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Florida surgeon general proposes children skip COVID-19 tests
ORLANDO, Fla. — As omicron’s spread outpaces an overwhelming demand for COVID-19 tests, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has a solution that contradicts advice from myriad public health experts: test fewer people. In a Monday news briefing, the surgeon general took aim at mass testing and...
Florida surgeon general proposes children skip COVID-19 tests
Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel
Tue, January 4, 2022, 4:54 PM·4 min read
ORLANDO, Fla. — As omicron’s spread outpaces an overwhelming demand for COVID-19 tests, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has a solution that contradicts advice from myriad public health experts: test fewer people.
In a Monday news briefing, the surgeon general took aim at mass testing and said the Florida Department of Health will soon recommend people forgo testing unless it will be what he labels “high-value.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends people get tested if they have symptoms, have had close contact with someone with COVID-19, or if they are not fully vaccinated. Some federal vaccination mandates require weekly testing in lieu of vaccination.
The coming guidelines will discourage tests for people at lower risk of severe outcomes, such as children and people without symptoms, but encourage tests for people more likely to need treatment for COVID-19, such as the elderly, he said.
“My department’s goal ... doesn’t restrict access to testing, but reduces the use of low-value testing and prioritizes high-value testing. ... High-value testing is testing that is likely to change outcomes,” Ladapo said during the news conference at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. “We need to unwind this … planning and living one’s life around testing.”
Florida International University epidemiologist Mary Jo Trepka said Ladapo wrongly implies that the highest value gained from testing is determining whether someone needs to be treated for COVID-19, when in fact, perhaps more valuable is the ability of tests to tell someone whether they need to isolate, thus reducing community spread.
Trepka pointed to recent evidence that Florida’s go-to treatments, monoclonal antibodies, do not work as well against omicron as they have worked against past variants. One brand, GlaxoSmithKline’s Sotrovimab, seems to work better than others but it is in short supply nationwide, she added.
“We don’t really have an effective treatment for COVID-19 with the omicron variant. There’s really only one monoclonal antibody,” she said. “But I would argue that you can really prevent a lot of infections if you test widely because then those people who are asymptomatic or very mildly ill can find out if they have COVID-19 and then they can ... avoid spending time with highly vulnerable people.”
The CDC points to ample evidence that shows that though children are at lower risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19, they can still spread the virus to others, as can asymptomatic people who may not know they have COVID-19.
Elena Cyrus, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine, said community testing has guided public health responses for decades and helped control viruses alongside measures such as vaccination.
“In all epidemics from HIV to previous SARS, screening remains one of the most cost effective ways to help prevent and control the spread of a disease/virus,” she wrote in an email.
Accurate testing data guides decisions such as whether to reopen schools or initiate mandates. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings ended the county’s state of emergency in October because its COVID-19 test positivity rate remained under 5% for two weeks, for instance.
Gov. Ron DeSantis in Monday’s news briefing affirmed Ladapo’s decision and suggested that reduced testing would also help increase access to tests statewide for vulnerable populations such as the elderly.
“What you are seeing is there are people going to the drug stores, buying all these tests. They’ll go multiple times per week to the sites and test, without symptoms. That is just going to contribute to some of the crunch that you are seeing,” DeSantis said.
Long lines and depleted resources have plagued testing sites in recent weeks.
Demand was so extreme in Seminole County, for instance, that cars lined up for a test kit giveaway starting at 6 a.m. The line was closed shortly after the giveaway began at 10 a.m., with nearly 11,000 tests distributed in total, Seminole County officials said.
There are ways to make testing more efficient without decreasing the number of people who get tested, however.
Dr. Ethan Berke, chief public health officer for UnitedHealth Group in Minnesota, has helped organizations across the country design COVID-19 mitigation plans throughout the pandemic. One strategy involved testing multiple people’s samples with a single device at a school in Washington, D.C. that required students to have negative COVID-19 tests each week.
Groups of eight to 14 students’ individual cotton swabs were put in a single test device. In the vast majority of groups, everyone was negative and no further testing was needed. As a result, the school saved tests and money, he said.
“One way to increase capacity is to put more people on the bus, instead of everybody driving in their own car,” Berke said. “That’s a huge advantage, then, of being able to test frequently enough and not burn through resources that then they become unavailable ... So that’s an example of how there are ways to get creative at that population level in looking at what’s the prevalence in the community.”
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Study raises doubts about rapid Covid tests’ reliability in early days after infection
A new study raises significant doubts about whether at-home rapid antigen tests can detect the Omicron variant before infected people can transmit the virus to others.
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Study raises doubts about rapid Covid tests’ reliability in early days after infection
A new study raises significant doubts about whether at-home rapid antigen tests can detect the Omicron variant before infected people can transmit the virus to others.
The study looks at 30 people from settings including Broadway theaters and offices in New York and San Francisco where some workers were not only being tested daily but were, because of rules at their workplaces, receiving both the antigen tests and a daily test that used the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, which is believed to be more reliable.
On days 0 and 1 following a positive PCR test, all of the antigen tests used produced false-negative results, even though in 28 of the 30 cases, levels of virus detected by the PCR test were high enough to infect other people. In four cases, researchers were able to confirm that infected people transmitted the virus to others during the period before they had a positive result on the rapid antigen test.
“I think that with every new variant that comes, scientists have to question whether the things that were previously true are still true,” said Blythe Adamson, the lead author of the paper and the principal epidemiologist at Infectious Economics in New York. “This one has a different way it travels, a different mechanism of action of symptoms, it has different windows of transmission.”
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Adamson, who is also an employee of Flatiron Health, a unit of Roche, said that it was also possible there were more cases of transmission than the authors were able to confirm.
“It’s absolutely likely there were many more than four transmissions,” Adamson said. “We named four because there were four that were confirmed through contact tracing and epidemiology investigation. There were likely many more.”
The study included both the Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue rapid antigen tests, both of which are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
The results were published in a preprint, meaning they have not yet been reviewed by outside researchers.
A chart from the study shows significant false negatives in the early days after infection. BLYTHE ADAMSON/INFECTIOUS ECONOMICS
The results means that rapid tests — both Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue — aren’t catching people during their first couple days of infection.
“We know that PCR tests are more sensitive than antigen tests — this is not new information,” Abbott Laboratories said in a statement. “We also know that PCR tests are so sensitive that they do not indicate infectiousness and thus are not a practical tool for keeping the workforce and economy moving.”
Despite its small size, the results in the study are remarkably consistent. Not a single rapid antigen test detected the virus until nearly two days after the initial positive PCR result. Additionally, the cases of infection from people who had received false negative results could raise alarm bells.
Daniel Larremore, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder who has studied Covid testing, said the results show rapid tests are not catching cases during the first days of infection. Meanwhile, people are facing hour-long lines for PCR tests and multiple-day waits for results.
“[The] results strongly suggest that we will be unable to effectively test our way out of the current surge, even if we each had a week’s supply of rapid tests on the counter,” Larremore said. He was not involved with this study.
Other data from the group indicate that viral loads peaked in saliva one to two days before they peaked in tests taken from nasal swabs, adding to evidence that swabs taken from the mouth or throat may detect the SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid better than the nasal swabs used for many PCR and antigen tests.
“The major unknown is what it has been for weeks now: Are the [rapid antigen tests] inherently less able to detect Omicron, or is there less Omicron to detect on nasal swabs?” asked John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He noted that a paper from South Africa had also shown that there was more virus in saliva than in the nose.
“Does it replicate more in the throat/mouth and hence accumulates in saliva, more than it does in the nose and is present on nasal swabs?” Moore asked.
“Remember that Omicron infections are not generally causing loss of smell, which happens when the virus damages nasal tissue and the nerves within the tissues. Is that another indicator of less replication in the nose?”
At this point, researchers see riddles, not solutions.
However, many emphasize, this does not mean that rapid antigen tests are not useful. The tests also detected the virus in every case – it just took longer than with PCR. So while the tests may not work as an early warning, a positive test result at home does likely mean that the person taking the test has Covid-19.
Anne Wyllie, a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health and a co-author on the paper, said that the reports she is seeing from the general public on social media also raise her level of concern.
“If the general public is seeing this and reporting on it, you know, this is also a lot of evidence for me,” Wyllie said. “Like they’re actually seeing it. This is a lot more widespread than just this one outbreak that we were observing.”
During the pandemic, Adamson and Infectious Economics became consultants to many Broadway productions that were trying to keep their staffs safe from Covid. The risk to audiences was relatively easy to control, but cast and crew members worked in cramped quarters where lots of safety precautions, including vaccination, masking, and the use of rapid tests were all necessary to keep people safe.
She said that as soon as Omicron hit, there were anecdotes about rapid antigen tests remaining negative until days after the infected people had already developed symptoms. She said she started to feel anxiety about whether precautions to keep cast members safe would be enough. Since then, numerous Broadway shows, including “Waitress” and “Jagged Little Pill,” have announced Covid-related closures.
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Testing Site in LA Says Child Tested Positive for 'Flurona.' What to Know About the Co-Infection
A COVID testing site says it has detected a case of "flurona," a co-infection of the flu and coronavirus, in Los Angeles County.
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Testing Site in LA Says Child Tested Positive for ‘Flurona' Co-Infection
The number of COVID-19-positive people in Los Angeles County surged well above the 2,000 mark Tuesday amid a spike in infections that has seen daily case numbers skyrocket over the past two weeks.
By Jonathan Lloyd and Darsha Philips • Published January 5, 2022 • Updated 52 mins ago
What to Know
- The term 'flurona' was coined to indicate the presence of both influenza and coronavirus at the same time and does not indicate a distinct disease.
- A COVID testing site in Brentwood says a child returning from a family trip to Mexico tested positive for both influenza and coronavirus.
- Health officials had warned of the possibility of being infected simultaneously with both influenza and coronavirus, and encourage people to get vaccinated against both.
The case was detected four days ago at a testing site in Brentwood near the Getty Center. A child tested positive for both influenza and coronavirus after returning from a trip to Mexico, according to the testing company.
“It was a family visiting from Mexico, from Cabo San Lucas,” said Steve Farzam, of 911 COVID Testing. "Some very mild symptoms, almost could be easily confused with sinusitis."
The LA County Department of Public Health said it's the first widely publicized case in LA County, but health officials say they’ve seen it before and it’s likely to become more common.
Health officials had warned of the possibility of being infected simultaneously with both influenza and coronavirus, and encouraged people to get vaccinated against both. So while the two illnesses are not new, the term "flurona" was coined to indicate the presence of both respiratory ailments at the same time and does not indicate a distinct disease.
The child who tested positive was tested for both flu and coronavirus with a swab at the Brentwood site.
Flu and COVID-19 will be circulating this winter in communities throughout Los Angeles County, the health department said. Both can cause serious illness and death.
"Concurrent infection with more than one respiratory virus is exceedingly common and there is no reason to expect that SARS-CoV-2 should be an exception to this rule," the Los Angeles County Health Department said in a statement. "We have seen SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza multiplex test results where both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 were positive."
The health department does not track such co-infections, so it's difficult to say how many cases there are in Los Angeles County.
"The best way to prevent concurrent infection with Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 is to get vaccinated with both Influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, which are both highly-effective and can be administered at the same time," the health department said in its statement.
The flu and coronavirus can cause similar symptoms that include fever, cough, fatigue, runny nose, sore throat and diarrhea and muscle and body aches. Flu and COVID can both be fatal. People with underlying health conditions are at higher risk.
The viruses are transmitted similarly — droplets and aerosols spread through coughs, sneezes, talking, singing and breathing.
The number of COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County surged well above the 2,000 mark Tuesday amid a spike in infections that has seen daily case numbers skyrocket over the past two weeks.
According to state figures, there were 2,240 COVID-positive patients in county hospitals as of Tuesday, a jump from 1,994 on Monday. Of those patients, 303 were being treated in intensive care, an increase from 278 a day earlier.
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The hospitalization number is the highest it has been since last February in the midst of another winter COVID surge. Due to rising patient numbers, the county Department of Public Health on Monday urged residents to avoid visiting hospital emergency rooms unless they urgently need emergency care.
The rising patient numbers, however, have led to concerns about the stability of the hospital system, with authorities saying staffing issues will limit hospitals' ability to rapidly expand patient capacity the way they did last winter, when COVID-positive patient numbers topped 8,000.
County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer insisted Tuesday that people being treated for COVID in intensive care units are overwhelmingly unvaccinated. She against said statistics show that even though vaccinated people can become infected, they are far less likely to become seriously ill.
According to the county, for the week of Dec. 15-28, unvaccinated people were 21 times more likely to wind up in an ICU than vaccinated people.
"Even as transmission surges, we are seeing that vaccines are doing what they were intended to do, which is protect people from getting severely ill due to COVID,'' Ferrer said in a statement. ``We are grateful to the 80% of eligible residents who have already received at least one dose of vaccine -- and we hope that the almost 2 million people who have yet to be vaccinated take time to talk with their health care provider to receive additional information about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.
"Choosing not to take the vaccine during this explosive winter surge is very risky since so many of those ill with COVID in the intensive care units at hospitals are unvaccinated, and tragically, some of these individuals will not survive,'' she said.
Editor's Note: The LA County Department of Public Health says it is not the first case of "flurona," but also that the department does not track or investigate individual cases of influenza.
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Nearly 200 Dallas first responders quarantined as COVID-19 cases surge
Nearly 200 first responders in Dallas have been quarantined after testing positive for COVID-19 amid a surge of omicron cases, according to The Dallas Morning News.Both the Dallas police and f…
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Nearly 200 first responders in Dallas have been quarantined after testing positive for COVID-19 amid a surge of omicron cases, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Both the Dallas police and fire departments reported infections, with firefighters making up over three-quarters of the first responders who have been infected, Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans told the newspaper.
Evans added that more fire-rescue workers are now out than at any other time during the pandemic.
By comparison, the fire department reportedly recorded 29 cases in July, 76 cases in August and 59 in September.
Police Senior Cpl. Brian Martinez told The Dallas Morning News that 36 police officers and eight civilian workers tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Since March 2020, 1,051 workers, 881 of whom were officers, contracted the virus, he added.
Though vaccination against the coronavirus is not mandatory in Dallas, city officials have reportedly encouraged workers to get inoculated.
About 1,902 employees were vaccinated in December 2020 when Dallas first responders were among some of the first people in the city to be eligible for the vaccine. In October and November of 2021, the fire department administered booster shots to around 1,065 police, fire and city marshal staff, the newspaper noted.
City spokeswoman Catherine Cuellar said that it is unclear how many city employees have the virus, as it is not being tracked. Staff who can complete their work remotely have been cleared to do so, she reportedly added.
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Study raises doubts about rapid Covid tests’ reliability in early days after infection
A new study raises significant doubts about whether at-home rapid antigen tests can detect the Omicron variant before infected people can transmit the virus to others.
Study raises doubts about rapid Covid tests’ reliability in early days after infection
By Matthew Herper Jan. 5, 2022
The study included the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test, which is authorized by the FDA.JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
A new study raises significant doubts about whether at-home rapid antigen tests can detect the Omicron variant before infected people can transmit the virus to others.
The study looks at 30 people from settings including Broadway theaters and offices in New York and San Francisco where some workers were not only being tested daily but were, because of rules at their workplaces, receiving both the antigen tests and a daily test that used the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, which is believed to be more reliable.
On days 0 and 1 following a positive PCR test, all of the antigen tests used produced false-negative results, even though in 28 of the 30 cases, levels of virus detected by the PCR test were high enough to infect other people. In four cases, researchers were able to confirm that infected people transmitted the virus to others during the period before they had a positive result on the rapid antigen test.
“I think that with every new variant that comes, scientists have to question whether the things that were previously true are still true,” said Blythe Adamson, the lead author of the paper and the principal epidemiologist at Infectious Economics in New York. “This one has a different way it travels, a different mechanism of action of symptoms, it has different windows of transmission.”
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Adamson, who is also an employee of Flatiron Health, a unit of Roche, said that it was also possible there were more cases of transmission than the authors were able to confirm.
“It’s absolutely likely there were many more than four transmissions,” Adamson said. “We named four because there were four that were confirmed through contact tracing and epidemiology investigation. There were likely many more.”
The study included both the Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue rapid antigen tests, both of which are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
The results were published in a preprint, meaning they have not yet been reviewed by outside researchers.
A chart from the study shows significant false negatives in the early days after infection. BLYTHE ADAMSON/INFECTIOUS ECONOMICS
The results means that rapid tests — both Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue — aren’t catching people during their first couple days of infection.
“We know that PCR tests are more sensitive than antigen tests — this is not new information,” Abbott Laboratories said in a statement. “We also know that PCR tests are so sensitive that they do not indicate infectiousness and thus are not a practical tool for keeping the workforce and economy moving.”
Despite its small size, the results in the study are remarkably consistent. Not a single rapid antigen test detected the virus until nearly two days after the initial positive PCR result. Additionally, the cases of infection from people who had received false negative results could raise alarm bells.
Daniel Larremore, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder who has studied Covid testing, said the results show rapid tests are not catching cases during the first days of infection. Meanwhile, people are facing hour-long lines for PCR tests and multiple-day waits for results.
“[The] results strongly suggest that we will be unable to effectively test our way out of the current surge, even if we each had a week’s supply of rapid tests on the counter,” Larremore said. He was not involved with this study.
Other data from the group indicate that viral loads peaked in saliva one to two days before they peaked in tests taken from nasal swabs, adding to evidence that swabs taken from the mouth or throat may detect the SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid better than the nasal swabs used for many PCR and antigen tests.
“The major unknown is what it has been for weeks now: Are the [rapid antigen tests] inherently less able to detect Omicron, or is there less Omicron to detect on nasal swabs?” asked John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He noted that a paper from South Africa had also shown that there was more virus in saliva than in the nose.
“Does it replicate more in the throat/mouth and hence accumulates in saliva, more than it does in the nose and is present on nasal swabs?” Moore asked.
“Remember that Omicron infections are not generally causing loss of smell, which happens when the virus damages nasal tissue and the nerves within the tissues. Is that another indicator of less replication in the nose?”
At this point, researchers see riddles, not solutions.
However, many emphasize, this does not mean that rapid antigen tests are not useful. The tests also detected the virus in every case – it just took longer than with PCR. So while the tests may not work as an early warning, a positive test result at home does likely mean that the person taking the test has Covid-19.
Anne Wyllie, a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health and a co-author on the paper, said that the reports she is seeing from the general public on social media also raise her level of concern.
“If the general public is seeing this and reporting on it, you know, this is also a lot of evidence for me,” Wyllie said. “Like they’re actually seeing it. This is a lot more widespread than just this one outbreak that we were observing.”
During the pandemic, Adamson and Infectious Economics became consultants to many Broadway productions that were trying to keep their staffs safe from Covid. The risk to audiences was relatively easy to control, but cast and crew members worked in cramped quarters where lots of safety precautions, including vaccination, masking, and the use of rapid tests were all necessary to keep people safe.
She said that as soon as Omicron hit, there were anecdotes about rapid antigen tests remaining negative until days after the infected people had already developed symptoms. She said she started to feel anxiety about whether precautions to keep cast members safe would be enough. Since then, numerous Broadway shows, including “Waitress” and “Jagged Little Pill,” have announced Covid-related closures.
Covid-19 test kits contain lethal chemicals.
The swab contains ethylene oxide. The test kit reagent contains sodium azide. The reagent sodium azide is used to react with the swab to indicate if the covid-19 virus is present.
You are directly contaminated with the swab that contains ethylene oxide.
The swab is then used with a reagent, sodium azide, in the test kit.
The covid-19 test kits have NOT been FDA cleared or approved for use to test for covid-19.
The more you use the test kit the more you become contaminated with ethylene oxide contained in the swab.
The dropper bottles contain the reagent sodium azide which is very toxic and if it comes into contact with you skin can kill you.
Also if it is ingested it will kill you.
There is a chance you could get the sodium azide on you skin when you take the tip off the dropper bottle and put 6 drops into the upper hole of the test kit.
You will automatically be contaminated with ethylene oxide when you stick the swab into your nose and twirl it around a few times.
Watch the binax now covid-19 test kit video below that explains how to use the test kit and be sure to note the disclaimer at the end of the video. Just over 5 minutes:
Instructions of how to stick the swab into your nose and contaminate yourself with ethylene oxide a deadly chemical.
Instructions suggest you should use gloves when using test kit.
The gloves would help protect you being contaminated with the deadly reagent sodium azide contained in the dropper bottles.
You will be handling the dropper bottles twice because you will take 2 tests.
The first thing you do is open the dropper bottle cap and drops 6 drops of the reagent sodium azide into slot on test card.
The instructions do not tell you what to do with the reagent dropper bottle you opened.
The instructions do say be careful not to touch other parts of test card.
Instructions say to keep test card face up on a table. Thats flat on a table.
If you lift the card vertical it would seem there is a possibility the sodium azide in the holes of the test card could get outside of the card on the stem of test swab.
Handling this stuff without gloves would be a big mistake because of the real possiblity you could come into contact with a know actute toxic substance in the test card test holes and dropper.
The instructions say wait 15 min and to not move or touch the test card.
Instructions say to throw away all used test parts into the trash.
The instructions do not say how to pickup the test card and throw it away.
Instructions tell you to inform your healthcare provider if you test positive.
(Here is where I get confused. You are told to throw away test results in trash and just tell you health care provider you tested positive for covid-19 without giving them any proof?
If you tested negative how do you prove this to your employer or the government that requires you to be tested once a week?
If you actually only have to verbally tell your employer you did take a home covid test but it was negative when it was really positive this doesn't make any sense.
You could tell your employer anything. Maybe I'm missing something here.)
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Man arrested after allegedly attacking workers, harassing patients at California vaccination site
A man was arrested last week after allegedly harassing patients and attacking workers at a vaccination clinic in Orange County.
Man arrested after allegedly attacking workers, harassing patients at California vaccination site
Chantal Da Silva
Wed, January 5, 2022, 1:32 AM·2 min read
A man was arrested last week after allegedly harassing patients and attacking workers at a Covid vaccination clinic in Orange County, California, police and clinic representatives have said.
One of the workers sustained serious injuries and was transported to hospital in an ambulance after the Dec. 30 incident, according to the Families Together of Orange County Community Health Center.
“Both members of the team are expected to make a full recovery within a few days,” it adding in a statement released Tuesday.
In a statement sent to NBC News late Tuesday, Tustin Police Department said it had received a call from the clinic just before 10 a.m. (1 p.m. ET) that day.
"The caller told our dispatcher that staff members were attacked by a male subject and that staff and bystanders were trying to hold the subject down," the department said.
Seven officers responded to the call, with police taking Thomas Apollo, 43, of Poway, California, into custody.
Apollo was booked into the Orange County jail for battery and resisting arrest, the department said, adding that the case has been forwarded to the Orange County District Attorney's Office for review.
In a news release published on its website Tuesday night, the Families Together clinic, which offers medical, dental, vision and wellness services, said an individual had "harassed patients and attacked staff members" in the incident.
The clinic said it was “extremely saddened” by the altercation, which it said saw two of its staff members “working to help vaccinate patients” attacked.
Speaking with The Orange County Register, Families Together Mobile Operations Manager Parsia Jahanbani said the attacker in the incident had called clinic workers "murderers" and accused them of facilitating a conspiracy.
Jahanbani said the man had refused to wear a mask when he entered the clinic, saying: “I don’t need a mask, I don’t have the virus and you are the ones making people sick," before lunging at the mobile operations manager and another colleague.
NBC News has not been able to confirm this reporting. The Families Together clinic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In its statement, the clinic said: "Despite the violent nature of the assault, Families Together kept offering vaccines and boosters to patients that day and the team was fully back at work the following week."
"While Families Together believes that vaccines are important in the fight against the pandemic, we understand that the decision to get vaccinated is purely personal," it continued. "However, we will not tolerate violence or harassment of any kind against our staff, patients or volunteers."
"We're proud of the strength and bravery of our team, and while this incident has shaken us, we will not be deterred from our mission to keep our community safe and healthy," it said.
The clinic said it is one of the top ten vaccine administrators in Orange County, having administered more than 50,000 jabs to date.
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Up-to-Date Shots Encouraged Over ‘Fully Vaccinated’: Fauci (1)
Federal health leaders are moving away from an emphasis on what constitutes being fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in favor of staying current with shots.
Up-to-Date Shots Encouraged Over ‘Fully Vaccinated’: Fauci (1)
Jan. 4, 2022, 3:35 PM; Updated: Jan. 5, 2022, 10:22 AM
- Omicron makes boosters necessary for optimal protection
- CDC yet to change definition on its website
“We’re using the terminology now ‘keeping your vaccinations up to date,’ rather than what ‘fully vaccinated’ means,” White House chief medical adviser Anthony S. Fauci said during a National Institutes of Health lecture Tuesday. “Right now, optimal protection is with a third shot of an mRNA or a second shot of a J&J.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Tuesday for third shots of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to be administered within five months of the initial two-shot series, shortening the time frame before a booster by a month. A CDC advisory panel is expected to recommend boosters for teenagers in a meeting Wednesday.
Early studies have indicated a booster of Pfizer Inc.‘s vaccine provides a 25-fold increase in neutralizing antibodies that fight the variant, Moderna Inc.‘s booster produces a 37-fold increase in antibodies, and two doses of Johnson & Johnson‘s vaccine cut hospitalizations in South Africa by 85%.
Fauci and other health leaders as well as President Joe Biden have pressed for months about the importance of getting both vaccinated and boosted. But the CDC’s definition of fully vaccinated has remained two weeks after the primary dose or doses. That decision has prompted questions at multiple White House press conferences as to whether the agency plans to change the definition of fully vaccinated.
“Individuals are considered fully vaccinated against Covid-19 if they’ve received their primary series. That definition is not changing,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a White House press briefing Wednesday.
The federal government has no plans to change the definition of fully vaccinated for travel guidelines, Medicare rules or any other federal requirements, White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said during the same briefing.
At the same time, the CDC has updated its guidelines to include language on staying up to date with vaccines, based on the type of vaccine and age group, Walensky said.
“Consistent with how public health has historically viewed or even talked about how we recommend vaccines, we are now recommending that individuals stay up to date with additional doses that they are eligible for,” she said.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in September that he thinks three doses Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna’s mRNA vaccines will likely be the primary series. He made his remarks about new terminology in response to whether the U.S. will start to offer fourth doses the way Israel has.
“We need to find out what the durability of protection of the third shot is before we start thinking about the fourth shot,” he said.
(Updates Jan. 4 story with new information on CDC guidelines and comments from the Jan. 5 White House Covid-19 press briefing.)
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CDC backs previous advice to back 5-day isolation; no test needed
Dr Anthony Fauci , in television interviews on Sunday said officials were considering asking people to get tested after a five-day quarantine - but that suggestion now appears to be dead in the water.
CDC doubles-down on halving COVID isolation for positive people from 10 days to five and says Americans DON'T need to take a test
- The CDC is backing its one-week old guidance for people to isolate from ten days to five if they recently tested positive for COVID
- The Department of Health added that those who test positive could take a rapid antigen test if they want to and can access one, but is not requiring that
- It said the average period of infectiousness and risk of transmission was 'between 2-3 days before and 8 days after symptom onset'
- The U.S. reported nearly one million new coronavirus infections on Monday, the highest daily tally of any country in the world
- That's nearly double the previous U.S. peak set a week ago as the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant showed no signs of slowing.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday backed its week-old guidance halving COVID-19 isolation for people who test positive to five days and refused to add a testing mandate.
The agency had been pressured by health experts to institute a test requirement after it cut in half its guidance last week for people to isolate after a COVID-19 infection to five days from 10, but refused to do so. It said the move was based on science around transmission of the virus.
On Tuesday, the CDC added an explanation on its website, saying that a review of 113 studies from 17 countries showed that most transmission occurs early in the course of infection. It said the average period of infectiousness and risk of transmission was 'between 2-3 days before and 8 days after symptom onset.'
Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease official and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, in television interviews on Sunday said officials were considering asking people to get tested after a five-day quarantine period - but that suggestion now appears to be dead in the water.
The requirement was dramatically cut back as the Omicron variant triggered a record 1.08 million new infections on Monday, the vast majority of them mild.
'If an individual has access to a test and wants to test, the best approach is to use an antigen test towards the end of the five-day isolation period,' the agency said.
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The CDC issued an explanation of why it had halved the isolation period for infected Americans from ten days to five on its website on Tuesday
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told Stephen Colbert on his late night show on Monday that people can take an antigen test after isolating for five days and go out once more if they test negative
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has risen nearly 50 percent in the last week and now exceeds 100,000, according to data collected by John Hopkins, marking the first time that threshold has been reached in a year
The isolation period should be followed by strict mask use for an additional five days, the CDC said last week and again on Tuesday. However, if an individual tests positive after five days, they should isolate for the full 10 days, it said.
The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread rapidly, leading to worker shortages at airlines, schools and businesses. Delta Airlines and others had publicly pressured the CDC to cut the isolation period. The CDC subsequently shortened the recommended isolation time.
Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN that the CDC had heard the complaints.
'They have certainly received feedback and questions about the role of testing in shortening that quarantine period and they're actually working right now on issuing a clarification on that,' he said.
The policy is in line with comments CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made late on Monday.
If people have access to a rapid antigen test, they can go ahead and take it five days after testing positive if their symptoms are gone and they feel well, she told CBS' 'The Late Show' program.
'If it's positive, stay home for another five days,' she said.
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'If it's negative, I would say you still really need to wear a mask' because the infection could still spread, she added.
'You still should probably not visit grandma, you shouldn't get on an airplane and you still should be pretty careful when you're with other people.'
The United States reported nearly one million new coronavirus infections on Monday, the highest daily tally of any country in the world and nearly double the previous U.S. peak set a week ago as the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant showed no signs of slowing.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has risen nearly 50 percent in the last week and now exceeds 100,000, according to data collected by John Hopkins, marking the first time that threshold has been reached in a year.
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Chinese Communist Researcher Stole U.S. Monoclonal Antibody 'Secrets'... In 2015. » The National Pulse+
A third scientist employed by GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets – including the science behind COVID-19 treatments – to boost a competing, state-funded Chinese pharmaceutical company. Lucy Xi, along with three co-defendants, established the Chinese pharmaceutical company...
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A third scientist employed by GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets – including the science behind COVID-19 treatments – to boost a competing, state-funded Chinese pharmaceutical company.
Lucy Xi, along with three co-defendants, established the Chinese pharmaceutical company Renopharma with funding from the Chinese Communist Party to supposedly research and develop anti-cancer drugs. The team, however, used the company as a vessel to steal information from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in the United States.
Xi and her colleagues worked at a GSK facility in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania.
In January 2015, she sent co-conspirator Yan Mei a GSK document containing “confidential and trade secret data and information,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The DOJ notes the email focused on research into monoclonal antibodies – a lab-produced molecule often administered as a treatment for COVID-19 – despite being sent years before the onset of the virus:
“This defendant illegally stole trade secrets to benefit her husband’s company, which was financed by the Chinese government,” noted U.S. Attorney Williams.
“The lifeblood of companies like GSK is its intellectual property, and when that property is stolen and transferred to a foreign country, it threatens thousands of American jobs and jeopardizes the strategic benefits brought about through research and development. Such criminal behavior must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
“Pharmaceutical firms like GSK invest staggering amounts of time and money to develop new medications and bring them to market,” said Jacqueline Maguire, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division.
“When individuals steal valuable trade secrets concerning one of these drugs, it’s a threat both to that firm and beyond. After all, innovation like this propels the U.S. economy. The FBI is committed to enforcing laws that protect the nation’s businesses from such theft. We will not permit American research and development to be scavenged for the benefit of other companies or countries.”
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New York Announces That Scarce Covid-19 Treatments Will Be Prioritized For Non-White Patients
New York may have triggered a new constitutional challenge with its policy to prioritize non-white people in the distribution of certain COVID-19 treatments. There are growing shortages due to a fa…
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New York Announces That Scarce Covid-19 Treatments Will Be Prioritized For Non-White Patients
New York may have triggered a new constitutional challenge with its policy to prioritize non-white people in the distribution of certain COVID-19 treatments.
There are growing shortages due to a failure of the Biden Administration to anticipate the demand for monoclonal antibody treatment and antiviral pills as well as testing kits. New York’s Department of Health has responded to this shortage with a policy that will make race one of the prioritizing factors in distributing available resources. The policy, in my view, raises serious constitutional concerns over racial preferences in the supply of potentially life-saving treatments.
The memo acknowledged that “supplies of Sotrovimab are extremely limited.” As a result, most people are unlikely to be able to get access to such antiviral monoclonal treatments in the coming weeks.
I spoke to two leading doctors in the area by phone on Sunday who were livid about the failure of the Biden Administration to prioritize therapeutics earlier in the year when there was still time. Both said that they have struggled to find these treatments. Neither agreed with the use of race as a factor in making individual decisions over access to the scarce treatments.
The policy requires that distribution be based on findings that someone has “a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe illness.” The key “other factors” include the “risk factor” of being non-white:
Using race as a factor in such medical decisions immediately triggers constitutional concerns. When you delve deeper into the basis for the race preferences, the constitutional concerns only multiply.
The memo relies on two documents from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). However, those documents identify medical conditions that are more prevalent in the minority populations. One document, entitled “People with Certain Medical Conditions,” describes those who are “more likely to get severely ill from COVID-19.” The obvious conditions are cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart conditions and other medical ailments. However, the CDC also discusses race as a factor:
Studies have shown people from racial and ethnic minority groups are also dying from COVID-19 at younger ages. People in minority groups are often younger when they develop chronic medical conditions and may be more likely to have more than one condition.
The second document is entitled “Risk of Severe Illness or Death from COVID-19 — Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.” The CDC notes that not only are certain conditions like obesity more prevalent in minority populations but “people from some racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19 than non-Hispanic White people.”
The lower rate of vaccinations in the minority populations could present a problem for some commentators on the left who have demanded that the unvaccinated be denied care or placed at the end of the line for care at hospitals.
While such a policy would be unethical for physicians, people from Jimmy Kimmel to Don Lemon have suggested possibly denying scarce medical resources to those who have not agreed to be vaccinated. That, however, would mean putting a disproportionate number of minority citizens on the “do not heal” list.
It is not clear how these columnists and celebrities will now deal with a policy that gives preference to racial groups in part due to their higher unvaccinated numbers.
The problem for courts is that there is no reason to make race itself a factor as opposed to the medical conditions. Whether someone is obese is a fact that is entirely separate from their race. Either that condition exists or it does not exist.
New York could simply prioritize on the basis of those conditions regardless of race. Ironically, given the higher rate of these conditions in minority communities, there would still be a higher priority given to many minority patients. Yet, by dropping the race criteria, you avoid clearly discriminatory cases where someone with a more serious medical risk profile could be prioritized lower due to being white.
A court is likely to have difficulty with the use of racial classifications in light of the availability of race neutral factors based on the actual medical conditions.
Any challenge, however, could face a problem in establishing a record of race-based denials. The state seems to have taken a chapter from college admissions policies where racial preferences are difficult to challenge due to the inclusion with other factors. It is hard to establish that race as opposed to other factors was given the determinative weight.
Erin Silk, a spokesperson for the New York Department of Health, captured that argument in her telling response to Fox News:
A litigant, even proceeding under a declaratory judgment action, would need to show standing and an underlying injury. That could be difficult if the state uses race as one of a number of criteria. However, the reference to the algorithm is key. That programming will have to assign a weight given to the racial preferences. That could be easily established in discovery and the algorithmic discrimination could be the subject of an injunction.
This controversy is reminiscent of the litigation over racial preferences used by the Biden Administration under its controversial $4 billion race-based federal relief program for farmers. The awarding of relief based on race immediately raised objections of racial discrimination. As we discussed earlier, the exclusion has been struck down by judges in various states as racially discriminatory. What was particularly concerning was the discovery of a document that showed that the Biden Administration recognized that such racial preferences were presumptively unconstitutional.
New York is now proceeding on the same questionable course of using race preferences when it could base medical decisions on specific medical risk criteria.
It is not only legally problematic but practically unnecessary. It will only add more uncertainty and division over pandemic care at a time when the scarcity of testing kits and therapeutics are increasing tensions in the country.
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Health System in Michigan with over 99% Vaccination Compliance Rate has Nearly 700 Employees Test Positive with COVID-19 | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
Michigan’s largest health system reported that 686 of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 over the last seven days despite having a vaccination compliance rate of 99%.
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Health System in Michigan with over 99% Vaccination Compliance Rate has Nearly 700 Employees Test Positive with COVID-19
By Jim Hoft
Published January 5, 2022 at 7:45am
Michigan’s largest health system reported that 686 of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 over the last seven days despite having a vaccination compliance rate of 99%.
The Henry Ford Health System had nearly 700 employees test positive in one week and that’s about 2% of the total workforce. Sick employees are required to quarantine for seven days after showing their first symptoms and could be extended if their symptoms persist longer.
“In the last seven days, 686 team members have tested positive for Covid. This is a 3-fold increase since December,” Dr. Adnan Munkarah said on Henry Ford’s website. “We had to temporarily close 97 beds in three of our hospitals, mostly due to staffing challenges.”
Henry Ford Health System was the first health system in Michigan to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for its employees with a September 10, 2021, deadline.
Despite protests and the threat of litigation, 99% of the system’s 33,000 workers were fully or partially vaccinated.
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Germany: Double Vaccinated No Longer Allowed into Restaurants Without Taking Tests – Only Triple Vaxxed Allowed Inside
By Jim Hoft
Published January 5, 2022 at 9:15am
Germany will no longer allow the double vaccinated into restaurants starting next week. Only the triple vaccinated will be allowed inside.
EuroWeekly reported:
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Germany will no longer allow the double vaccinated into restaurants starting next week.
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Published January 5, 2022 at 9:15am
Germany will no longer allow the double vaccinated into restaurants starting next week. Only the triple vaccinated will be allowed inside.
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Macron Vows to 'Piss Off' Unvaxxed, Says Someone Who Refuses Covid Vaccine is 'Not a Citizen' | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday vowed to “piss off” the unvaxxed by making their lives miserable.
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Macron Vows to ‘Piss Off’ Unvaxxed, Says Someone Who Refuses Covid Vaccine is ‘Not a Citizen’
By Cristina Laila
Published January 5, 2022 at 10:30am
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday vowed to “piss off” the unvaxxed by making their lives miserable.
Macron also said someone who refuses the Covid vaccine is ‘not a citizen.’
“The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so, we’re going to continue doing so, until the end. That’s the strategy,” Macron said in an interview with Le Parisien.
“I won’t send (the unvaccinated) to prison, I won’t vaccinate by force. So we need to tell them, from Jan. 15, you won’t be able to go to the restaurant anymore, you won’t be able to down one, won’t be able to have a coffee, go to the theatre, the cinema…” he added.
A Covid passport will be required in order to enter restaurants, bars and theaters and other indoor venues beginning January 15.
Tourists visiting France will have to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test via a digital passport.
Macron’s ‘big stick’ approach to forcing vaccination includes threats of heavy fines and prison time for both business owners and patrons who don’t comply with his covid passport mandate.
Marine Le Pen responded to Macron’s dehumanization of the unvaxxed.
“A President shouldn’t say that. The guarantor of the unity of the nation persists in dividing it and assumes that he wants to make the unvaccinated second-class citizens. Emmanuel Macron is unworthy of his office. In April, I will be the President of all French people.” Le Pen said.
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Liberal Reporter Asks Psaki Why Biden Isn't "Focused More on Scolding the Unvaccinated" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
The dehumanization of the unvaccinated continues unabated.
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Liberal Reporter Asks Psaki Why Biden Isn’t “Focused More on Scolding the Unvaccinated” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Published January 5, 2022 at 1:17pm
The dehumanization of the unvaccinated continues unabated.
A liberal reporter on Wednesday asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki why Joe Biden isn’t “scolding” the unvaxxed.
White House press briefings are now limited to just fourteen reporters according to an announcement Sunday by the White House Correspondents’ Association because of fears about the Omicron COVID variant.
The entire White House Press Pool is now full of left-wing sycophants who are helping to promote the Biden Regime’s Communist takeover under the guise of Covid restrictions.
One of the 14 “approved” left-wing reporters was demanding Joe Biden make life miserable for the unvaxxed.
“Why hasn’t the president focused more on scolding the unvaccinated to try to tell them, ‘hey this is not working for society, you know, we keep getting these shutdowns,'” a reporter asked Psaki, referring to French President Macron’s vow to make life miserable for the unvaxxed.
“Not working for society”??
This is the US, not France.
A US President does not have the authority to tell Americans how to live and die.
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6th Circuit Refuses Biden's Request to Stay Order Blocking Federal Contractor Vax Mandate | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday refused to stay an injunction against a vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
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6th Circuit Refuses Biden’s Request to Stay Order Blocking Federal Contractor Vax Mandate
By Cristina Laila
Published January 5, 2022 at 6:10pm
The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday refused to stay an injunction against a vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
The 6th Circuit was split in a 2-1 decision: Majority: Suhrheinrich (George H. W. Bush appointee), Bush (Trump appointee). Dissent: Cole (Clinton appointee).
Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky filed a lawsuit against Biden and argued that nothing in the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act authorizes the contractor mandate and that the mandate violates several other federal statutes.
“In response, three states (Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee) and two Ohio sheriffs’ offices filed suit. They collectively alleged that nothing in the Property Act authorizes the contractor mandate, that the contractor mandate violates various other federal statutes, and that its intrusion upon traditional state prerogatives raises serious constitutional concerns under federalism principles and the Tenth Amendment. The district court agreed. It enjoined enforcement of the contractor mandate throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It also denied the subsequent motion of the federal-government defendants to stay the injunction pending appeal. The government now comes to us with the same request. But because the government has established none of the showings required to obtain a stay, we DENY such relief,” Judge Bush said in his opinion.
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There is a separate, parallel case making its way through the courts challenging the vaccine mandates for federal contractors.
A federal judge last month blocked Joe Biden’s vaccine requirement for federal contractors nationwide.
Judge Stan Baker in the US Court for the Southern District of Georgia, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction against Biden’s vaccine mandate.
The lawsuit, brought by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster along with other Republican attorneys general, argued Biden’s vaccine mandate violated the 10th Amendment.
The lawsuit also argued Biden’s vaccine mandate is unconstitutional because only Congress is allowed to make rules.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit did not stay that order, but ordred an expedited briefing.
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California Extends Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate Through February 15 Due to Omicron | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
California extended its statewide indoor mask mandate through at least February 15 due to Omicron (common cold with sniffles).
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California Extends Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate Through February 15 Due to Omicron
By Cristina Laila
Published January 5, 2022 at 6:31pm
California extended its statewide indoor mask mandate through at least February 15 due to Omicron (common cold with sniffles).
Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly made the announcement on Wednesday.
The most recent mask mandate in California went into effect on December 15 and was supposed to expire on January 15.
“Omicron is here,” Ghaly said in a briefing to reporters Wednesday. “We can’t abandon the tools that we’ve used to achieve our collective success throughout this pandemic.”
Dr. Ghaly told Californians to wear tight fitting masks with no gaps to protect against Omicron.
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COVID INSANITY: Scottish Newspaper Asks Readers if ‘COVID Internment Camps’ Should be Introduced
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Published January 5, 2022 at 8:20pm
The Daily Record, a highly influential Scotland newspaper asked its readers if the country should follow Australia’s lead and began introducing COVID internment camps.
In a Facebook post on Daily Record’s official page, they said, “Australians are being detained in Covid internment camps for 14 days if they test positive or are suspected positive. Should we follow their lead?”
The majority of individuals who responded were outraged. One user said, “What a disgrace of a question??? Surely the obvious answer to should there be INTERNMENT CAMPS always be a resounding NO!!!!!”
Another replied, “This headline is an all time low.”
One user answered, “Yes. We need protection from anyone who thinks this is a good idea. Put them there and some people at this news rag can lead the way.”
One individual replied, “That a national newspaper can consider such a question to be worthy of debate shows how far removed as a society we are now from having basic respect for human rights and liberty. To consider sending people to prison for a positive test which may not even be accurate. This is a scary echo of Germany in 1930’s.”
In December, three individuals escaped an Australian quarantine camp and were arrested. They scaled a fence to break out of the facility and were found after a manhunt was sent out for them.
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The Daily Record, a highly influential Scotland newspaperaskedits readers if the country should follow Australia’s lead and began introducing COVID internment camps.
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COVID INSANITY: Scottish Newspaper Asks Readers if ‘COVID Internment Camps’ Should be Introduced
By The Scoop
Published January 5, 2022 at 8:20pm
The Daily Record, a highly influential Scotland newspaper asked its readers if the country should follow Australia’s lead and began introducing COVID internment camps.
In a Facebook post on Daily Record’s official page, they said, “Australians are being detained in Covid internment camps for 14 days if they test positive or are suspected positive. Should we follow their lead?”
The majority of individuals who responded were outraged. One user said, “What a disgrace of a question??? Surely the obvious answer to should there be INTERNMENT CAMPS always be a resounding NO!!!!!”
Another replied, “This headline is an all time low.”
One user answered, “Yes. We need protection from anyone who thinks this is a good idea. Put them there and some people at this news rag can lead the way.”
One individual replied, “That a national newspaper can consider such a question to be worthy of debate shows how far removed as a society we are now from having basic respect for human rights and liberty. To consider sending people to prison for a positive test which may not even be accurate. This is a scary echo of Germany in 1930’s.”
In December, three individuals escaped an Australian quarantine camp and were arrested. They scaled a fence to break out of the facility and were found after a manhunt was sent out for them.
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Global research on Omicron COVID surge raises more questions about Biden's unvaccinated blame game
A new Canadian study found two-dose mRNA vaccines are "not protective against" the latest variant, while data from Denmark show reinfections among two-dose vaccine recipients have surpassed those of the unvaccinated.
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Global research on Omicron COVID surge raises more questions about Biden's unvaccinated blame game
A new Canadian study found two-dose mRNA vaccines are "not protective against" the latest variant, while data from Denmark show reinfections among two-dose vaccine recipients have surpassed those of the unvaccinated.
Updated: January 5, 2022 - 11:28pm
President Biden's oft-repeated belief that COVID-19 remains a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is running headlong into global data on the real-world performance of vaccines against the Omicron variant, which the CDC estimates now accounts for 19 in 20 U.S. infections.
A new study by Ontario, Canada's public health agency and health researchers at Canadian universities found that two-dose mRNA vaccines are "not protective against" the new variant, while the booster shot only improves effectiveness to 37% seven or more days later.
That's in stark contrast to the 93% effectiveness against the Delta variant they observed among vaccinated and boosted individuals seven or more days later. Researchers reviewed provincial data on 3,442 Omicron positives, 9,201 Delta positives and 471,545 "test-negative controls."
There were important differences between the populations testing positive for each variant. Omicron cases were 10 years younger on average, more likely to be male and two-dose vaccinated, and less likely to have "any comorbidities" or a booster, relative to controls. Delta cases were far less likely to be vaccinated at all, relative to controls.
Digging further into the preprint, which hasn't been peer-reviewed, California-based epidemiologist Tracy Hoeg was floored that two-dose vaccination actually reduced protection from reinfection by Omicron 38% four to six months after injection, and 42% by eight months.
"Why mandate?" Hoeg tweeted while acknowledging the Ontario Public Health study didn't look at vaccine effectiveness against severe COVID infections.
The Danish-American citizen highlighted official Denmark data suggesting two-dose vaccine recipients are "equally" protected against ICU admissions as boosted individuals. Their reinfections have surpassed those of the unvaccinated, however, and the boosted are "catching up."
Denmark also got attention Wednesday from the anonymous COVID data analyst known as "ianmSC," whose Twitter account is known for its original charts. It claimed the country, widely praised for its high vaccination rate, had set a single-day internal record for COVID cases.
While fact-checker Snopes branded the account's November tweet about a Vermont COVID spike "misleading," the Denmark chart appears to match the country's chart on the Reuters COVID-19 tracker. The wire service said Denmark reported 26,200 cases Wednesday, its largest single-day total.
"Assuming every person needs 2 doses," the country has administered enough vaccine doses to inoculate "about 105.4% of the country’s population," the Reuters tracker said.
It gave a lower estimate for fully vaccinated Danes — 78% — in a report on a new Danish government study. Researchers found Omicron was 2.7 to 3.7 times more infectious than Delta among vaccinated people in a study of nearly 12,000 Danish households.
The preprint concluded Omicron's rapid spread "can be ascribed to the immune evasiveness rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility," but that boosted individuals are less likely than the unvaccinated to transmit any variant.
British government data published shortly before Christmas found highly vaccinated individuals have a heightened susceptibility to Omicron infections, though the Office for National Statistics (ONS) didn't offer an explanation why.
The odds ratio for Omicron infection among COVID positives goes up for each vaccine dose: unvaccinated (1), one dose (1.57), two doses (2.26) and three doses (4.45). "It is too early to draw conclusions from our data on the effectiveness of vaccines against the Omicron variant," the ONS said.
It noted other factors that were also associated with Omicron: age groups 20-39, those living in urban or "deprived" areas, the previously infected and those who recently traveled abroad. "Some evidence" suggests self-identified ethnic minorities are more associated with Omicron than whites.
"These early results are based only on the first fortnight's data that have sufficient cases for analysis on the Omicron variant, so caution is advised," the ONS said. It emphasized that people who received any vaccine dose were still less likely to test positive for COVID, "regardless of variant."
Its sample only included "strong positives," defined as so-called PCR tests showing positives using a cycle threshold of 30 or lower.
Medical experts have long warned that common testing protocols were using cycle thresholds far above 30, which are prone to catch dead virus or negligible viral loads. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently reiterated that PCR tests can return positives up to 12 weeks after an infection clears.
The White House press office did not respond to Just the News requests to defend Biden's "pandemic of the unvaccinated" slogan in light of global data.
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More than 4,700 schools close this week despite Biden administration's plea to stay open
"We want schools to be open, the President wants them to be open, and we’re going to continue to use every resource and work to ensure that’s the case," Psaki said.
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More than 4,700 schools close this week despite Biden administration's plea to stay open
"We want schools to be open, the President wants them to be open, and we’re going to continue to use every resource and work to ensure that’s the case," Psaki said.
Updated: January 5, 2022 - 11:19pm
At least 4,738 public schools across the nation have had in-person classes disrupted this week due to COVID-19 concerns while the Biden administration calls on schools to remain open.
"As the President said yesterday, he wants schools to be open," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a briefing Wednesday. "We know they can be open safely, and we’re here to help make that happen. And he agrees with medical, scientific, and education experts that, because of the historic work we’ve done, we are more than equipped to ensure schools are open."
Psaki said that 96% of schools are open. Chicago Public Schools, one of the nation's largest districts, made headlines Wednesday after the teachers union voted to return to online learning.
"So, long story short: We want schools to be open, the President wants them to be open, and we’re going to continue to use every resource and work to ensure that’s the case," Psaki said.
A record number of more than 1 million new COVID cases were reported Monday in the United States. The peak is expected to come by the end of January, largely driven by the omicron variant.
The number of school closures is up from Tuesday when 3,229 K-12 public schools were disrupted, according to Burbio.
The White House has reportedly distributed $130 billion in funding to school districts for COVID "mitigation measures."
The Biden administration is also encouraging children to be vaccinated against COVID and instituted a test-to-stay policy to keep kids in schools. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday expanded Pfizer booster vaccine eligibility to children ages 12 to 15.
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COVID INSANITY: Scottish Newspaper Asks Readers if ‘COVID Internment Camps’ Should be Introduced | The Gateway Pundit | by The Scoop
The Daily Record, a highly influential Scotland newspaperaskedits readers if the country should follow Australia’s lead and began introducing COVID internment camps.
COVID INSANITY: Scottish Newspaper Asks Readers if ‘COVID Internment Camps’ Should be Introduced
By The Scoop
Published January 5, 2022 at 8:20pm
The Daily Record, a highly influential Scotland newspaper asked its readers if the country should follow Australia’s lead and began introducing COVID internment camps.
In a Facebook post on Daily Record’s official page, they said, “Australians are being detained in Covid internment camps for 14 days if they test positive or are suspected positive. Should we follow their lead?”
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The majority of individuals who responded were outraged. One user said, “What a disgrace of a question??? Surely the obvious answer to should there be INTERNMENT CAMPS always be a resounding NO!!!!!”
Another replied, “This headline is an all time low.”
One user answered, “Yes. We need protection from anyone who thinks this is a good idea. Put them there and some people at this news rag can lead the way.”
One individual replied, “That a national newspaper can consider such a question to be worthy of debate shows how far removed as a society we are now from having basic respect for human rights and liberty. To consider sending people to prison for a positive test which may not even be accurate. This is a scary echo of Germany in 1930’s.”
In December, three individuals escaped an Australian quarantine camp and were arrested. They scaled a fence to break out of the facility and were found after a manhunt was sent out for them.
I wonder if they called the camps by another name, how the people would have responded.
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6:39 min
Will Covid OMICRON Variant Wipeout DELTA and End the PANDEMIC?
Jan 5, 2022
Doctor Mike Hansen
Will Covid OMICRON Variant Wipeout DELTA and End the PANDEMIC?
There has been some good news with Omicron, as there have been several studies showing that this new variant is less likely to cause severe infection than the Delta. On the flip side, Omicron is WAY more contagious.
By far, the most contagious COVID variant has already become the dominant strain in America, making up 95% of cases.
A study from Hong Kong found that Omicron replicates 70 times faster in human airways, but lung infection was less severe.
Although Omicron may not cause as severe an infection, it does cause more infections.
So will that translate into more hospitalizations?
Most likely, depending on how well the virus is controlled.
Recently, the CDC: updated its guidelines for the Covid isolation period, shortening it from 10 days to five days if you're not having symptoms.
This is because the likelihood of asymptomatic people transmitting the virus on days 6-10 after infection is much lower.
Especially when we're now dealing with a variant that generally causes milder illness.
But the first 5 days are when it is highly likely to spread, so it has to be controlled.
This is how the virus eventually causes some people to end up in the hospital, in which there are record numbers right now. It spreads while flying under the radar.
Covid hospitalizations reached a record high of more than 142,000 about a year ago, then went over 100,000 again back in September.
It dipped to 45,000 in November but has gone up steadily since then. Last Monday, it was 71,000 hospitalizations.
At the same time, you have fewer available health care workers to take care of these patients 1) because they are catching COVID as well 2) more and more are quitting because they are simply burnt out. So you have more ER visits and hospitalizations, with worsening staffing shortages, not a good combination.
Also, there is a concern that when it comes to toddlers, omicron infection might resemble croup, as more of upper airway disease, or possibly resemble RSV infection where it causes bronchiolitis, meaning inflammation of the small airways in the lungs. This might explain why we are seeing more hospitalizations in young children.
Now to some good news, in a new study, it looks like infection with Omicron helps people fend off future omicron and delta infections.
And if that is the case, and because Omicron is the most dominant strain, there is real potential that the pandemic could soon start to fade away.
This is based on a recent, yet to be published, yet-to-be peer-reviewed study that was done in South Africa.
At the Africa Health Research Institute, researchers took blood samples from 13 people who were infected with Omicron, all of them having symptoms. The researchers then took the antibodies from those blood samples, put them in a test tube, and mixed them with different covid variants, including Delta and Omicron. This is called a neutralization test. 7 of the 13 people were previously vaccinated, while 6 were not. The researchers then repeated this process 2 weeks after their initial infection.
The results showed something expected and something not expected.
What was expected was the antibody response to Omicron. The antibodies neutralized Omicron in the test tube 14-fold at the 2-week mark.
What was unexpected is that the participants developed some enhanced immunity against the Delta variant, with Delta neutralization increasing over 4-fold.
The researchers also showed that those who were previously vaccinated could mount a better neutralizing response against Delta, while the response in unvaccinated participants was more variable. Was this a perfect study? No. far from it.
Three main issues. 1) only 13 people, so super small study here. 2) I don't know who did or did not have a previous infection. 3) this study strictly looks at antibody neutralization, which only tells part of the story regarding the body's immune defense.
It is very possible that the Omicron infections simply amplified the existing immunity in the volunteers in the study, provided either by vaccinations or previous infections. If that's the case, then it remains to be seen what will happen to unvaccinated people who get infected with COVID for the first time with Omicron.
But if further experiments confirm the findings in this study, that could mean that this pandemic will fade away.
In the short term, especially in January and February, Omicron will put a huge strain on economies and health care systems. But in the long term, Omicron Dominated world might significantly lower the number of hospitalizations and deaths, especially as Delta is pushed out.
Doctor Mike Hansen, MD Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMSsLqxqvZsNXi0Z-VjN89A
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5:24 min
Biden doing a ‘disservice’ to public health: Adm. Brett Giroi
Jan 5, 2022
Fox News
Former White Coronavirus Task Force member Admiral Brett Giroir reacts to President Biden’s claim that the U.S. is experiencing a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated.’
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15:24 min
414 - The Disappointing State of Global Vaccination for COVID-19
Jan 5, 2022
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
In September 2020, President Biden pledged to vaccinate 70% of the world’s population by September 2021. More than a year later, however, the US has delivered about 270 million of the 11 billion doses needed to vaccinate the planet. Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University professor and public health expert, returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about how things have gone so wrong, why he isn’t optimistic about vaccination equity improvements in 2022, and how vaccine manufacturers could be doing so much more to help.
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27:38 min
Omicron, as anticipated
Jan 5, 2022
Dr. John Campbell
One in 15 people in England infected https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati... had coronavirus in Final week of 2021 (5 January 2022) One in 15 people in England would have tested positive London (1 in 10 people) South West of England (1 in 30) England – 3,270,800 people (1 in 15) Wales – 157,900 people (1 in 20) Northern Ireland – 72,900 people (1 in 25) Scotland – 238,000 people (1 in 20) Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths fall in England and Wales Week ending 24 December 2021 England and Wales, deaths 591 deaths from COVID-19 registered, (1 in every 22 deaths or 4.5%) Previous week 755 deaths, (6.1% of all deaths registered
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Walensky Vs. Fauci Continues After CDC Director Says 'No Plans' To Change Definition Of 'Fully Vaccinated'
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 04:04 PM
Update (1605ET): After a week of America's top health officials talking across each other, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stated on Wednesday that the agency won't change the definition of "fully vaccinated" to include a Covid-19 booster shot - once again 'clarifying' for comments made by Dr. Anthony Fauci (see below), who suggested on Tuesday the the language was being replaced.
So while the definition of fully vaccinated will continue to mean one has received their primary course of vaccines, the CDC will start pushing the term "up to date," to encourage people to get boosted.
White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients elaborated, saying "Someone is considered fully vaccinated if they have received their primary series of vaccines, so if you think about the different requirements that you mentioned, travel, [Occupational Safety and Health Administration], [and Centers for Medicaid & Medicare] rules and other examples, that has not changed and we do not have any plans to change that."
More from Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times:
Inside the United States, a growing number of businesses and organizations—namely universities—have begun to mandate boosters as a condition for employment or for entering buildings.
Among those businesses, Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer, who is the CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group, said on Dec. 22 that starting “immediately,” several of his businesses “are going to be requiring that 100 percent of our staff members have a booster within 30 days of their eligibility.”
Already in Israel, individuals have to show proof they’ve received a booster dose, or a third shot, of the Pfizer vaccine in order to enter certain businesses including gyms and restaurants. No cities or municipalities in the United States have issued similar mandates yet, although New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said he is weighing COVID-19 boosters for city employees.
“If we feel we have to get to the place of making that mandatory, we’re willing to do that, but we’re encouraging them to do that now,” Adams told ABC News. “If we close down our city, it is as dangerous as COVID,” Adams added. “That’s what our focus must be. So that proper balance of safety [and] keeping our economy operated is going to allow us to get through.”
* * *
A few weeks ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci hinted that the federal government would soon change its definition of "fully vaccinated" to include not just the two original shots but at least one booster dose as well.
But in the latest indication that Dr. Fauci has succeeded in pushing this scheme, the good doctor said Tuesday during a lecture at the National Institutes of Health that new terminology would be used in place of the "fully vaccinated" language. Instead of referring to somebody as "fully vaccinated", they will be referred to as having their vaccinations "up to date" to reflect the notion that they have gotten their booster shots.
This follows a decision by the CDC on Tuesday to shorten the time frame for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID booster jab, which can now be administered within five months of the initial two-shot series, instead of six. Meanwhile, a CDC advisory panel is expected to recommend boosters for teenagers during a meeting on Wednesday.
According to certain research studies, Pfizer's vaccine provides a 25x increase in neutralizing antibodies that fight the variant while Moderna's booster produces a 37x increase in antibodies. Meanwhile, two doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine cut hospitalizations in South Africa by 85%.
Dr. Fauci made his remark about the new terminology for people who have had all their shots in response to a question about Israel's plans to dole out a fourth shot.
The only question now is how much longer until the US green lights a fourth shot (and then a fifth, and then a sixth) much like Israel is doing...
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Quebec Under Curfew, Unvaxx'd Banned From Buying Booze, Marijuana
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 11:00 PM
Quebec reimposed a nighttime curfew beginning New Year's Eve as COVID-19 infections surged. Restaurants in the Canadian province only offer takeout service, while Gyms, bars, and movie theaters have been closed for days.
As the media and government drum up another COVID scare, Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault wants to punish unvaccinated people for the soaring infections despite 85% of the residents in the province being vaccinated.
This week, Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault is expected to announce more restrictive measures towards unvaccinated people, such as banning them from purchasing hard liquor and marijuana.
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On Tuesday, the Journal de Montreal reported that "there was still some discussion to fine-tune the passport enforcement" at entrances or cash registers to block the unvaccinated from entering liquor and cannabis stores.
Vaccine passports have been required to access non-essential businesses such as theaters, bars and restaurants, casinos, conventions and conferences, places of worship, and sports facilities. If Legault goes ahead with the move, unvaccinated will only be able to purchase beer and wine.
"Time and time again, the government has said it does not intend to force officials to be vaccinated," the local paper said. However, through indirect ways, it's making life for the unvaccinated into a living hell, with an end goal to make them eventually concede and get jabbed.
What's ironic is that the new vaccine requirement at liquor and cannabis stores will only apply to unvaccinated shoppers but not employees.
The fact that authorities in Quebec are using "totalitarian" methods to make the lives of unvaccinated people miserable and instill fear in the overall population as the less severe Omicron variant sweeps across the world is nothing short of disgusting.
The Canadian government has even admitted to launching a psychological operations campaign against their own people to manipulate them into vaccine compliance.
The use of fear by the government and corporate media has definitely been ethically questionable. On Sunday, a convoy of police rolled around Montreal with flashing lights and sirens telling people to go home or get fined for breaking curfew.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1477509777269743616
.45 min
What's happening is a pandemic power grab by elites who use mass formation psychosis to hypnotize the population through fear into being their subservient slaves.
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Quebec Under Curfew, Unvaxx'd Banned From Buying Booze, Marijuana
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 11:00 PM
Quebec reimposed a nighttime curfew beginning New Year's Eve as COVID-19 infections surged. Restaurants in the Canadian province only offer takeout service, while Gyms, bars, and movie theaters have been closed for days.
As the media and government drum up another COVID scare, Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault wants to punish unvaccinated people for the soaring infections despite 85% of the residents in the province being vaccinated.
This week, Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault is expected to announce more restrictive measures towards unvaccinated people, such as banning them from purchasing hard liquor and marijuana.
'On Tuesday, the Journal de Montreal reported that "there was still some discussion to fine-tune the passport enforcement" at entrances or cash registers to block the unvaccinated from entering liquor and cannabis stores.
Vaccine passports have been required to access non-essential businesses such as theaters, bars and restaurants, casinos, conventions and conferences, places of worship, and sports facilities. If Legault goes ahead with the move, unvaccinated will only be able to purchase beer and wine.
"Time and time again, the government has said it does not intend to force officials to be vaccinated," the local paper said. However, through indirect ways, it's making life for the unvaccinated into a living hell, with an end goal to make them eventually concede and get jabbed.
What's ironic is that the new vaccine requirement at liquor and cannabis stores will only apply to unvaccinated shoppers but not employees.
The fact that authorities in Quebec are using "totalitarian" methods to make the lives of unvaccinated people miserable and instill fear in the overall population as the less severe Omicron variant sweeps across the world is nothing short of disgusting.
The Canadian government has even admitted to launching a psychological operations campaign against their own people to manipulate them into vaccine compliance.
The use of fear by the government and corporate media has definitely been ethically questionable. On Sunday, a convoy of police rolled around Montreal with flashing lights and sirens telling people to go home or get fined for breaking curfew.
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1477509777269743616
.45 min
What's happening is a pandemic power grab by elites who use mass formation psychosis to hypnotize the population through fear into being their subservient slaves.
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Thousands Of Cops Deployed To Quell Public Anger In China's Locked Down Xi'an Amid Widespread Food Shortages
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 10:20 PM
Tens of thousands of police officers were deployed to China's Xi'an where public anger has exploded among the city's 13 million residents who were left bargaining and bartering for essential foodstuffs amid ongoing food shortages, as the city entered its 13th day of lockdown amid a wave of COVID-19 cases.
As some people took to social media to appeal for assistance as their food supplies ran low, or they were unable to access medical care, others started local trading networks in residential compounds to try to meet each other's needs through bartering.
"Everything is getting bartered in Xi'an," a resident of the city told RFA.
"People are swapping stuff with others in the same building, because they no longer have enough food to eat." Another resident said in a video clip that some people were trading cigarettes and iPhones for bags of rice.
"We now have a barter system in our residential compound," the man says in the clip. "We had a bag of rice, and the neighbor wanted to trade ... a smartphone and a tablet."
"We have six bags of rice in our home but no vegetables."
According to Radio Free Asia, authorities in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an have called for calm, as many in Xi'an are taking to social media complaining that they were unable to get sufficient food supplies after being ordered to stay in their homes.
To contain any civil unrest, city authorities have deployed around 29,000 police officers to enforce the lockdown, while countless local security guards are preventing people from entering or leaving areas designated high or medium risk. One video clip that made the rounds on social media showed security guards beating a teenager in the lobby of a building because he went out to buy steamed buns.
"I was hungry, so I came out to get some mantou," the youngster is heard telling the guards, who beat and kick him, knocking his food to the ground. City authorities later said the guards had been punished.
Residents were initially told they would be allowed to send a designated person to buy groceries every other day, but many have since told RFA that the security guards in many areas aren't allowing anyone to leave.
Those who can make it out to buy supplies are finding that prices have skyrocketed, especially of fresh fruit and vegetables, despite a well publicized effort by the government and volunteers to bring fresh produce into the city in large quantities to hand out to beleaguered residents.
One video clip posted to social media showed a man who said he had paid around 40 yuan for 10 capsicum peppers, the same amount for six tomatoes and 40 yuan for two cabbages.
"The vegetable vendor must be making a fortune," the man complains, while showing his haul to friends.
State media, which is tightly controlled by the ruling Communist Party, reported on a line of trucks hauling a selection of vegetables, fresh fruit and pork belly into residential households in one part of the city on Dec. 29, delivering fresh food to around 180 households.
But the address given in the news report was tracked down by social media users, who discovered it was a residential compound for employees of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress and the Xi'an municipal government, prompting a public outcry on social media.
A Xi'an resident surnamed Song said the food given to the families of officials looked luxurious compared with what regular people are getting: "They were spoiled for choice when it comes vegetables," Song said. "Where can regular people find stuff like that?"
"I managed to get one head of Chinese leaves, a zucchini, four bell peppers, three heads of garlic, a piece of ginger, two scallions and three potatoes," she said.
According to the Shaanxi provincial government, a total of 41,000 police officers have been dispatched to Xi'an to maintain public order, with 29,000 of those deployed to Xi'an, 20,352 of whom are working in residential compounds. Some 4,000 are operating traffic roadblocks, while others are guarding hotels or COVID-19 testing sites.
A Shaanxi scholar who gave the surname Tian said the government's top priority in times of crisis is always maintaining public order and social stability, rather than looking after the needs of ordinary people.
"They used this total lockdown method on Wuhan last year, but Omicron is still going strong," Han said. "Yet the rates of fatality and severe disease are both very low."
"I don't think this Xi'an lockdown is about disease prevention," he said. "It's more about controlling the population."
State news agency Xinhua reported that China had 161 confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide on Monday, 101 of which were locally transmitted.
New cases in Xi'an fell to their lowest in a week, health officials said Sunday, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pursues a "zero COVID" approach involving tight border restrictions and swift, targeted lockdowns.
Zhang Canyou of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that several rounds of testing in Xi'an had showed there are "some positive changes" in case numbers, which have dipped since the lockdown began.
Meanwhile, to contain speculation that Beijing is only enforcing lockdowns "to control the population", amid the widespread outcry about the draconian lockdown measures, the official local news platform of Xi’an said a hospital’s wrongdoings amid the lockdown led to miscarriage of a pregnant woman and requires the hospital "to compensate and apologize." And just to make everything better, the hospital’s general manager was suspended and two department heads fired.
Liu Shunzhi, head of the city’s health commission, received a warning from the Communist Party for malpractice in emergency treatment during the Covid outbreak. It wasn't clear just what the "malpractice" was.
And just like that everything in Xi'an is back to abnormal.
Oh, and then just a few moments ago, this hit: China's Xian Xianyang International Airport Suspends All International Passenger Flights From Jan 5. Because things are clearly under control.
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Thousands Of Cops Deployed To Quell Public Anger In China's Locked Down Xi'an Amid Widespread Food Shortages
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 10:20 PM
Tens of thousands of police officers were deployed to China's Xi'an where public anger has exploded among the city's 13 million residents who were left bargaining and bartering for essential foodstuffs amid ongoing food shortages, as the city entered its 13th day of lockdown amid a wave of COVID-19 cases.
As some people took to social media to appeal for assistance as their food supplies ran low, or they were unable to access medical care, others started local trading networks in residential compounds to try to meet each other's needs through bartering.
"Everything is getting bartered in Xi'an," a resident of the city told RFA.
"People are swapping stuff with others in the same building, because they no longer have enough food to eat." Another resident said in a video clip that some people were trading cigarettes and iPhones for bags of rice.
"We now have a barter system in our residential compound," the man says in the clip. "We had a bag of rice, and the neighbor wanted to trade ... a smartphone and a tablet."
"We have six bags of rice in our home but no vegetables."
According to Radio Free Asia, authorities in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an have called for calm, as many in Xi'an are taking to social media complaining that they were unable to get sufficient food supplies after being ordered to stay in their homes.
To contain any civil unrest, city authorities have deployed around 29,000 police officers to enforce the lockdown, while countless local security guards are preventing people from entering or leaving areas designated high or medium risk. One video clip that made the rounds on social media showed security guards beating a teenager in the lobby of a building because he went out to buy steamed buns.
"I was hungry, so I came out to get some mantou," the youngster is heard telling the guards, who beat and kick him, knocking his food to the ground. City authorities later said the guards had been punished.
Residents were initially told they would be allowed to send a designated person to buy groceries every other day, but many have since told RFA that the security guards in many areas aren't allowing anyone to leave.
Those who can make it out to buy supplies are finding that prices have skyrocketed, especially of fresh fruit and vegetables, despite a well publicized effort by the government and volunteers to bring fresh produce into the city in large quantities to hand out to beleaguered residents.
One video clip posted to social media showed a man who said he had paid around 40 yuan for 10 capsicum peppers, the same amount for six tomatoes and 40 yuan for two cabbages.
"The vegetable vendor must be making a fortune," the man complains, while showing his haul to friends.
State media, which is tightly controlled by the ruling Communist Party, reported on a line of trucks hauling a selection of vegetables, fresh fruit and pork belly into residential households in one part of the city on Dec. 29, delivering fresh food to around 180 households.
But the address given in the news report was tracked down by social media users, who discovered it was a residential compound for employees of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress and the Xi'an municipal government, prompting a public outcry on social media.
A Xi'an resident surnamed Song said the food given to the families of officials looked luxurious compared with what regular people are getting: "They were spoiled for choice when it comes vegetables," Song said. "Where can regular people find stuff like that?"
"I managed to get one head of Chinese leaves, a zucchini, four bell peppers, three heads of garlic, a piece of ginger, two scallions and three potatoes," she said.
According to the Shaanxi provincial government, a total of 41,000 police officers have been dispatched to Xi'an to maintain public order, with 29,000 of those deployed to Xi'an, 20,352 of whom are working in residential compounds. Some 4,000 are operating traffic roadblocks, while others are guarding hotels or COVID-19 testing sites.
A Shaanxi scholar who gave the surname Tian said the government's top priority in times of crisis is always maintaining public order and social stability, rather than looking after the needs of ordinary people.
Commentator Han Dapeng said the lockdown doesn't appear to be preventing the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, however.
"They used this total lockdown method on Wuhan last year, but Omicron is still going strong," Han said. "Yet the rates of fatality and severe disease are both very low."
"I don't think this Xi'an lockdown is about disease prevention," he said. "It's more about controlling the population."
State news agency Xinhua reported that China had 161 confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide on Monday, 101 of which were locally transmitted.
New cases in Xi'an fell to their lowest in a week, health officials said Sunday, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pursues a "zero COVID" approach involving tight border restrictions and swift, targeted lockdowns.
Zhang Canyou of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that several rounds of testing in Xi'an had showed there are "some positive changes" in case numbers, which have dipped since the lockdown began.
Meanwhile, to contain speculation that Beijing is only enforcing lockdowns "to control the population", amid the widespread outcry about the draconian lockdown measures, the official local news platform of Xi’an said a hospital’s wrongdoings amid the lockdown led to miscarriage of a pregnant woman and requires the hospital "to compensate and apologize." And just to make everything better, the hospital’s general manager was suspended and two department heads fired.
Liu Shunzhi, head of the city’s health commission, received a warning from the Communist Party for malpractice in emergency treatment during the Covid outbreak. It wasn't clear just what the "malpractice" was.
And just like that everything in Xi'an is back to abnormal.
Oh, and then just a few moments ago, this hit: China's Xian Xianyang International Airport Suspends All International Passenger Flights From Jan 5. Because things are clearly under control.
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Ningbo Port Activity Grinds To A Halt As China Outbreak Worsens
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 07:00 PM
After authorities found more COVID cases in Ningbo, a port city and industrial hub home to one of the world's largest ports, residents are facing a partial lockdown, and reports claim that movement of essential products has been dramatically slowed as the lockdown measures slow activity at the port.
Beijing has managed to keep reports about the situation mostly under wraps, but reports in Bloomberg and several trade journals have warned that the slowdowns at the port could have wide-ranging ramifications for international commerce.
Right now, lockdowns are affecting Xi'an and Yuzhou along with the Ningbo port, Chinese sources said. In Yuzhou, which has a population of 1.1M, authorities shut down its transport system and all but essential food stores closed overnight.
The strict lockdown measures come as Beijing braces for both the Winter Olympics and the Lunar New Year. With exactly a month to go until the Games start, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin assured reporters China had "formulated an efficient and highly effective defense system".
Part of this system will involve thousands of staff and volunteers entering a bubble on Tuesday, which will see them have no physical contact with the outside world in order to limit the spread.
Athletes and members of the press who cover the Games will also enter the bubble on arrival in China, where they will remain for the duration of their stay.
In Yuzhou, situated some some 434 miles south-west of Beijing, officials said that "to curb and quash the epidemic within the shortest amount of time is a high-priority political task" for the local government.
Some people pointed out that the CCP's lockdown measures might actually be making the situation worse: "People are swapping stuff with others in the same building, because they no longer have enough food to eat," one man who spoke with Radio Free Asia on the condition of anonymity said.
The news outlet also reported that another man had wanted to trade a smartphone and tablet for rice, according to the BBC.
What Beijing calls its "dynamic zero COVID" strategy combines mass vaccinations with a regime of constant testing, nationwide monitoring of people's movements, temperature-taking and smartphone apps to prove individuals don't pose a threat. This hyper-vigilance has left doctors exhausted.
Perhaps this is why the activity at the Ningbo port has slowed: one trade journal covering the business of commerce said that while no COVID cases have been reported at any of the port's three container terminals, closures at warehouses and the container depot, as well as trucking disruptions, have made it difficult for manufacturers and suppliers to get their goods from the port, or to the port.
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Ningbo Port Activity Grinds To A Halt As China Outbreak Worsens
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 07:00 PM
After authorities found more COVID cases in Ningbo, a port city and industrial hub home to one of the world's largest ports, residents are facing a partial lockdown, and reports claim that movement of essential products has been dramatically slowed as the lockdown measures slow activity at the port.
Beijing has managed to keep reports about the situation mostly under wraps, but reports in Bloomberg and several trade journals have warned that the slowdowns at the port could have wide-ranging ramifications for international commerce.
Right now, lockdowns are affecting Xi'an and Yuzhou along with the Ningbo port, Chinese sources said. In Yuzhou, which has a population of 1.1M, authorities shut down its transport system and all but essential food stores closed overnight.
The strict lockdown measures come as Beijing braces for both the Winter Olympics and the Lunar New Year. With exactly a month to go until the Games start, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin assured reporters China had "formulated an efficient and highly effective defense system".
Part of this system will involve thousands of staff and volunteers entering a bubble on Tuesday, which will see them have no physical contact with the outside world in order to limit the spread.
Athletes and members of the press who cover the Games will also enter the bubble on arrival in China, where they will remain for the duration of their stay.
In Yuzhou, situated some some 434 miles south-west of Beijing, officials said that "to curb and quash the epidemic within the shortest amount of time is a high-priority political task" for the local government.
Some people pointed out that the CCP's lockdown measures might actually be making the situation worse: "People are swapping stuff with others in the same building, because they no longer have enough food to eat," one man who spoke with Radio Free Asia on the condition of anonymity said.
The news outlet also reported that another man had wanted to trade a smartphone and tablet for rice, according to the BBC.
What Beijing calls its "dynamic zero COVID" strategy combines mass vaccinations with a regime of constant testing, nationwide monitoring of people's movements, temperature-taking and smartphone apps to prove individuals don't pose a threat. This hyper-vigilance has left doctors exhausted.
Perhaps this is why the activity at the Ningbo port has slowed: one trade journal covering the business of commerce said that while no COVID cases have been reported at any of the port's three container terminals, closures at warehouses and the container depot, as well as trucking disruptions, have made it difficult for manufacturers and suppliers to get their goods from the port, or to the port.
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The Defenestration Of Dr. Robert Malone
WEDNESDAY, JAN 05, 2022 - 07:20 PM
Commentary authored by John Mac Ghlionn via The Epoch Times,
Dr. Robert Malone is a U.S. virologist and immunologist who has dedicated his professional existence to the development of mRNA vaccines.
In the 1980s, Malone worked as a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he conducted studies on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. In the early 1990s, Malone collaborated with Jon A. Wolff and Dennis A. Carson, two eminent scientists, on a study that involved synthesization.
In fact, Malone is the father of mRNA vaccines. He has served as an adjunct associate professor of biotechnology at Kennesaw State University, and he co-founded Atheric Pharmaceutical, a company that was contracted by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in 2016.
As you can see, Malone is no ordinary man. In fact, he’s a rather extraordinary man. Before embarking on a distinguished career in science, Malone worked as a carpenter and as a farmhand. Becoming a doctor was a lofty aspiration, but through hard work and determination, his dream became a reality. Over the course of three decades, Malone has established himself as one of the most competent people in the fields of virology and immunology.
Dr. Robert Malone (L) speaks at the Global Covid Summit in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 18, 2021. (Courtesy of Global Covid Summit/Screenshot via NTD)
Why, then, is he considered “a pariah” (in his own words) by so many of his peers? Why did Twitter recently suspend his account?
Malone is arguably the most qualified person in the world to speak on what we as a society should and shouldn’t be doing during the pandemic. Yet for reasons that will become abundantly clear, he finds himself ostracized, largely silenced, and cut off from the scientific community. Why?
Two months before his Twitter account was suspended, Malone wrote a rather prophetic Twitter post:
He finished by warning that this is “not a conspiracy theory” but “a fact.” He urged us all to “wake up.”
Sadly, many of us are still asleep.
In my research for this piece, it seems clear to me that Malone has been silenced, not because he’s some quack spouting nonsense, but because he challenged—and still challenges—the overarching narrative about vaccines and the lethality of COVID-19.
Malone was recently interviewed by Joe Rogan. For the uninitiated, Rogan is the host of one of the most influential podcasts in the world. At one point during the three-hour interview, Malone referred to Dr. Anthony Fauci as Tony Fauci, a man he knows personally. Malone, in other words, knows where all the skeletons are hidden. The same is true for Dr. Peter McCullough, another world-renowned expert who has appeared on Rogan’s podcast.
Prior to writing this piece, I consulted both Malone and McCullough.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a briefing at the White House on Dec. 1, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Over the course of the past 18 months, Malone has been painted as some kind of anti-vax fringe scientist, a man of questionable merit who’s spouting nonsense.
Well, he’s not. Malone happens to be vaccinated. All he has ever asked for is the chance to have frank and honest discussions on vaccines.
In his own words, vaccines have “saved lives. Many lives.”
“But it is also increasingly clear that there are some risks associated with these vaccines,” Malone said. “Various governments have attempted to deny that this is the case. But they are wrong. Vaccination-associated coagulation is a risk.
Cardiotoxicity is a risk. Those are proven and discussed in official USG communications, as well as communications from a variety of other governments.”
Malone isn’t a crazed conspiracy theorist: He’s a man who’s intimately familiar with the benefits and the risks of vaccines. He’s a proponent of informed consent. Perhaps before letting someone inject a vaccine into your body, you should be fully informed of the risks involved, he says. He isn’t an unreasonable man.
Nevertheless, in this age of faux outrage and fabricated storylines, society needs a fall guy, a boogie man, a sacrificial lamb. Malone fits the bill. He knows too much. It’s much easier to discredit a decorated physician—who challenges the overarching narrative—than it is to actually debate him.
Zero Degrees of Separation
The story goes deeper. In 2019, the BBC established the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a partnership that now includes organizations such as Facebook, Twitter, Reuters, and The Washington Post. We’re told that it was established to tackle “disinformation in real time.” TNI was ostensibly designed to wage a war on “fake news.”
Upon closer inspection, however, it appears to have been designed to promote very specific narratives and to silence any dissenting voices, such as Malone’s.
Instead of trusting the TNI, we should question the motives of its members.
After all, The Washington Post recently published a piece asking people to stop criticizing President Joe Biden. The message is clear: Stop being mean to the president, even if the president is being mean to you (on more than one occasion).
Then, there’s James C. Smith, chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He sits on the board of directors for Pfizer, a company that’s responsible for the creation of vaccines with questionable efficacy and that has a history of manipulating data. In short, Pfizer is a company with a questionable reputation.
Nevertheless, Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla was recently named CNN’s Business CEO of the Year. Make of that what you will.
When one thinks of TNI (and the mainstream media in general), various terms instantly spring to mind. “Objectivity” isn’t one of them. “Highly compromised” and “conflict of interest” do come to mind, however.
Speaking of objectivity, or the lack thereof, in August 2021, The Atlantic ran a much-cited hit piece on Malone, which was high on accusations, but low on actual evidence. It attacked his character and credibility—repeatedly. Rather intriguingly, the article, like all of The Atlantic’s COVID-19 articles, was funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The former is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation owns stock in Johnson & Johnson, a company whose vaccine has been associated with the development of blood clots—the very thing Malone has been warning us about for the better part of two years.
People might scoff. But contrary to popular belief, democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in broad daylight. Its death is slow and protracted, one by a thousand cuts rather than by one fatal stab.
As author Steve Levitsky once wrote, democracies don’t often die at the hands of military generals, “but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power.”
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion,” he wrote. “Would-be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters, and especially security threats—wars, armed insurgencies, or terrorist attacks—to justify antidemocratic measures.”
Apply these lines to the pandemic, and Levitsky’s words carry more weight than ever before.
In the United States, one must not question the efficacy of masks, vaccines for kids, the logic (or lack thereof) of lockdowns, or the unconstitutional nature of vaccine mandates. What about the little matter of vaccine breakthrough deaths?
Don’t ask any questions.
But wait, if science can’t be questioned, doesn’t this make it propaganda? Hush now. Don’t you love America? Don’t you want people to live, rather than die?
Then shut up and get the vaccine, then the booster shot, then the booster-booster shot. We, the arbiters of truth, know what’s best for you. Somewhat ironically, these self-appointed arbiters of truth spout no shortage of lies.
Is it any surprise, then, that more and more Americans continue to lose faith in the mainstream media and the government? Yet here we are, being condescended to by the likes of CNN’s Don Lemon and MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. Worse still, we’re supposed to take orders from Fauci, a man who supposedly represents science, yet goes out of his way to smear scientists. Why would a man of science attack the very thing that he’s supposed to represent?
A stock photo of social media platform icons in a mobile device. (Pixabay/Pexels)
According to numerous reports, Fauci has repeatedly deceived the American people. It’s important to remember that Fauci is, first and foremost, a talking head for the U.S. government. In reality, he’s a politician with a medical degree.
To quote the author Gillian Flynn, the author of “Gone Girl”: “The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.”
Who better than Fauci, a highly qualified individual with his own fan club? But don’t be fooled. Fauci might act like he answers to no one, but he does. He answers to the U.S. government. Who, then, does the government answer to? Big Pharma, it seems.
In 2019, the Roosevelt Institute published a fascinating report, “The Cost of Capture: How the Pharmaceutical Industry has Corrupted Policy Makers and Harmed Patients.” The report outlines the many ways in which the pharmaceutical industry has shaped policies through corporate capture. This is a phenomenon that sees private industries use their significant financial and political influence to manipulate a state’s decision-making apparatus. The report warned about the dangers of lobbying and of deeply flawed medical research.
What we’re seeing is the convergence of Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Government. Let’s call it the unholy trinity, with Big Tech doing the bidding of Big Government, and Big Government doing the bidding of Big Pharma.
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, YouTube has removed the Joe Rogan episodes featuring Robert Malone and Peter McCullough. Why? Because when it comes to viruses and vaccines, these are among the most notable and accomplished experts in the world. They appear to know things that the government doesn’t want us to know. Additionally, Google, the owner of YouTube, appears to be closely involved with the U.S. government.
What we’re left with is the equivalent of a digital dictatorship, with even the most qualified people being silenced, ostracized, and, in some cases, defenestrated.
Robert Malone is a wise man, an honest man, and a highly credible man. The grief that has come his way—and continues to come his way to this day—is unwarranted. But as he knows only too well, this is the price one must pay for challenging the unholy trinity.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Ret. Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke: Military Vaccine Mandate Hurts Readiness
Ryan Zinke said the Biden administration's imposition of a vaccine mandate on the military "reduces our capaicty as a nation to fight."
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Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, a Republican candidate running to represent Montana’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and a retired Navy SEAL, said the Biden administration’s imposition of a coronavirus vaccine mandate upon the military undermines America’s national security.
“It reduces our capacity as a nation to fight,” Zinke stated. “It’s a signal for those that could be a SEAL — or certainly have the potential — that do have a religious exemption or oppose an experimental vaccination.”
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He added, “It’s a hit on our national security.”
Military mandates for coronavirus vaccines violate the Constitution, Zinke held.'
He remarked, “It boils down to the Constitution. The irony of it is that everyone that serves has an oath to defend this Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and they have a right, on orders they feel that are unlawful, not to follow, not to follow them.”
“In this case, the SEALs, I don’t mean to speak for them, but I surmise that they are viewing this mandate as unlawful, and therefore they have an obligation not to follow an unlawful order,” he added.
He concluded, “It’s a slap in the face for any administration to actually go after these guys, and really for political purposes, because the science, especially on this new variant, is really not in place.”
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Bhakdi/Burkhardt pathology results show 93% of people who died after being vaccinated were killed by the vaccine
The vaccine was implicated in 93% of the deaths in the patients they examined. What's troubling is the coroner didn't implicate the vaccine in any of those deaths.
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Bhakdi/Burkhardt pathology results show 93% of people who died after being vaccinated were killed by the vaccine
The vaccine was implicated in 93% of the deaths in the patients they examined. What's troubling is the coroner didn't implicate the vaccine in any of those deaths.
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Summary
The vaccines are bad news. Fifteen bodies were examined (all died from 7 days to 6 months after vaccination; ages 28 to 95). The coroner or the public prosecutor didn’t associate the vaccine as the cause of death in any of the cases. However, further examination revealed that the vaccine was implicated in the deaths of 14 of the 15 cases. The most attacked organ was the heart (in all of the people who died), but other organs were attacked as well. The implications are potentially enormous resulting in millions of deaths. The vaccines should be immediately halted.'
No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
The paper
I got an email recently from Mike Yeadon, former VP of Pfizer, who urged me to check out this video. He wrote me this email on 12/24/21:
The video references this paper, posted on December 10, 2021, On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination by Sucharit Bhakdi, MD and Arne Burkhardt, MD. It has been getting a lot of attention lately.
Check out the number of likes and retweets… just in the first 3 hours!!!!
The authors did an autopsy in 15 patients who died (from 7 days to 6 months) after receiving the COVID vaccine. These were all cases where the coroner ruled as NOT being caused by the vaccine.
They discovered that in 14 of the 15 patients there was widespread evidence of the body attacking itself, something that is never seen before. The heart was attacked in all 14 cases.
Here's the video presentation of the results.
VAERS as well as other independent studies (e.g., see this vaccine injury paper) shows the vaccines are killing people and that cardiac events were highly elevated. This study is consistent with those results.
This work independently validates the analysis of Peter Schimacher who showed a minimum of 30% to 40% of the deaths after vaccine were caused by the vaccine.
Reactions from a level-headed scientist (name withheld to protect him from attack)
Dr. Ryan Cole’s reaction
Background of two of the scientists behind the study
Dr. Bhakdi has spent his life practicing, teaching and researching medical microbiology and infectious diseases. He chaired the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, from 1990 until his retirement in 2012. He has published over 300 research articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology and parasitology, and served from 1990 to 2012 as Editor-in-Chief of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, one of the first scientific journals of this field that was founded by Robert Koch in 1887.
Dr. Arne Burkhardt is a pathologist who has taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Berne and Tübingen. He was invited for visiting professorships/study visits in Japan (Nihon University), the United States (Brookhaven National Institute), Korea, Sweden, Malaysia and Turkey. He headed the Institute of Pathology in Reutlingen for 18 years. Subsequently, he worked as an independent practicing pathologist with consulting contracts with laboratories in the US. Burkhardt has published more than 150 scientific articles in German and international scientific journals as well as contributions to handbooks in German, English and Japanese. Over many years he has audited and certified institutes of pathology in Germany.
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Gov. Abbott tells Texas Guard Biden is NOT their 'commander-in-chief'
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sued President Biden over the military vaccine mandate, citing his role as commander in chief of the Texas National Guard.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells his National Guard Biden is NOT their 'commander-in-chief' as he sues the White House over 'unconstitutional' military vaccine mandate
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott sued President Biden and Pentagon officials over the military vaccine mandate
- Suit says 40 per cent of Texas Guard are refusing to get the vaccine
- Suit cites Abbott's authority as commander in chief of the guard
- State Guard forces become federalized when called up by the president
- They must be prepared for rapid deployments and longer-term deployments
- A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled against a similar effort late last month
PUBLISHED: 10:22 EST, 5 January 2022 | UPDATED: 13:20 EST, 5 January 2022
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sued President Biden over the administration's military vaccine mandate, citing the governor's authority 'as commander-in-chief and on Texas's sovereignty.'
Abbott filed suit Tuesday in Texas, asking a federal judge to overturn Biden's vaccine requirement, in a filing that repeatedly invokes Abbott's own authority as commander of chief of the guard, which is subject to complex jurisdiction.
Under overlapping statutes, state national guards remain under the command of governors except when they are called up for federal by the president. Title 10 of the U.S. Code applies to active duty military, while Title 32 applies to the Guard.
The deadline for troops to get vaccinated was December 31st. According to Abbott's suit, 40 per cent of members of the Texas Army National Guard under his command are refusing to get the shot for religious or other reasons.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sued President Biden and Pentagon officials over the military vaccine mandate
Psaki slams Abbott and DeSantis for banning vaccine mandates
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Abbott bans COVID vaccine mandates by any employer in Texas
'Defendants’ intrusion into the discretion and scope of Title 32 commanders is contrary to the balance of power between federal and state officials set out by the U.S. Constitution and federal law,' Abbott argues in the suit, which names Biden in his professional capacity.
'It is unlawful for Defendants to attempt to override the Governor's authority to govern his troops, and then leave him to deal with the harms that they leave in their wake,' according to the suit.
The suite cites the Texas state constitution, and claims the defendants' actions 'directly infringe on Governor Abbott’s authority as commander-in-chief and on Texas’s sovereignty, and so harm Governor Abbott and Texas.'
President Biden imposed the vaccine mandate, which was put forth by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, on members of the armed forces. The administration is also fighting in court over private sector mandates for larger employers
According to Abbott's suit, 40 per cent of members of the Texas Army National Guard under his command are refusing to get the shot for religious or other reasons. Guard serve under state authority until called up by the president
People gathered in front of NASA Johnson Space Center on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 to protest forced vaccinations of the workforce
Public health officials have repeatedly invoked the effectiveness of the vaccines to head off severe infection or death from COVID-10, which has killed more than 800,000 Americans.
Late last month, a federal judge blocked a similar effort by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to block the vaccine mandate.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who himself recently tested positive for COVID-19, replied to Stitt with a letter invoked by the judge. 'Citing the President’s authority over the Guard under 32 U.S.C. § 110, the Secretary expressed his view–not credibly contested by the plaintiffs in their motion or in any of the supporting materials–that to maintain a healthy and ready military force capable of protecting the American people, the immediate vaccination against COVID-19 is an essential military readiness requirement for all components and units of the military, including the Oklahoma National Guard.'
'The COVID vaccination mandate should be understood against the backdrop of other military immunization mandates – which date back as far as General George Washington’s mandate that troops in the Continental Army be inoculated against smallpox. Nine vaccinations (now ten, with the COVID vaccination mandate) are required for all service members,' wrote U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Friot.
Austin announced the policy in an August memo, and subsequently clarified that it applied to non-federalized members of the National Guard.
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Over 48K Comments on WHO Facebook Post Claiming “Mild” Vaccine Side Effects
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Facebook page for the Regional Office for Europe posts regularly about COVID-19 “va...
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The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Facebook page for the Regional Office for Europe posts regularly about COVID-19 “vaccines.” With 720K followers, @WHOEurope is one of six regional WHO offices around the world. A post made today by the organization reads, “As many hospitals face pressure due to the spike in #COVID19 cases, how can we help health workers? Get fully vaccinated against COVID-19.” The post includes a short video that claims getting a COVID-19 “vaccine” will lower the number of people needing hospital treatment for COVID-19, reducing all-around pressure on hospitals.
The comments in today’s post, including the one above, are overwhelmingly against forced vaccination and the “vaccinate everyone” agenda. One FB user commented, “My daughter works for the NHS, worked all the way through—no COVID. She didn’t want the jab, but was finally bullied and coerced into receiving her first dose on the 17th December—now within three weeks, she has COVID. Coincidence?”
With unmistakable frustration, another user who resonated with the column written yesterday by UncoverDC’s editor-in-chief Tracy Beanz about the changing COVID narrative wrote “…overwhelmed because our NHS staff are coming clean, they can not lie anymore.” Similarly, quick observations like “Agenda”, “Follow the money people!!”, and “Don’t spread misinformation” were scattered amongst, “Quit firing those you formerly deemed heroes, who worked through the worst of it without proper PPE and likely have robust immunity to it.”
Notably, every post on the organization’s Facebook page inevitably contains similar comments. Indeed, a stroll back to November 23, 2021, reveals a post with over 48K comments and 28K shares. The superficial post declares, “Most people have mild or no side effects following COVID-19 vaccination.” It then matter-of-factly adds, “Billions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been safely administered globally. Mild side effects—headache, fever and body aches—are normal within the first couple of days.”
The thousands and thousands of riveting comments illuminating the WHO‘s post tell the true story of the reality of COVID-19 “vaccines.” They simply cannot be ignored. One user exclaimed, “I LOVE how much TRUTH is in all these THOUSANDS of comments. Come on all you Freedom Fighters! Warriors for truth!” Another user, whose comment has 5.7K “likes,” commented, “So, myocarditis is [a] mild symptom to you? Inflammation of heart muscle? Are you out of your minds?” Stating the obvious, another commenter remarked:
“This should actually read, ‘Most people have mild or no symptoms following COVID-19 infection.’ If it was accurate it would read, ‘we don’t have data to establish the long term safety of COVID-19 vaccination, nor do we properly monitor for side effects from COVID-19 vaccination.'”
The comments are loaded with numerous first-hand accounts from individuals suffering from debilitating side effects. One such person suffering the adverse effects of COVID-19 “vaccines” shared, “Mild side effect??? I have blood clots in my legs and lungs. And I hear it a lot from other people. No doctor recognized it on paper.” Another wrote, “My Dad died after the Pfizer vax. You can stuff it where the sun don’t shine!”
Indeed, people from all over the world have taken the time to come to the post to share their experiences and views on the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines” that governments and non-government organizations are incessantly touting as the only way to safely and effectively treat COVID-19. “This post isn’t going the way ya’ll planned, eh?” quipped a nutritionist. “This is pure propaganda,” wrote another user. And yet another declared, “I hope the World Health Organization actually reads these comments and realizes that people look at them like idiots now. Never before has the deceit and agenda of these organizations been so transparent. So much manipulation. So many lies.”
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Renowned Doctors Peter McCullough, Robert Malone & Mattias Desmet Discuss Mass Formation Psychosis 1:00:11 min
Renowned Doctors Peter McCullough, Robert Malone & Mattias Desmet Discuss Mass Formation Psychosis
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Summarizing the prevailing sentiment of the individuals that took the time to comment—as well as that of a large swath of humanity as a whole—one young man pointed out, “Isn’t it strange that the double and triple soon to be quadruple jabbed are the only ones getting tested and then testing positive, where the unjabbed who don’t get tested and remained unmasked for 2 years are fighting fit. You sure the jabs are working? Shouldn’t things be the other way around??”
“Please God save our children from these harmful shots,” wrote a Healing Science Practitioner. Lastly, offering hope, one bright, intuitive soul from Goa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, shared:
“Humanity Is Waking Up. The comments are real proof of that. There are Millions of Us.
Nobody is falling for your Lies and Manipulation anymore WHO, Gates, Fauci, etc.
We know you are trying to keep us down in lower states such as Fear, Control, Shame, Guilt, and Division.
But You have triggered Mass Awakening as people Unite, Love, and Support Each other.
And Higher States bring Higher Frequency. We Win. Keep speaking your Truth Everyone.
~ With Love from India“
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Police beat citizens out past curfew…
Posted by Kane on January 6, 2022 12:18 am
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These scenes are the new normal in Germany.
More from the city of Greiz…
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Police attack peaceful protesters in Saxony
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Police beat citizens out past curfew…
These scenes are the new normal in Germany. More from the city of Greiz… Police attack peaceful protesters in Saxony… &nbs…
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Police beat citizens out past curfew…
Posted by Kane on January 6, 2022 12:18 am
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These scenes are the new normal in Germany.
More from the city of Greiz…
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Police attack peaceful protesters in Saxony
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1:18 min
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Donald Trump Calls for MAGA Nation to 'Rise Up' Against Biden's Covid Response
"Now, there’s talk by the Biden Administration again about closing schools and even vaccine mandates for school children"...
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Donald Trump Calls for MAGA Nation to ‘Rise Up’ Against Biden’s Covid Response
January 5, 2022
by Kyle Becker
There was a brief moment in recent history when Donald Trump had actually thanked Joe Biden for acknowledging his help pushing the vaccines that were developed under his administration.
But those days are long gone and 45 is now back to his familiar stomping grounds of thrashing the Democratic president for botching the Covid response.'
“The Biden Administration’s response to COVID is getting worse every day,” Trump wrote on Wednesday in a press release. “Joe Biden said, ‘there is no federal solution’ to the pandemic, but he then federalized the distribution of antibodies, and red states are getting the short end of the stick. In my administration, we respected the role of Governors to take care of their own states, and they could request antibodies and therapeutics depending on what they needed. That’s the way our Country is supposed to be run.”
“Now, there’s talk by the Biden Administration again about closing schools and even vaccine mandates for school children,” he added. “This is an outrage, and MAGA nation should rise up and oppose this egregious federal government overreach. The Democrats are so incredibly mandate happy—there is discussion about a vaccine mandate for school kids this year in Detroit and other Democrat-run places.”
“Our administration did what they said could not be done—vaccines in record time,” he added. “But we never issued mandates, and I never would! People should be able to choose how they want to govern their own health. The federal government must be reined in and give the people back the freedom to decide whether they want to be vaccinated or not.”
“Joe Biden said he would never issue mandates, but he did it anyway like so many other things,” he added.
Former President Trump said in December he was “very appreciative” and “surprised” that President Biden thanked him and his administration for their success in making COVID-19 vaccines available to the public. But Donald Trump never supported vaccine mandates.
Four different Biden administration officials lied after promising there would not be vaccine mandates: President Joe Biden, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and top Covid advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Biden also recently capitulated that there was “no federal solution” in a call to governors after he had earlier said during the presidential debates that he would “end” Covid. This was the claim he made in an October 2020 debate.
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“Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States,” Biden said.
Nonetheless, U.S.’ Covid-related deaths in 2021 have surpassed those of 2020.
“Overall, more than 771,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the U.S. during the pandemic,” WebMD reported. “About 385,000 were reported in 2020, according to CDC data, and more than 386,000 have been reported this year.”
And yet, it is 2022. And Joe Biden has still not resigned.
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CNN medical guest and ethics 'expert' declares America must do more to punish the unvaccinated: 'Here's the stick. Get on board.' | Blaze Media
The head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and bioethics professor Dr. Arthur Caplan, has a plan on how to deal with the tens of millions of Americans who have not yet received their COVID vaccines. Shame them and blame them. And then punish them. Those...
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CNN medical guest and ethics 'expert' declares America must do more to punish the unvaccinated: 'Here's the stick. Get on board.'
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January 05, 2022
The head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and bioethics professor Dr. Arthur Caplan, has a plan on how to deal with the tens of millions of Americans who have not yet received their COVID vaccines.
Shame them and blame them.
And then punish them.
Those are the ethics of the guy in charge of all the medical ethics goings on at NYU's medical school.
Dr. Caplan made his feelings clear during an interview Wednesday morning with CNN's sympathetic "New Day" host, John Berman.
Berman told Caplan that he gets the "idea of creating a moral standard here" and "being willing to judge" people who don't get shots. Then Berman, who has repeatedly made the logical case against going out of one's way to protect the unvaccinated, asked, "Why should anyone who is boosted bother, at this point, to do anything that makes the unvaccinated more safe."
Caplan responded that though he wants Americans to "act as a team" and doesn't want to "reject those who still haven't done the right thing" by getting the jabs, he will gladly "condemn them" and "shame them" and then "blame them."
Beyond that, he claims it's time to punish them even more than we already have.
"We can penalize them more," he added. "We can say, 'You've got to pay more on your hospital bill if you weren't vaccinated. You can’t get life insurance or disability insurance at affordable rates if you aren’t vaccinated.' Those companies should not treat us as equals in terms of what the financial burdens are that that disease imposes."
"I can think of a number of ways in which we should say, 'Here's the stick. Get on board,'" he concluded.
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Berman, naturally, sat there nodding in approval and then followed Caplan's remarks with his own lamentations over those unvaccinated people who just aren't "behaving."
"It's the unvaccinated who aren’t wearing masks," Berman stated. "It’s the unvaccinated who aren’t social distancing. It’s the unvaccinated going to crowded indoor events." (Berman is the same CNN host who went out of his way to cover for Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's blatant mask hypocrisy last summer.)
"There’s this bizarre irony here that the ones who are behaving are being told to behave 10 times more so," he added.
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Los Angeles and San Francisco Covid Cases are Out of Control Despite Mask and Vax Mandates
Here's another story that we can chalk up to an "I told you so." Many of us have been saying
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Los Angeles and San Francisco Covid Cases are Out of Control Despite Mask and Vax Mandates
by Jeff Dornik
January 4, 2022
Here’s another story that we can chalk up to an “I told you so.”
Many of us have been saying for the last two years that face masks don’t stop the spread of Covid-19. On top of that, the data shows that vaccines are just as ineffective.
Case in point: San Francisco County and Los Angeles are leading the state of Communist California in cases per 100k. Los Angeles is leading the charge at 76.5 cases per 100k people, while San Francisco is not far behind with 69.8.
Both of these counties have taken their mandates to the extreme, requiring The Jab to enter into virtually any indoor business establishment and masks are worn virtually everywhere, both inside and out.
Now, let’s compare the case rate with the Florida of California… the freedom loving Orange County.
According to data, Orange County is at 37.1 cases per 100k. That’s nearly half of both San Francisco and Los Angeles. What did the OC do that LA and SF did not?
Orange County does not have any mask or vax requirements. The state has a mask mandate to enter into any establishment, but the county has refused to enforce the tyrannical edicts of Dictator Gavin Newsom. Businesses have signs up stating that there’s a statewide mask mandate, but I’ve yet to have a single business ask me to wear my mask.
So what can we learn from the comparison of data between Orange County vs San Francisco and Los Angeles? Masks and “vaccines” simply do not work. Neither keeps you from contracting or spreading the Wuhan Flu.
At what point will the pro-vaxxers realize that these policies simply do not work?
The science and data simply contradict the mandates implemented by the tyrannical politicians.
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Horowitz: Letter to FAA warns that federal law prohibits commercial pilots from flying after taking experimental shots | Blaze Media
Just how far have we devolved from typical medical protocols when it comes to mandating experimental shots on everyone? According to a group of lawyers along with doctors familiar with health care protocols in civilian and military aviation, pilots are actually prohibited from flying after...
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Horowitz: Letter to FAA warns that federal law prohibits commercial pilots from flying after taking experimental shots
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DANIEL HOROWITZ
December 29, 2021
Just how far have we devolved from typical medical protocols when it comes to mandating experimental shots on everyone? According to a group of lawyers along with doctors familiar with health care protocols in civilian and military aviation, pilots are actually prohibited from flying after taking a non-FDA-approved treatment or one that was approved less than 12 months ago.
Lawyers for Children’s Health Defense, along with several doctors including Lt. Col. Theresa Long, Peter McCullough, and Ryan Cole, recently sent a letter to the FAA and the CEOs of all the major airlines warning that anyone who got the shots, under current regulations, should be subject to a 12-month do-not-fly status. The relevant statute, Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations §61.53, states, “No person who holds a medical certificate issued under part 67 of this chapter may act as pilot in command, or in any other capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember, while that person ... [is] receiving treatment for a medical condition that results in the person being unable to meet the requirements for the medical certificate necessary for the pilot operation.”
While this statute is wide open, the prevailing regulation under the Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners states that examiners should “advise airmen to not fly (DNF) and provide additional safety information to the applicant if they are taking several types of medical therapeutics, including anything approved by the FDA within 12 months.”
“FAA generally requires at least one-year of post-marketing experience with a new drug before consideration for aeromedical certification purposes,” the authors warn in the letter. “This observation period allows time for uncommon, but aeromedically significant, adverse effects to manifest themselves ...” (emphasis added).
Isn’t that interesting – that we’d actually want to follow up on uncommon adverse events? Well, here we are with the most rushed vaccine in history, for which none of the commercially available versions have even gotten full FDA approval (Comirnaty is not yet available) and the numerous side effects are common and ubiquitous beyond belief, yet Biden is mandating the vaccine on pilots! Every commercially available vaccine is still under Emergency Use Authorization status. A federal judge in Florida recently found the government’s argument that Pfizer is interchangeable with Comirnaty to be “unconvincing.”
Thus, not a single “vaccinated” pilot who has been flying has received an FDA-approved vaccine and most certainly has not waited the required 12 months post-approval. Just how far has the aviation industry deviated from the law?
Commercial pilots only wait 48 hours after having the shots, while military pilots can fly again after just 12 hours. Studies have shown that the average time it takes for myocarditis to present in injected patients is seven days after the shot, but it could take as long as 40 days to become apparent.
Typically, the aviation industry uses the most stringent protocols accounting for the worst-case scenarios for risk assessment of the pilot’s safety after undergoing a medical treatment. “Ordinary military aviation has more stringent medical standards than the FAA,” said one of the authors, Dr. Peter Chambers, in an interview with TheBlaze. “However, both failed to adhere to long-standing risk mitigation and aeromedical safety measures critical to safety of flight, especially with regard to widespread use of an experimental drug with the least long- and short-term safety data ever used by pilots in the history of modern aviation.”
Chambers is a rare gem in the military. He is a flight surgeon and a lieutenant colonel Green Beret, making him one of the few members of the Special Forces with a medical degree. He is currently in the Texas National Guard doing border missions after having served in the Texas COVID response missions last year.
The Special Forces doctor believes he himself was severely injured by the Moderna shot and now suffers from a brain bleed. “After serving 38 years in the military and getting every vaccine known to man, I trusted my government on this one,” said Chambers in describing his initial overcoming of concerns. “After the second shot in March, I developed pretty serious vertigo, brain fog, and unsteadiness of gait. I started taking ivermectin to counter the spike protein. I eventually got an MRI several weeks ago, and changes on it were commensurate with others who had cerebral vascular accidents following the mRNA vaccine.”
Chambers is convinced the shots caused the brain bleed because he had six other soldiers who experienced “the same symptoms and MRI findings around six months after the shot.” Two men in their 40s had to undergo surgery, and one had to learn to speak again. Chambers said that he is having a secondary neurological follow-up to deal with his own injury.
The experience with vaccine injury has harmed Chambers’ work on the ground, which makes him all the more fearful of the consequences for pilots flying in the air.
Chambers and the signing attorneys attached a list of 10 known cases of otherwise healthy pilots who reported adverse events to the VAERS. The ailments included myocardial infarction (heart attack), atrial fibrillation, pericarditis, brain swelling, elevated intra-cranial pressure affecting spinal cord and brain stem, sub-arachnoid hemorrhages (brain bleed), blindness. Needless to say, these are not the sorts of injuries you want when flying a commercial plane. We’ve all seen the hundreds of cases of young athletes suddenly dropping on the playing field.
Imagine if we are to see that in a pilot mid-flight. Vertigo, which is a particularly menacing ailment for pilots, is a known common side effect of the COVID shots.
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“In sum, neither the law nor common sense countenances that federal agencies charged with ensuring public safety ignore concerning data and thereby jeopardize public safety,” concludes the letter. “Nor do law and common sense countenance ignoring information that evinces that both pilots and the passengers they serve are at risk of severe injury and possibly death. Finally, neither precept countenances killing a plane full of hundreds of Americans because a commercial pilot loses control of their aircraft after suffering a major blood clot, seizure, or myocarditis-related event, which in turn causes his jet to be involved in a fatal catastrophic crash ... before regulators decide to finally act.”
The doctors who signed the letter recommended that every pilot who got the shot be “immediately flagged and medically re-certified only after showing aeromedically acceptable D-Dimer, Troponin, ECGs, cardiac MRIs and PULS tests, and otherwise clean bills of health.”
D-dimer tests would easily show who is suffering micro-clotting, and troponin tests measure for the protein that is released when heart muscle is damaged. A recent study showed that PULS tests were critical in surveilling comprehensive cardiac damage done by the shots. Numerous heart health markers from the PULS testing showed that the risk of acute coronary syndrome more than doubled in patients who got the shots, from 11% to 25%.
This letter raises some serious concerns as to how far our government is willing to go in covering up safety concerns about the shots. We have safety regulations for a reason. Shouting “emergency” for a pandemic that is no longer acute and for which the shots no longer work should not drown out the voices of those raising concerns about an industry that relies upon optimal levels of safety at all times.