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These lawyers have tried to find courts that would hear these cases, and were turned down due to corrupt governments and court systems. That is why they created their own court system and is presenting it too us just as it would be presented in Canadian courts and courts around the world. They are calling it the court of public opinion. For full details I urge you to go to their main site. Grand Jury. However, to make things simple, I will be posting all the videos here on this page.

1:25:35 min PART 1 Opening Statements
5:47:18 min PART 2 Historical Background
5:00:57 min PART 3 PCR Test

GRAND JURY - THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION - DAY 4 - INJECTIONS & PSYCH. WARFARE | GRAND-JURY.NET 5:55:10 min
GRAND JURY - THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION - DAY 4 - INJECTIONS & PSYCH. WARFARE | GRAND-JURY.NET
 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlygUb9RVgA


Mr Bill Gates and Australia
18min 37 sec
Feb 20, 2022
Dr. John Campbell

Natural immunity discussed by Mr. Bill Gates https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status... Sadly the virus itself particularly the variant called Omicron is a type of vaccine, creates both B cell and T cell immunity and it's done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines. Serosurvey in African countries, 80% positive Chance of severe disease, dramatically reduced because of that infection exposure. We didn’t do a great job on therapeutics
UK Cases down dramatically, infections down slightly https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/detai... https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels... ONS tracks omicron BA.2
 

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FDA Weighs Authorizing Second COVID Booster Jab
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Feb 20, 2022 - 09:55 AM

Despite repeated warnings from the WHO that emerging nations should be given priority access to the mRNA vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer, American authorities are looking at potentially authorizing a second doses for at least some patients as they further consider whether to recommend annual boosters.

The planning is still in its early stages, and authorization would ultimately depend on ongoing studies establishing that a fourth dose would shore up people's molecular defenses, which have waned after their first booster and reduced their risk of symptomatic and severe disease.

Among the issues that need to be resolved, according to WSJ's source, are whether the second booster dose should be authorized for all adults or particular age groups, and whether it should target the omicron variant specifically, or be formulated differently.

Whether the fourth booster could ultimately be the start of annual COVID vaccinations is also under consideration; no decision is final, and it could be necessary to make booster shots available earlier if a more dangerous, elusive variant were to emerge.

Offering a second booster dose, one of the people said, may make sense in the fall because many people get their annual flu shots then and so might be more receptive to getting vaccinations. Potential obstacles to the second booster effort are that many people are fatigued with vaccinations after getting initial doses and that others are reluctant to get the shots.
About 65% of the American population is fully vaccinated, meaning they have gotten two doses of the vaccine from either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech, or one dose of J&J's shot.

About 43% of fully vaccinated people have gotten a booster shot. After research found that COVID vaccines’ protection sags over time, health authorities began urging people to get a first extra dose. Studies have shown the booster can strengthen immune defenses that have weakened months after initial vaccination.

Research shows that the protection offered from booster jabs starts to deteriorate within a few months after administration. As one study showed, protection against the omicron variant started to wane after just 10 weeks, with protection dropping by as much as 25%.

Israel has notoriously already started doling out a second booster dose to patients who meet certain requirements.

CEOs like Pfizer's Albert Bourla have already been laying the groundwork for boosters to be given annually, as he has said in interviews.

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WEF 'Infiltration': Rogan Redpilled, Canadian MP Cut Off For Asking - Accused Of Spreading "Disinformation"
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Feb 20, 2022 - 05:40 PM

Last month, 2017 footage of World Economic Forum (WEF) head Klaus Schwab resurfaced in which he boasts of having 'penetrated' various governments through its Young Global Leaders program. The clip is notable because the WEF - known best for its annual gathering of the global elite in Davos - has been openly pushing for digital IDs and vaccine passports, while leaders of said governments continue to impose Orwellian vaccine mandates which have resulted in widespread protests for medical freedom.

"I have to say, when I mention now names, like Mrs. (Angela) Merkel and even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum ... But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister (Justin) TrudeauWe penetrate the cabinets."
"So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders." -Klaus Schwab

Watch: Klaus Schwab of World Economic Forum boasting of his infiltration into governments
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Other notable Young Global Leaders include: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda "this will never end" Ardern, French President Emmanuel Macron, and other high ranking officials from Germany, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands and Denmark. It might even explain Pete Buttigieg's odd success-to-competence ratio.

Enter the pandemic

Three years after Schwab bragged about having 'penetrated cabinets' of world governments, he wrote in a June 2020 publication titled Now is the time for a 'great reset' how the pandemic presented a "rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future."

Then in May 2021, the WEF acknowledged that "The Forum is involved in the WHO task force to reflect on those [vaccine credential requirements] standards and think about how they would be used."

And so, given the WEF's "infiltration" - people have begun asking questions over the group's influence in current events.

1. My mind is still blown by the fact that Canada's deputy prime minister Freeland sits on the World Economic Forum (WEF) board of trustees.
The sequence of events unfolding today was inevitable and fueled in no small part by the lassitude of Canadian political system.
— Rising serpent (@rising_serpent) February 19, 2022
Podcaster Joe Rogan appeared shocked at the WEF's 'infiltration' in a recent episode of with Maajid Nawaz.

MUST WATCH: Maajid Nawaz leaves Joe Rogan speechless by explaining how the World Economic Forum (WEF) is infiltrating governments around the world. pic.twitter.com/qSHFQV75Up
— Culture War Resource (@CltrWarResource) February 20, 2022

Meanwhile, Canadian MP Collin Carrie was cut off when asking about the influence of the WEF in domestic politics.

"Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum and bragged about how his WEF has infiltrated governments around the world," asked Carrie, who was then cut off when he asked which ministers were behind the WEF agenda - with the speaker saying the sound had become "very poor."

Another MP then accused Carrie of "disinformation."

Watch: [video removed from youtube now]

Ahem:

— Diverge Media (@DivergeMedia_) November 22, 2020
— Diverge Media (@DivergeMedia_) November 22, 2020

As Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal wrote last October:

On paper, the WEF (also known as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation) is an NGO and think tank “committed to improving the state of the world.” In reality, it is an international network of some of the wealthiest and most influential people on the planet. The Forum positions itself as the thought leader of global capitalism.
The organization is best known for its annual gathering of the global ruling class. Each year, hedge fund managers, bankers, CEOs, media representatives, and heads of state gather in Davos to “shape global, regional and industry agendas.” As Foreign Affairs put it, “the WEF has no formal authority, but it has become the major forum for elites to discuss policy ideas and priorities.”
In 2017, German economist and WEF founder Klaus Schwab introduced the concept of The Fourth Industrial Revolutionwith the title of the book he published that year. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) denotes the current “technological revolution” that is changing the way people “live, work, and relate to one another,” and with implications “unlike anything humankind has experienced,” according to Schwab.
For him, the 4IR is the “merging of the physical, digital and biological worlds.” Schwab has even said that the 4IR will inevitably veer into trans-humanism, or human genome editing.
Klaus Schwab, 2015:
'And you see, the difference of the fourth industrial revolution is, it doesn't change what you are doing, it changes you. If you take genetic editing just as an example, it's you who are changed'#greatreset #thegreatreset pic.twitter.com/IWFJoqrVkG
— Ole Ó'Súilleabháin : (@OlisGud) September 6, 2021
Why are Canada and other nations dying on this hill of mandates for a virus where the current dominant strain is largely a nuisance for the vast majority of those who contract it?
 
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MIL was just admitted to hospital for covid.

She did not want to hear about hospital protocols, treatment medicine, paralytics to not get on, staying away from remdesivir. I tried to gently tell her because some of that info could possibly save her life, but like before, she did not want to hear it. She said I was not a doctor and her doctors knew what they were doing.

Just because I have many, many hours of listening to credentialed drs talk about these things, I know nothing.

Lets hope for the best.

She was double vaxxed.
 

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MIL was just admitted to hospital for covid.

She did not want to hear about hospital protocols, treatment medicine, paralytics to not get on, staying away from remdesivir. I tried to gently tell her because some of that info could possibly save her life, but like before, she did not want to hear it. She said I was not a doctor and her doctors knew what they were doing.

Just because I have many, many hours of listening to credentialed drs talk about these things, I know nothing.

Lets hope for the best.

She was double vaxxed.

I am adding my prayers for your MIL. And I am unfortunately so familiar with that 'you're not a doctor' response from family as they make bad decision after bad decision. It is what it is, we are all (as of now, still) free beings and we all have to make our own decisions. You did the best you could.

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I am adding my prayers for your MIL. And I am unfortunately so familiar with that 'you're not a doctor' response from family as they make bad decision after bad decision. It is what it is, we are all (as of now, still) free beings and we all have to make our own decisions. You did the best you could.

HD
My SIL is a retired nurse. We haven’t conversed recently about Covid and IVM. I think she generally has a low opinion of doctors. Anything I say will have been tainted by “Trump”, therefore I know nothing. Her household is fully vaxxed, but her granddaughter is redpilled like me.
 

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My SIL is a retired nurse. We haven’t conversed recently about Covid and IVM. I think she generally has a low opinion of doctors. Anything I say will have been tainted by “Trump”, therefore I know nothing. Her household is fully vaxxed, but her granddaughter is redpilled like me.

Oh yes! That too for sure, especially when it comes to my millenial TDS relatives.

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OK, getting back to the posts I was going to make earlier this morning when the board went down.


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CDC Officials Admit Agency Has Withheld Critical Covid Information From the Public, Including Data About Breakthrough Infections, Over Fears of “Vaccine Hesitancy”
By Julian Conradson
Published February 20, 2022 at 8:42pm

Throughout the pandemic, the CDC has diligently maintained a running tally of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for the public to view – you know, all of the numbers that make up the majority of virus fear porn.

But that information amounts to just a fraction of the data that has been collected by the agency.

According to a new report by the New York Times, the CDC has also been collecting much more detailed data about Covid infections that breaks down by age, race, and vaccination status. The critical information would go a long way towards figuring out an end to the pandemic, but the agency has purposefully suppressed the information from the public over fears that it would be “misinterpreted” and cause “vaccine hesitancy.”

In other words, the ‘experts’ in the US public health regime believe the plebs aren’t capable enough to interpret something themselves.

The CDC’s response when questioned about their withholding of Covid data and lack of transparency is essentially “we don’t trust you to be able to understand the truth.”
The condescension is palpable. The wheels are finally coming off. The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) February 20, 2022

Within the data that has been withheld by the CDC are detailed information about breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, which the agency has been collecting since the beginning of the vaccine rollout, according to officials who spoke to the NYT.

So much for the bogus lie that has been pushed by public health officials for months, claiming that breakthrough infections weren’t being tracked at all. The medical elites just decided to hide the data because it didn’t fit the approved narrative, and, naturally, blamed the potential for ‘misinformation’ as justification for the coverup.

From the New York Times:

“Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” She said the agency’s “priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable.”
Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.”
The performance of vaccines and boosters, particularly in younger adults, is among the most glaring omissions in data the C.D.C. has made public.
Last year, the agency repeatedly came under fire for not tracking so-called breakthrough infections in vaccinated Americans, and focusing only on individuals who became ill enough to be hospitalized or die. The agency presented that information as risk comparisons with unvaccinated adults, rather than provide timely snapshots of hospitalized patients stratified by age, sex, race and vaccination status.
But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.
Ms. Nordlund confirmed that as one of the reasons. Another reason, she said, is that the data represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States. But the C.D.C. has relied on the same level of sampling to track influenza for years.”

Why would data about breakthrough infections fuel ‘vaccine hesitancy?’ Could it be because the numbers really look that bad?

What else are the ‘experts’ hiding?
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US virus cases, hospitalizations continue steady decline
by Leah Willingham and Jonathan Mattis
February 21, 2022

Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the omicron variant's hold is weakening across the country.

Total confirmed cases reported Saturday barely exceeded 100,000, a sharp downturn from around 800,850 five weeks ago on Jan. 16, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

In New York, the number of cases went down by more than 50% over the last two weeks.

"I think what's influencing the decline, of course, is that omicron is starting to run out of people to infect," said Dr. Thomas Russo, professor and infectious disease chief at the University of Buffalo's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are down from a national seven-day average of 146,534 on Jan. 20 to 80,185 the week ending in Feb 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID data tracker.

Public health experts say they are feeling hopeful that more declines are ahead and that the country is shifting from being in a pandemic to an 'endemic' that is more consistent and predictable. However, many expressed concern that vaccine uptick in the U.S. has still been below expectations, concerns that are exacerbated by the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine said Sunday that the downturn in case numbers and hospitalizations is encouraging. He agreed that it likely has a lot to do with herd immunity.

"There are two sides to omicron's coin," he said. "The bad thing is that it can spread to a lot of people and make them mildly ill. The good thing is it can spread to a lot of people and make them mildly ill, because in doing so, it has created a lot of natural immunity."

However, Schaffner said it's much too early to "raise the banner of mission accomplished." As a public health expert, he said he'll be more comfortable if the decline sustains itself for another month or two.

"If I have a concern, it's that taking off the interventions, the restrictions, may be happening with a bit more enthusiasm and speed than makes me comfortable," he said. "My own little adage is, better to wear the mask for a month too long, than to take the mask off a month too soon and all of a sudden get another surge."

Officials in many states are cutting back on restrictions, saying they are moving away from treating the coronavirus pandemic as a public health crisis and instead shifting to policy focused on prevention.

During a Friday news conference, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced that the state would be transitioning into what he called a "steady state" model starting in April in which Utah will close mass testing sites, report COVID-19 case counts on a more infrequent basis and advise residents to make personal choices to manage the risk of contracting the virus.

"Now, let me be clear, this is not the end of COVID, but it is the end—or rather the beginning—of treating COVID as we do other seasonal respiratory viruses," the Republican said.

Also on Friday, Boston lifted the city's proof of vaccine policy, which required patrons and staff of indoor spaces to show proof of vaccination.

"This news highlights the progress we've made in our fight against Covid-19 thanks to vaccines & boosters," Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said via Twitter.

Dr. Amy Gordon Bono, a Nashville primary care physician, said now is not the time to lessen vaccination efforts, but to double down on them. In the spring of 2021 when vaccines were becoming more readily available, the U.S. was "eager to declare COVID independence," she said. Then came the delta and omicron surges.

Bono, who attended medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans, said the U.S. should approach COVID like hurricane season.

"You have to learn to live with COVID and you have to learn from it," she said.

One challenge is that each region has a unique landscape, she said. In the American South, for example, many restrictions have been lifted for a while or never existed in the first place. Yet it's also a region with relatively lower vaccination rates.

"We've suffered so much and if there's a way to help appease future suffering, it's having a more vaccinated community," she said.

In Buffalo, Russo said he sees two possible future outcomes. In one, the U.S. experiences a fairly quiet spring and summer while immunity is still strong. He said in that scenario, it's likely immunity will wane and there will be a bump of new cases in the cooler months during flu season, but hopefully not a severe surge.

In the second—the one concerning public health experts—a new variant evolves and evades the immunity wall that was built up from both omicron infections and vaccinations.

"Whether such a variant can evolve is the big question, right?" he said. "That is the concern that we'll have to see through. Omicron was the first version of that, and there is this sort of adage that 'well, over time, viruses evolve to be less virulent,' but that's not really true. Viruses evolve to be able to infect us."
 

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Increased Infectivity Drives COVID Evolution – Mutations That Allow the Virus To Escape Vaccines Become Dominant
By American Chemical Society
February 20, 2022

First announced by the World Health Organization on November 26, 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant spread rapidly around the world, becoming the dominant variant in the U.S. and elsewhere. Now, researchers report in ACS Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling that omicron and other variants are evolving increased infectivity and antibody escape, according to an artificial intelligence (AI) model. Therefore, new vaccines and antibody therapies are desperately needed, the researchers say.

Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 evolves is essential to predicting vaccine breakthrough and designing mutation-proof vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments. In a recent study in ACS Infectious Diseases, Guo-Wei Wei and colleagues analyzed almost 1.5 million SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences taken from people with COVID-19. They identified 683 unique mutations in the receptor binding domain (RBD), the region of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that attaches to the human ACE2 receptor on the surface of human cells.

Then, they used an AI model to predict how these mutations affect binding strength of the RBD to ACE2 and to 130 antibody structures, including several monoclonal antibodies used as therapies. The team found that mutations to strengthen infectivity are the driving force for viral evolution, whereas in highly vaccinated populations, mutations that allow the virus to escape vaccines become dominant. The researchers also predicted that certain combinations of mutations have a high likelihood of massive spread.

In another study in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Wei and colleagues took a deep dive into the omicron variant’s infectivity, vaccine breakthrough and antibody resistance. They used their AI model to analyze how the variant’s unusually high number of mutations on the spike protein affect RBD binding to ACE2 and antibodies. Their results indicated that omicron is over 10 times more infectious than the original coronavirus and 2.8 times more infectious than the delta variant. In addition, omicron is 14 times more likely than delta to escape current vaccines, and it is predicted to compromise the efficacy of several monoclonal antibody therapies. Many of these predictions have been verified by emerging experimental results, stressing the importance of developing a new generation of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies that won’t be easily affected by viral mutations, the researchers say.

References:

“Emerging Vaccine-Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Variants” by Rui Wang, Jiahui Chen, Yuta Hozumi, Changchuan Yin and Guo-Wei Wei, 8 February 2022, ACS Infectious Diseases.
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00557

“Omicron Variant (B.1.1.529): Infectivity, Vaccine Breakthrough, and Antibody Resistance” by Jiahui Chen, Rui Wang, Nancy Benovich Gilby and Guo-Wei Wei, 6 January 2022, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c01451

The authors acknowledge funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Michigan State University Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer.


 

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"The Wait Is Over" - 'Fortress Australia' Reopens To Tourists After Nearly 2 Years
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Feb 20, 2022 - 09:10 PM

Despite grappling with a new COVID outbreak in remote Western Australia, where authorities recorded a record 257 new COVID cases on Saturday and another 200+ on Sunday, the Australian government is finally raising its "drawbridge" on Monday as it allows the first tourists to enter the county after two years of stringent travel restrictions.

As Reuters quips early in its report on the occasion, Australia's notoriously strict policy earned it the nickname "Fortress Australia." And while the "drawbridge" approach helped its eradicate COVID for a time, case numbers finally surged to record highs during the global omicron wave, which hasn't quite yet subsided. PM Scott Morrison told a group of reporters assembled that the "wait is over".

According to the latest national case numbers, the 7-day average is at the very least trending lower, having just broken below 25K/day. Deaths have fallen to just under 50/day, on average.



Souce: WorldoMeter

All this means Australia's death rate is just 19.37 per 100,000, one of the lowest in the world.

Australia's draconian immigration policy was brought to national attention just last month when tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was eventually deported after being detained for nearly a week (before being freed by a judge) despite having secured an official exemption from the country's stringent vaccination mandate.

The big question now is whether Australia's tourism industry, which was growing nearly 2x as fast as GDP before the pandemic, will recover (real tourism GDP expanded 3.4% in 2018-2019, compared with overall GDP growth of 1.9% during the same period.

Unvaccinated tourists entering the country will still be required to quarantine, the government said. Reuters reports:

"Fully vaccinated tourists will not need to quarantine," but those who have not received two doses "will require a travel exemption to enter the country and will be subject to state and territory quarantine requirements."

Australians are among the most heavily vaccinated people in the world. Roughly 94% of the over-16 population is now at least double-jabbed, and many have received a booster dose.

As protests and public backlash intensified, Australia finally started rolling back its restrictions in November, first allowing Australians to travel in and out, then admitting international students and some workers. Now, travelers for both leisure and business will be allowed to enter the country more or less freely - provided they have the proper "documentation", of course.
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FAKE NEWS.

Sorry! I should've watched the video first. The article I just deleted was an article proclaiming the Queen of England was taking Ivermectin for her covid based on a video on twitter. The article had a screen grab of the ivermectin but no link to the video. After posting I did a twitter search to watch the video and turns out, that is not what the video is. It's an interview with a random doctor in the UK saying how HE would treat the Queen. He is not her physician and is not treating her. Hence fake news. My apologies.

In a way I'm glad I posted it and corrected it because it's getting pretty wide circulation on the web. I need to remember to watch the video first and not rely on the news. So much of it these days is fake. I know that but sometimes I forget;)!

For the curious, this is the actual video. you will note, this doctor is not the queen's doctor and is talking generally how he would treat a 90+ year old patient.



View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1495801637239148550tweet.JPG
 
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Pinecone

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Our country in Oregon has declared that we may have to continue wearing our masks (hahaha - make me) after the official state mandate is lifted, supposedly around March 31st. They have an even lower benchmark of hospitalizations than the state.
What #%&_@%^@_*+&'s.
 

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We got Proof the Queen of England is getting 3mg of Ivermectin tablets
(4 Tablets ) we dont know how often!
Well, if its good enough for the Queen,
its good enough for ME.
 

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Johnson's plan to end Britain's COVID restrictions thrown into jeopardy by minsters' objections
Johnson's "living with COVID" plan in part replace legal requirements for self isolate with voluntary guidance
By Just the News staff
Updated: February 21, 2022 - 10:33am

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to end COVID-19 restrictions Monday was thrown into jeopardy when Cabinet-level ministers reportedly objected.

Johnson's "living with COVID" plan, if enacted, was supposed to replace the legal requirements for infected people to self isolate with voluntary guidance and limit access to free virus testing – which has resulted in opposition from the leaders of Scotland and Wales and others.

They argue the policy change would make it harder to promptly combat new coronavirus variants, increasing public-safety risks, according to Reuters.

"Testing has played a pivotal role in breaking chains of transmission and as a surveillance tool helping us detect and respond to emerging variants," Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted. "It's essential that this continues."
Johnson, under criticism for his handling of the pandemic, including his personal compliance, appears to have crafted the plan to regain his political footing.

However, it was expected to go into effect just a day after Queen Elizabeth tested positive for the virus and as Hong Kong builds isolation units and Europe keeps social distancing and vaccine rules, Reuters also reports.

The high-level dispute – which reportedly has also pitted British health and finance ministers over the level of testing and its financing – has delayed the Cabinet meeting Monday until the afternoon.

A Johnson spokesman said the meeting was postponed until the afternoon "so that the prime minister could have both a security briefing and to have further meetings to finalize the plan on living with COVID."
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What Is The CDC Hiding? Agency Admits Withholding Widespread Vaccine Efficacy Data
by Tyler Durden
Monday, Feb 21, 2022 - 12:10 PM

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been collecting detailed information on Covid hospitalizations for more than a year which breaks cases down by age, race and vaccination status - yet the agency has withheld most of it from the public according to the New York Times.

What's more, the agency appears to have selectively published information to support messaging behind boosters.

When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected. -NYT

As the Times notes, much of the withheld information could aid in state and local health decisions in their efforts to bring the virus under control. Detailed breakdowns of hospitalizations by age and race, for example, could help officials identify the most at-risk populations in order to more efficiently allocate resources - such as whether healthy adults need booster shots.

According to CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund, the agency's lack of disclosure is "because, basically, at the end of the day, it's not yet ready for prime time," adding that the agency's "priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable."

Nordlund also said the agency is afraid that the information might be 'misinterpreted.'

CDC deputy director for public health, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, says that the pandemic exposed weaknesses in the agency's data systems - and those at the state levels, which he says aren't keeping up with the sheer volume of data.
"We want better, faster data that can lead to decision making and actions at all levels of public health, that can help us eliminate the lag in data that has held us back," he said.

Another excuse; the CDC apparently is awash in red tape and has 'multiple bureaucratic divisions that must sign off on important publications,' along with requirements to notify the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the White House of their plans.

The agency came under fire last year for failing to track so-called breakthrough infections in vaccinated Americans - which they said would be 'extremely rare,' and then 'rare,' and then the messaging started shifting to how the vaccine still prevented death (yet, they omitted the fact that these were largely elderly and those with comorbidities).

According to a federal official familiar with the CDC's data collection, the agency has been keeping tabs on patients since Covid vaccines were rolled out - and that the agency has been reluctant to make those figures public "because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective."

Ms. Nordlund confirmed that as one of the reasons. Another reason, she said, is that the data represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States. But the C.D.C. has relied on the same level of sampling to track influenza for years. -NYT

"We have been begging for that sort of granularity of data for two years," said Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist and part of the team that ran Covid Tracking Project, an independent effort that compiled data on the pandemic till March 2021. She added that a detailed analysis "builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what's actually going on."

Experts also disagree on the potential for 'misinterpretation."

"We are at a much greater risk of misinterpreting the data with data vacuums, than sharing the data with proper science, communication and caveats," said Rivera.

Meanwhile, it's been difficult to locate CDC data on the percentage of children hospitalized for Covid who have other medical conditions, according to Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, which asked for that information in December and were told it was unavailable.

On the bright side, the CDC has been releasing city wastewater data - a reliable indicator for measuring covid spikes among a population. Of course, that doesn't tell you if booster shots are working in 18-to-49-year-olds.
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The article referred to in the above post:

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The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Feb. 20, 2022, 12:05 p.m. ET

For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.

When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group the data showed was least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected.

The agency recently debuted a dashboard of wastewater data on its website that will be updated daily and might provide early signals of an oncoming surge of Covid cases. Some states and localities had been sharing wastewater information with the agency since the start of the pandemic, but it had never before released those findings.

Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said.

Much of the withheld information could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control. Detailed, timely data on hospitalizations by age and race would help health officials identify and help the populations at highest risk. Information on hospitalizations and death by age and vaccination status would have helped inform whether healthy adults needed booster shots. And wastewater surveillance across the nation would spot outbreaks and emerging variants early.

Without the booster data for 18- to 49-year-olds, the outside experts whom federal health agencies look to for advice had to rely on numbers from Israel to make their recommendations on the shots.

Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” She said the agency’s “priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable.”

Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.

Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the agency’s deputy director for public health science and surveillance said the pandemic exposed the fact that data systems at the C.D.C., and at the state levels, are outmoded and not up to handling large volumes of data. C.D.C. scientists are trying to modernize the systems, he said.

“We want better, faster data that can lead to decision making and actions at all levels of public health, that can help us eliminate the lag in data that has held us back,” he added.

The C.D.C. also has multiple bureaucratic divisions that must sign off on important publications, and its officials must alert the Department of Health and Human Services — which oversees the agency — and the White House of their plans. The agency often shares data with states and partners before making data public. Those steps can add delays.

“The C.D.C. is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization,” said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute. “The steps that it takes to get something like this released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the C.D.C.”
The performance of vaccines and boosters, particularly in younger adults, is among the most glaring omissions in data the C.D.C. has made public.

Last year, the agency repeatedly came under fire for not tracking so-called breakthrough infections in vaccinated Americans, and focusing only on individuals who became ill enough to be hospitalized or die. The agency presented that information as risk comparisons with unvaccinated adults, rather than provide timely snapshots of hospitalized patients stratified by age, sex, race and vaccination status.

But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.

Ms. Nordlund confirmed that as one of the reasons. Another reason, she said, is that the data represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States. But the C.D.C. has relied on the same level of sampling to track influenza for years.

Some outside public health experts were stunned to hear that information exists.

“We have been begging for that sort of granularity of data for two years,” said Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist and part of the team that ran Covid Tracking Project, an independent effort that compiled data on the pandemic till March 2021.

A detailed analysis, she said, “builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what’s actually going on.”

Concern about the misinterpretation of hospitalization data broken down by vaccination status is not unique to the C.D.C. On Thursday, public health officials in Scotland said they would stop releasing data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status because of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.

But the experts dismissed the potential misuse or misinterpretation of data as an acceptable reason for not releasing it.

“We are at a much greater risk of misinterpreting the data with data vacuums, than sharing the data with proper science, communication and caveats,” Ms. Rivera said.

When the Delta variant caused an outbreak in Massachusetts last summer, the fact that three-quarters of those infected were vaccinated led people to mistakenly conclude that the vaccines were powerless against the virus — validating the C.D.C.’s concerns.

But that could have been avoided if the agency had educated the public from the start that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise.

“Tell the truth, present the data,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration. “I have to believe that there is a way to explain these things so people can understand it.”

Knowing which groups of people were being hospitalized in the United States, which other conditions those patients may have had and how vaccines changed the picture over time would have been invaluable, Dr. Offit said.

Relying on Israeli data to make booster recommendations for Americans was less than ideal, Dr. Offit noted. Israel defines severe disease differently than the United States, among other factors.

“There’s no reason that they should be better at collecting and putting forth data than we were,” Dr. Offit said of Israeli scientists. “The C.D.C. is the principal epidemiological agency in this country, and so you would like to think the data came from them.”

It has also been difficult to find C.D.C. data on the proportion of children hospitalized for Covid who have other medical conditions, said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Infectious Diseases.

The academy’s staff asked their partners at the C.D.C. for that information on a call in December, according to a spokeswoman for the A.A.P., and were told it was unavailable.

Ms. Nordlund pointed to data on the agency’s website that includes this information, and to multiple published reports on pediatric hospitalizations with information on children who have other health conditions.

The pediatrics academy has repeatedly asked the C.D.C. for an estimate on the contagiousness of a person infected with the coronavirus five days after symptoms begin — but Dr. Maldonado finally got the answer from an article in The New York Times in December.

“They’ve known this for over a year and a half, right, and they haven’t told us,” she said. “I mean, you can’t find out anything from them.”

Experts in wastewater analysis were more understanding of the C.D.C.’s slow pace of making that data public. The C.D.C. has been building the wastewater system since September 2020, and the capacity to present the data over the past few months, Ms. Nordlund said. In the meantime, the C.D.C.’s state partners have had access to the data, she said.

Despite the cautious preparation, the C.D.C. released the wastewater data a week later than planned. The Covid Data Tracker is updated only on Thursdays, and the day before the original release date, the scientists who manage the tracker realized they needed more time to integrate the data.

“It wasn’t because the data wasn’t ready, it was because the systems and how it physically displayed on the page wasn’t working the way that they wanted it to,” Ms. Nordlund said.

The C.D.C. has received more than $11 billion to modernize its systems, which may help pick up the pace, Ms. Nordlund said. “We’re working on that,” she said.

The agency’s public dashboard now has data from 31 states. Eight of those states, including Utah, began sending their figures to the C.D.C. in the fall of 2020. Some relied on scientists volunteering their expertise; others paid private companies. But many others, such as Mississippi, New Mexico and North Dakota, have yet to begin tracking wastewater.

Utah’s fledgling program in April 2020 has now grown to cover 88 percent of the state’s population, with samples being collected twice a week, according to Nathan LaCross, who manages Utah’s wastewater surveillance program.

Wastewater data reflects the presence of the virus in an entire community, so it is not plagued by the privacy concerns attached to medical information that would normally complicate data release, experts said.

“There are a bunch of very important and substantive legal and ethical challenges that don’t exist for wastewater data,” Dr. Scarpino said. “That lowered bar should certainly mean that data could flow faster.”

Tracking wastewater can help identify areas experiencing a high burden of cases early, Dr. LaCross said. That allows officials to better allocate resources like mobile testing teams and testing sites.

Wastewater is also a much faster and more reliable barometer of the spread of the virus than the number of cases or positive tests. Well before the nation became aware of the Delta variant, for example, scientists who track wastewater had seen its rise and alerted the C.D.C., Dr. Scarpino said. They did so in early May, just before the agency famously said vaccinated people could take off their masks.

Even now, the agency is relying on a technique that captures the amount of virus, but not the different variants in the mix, said Mariana Matus, chief executive officer of BioBot Analytics, which specializes in wastewater analysis. That will make it difficult for the agency to spot and respond to outbreaks of new variants in a timely manner, she said.

“It gets really exhausting when you see the private sector working faster than the premier public health agency of the world,” Ms. Rivera said.
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Dr. Robert Malone weighs in on the above article as well.

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We the people, demand to see the data!
CDC withholding evidence concerning COVID vaccine safety is scientific fraud.

The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects New York Times, February 21, 2022
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations…

"Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said. Much of the withheld information could help state and local health officials better target their efforts to bring the virus under control"…

Two full years into the pandemic, the agency leading the country’s response to the public health emergency has published only a tiny fraction of the data it has collected, several people familiar with the data said…

“The C.D.C. is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization,” said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute. “The steps that it takes to get something like this released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the C.D.C.”
Let me translate that quote for you. Basically, a non-governmental spokesperson for the “official” public health scientific community is throwing Rochelle Walinsky under the bus, and saying that the politicians forced us to commit scientific fraud by withholding key data.

The Global Summit Doctors and other brave medical practitioners who have stood up to the lies and tyranny - who have been harassed, jobs lost, medical licenses lost, smeared and libeled are right. The data are being withheld.
The main stream media owes a whole lot of us scientist and physicians a huge apology. The main stream media has to stop being the mouthpiece for the government. This is not communist China!

The government owes the American people a huge apology. People in the government who have lied to the American people need to be charged and must be held legally accountable. We the people must demand to see ALL of the data from the CDC and the FDA.

Let’s talk data. The CDC is using cumulative data from the beginning of the vaccine roll-out in early 2021 to prop up the lie that these vaccines are effective against Omicron.

The CDC is clearly hiding the data about safety. The (thoroughly biased) NYT piece above writes further on this.
Pfizer’s data supported the safety of the vaccine, but researchers said the effectiveness wasn’t there with two shots.
“It was effective in the younger kids so those six months to two years but in the two to four-year-old age group it didn’t quite meet the levels of antibody response they expected to see,” said Dr. Christina Canody, BayCare Pediatric Service Line Medical Director.
Now instead of just having an EUA meeting about two doses, Pfizer is continuing their trial for three doses and will present that data once they have it…
Concern about the misinterpretation of hospitalization data broken down by vaccination status is not unique to the C.D.C. On Thursday, public health officials in Scotland said they would stop releasing data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status because of similar fears that the figures would be misrepresented by anti-vaccine groups.
Precisely what we have been saying.

Why is this important?

If the CDC released the age stratified data for COVID, it would be clear that a vaccine for most Americans is not necessary. If the vaccine risk ratio of those vaccinated and hospitalized were published for Omicron - it would be clear that the vaccine benefit is not observed.

The FDA have not revealed what the efficacy of the boosters for children is. They have not released the safety data. They have withheld the safety data on the vaccines for children and adults.

This must stop. We are deep into outright Scientific Fraud territory.

Let’s remember where this started… We have been manipulated from the VERY start of this pandemic. The government has been deciding what has been written, removed, censored by media and the big tech giants. This is propaganda.

I am posting the HISTORIC references from the beginning of 2020 to show that our government has been involved in scientific fraud from the beginning. Do not forget - this goes back to 2020.


1. World Health Organization holds secretive talks with tech giants Google, Facebook and Amazon to tackle the spread of misinformation on coronavirus. Daily Mail February 17, 2020.
Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants spent a day in secretive talks with the World Health Organization to tackle the spread of coronavirus misinformation.
Social media companies including Twitter and Youtube have already been working to remove post about the virus that are proved to be fake.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has offered to work directly with the companies on fact checking in a bid to speed up the process
Posts on the virus that needed to be removed have ranged from those calling it a fad disease or created by the government to claims it can be treated with oregano oil.
Companies at the meeting agreed to work with WHO on collaborative tools, better content and a call centre for people to call for advice, CNBC reported.
2. Bloomburg. Amazon, Alphabet among tech firms meeting with White House on coronavirus response. LA Times. March 11, 2020.
White House officials discussed combating online misinformation about the coronavirus and other measures during a teleconference Wednesday with tech companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc.
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios led the call, which also included representatives from Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp. and other companies and tech trade groups.
The discussion focused on information-sharing with the federal government, coordination regarding telehealth and online education and the creation of new tools to help researchers review scholarship, according to a statement from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.
“Cutting edge technology companies and major online platforms will play a critical role in this all-hands-on-deck effort,” Kratsios said in a statement. He said his office would unveil a database of research on the virus in coming days
3. White House asks Silicon Valley for help to combat coronavirus, track its spread and stop misinformation. Washington Post. March 11, 2020.
The White House on Wednesday sought help from Amazon, Google and other tech giants in the fight against the coronavirus, hoping that Silicon Valley might augment the government’s efforts to track the outbreak, disseminate accurate information...
The requests came during a roughly two-hour-long meeting between top Trump administration aides, leading federal health authorities and representatives from companies including Cisco, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Twitter, as Washington sought to leverage the tech industry’s powerful tools to connect workers and analyze data to combat an outbreak that has already infected more than 1,000 in the United States.
Three participants described the phone-and-video conversation on the condition of anonymity because the session was private. Most tech companies in attendance either did not respond or declined to comment.
The evidence above makes it crystal clear that the government has been manipulating data from the start. Now that Omicron is here and the vaccines are clearly not working. That we have data from other countries that there are issues, we much demand transparency and a stop to the manipulation of the American people. Free speech is free speech.

Scientists and physicians must be allowed to discuss data on the Internet. We ALL must be allowed to discuss data. It is time to stop the madness.

How this all ties into the globalists is becoming more and more clear.

The Next Step for the World Economic Forum Brownstone Institute, February 20, 2022

It has been obvious since early 2020 that there has been an organized cult outreach that has permeated the world as a whole. It’s possible that this formed out of a gigantic error, rooted in a sudden ignorance of cell biology and long experience of public health. It is also possible that a seasonal respiratory virus was deployed by some people as an opportunity to seize power for some other purpose.

Follow the money and influence trails and the latter conclusion is hard to dismiss.

The clues were there early. Even before the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020 (at least several months behind the actual fact of a pandemic) and before any lockdowns, there were media blitzes talking about the “New Normal” and talk of the “Great Reset” (which was rebranded as “Build Back Better”).

Pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Astra-Zeneca were actively lobbying governments to buy their vaccines as early as February 2020, supposedly less than a month after the genetic sequence (or partial sequence) was made available by China
As a person who spent his whole professional career in pharmaceutical and vaccine development, I found the whole concept of going from scratch to a ready-to-use vaccine in a few months simply preposterous.
Something did not add up.
Read more at Brownstone…
 

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Here is the article at Brownstone referred to by Dr. Malone

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The Next Step for the World Economic Forum
By Roger Koops
February 20, 2022

It has been obvious since early 2020 that there has been an organized cult outreach that has permeated the world as a whole. It’s possible that this formed out of a gigantic error, rooted in a sudden ignorance of cell biology and long experience of public health. It is also possible that a seasonal respiratory virus was deployed by some people as an opportunity to seize power for some other purpose.

Follow the money and influence trails and the latter conclusion is hard to dismiss.

The clues were there early. Even before the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020 (at least several months behind the actual fact of a pandemic) and before any lockdowns, there were media blitzes talking about the “New Normal” and talk of the “Great Reset” (which was rebranded as “Build Back Better”).

Pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Astra-Zeneca were actively lobbying governments to buy their vaccines as early as February 2020, supposedly less than a month after the genetic sequence (or partial sequence) was made available by China.

As a person who spent his whole professional career in pharmaceutical and vaccine development, I found the whole concept of going from scratch to a ready-to-use vaccine in a few months simply preposterous.

Something did not add up.

I knew of the names with which everyone has become familiar. Bill Gates, Neil Ferguson, Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and others had either been lobbying for or pursuing the lockdown strategies for many years. But still, the scope of the actions seemed too large to even be explained by those names alone.

So, the fundamental questions that I have been asking myself have been why and who? The “Why” seems to always come back to issues besides public health. Of course the “Who” had the obvious players such as the WHO, China, CDC, NIH/NIAID, and various governments but there seemed to be more behind it than that. These players have been connected to the “public health” aspect but that seemed to be only scratching the surface.

I am not an investigative journalist and I would never claim that role, but even I can do some simple internet searches and start to see patterns evolve. The searches that I have done have yielded some very interesting “coincidences.”

If I give you the names of the following people – Biden, Trudeau, Ardern, Merkel, Macron, Draghi, Morrison, Xi Jinping – what do you think that they have in common? Yes, they are all pampered and stumble over themselves, but that is also not the connection.

One can see very quickly that these names certainly connect to lockdown countries and individuals who have ignored their own laws and/or tried in some way to usurp them. But, there is more to it than that and I will give a hint by providing a link with each name.
They are all associated with the World Economic Forum (WEF), a “nonprofit” private organization started (in 1971) and headed by Klaus “You will own nothing and be happy” Schwab and his family. This is a private organization that has no official bearing with any world governance body, despite the implication of the name. It could just as well have been called the “Church of Schwabies.” The WEF was the origin of the “Great Reset” and I would guess that it was the origin of “Build Back Better” (since most of the above names have used that term recently).

If you think that the WEF membership ends with just leaders of countries, here are a few more names:
Allow me to introduce more of the WEF by giving a list of names for the Board of Trustees.
  • Al Gore, Former WP of the US
  • Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action
  • T. Shanmugaratnam, Seminar Minister Singapore
  • Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank
  • Ngozi Okonja-Iweala, Director General, WTO
  • Kristalian Georggieva, Managing Director, IMF
  • Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Minister of Canada
  • Laurence Fink, CEO, BlackRock
You can see a cross section of political and economic leaders on the board. The leader of the organization, that is the leader of the Board, is still Klaus Schwab. He has built an impressive array of followers.

If you want to really see the extent of influence, go to the website and pick out the corporate name of your choice; there are many to choose from: Abbott Laboratories, Astra-Zeneca, Biogen, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Serum Institute of India, BASF, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Blackrock, CISCO, Dell, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Zoom, Yahoo, Amazon, Airbus, Boeing, Honda, Rakuten, Walmart, UPS, Coca-Cola, UBER, Bank of China. Bank of America. Deutsche Bank, State Bank of India, Royal Bank of Canada, Lloyds Banking, JP Morgan-Chase, Equifax, Goldman-Sachs, Hong Kong Exchanges, Bloomberg, VISA, New York Times, Ontario (Canada) Teacher’s Pension Plan

The extent of reach is huge even beyond the worldwide leader network. For example, we all know what Bill Gates has been doing with his wealth via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). But, the Wellcome Trust is equal to the task. Who is the Director of the Wellcome Trust? One named Jeremy Farrar, of the United Kingdom SAGE and lockdown fame – arguably the architect of the US-UK lockdowns in 2020 – is closely associated with WEF.

Concerning the reach that can occur, let me give some examples from the BMGF alone, and it comes from the time that I spent in 2020 reading their extensive funding list.

A few years ago, the BMGF awarded the Institute for Health Metric Evaluation (IHME) a ten-year, almost $280 million award. IHME (associated with the University of Washington in Seattle) was at the forefront of the computer modeling that was driving the lockdowns and the nonpharmaceutical Interventions during 2020. People have seen their name often in print or on MSNBC or CNN.

In 2019, IHME awarded the Editor of the Lancet (Dr. Richard Horton) a $100,000 award and described him as an “activist editor.” The Lancet, once considered one of the best medical journals, has been at the forefront of censoring opposing scientific viewpoints since 2020 and publishing “papers” that were not fit to be published. I never could understand what it meant to be an “activist” editor in a respected scientific/medical journal because, stupid me, I always thought that the first job of the editor was to be impartial. I guess I learned in 2020 how wrong I was.

Of course, the Lancet is also heavily funded from pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer (also a member of the WEF).
But, the BMGF reach goes far beyond just IHME and these connections have been quite recognizable. Here are some examples of the organizations and moneys received during 2020 alone broken down by areas.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grants 2020

Organization NameAmount USD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health20+ million
World Health Organization (WHO)100+ million
Oregon Health Sciences Univ.15+ million
CDC Foundation3.5+ million
Imperial College of London7+ million
Chinese CDC2+ million
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health5+ million
Institute of Health Metric Evaluation (IHME)28 million (part of a 10 yr/279 million USD grant)
Nigeria CDC1.1 million
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Z. (Gmbh)5+ million
Novartis7+ million
Lumira Dx UK LTD37+ million
Serum Institute of India4+ million
Icosavac10 million
Novavax15 million
BBC2 million
CNN4 million
Guardian3+ million
NPR4 million
Financial Times LTD0.5 million
National Newspaper Publishers Assoc.0.75 million

Bill Gates has also invested heavily in Moderna and his investments have paid out nicely for him. The BMGF has also given close to $100 million to the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

The questions now have to be asked:
  • Is this some beginning of a controlled authoritarian society intertwined via the WEF?
  • Has the Covid panic been staged to set the stage? Please note, I am not a “Covid Denier” since the virus is real. But, has a normal seasonal respiratory virus been used as an excuse to activate the web?
The next questions, for those of us who at least pretend to live in “Democratic” societies, have to be:
  • Is this what you expected and/or want from the people you elect?
  • How many people knew of the “Associations” of the people that they voted for? (I certainly did not know of the associations until I did the searches but maybe I am just out of touch)
Can we anticipate their next moves? There may be some hints.

The Next Move

Jeremy Farrar of The Wellcome Trust recently wrote an article for the WEF with the CEO of Novo Nordisk Foundation, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen. It is a summary of a larger piece written for and published by the Boston Consulting Group.
In this article, they propose that the way to “fix” the problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria is via a subscription service.

That is, you pay a fee and when you need an antibiotic, presumably an effective one will be available for you.

My guess is that they have the same philosophy for vaccines and that certainly seems to be the approach with Coronavirus. Keep paying for and taking boosters.

In view of this philosophy, the vaccine mandates make sense. Get society “addicted” to an intervention, effective or not, and then keep feeding them. This becomes especially effective if you can keep the fear going.

This approach is so shortsighted, from a scientific viewpoint, it astounds me. But, like much of recent history, I think science has little to do with it. The goal is not scientifically founded but control founded.

After the discovery of penicillin almost one century ago, there were scientists who warned that antibiotic usage should be considered very carefully in practice because evolutionary pressures would lead to antibiotic resistant species of bacteria.

At that time, they were considered to be rogue scientists; after all, didn’t we suddenly have a miracle cure for many deadly problems?

From the time of discovery, it took over a decade before fermentation methods were developed to produce sufficient quantities of antibiotics to be practical. These methods allowed for the use of penicillin on the battlefield towards the end of WWII and undoubtedly saved many lives then and later in subsequent wars (Korea and Vietnam) by preventing serious infections resulting from wounds sustained during battle.

However, it did not take long before the medical establishment was handing out antibiotics like candy. I experienced this myself when I was a child in the 1960s. It seemed like every time we went to the doctor, no matter what the problem, I was given a series (not just one) of injections of penicillin. There were never any attempts to determine if I had a virus, bacteria, or even an allergy. The answer was: in with the needle. I cannot count how many times I was “jabbed” as a child.

It didn’t take long before resistance species started to appear. The result was that more and more money was pumped into R&D for antibiotics. When I was in graduate school during the 1980s, one sure way to get some NIH funding was to tie the research into the “antibiotic” search. Antibiotics became big business.

We now have several classes of antibiotics that are used for specific cases. We have Aminoglycosides (Streptomycin, Neomycin, etc.), Beta-Lactams Cephalosporins (four generations including Cefadroxil-G1, Cefaclor-G2, Cefotaxime-G3, Cefepime-G4 , Beta-Lactams Penicillins (including Ampicillin, Amoxicillin, and Penicillin), Other Beta-Lactams (Meropenem), Fluoroquinolones (Levofloxacin, Gemifloxicin, etc.), Macrolides (Azithromycin, Clarithromycin, etc.), Sulfonamides (Sulfisoxazole, etc.), Tetracyclines, and others such as Clindamycin and Vancomycin (typically reserved for resistant bacteria). All in all, physicians have over 50 different choices for antibiotics.

The most common place to encounter antibiotic resistant bacteria is in a hospital. Most people who get some sort of infection in the normal routine of life, like a sinus infection or skin infection, will not likely encounter an antibiotic resistant species.

Except there has been another source of the problem and that has been in the food supply. Antibiotics have become very popular with large scale meat production facilities of all types including beef, poultry, swine, and even fish. These include actual farms where the animals are raised as well as in the processing of the meat. The overuse of antibiotics in these industries has also produced resistant forms of bacteria.

For example, in attempts to limit the bacteria e. coli, common to mammalians, antibiotics have been used and this has resulted in some antibiotic resistant forms of e. coli. An infection via e. coli (antibiotic resistant or not) can be avoided by proper cooking and handling of meats. However, sometimes that does not happen and there are e. coli outbreaks (also from improperly washed vegetables that may use contaminated irrigation water).

For most healthy people, experiencing e. coli (either resistant or not) is only a passing discomfort that includes intestinal cramps, diarrhea, and other GI complaints. Depending on the amount of contamination, a person may suffer for a day or two or for several days.

But, with some people, it can be serious or deadly (such as in elderly people in poor health and young children). If that occurs, then the presence of an antibiotic resistant form can be a serious matter. Presence of a non-resistant form can be treated more readily.

A few years ago I had pneumonia; a relatively mild case. I was given a choice of in-patient treatment or out-patient and it was a no-brainer. If I wanted to make sure that my pneumonia could be handled by the normal course of antibiotics (I was given a quinolone), staying at home and away from the hospital was important. I knew that hospital-acquired pneumonia could be a much more serious situation. So, I stayed at home and easily recovered. That did not mean I was guaranteed getting a more serious resistant form in the hospital but I understood that the risk was much greater.

Producing more antibiotics and giving them on subscription to the users is not the answer. That will only lead to more resistant forms and there will be this continuing loop of antibiotic use. But, if the actual goal is societal addiction to antibiotics out of fear, just like addiction to universal Covid vaccines out of fear, then it makes sense.

Finding a few universal antibiotics that deal with the resistant forms is important and it is also important to use those sparingly and only as a last resort. In addition, better management of antibiotic use in our society would go a long way to attenuating the problem.

There is nothing particularly controversial about that observation. It was accepted by nearly every responsible health professional only two years ago. But we live now in different times of extreme experimentation, such as the deployment of world-wide lockdowns for a virus that had a highly focused impact, with catastrophic results for the world.

It was the WEF on March 21, 2020 that assured us “lockdowns can halt the spread of Covid-19.” Today that article, never pulled much less repudiated, stands as probably the most ridiculous and destructive suggestion and prediction of the 21st century. And yet, the WEF is still at it, suggesting that same year that at least lockdowns reduced carbon emissions.

We can easily predict that the WEF’s call for a universal and mandated subscription plan for antibiotics – pushed with the overt intention of shoring up financial capitalization of major drug manufacturers – will meet the same fate: poor health outcomes, more power to entrenched elites, and ever less liberty for the people.
 

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The Glorious End of DC’s Vaccine Mandate
By Jeffrey A. Tucker
February 21, 2022

Amidst dark times – a New York Times columnist has called this the “dark century” but he is at a loss to figure out why – we should pause to note genuinely good things that happen. Among them is the sudden collapse of vaccine mandates in Boston and Washington, DC.

With no real explanation that I can find, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser just flat-out said it: the mandate is gone.

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Wonderful. But think about it: how often does a government imposition on this scale get rolled back so dramatically, so quickly? Honestly I cannot think of an instance in my lifetime. Government impositions are sticky: once the bureaucrats seize control, they don’t like to give it up. There is a built-in bias such that (as Reagan said) nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.

We can think of few cases of rollback in the last 100 years. Prohibition was repealed but only after 12 years. Industrial regulations in particular sectors were removed in the late 1970s but only after an economic crisis. Clinton scrapped the 55 mile per hour speed limit that had passed in 1974. It had remained in place for 20 years. There has been progress in legalizing cannabis. US wars abroad have had no clear beginnings or endings but rather gradually leave the headlines.
Rollbacks of major government programs are rare in any case.

I had presumed that any city that imposed these egregious mandates, for a vaccine that stops neither infection nor spread, would last and last until they become an expected part of our lives. Or at least it would take many years to relax them.

Instead, one day, boom, they vanished. In DC, they lasted only two months.

Here are the factors involved, based on my reading.

Two weeks earlier, there was a massive protest in DC against all mandates and restrictions. Tens of thousands showed up. It was 100% peaceful, nonpartisan, packed with experts who spoke with clarity and precision.

Because of the mandates, many if not most of the people who came stayed and ate in Virginia and Maryland, causing a huge loss of revenue to DC small businesses and hotels, just at a time when they are trying to get back on their feet following the end of lockdowns. They could have used the business.

The voices of these merchants were finally heard. God bless commerce, especially undercapitalized small businesses that still have something to gain from freedom. I’m willing to speculate that their influence weighed heavily in the decision to quickly roll back the mandate.

On the sudden repeal, the Zoom-class reporters at the Washington Post were clearly unhappy. “About three-quarters of DC residents support the city’s vaccine requirement to enter certain businesses, a policy that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) ended Tuesday,” the news reporter scolded.

In the poll, “Majorities across the city support the vaccine requirement, including 86 percent of White residents, 63 percent of Black residents.” Very interesting that one-third of blacks do not support the mandate. Also interesting that the Washington Post sees fit to completely disregard their opinions.

The Washington Examiner drilled into the poll data a bit more to reveal a theme that has generally defined the pandemic response:

The more “privileged” the demographic, the higher the support for masking, according to the polling. Whereas 85% of white college graduates supported the mandate, barely 3 in 5 black noncollege graduates did. Just 2 out of 3 parents with children in public or public charter schools supported the mandate, compared to nearly 4 in 5 of those without them. Nearly 2 in 5 residents of Wards 7 and 8, both the poorest in the district and each with a 90% black population, opposed the mandate, compared to just 1 out of 5 residents of the rest of Washington.

The group most supportive of Bowser’s coronavirus regulations? White women, overwhelmingly. Just 11% of them thought the mayor had imposed too many rules. In fact, unlike the question specifically of the vaccine mandate, which was divided by race, gender was actually the most significant factor in whether residents believed Bowser to be too stringent in her pandemic response. While 22% and 16% of white and nonwhite men, respectively, thought Bowser imposed too many restrictions, 11% of white women and 12% of nonwhite women did.

There we have it. The poor, the minorities, the underprivileged despise the law that seems only to benefit elites. Just to be clear, this is not just about public opinion. This is about access to basic freedoms. Apparently the “liberal” elites think only of themselves and not the general good, a truth which has become unbearably obvious throughout the pandemic.
Perhaps too this has something to do with the demographics of vaccination in DC.

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Consider the implications here please. In the town where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech, two-thirds of black residents ages 18-24 have been barred by law from public accommodations. In general, half the black population has been shut out of public life by law. They could not go to restaurants, museums, libraries, bars, or theaters. This went on for months with absolutely no comment from the DC ruling class.

It’s utterly bizarre that this could have happened. You could say: this was about health, not racial discrimination. But in the private sector, if a hiring practice has a disparate impact as it relates to community demographics, it raises serious concerns about systemic discrimination. Yet I don’t recall reading any word from a high-end DC pundit on this subject as it pertained to the vaccine mandates.

The mayor undoubtedly understood this. How in good conscience can such a rule stay in place? It’s still in place in New York City of course, which is also closed to half the black residents. Just incredible. And unconscionable.

But so it has been throughout this dark period. The elites make the rules and everyone else is supposed to endure the burden, however intensely it falls so disproportionately on the less privileged populations.. Unless they speak out. Unless they make their voices heard. Unless they gather and say what they believe. Unless some leader has pangs of conscience.
The smearing of the DC protesters, and brutal suppression of the Truckers Convoy and protests, have been painful to watch but the impact has been clear. The mandates are being repealed in cities and provinces, and the impact is being felt around the world, including in DC.

Perhaps for now, they won’t get their vaccine passport system, their newly segregated society, the erasure of bodily autonomy, and a permanent caste imbalance between the rulers and the ruled that the Enlightenment long ago condemned as despotic.

It’s just one victory but it raises a point of light: maybe there is hope after all.
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Lockdowns Might Have Contributed to Myopia In Children
By Eric Hussey
February 21, 2022

Covid as an illness interests optometrists because we may deal not only with effects from the illness itself, but with the effects of lockdowns, interventions and consequent developmental interference. Interfering with development of visual abilities may loom at least as large as the disease in our professional eyes.

For the disease itself, early on in the pandemic, conjunctivitis (“pink eye”) was suggested as an early warning signal of Covid infection. As the pandemic continued, other complications were reported in case studies. Those complications were as serious and as varied as retina infections and eye muscle problems.

In contrast to those visible eye problems coincident with infection (or vaccination), developmental interference – and perhaps some parallel psychological problems – will take time to manifest. We wait; we wait to learn if, or to what depth we have injured our children.
Those disease case studies are helpful, but reflect just one case. We wanted to know what has actually been seen during this time “on the ground?”

To find out, we constructed research surveys that ask the question of optometrists across the globe, “What are you seeing?” Those surveys were done in June and October of 2021.

What optometrists world-wide are seeing

One survey investigated Covid as seen in private practices around the world (Hussey E, Schulman R. Surveying the scene: Results of the OEPF Online Covid-Related Conditions Survey. Optometry & Visual Performance 2022;1(Covid):55-8.) 1,557 optometrists from 18 countries responded to a brief survey about what Covid- and Covid vaccine-related eye problems they have seen.

Respondents were asked to respond for their practice patients, then secondarily for their personal experience with either sickness or vaccine.

We can very roughly divide the eye into the anterior segment (cornea and conjunctiva), posterior segment (retina and the vitreous gel body occupying the posterior 2/3 of the eye) and then the control mechanisms that may be expressed as eye movement, focusing and eye coordination problems. This group of 1,557 optometrists across the globe equally reported seeing Covid disease problems and vaccine problems.

These are numbers of doctors reporting seeing these conditions in their offices, not a count of individual cases seen by various doctors. When we changed the inquiry to a personal question of what had happened to the doctors themselves, of the group who either had the disease or were vaccinated (over 1,300 respondents), 72% reported symptoms. Of that 72% reporting symptoms, 40% put the blame on Covid and 25% put the blame on a vaccine.

If we coalesce all that into a statement of what optometrists in 18 countries have seen, both Covid and perhaps vaccines too have caused eye, vision, and eye-movement problems.

The development of nearsightedness in children

Rather than the disease of Covid, another worldwide survey looked at Covid lockdowns and remote learning on screens, asking whether optometrists are seeing increasing speed of the development of nearsightedness (myopia) in children (Hussey E, Vreven L, Pang Y, Taub MB. If a Tree Falls, Is It an Epidemic? Results of the OEPF Online COVID-and-Myopia Survey. Optometry & Visual Performance 2022;1(COVID):52-4).

The theory is that children spending hours looking at a screen instead of running around with their friends at school would put them at risk for increased myopia from the sustained focusing effort at near distance.

Responding to the survey were 1,246 largely private practice optometrists from 32 countries. Ninety-five percent of respondents in those 32 countries reported their countries subjecting that country’s children to online learning on two-dimensional screens. This was – is – a worldwide phenomenon.

Almost 60% of the respondents said myopia was increasing and increasing at a faster rate than prior to Covid lockdowns. Less than 30% think it’s the same as before Covid, While 85% of those who see a worsening epidemic of myopia put at least part of the blame on lockdowns.

Of course, maybe myopia isn’t a big worry to many, and not everyone who does online schooling will become (more) myopic.

My recent conversation with a student whose eyes hadn’t changed demonstrates conditions that may limit increases in myopia.

In looking at his chart prior to my exam, I thought this was a boy who I’d expect to go more nearsighted in this lockdown time. When he showed no changes, I had to ask a few questions to learn what I might be missing:

“Is your school in-person now?”

“Yeah. We’re going to school now.”

“Was your school online this past year?”

“Yes.”

“So, you did school online?”

“Well, I turned on the computer and signed in, then turned off my camera and went away to do something else.”

I think I understand. No nearsightedness, but also no learning. Obviously, this is a one-off case study and therefore should not be generalized to all school-aged children during this time. We hope.

School-aged children may well be at a higher risk for myopia, thanks to lockdowns. How about problems in younger kids? I’ve previously documented that having infants surrounded by masked people may interfere with the development of detecting faces and facial nuance, which includes emotion. If face detection development is, in fact, impaired, it may be irreparable. And, all of that is combined with distancing children from each other, reducing socialization.

If the ability to detect facial nuance, including emotion, suffers, what can we say about childhood relationships? Maybe we should add in what is not a one-off case report, but a suggested-and-celebrated school policy of kids forced to eat outside without speaking, 6 feet away from classmates and being instructed that the milk carton should be opened prior to removing the mask to absolutely limit unmasked time.

If instead of a research group centered at Duke, a lower-middle class parent, maybe in one of the shabbier houses on the block, in feeding her children lunch during non-summer months, forced them to sit outside in opposite corners of the yard, to eat in silence, to finish within 15 minutes, then to walk back inside again without speaking, the question would not be “if” but “when” to call Child Protective Services.

If we have inadvertently reduced the ability to read emotion in others as well as reducing socialization and social awards for human interaction, what have we built? Have we impaired sympathy? Why would you be sympathetic to a blank face? And what of empathy, that ability to understand on a personal level what someone else is going through? How can you empathize with something only recognized as eyes-nose-mouth rather than a human face that changes over time?

Summary

Covid infection is real and can affect eyes, vision and eye movement control, as well as the more widely discussed general effects. Although Covid-related eye problems are reported by optometrists broadly across the world, so are vaccine-related eye problems – and at over half the rate of disease-related problems. That, in itself, is interesting and reminds us of the ancient warning, first, do no harm.

The effects or potential effects on children of lockdown are more concerning.

Experts in vision think online schooling during lockdown may well be increasing the speed of myopic eye growth. A host of possible sequelae from excess myopia include things like increased risk of glaucoma, macular degeneration and retinal detachment.

Masking may be irreparably harming our children, impairing the ability to perceive emotions in the faces of others. Add to that impairing the ability to read the lips of others, both in developing speech and in providing backup to hearing speech. Those effects will take time to visibly manifest, as well as any potential psychological effects of distancing from others such as lack of empathy.

Quality of life is no longer a discussion in healthcare. People seem to be viewed as mere bags of virus just waiting to spew their contents on others. If that assessment is accurate, society will not recover. If the destruction of society is acceptable to some, it remains that dragging our children into this either with or without knowledge of risks is reprehensible. The travesty of choices made for our children during this pandemic may ultimately lead to tragedy for our future.
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Prominent Lockdown Advocate Admits He Got it Wrong
“There was never any form of analysis of the harms caused by lockdowns.”
Published 14 hours ago on 21 February, 2022
Paul Joseph Watson

A prominent lockdown advocate who advised the UK government admits in a new book he got it wrong and that there was never any proper consideration of the devastation caused by lockdowns.

Well, we told you so.

Professor Mark Woolhouse is a member of SPI-M, the modelling group on SAGE, the group that advises the British government on lockdown measures.

SAGE has become notorious for consistently predicting doomsday COVID scenarios that never even come close to passing, such as last year’s warning that Omicron could cause 6,000 deaths a day in the UK without harsher restrictions.

Just as SAGE got it spectacularly wrong earlier in the summer, without substantially harsher restrictions being imposed, Omicron caused nowhere near that level of fatalities.

In a new book called The Year the World Went Mad, Woolhouse expresses regret at SAGE’s involvement in pushing lockdown measures that caused huge devastation yet only served to delay the spread of the virus.

“We knew from February [2020], never mind March, that the lockdown would not solve the problem. It would simply delay it,” said Woolhouse, adding that no one in government appeared to recognize the failing of that strategy.

“The early global response to the pandemic was woefully inadequate,” says Woolhouse, adding that the WHO praising China for its draconian ‘zero COVID’ approach set the scene for similar disasters across the world.

Woolhouse was asked why governments set about imposing such brutal restrictions with seemingly no regard for their consequences.

“There was never at any stage, even by the following year, any form of analysis of the harms caused by lockdowns,” said Woolhouse. “Were they even considered? I haven’t seen any evidence that they were and that is very, very troubling.”

As early as April 2020, SAGE was sent information confirming that lockdowns would “cost three times more years than the disease itself,” but there was virtually no consideration of the fact that “those over 70 had at least 10,000 times the risk of dying as those under 15 years old.”

The government then lied to the public in claiming that the virus “doesn’t discriminate,” despite this being manifestly untrue.

“I heard [the official] argument caricatured as: everyone died, but at least no one was saved unfairly,” said Woolhouse, adding, “BBC News backed up this misperception by regularly reporting rare tragedies involving low-risk individuals as if they were the norm.”

While those who correctly warned that lockdowns would cause devastation were summarily demonized, smeared, cancelled and deplatformed, what if any punishment will lockdown advocates who got everything wrong face?
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Pandemic ends Thursday
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Feb 21, 2022
Dr. John Campbell

All legal restrictions in England ending Thursday, 24th February Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-604...[50410_NEWS_NLB_ACT_WK08_Mon_21_February]-20220221 It is now time to start seeing the risks as similar to those we face from other viruses and hazards we encounter in our lives. Covid has assumed what is called a "dread risk" the mental and emotional toll of the pandemic means people overestimate the actual risks. "Those feelings of dread make it challenging to accept a risk as something 'normal', to weigh it up in the way we all have to weigh the inevitable risks of everyday life." HMQ Thursday, 24th Feb, all Covid restrictions will end in England https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60467183 Legal duty to isolate for positive tests stopped Free mass testing will stop from 1 April Mr Johnson Today is not the day we can declare victory over Covid because this virus is not going away but it is the day when all the efforts of the last two years finally enable us to protect ourselves whilst restoring our liberties in full. Omicron, with falling cases and hospital admissions, and we could now complete the "transition back towards normality" while retaining contingencies to respond to a Covid resurgence or a new variant. Prof Sir Chris Whitty the ending of virus restrictions was a "gradual, steady change over a period of time" as rates were declining, adding: "This is not a sudden everything stops." The public health advice would be for people with Covid to self-isolate to prevent others catching it, as would be the case for many other highly infectious diseases Sir Patrick Vallance the virus would continue to evolve over the next couple of years and there was no guarantee that future variants would be less severe than Omicron. From 21 February dropping guidance for education and childcare, twice weekly asymptomatic testing From Thursday 24 February People who test positive for Covid will no longer be legally required to self-isolate still be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with others for at least five full days Routine contact tracing will end Fully vaccinated close contacts and those aged under 18 will no longer be legally required to test daily for seven days From 1 April Free mass testing for symptomatic and asymptomatic for the general public will end will instead be targeted towards the most vulnerable People with Covid symptoms will be asked to exercise personal responsibility when deciding whether to stay at home, until then they are still advised to do so Current government guidance on Covid passports will end and it will no longer recommend venues use the NHS Covid pass
 

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COVID-19 genetic risk variant protects against HIV
Max Planck Society
February 21, 2022

The genetic variants we are born with can increase or decrease our risk of falling seriously ill with COVID-19. The major genetic risk variant for severe COVID-19, one we inherited from Neandertals, is surprisingly common. This raises the question whether it may actually be of advantage to carry this variant. A study by Hugo Zeberg, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Germany and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, now shows that the same gene variant that increases the risk of falling seriously ill with COVID-19 protects from another serious disease—it reduces a person's risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent. This study is published in PNAS.

Some people become seriously ill when infected with SARS-CoV-2 while others have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. In addition to risk factors such as advanced age and chronic diseases, like diabetes, our genetic heritage also contributes to our individual COVID-19 severity risk.

In the autumn of 2020, Hugo Zeberg at Karolinska Institutet and MPI-EVA and Svante Pääbo at MPI-EVA showed that we inherited the major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 from Neandertals. In the spring of 2021, the same researcher duo studied this variant in ancient human DNA and observed that its frequency has increased significantly since the last ice age. In fact, it has become unexpectedly common for a genetic variant inherited from Neandertals. Hence, it may have had a favorable impact on its carriers in the past. "This major genetic risk factor for COVID-19 is so common that I started wondering whether it might actually be good for something, such as providing protection against another infectious disease," says Hugo Zeberg, who is the sole author of the new study in PNAS.

The genetic risk factor is located in a region on chromosome 3 that consists of many genes. There are several genes in its vicinity that encode receptors in the immune system. One of these receptors—CCR5—is used by the HIV virus to infect white blood cells. Zeberg found that people who carried the risk factor for COVID-19 had fewer CCR5 receptors. This led him to test whether they also had a lower risk of becoming infected with HIV. By analyzing patient data from three major biobanks (FinnGen, UK Biobank and Michigan Genomic Initiative), he found that carriers of the risk variant for COVID-19 had a 27 percent lower risk of contracting HIV. "This shows how a genetic variant can be both good and bad news: Bad news if a person contracts COVID-19, good news because it offers protection against getting infected with HIV," says Zeberg.

However, since HIV only arose during the 20th century, protection against this infectious disease cannot explain why the genetic risk variant for COVID-19 became so common among humans as early as 10,000 years ago. "Now we know that this risk variant for COVID-19 provides protection against HIV. But it was probably protection against yet another disease that increased its frequency after the last ice age," Zeberg concludes.
 

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COVID Spike Protein Binds to Heart’s Vascular Cells – May Contribute to Severe Microvascular Damage
By University of Bristol
February 21, 2022



A new study has shown how SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to severe microvascular damage seen in severely-ill COVID-19 patients by transforming human heart vascular cells into inflammatory cells, without infecting them. The University of Bristol-led research, published in Clinical Science, indicates blocking antibodies could represent a new treatment to alleviate cardiovascular complications.

In this new study, published in the journal Clinical Science, a multidisciplinary research team from the University’s Bristol Heart Institute sought to investigate how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with heart cells causing the myocardial damage seen in COVID-19 patients. Until now, it remained unclear whether heart cells are infected by the virus or damaged because of an excess cytotoxic defence response. This response, also known as ‘the cytokine storm’, comes from our immune cells, whereby cytotoxic cells attack and kill the infected cells by releasing proteins, called cytokines. The team also sought to investigate whether heart cells contribute to producing excess cytokines.

A research team led by Bristol’s Professor Paolo Madeddu exposed human heart pericytes, which are cells that wrap small blood vessels in the heart, to SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants, along with the original Wuhan virus. Surprisingly, they found the heart pericytes were not infected.

Intrigued by this finding, in a second test-tube experiment, the researchers challenged the cardiac pericytes with the spike protein alone, without the virus. The spike protein made pericytes unable to interact with their companion endothelial cells and induced them to secrete inflammatory cytokines, suggesting the spike protein is harmful to human cardiac cells. Interestingly, the team found that antibodies blocking CD147 – a receptor for the spike protein – protected heart pericytes from damage.

Finally, the team identified the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in blood samples obtained from COVID-19 patients, which opens the possibility that spike protein particles traveling through the circulation can reach a site distant from the respiratory system and cause systemic damage.

Dr. Elisa Avolio, the study’s first author from the University’s Bristol Medical School, said: “Pericytes are essential cells of the heart, although their role in maintaining the structural integrity of the coronary vascular tree has emerged only recently. Our ongoing research on human cardiac pericytes indicates these cells co-operate with coronary endothelial cells during healing from a heart attack. This new study shows that the spike protein jeopardizes this interaction and transforms pericytes into inflammatory cells. Hopefully, CD147 blocking antibodies could represent a new treatment to alleviate cardiovascular complications in COVID-19 patients.”

Professor Paolo Madeddu, cardiologist and the study lead from the University’s Bristol Medical School, added: “Microvascular complications are frequent and harmful in patients with COVID-19, with up to 11 percent of those hospitalized in intensive care units having myocardial damage or having suffered a heart attack. Furthermore, people with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases are more likely to die of COVID-19.

“Our findings newly suggest that SARS-CoV-2 can damage vascular cells without infecting them. In addition, cleaved spike protein particles could amplify the damage induced by the engagement of the full virion with vascular cells.”

“The Omicron variant has multiple mutations to its spike protein, which helps the virus to enter and infect human cells, resulting in higher transmissibility and stronger binding with human cells.”

“However, in the case of the current Omicron wave, experts say there haven’t been any cardiac symptoms reported so far although it is still very early to say for sure. If confirmed, this may indicate a dissociation between infectivity and capacity of SARS-CoV-2 to cause cardiac cell damage. The multifunctional spike protein being the key determinant in these phenomena.”

Reference: ” The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function through CD147 receptor-mediated signalling: a potential non-infective mechanism of COVID-19 microvascular disease” by Elisa Avolio, Michele Carrabba, Rachel Milligan, Maia Kavanagh Williamson, Antonio P. Beltrami, Kapil Gupta, Karen T. Elvers, Monica Gamez, Rebecca R. Foster, Kathleen Gillespie, Fergus Hamilton, David Arnold, Imre Berger, Andrew D. Davidson, Darryl Hill, Massimo Caputo and Paolo Madeddu, 15 December 2021, Clinical Science.
DOI: 10.1042/CS20210735

The research has been supported by a pump-priming grant from the Wellcome Trust, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute (EBI) Rapid Response COVID-19 and a British Heart Foundation grant (number PG/20/10285). The authors are members of the University of Bristol COVID-19 Emergency Research Group (UNCOVER).

About coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
The surface of the coronavirus particle has proteins sticking out of it known as Spike proteins which are embedded in a membrane. They have the appearance of tiny little crowns, giving the virus its name (corona). Inside the membrane is the viral genome wrapped up in other proteins. The genome contains all the genetic instruction to mass produce the virus. Once the virus attaches to the outside of a human cell, its membrane fuses with the human cell membrane and its genetic information into the human cell. Next, the virus instructs the cell to start replicating its genome and produce its proteins. These are then assembled into many new copies of the virus which, upon release, can infect many more cells. The viral proteins play diverse further roles in coronavirus pathology.
 

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FDA Warns of Vaccine Induced Positive Syphilis Test
February 21, 2022 | sundance | 113 Comments

As if there wasn’t enough sketchy stuff amid positive HIV tests as a result of the COVID-19 vaccination program, apparently now there’s a vaccine induced positive syphilis result. FDA LINK

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I guess that’s why they call it “practicing” medicine.

On a serious note, it would be interesting to see what the difference is between people who took the vaccine and the percentage of people who then took the booster shot(s) after adverse vaccine events began getting recorded. Are there a lot of people who took the original vaccine, but later wouldn’t continue taking the booster shots?


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BREAKING: Majority of Canadian Parliament Sides With Trudeau’s Tyranny – Vote to UPHOLD Unprecedented Emergencies Act After Protesters Beaten and Shackled
By Julian Conradson
Published February 21, 2022 at 10:00pm

On Monday night, the Canadian Parliament voted 185-151 to uphold Prime Minister Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Democracy killed by the Canadian Parliament
Go home Canada, your drunk https://t.co/1szHZgMH5N
— Ⓑig Ⓑang Ⓒoming (@BBCPropaganda) February 22, 2022

The emergency powers will now remain in effect for at least the next 3 weeks, if not more, as Trudeau attempts to hunt down trucker convoy participants who escaped his grasp during this weekend’s brutal crackdowns.

Monday’s party-line vote saw every member of the New Democrat Party (NDP) and the Liberal Party band together to uphold Trudeau’s unprecedented use of the act, beating out Conservatives and Bloc Quebec, who all opposed.

Immediately after the tally was announced, Conservative Leader Candace Bergen asked to issue a motion for Parliament to reconvene and look again at repealing the Emergencies Act, but she was quickly interrupted by House Leader Mark Holland, who tried to shut her down and quickly adjourn the session.

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Despite smearing several officials earlier in the day for their intentions to vote against him, Trudeau and most of his Cabinet did not even show up to the late-night vote.

Before the voting began, one MP attempted to clarify if Liberals had made the session into a “confidence vote,” which would leave the possibility of a sudden election if they did not fall in line. Since Trudeau was nowhere to be found, House Leader Mark Holland was forced to answer the question, which he apparently was not too happy about.

“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the debate, but it’s time to vote,” he said, sitting back down immediately as the room boos loudly.

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The Conservatives ask whether the vote on the Emergencies Act is a confidence vote. Trudeau’s Liberals refuse to answer.
Justin Trudeau did not bother to show up for the vote. pic.twitter.com/mB6FtMKU13
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 22, 2022
 

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NY Lt. Governor Tests Positive For Covid After Attending Maskless Democrat Convention with Hillary Clinton
By Cristina Laila
Published February 21, 2022 at 6:14pm

Triple vaxxed New York Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday just two days after attending a maskless convention with Hillary Clinton.

“I tested positive for COVID today. Thankfully, I’m vaxxed, boosted, and in good spirits, since I’m only experiencing mild symptoms,” Benjamin said in a tweet.
I tested positive for COVID today. Thankfully, I’m vaxxed, boosted, and in good spirits, since I’m only experiencing mild symptoms.
Cat and our girls’ tests came back negative—praise God! I’ll be isolating at home as they monitor for symptoms and get tested again in a few days.
— Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin (@LtGovBenjamin) February 21, 2022
Here is a maskless Benjamin walking on stage at the Sheraton Hotel on Friday:
Stepping on stage after just earning the unanimous support of @nydems at the #NYDems2022 Nominating Convention!
THANK YOU New York Democrats! pic.twitter.com/5tSKOzRRTX
— Brian Benjamin (@brianbenjaminny) February 17, 2022
Benjamin, Hochul and other maskless New York Democrats celebrated on Friday while children are still forced to mask:
Here’s 3 minutes of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul hugging, kissing, and shaking hands with people maskless.
Hochul is still forcing masks on toddlers. pic.twitter.com/n852krFdCU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 17, 2022
Hillary Clinton also spoke at the NY Democrat convention on Friday.

Clinton lashed out at Trump and Trump supporters in her speech.
 

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Fully Vaxxed Fox News Anchor Neil Cavuto Back on Air After Five-Week Absence, Confirms He Was in ICU with ‘Covid Pneumonia’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Published February 21, 2022 at 7:35pm

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Fully vaccinated Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto was back on the air on Monday after a five-week absence.

Cavuto told Fox News viewers that he was hospitalized with ‘Covid pneumonia.’

In October Neil Cavuto begged Fox News viewers to get vaccinated after his ‘breakthrough’ Covid case.
Cavuto got Covid AGAIN and this time it almost took him out.

“I did get Covid again, but a far, far more serious strand — what doctors call ‘Covid pneumonia,’” Cavuto said on Monday.

“It landed me in intensive care for quite a while and it really was touch-and-go. Some of you who’ve wanted to put me out of my misery darn near got what you wished for! So, sorry to disappoint you!”

Cavuto pushed back on people claiming the Covid vaccine made him sick.

“The vaccine didn’t cause that. That grassy knoll theory has come up a lot. My very compromised immune system did…” Cavuto said. “I’m among the vulnerable three percent or so of the population that cannot sustain the full benefits of a vaccine, but let me be clear, doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all I wouldn’t be here.”

VIDEO:
Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto returns to air after landing in the ICU for “Covid pneumonia.”
“It really was touch-and-go … let me be clear — doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn’t be here.” pic.twitter.com/AqXnPPHeAq
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) February 21, 2022
 

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Saved, to glorify God.
WHY is it that half the time reporters mention ivermectin they say "horse ivermectin" when, even when they SHOW it is pills, it is HUMAN IVERMECTIN?

They don't want people to even know there IS A HUMAN IVERMECTON! This is censoring and disinformation at its peak, and it is not conspiracy theorists doing it it is the MAINSTREAM MEDIA WE RELY UPON TO GIVE US TRUTH AND NEWS!

SO VERY MANY INSTANCES OF THEM KNOWING LYING TO US. We can not trust them any more. They stoke the fires of race hatred every chance the get.

They color stories to fit their agendas, they leave out important parts of stories. They seldom return to a story to give a more complete story, after more is known. They are ONLY interested in black victims, and then only if the perp is white. White victims aren't news at all unless there are several and the perp is white.

Black victims are overwhelminly victims of black crime but it it is presented in the news as general crime. When black perps are arrested the whole black community rallies to their defense and says he was gonna be a doctor ( in spite of his dropping out in 8th grade to sell drugs.and steal cars) he's gonna be a preacher or a rapper. or some kind of "artist" or "community activist".This is his 18th arrest and he's only 24. Meanwhile the Korean Lady he pistol whipped for $58 from her little grocery store is still in the hospital. Nobody in the community wants to hear about her.

I am tired of hearing it.
 
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Biden Quietly Extends National COVID Emergency Indefinitely
February 22, 2022 Susan Berry, PhD

In a letter to the House Speaker and Senate President Friday, President Joe Biden extended the national COVID-19 emergency pandemic indefinitely.

“There remains a need to continue this national emergency,” Biden wrote, adding:

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant risk to the public health and safety of the Nation. More than 900,000 people in this Nation have perished from the disease, and it is essential to continue to combat and respond to COVID-19 with the full capacity and capability of the Federal Government.
Biden said in his letter he was extending the national emergency in accordance with the National Emergencies Act’s procedure for its continuation.

“I have sent to the Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency declared in Proclamation 9994 of March 13, 2020, beginning March 1, 2020, concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is to continue in effect beyond March 1, 2022,” he wrote.

“Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Proclamation 9994 concerning the COVID-19 pandemic,” Biden added.

Biden can’t give up his authoritarian chokehold on your life. He needs an excuse for unsolicited mail in ballots for upcoming midterm elections to justify his reckless and irresponsible spending of your children's and grandchildren's future. Criminal!! Biden Extends US National Emergency Over COVID-19
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) February 21, 2022

The move to extend the national COVID emergency comes as a number of Democrat governors are ending some of their COVID mandates, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois.

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced legislation last week that sought an end to the national emergency declaration.
The bill would revoke many of the federal government’s extended powers regarding the pandemic, Fox News reported, adding that Congress has the duty to determine whether an emergency under the National Emergencies Act should be extended, but, to date, has mostly abdicated its role to the executive branch.

Marshall told Fox News Digital:

With COVID cases and hospitalizations on the decline, 94 percent of Americans having immunity to COVID, mask mandates falling by the wayside, and 70 percent of Americans agreeing ‘it’s time we accept that COVID is here to stay’ and that ‘we just need to get on with our lives,’ it’s clear we need a new approach to COVID as we learn to live with it.

“That new approach starts with putting an end to the COVID national state of emergency,” the senator added.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes on its website that, as of mid-February, 923,000 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, with about 75 percent of them in individuals in the 65-and-over age group.

The most frequently listed comorbidities with COVID-19 deaths have been influenza and pneumonia (48.9 percent), hypertension (18.3 percent), and diabetes (15.1 percent).
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Susan Berry, PhD is national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to sberryphd@protonmail.com.
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Bill Gates-Linked Lab Developing Vaccine That Spreads Like a Virus To Vaccinate Anti-Vaxxers
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February 22, 2022 Baxter Dmitry News, US 13


A team of Bill-Gates linked research scientists have announced they are developing a needle-less vaccine that spreads itself like a virus, meaning people will “catch” the vaccine like they would a cold or flu, without the need for needles and injections.

The research is being subsidised by high-profile funding organisations, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has longstanding financial ties to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

An international team of researchers are working on an experimental self-spreading vaccine that could stop the virus leaping from rats to humans — a phenomenon scientists call zoonotic spillover.

The drive to develope self-spreading vaccines is not without controversy. The DHSC paper notes: ‘Self-spreading vaccines are less lethal but not non-lethal: they can still kill.

Some people will die who would otherwise have lived, though fewer people die overall.

The other issue is there is no consent (for vaccination) from the majority of patients.’

But some ethics experts say there are parallels for ‘treating’ mass populations for public health issues without first getting individual consent.

For example, the fluoridation of mains drinking water to prevent tooth decay already happens in some parts of the UK and the Government is considering extending it to all of England.

Nobody is asked whether they give consent, even those who disagree with it,’ says Professor Dominic Wilkinson, a medical ethics specialist at Oxford University. ‘Instead, we entrust elected officials to examine the likely health benefits and make decisions based on the evidence.

I don’t think that there is anything intrinsically different when it comes to the idea of self-spreading vaccines.’

However, some scientists have serious misgivings about the risk that weakened viruses could mutate into a more potent form once they are free to spread in the population.

Dr Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at King’s College London, warns of a danger that the science behind self-spreading vaccines could be hijacked to make biological weapons.

Such a self-spreading weapon may prove uncontrollable and irreversible,’ she says.

And Professor Jim Bull, an infectious diseases expert at Idaho University who monitors developments in transmissible vaccines, told Good Health: ‘The big hurdle right now is knowing whether we can make them.

The Department of Health and Social Care told Good Health that no trial for a self-spreading vaccine ‘would take place without undergoing stringent regulatory and ethics approval’.

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DeSantis pressed to veto bill preventing families from suing health providers over COVID
Legislation would provide liability protection to health-care providers that follow “government-issued health standards.”
By Bethany Blankley
February 23, 2022 - 12:02am

At least 35 organizations have called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto a bill that would prevent patients and families from suing health-care providers over COVID-19-related injuries, deaths and lack of treatment.

The bill, SB 7014, “COVID-19-related Claims Against Health Care Providers,” was presented to the governor Feb. 17. He has until Thursday to veto, sign, or ignore it. By ignoring it, according to the state constitution, the bill would become law, effective immediately.

“We know you share with us the core values of protecting life, individual liberty and the freedom of medical choice,” R. Shawn McBride, with the American Freedom Information Institute, who signed the letter, said. “Yet what has happened – on countless occasions – and will continue to happen in Florida if this law is adopted, is that Floridians are being denied treatment, checked into hospitals and cut-off from their loved ones and medical decision makers. At that point the patient loses control and the hospital uses the protocols they decide in many cases not even following the patient's care decisions.”

Submitted for consideration by Judiciary on Nov. 22 last year, the bill “extends the duration of liability protections from COVID-19-related claims against health care providers.”

According to the bill analysis, the legislature “determined that special civil liability protections against COVID19-related claims were essential for the survival of individuals, businesses, health care providers, and other organizations. In an effort to protect those entities that contributed to the overall wellbeing of the state,” the legislature passed the bill. It passed by a vote of 87-31 in the House and 22-13 in the Senate.

The bill would provide liability protection to health-care providers that follow “government-issued health standards” that “include the CDC's Covid-19 guidelines, which many say aren't working. Some medical professionals have stated that these CDC protocols have led to unnecessary medicines, ventilation and deaths.”

If the bill goes into law in its current form, health-care providers “could simply follow the CDC's guidelines against their patient's wishes and re-main free from liability,” they argue.

Joining McBride were groups including Freedom Flyers Political Action, Medical Freedom Coalition, Florida Citizens Alliance, among others. They collectively represent hundreds of thousands of members and participants.

When asked about the letter, DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw told The Center Square, “The governor’s office has received the letter and is aware of the concerns raised by patient advocates. We will most likely have an update to share with you later this week. Governor DeSantis is working to ensure that patients’ rights are protected in Florida and that healthcare providers are free to use their best judgment to treat patients.”

At a Feb. 2 press conference, DeSantis said the legislature would be working on a package to protect health-care rights for patients.

In response to a question from a reporter with The Alachua Chronicle, DeSantis said, “COVID cannot be used as an excuse to deny patients’ basic rights. … So we’re going to have some type of Patient’s Bill of Rights… and also, in nursing homes, too.”

When asked if he supported “right-to-try” laws, he answered, “Yes–honestly, that should be the law anyway. … I believe in the principle of right-to-try… and our Surgeon General said this too: It’s totally inappropriate to crack down on a physician for practicing medicine."
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Chicago Announces It is Lifting Mask and Vaccine Mandates — But There is an Infuriating Catch
February 22, 2022
by Kyle Becker

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made an important announcement on Tuesday: The Windy City won’t be imposing mask and vaccine mandates after February 28. Unfortunately, the lifting of mask mandates won’t include those least susceptible to Covid and most emotionally vulnerable: Schoolchildren.

“Chicago will lift its mask and proof-of-vaccine mandates next week, but Chicago Public School students, teachers and employees must keep their masks on — at least for the time being,’ the Sun-Times reported.

“Starting this coming Monday, patrons of restaurants, bars and gyms will be free to take their masks off and keep their vaccine cards in their wallets, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady announced at a City Hall news conference Tuesday,” the report noted.

“It’s important for us to recognize this moment for what it is: a huge step forward in our effort to overcome COVID-19,” Lightfoot said. “We would not have been in a position — even a few weeks ago — to be making this kind of announcement today.”

Mayor Lightfoot, who has a history of flaunting her own mask rules, is thus following in the unscientific footsteps of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who recently dropped indoor mask mandates, but kept them for schools.

What do New York and Chicago have in common? Teacher’s unions.

The teacher’s unions have been beyond some of the most unscientific and damaging Covid policies for children’s health. There are absolutely no positive results to report for the backwards and unnatural policy of child-masking.

Below are the mask optional states versus the mask mandate states.

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Source: @ianmsc/Twitter

The critical thing to note here (and the huge ‘I told you so’ for those paying attention) is that these data curves aren’t anomalies. They are not due to seasonal or regional factors.

That is because children have participated in studies, and as reported here in mid-January: Maskless kids are less likely to test positive for Covid.

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Source: Office for National Statistics (U.K.)

Whether it is because kids play with their masks or don’t wear them properly or whatever excuses people want to make, the masks actually correlate with higher case rates among children. That’s according to the Office for National Statistics (U.K.).

There is data independent of the Office for National Statistics that echoes these findings. The Substack researcher el gato malo cited Emily Oster data on school masking. These were the conclusions:
  • students in masked schools had a 21% higher case rate than students in schools with no masks. masks do not look to protect your kids.
  • staff case rate was 23% higher in masked schools.
  • areas imposing masks had a 19% higher overall community case rate.
It gets worse. Here are the charts of no mask and mask mandate schools.

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Mask mandates aren’t just statistically useless, they do a tremendous amount of harm to children’s wellbeing.

A Surgeon General’s report warned that Covid policies are exacerbating the childhood mental health crisis. Depression is up. Anxiety is up. Drug use is up. Child suicide attempts are way up.

Covid is no longer a national crisis. Cruel, unscientific and useless Covid policies like school masking — that is the crisis.
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