Covid19 News from Planet Waves — December 2022 entries

Dr. Fauci was granted an emergency doctorate in physics by Stanford University three weeks ago, “So at least he would have a little something,” according to a spokesman for the university.He was also granted an honorary master’s degree in finance and a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies by Salsbury University in Maryland.

As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Fauci has served the American public health sector in various capacities for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Gerald R. Ford.

Terrain theory of disease and the need for a paradigm shift | added December 15

Read more at Antiviral by Mike Stone Substack

When I initially began to question the fraud of virology, a big influence on my ability to push away the germ theory indoctrination that I had been subjected to for the majority of my life was learning that there was in fact an alternate theory for how disease manifests. This theory is known as the terrain theory of disease. It was developed as an explanation for how one aquires a state of dis-ease initially by French physiologist Claude Bernard (1813–1878) and was expanded upon greatly by French scientist Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908).

This theory was in direct contrast to the germ theory of disease as proposed by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) as it stated that disease was not caused by invading pathogens from outside of the body. Instead, the dis-ease process began from within due to the status of the internal environment of the body. If there occurs an imbalance within the internal environment and the body becomes too toxic, which could be brought about by a combination of many factors such as what we eat, drink, think, feel, etc., this would materialize in symptoms of dis-ease as the body intitiates a detoxification process in an attempt to restore balance.

I do not remember how I initially came across this theory early on in my journey but I knew that it resonated with me greatly. While one does not need an alternative theory in order to critique the prevalent one, terrain theory provided me with a strong foundation to help myself and others to compare and contrast the differences in the ideologies of dis-ease. Terrain theory incorporates common sense and logic in order to explain that it is what we ultimately do to our own bodies that results in the initiation of a cleansing process; one that has been mistaken as being detrimental and in need of being shut down.

SUNY Purchase reinstates indoor mask mandates due to rising ‘covid’, flu, RSV cases | added December 15

Editor’s Note: Meanwhile, masking healthy people all day indoors can be detrimental to cognitive development and performance. CNN medical analyst even admitted back in August that masking stunted her toddler’s language development. Recently, University of Queensland published a study showing how masked chess players became distracted and showed decreased performance. — mmd

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One of the State University of New York’s top liberal arts colleges announced Tuesday it was reinstating its indoor mask mandate for thousands, citing high covid-19 transmission levels that have prompted a flurry of renewed advisories across much of America in recent weeks.

SUNY Purchase said it believed it was the lone Westchester County college to reinstate the mask rule amid rising covid cases. The announcement included a current case total of 165 for the county, though New Yorkers know that number is likely well underestimated. College President Milagros Pena said a mandate right now appears to be necessary, “so that we can end the semester healthy and well, be able to send the students home to their families also healthy and well.”

Final exams are expected to wrap up this week — and while some students are worried about passing their classes, school officials are concerned students are passing covid around too much. Students are required to wear the masks in indoor public places, but not when they’re in their dorms. The developments come as a growing number of people and places weigh renewed viral precautions as covid, flu and now RSV combine for a tridemic threat this holiday season.

Biden administration makes at-home rapid ‘covid’ tests free for the winter | added December 15

Editor’s Note: And let’s hope yet another recall doesn’t happen on these at-home tests months from now. — mmd

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The Biden administration is making rapid covid tests available for free again this winter through a limited round of ordering. Households can now order a total of four rapid covid tests for free at CovidTests.gov. Orders will start shipping next week, just days before families gather for the Christmas holiday, and deliveries will continue in the following weeks, according to the White House.

The Biden administration shut down the free at-home covid test program in September because Congress did not pass additional funding to replenish the U.S. stockpile. The White House decided to shift existing money to buy more tests and relaunch the popular program as covid cases started increasing again, a senior administration official told reporters during a call Wednesday evening.

“We feel confident that we are going to have enough tests to get through this next round, four per household, in the coming weeks,” the official said. The relaunch of the free at-home test program is part of the Biden administration’s preparedness plan for covid this winter. Covid infections are increasing again as hospital emergency departments are already battling a surge of patients sick with the flu and respiratory syncytial virus.

Exposed: Leading figure in British Heart Foundation suppresses evidence of ‘covid’ shot-induced heart damage | added December 15

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A leading figure in the British Heart Foundation is suppressing evidence that the covid vaccines cause heart damage, MP Andrew Bridgen has said. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Bridgen, the Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, said: It has also been brought to my attention by a whistleblower from a very reliable source that one of these institutions is covering up clear data that reveals that the mRNA vaccine increases inflammation of the heart arteries.

It is covering this up for fear that it may lose funding from the pharmaceutical industry. The lead of that cardiology research department has a prominent leadership role with the British Heart Foundation, and I am disappointed to say that he has sent out non-disclosure agreements to his research team to ensure that this important data never sees the light of day. Three months ago, one of the most eminent and trusted cardiologists, a man with an international reputation, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, published peer-reviewed research that concluded that there should be a complete cessation of the administration of the covid mRNA vaccines for everyone because of clear and robust data of significant harms and little ongoing benefit.

He described the roll-out of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine as “perhaps the greatest miscarriage of medical science, attack on democracy, damage to population health, and erosion of trust in medicine that we will witness in our lifetime”. Interestingly, there has so far not been a single rebuttal of Dr. Malhotra’s findings in the scientific literature, despite their widespread circulation and the fact that they made international news.

WHO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conduct another pandemic tabletop exercise | added December 15

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This week, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president, and Polly Tommey, CHD.TV programming manager, covered the latest headlines on covid-19, Big Pharma and other issues, including news that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) led a roundtable discussion to shed light on the current state of knowledge surrounding the vaccine and the path forward. The story doctors and scientists told of corruption and mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic is a turning point for humanity.

Polly and Mary also discussed that Dr. Andrew Huff, an epidemiologist who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, says the virus was genetically engineered through China’s gain-of-function experiments. “This should be the headline at every mainstream news outlet,” said Polly.

Plus, millions trust the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate Big Food and Big Pharma without realizing that Bill Gates and other members of the private sector are pulling the strings behind the scenes. Also on tap this week: The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted another pandemic tabletop exercise in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23.

People who are not ‘covid’ jabbed more likely to crash their car, according to The American Journal of Medicine | added Dec. 15

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If you passed on getting the covid vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash. Or at least those are the findings of a new study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine. During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults, 16% of whom hadn’t received the covid vaccine.

They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash—in which at least one person was transported to the hospital—than those who were vaccinated. That’s similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half that of people who abuse alcohol, researchers found. The excess risk of car crash posed by unvaccinated drivers “exceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users,” the authors wrote.

Of course, skipping a covid vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash. Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also “neglect basic road safety guidelines.” Why would they ignore the rules of the road? Distrust of the government, a belief in freedom, misconceptions of daily risks, “faith in natural protection,” “antipathy toward regulation,” poverty, misinformation, a lack of resources, and personal beliefs are potential reasons proposed by the authors.

GOP report alleges “indications” ‘covid’ is tied to China’s biological weapons research program | added December 15

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Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are “indications” that covid-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program and “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The information was released in a minority staff report by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday night.

“Contrary to the implication of the [Intelligence Community’s] declassified report, based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” a summary of the report states.

“The IC failed to adequately address this information in its classified Updated Assessment. When we attempted to raise the issues with the IC, it failed to respond.” In a declassified assessment on the origins of covid-19 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in October 2021, the report states that SARS-CoV-2 was “probably not a biological weapon,” adding, “We remain skeptical of allegations that SARS-CoV-2 was a biological weapon because they are supported by scientifically invalid claims.”

‘Covid’ jabs averted 3 million deaths in U.S. while saving $1 trillion dollars in additional medical costs, according to Commonwealth Fund study | added December 15

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This Wednesday will mark two years since nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the U.S. to receive a covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. A study released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund shows that in those two years, the covid vaccines have averted over 3 million deaths in the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 1 million Americans have died from Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic. But the study results show the toll would have been even worse had the U.S. had relied upon so-called natural immunity acquired through infection as the only immunological defense against the virus. Without vaccines, the country would have experienced four times as many deaths, 1.5 times more infections, and 3.8 times more hospitalizations in the time since December of 2020.

The vaccines also saved the U.S. $1 trillion in additional medical costs. The study’s key message is that vaccines are “worth our money as taxpayers,” said Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, an associate professor of epidemiology at Georgia Southern University, who was not involved in the study. “We pay for the vaccination campaign and it works. It saves us money and it saves lives.”

Former BlackRock managing director, Edward Dowd publishes new must-read book: “‘Cause Unknown’: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022” | added December 14

Editor’s Note: Mark Crispin Miller has been keeping a meticulous record of these ‘sudden death’ reports around the world. — mmd

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Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and Skyhorse Publishing today released “‘Cause Unknown’: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” by former BlackRock Managing Director Edward Dowd, a book that explores the rise in sudden fatalities among young, healthy people beginning in 2021.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CHD chairman and chief litigation counsel, wrote the foreword to the book, and Gavin de Becker, chairman and founder of Gavin de Becker & Associates, wrote the afterword. In “‘Cause Unknown,’” Dowd reports on statistics that show a spike in deaths in the U.S. in 2020 — but a smaller spike than one might expect during a pandemic.

According to Dowd, some of those deaths can be attributed to covid-19 and to initial treatment strategies that were ineffective. But it was the 2021 data — released by OneAmerica Financial Partners, the umbrella corporation for several life insurance companies — that most surprised Dowd and others. OneAmerica’s CEO publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, deaths among people of working age (18-64) occurred at a rate that was 40% higher than before the pandemic.

FDA announces recall of EUA ‘covid’ tests from July and August due to false negative results | added December 14

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday announced a covid-19 test manufacturer is issuing a recall due to false test results. The covid-19 tests were made by Detect Inc. and were sent to customers between July 26 and Aug. 26 of this year, according to the recall notice. It impacts about 11,000 tests, which were given an FDA emergency use authorization, made by the firm.

“There is an increased chance that the tests from the lot numbers listed below may give false negative results,” the announcement said. “Detect has conducted a thorough investigation to identify this issue and has made the decision to conduct a voluntary recall for these lots.” Detect Inc. said it has not received any reports of false negative results related to the impacted lots and said the recall is being done “out of an abundance of caution,” stressing that the “reliability of positive test results is not affected.”

“Detect is notifying all customers and distributors affected by the recall. Anyone in possession of any unused tests from the affected lots should dispose of the tests,” the notice said. “The outer packaging is recyclable while all the test components can be discarded as regular trash. Detect Hubs are not affected by the recall and do not need to be discarded.”

CDC reports ‘long covid’ has claimed at least 3,500 U.S. lives, an underestimate of actual toll | added December 14

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Long covid has been linked to at least 3,544 deaths in the United States so far, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which places a spotlight on the lingering impact covid-19 can have on people who manage to survive an infection.

The report by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is based on an analysis of death certificates issued across the country between January 2020 and June 2022 that mention long covid or other related terms like Post-Acute Sequelae of Covid-19 (PASC), post-covid syndrome or long haul covid as one of the causes. The CDC defines long covid or PASC as “long-term symptoms experienced after a person has recovered from acute infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19.”

Long covid accounted for only 0.3% of all deaths reported across the country during the assessment period. The study, however, warns the number likely underestimates the actual toll as the understanding of the long-term effects of covid-19 is still evolving. People above the age of 75 make up 56.9% of the total long covid death toll with people above the age of 65 making up 78.4% of the number.

CDC advises indoor masking in wake of “tripledemic” case spike | added December 14

Read more at The New York Times

Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V., sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once again.

Nationwide, covid-19 case rates and hospitalizations have spiked by 56 percent and 24 percent, respectively, over the past two weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there have already been 13 million illnesses and 7,300 deaths from flu this season, and those numbers are expected to rise in the coming months. (Over the past decade, annual flu deaths have ranged from 12,000 to 52,000 people, with the peak in January and February.)

And while R.S.V. finally appears to be on the decline, infection rates are still high across much of the country. The C.D.C. officially advises wearing a mask on a county-by-county basis depending on community covid-19 levels, which take into account virus-related hospital admissions, bed capacity and case rates.

DeSantis calls on grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” of ‘covid’ shots | added December 14

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SARASOTA, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he plans to petition the state’s Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” related to covid-19 vaccines. DeSantis made the announcement following a roundtable with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and a panel of scientists and physicians who expressed skepticism about the vaccines, the companies that manufacture them, and CDC recommendations saying everyone who’s eligible should receive the shots.

DeSantis, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, gave no specifics on what wrongdoing the panel would investigate, but suggested it would search for evidence to bolster claims about harmful side effects.

“We’ll be able to get the data whether they want to give it or not,” DeSantis said. “In Florida, it is illegal to mislead and misrepresent, especially when you are talking about the efficacy of a drug.” Vaccine studies funded by pharmaceutical companies that developed covid-19 vaccines have been published in peer-reviewed journals like the New England Journal of Medicine, and government panels reviewed data on the safety and effectiveness of the shots before approving them for use.

‘Covid’ cases explode in Beijing after China eases ‘zero-covid policy’ restrictions | added December 14

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One community worker told CNN that 21 of the 24 workers on her Beijing neighborhood committee office, tasked with coordinating residential matters and activities, had fallen ill in recent days.

“As our superiors are mostly infected, there’s not much work being given to us,” said the employee, Sylvia Sun. “(The usual) events, lectures, performances, parent-child activities will definitely not be held.” Beijing, which prior to the new rules was already experiencing a small-scale outbreak, is now on the front lines of a new reality for China: not since the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan have Chinese cities dealt with an outbreak without hefty control measures in place.

But for a place that until earlier this month assiduously tracked every case, there is now no clear data on the extent of the virus’ spread. China’s new covid rules significantly rolled back the testing requirements that once dominated daily life, and residents have instead shifted to using antigen tests at home, when available, leaving official numbers unreliable.

American universities: Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Tufts and Fordham require students receive ‘covid’ booster jabs, sparking outrage | added December 14

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Colleges and universities across the country are mandating students to receive an updated covid-19 booster shot, but some are calling the requirement “out of line” and unnecessary.

Students at Yale University, University of Notre Dame, Tufts University, Harvard University and Fordham College are all being required to obtain an updated covid-19 bivalent booster vaccine, with some putting attendance on the line as punishment for not getting the extra shot. Fordham University in New York City required students to be fully up to date with their vaccinations as well as the “updated bivalent booster” by Nov. 1, 2022.

At Tufts University, faculty, students and staff are being required to obtain a covid-19 bivalent booster by Jan. 23, 2023. “Currently, only around 50% of our university population has received the bivalent booster. The closer we get to 100%, the healthier our community will be,” a Nov. 30 announcement from Tufts University read. Yale University is requiring students to get “an updated, bivalent covid-19 vaccine booster by the start of the spring semester,” while faculty and staff are “strongly encouraged” to get the updated vaccine booster.

U.S. government to pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion dollars for additional doses of ‘covid’ anti-viral treatment, Paxlovid | added December 14

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The U.S. government agreed to pay Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) nearly $2 billion for an additional 3.7 million courses of its covid-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, the company said on Tuesday. The new purchase supplements the 20 million courses previously bought by the United States and delivery is planned by early 2023, Pfizer said in a statement.

The Biden administration previously agreed to pay around $10.6 billion – roughly $530 per treatment course – for the first 20 million courses ordered. The government is paying around the same amount per course under the new contract. Pfizer, which also sells a covid-19 vaccine it developed with German partner BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE), is expected to top $100 billion in revenue this year, more than half of which is expected to come from its covid business.

Before the new contract, analysts had forecast Paxlovid sales would top $22 billion in 2022 and be close to $12 billion next year, according to Refinitiv data. The U.S. drugmaker said last year that it could produce up to 120 million courses of Paxlovid this year. As of Nov. 30, Pfizer had shipped almost 37 million courses of Paxlovid to 52 countries around the world, it said in a statement.

Fauci: Americans have “mandate fatigue,” considering low rates of people willing to get jabbed again | added December 14

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Nearly 3 years into the pandemic, many Americans have “mandate fatigue,” says the nation’s top infectious disease expert. In an interview with a local Fox television affiliate in New York City on Friday, Anthony Fauci, MD, said “people want to be done with covid” and they “don’t like to be told what to do.”

“We’ve all been exhausted over the last 3 years,” Fauci said. He pointed to remarkably low rates of people getting the latest booster against covid-19 as an example of how little people are willing to do to protect themselves and their families. Nationwide, 13.5% of people age 5 and older have gotten the updated booster, CDC data show. The state with the highest updated booster rate is Vermont at 28%. The lowest uptake rate is in Mississippi, at 5%. Fauci added that mandate fatigue is “understandable.”

“I mean, obviously you would like people to use good judgment to protect themselves and their family in that community without necessarily having to mandate anything because you know, there is a fatigue about being mandated,” he said. “People don’t like to be told what to do. Yeah. But you really want to very strongly encourage people that when you’re having a rather strong uptick in infections, which is followed by an uptick in hospitalizations, you want to make sure you do something to mitigate against that.”

Jordan Peterson in college | added December 14

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How prudent Mr. Peterson, but let’s keep it real. Happy Wednesday.

Baileys and Cowan respond to Kevin McKernan on PCR testing | added December 13

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Recently, the CSO of Medicinal Genomics, Kevin McKernan spoke to the Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International group. He was challenged by journalist, Eric Coppolino, about the lack of evidence for SARS-CoV-2 and pathogenic viruses. McKernan made various claims that we believed needed to be addressed.

Dr. Tom Cowan and Dr. Mark Bailey join me to demystify the virological and biotechnological nonsense.

Hong Kong drops contact tracing and keeps mandatory PCR testing upon arrival | added December 13

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Hong Kong has announced it will scrap some remaining restrictions on travelers and end contact tracing, after Beijing shifted away from its hardline zero-covid stance. Health Secretary Lo Chung-mau told a news conference Tuesday that travelers arriving in the city would no longer be issued an “amber code” barring them from entering restaurants and bars during their first three days.

He also confirmed the end of a requirement to scan a government health app to enter public venues, but said a vaccine pass would still be needed to enter venues including restaurants. “We have to consider measures that will help to revive our economic and social activities, Lo said, adding that the changes would take effect from Wednesday. Travel from Hong Kong to Macao and mainland China will also be eased to “keep in line with mainland China’s policy,” Lo said.

International travelers are still required to undergo a PCR test on arrival in Hong Kong and on the second day of their visit, plus five days of rapid antigen tests. Those testing positive must isolate. Masks also remain compulsory in all public venues, including outdoors. Speaking earlier Tuesday, Hong Kong leader John Lee said one reason for easing restrictions was that the infection risk to the local community posed by imported cases was now lower.

Nature Cardiovascular Research Journal finds ‘covid’ shots linked to debilitating heart condition, POTS | added Dec. 13

Editor’s Note: Despite admitting how dangerous mRNA ‘covid’ shots have been shown to be so far for some people, the article still leans towards encouraging people to get the jabs. Rarely do we see mainstream media publishing studies that link ‘covid’ shots to heart complications, although lately more studies are surfacing on the side effects. Dr. Daniel Dudenkov may want to try convincing Rob Forbes to get more booster jabs. Forbes suffered serious adverse reactions to the Pfizer ‘covid’ shot and said, “I should be dead.” — mmd

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Research published Monday has confirmed a link between a covid infection and a debilitating heart condition called POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, that has been diagnosed in some patients with long Covid.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research, are in line with earlier reports from physicians that covid may trigger POTS, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system often characterized by a rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, fainting and lightheadedness. Physicians often fail to recognize the condition, experts say, because it can be confused with a myriad of other health problems, including anxiety and dehydration. Many patients spend years trying to get properly diagnosed.

One of the earlier discoveries with long covid was that it could be associated with POTS and this new research builds on that, said lead study author Dr. Alan Kwan, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. POTS was also linked, to a lesser degree, to covid vaccination with an mRNA vaccine, according to the new study.

China warns people not to eat canned peaches as a ‘covid’ remedy | added December 13

Editor’s Note: Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown. Actually, peaches are nature’s candy, come from a tree and are loaded with vitamin C. Believe it or not, vitamin C is still important. — mmd

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As a newly reopened China scrambles to calm a medicine-buying frenzy, the country has found itself trying to curb the hoarding of another good: canned peaches. Chinese shoppers, incorrectly believing that peaches can help treat the coronavirus, are buying up so much of the canned fruit that online sales platforms have run out of stock, The South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

State media is rushing to draw the line between comfort food and medical treatment. “Canned yellow peaches are not really a special medicine for fever and cough. It is more like a sweet ‘placebo’ like the cake you eat or the milk tea you drink when you are stressed,” Gao Xiaoling, a hospital deputy director in Shaanxi, told People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s main publication.

“The conclusion that ‘canned yellow peaches can cure diseases,’ drawn from good childhood memories, has no practical value in curing diseases,” Beijing Youth Daily, a paper run by the Communist Youth League of China, wrote on Monday. “It can only be regarded as a kind of joke or poetic expression.” Beijing Youth Daily also chided readers about the rising online search interest in canned peaches.

Man suffers heart damage after Pfizer ‘covid’ shot says “I should be dead” | added December 13

Read more at The Defender

Robyn “Rob” Forbes had achieved one of the major goals in his life. In late 2019, he was able to transition to being a small business owner who could spend time with his two daughters and enjoy hockey, mountain biking and other activities. Forbes’ fulfilling life came to a halt, however, shortly after March 4, 2021, when he received his first dose of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine.

Within days, Forbes began experiencing a succession of severe adverse events, ultimately resulting in him getting cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), a procedure that involves implanting a device in the chest to help correct serious heart rhythm problems. In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Forbes described the vaccine-induced symptoms he experienced and the “anguish, pain and heartache” that followed and continue to impact his life. Forbes provided The Defender with extensive documentation to verify his claims.

‘Immense social pressure’ led him to get vaccine. Forbes, 41, lives in Alaska where he enjoys mountain biking, hiking, skiing, fishing and playing hockey. “At the time of my injury,” said Forbes, “I was 175 lbs., lean, 5’11” and in the best shape of my entire life. I was able to be a dad and an independent business owner who got a lot of hockey and mountain biking in while not working.”

Study reveals wearing a mask negatively effects cognitive function of chess players | added December 13

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A study of an international chess tournament has revealed that wearing a face mask significantly reduced the average quality of player decisions, impacting the cognitive performance of competitive chess players. Australian chess Grandmaster and University of Queensland Prof. David Smerdon analysed almost three million chess moves played by 8,531 people in 18 countries before and during the covid-19 pandemic.

“The decrease in performance was due to the annoyance caused by the masks rather than a physiological mechanism,” Smerdon said. “The data showed masks were more likely to decrease performance in situations where there was a demanding mental task with a high working memory load.” He said this is something to keep in mind for occupations that demand a high level of working memory, such as those in the STEM fields, language interpreters, performers, waiters, and teachers.

While mask mandates have been used to stop the spread of covid-19, their impact on cognitive performance has yet to be adequately assessed. “At the moment, there are no large studies on the impact of mask-wearing on the general population,” Smerdon said. With more understanding of the impact of mask-wearing on decision-making, individuals and organisations can better evaluate when and how to use them.

James Corbett joins The Freedom Convoy Commission with the JCCF | added December 13

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James Corbett is joined by Rob Kittredge and Hatim Kheir of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to talk about their participation in the Public Order Emergency Commission in Canada (aka the Trucker Commission).

They discuss the commission itself and how it was run, the evidence that was (and was not presented), why Mr. Kittredge is now known as a “tow truck aficionado,” what Trudeau and others testified to during the hearings, and what Kittredge and Kheir expect to come from this process.

German skier collapses, woman suffers cardiac arrest in the street | added December 13

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FRANCE — Béthune: a 36-year-old woman in cardiac arrest in the street following a fall. November 29, 2022

Called to rescue a victim on the public highway, in rue Dellisse-Engrand, Monday at 6:50 p.m. the Béthunois firefighters found a woman bleeding. She would have, according to our information, tripped and violently slammed her head on the ground. In cardio-respiratory arrest, this 36-year-old woman was resuscitated thanks to the efforts of firefighters who were able to recover a heartbeat. Once medicalized by the emergency doctors of the SMUR of Béthune, the victim was transported to the CHRU of Lille.

GERMANY — Cross-country star Victoria Carl explains goal collapse. November 30, 2022.

Completely exhausted at the finish: Victoria Carl. Victoria Carl put in a strong performance at the start of the World Cup for cross-country skiers in Ruka, Finland, but overreached herself at the last entry and collapsed at the finish. She is now doing well again and the 27-year-old explains what exactly happened to her. The start of the new World Cup season was excellent for the German cross-country skiers in Ruka, Finland, but it was also overshadowed by Victoria Carl’s collapse.

A return of mask mandates in Los Angeles remains unlikely despite high ‘covid’ cases | added December 13

Read more at The Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles County has again entered the high covid-19 community level, further indication that the continuing spike in cases is starting to exert pressure on the region’s hospitals. Should hospitalization rates continue to rise this month, the county could be on track for a renewed universal mask order in indoor public settings.

But it’s uncertain when such a rule might be handed down — or whether one will materialize at all. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer expressed some optimism Thursday that such a measure may be avoided. “I think it’s fair to say that I’m feeling more hopeful that our metrics might improve before they tank,” she said.

However, given recent increases in coronavirus transmission and hospital admission rates, Ferrer urged residents to voluntarily mask up in indoor public settings. “We know everyone is super focused on when might this be a universal masking, indoor masking requirement, but what we really want to focus on today is: We all need to wear our mask now,” she said

‘Covid’ time capsule sealed for 100 years with toilet paper, tests, masks and hand sanitizer | added December 12

Editor’s Note: The capsule is missing a few items such as VAERS data reports that can be viewed here. —mmd

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A personal letter to the future leaders of St. Tammany Parish from Parish President Mike Cooper. Blue masks. A covid-19 testing kit. Bergeron said that while history books may document the physical impact of the virus, including its rapid spread, the horrific death toll, quarantines, and the race for a vaccine, people’s stories belong to them.

The watertight time capsule, which weighs 25 lbs., includes an inventory of news clips covering the pandemic, letters from students, community members, and elected officials — and, of course, hand sanitizer. It will sit on a shelf in the museum, the letters protected with archival material. The collection also gives a special nod to video communications software, such as Zoom.

“If there’s one thing I regret, it’s not buying stock in Zoom at the start of the pandemic,” Bergeron said. “It was used to teach classes, for work meetings, and so that isolated family and friends could connect.” Addressing his letter, Slidell Mayor Greg Cromer touched on key moments throughout the pandemic, including how the recommendations by researchers and medical staff to wear masks and to have people remain home sometimes conflicted with what business owners and parents wanted.

Infectious pediatric illnesses make a comeback after ‘covid’ lockdowns, according to BBC article | added December 12

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As child after child gasping for air was admitted to the hospital, Rabia Agha gritted her teeth. In her role as director of the paediatric infectious diseases division at Maimonides Children’s Hospital in New York, she had seen this before. An outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – a winter virus that can feel like a common cold in adults, but which can be dangerous for some young children.

There was a wave last autumn – and an unexpected one in spring this year. Now, in the early autumn months of 2022, it was back again.”We’ve had to double the capacity of our ICU,” she says, referring to the intensive care unit, reserved for the sickest patients. Some of the children there have been put on mechanical ventilators to help them breathe.

RSV typically hits the youngest children hardest but the patients Agha and her colleagues have treated lately tend to be approaching school age, around three or four years old. In this age group, RSV would usually appear as a cold-like illness, with a runny nose and cough. But now, some of them were struggling. “Everyone is concerned, obviously, because older children tolerate this virus quite well – why were they not?” she says.

Rise in senior hospitalizations linked to lack of up-to-date ‘covid’ booster jabs | added December 12

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Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on covid-19 vaccinations.

These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for seniors, which worries 81-year-old nursing home resident Bartley O’Hara, who said he is “vaccinated up to the eyeballs” and tracks coronavirus hospital trends as they “zoom up” for older adults, but remain flat for younger folks.

“The sense of urgency is not universal,” said O’Hara of Washington, D.C. But “if you’re 21, you probably should worry about your granny. We’re all in this together.” One troubling indicator for seniors: Hospitalizations for people with covid-19 rose by more than 30% in two weeks. Much of the increase is driven by older people and those with existing health problems, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers include everyone testing positive, no matter why they are admitted.

China deactivates the “mobile itinerary card” health tracking function in a dismantling of zero-covid policy | added Dec. 12

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China is bracing for an unprecedented wave of covid-19 cases as it dismantles large parts of its repressive zero-covid policy, with a leading expert warning omicron variants were “spreading rapidly” and signs of an outbreak rattling the country’s capital.

Changes continued Monday as authorities announced a deactivation of the “mobile itinerary card” health tracking function planned for the following day. The system, which is separate from the health code scanning system still required in a reduced number of places in China, had used people’s cell phone data to track their travel history in the past 14 days in an attempt to identify those who have been to a city with zones designated “high-risk” by authorities.

It had been a point of contention for many Chinese people, including due to concerns around data collection and its use by local governments to ban entry to those who have visited a city with a “high-risk zone,” even if they did not go to those areas within that city. But as the scrapping of parts of the zero-covid infrastructure come apace, there are questions about how the country’s health system will handle a mass outbreak.

Nassau Community College reverses indoor mask mandate to  ‘recommendation’ of masking within hours | added December 12

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A Long Island college worried about rising covid-19 cases reinstalled an indoor campus mask mandate then reversed the policy hours later following intervention from county officials. Nassau Community College leaders on Friday announced the return to indoor masking for all, regardless of vaccination status, citing an uptick in cases. But in a matter of hours, officials flipped that order and instead opted for a recommendation.

“The College recommends that all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, wear a mask while indoors on campus. CDC states that wearing a mask can help prevent severe illnesses and reduce the spread of respiratory viruses including, the flu, RSV and covid,” the NCC website read. The sudden about-face followed meetings between the college president and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the latter explained in a statement.

“At this time we are monitoring the spike in covid diagnoses and have importantly not seen a spike in hospitalizations,” Blakeman said. “As we have seen in the past, there is very little value in mandating masks to prevent the spread of covid.” State health department data shows Long Island has the highest numbers of new covid infections over the past week, beating out all other regions including New York City. Nassau is one of nine counties in New York where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending indoor masking.

Global Walkout initiative strives to reignite freedom and empower the people | added December 12

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Ten minutes of Bill Burr truth bombs | added December 12

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Sometimes you just gotta tell it how it is…. Happy Monday.

BMJ study finds ‘covid’ booster shot mandates cause more ‘net harm’ for young adults ages 18-29 years-old | added Dec. 12

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Any potential benefits of the covid-19 booster fail to outweigh the harms for young people ages 18-29, according to a peer-reviewed study published Monday in The BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics. Researchers performed a risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis using data from Pfizer, Moderna and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They concluded that “booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm.”

More than 1,000 U.S. universities and colleges mandate the covid-19 vaccine for residential students and more than 300 mandate the booster. Students who do not comply risk disenrollment. The authors of the BMJ study concluded universities should not enforce booster vaccine mandates. The researchers estimated that over a six-month period, 31,207 to 42,836 young adults ages 18-29, previously uninfected with covid-19, would have to receive a third mRNA vaccine — a booster — in order to prevent a single hospitalization.

They also anticipated there would be at least 18.5 serious adverse events among the boosted group during that time, including in males, 1.5-4.6 booster-associated cases of myopericarditis, typically requiring hospitalization. For 32 hospitalizations prevented, there would be 593.5 serious adverse events. The researchers also anticipated that for every hospitalization averted there would be 1,430 to 4,626 cases of adverse events serious enough to stop people from carrying out regular daily activities.

Adopted and unvaxed Ukrainian girl denied life-saving kidney transplant over inoculation status | added December 12

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A teenager living in North Carolina has been denied life-saving surgery by Duke University Hospital officials because she is unvaccinated against covid-19, leaving her adoptive family frantically searching for alternative treatment options. Yulia Hicks, who suffers from a rare genetic kidney condition called Senior Loken syndrome, was adopted from Ukraine nearly two years ago by her parents Chrissy and Lee Hicks of North Carolina.

Senior Loken syndrome (SLS) is rare and mainly affects the kidneys and eyes and causes nephronophthisis, a disease that slowly impairs the function of the kidneys, according to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center. Just 1,000 individuals in the United States are estimated to have SLS. Symptoms include chronic kidney disease, delays in motor or mental development, hypertension, and visual impairments, among others.

The teenager requires a transplant, according to her family. However, they claim that she was told on Nov. 11 that she is not eligible to be placed on Duke’s waiting list because she is not vaccinated against covid-19. Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Chrissy Hicks said that hospital staff have shown “no sympathy whatsoever,” regarding her adoptive daughter’s urgent situation and have instead stated that she needs to have the shot if she wants to receive life-saving surgery.

“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk calls for prosecution of Fauci over ‘covid’ response | added December 12

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday called to prosecute Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Biden who has led the U.S. response to the covid-19 pandemic since it started during the Trump administration, and drew swift backlash for his comment. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk said on Twitter. He later shared a meme edited to show Fauci telling Biden, “Just one more lockdown, my king.”

Lawmakers and other officials jumped to Fauci’s defense online. “I’m a big fan of Dr. Fauci and how he’s calmly guided our country through crisis. Re Musk tweet? Courting vaccine-deniers doesn’t seem like a smart business strategy, but the issue is this: could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention?” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on Twitter.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) wrote on Twitter, “It’s America. You can select any pronouns you damn well please. But Anthony Fauci has likely saved more human lives than any living person in the world. Shame on you.” Former CIA Director John Brennan called Fauci a “national hero” and accused Musk of stoking hatred. “Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions. You may have money, but you have no class,” Brennan said in a reply to Musk.

The weight: a new conversation with Rob Fraboni

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Catch a cannon ball now, t’take me down the line
My bag is sinkin’ low and I do believe it’s time.
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she’s the only one.
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.

Well, I must have discussed “The Weight” with Rob Fraboni in some lost and forgotten interview, or another lifetime — but we have a new one for you, from a few minutes ago. Thank you to Jeff Strahl, a diligent member of the Chiron investigative team, for noticing and prompting another exciting conversation.

Here is the original, from 2012 and tonight’s Planet Waves FM.

(Jeff is also our resident music theory specialist. If you ever want to discuss the modes, I will introduce you.)

Here are the lyrics to this most elliptical and mysterious of rock songs, from Bob Dylan’s website. And I’ve put the video from The Last Waltz below, featuring the Staples Singers. It was Rob who prepared the soundtrack from the live concert to be up to the necessary quality for Martin Scorsese’s 1978 film.

Good night!

‘Crimes against science’: Round table discussion covers vaccine dangers and mismanagement of ‘covid’ pandemic response by government | added December 10

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Wednesday led a roundtable discussion — “Covid-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work and Possible Causes of Injuries” — to shed light on the current state of knowledge surrounding the vaccine and the path forward. Distinguished doctors and scientists who specialize in covid-19 vaccine research and treatment joined Johnson. The story they told of corruption and mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic is a turning point for humanity.

Most of the people on the panel suffered loss of income, loss of status or loss of their jobs because they publicized truths about covid-19 and covid-19 policies that were anathema to the medical establishment and detrimental to pharmaceutical profits. Covid-19 policy has been a crime against humanity, and underlying that crime has been a crime against science. Science is held in high public regard, even as the reputations of most other institutions have declined in recent decades.

The reputation of science is based on open debate and logical evaluation of evidence. Debate has been stifled by people with money and power, and those same people then claim to speak for “science.” The public is gradually recognizing the enormity of this fraud. I fear that public support for science will crumble.

Despite FDA authorizing new bivalent ‘covid’ bivalent booster jabs for children as young as 6 months-old, only a few will be eligible for inoculation | added December 10

Editor’s Note: These shots are sounding more and more like a software program in order to operate. Even Moderna admitted to using mRNA like a software.  — mmd

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Nearly all Americans will be eligible to get a dose of the updated covid-19 vaccines, following a decision to expand emergency use authorization for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to most children as young as 6 months old. The Food and Drug Administration announced the expanded authorization on Thursday, clearing all recipients of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine to get a booster dose from the company’s newest “bivalent” vaccines — which are tailored to recent omicron variants — at least two months after their last “monovalent” shot.

But only a portion of the youngest kids who got Pfizer-BioNTech’s shots will be eligible to get a shot of their updated covid vaccine this year. The FDA had previously greenlighted Pfizer’s shots in this age group as a three dose “primary series,” after data suggested kids from 6 months old to 4 years old needed a third kid-sized dose to get protection on par with adults after two doses.

Now the FDA says only kids who have yet to complete their third dose can swap out the last shot for an updated vaccine. Early adopters who already completed their third shot some several months ago must wait until the FDA receives more data next year. “The data to support giving an updated bivalent booster dose for these children are expected in January. The agency is committed to evaluating those data as quickly as possible,” the FDA said in a statement.

French researcher reveals possibility of vaccinated shedding spike proteins to unvaxed | added December 10

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The massive covid-19 vaccination campaign is the first time that mRNA vaccines have been used on a global scale. The mRNA vaccines correspond exactly to the definition of gene therapy of the American and European regulatory agencies. The regulations require excretion studies of these drugs and their products (the translated proteins).

These studies have not been done for mRNA vaccines (nor for adenovirus vaccines). There are numerous reports of symptoms and pathologies identical to the adverse effects of mRNA vaccines in unvaccinated persons in contact with freshly vaccinated persons. It is therefore important to review the state of knowledge on the possible excretion of vaccine nanoparticles as well as mRNA and its product, the spike protein.

Vaccine mRNA-carrying lipid nanoparticles spread after injection throughout the body according to available animal studies and vaccine mRNA (naked or in nanoparticles or in natural exosomes) is found in the bloodstream as well as vaccine spike in free form or encapsulated in exosomes (shown in human studies). Lipid nanoparticles (or their natural equivalent, exosomes or extracellular vesicles (EVs)) have been shown to be able to be excreted through body fluids (sweat, sputum, breast milk) and to pass the transplacental barrier.

NYC issues health advisory recommending indoor masking to prevent hospitalizations | added December 10

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New York City is experiencing a triple wave of respiratory viruses, and on Friday, city health officials warned residents to take extra precautions. Covid-19 and influenza cases are all spiking simultaneously, while respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections are showing signs of improvement but remain high. The city said the resulting hospitalizations could overburden the local health care system.

Friday’s health advisory urged New Yorkers to mask up indoors and in crowded spaces, particularly if they’re at risk for severe illness (or know someone who is). But the health department didn’t call for the reinstatement of any mask mandates, and city Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said that with proper precautions, there’s no need to skip holiday gatherings.

“Vaccination and boosters are critical but so are common sense precautions like masking when indoors or among crowds and staying home if you don’t feel well,” Vasan said in a written statement. “Also, get tested before getting together, and get treated quickly if you test positive. We want everyone to have a happy and – most of all – healthy holiday.”

Fauci admits ‘covid’ jabs unfortunately do not offer lasting protection, best choice is to keep getting more booster jabs | added December 10

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Covid-19 is back on the rise as average cases and deaths this week are 1.5x higher compared to the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Covid hospitalizations have continued to trend upwards in recent weeks and overall hospital bed occupancy is at about 80% – a figure not seen since the omicron surge last winter.

Many experts had warned there would be an uptick in respiratory illnesses following the Thanksgiving holiday where many met without masks or social distancing. “In the past week, we’ve started to see the unfortunate and expected rise of covid-19 cases and hospitalizations nationally after the Thanksgiving holiday,” said Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, director of the CDC, during a telebriefing Monday.

“This rise in cases and hospitalizations is especially worrisome as we move into the winter months when more people are assembling indoors with less ventilation and as we approach the holiday season where many are gathering with loved ones across multiple generations,” she added. In a press conference Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, urged Americans to get vaccinated and boosted with a bivalent shot.

Danish scientists find unvaxed face discriminatory attitudes over denying the ‘covid’ jabs | added December 10

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People who have received covid-19 vaccines express discriminatory attitudes toward unvaccinated people, a new study of over 15,000 citizens of 21 countries across the world suggests “Individuals who comply with the advice of health authorities morally condemn the unvaccinated for violating a social contract in the midst of a crisis,” two Denmark-based scientists wrote in their paper, published Thursday in Nature.

“Those who refuse vaccines report that they feel discriminated and pressured against their will.” To measure covid-19 vaccination status-based prejudice, researchers asked some 15,233 people how they feel if a close relatives of theirs are going to marry a vaccinated or unvaccinated person—a question that has long been used in surveys on discrimination along racial, ethnic, or partisan lines.

Specifically, participants were presented with brief descriptions of a series of fictitious individuals and asked to imagine that these are people whom one of their close relatives intends to marry. They were shown two profiles at a time, side by side, and asked to rate each profile by saying whether they agree or disagree with statements such as, “I would be unhappy if this person married one of my close relatives,” and “I think this person is untrustworthy.”

Holding ‘covid’ crimes against humanity accountable under law | added December 10

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An I&I/TIPP Poll conducted on November 2–4 found 39-35 majority opposition to amnesty (Figure 1), and the stronger sentiment was negative by a lopsided 21-12 margin. While Democrats supported amnesty 48-30 percent, Republicans and Independents opposed it 49-27 percent. Support for amnesty dropped dramatically by age, from 52 percent among 25-44 year olds to just 17 percent among 65 and older (my demographic). It’s interesting, the age split.

The victims of casual cruelty, capricious public health diktats and enforcement brutality are owed justice. But what type of justice? It might be helpful to look at examples from the theory and practice of international criminal justice. The sense of justice, fairness and equity is deeply ingrained in human beings. Correct that. It’s also deeply ingrained in some animal species.

In the famous fairness experiments by primatologist Frans de Waal, capuchin monkeys were trained to trade pebbles for cucumber slices. When the monkey in the adjacent cage was given the more valued prize of a grape, the first threw its cucumber ‘reward’ out of the cage in anger. Subsequently, even the second monkey refused to accept a grape until its companion was also given the same reward. This segment of the full TED talk by de Waal in 2011 has been viewed 22 million times, has been liked by 243,000 and commented on by more than 15,000. The full talk has nearly 5.5 million views.

NY Jets player Max Mitchell sidelined for season due to blood clots in calf and lung | added December 10

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New York Jets offensive tackle Max Mitchell will miss the rest of the season after he was placed on the non-football injury list. Mitchell has blood clots in his right calf and lung, his father revealed to ESPN.

John Mitchell, Max’s father, said the first-year offensive lineman has a hereditary blood-clotting condition called factor V Leiden. Mitchell is taking a blood-thinning medication and should make a full recovery, his father noted. The condition is not expected to end Mitchell’s NFL career. “It should not affect his career long-term,” John Mitchell said. “Of course, we’re taking a big, great deep breath with all of this, but his future is promising.”

The Jets announced the non-football injury designation on Wednesday, but head coach Robert Saleh did not provide any details on the reason. Mitchell was pulled from the Jets’ Week 13 game against the Minnesota Vikings. Saleh said the decision to take Mitchell out of the contest was because the lineman was “struggling.” But John Mitchell said his son was having issues breathing.

The hypocrisies are a crisis and this pot is a crock. Happy weekend.

House passes annual defense authorization bill that rescinds military ‘covid’ vax mandate | added December 9

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The House on Thursday passed the annual defense authorization bill, sending the mammoth, $847 billion measure to the Senate for consideration ahead of the year-end deadline. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed in a bipartisan 350-80 vote.

It was approved under suspension of the rules, an expedited process to pass legislation in the House that requires a two-thirds majority. “I can’t go through every single item that is in this bill, but I can tell you that just about every member of this House has something in this bill that is important for policy, important in their district,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said ahead of the vote. “This is important policy that makes a huge difference for the people in this body and the people in this country, and I’ve urged us to support it.”

The NDAA, legislation seen as a must-pass for Congress annually, includes an $817 billion top line for the Defense Department and about $30 billion to fund nuclear activities in the Department of Energy. The bill lays out the blueprint for how the billions of dollars will be allocated at the Pentagon, including a 4.6 percent pay raise for both service members and the agency’s civilian workforce, new weapons programs and equipment upgrades, and new programs and personnel policies.

Poughkeepsie, NY judge sues court system over denial of religious exemption from ‘covid’ shot | added December 9

Editor’s Note: Meanwhile, another NY unvaxed judge, Jenny Rivera in October 2021 refused the jab and applying for a medical or religious exemption. She was allowed to sign onto zoom meetings from home and the court staff said, “We do not discuss the personal health information of anyone.” We see major hypocrisies with these mandates. — mmd

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Poughkeepsie City Court Judge Frank Mora sued New York’s court system on Wednesday over its decision to deny him a religious exemption from the system’s covid-19 vaccination mandate. Because of Mora’s refusal to vaccinate himself against covid-19, which he described as being rooted in his Catholicism, he “remains in exile” from the courthouse and is “barred from his courtroom,” according to the lawsuit.

Mora explains that he has “sincerely held religious beliefs which prohibit him from subjecting a healthy body to vaccinations and views such a practice as contrary to God’s commandments as reflect in scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

Because of his refusal to get vaccinated, contravening the court system’s mandate that was rolled out in August 2021, Mora was prohibited from entering any New York state courthouse, including his own. His duties were also sharply curtailed, limited to overseeing civil cases remotely and issuing opinions in certain criminal matters. Though the mandate, which applies to all judges and non-judicial staff, allows individuals to request a legitimate medical or religious exemption, Mora says his request was denied without explanation.

Glyphosate linked to breast cancer and sudden death with Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D and John Beaudon | added December 9

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Rise in ‘covid’ cases reported on social media after China eases restrictions | added December 9

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BEIJING (AP) — A rash of covid-19 cases in schools and businesses were reported by social media users Friday in areas across China after the ruling Communist Party loosened anti-virus rules as it tries to reverse a deepening economic slump.

Official data showed a fall in new cases, but those no longer cover big parts of the population after the government on Wednesday ended mandatory testing for many people. That was part of dramatic changes aimed at gradually emerging from “zero-covid” restrictions that have confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign.

Social media users in Beijing and other cities said coworkers or classmates were ill and some businesses closed due to lack of staff. It wasn’t clear from those accounts, many of which couldn’t be independently confirmed, how far above the official figure the total case numbers might be. “I’m really speechless. Half of the company’s people are out sick, but they still won’t let us all stay home,” said a post signed Tunnel Mouth on the popular Sina Weibo platform. The user gave no name and didn’t respond to questions sent through the account, which said the user was in Beijing.

Despite ‘covid’ cases allegedly rising at triple rate in LA, people are no longer masking up and fearful | added December 9

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LOS ANGELES — As has happened each December, covid-19 cases are ratcheting up in Los Angeles County, with hospitalizations nearly tripling in the past month — a signal that another mask mandate could be on the horizon.

The region is no stranger to pandemic orders, having experienced stringent lockdowns and a state-imposed curfew in late 2020. But this time around, even as the numbers in Los Angeles become the highest in California, many have grown weary of warnings and talk of precautions.

Covid updates do not elicit the unease they once did — in part because cases and hospitalizations during the current outbreak are nowhere near where they were during the worst stretches. But also because the subject has grown tiresome, residents said. “I think it’s just kind of run its course with me,” said Kirk Carter, 60, a retired television writer who lives in Los Angeles. “It’s become normalized.”

U.S. FDA authorizes bivalent ‘covid’ booster shots for children 6 months to 4 years-old | added December 9

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized bivalent covid-19 boosters for children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years old Thursday. The booster, available from both Pfizer and Moderna, was previously authorized for everyone 5 years and older in October.

“More children now have the opportunity to update their protection against covid-19 with a bivalent covid-19 vaccine, and we encourage parents and caregivers of those eligible to consider doing so — especially as we head into the holidays and winter months where more time will be spent indoors,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement. “As this virus has changed, and immunity from previous covid-19 vaccination wanes, the more people who keep up to date on covid-19 vaccinations, the more benefit there will be for individuals, families and public health by helping prevent severe illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths.”

The updated booster targets BA.4 and BA.5, which are subvariants of the omicron variant. Children are eligible to receive the booster at least two months from the completion of their primary series or after receiving a separate booster dose. The authorization means there are now more than 267 million people eligible for the booster in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, as of Nov. 30, only about 13% of those eligible have received an updated booster dose.

U.S. hospitals are fuller now than throughout the ‘covid’ pandemic due to flu and other respiratory illnesses, according to CNN analysis | added December 9

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Hospitals are more full than they’ve been throughout the covid-19 pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. But as respiratory virus season surges across the US, it’s much more than covid that’s filling beds this year.

More than 80% of hospital beds are in use nationwide, jumping 8 percentage points in the past two weeks. Hospitals have been required to report capacity information since mid-2020 as part of a federal effort to track the effects of the covid-19 pandemic. Hospitals have been more than 70% full for the vast majority of that time. But they’ve been 80% full at only one other point: in January, during the height of the omicron surge in the US. Back in January, about a quarter of hospital beds were in use for covid-19 patients. But now, only about 6% of beds are in use for covid-19 patients, according to the HHS data.

The broader respiratory virus season is in full swing across the US. All but six states are experiencing “high” or “very high” respiratory virus as seasonal flu activity remains “high and continues to increase,” according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of people admitted to the hospital for flu during the week of Thanksgiving was nearly double the number of admissions during the week before.

Autopsy report reveals three people who died suddenly were likely killed from ‘covid’ shots | added December 9

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A major new autopsy report has found that three people who died unexpectedly at home with no pre-existing disease shortly after covid vaccination were likely killed by the vaccine. A further two deaths were found to be possibly due to the vaccine.

The report, published in Clinical Research in Cardiology, the official journal of the German Cardiac Society, detailed autopsies carried out at Heidelberg University Hospital in 2021. Led by Thomas Longerich and Peter Schirmacher, it found that in five deaths that occurred within a week of the first or second dose of vaccination with Pfizer or Moderna, inflammation of the heart tissue due to an autoimmune response triggered by the vaccine had likely or possibly caused the death.

In total the report looked at 35 autopsies carried out at the University of Heidelberg in people who died within 20 days of covid vaccination, of which 10 were deemed on examination to be due to a pre-existing illness and not the vaccine. For the remaining 20, the report did not rule out the vaccine as a cause of death, which Dr. Schirmacher has confirmed to me is intentional as the autopsy results were inconclusive.

Sports announcer Bob Rathbun convulses on TV while videos of sudden deaths and collapses surface around the world | added December 9

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Atlanta Hawks Announcer Bob Rathbun Suffers Scary Medical Emergency On-Air, Is Now ‘Stable’

December 6, 2022

Bally Sports announcer Bob Rathbun was on-air when he suffered a scary medical emergency on Monday night. Rathbun, 68, and co-host Dominique Wilkins were previewing the matchup between Oklahoma City Thunder and the Atlanta Hawks when Rathbun began to convulse. Wilkins noticed shortly after the convulsions began and medical personnel came to Rathbun’s aid when cameras cut away. Bally Sports Southeast said in a statement that the announcer was taken to a local medical facility where he received treatment for dehydration. Fortunately, Rathbun is reportedly in “stable” condition and doing better.

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TV Anchor Jeremy Ortiz collapses on camera:

Jeremy Ortiz in recent months participated in the television campaign to promote the covid vaccine and posted on social media a selfie while receiving the vaccine on April 21, 2021 with this message: “Praying that with the end of the pandemic and also the end of indifference and selfishness, which have played a leading role in the spread of covid-19.”

Follow the money…

‘Covid’ is no longer a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, according to recent analysis | added December 8

Editor’s Note: Joe Biden further divided this country when he stated this was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” How about thirteen year-old Maddie de Garay who became paralyzed after inoculation or Utah scientist Brianne Dressen who suffered neurological side effects and had to drop out of clinical trials? Candace Hayden? Ernest Ramirez Jr.? Kristi Dobbs? Their stories don’t count? It’s called informed consent and a law that must be abided by. For liberty and justice for all. — mmd

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Americans received their first covid-19 vaccine doses in December 2020, which means we are now approaching the beginning of the third year of the pandemic’s vaccine phase. And yet hundreds of Americans are still dying each day. Who are they? The data offers a straightforward answer: older adults. Though it’s sometimes uncomfortable to say it, mortality risk has been dramatically skewed by age throughout the pandemic. The earliest reports of covid deaths from China sketched a pattern quickly confirmed everywhere in the world: In an immunologically naïve population, the oldest were several thousand times more at risk of dying from infection than the youngest.

But the skew is actually more dramatic now — even amid mass vaccinations and reinfections — than it was at any previous point over the last three years. Since the beginning of the pandemic, people 65 and older accounted for 75 percent of all American covid deaths. That dropped below 60 percent as recently as September 2021. But today Americans 65 and over account for 90 percent of new covid deaths, an especially large share given that 94 percent of American seniors are vaccinated.

Yet these facts seem to contradict stories we’ve told about what drives vulnerability to covid-19. In January, Joe Biden warned that the illness and death threatened by the omicron variant represented “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” But that month, in which nearly 85,000 Americans died, the unvaccinated accounted for 59 percent of those deaths, down from 77 percent the previous September, according to analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

WHO claims ‘covid’ pandemic disrupted malaria control efforts, resulting in 63,000 deaths | added December 8

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The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections globally over two years, according to a report from the World Health Organization published Thursday.

Cases of the parasitic disease went up in 2020 and continued to climb in 2021, though at a slower pace, the U.N. health agency said Thursday. About 95% of the world’s 247 million malaria infections and 619,000 deaths last year were in Africa. “We were off track before the pandemic and the pandemic has now made things worse,” said Abdisalan Noor, a senior official in WHO’s malaria department. Alister Craig, dean of biological sciences at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, noted that progress in reducing malaria deaths had stalled even before covid-19.

“It is almost as if we have reached a limit of effectiveness for the tools we have now,” said Lister, who was not linked to the WHO report. Noor said he expected the wider rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine next year to have a “considerable impact” on reducing the number of severe illnesses and deaths if enough children get immunized, adding that more than 20 countries have applied to vaccines alliance Gavi for help in securing the shot. Still, the vaccine is only about 30% effective and requires four doses.

WHO member states agree to develop a legally binding ‘zero draft’ that would dictate world responses to future pandemics | added December 8

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Countries meet for three days to agree next steps toward historic legal instrument, rooted in the WHO Constitution, designed to protect world from future pandemics. During discussions, Member States call for global agreement that takes into account equity, promotes preparedness, ensures solidarity and respects sovereignty. Zero draft of the pandemic accord to be ready for negotiations by Member States starting February 2023.

Member States of the World Health Organization today agreed to develop the first draft of a legally binding agreement designed to protect the world from future pandemics. This “zero draft” of the pandemic accord, rooted in the WHO Constitution, will be discussed by Member States in February 2023. Today’s agreement by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), comprised of WHO’s 194 Member States, was a milestone in the global process to learn from the covid-19 pandemic and prevent a repeat of the devastating impacts it has had on individuals and communities worldwide.

The INB gathered at WHO headquarters in Geneva from 5-7 December for its third meeting since its establishment in December 2021, following a special session of the World Health Assembly. The Body today agreed that the INB’s Bureau will develop the zero draft of the pandemic accord in order to start negotiations at the fourth INB meeting, scheduled to start on 27 February 2023. This draft will be based on the conceptual zero draft and the discussions during this week’s INB meeting.

Senate Democrats issue report stating the ‘covid’ pandemic is “one of the worse public health responses in U.S. history” | added December 8

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From the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak in China to the first surge of infections around the U.S. in 2020, a new report penned by Senate Democrats, released Thursday, blasted the initial efforts to curb the virus as “one of the worst public health responses in U.S. history.”

Gleaned from interviews and documents from key former officials across the administration, the 242-page report from Democrats on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is just the latest to try and shed new light on territory already well-trodden by a cascade of retrospectives. Along with some federal agencies’ own internal reckonings, the committee joins a crowded field including the National Academies, the Government Accountability Office, and fellow Democrats in the House that have sought to retrace pandemic missteps.

While some of the details are new, the report’s authors acknowledge several of their ultimate findings stem from systemic problems known long before President Donald Trump took office. “Many of the problems identified as part of the initial federal response are longstanding and remain unaddressed. For decades, insufficient funding across multiple administrations has impaired federal agencies’ readiness and response capabilities, reducing sustainable investments in public health preparedness,” write the report’s authors.

Maryland officials report flu, RSV and ‘covid’ combined infections are boosting emergency room visits and hospitalizations | added December 8

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While the community spread of covid-19 is still low in Montgomery County, Maryland, health officials said the combination of RSV, the flu and the coronavirus is boosting emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

Dr. Louis Damiano, president of Holy Cross Health Acute Care for Maryland, said its hospitals in Silver Spring and Germantown have seen some 500 hospitalizations a month for upper respiratory tract infections. In July and August, Damiano said, most of those were related to covid-19. “In the last couple of months, that has changed. So now about 50% of the visits that we see in both Silver Spring and Germantown for upper respiratory tract infections are either RSV or they’re flu.”

During Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich’s weekly briefing with reporters, Damiano said despite the surge in people heading to the hospital with upper respiratory tract issues, “We’re not at the point right now in the ‘tripledemic,’ where we have to go into full-blown surge plan like we did during the earlier portion of the covid pandemic and during the omicron pandemic, but we’re ready” to do that as they monitor the patients being seen.

Congress expected to vote on repealing military ‘covid’ vax mandate | added December 8

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The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on a sweeping defense bill that would repeal the Pentagon’s covid-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. troops. The amendment to eliminate the vaccine mandate is included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a massive $858 billion bill that funds the Pentagon and sets defense policy priorities.

The legislation requires the Pentagon to end the vaccine mandate for services members within 30 days of the bill’s enactment. Republicans insisted on including the repeal in the 4,000 page bill, backing Democrats into a corner because they need to pass the legislation this month to make sure troops receive their pay and benefits on time after the new year.

The bill will head to the Senate for a vote before landing on President Joe Biden’s desk. Though Congress is expected to pass the legislation, the White House has not signaled publicly whether Biden will sign the bill into law. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that Biden believes repealing the vaccine mandate is a mistake, but the president would look at the bill holistically.

New Zealand scientist calls on officials to investigate failures and toxicity of ‘covid’ shots | added December 8

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In my past professional life — probably a decade ago, I had a client named Dr. Carlton Brown. Brown, at the time, was CEO and co-innovator at Immune Targeting Systems Ltd. I always enjoyed working with Carlton, as we share a certain curiosity for science/knowledge and a dry wit. It turns out, that Carlton has been part of the medical freedom resistance and has been working to get the word out about the risks of mRNA vaccines.

Up until his email to me earlier this week, I had no idea. This isn’t the first time that people from my “former” professional life have emailed me to let me know that they are supportive of what I have been doing. In fact, I had a former colleague from my time at the Salk Institute in the 1980s write to me to express their support for me this week. These emails always lift my spirits as sometimes this seems like a very lonely fight, although the people writing in the comments section of this Substack also let me know that Jill and I are not alone — and this community often saves me from my own dark musings about the state of the world.

I have no idea how many scientists and physicians are quietly, sometimes secretly questioning the public health policies in this country and globally. But I do know that dissidents of the new normal are slowly finding their voice and are speaking out. Anyway, Brown emailed me ask if I could share this document with people who might find it useful. As a trained scientist, Brown has conducted a deep analysis of the mRNA vaccines and origins of the virus and has created an “evidentiary document” (analysis) that is incredibly powerful.

Strep A bacterial infections have killed more children than ‘covid’ during first year of pandemic, according to figures | added December 8

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Strep A bacterial infections blamed on lockdown immunity debt have now killed more children than covid did during the first year of the pandemic, figures have shown. The Telegraph has the story. At least nine children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have died of iGas, a severe form of Strep A infection caused when the bacterium gets into the bloodstream.

In comparison, only eight youngsters died following a coronavirus infection in those countries in the whole of 2020 – leading to fears that the immunity debt from pandemic restrictions will end up killing more youngsters than covid itself. As early as 2020, experts warned that limiting contact, shutting schools and insisting on masks would prevent children from encountering bugs that would prime their immune systems, leaving them more vulnerable to infections.

Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, said: “At some point the immune deficit brought about by lockdowns has to be repaid. “In terms of the high levels of Group A Strep infections there have been notable increases in cases in the past, however what is different this time is the high levels of viral co-circulation in the community, and the high number of deaths in children.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sounds another ‘covid alarm, “we’re not out of the woods yet” | added December 8

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NEW YORK (PIX11) — After two years of a covid-19 lockdown, people have shed their masks and are out and about again enjoying the spirit of the holiday. But that’s raising concern in the medical community as they’re seeing an unsettling surge in covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses. That has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge us to cover up once again this winter.

As Gov. Kathy Hochul noted during a press briefing, “We’re not out of the woods yet. The threat is real. We have cases we’re watching intensely.” The governor sounded the alarm as the number of respiratory illnesses are rising throughout the state. Covid-19 cases alone in four of New York City’s five boroughs have jumped to levels that have prompted the CDC to recommend that people wear masks indoors and on public transportation.

The latest data shows that Queens has seen a 16% increase in positive cases. The Bronx and Brooklyn are close to 14%, and Staten Island is about 12%. On Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties have registered a 13% spike in positive covid-19 cases. Dr. Anthony Santella, an infectious disease specialist and professor of public health at Fairfield University, said masks remain an important tool in presenting the spread of covid-19.

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Unveiled plans for a compromise defense authorization bill would drop military ‘covid’ vax mandate | added December 7

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House and Senate lawmakers on Tuesday night unveiled plans for a compromise defense authorization bill which would boost the military budget by 8% over fiscal 2022 levels and rescind the military’s covid-19 vaccine mandate for service members.

The $858 billion plan (which includes roughly $817 billion in Department of Defense spending) also includes plans for a 4.6% pay raise for troops starting next month and nearly $19 billion in extra funding to deal with extra inflation costs on construction, fuel prices and other military purchases. House lawmakers are expected to pass the measure by the end of the week, setting up a Senate vote next week. If it passes both chambers, it could be signed into law by the president before the end of the month, continuing a six-decade streak of advancing the legislation into law.

Although the authorization bill is considered must-pass legislation annually, this year’s deliberations have dragged on for months. For the second consecutive year, the Senate did not pass its own version of the bill, opting instead to make adjustments to the House-passed version from this summer rather than taking amendment votes on their own military policy priorities.

China eases ‘zero-covid policy’ restrictions that mandated testing and confined millions of people after rare protests | added December 7

Editor’s Note: People coming together to take a stand for what they know is right is powerful and does shift the paradigm. — mmd

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China rolled back rules on isolating people with covid-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign.

The move adds to earlier easing that fueled hopes Beijing was scrapping its “zero covid” strategy, which is disrupting manufacturing and global trade. Experts warn, however, that restrictions can’t be lifted completely until at least mid-2023 because millions of elderly people still must be vaccinated and the health care system strengthened. China is the last major country still trying to stamp out transmission of the virus while many nations switch to trying to live with it.

As they lift restrictions, Chinese officials have also shifted to talking about the virus as less threatening — a possible effort to prepare people for a similar switch. People with mild cases will be allowed for the first time to isolate at home, the National Health Commission announced, instead of going to sometimes overcrowded or unsanitary quarantine centers. That addresses a major irritation that helped to drive protests that erupted Nov. 25 in Shanghai and other cities.

Uninsured and seniors may soon have to pay for Paxlovid anti-viral pills | added December 7

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Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with covid-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long covid. But the government plans to stop footing the bill within months, and millions of people who are at the highest risk of severe illness and are least able to afford the drug — the uninsured and seniors — may have to pay the full price.

And that means fewer people will get the potentially lifesaving treatments, experts said. “I think the numbers will go way down,” said Jill Rosenthal, director of public health policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank. A bill for several hundred dollars or more would lead many people to decide the medication isn’t worth the price, she said.

In response to the unprecedented public health crisis caused by covid, the federal government spent billions of dollars on developing new vaccines and treatments, to swift success: Less than a year after the pandemic was declared, medical workers got their first vaccines. But as many people have refused the shots and stopped wearing masks, the virus still rages and mutates. In 2022 alone, 250,000 Americans have died from covid, more than from strokes or diabetes.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit employees and former employees sue over authority’s ‘covid’ vax mandates | added December 7

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A group of Pittsburgh Regional Transit employees and former employees filed a discrimination lawsuit in federal court Tuesday challenging the authority’s covid-19 vaccine mandate. The lawsuit, filed as a class action, seeks to represent not only employees who were terminated by PRT for failing to get vaccinated but also employees who claim they were forced to get vaccinated to keep their jobs.

The lawsuit includes claims for religious discrimination, violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and wrongful termination. It alleges that 75 employees were terminated for failing to be vaccinated and that their requests for religious or medical exemptions were summarily denied. PRT spokesman Adam Brandolph said 43 operators and 44 other employees lost their jobs for failing to get vaccinated.

Seven employees died from covid-19 before the vaccine mandate was implemented. None have died since, Brandolph said. He said he could not comment on pending litigation. In January, PRT announced the vaccine mandate and said that all employees were required to be vaccinated by March 15. The authority offered a process for employees to seek an exemption, but the lawsuit called that process an “exercise in futility.”

Vaxxas raises $23 million dollars to develop needle-free ‘covid’ vaccine using dry-coating technology | added December 7

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Vaxxas has secured funding to support clinical development of its needle-free covid-19 vaccine, stuffing its coffers with $23 million from investors including OneVentures and UniQuest. The biotech is built around a patch-based delivery technology, HD-MAP, that uses an array of thousands of projections to get vaccines to immune cells below the surface of the skin.

Using dry-coating technology, Vaxxas applies vaccines onto the projections under sterile conditions, resulting in a delivery system that could improve immune responses, lower doses, eliminate the cold chain and enable self-administration. Investors are bankrolling Vaxxas’ attempts to show its technology can live up to that billing. Existing investors OneVentures and UniQuest led the financing with assists from members of Vaxxas’ board, management team and a number of individual backers.

Paul Kelly, M.D., founding partner and head of healthcare at OneVentures, outlined why his Australian venture fund stepped up to provide fresh funding to support Vaxxas’ evolution into a clinical-phase biotech. “Our confidence has only been reinforced by Vaxxas’ tremendous progress in building a promising clinical pipeline based on its novel HD-MAP vaccination platform. We believe Vaxxas’ needle-free vaccination technology will dramatically improve the availability, efficacy, and safety of vaccines for a range of serious and prevalent diseases, including covid-19 and influenza,” Kelly said in a statement.

Critics call out Pfizer and BioNTech’s plan to seek emergency use authorization for an updated ‘covid’ bivalent booster for children ages 6 months to 4 years old | added December 7

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Pfizer and BioNTech are seeking Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for an updated covid-19 bivalent “booster” vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years old. Pfizer on Monday said if the bivalent booster receives EUA, children in this age group will receive two doses of the original covid-19 vaccine, followed by a dose of the “updated” vaccine targeting omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.

Previously, children under age 5 could receive a three-dose series of the original covid-19 vaccine. However, since the shots received EUA in June, only 2% of children under 2 and about 4% of 2- to 4-year-olds have received their primary doses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The bivalent vaccine is currently authorized as a “booster” dose in the U.S. and the EU, for children 5 and older. Bivalent boosters are ‘obsolete,’ come with ‘very concerning side effects’.

Drs. Peter McCullough, Meryl Nass and Michelle Perro were critical of Pfizer and BioNTech’s bid to receive EUA for the bivalent booster for young children. Nass told The Defender: “There was never anything to recommend the bivalent boosters before they were given an EUA for adults on August 31. It is unconscionable, given what we know about the poor performance of the existing vaccines and their very concerning side effects, that FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and CDC went along with the new ‘boosters’ without a single human trial — and now the manufacturers want to give these untested vaccines to children as young as 6 months of age.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announces plan to reimburse individuals and businesses who paid fines for violating state ‘covid’ restrictions | added December 7

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced on Tuesday that he plans to reimburse individuals and businesses who paid fines for violating most state covid-19 restrictions put in place by his Democratic predecessor. Youngkin signed an executive order directing all state agencies to report all covid-19 fines and disciplinary actions they imposed, and the governor said he plans to develop a reimbursement process in his upcoming budget proposal for the restrictions imposed by former Gov. Ralph Northam (D).

“The fact that businesses are still dealing with covid-19 related penalties and fines is infuriating,” Youngkin said in a statement. “Livelihoods are on the line,” he added. “In the previous administration, we saw our government shut down businesses, close our schools and separate us from each other. While we can’t undo the damage done during the Northam administration, we are taking action going forward to end covid-era draconian overreach.”

Youngkin added that the review and reimbursements will not apply to violations in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and hospitals. But the Virginia Republican said he will direct agencies to halt collection and enforcement of the other pandemic restriction fines in the upcoming budget request. “I look forward to working with the General Assembly to address this, forgive covid fines and fees and restore licenses that were unjustly suspended,” Youngkin said.

UK medicines regulator gives green light approval for Pfizer/BioNTech ‘covid’ shot Comirnaty to be used on children between 6 months and 4 years old | added December 7

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The UK’s medicines regulator on Tuesday gave the greenlight for the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine, also known as Comirnaty, to be used on children in Britain aged between 6 months and 4 years old. The vaccine has previously been approved in Northern Ireland for the same age group.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) authorisation doesn’t mean the low-dose vaccine will be automatically included in the the government’s covid-19 vaccination programme, because the responsibility of making recommendations falls on a different body—the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). It appears unlikely the JCVI will recommend the product to be used on healthy babies and toddlers as the committee has not extended a one-off recommendation to jab children aged between 5 and 11.

Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told The Epoch Times he would wait and see what the JCVI will decide on vaccinating the infants and toddlers. He said he’s “not sure” whether it’s appropriate to give the vaccine to this age group given the low risk Ccovid-19 poses to young children and the vaccine’s short-lived efficacy against infections.

Hackers linked to Chinese government stole at least $20 million dollars in U.S. ‘covid’ relief benefits | added December 7

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Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans and unemployment insurance funds in over a dozen states, according to the Secret Service.

The theft of taxpayer funds by the Chengdu-based hacking group known as APT41 is the first instance of pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly, but may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts.

The officials and experts, most speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, say other federal investigations of pandemic fraud also seem to point back to foreign state-affiliated hackers. “It would be crazy to think this group didn’t target all 50 states,” said Roy Dotson, national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator for the Secret Service, who also acts as a liaison to other federal agencies probing covid fraud.

Journalist Jeremy Hammond’s hypocrisy | added December 7

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hypocrisy

: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not

: behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel

His hypocrisy was finally revealed with the publication of his private letters.

especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

I finally did something that I had told myself that I wasn’t going to do. I engaged in a “debate” with Jeremy Hammond. For those who may be unfamiliar with Mr. Hammond, he considers himself an independent journalist who exposes “dangerous state propaganda serving to manufacture consent for criminal government policies.” He has become a prominent voice in the “anti-vaccine” crowd and has produced many articles about the dangers involved in this practice.

This may leave you wondering why I approached Mr. Hammond to critique information he had provided in a recent article of his. Contrary to Mr. Hammond’s claims of exposing dangerous propaganda, Jeremy also does his fair share of pushing dangerous propaganda. This includes his insistence in promoting the fear-based propaganda that pathogenic “viruses” exist and that “SARS-COV-2” is a bioweapon secretly created in a lab that was suspiciously unleashed upon the world.

‘Covid’ click bait. No, thank you.

New Zealand authorities launch custody battle for infant whose parents refuse blood from ‘covid’ vaccinated patients, sparking major controversy | added December 6

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Wellington, New Zealand — New Zealand authorities on Tuesday launched a battle for custody of an infant whose parents are blocking life-saving surgery because blood donors may have been vaccinated against covid-19. The New Zealand health authority took the bid for emergency custody to the High Court in Auckland in a case that has sparked local protest and underscored the potency of vaccine misinformation.

The four-month-old, whose name has been suppressed by court order, needs an “urgent operation” to correct a heart disorder known as pulmonary valve stenosis, the child’s mother has said. The surgical procedure has been delayed because the baby’s parents do not want any blood transfused that could have come from a donor vaccinated using mRNA vaccines. Health authorities rejected the parents’ request for unvaccinated blood.

New Zealand’s blood service does not make a distinction between donations from those vaccinated or unvaccinated against covid, as there is no extra risk from using vaccinated blood. The authorities want to take partial custody of the child, leaving the parents in charge of non-medical care, but allowing the procedure to go ahead. Health New Zealand has said it applied to the court “with the best interests of the child in mind” following “extensive conversations” with the family.

CDC announces people should wear masks to prevent spread of respiratory illnesses, ‘covid’, flu and RSV | added December 6

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The Centers for Disease Control Prevention on Monday encouraged people to wear masks to help reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses this season as covid, flu and RSV circulate at the same time. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, in a call with reporters, said wearing a mask is one of several everyday precautions that people can take to reduce their chances of catching or spreading a respiratory virus during the busy holiday season.

“We also encourage you to wear a high-quality, well-fitting mask to prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses,” said Walensky, adding that people living in areas with high levels of covid transmission should especially consider masking.

The CDC director said the agency is considering expanding its system of covid community levels to take into account other respiratory viruses such as the flu. The system is the basis for when CDC advises the public to wear masks. But Walensky encouraged people to take proactive action. “One need not wait on CDC action in order to put a mask on,” Walensky said. “We would encourage all of those preventive measures — hand washing, staying home when you’re sick, masking, increased ventilation — during respiratory virus season, but especially in areas of high covid-19 community levels.”

FDA approves emergency use authorization of Virax Biolab’s over-the-counter ‘covid’ rapid antigen test | added December 6

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Virax Biolabs Group Limited (“Virax” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: VRAX), an innovative biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection, and diagnosis of viral diseases, announced today that their supplier has received an Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”) from the U.S. FDA for their Over-the-Counter Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test (the “Test”). The Tests are ready for sale in the US by Virax.

Additionally, another Point of Care Rapid Antigen test to be distributed by Virax is seeking an approval with Health Canada for Canadian distribution. The Tests have been eligible for sale in markets accepting the CE Mark since 2020. Virax’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, James Foster commented “This is an important milestone for Virax as we now have the ability to enter into the key US market.

Covid-19 remains a major viral threat and has become endemic. We have significant manufacturing capacity (through our partner) of up 2 million tests per day which will allow us to serve a large portion of the US market, if necessary. We look forward to updating you on distribution contracts as they are signed.” Covid-19 remains a significant healthcare burden in the United States. According to the CDC, as of November 23, 2022, there have been approximately 45 million cases with around 250,000 deaths attributable to covid-19 so far in 2022. Total test volume has been over 266 million in the US in 2022.

Boston to spend $3.9 million dollars in opening 11 wastewater ‘covid’ testing sites | added December 6

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Boston is planning to establish 11 wastewater testing sites across the city to help monitor for spikes in the covid-19 virus. The head of the Boston Public Health Commission said the city is partnering with vendors to create the sites as covid-19 levels in wastewater across the region have begun rising.

Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Boston’s public health commissioner, said the city will be sampling water from the sites on a weekly basis. Ojikutu said the testing will also help the city monitor for the appearance of new variants of the disease. Ojikutu made the comments during a Boston City Council meeting Monday according to The Boston Globe.

The city is currently receiving information pulled together from Boston and 22 other nearby locations. City health officials hope the Boston testing sites will help them understand what’s happening at a neighborhood level. The city is tapping $3.9 million in federal funding to pay for the project. Coronavirus levels in Eastern Massachusetts wastewater have been on the uptick in recent weeks.

Pfizer partners with Clear Creek Bio to develop billion dollar oral ‘covid’ drug | added December 6

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NEW YORK & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Clear Creek Bio, Inc. today announced a research collaboration and exclusive license agreement to advance the discovery and development of potential inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLpro) for the oral treatment of covid-19. PLpro is an essential enzyme, which, along with the main protease (Mpro), plays an important role in viral replication.

This program will expand Pfizer’s innovative anti-infective pipeline and, if successful, will complement Pfizer’s existing portfolio of Ccovid-19 products with direct-acting antiviral agents against different SARS-CoV-2 targets. “Covid-19 has proven to be a devastating and highly unpredictable disease, one with the potential to remain a global health concern for years to come,” said Charlotte Allerton, Chief Scientific Officer, Anti-Infectives and Head of Medicine Design, of Pfizer.

“It is critical that we try to stay ahead of the virus, continuing to advance clinical development opportunities for our current oral therapy as well as innovating through our internal programs and strategic partnerships to bring forward additional monotherapy and/or combination treatment candidates that we believe may play a role in the ongoing fight against covid-19.” “As covid-19 continues to evolve, there is a significant need for oral antivirals with novel mechanisms of action,” said Vikram Sheel Kumar, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Clear Creek Bio.

Researchers find autopsies reveal ‘covid’ shots induced fatal cardiac conditions in some people | added December 6

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A serious side effect linked to covid-19 vaccines can lead to death, according to a new study. Post-vaccination myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, was identified in a subset of people who died “unexpectedly” at home within 20 days of receiving a covid-19 vaccine.

Researchers analyzed autopsies that had been performed on the people and conducted additional research, including studying tissue samples. Researchers started with a group of 35, but excluded 10 from further analysis because other causes of death were identified. Of the remaining 25, researchers identified evidence of myocarditis in five. All of the five people received a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine within seven days of their death, with a mean of 2.5 days.

The median age was 58 years. None of the people had covid-19 infection prior to being vaccinated and nasal swabs returned negative. Autopsy findings combined with the lack of evidence of other causes of death and how the vaccination happened shortly before the deaths enabled researchers to say that for three of the cases, vaccination was the “likely cause” of the myocarditis and that the cardiac condition “was the cause of sudden death.”

Canadian Red Cross to help Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario deal with surge of pediatric respiratory illnesses | added December 6

Read more at The Epoch Times

A prominent children’s hospital in Ottawa will soon be receiving help from the Canadian Red Cross as it grapples with a massive wave of pediatric respiratory illnesses that have stretched resources to the breaking point, the organization announced Sunday.

CHEO, previously known as the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, requested the additional support amid a surge of admissions from children and youth. Red Cross spokesperson Leianne Musselman said the organization will provide “small teams” to support hospital staff and allow them to focus on clinical tasks.

Musselman did not indicate a firm start date for the agreement, but CHEO Chief Nursing Executive Tammy DiGiovanni said a small contingent of Red Cross personnel would arrive as of next week to support clinical teams. “This will allow some of our redeployed staff to go back to their regular roles and ensure Team CHEO can provide the safe, world-class care that our patients deserve,” DiGiovanni said in a statement, noting the hospital has received help from other local health-care providers and community care organizations during a time she said required “all hands on deck.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces intention to hold ‘covid’ vax manufacturers responsible for false claims about shots | added December 6

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At a private event over the weekend, Governor Ron DeSantis said that his administration intends to hold vaccine manufacturers accountable for making false claims about covid products that have caused injuries and death. The governor said he would be working with Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo “to hold these manufacturers accountable for this mRNA [shot] because they said there were no side effects and we know that there have been a lot.”

DeSantis made the comments at a Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) event on Saturday at the Florida Governors Mansion. American Greatness reached out to both the RPOF, and the governor’s communications team for comment but did not receive an immediate reply. “We did a study in Florida and we saw an 86 percent increase in cardiac related activity in people ages 18 to 39 from mRNA shots and so we’re going to be doing some stuff to bring accountability there,” DeSantis told the RPOF Executive Committee members at the event. In the United States, the mRNA products are produced by Pfizer and Moderna.

For the past year, Equity Investment Executive and former Black Rock manager Ed Dowd has been compiling evidence from the insurance industry, funeral home industry, and government databases showing that excessive deaths among working-age Americans substantially increased in 2021 over 2020. In his new book, “Cause unknown,” Dowd demonstrates that non-covid deaths among people aged 18 to 64 have exploded.

Vermont: The most vaccinated state in U.S. plans to get everyone boosted before holidays | added December 6

Editor’s Note: Try convincing the families who testified about experiencing serious adverse reactions to these shots they are “safe and effective” for everyone. Some people, like 13 year-old Maddie de Garay became paralyzed for life. Listen here. — mmd

Read more at Mark Crispin Miller Substack

It seems that the Good People at the “Vermont Health Equity Initiative” are a little out of it (which might mean that nearly all Vermont is out of it), what with the drawing here of that nice (masked) Healthcare Professional (surely Latinx) elbow-bumping that nice (masked) African-American cis-girl—a Tender Moment (though it’s impossible to tell if either one of them is smiling) that recalls the Covid Terror of 2020/2021, when people were too panicked to shake hands.

That panic is as fresh as ever, in the Bizarro world of this psychotic ad, since those two cis-females (I hope I’m not offending anyone!) are bumping elbows even though the older one is wearing gloves—suggesting that the gloves (just like the shots) don’t work (and neither do the masks, or there would be no need for the further shots pushed in this ad). But that’s the least of it, of course.

What really tells us that the people at the “Vermont Health Equity Initiative”—and maybe nearly all the people in Vermont—are out of it is that they’re still pushing universal “vaccination,” and of children in particular (and, still more particularly, children of color, though no doubt they want to jab the white ones, too). This despite (a) the ever-spiking toll of “vaccination,” in both “sudden deaths” and crippling injuries, and (b) the (consequent) widespread decline in booster uptake, which, we hear, has slipped down to around 4%.

“Amnesty” by Joseph Arthur | added December 6

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“Don’t you ever forget your way back home…”

Daykeeper Notes :: New edition of chronology available now | added December 5

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Dear Friend and Reader:

A week ago, we reached Day 1000 of our daily (even hour-to-hour) tracking of, you know, the situation that emerged three years ago. On March 3, 2020, we started faithfully logging news reports, mainstream and alt, every day.

And we began digging up and documenting events going back in time to see where it all began. Daily updates continue here.

Tracking events day-by-day is an appropriate job for a reserach team well-trained in both astrology and classical news reporting. I also have detailed coverage of the astrology, for those interested.

A New Edition of the Chronology is Avaialble

And at long last, I have a new edition of the chronology for you. This document is a journalistic achievement in a time of journalistic decadence. I am amazed it even exists, but it does, logging every detail we could find between 2006 and the end of 2020. We are close to a beta release of the compiled events of 2021. (This link contains a video interview with me by Dr. Sam Bailey describing the project, and the process of editing it — scroll down.)

Biden administration considers an end to military ‘covid’ vax mandates | added December 5

Editor’s Note: This would be a big win for the medical freedman movement and, if dropped, would be hypocritical of the administration should it not end mandates across sectors. Rutgers University mandates all students and staff be boosted with yet another ‘covid’ shot.  — mmd

Read more at Politico

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Final defense legislation set to be unveiled next week could undo the Pentagon’s policy of kicking out troops for not taking the covid vaccine, the Democratic chair of the House Armed Services Committee said Saturday.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said a rollback of the policy is on the table for a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act, but hasn’t been decided yet. “We haven’t resolved it, but it is very fair to say that it’s in discussion,” Smith told POLITICO on the sidelines of the Reagan National Defense Forum. He noted that the mandate may not be logical anymore.“I was a very strong supporter of the vaccine mandate when we did it, a very strong supporter of the covid restrictions put in place by DoD and others,” he added.

“But at this point in time, does it make sense to have that policy from August 2021? That is a discussion that I am open to and that we’re having.” The defense bill is set to be unveiled Monday and House leaders plan to hold a vote on the $847 billion policy measure sometime next week. Negotiators had hoped to file the legislation on Friday, but congressional leaders were still ironing out several outstanding issues, apparently including the vaccine policy

CDC announces ‘high covid’ cases in 16 Colorado counties | added December 5

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COLORADO, USA — There’s one fewer tool available to treat covid-19 as the CDC reports “high” community levels of the virus in more than a dozen Colorado counties, including Boulder County.
The FDA pulled authorization for the last monoclonal antibody available in the United States on Wednesday, ending — for now — what was previously one of the most effective treatments available for the coronavirus.

It had been recently stymied by new variants. “We’ve known for some time that the coronavirus has been rapidly changing,” 9NEWS Health Expert Dr. Payal Kohli said. “These new variants are called escape variants because they escape our immunity and they sort of escape these antibody treatments that used to be previously effective.”

Kohli said the old treatments just don’t work anymore. The lab-made antibodies used to bind to the virus and prevent it from entering cells, but the antibodies don’t fit right on the new variants spreading today. “The antibodies are really no longer effective,” she said. “They’re no longer neutralizing or squelching the virus from making copies of itself.”

Discussion: ‘Long covid symptoms’, nutrition and innate healing | added December 5

Editor’s Note: While this video suggests ‘covid’ has been identified (not isolated) as to what is making people sick, a lack of nutrition is often overlooked for health. It’s important to note the smoke and mirrors effect of ‘long term covid’ symptoms and adverse reactions as a cover for covid drug jabs and environmental toxins. This discussion is a dance around the root causes of what is making people sick as it all goes back to ‘covid’.  — mmd

Watch the video on CHDTV

Chris Masterjohn, Ph.D. and Dr. Syed Haider dive deep into the questions surrounding long covid, vaccine injury and supplementation in this episode of ‘Good Morning CHD.’ Today, Dr. Masterjohn shares his insight into mineral deficiencies and their connection to the health issues in society today. He also discusses reform to modern medicine in the way that patients are diagnosed, treated and studied for particular symptoms related to deficiencies and absorption of vital nutrients.

*The information, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images and other material contained in this episode are for informational purposes only. No material is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Chinese women stand together to protest against China’s dictatorial control with ‘zero-covid policy’ | added December 5

Read more at South Morning China Post

Amid a groundswell of public outrage in multiple Chinese cities over the government’s continued zero-covid policy, young women have stepped up and become a leading voice of dissent. Armed with blank sheets of paper from Beijing to Shanghai, they took the lead in protesting against the mishandling of covid-19 restrictions in Urumqi, where a fire killed 10 residents during lockdown, as well as against the local media for its silence on the incident.

“Chinese women are generally more action-oriented and more outspoken than men,” said a female protester in Shanghai, adding that she “just wanted to be there”. A thousand kilometres away, female students at Beijing’s Tsinghua University also started a protest. A few of them stood quietly with white paper in hand, in spite of interference from teachers or security guards.

It is promising to see women making up a significant part of an extremely rare social movement, especially considering how women’s rights movements have been suppressed by the Chinese government. Perhaps the best-known example is of a group known as the Feminist Five, who were arrested in 2015 for organising a protest against sexual harassment on public transport, ahead of International Women’s Day and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s UN speech on women’s rights.

American scientist who worked for Wuhan Lab claims ‘covid’ was a man-made virus | added December 5

Read more at The Epoch Times

An American scientist who worked at a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, has claimed that the novel coronavirus was a “genetically engineered agent” that leaked from the U.S.-funded facility. It was reportedly exposed by Dr. Andrew Huff, an epidemiologist and former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, in “The Truth About Wuhan” book, in which he referred to the pandemic as “the biggest U.S. intelligence failure since 9/11.”

In his book, Huff says the covid-19 virus was genetically engineered through China’s gain-of-function experiments—which modify the way an organism functions—funded by the United States government, The Sun reported. He said that EcoHealth spent years teaching the Wuhan Institute of Virology the “best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species,” and that China was aware “that this was a genetically engineered agent.”

“The U.S. government is to blame for the transfer of dangerous biotechnology to the Chinese,” he told The Sun. “I was terrified by what I saw. We were just handing them bioweapon technology. Huff claimed that China’s gain-of-function experiments were carried out with poor control measures, which led to the lab leak at the Wuhan lab. “EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he wrote in the book.

‘Covid’ is linked to higher levels of strep A in UK, according to health officials | added December 5

Editor’s Note: As we work on the covid chronology especially we see how ‘covid’ is being blamed for so many symptoms, i.e. diabetes, liver disease, Alzheimer’s and now strep. How is it that ‘covid’ is now responsible for all these previously known illnesses? — mmd

Read more at The Guardian

An early start to the strep A infections season in the UK could be a knock-on effect of the covid-19 pandemic, a senior heath official has said. At least six children have died with strep A infection since September, leading the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to issue a rare alert on Friday evening. On Monday, its chief medical adviser warned that infection rates were significantly higher than previously seen at this time of year.

“Firstly, I think that we’re seeing a lot of viral infections circulate at the moment and these bacterial infections can come as an addition on top. Secondly, we’re back to normal social mixing and the patterns of diseases that we’re seeing in the last number of months are out of sync with the normal seasons as people mix back to normal and move around and pass infections on,” Dr Susan Hopkins told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday.

“We also need to recognise that the measures that we’ve taken for the last couple of years to reduce covid circulating will also reduce other infections circulating. And so that means that, as things get back to normal, these traditional infections that we’ve seen for many years are circulating at great levels.” Asked if this was due to lower-than-normal immunity levels caused by covid measures, she said: “That’s one of the potential areas that we’re exploring.”

Old school monoclonal antibody ‘covid’ treatments rendered useless in the U.S. against new variants | added December 5

Read more at NBC News

No more monoclonal antibody treatments for covid are available in the U.S.: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday rescinded its authorization of bebtelovimab, a drug previously given to patients who faced a high risk of severe disease.

Over the last two years, the FDA authorized six monoclonal antibody treatments for covid, but omicron’s many subvariants rendered the drugs less effective so the FDA gradually revoked each of those authorizations. Bebtelovimab, made by Eli Lilly, was the last one standing. According to the FDA’s announcement, the drug was “not expected to neutralize omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1.,” which together now account for the majority of new infections recorded in the U.S. — around 62%, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.

“The big problem is that monoclonal antibodies bind to a very small piece of the virus. As the virus changes, we are now in a position in which we lost them all because they don’t bind to the virus anymore,” said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Paxlovid has become the go-to treatment for most people at high risk of severe covid, given that it continues to be effective in the face of new variants and is easy to administer (it’s a series of three pills taken twice daily for five days).

Top military general claims ‘covid’ vax misinformation responsible for recruitment problems as members remain reluctant to undergo inoculation | added December 5

Read more at Military

The covid-19 vaccine mandate is contributing to the military’s recruitment troubles, the top general in the Marine Corps said on Saturday. Speaking during a panel at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger defended the vaccine mandate as a necessity for keeping the force healthy. But he indicated the mandate has posed problems for recruiting in pockets of the United States where vaccine misinformation is prevalent.

Where it is having an impact for sure is on recruiting, where in parts of the country there’s still myths and misbeliefs about the back story behind it,” Berger said. Speaking to reporters at the conference later Saturday afternoon, Berger added that the mandate has posed an issue for recruiting in the South in particular. “There was not accurate information out early on and it was very politicized and people make decisions and they still have those same beliefs. That’s hard to work your way past really hard to work,” he said in response to a question from Military.com.

“Small areas, big factor,” he added when pressed about how much the mandate has contributed to recruiting issues. “You talk to me in the cafeteria, and one of my first questions is, ‘Do I have to get that vaccine?’ And you go, ‘Yeah, you do.’ Ok, I’ll talk to you later. It’s that fast.” The military has faced a recruiting crisis over the last year as it tackles the twin difficulties of increasing numbers of Americans unqualified to serve and decreasing numbers of those who are qualified being interested in serving.

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” — Albert Einstein

Planet Waves FM: The biotech spiral | added December 3

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Tonight’s new edition of Planet Waves FM goes deep into the PCR “testing” scam and biotechnology generally. If you have followed my coverage of this issue and have any curiosity left, you will love this program. I look at the current astrology as well.

I am joined by Dr. Kevin Corbett, a renowned expert on diagnostic testing issues surrounding HIV and AIDS. We dissect the testimony of the owner of a PCR testing lab, Kevin McKernan, a kind of biotech evangelist who has previously been critical of the use of the PCR for detecting viruses.

Here is the new edition of the chronology.

Note, I am not planning a program for next week, in service of completing the Inner Space readings. Thank you for purchasing those — I promise a helpful, uplifting astrological journey. More information and a nice video here.

The video below is my interview with Kevin McKernan and Bobby Malhotra from February 2021.

Los Angeles may impose mask mandates amid rising ‘covid’ cases and hospitalizations | added December 3

Read more at ABC News

Los Angeles County may soon reimpose indoor mask mandates as covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in the area. During a press conference Thursday, LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the largest county in the United States had reached “medium” covid-19 transmission levels and will require face coverings if it reaches the “high” category.

As of Dec. 1, Los Angeles County is averaging 2,490 new covid-19 infections every day, the highest number recorded since Aug. 26, according to health department data. Ferrer said the real count is likely much higher due to several people testing positive with at-home rapid tests and not reporting the results to health officials or due to people not testing at all.

Daily deaths are still relatively low at 14, but the figure could rise because covid-related fatalities tend to lag a few weeks behind case and hospitalization increases, Ferrer noted. “There is this common line of thinking that the pandemic is over and covid is no longer of concern, but these numbers clearly demonstrate that covid is still with us,” she said. Two weeks ago, county officials said they were “strongly recommending” that residents wear masks in indoor public settings but stopped short of requiring them after the covid-19 case rate hit 100 per 100,000 residents.

Beijing residents celebrate an end to mandatory ‘covid’ testing as China eases restrictions  | added December 3

Read more at CNBC News

Beijing residents cheered the removal of covid-19 testing booths while Shenzhen followed other cities in announcing it would no longer require commuters to present their test results to travel, as an easing of China’s virus curbs gathered pace.

Although daily cases hover near all-time highs, some cities are taking steps to loosen covid-19 testing requirements and quarantine rules as China looks to make its zero-covid policy more targeted amid an economic slowdown and public frustration that has boiled over into unrest.

Three years into the pandemic, China has been a global outlier with its zero-tolerance approach towards covid that has seen it enforce lockdowns and frequent virus testing. It says the measures are needed to save lives and avoid overwhelming its healthcare system. China began tweaking its approach last month, urging localities to become more targeted. Initial reactions, however, were marked with confusion and even tighter lockdowns as cities scrambled to keep a lid on rising cases.

Nonprofit blood donation services begins matching unvaxed blood patients with donors | added December 3

Read more at The Epoch Times

Swiss naturopathic physician George Della Pietra believes people worldwide should be free to choose whether to get a covid-19 vaccine injection or not. He believes the same should hold for those receiving transfusions with “vaccinated” blood. “The problem is right now we have no choice,” said Della Pietra, founder of the nonprofit Safe Blood Donation service in 2021, matching unvaccinated blood recipients with donors in 65 countries. “It was very clear from the beginning that the covid hype was way out of control,” Della Pietra said. “It was not as dangerous as they say it was.

“As a naturopath, I can make no sense of this pandemic, which was never really a pandemic. It leaves space for so many explanations.” Della Pietra believes that an mRNA injection is more dangerous than the pharmaceutical companies are willing to admit. He said the growing numbers of adverse reactions are reason to question their safety and effectiveness. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that vaccinated and boosted people made up 58.6 percent (6,512) of the covid-19 deaths in August—up from 41 percent in January.

“We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Cynthia Cox, the Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation told The Washington Post in an article on Nov. 23. Nearly 70 percent of the world’s 8 billion people have received at least one mRNA injection for covid-19 since the vaccines began rolling out in 2021 at the height of the virus’s spread. Each of the three primary mRNA covid-19 vaccines contains covid-19 “spike protein” fragments, which bind at the cellular level to stimulate an immune response to the virus.

Calhoun’s “mouse utopia” and humanity’s demise as self-annihilation becomes commonplace | added December 3

Read more at Natural News

In the 1960’s, a scientist named John Calhoun created a “mouse utopia” where populations of mice would enjoy everything they needed, essentially without effort: Unlimited food, water, living space, population growth without predators and so on. It started with eight mice, who began to reproduce quickly, enjoying their newfound “utopia” with unlimited resources.

Within 4 years, however, the population had become extinct through self-annihilation even though all the resources it needed for survival were readily available, including ample space to live. What happened to Calhoun’s mice? He repeated the experiment multiple times using mice and rats. Each time the outcome was the same: Extinction within 1588 days. (Populations began to collapse at around 560 days, for reasons discussed below.)

What we are witnessing in the world today, right now, with the self-inflicted annihilation of humankind, almost perfectly reflects observations from Calhoun’s “mouse utopia” experiments. Except now, it’s happening in the world of humans. Filmmaker Mike Freeman has even made a film about these experiments. It’s called Critical Mass, and you can learn about it at CriticalMassFilm.com.

Breaking balls | added December 3

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Sense of humor is key. Enjoy the weekend.

McCullough: The ‘covid’ pandemic won’t end until mass inoculation campaigns stop | added December 3

Read more at The Defender

A principle of infectious diseases is “antimicrobial stewardship” which involves choosing the right antibiotic for the right patient and never over-prescribing or blanket-covering patients who don’t need treatment. Another principle is “narrowing the spectrum” of a drug once the organism is identified by culture or other methods.

These fundamental approaches to the use of antibiotics work to limit the problem of bacterial resistance and the development of “superbugs.” Every year hospitals each produce their antibiogram or report of their common infections encountered and what antibiotics either are effective (organism is sensitive) or ineffective (organism is resistant).

In the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, these principles have been applied to the use of monoclonal antibodies and the process explains why various EUA products (e.g., bamlanivimab) were pulled from the market when they were understood to be no longer effective at neutralizing SARS-CoV-2. This entire thought process has been thrown out the window for covid-19 vaccines. For 18 months the ancestral strain Wuhan Institute of Virology spike protein was the featured antigen for Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen, AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines.

Biden administration spends $1 million to research affects of “vaccine misinformation” | added December 3

Read more at FOX News

The Biden administration is handing out $1 million in grant funding for research into how “vaccine misinformation” found on social media can affect people’s confidence in vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the grant opportunity, “Developing a Public Health Tool to Predict the Virality of Vaccine Misinformation Narratives,” on Thursday and will send the funds to a single applicant next year.

The awardee will use the funds to develop a forecasting model that aims to identify potential misinformation on vaccines and how it will affect people as it spreads on social media. “The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity is to support research to develop a predictive forecasting model that identifies new or reemerging misinformation narratives that are likely to disseminate widely and have a high potential for impact on vaccine confidence,” the grant description said.

“The information from this model will then be used to develop a tool that public health agencies could use to predict misinformation trends in the populations served.” “Finally, the researchers will evaluate the tool’s predictive capabilities on both future social media misinformation narratives and real-world events,” it said. Eligible applicants include both government and private groups. The grant runs through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has a history of efforts to combat misinformation.

WHO “pleased” that communist China eases ‘zero-covid policy’ mandates and restrictions | added December 3

Read more at U.S. News

The World Health Organization on Friday said it was “pleased” that China is relaxing some of the strict covid-19 measures that spurred protests over the weekend and into the week. “We’re pleased to learn that the Chinese authorities are adjusting their current strategies and really tried to calibrate now the control measures that they need for this virus with the lives, the livelihoods and the human rights of people in communities,” WHO’s Mike Ryan said at a press conference on Friday.

Ryan said that the omicron variant’s transmissibility makes it particularly difficult to contain, which is the goal of China’s “zero covid” approach. “When you can’t stop a fire, you get the people in danger out of the way,” Ryan said. “And the way to get people out of the way of the fire in this case is to vaccinate people.”

Ryan’s comments come after several major cities in China eased their local coronavirus mitigation measures after they spurred one of the biggest displays of defiance against the Chinese Communist Party in decades. Following the protests, officials this week gave the most concrete signs yet that they could relax the country’s overall “zero covid” strategy, which aims to isolate every coronavirus case to prevent transmission and has forced residents into months-long lockdowns.

Former President Bill Clinton tests ‘covid’ positive, experiencing mild symptoms and “grateful to be vaxed and boosted” | added December 3

Read more at CNN

Former President Bill Clinton announced Wednesday that he has tested positive for covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.“I’m grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, which has kept my case mild, and I urge everyone to do the same, especially as we move into the winter months,” Clinton said in a tweet.

The former president, 76, added that he is “doing fine overall and keeping myself busy at home.” Clinton was hospitalized last year for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream. He also had quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2004 and had two stents inserted to open one artery in 2010. The 42nd President is the latest of the Presidents’ Club to test positive for the virus. President Joe Biden contracted covid-19 this summer, and then-President Donald Trump tested positive in October 2020. Former President Barack Obama also experienced a mild case earlier this year.

Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have remained flat in the US in recent weeks, though the virus’ impact is not gone: on average, more than 300 Americans die and 3,400 people are hospitalized each day with covid-19, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Just 12% of eligible people in the US have gotten their updated covid-19 booster, according to the CDC, and about 1 in 5 people nationwide remain completely unvaccinated.

Chinese authorities use cell phone data to track down protestors against ‘covid’ mandates | added December 2

Read more at CNN

Chinese authorities are using cellphone data to track down protesters who demonstrated against the government’s stringent covid restrictions in Beijing, according to a recording of a phone call between a protester and police heard by CNN.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered along Beijing’s Liangma River on Sunday night, calling for an end to the incessant covid tests and lockdowns. Some also decried censorship and called for greater political freedoms. The extraordinary show of dissent in the heart of the Chinese capital ended largely peacefully in the early hours of Monday.

But some protesters have since received phone calls from the police inquiring about their participation. A protester told CNN they received a phone call Wednesday from a police officer, who revealed they were tracked because their cellphone signal was recorded in the vicinity of the protest site. CNN is not naming any of the protesters in this story to protect them from reprisals.

Teenagers’ brains aged faster during pandemic due to stress and anxiety, according to researchers | added December 2

Read more at FOX News

In addition to heavily increased rates of anxiety and depression, researchers at Stanford University discovered the covid-19 pandemic aged teenagers’ brains by almost three years, according to a study published Thursday.

In “Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Brain Maturation in Adolescents,” the group of seven researchers compared MRI scans taken of teenagers ages 15 to 18 before the pandemic to scans of the same age group taken during the pandemic.

The images showed teenagers’ brains looked almost three years older during the pandemic than they did before covid. The scans also reportedly showed structural changes in the brain and changes to the parts of the brain responsible for memory, concentration, learning, emotion, reactivity and judgment.

Fauci criticizes Chinese ‘covid’ jabs stating they are ‘not at the level’ of western-made ones | added December 2

Read more at Fortune

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical advisor and one of the top officials responsible for the U.S. pandemic response, criticized another major economy’s approach to the pandemic on Thursday.

In an interview with the Washington Post, the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that China’s response was “draconian.” China is currently facing protests from Chinese residents frustrated with the country’s use of snap lockdowns and mass testing to suppress outbreaks.

Fauci said that lockdowns like China’s should “give you time to respond so that you can open up.” Yet Fauci suggested that less effective Chinese vaccines were hindering Beijing’s ability to end covid-zero. “The efficacy of the China made vaccines are not at the level of the vaccines that have been used in the United States,” he said. China’s covid vaccines primarily come from Sinovac, a private company, and Sinopharm, a state-owned pharmaceutical company.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advises of “triple threat” of flu, RSV and ‘covid’ across country | added December 2

Read more at ABC News

Health officials are warning of a “triple threat” of flu, RSV and covid-19 across the country and hospitals are continuing to see a surge in pediatric RSV cases. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy joined “GMA3” to discuss how people can best prepare themselves for the winter months, what this flu season will look like, and how the federal government is working with hospitals and health care workers across the country.

MURTHY: Well, it’s so good to be with all of you again. Look, I think we have to be cognizant that all three; covid, RSV, and the flu are threats… The good news is that we are not powerless in the face of these viruses. There is something we can do to help prevent our kids and adults from getting these.

And this is very personal for me too, my two small kids who are 4 and 6. They’ve both been sick this winter with various viruses. I was in the emergency room myself with my daughter, who was ill a couple of weeks ago. So I know how this feels for parents who are scared and worried out there. Well, with covid and the flu, the good news is we have vaccines available and the most important job of these vaccines is to save your life and keep you out of the hospital. And by that measure, they are working well.

Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D on how ‘covid’ jabs suppress immune system | added December 2

Read more at The Defender

In this interview, return guest Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at MIT for over five decades, discusses her paper, “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The Role of G-quadruplexes, Exosomes and MicroRNAs,” published in the June issue of Food and Chemical Toxicology.

The paper was co-written with Drs. Peter McCullough, Greg Nigh and Anthony Kyriakopoulos. In May 2021, Nigh and Seneff published a paper detailing the differences between the spike protein and the covid-19 jab spike protein. In the “Innate Immune Suppression” paper, they and their other co-authors delve deep into the mechanisms of the covid-19 shots, showing how they suppress your innate immune system.

The paper caused quite a stir when it was first posted, prior to publication. A campaign was launched to have it retracted on the premise that it would discourage people from getting these life-saving shots — regardless of whether the mechanisms described were true or not. Ultimately, the controversy led to the resignation of the editor of the journal. Many have also tried to discredit Seneff, and McCullough has since been stripped of his medical credentials.

New Zealand health services seek to obtain temporary guardianship of baby after parents refused ‘covid’ vaxed blood | added December 2

Read more at The Epoch Times

New Zealand’s health service is seeking to obtain temporary guardianship of a baby after the boy’s parents refused to allow blood from vaccinated people to be used in his heart surgery. In an interview uploaded on Monday by Kiwi broadcaster Liz Gunn, the parents said their four-month-old son was diagnosed with severe pulmonary valve stenosis and needs open-heart surgery to allow blood to flow properly around his body.

Pulmonary valve stenosis occurs when the pulmonary valve is too narrow, which causes the right ventricle to pump harder to send blood out to the lungs. In the long term, this can lead to the thickening of the right ventricle and strain the heart. The father reportedly said they were “extremely concerned” with the blood used by the doctors and added that they “don’t want blood that is tainted by vaccination.”

“That’s the end of the deal—we are fine with anything else these doctors want to do,” he said in the interview. More than 20 unvaccinated donors were willing to help, but this had not been approved by the New Zealand Blood Service, the parents said in the video.They had discussed the issue with a doctor and a surgeon, both of whom disregarded their concerns.

Delaware lawsuit challenging future denial of religious exemptions dismissed | added December 2

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Attorneys for two pastors who filed a lawsuit asking Chancery Court to prevent Delaware’s governor from imposing future restrictions on religious worship are meeting to see what their next step will be after a judge dismissed the case last week.

The Rev. Alan Hines, of Townsend Free Will Baptist Church in Townsend, and the Rev. David Landow, of Emmanuel Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, filed lawsuits late last year seeking an injunction against future emergency orders that place restrictions on houses of worship such as those imposed by Gov. John Carney in 2020 as the covid-19 pandemic spread.

The pastors’ lawsuits claimed Carney’s emergency orders early in the pandemic denied them their “absolute religious freedoms.” Through their lawsuits, they are asking Carney and future Delaware governors to keep their “hands off” the church in any future emergencies, regardless of any pretense they may offer. But Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster dismissed the lawsuit because he said it lacked subject matter jurisdiction — the requirement needed for a court to hear a specific kind of claim.

Life is worth losing | added December 2

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Carlin presents some evidence to back his claim that Americans can be dumb. Happy weekend.

Vaccine Injury Compensation overwhelmed with injury claims from vaccines and pandemic treatments, unable to compensate accordingly | added December 2

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The first program, meant for standard vaccines, such as measles and polio, has too little staff to handle the number of reported injuries, and thousands of patients are waiting years for their cases to be heard. A second program designed for vaccines and other treatments created or used during pandemics has seen unsustainable growth. Between 2010 and 2020, the Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program received 500 complaints. In the two years since covid-19 appeared, it has received over 8,000 complaints.

More than 5,000 of those are directly related to the covid-19 vaccines, with injuries ranging from a sore shoulder to death, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration. An additional 3,000 complaints related to everything from drugs and devices to the failure of hospital staff to limit infection spread have also been filed.

Top UK ‘covid’ advisor says Britain ‘didn’t need boosters’ as they only provide limited protection and natural immunity is best | added December 2

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Sir John Bell, who served as Boris Johnson’s testing tsar and an early member of the vaccines taskforce, said he’s “not entirely sure” the nation needed top-up doses, which health chiefs said were vital for all adults to boost protection amid the omicron wave last winter.

Third jabs have been offered to all over-16s and some at-risk 12 to 15-year-olds. And three rounds of seasonal booster jabs have been dished out to certain groups, including the over-50s, frontline NHS staff and carers. But the Oxford University scientist said severe illness due to the virus has “essentially disappeared” and the jabs only provide short-term protection against catching covid.

He called for the Government to “think quite hard” about its vaccination strategy – as letting the virus circulate among healthy people is “probably the best way to protect the population”. The approach to boosters so far, which sees top-up doses given every three to six months, is estimated to cost between £4-5 billion annually. Sir John was speaking to MPs on the Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee as part of the inquiry into lessons learnt from the covid pandemic.

San Francisco votes to allow police force to use killer robots | added December 1

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations — following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.

The vote was 8-3, with the majority agreeing to grant police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups. Opponents said the authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities.

Supervisor Connie Chan, a member of the committee that forwarded the proposal to the full board, said she understood concerns over use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it’s definitely not a easy discussion.”

GOP to block annual defense authorization bill unless Congress drops military’s ‘covid’ vax mandates | added December 1

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Nearly half of the Senate Republican caucus is threatening to block the annual defense authorization bill unless Congress agrees to abolish the military’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for troops and reinstate all those dismissed under the policy.

“The vaccination mandate has forced our nation’s young patriotic men and women to choose between their faith, their medical autonomy and their careers,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. “At a time when the military is struggling to meet targets for recruitment, the administration is firing soldiers we invested in and trained.” Whether the senators opposing the vaccine mandates have enough numbers to block the authorization bill in the Senate remains unclear.

So far, no senior Senate Republican leaders have signed onto the plan. If no Democrats back the effort, the group will need 41 GOP votes to halt consideration of the NDAA. Officials from each of the military services have required all troops to receive a covid-19 vaccination or risk dismissal from the armed forces, but the courts intervened when religious objectors to the vaccine argued their requests for waivers have not been dealt with fairly.

Napa doctor sentenced to prison for selling fake ‘covid’ vax cards | added December 1

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NAPA — A doctor who sold fake covid-19 vaccine cards during the height of the pandemic has been sentenced to prison. Julie Mazi of Napa pleaded guilty last April to wire fraud and false statements related to health care, and during Tuesday’s hearing, she was sentenced to almost three years in prison. The Department of Justice says this is the first prosecution related to fake vaccine cards.

‘Covid’ is allegedly killing more vaccinated people than unvaxed due to lack of booster jab uptake and underlying health conditions | added December 1

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The share of covid-19 deaths among those who are vaccinated has risen. In fall 2021, about 3 in 10 adults dying of covid-19 were vaccinated or boosted. But by January 2022, as we showed in an analysis posted on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, about 4 in 10 deaths were vaccinated or boosted. By April 2022, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data show that about 6 in 10 adults dying of covid-19 were vaccinated or boosted, and that’s remained true through at least August 2022 (the most recent month of data).

The data from this chart come from the CDC, which collects data on the number of deaths by vaccination status from 30 health departments (including states and cities) across the country. In order to be counted as vaccinated, a person must be at least two weeks out from completing their primary series before testing positive (for example, at least 14 days after completing two doses of the mRNA vaccine).

Similarly, to be counted as having a booster, a person must be at least two weeks out from their booster or additional dose before testing positive. People who were partially vaccinated are not included in this data. In all jurisdictions, local health authorities review data to determine whether the death was associated with covid-19 (through a review of vital records, cause of death, and/or other public health investigations or data sources), though methods vary by state or jurisdiction.

First ‘real-world’ ‘covid’ bivalent booster falls flat on efficacy, CDC report shows | added December 1

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In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — over the objections of the agency’s own advisors — authorized Pfizer’s covid-19 bivalent booster on an emergency basis, without any testing or demonstration that the products had any benefit in human beings. The only “emergency” was that collapsing demand for Pfizer’s original shots had caused a lapse in the drugmaker’s windfall profits.

Responding to this embarrassment, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week published the first data on efficacy of the bivalent boosters. Using the agency’s own data and methodology, we calculate an effectiveness of 9% compared to no vaccine at all. However, inexplicably, the CDC reported an effectiveness in the range of 19% to 50%, depending on previous vaccination history.

Even accepting the CDC’s computation, the FDA’s authorization was illegal because their rules demand a minimal efficacy of 50% for emergency use authorization. It gets more interesting when we look at subjects in the study who were fully vaccinated but did not get the new booster. They did much worse than the unvaccinated. This is more evidence of something we reported in the past: Modest efficacy of the covid-19 “vaccines” lasts a short while, then falls to zero and continues falling well below zero.

‘Covid’ causes personality changes? | added December 1

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Published in 2022, a PLOS ONE research study performed longitudinal assessments of personality changes in 7,109 Americans, aged 18 to 109, during the covid-19 pandemic. It is reported that, compared to the pre-pandemic period, people became less extroverted, open, agreeable, or conscientious. What is more astonishing is that these changes were equivalent to about one decade of normative personality change if occurring during a non-covid period.

Personality is the solidified reaction mode of one’s thoughts, emotions, and actions. As people mature, their personality is relatively stable regardless of the environmental simulations. There are many classification systems for personalities. The five-trait personality system was defined by five factors: namely, Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (OCEAN).

Openness is the likelihood of being creative and unconventional. Conscientiousness describes a person’s qualities of organization, discipline, and responsibility. Extraversion is not only the level of a person’s likelihood to interact with others but also indicates the main source of one’s energy. Agreeableness refers to whether a person is empathetic, helpful, and friendly. Neuroticism measures if someone is inclined to experience negative emotions and is vulnerable to stress.

China unveils new mass ‘covid’ vax drive without mandates | added December 1

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China has unveiled a plan to boost vaccination rates among the elderly and tackle what is seen as a key barrier to reopening borders and reviving an economy hit by nearly three years of strict covid-19 controls. It aims to boost the vaccination rate for people aged 60 and above – particularly those over 80 – and reduce severe outcomes including death, amid a wave of new cases that shows no sign of slowing.

In a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, top health officials also took aim at local governments for using blunt instruments to curb infections and being opaque with lockdown measures, without explicitly mentioning protests that have taken place across China against the zero-covid policy. But state media sent an emphatic message on Tuesday, that while rules should be refined in line with the State Council’s “20 measures” announced earlier this month, it should not be seen as a relaxation or opening up – and that the zero-covid policy is here to stay.

Days after the protests broke out, some local governments – such as those in Guangdong province – have relaxed their quarantine and lockdown policies in a move aiming to minimise impact on everyday life, apparently with Beijing’s blessing. Mainland China is one of the last places still pursuing a zero-tolerance policy on covid-19, which first emerged nearly three years ago in the city of Wuhan.

And killer robots join the police force… let’s stop the madness.

New study in the Journal of BioMedicine blames unvaxed for vaxed deaths | added December 1

Read more at Off Guardian

I mean, the headline says it all really. A study published in August in the Journal of BioMedicine actually claims in its abstract: Fear mongering and misinformation being peddled by people with no scientific training to terrorise people into staying unvaccinated is not just causing people to remain susceptible to viral outbreaks, but could also be causing more side effects seen in the vaccination process.

This brief review will offer data that may demonstrate that misinformation perpetuated by the anti-vaccination movement may be causing more deaths and side effects from any vaccine. Yes, apparently all those people suddenly dropping dead of heart attacks and strokes are being stressed into it by us anti-vaxxers warning them about heart attacks and strokes.

Now, if you’re thinking that’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard…well, you’re wrong. He’s done the research: A mini review of published literature has been conducted and found that mental stress clearly causes vasoconstriction and arterial constriction of the blood vessels. Therefore, if subjects are panicked, concerned, stressed or scared of the vaccination, their arteries will constrict and become smaller in and around the time of receiving the vaccine.

China says its ‘covid’ response is moving into a “new stage and mission” as ‘omicron’ variant subsides | added December 1

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China’s most senior official in charge of its covid response told health officials Wednesday that the country faced a “new stage and mission” in pandemic controls, state media Xinhua reported – potentially indicating an adjustment to Beijing’s “zero-covid” strategy which has sparked days of nationwide protests.

“With the decreasing toxicity of the Omicron variant, the increasing vaccination rate and the accumulating experience of outbreak control and prevention, China’s pandemic containment faces new stage and mission,” Sun Chunlan, China’s vice premier, said Wednesday, according to Xinhua.

Making no mention of “zero-covid,” her remarks, as reported by Xinhua, came a day after China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said the rectification of current pandemic measures is underway and local governments should “respond to and resolve the reasonable demands of the masses” in a timely manner.