a response.

The changes come after Biden issued an ominous warning to the millions of Americans who refuse to get the COVID jabs. "We've been patient," said the president. "But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us."

In June, prior to Biden's executive order last month, OSHA published an emergency rule in the Federal Register stating it would have jurisdiction over COVID safety enforcement. Invoking the obscure Emergency Temporary Standard provision, the agency claimed the authority to enforce the mandate and impose fines, OpenTheBooks explains. The ETS has been used only 10 times in the agency's 50-year history, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

Worse, argues the religious liberty legal aid nonprofit Liberty Counsel, the federal government would be imposing draconian fines on companies for not complying with an illegal mandate.

Technically, Liberty Counsel contends, the COVID shots are available only under Emergency Use Authorization, which under federal law requires that they only be administered on a voluntarily basis.

"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has done a bait and switch by announcing it approved its 'first COVID-19 vaccine' in order to push the 'vaccine' mandates and protect the Pfizer pharmaceutical company from legal liability," Liberty Counsel said in August. "However, there is currently no fully licensed COVID shot on the United States market."

Even if a fully licensed vaccine was available, it still couldn't be mandatory, argues Liberty Counsel, because Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows for religious exceptions.

"Employees and employers have constitutional protections against this lawless Biden mandate," the organization's founder and chairman Mat Staver says, adding that Liberty Counsel will "challenge his lawless executive order."

In response to threats of lawsuits or Republican governors who have challenged the mandate, Biden said: "Have at it. We're playing for real here. This isn't a game."

But 27 governors or attorneys general have vowed to fight it, including Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has sparred with Biden over mask mandates and vaccine passports.

"When you have a president like Biden issuing unconstitutional edicts against the American people, we have a responsibility to stand up for the Constitution and to fight back, and we are doing that in the state of Florida," DeSantis said. "This is a president who has acknowledged in the past he does not have the authority to force this on anybody, and this order would result potentially in millions of Americans losing their jobs."

 

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Definitive Study Concludes Vaccines DO NOT Prevent Covid-19 and May Even ENHANCE Spread

Editor's Commentary: Scientists always have to be careful with their wording. Any questionable commentaries in their research papers open the

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Definitive Study Concludes Vaccines DO NOT Prevent Covid-19 and May Even ENHANCE Spread
Follow the science, y'all.

by Megan Redshaw
October 7, 2021




Editor’s Commentary: Scientists always have to be careful with their wording. Any questionable commentaries in their research papers open the doors for peers to crash their conclusions during review. This is especially true with any scientific research that calls into question the efficacy or safety of the Covid-19 “vaccines.” Anyone who goes against the narrative is ostracized and this is doubly true for scientists.

I mention this ahead of the article below by Megan Redshaw because the scientific study referenced went to great pains to avoid the obvious conclusion from their findings: The Covid-19 “vaccines” have absolutely zero effect on preventing the spread of the disease they supposedly protect people against. It isn’t a stretch to come to the likely conclusion that the Covid-19 “vaccines” actually enhance the spread of the disease based on the fact that the most vaccinated nations have the highest percentage of new Covid cases.

In countries with low vaccination rates, Covid-19 is barely spreading at all.
This isn’t some “fringe” science being applied here. We’re talking about verified data supplied by the 68 nations in question. They revealed how many new cases they’re seeing and how well-vaccinated their population is. It doesn’t take a PhD to look at these numbers and draw the very obvious conclusions. Of course, the scientists behind the study needed to temper its stated conclusions based on the aforementioned stigma against any research that goes against the agenda. Their conclusion is that heavily vaccinated nations need to do more to mitigate the damage being done by the vaccines. Go figure.

We are constantly told to “follow the science.” Doing so invariably leads us to the same basic conclusions, yet these conclusions are being suppressed by governments, mainstream media, Big Tech, academia, medical professionals, and anyone else who is beholden to the Big Pharma money-printing agenda. This is why it is absolutely imperative for the “awake” to diligently challenge the “woke” by spreading this information as widely as possible.

With that said, here’s Megan’s report…
Fully Vaccinated Countries Had Highest Number of New COVID Cases, Study Shows

The authors of a study published Sept. 30, in the European Journal of Epidemiology Vaccines said the sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences “needs to be re-examined.”

A study published Sept. 30, in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Epidemiology Vaccines found “no discernible relationship” between the percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID cases.

In fact, the study found the most fully vaccinated nations had the highest number of new COVID cases, based on the researchers’ analysis of emerging data during a seven-day period in September.

The authors said the sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences “needs to be re-examined,” especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants.

They wrote, “Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real-world effectiveness of the vaccines.”

As part of the study, researchers investigated the relationship between the percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID cases across 68 countries and 2,947 U.S. counties that had second dose vaccine, and available COVID case data.

For seven days preceding Sept. 3, researchers computed COVID cases per one million people for each country, as well as the percentage of population that was fully vaccinated.

Relationship between cases per 1 million people (last 7 days) and percentage of population fully vaccinated across 68 countries as of September 3, 2021
Notably, Israel with more than 60% of its population fully vaccinated, had the highest COVID cases per 1 million people during the seven-day period.

Iceland and Portugal, with more than 75% of their populations fully vaccinated, had more COVID cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa, where only about 10% of the population is fully vaccinated.

Across U.S. counties, the median new COVID cases per 100,000 people during the seven-day period was similar across the categories of percentage of population fully vaccinated.

Percentage of counties that experienced an increase of cases between two consecutive 7-day time periods by percentage of population fully vaccinated across 2947 counties as of September 2, 2021

The researchers found a substantial county variation in new COVID cases within categories of percentage of population fully vaccinated. There also appeared to be no significant signaling of COVID cases decreasing in counties where a higher percentages of the population was fully vaccinated.

Of the top five counties with the highest percentage of population fully vaccinated (99.9% – 84.3%), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified four as “high” transmission counties.

Three of the four counties classified as “high” transmission had fully vaccinated rates of 90% or higher. Conversely, of the 57 counties classified as “low” transmission by the CDC, 15 had fully vaccinated rates of 20% or lower.

The findings also showed no discernible association between COVID cases and fully vaccinated rates when a one-month lag was considered, to account for the 14-day period it takes for a vaccine to be considered effective.

The authors suggested a correction to the policy narrative is warranted, as increasing vaccination rates is not enough. “Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real-world effectiveness of the vaccines,” they wrote.

The authors cited data from the Ministry of Health in Israel showing the effectiveness of two doses of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine against preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported to be 39% — substantially lower than the reported trial efficacy of 96%.

Emerging research also shows immunity derived from Pfizer’s COVID vaccine may not be as strong as natural immunity acquired through infection.

A substantial decline in immunity from mRNA vaccines six months post immunization has also been reported along with an increasing number of breakthrough cases among the fully vaccinated, the researchers said.

The authors said stigmatizing populations over vaccines can do more harm than good, and non-pharmacological prevention efforts needs to be renewed in order to learn to live with COVID “in the same manner we continue to live 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus.”

Breakthrough cases significantly underreported as FDA reviews booster data

The number of vaccinated people testing positive for COVID is on the rise, and doctors in Ohio are reporting more breakthrough cases across hospital systems.

However, only certain types of COVID breakthrough cases are reported at both the state and federal level, leaving patients with mild cases underreported.

“We estimate anywhere from two to 10 times as many positives that are being reported is the real situation,” said Dr. David Margolius, division director of internal medicine at MetroHealth in Cleveland.

“It’s still rare, but I get a dozen COVID positive cases a day in my basket, and usually three or four of them have been vaccinated,” said Margolius.

The Ohio Department of Health and the CDC only report breakthrough cases in patients requiring hospital admission, or cases that resulted in death.

The CDC said it made the change in May in order to “maximize the quality of data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public importance.”

As of Sept. 27, the CDC had received reports from 50 U.S. states and territories of 22,115 patients with COVID vaccine breakthrough infection who were hospitalized or died.

The CDC said the number of COVID vaccine breakthrough infections reported to the agency are an undercount of all SARS-CoV-2 infections among fully vaccinated persons, especially of asymptomatic or mild infections.

In addition, national surveillance relies on passive and voluntary reporting, and data are not complete or representative, according to the CDC.

Massachusetts health officials on Tuesday reported nearly 4,000 new breakthrough cases over the past week, and 46 more deaths, according to NBC Boston.

In the last week, 3,741 new breakthrough cases were reported, with 125 more vaccinated people hospitalized.

This brings the total number of breakthrough cases in Massachusetts to 40,464 — out of 4.63 million vaccinated people — and the death toll among people with breakthrough infections to 300.

According to the Vermont Daily Chronicle, which cited statistics from Vermont’s Department of Health, 76% of the state’s COVID fatalities in September were breakthrough cases, with just eight of the 33 Vermonters who died being unvaccinated.

As of Tuesday, 88% of all eligible Vermonters age 12 and over had been vaccinated with at least one shot.

Health Department spokesperson Ben Truman said most of the vaccine “breakthrough” fatalities were elderly. Because they were among the first vaccinated, Vermont’s elderly “have had more time to potentially become a vaccine breakthrough case,” he said.

According to The Washington Post, Dr. Peter Marks, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said Tuesday updated data might make a strong case in support of everyone 18 and older being eligible for COVID vaccine boosters, but the agency will have to see whether its outside advisers agree.

The remarks from Marks came during a webinar as the FDA prepares to meet Oct. 14 and 15 with its outside advisers to discuss authorizing Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID booster shots.

 

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COVIDLAND: The Lockdown – Watch the Full Documentary - The Liberty Daily

If you love the news, check out The Liberty Daily's homepage. Episode 1: The Lockdown On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic under the pretense of a novel coronavirus that they falsely claimed had a death rate of 3.4%. More than 190 member countries of the WHO...

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COVIDLAND: The Lockdown – Watch the Full Documentary

By J.D. Rucker • Oct. 7, 2021

Episode 1: The Lockdown

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic under the pretense of a novel coronavirus that they falsely claimed had a death rate of 3.4%. More than 190 member countries of the WHO imposed lockdowns, putting most of the global population under strict martial law. Unscientific lockdowns proved to be a lucrative business model for the global elite, expanding their wealth by $5 trillion dollars and adding one new billionaire every 17 hours throughout the year. Meanwhile, the World Bank says that as many as 124 million people went into “extreme poverty,” the first time to increase in decades. Were lockdowns justified? The official data for 2020 does not show a statistically relevant increase in aggregate deaths. Instead the global population increased by 1.05%! This first episode of the Covidland series, The Lockdown, exposes the fraud behind the COVID numbers and explores the economic repercussions and human cost of lockdowns that will echo for generations.

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White House pushes for vaccine mandates across the country

Joe Biden has continued to defend his vaccine mandate despite constitutional challenges and litigation by a number of states. During his visit to Illinois on Thursday, Biden said getting more people vaccinated was more important than keeping the unvaccinated employed.

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White House Pushes For Vaccine Mandates Across The Country

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Joe Biden has continued to defend his vaccine mandate despite constitutional challenges and litigation by a number of states. During his visit to Illinois on Thursday, Biden said getting more people vaccinated was more important than keeping the unvaccinated employed.

This comes after the U.S. Census reported poverty rates rose to 11.4 percent last year, being the highest on record, amid COVID lockdowns and an economic downturn. Biden also made a debatable claim that the threat of termination pushes more workers to get vaccinated.

In a tweet on Thursday, the White House said the mandates have proven successful and are quickly becoming a nationwide standard. The tweet also suggested vaccine requirements make communities and schools safer, as well as strengthen economic recovery.

Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has faced major backlash for imposing the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine mandate for school children. In addition, a recent vaccine mandate for teachers and students in New York City has prompted massive demonstrations.

 

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CORONAVIRUS
Brits May Be Forced to Take COVID Tests on Camera to Prove to “Health Advisers” They’re Not Lying

What’s next, electronic ankle bracelets?

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Brits returning from holiday may be forced to take COVID tests on a live video call with “health advisers” to prove they’re not lying about the result.

Yes, really.

Double vaccinated travellers who return to Britain will be able to forego a PCR test in favor of a cheaper lateral flow swab.

However, the government is “concerned that those taking the tests could lie about the results.”

To prevent that from happening, the Health Secretary “is proposing travellers do their lateral flow test on video calls supervised by a health adviser from a private firm,” reports the Mail.

The change is set to be implemented on October 25th.

As we highlighted earlier, Australia has implemented an even more draconian scheme that mandates its citizens to provide geo-trackable selfies to police to prove they are staying at home.

Under a home quarantine pilot program in Victoria, Aussies will receive random phone calls from the government which they will have to reply to “within five minutes with a selfie sent to an app which will then geo-track where that person is and to make sure they are who they say they are as well.”

If they refuse to do so, health authorities will “come knocking,” according to a 9 News report.

What’s next? People under self-isolation being mandated to wear electronic tracking bracelets?

That was already under consideration, so it’s probably not too far away.

 

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Get ready folks the Vikings are leading the way!

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Idaho governor repeals political rival's coronavirus executive order

The Idaho governor on Wednesday issued an executive order repealing his political rival’s executive order from the previous day involving COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandatory testing.

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Idaho governor repeals political rival's coronavirus executive order

Gov. Brad Little's move appears to lay groundwork for court challenge

The Idaho governor on Wednesday issued an executive order repealing his political rival’s executive order from the previous day involving COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandatory testing.

Republican Gov. Brad Little issued the order while still in Texas, a move that challenges the state’s longstanding practice of making the lieutenant governor acting governor when the governor is out of state.

Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, a far-right Republican who is running to take Little’s job, issued her order Tuesday and also sought to activate the Idaho National Guard and send soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little at a March 2020 news conference. ((Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images))

Little is in Texas meeting with nine other Republican governors over concerns on how President Joe Biden is handling border issues. In Idaho, the governor and lieutenant governor don’t run on the same ticket. Little was expected back late Wednesday.

Little’s executive order appears to lay the groundwork for a court challenge to determine who is in charge when governor leaves the state.

Little’s order states that he did not authorize McGeachin to act, and it cites Idaho law.

"Nor does my temporary presence in Texas on official business impair my ability to represent the people of Idaho thus necessitating action by another executive to ensure the continuity of state government," the executive order states.

The order also notes that Little had previously through an executive order banned state entities from requiring vaccine passports.

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Little’s order also states that McGeachin’s order prohibiting COVID-19 testing would harm the state’s ability to curb the spread of the disease.

Idaho is currently under crisis standards of care because of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients filling hospitals. Nearly 3,000 people have died from the disease in the state.

Little’s office declined to comment about his executive order.

McGeachin’s office didn’t return a call from The Associated Press.

The attorney general’s office, which would appear to have to defend the state’s top executive in the dispute, declined to comment.

 

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COVID-19 survivors in danger of heart damage year after infection, report says

COVID-19 survivors, some of whom were never sick enough to require hospitalizations, may face a higher risk for serious heart issues one year after infection, according to a report Thursday.

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'Long COVID' is getting more attention from health officials

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COVID-19 survivors, some of whom were never sick enough to require hospitalizations, may face a higher risk for serious heart issues one year after infection, according to a report Thursday.

The study found that non-hospitalized patients had a 39% increased risk of developing heart failure compared to someone who was never sick with the virus, Bloomberg reported. The risk increases with the severity of infection, the report said.

Ziyad Al-Aly, the director of the clinical epidemiology center at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, called these aftereffects "substantial."


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"Governments and health systems must wake up to the reality that COVID, will cast a tall shadow in the form of long COVID, and has devastating consequences. I am concerned we are not taking this seriously enough," he said, according to the report.

Johns Hopkins posted on its website that blood tests have shown that some COVID-19 patients have elevated levels of troponin in their blood, which is an indicator of damaged heart tissue.

The Bloomberg report said the study may be published in the Nature journal.

 

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Actually, There Is No Legal Precedent for Biden’s Federal Vaccine Order | Jon Miltimore

"It's a misconception that President Biden has the power to have a nationwide vaccine mandate," a prominent Fulbright scholar pointed out in a recent NPR interview. Other legal scholars agree.

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Actually, There Is No Legal Precedent for Biden’s Federal Vaccine Order

Lawrence Gostin, chair of global health law at George University, recently explained to NPR that vaccine mandates in the United States have always been imposed by cities and states, not the federal government.

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For the last week or so, every morning I’d see the same message when I’d go onto Twitter to see what people were talking about.

“Biden’s vaccine mandate for workers is supported by legal precedents, experts say.”

As some observed, saying something is “supported by legal precedents” is not the same thing as saying it is constitutional. Much less is it equivalent to the act being moral and just. But what was really odd was that Twitter featured this message six or seven straight days in a row. Even more strange was the fact that whenever I’d click on the link, I’d fail to see anything that resembled a legal precedent for the president’s recent order.

There may be a simple reason for that.

Biden's Vaccine Order: A Bit of Background
As many know, in September President Joe Biden announced the federal government would impose fines on companies with more than 100 employees that do not require workers to get vaccinated for COVID-19 (or get tested weekly)—even though Biden had previously said he would not make vaccinations mandatory.

Fewer may know that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday “quietly tucked an enforcement mechanism into their $3.5 trillion ‘reconciliation’ bill,” which would impose fines of up to $700,000 on companies that do not comply with the new order.




If you go onto the internet, you’ll find no shortage of articles discussing the legality of Biden’s forthcoming action. Many contend the order is clearly constitutional while others decry it as an obvious violation of the Constitution.

The New York Times probably gets it right when it says that Biden is testing “the limits of presidential power.” But guessing which way the Supreme Court will fall has always been a tricky business—particularly since 1942, when an infamous SCOTUS case blew a hole in the Constitution, giving the federal government nearly unlimited power.

So I make no predictions as to how the high court will rule. However, the question of legal precedents deserves attention.

Vaccine Precedents
There’s no question that vaccine mandates have been implemented in the United States for centuries.

The first vaccine mandate passed in the US came in 1809, when Massachusetts passed legislation that gave municipal boards the power to require smallpox inoculations for people over 21.

“Throughout the 19th century, individual employers would sometimes insist on proof of smallpox vaccination or infection before hiring someone who might work in their shop or home,” Elena Conis, a historian of medicine at the University of California, Berkeley, recently told National Geographic.

This, of course, was many years before “vax passes,” so evidence of vaccination usually was a scar on the limb where the vaccine had been administered (usually the arm or leg).

Massachusetts’s law eventually found its way to the Supreme Court, where it was upheld. The high court ruled in similar fashion in 1922 in Zucht vs. King, upholding a Texas law that required children to be vaccinated to attend public school. Today, all 50 states have vaccine requirements in one form or another to attend public school.

The story does not end there, however.



No Federal Vaccine Precedent
Some may see public school vaccine mandates as proof that there is a clear and conclusive legal foundation for Biden’s order, but there’s an obvious problem with such logic.

The historical precedents involve state laws. Biden’s order involves a federal law—the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, which allows OSHA to enact rules that are “reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe or healthful employment and places of employment.”

That difference matters, says Lawrence Gostin, a Fulbright scholar and chair of global health law at Georgetown University who runs the WHO’s Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law.

In a recent interview with NPR, Gostin said he expects the courts to uphold mandates passed by private businesses, as well as those passed by cities and states. However, Gostin told NPR that laws passed at the federal level are another matter.

“I should say that it's a misconception that President Biden has the power to have a nationwide vaccine mandate,” Gostin said in August. “Traditionally, vaccine mandates have been imposed by cities and states.”

Gostin continued:

“States and cities [had] the power to regulate public health even before the Constitution was ratified. And the federal government has no power to reach into a state and require all the citizens of that state or the entire country to be vaccinated.”

Gostin could have been thinking of James Madison, the father or the Constitution, when he noted the federal government simply has no power to mandate vaccinations.

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined,” Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers. “Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.”

There is nothing “external” about vaccination mandates, which means the Father of the Constitution would have seen them as outside the purview of the federal government. A lot has changed since then, of course. The federal government focuses on all kinds of affairs that are not external.

But the lack of a clear precedent in regards to a federal vaccine law is what prompted Gostin to predict the Biden administration would implement a state-based approach and have the CDC recommend vaccination as a prerequisite for public school attendance.

“I absolutely predict that in a year or two, CDC will recommend COVID-19 vaccines as part of the required vaccination of children as a condition of going to school,” Gostin told NPR. “And most states, but not all, will comply with that.”
The Biden administration opted to go a different route.

‘Limited Authority Over Individuals’
I shared Gostin’s comments with several legal scholars and asked if there was legal precedent for the federal government to implement a nationwide vaccine order. Not one answered yes.

“The federal government clearly has the authority to impose a vaccine mandate on its own employees — and on federal contractors,” David Hyman, the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Health Law & Policy at Georgetown University, told me in an email. “It can’t force the states to impose a mandate — and it has limited authority over individuals within those states except to the extent they participate in interstate commerce.”

There’s little doubt Biden’s order will eventually arrive before the high court.

Perhaps the Justices will determine OSHA has the regulatory authority to actually force companies to require workers to be vaccinated (though I have serious doubts). But to say there’s a federal legal precedent for the order is untrue. And regardless of how the Supreme Court rules, vaccine mandates are morally wrong and unjust because they violate individual rights—the only rights the federal government was charged with protecting.

The American Tradition of Individual Rights
When the Founding Fathers established America, they set out to create a government based on the classical liberal tradition. This tradition, pioneered by John Locke, held that each person has equal and inalienable rights to their life, liberty, and property. These rights were not granted by the Constitution in the classical liberal view. Rather, they were seen as pre-existing, natural rights that were simply recognized by the Constitution.

The purpose of government, then, was merely to protect these individual rights. The “enumerated powers” of the federal government were to be used only for the end of protecting these rights. States, likewise, were expected to respect and uphold the rights of their citizens. The powers “reserved to the States” were understood to be only those powers that were deemed necessary for this end.

Clearly, Biden’s vaccine mandates extend far beyond the scope of government which the founders envisioned, to the point of violating the very liberty that the government was supposed to safeguard.

As such, these mandates ought to be regarded as not only immoral, but un-American.

 

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A Brief History of the Law of Personal Privacy and Bodily Integrity, by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

As more governors issue so-called mandates requiring municipal and state employers, as well as private employers and public accommodations, to require their employees and patrons to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they are being challenged by arguments based on personal privacy and bodily...

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A Brief History of the Law of Personal Privacy and Bodily Integrity

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
October 7, 2021 7 Min Read

As more governors issue so-called mandates requiring municipal and state employers, as well as private employers and public accommodations, to require their employees and patrons to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they are being challenged by arguments based on personal privacy and bodily integrity.

The former argues that personal medical decisions are protected by the right to privacy, which is a natural right that supersedes governmental needs. The latter argues that since we each own our bodies, we can decide what goes into them.

Both the personal privacy and the bodily integrity arguments recognize that the government can only trump fundamental rights if it can prove fault at a jury trial.

Thus, a case where an infected and contagious person is intentionally infecting healthy folks can and should result in an arrest and prosecution for aggravated assault at which the state would need to prove its case. If it did, the convicted defendant would be incarcerated and isolated for the duration of her sentence. But that does not animate the government today.

Today, the government — local, state and federal — is attempting to compel healthy people to be vaccinated against their wills. All three levels of government are attempting to do this by command, not by legislation.

The favorite U.S. Supreme Court case that the pro-mandate folks cite is the 116-year-old Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There, in the era before the court recognized personal privacy or bodily integrity as constitutionally protected, it upheld a Massachusetts statute requiring inoculation for smallpox.

The issue in the case was whether a state legislature can enact public health laws that authorize force to enforce them. The issue was not whether a governor could issue a command, call it a law and use the police to enforce it. Moreover, the Jacobson case was decided in 1905, well before the personal privacy and bodily integrity cases came along.

The privacy doctrine began at the Supreme Court in 1928, with a dissent. In Olmstead v. United States, the court upheld wiretapping telephone calls without a search warrant since it held there was no expectation of privacy in the calls.

Justice Louis Brandeis distilled the privacy doctrine in his famous dissent when he wrote that the framers of the Constitution "sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."

Brandeis' iconic language would languish as a dissent until 1965 in a case called Griswold v. Connecticut. There, the Supreme Court recognized personal privacy as a fundamental liberty — the highest category of liberty in the constitutional pantheon. In Griswold, the state of Connecticut had enacted legislation prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples.

Embracing the values ignored by the Jacobson case and rejected by the Olmstead case, the court invalidated the Connecticut statute and ruled that the decision to use contraceptives is so integral to control over one's body and is made in such a zone of privacy that the Constitution protects it from the government's reach.

Eight years later, the Jacobson case would suffer a stake through its dead heart in Roe v. Wade. This case, which prohibited the states from banning pre-viability abortions, also upheld the privacy rights of all persons when deciding what medical procedures to undergo, and thus it protects from the government's reach the zone in which those decisions are made. A portion of Roe is currently on its deathbed, but not the part that protects bodily integrity; rather, the infamous part that catastrophically fails to recognize the personhood of babies in the womb and permits killing them.

While the right to privacy was slowly being recognized and Brandeis' Olmstead dissent gradually becoming the law at the federal level, a comparable line of cases, upholding both personal privacy and bodily integrity, was making its way through state courts. The pioneer of those cases is In re Quinlan, a decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1976. It upheld the right of the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan to deny their comatose daughter artificial life-sustaining procedures.

From and after the Quinlan case, all states recognized the fundamental right of sick people — directly or through their guardians — to reject medication and medical procedures.

The values underlying the Olmstead to Griswold to Roe migration of federal jurisprudence and the values underlying the post-Quinlan state jurisprudence and statutes are the same; and those values are preeminent today.

Today, the states and the federal courts recognize that competent persons can decide for themselves what medications to take or reject because the natural, moral and constitutionally recognized decision-maker over one's body is oneself, not the government. Moreover, when these decisions are made in consultation with a physician or an intimate mate, they are done so within the zone of privacy and are none of the government's business.

The folks who believe that the president can direct the Department of Labor to compel employers of more than 100 persons to require vaccines of the healthy and who also believe that a governor can do similarly for public and private employers in his state — and cite the 1905 Jacobson case to support their claims — are sadly ignorant of the 20th-century jurisprudence that stands firmly, convincingly and uniformly against them.

Moreover, these pro-vaccine mandate folks also confuse legislation with executive orders. Under the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution, only laws enacted by a state legislature, not gubernatorial commands, have the force of law. Under the separation of powers doctrine in the federal system, only Congress writes laws, not the president.

And under current Supreme Court rulings, we all can decide for ourselves what medications to take, while the government takes a hike.

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