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Dec 29, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bemildred , Dec 28 2020 20:13 utc | 9
Well, it's no way to run a country, lying your ass off all the time, as the results show. I have long been mystified by the political hacks here faith in the efficacy of bullshit for running a country. But then I realized that is not what they want to do, they want to exploit the country and get rich, and then depart like their 3rd world collaborators. And bullshit is what they do.
Dec 29, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Anthony Fauci says lockdowns are not possible in the United States (January 24):
When asked about the mass quarantine containment efforts underway in Wuhan, China back in January, Fauci dismissed the prospect of lockdowns ever coming to the United States :
"That's something that I don't think we could possibly do in the United States, I can't imagine shutting down New York or Los Angeles, but the judgement on the part of the Chinese health authorities is that given the fact that it's spreading throughout the provinces it's their judgement that this is something that in fact is going to help in containing it. Whether or not it does or does not is really open to question because historically when you shut things down it doesn't have a major effect."
Less than two months later, 43 of 50 US states were under lockdown – a policy advocated by Fauci himself.
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted against masks on February 29. Anthony Fauci publicly discouraged mask use in a nationally broadcast 60 Minutes interview on March 7. At a March 30 World Health Organization briefing its Director-General supported mask use in medical settings but dissuaded the same in the general public.
By mid-summer, all had reversed course and encouraged mask-wearing in the general public as an essential tool for halting the pandemic. Fauci essentially conceded that he lied to the public in order to prevent a shortage on masks, whereas other health officials did an about-face on the scientific claims around masking.
- Anthony Fauci 's decimal error in estimating Covid's fatality rates (March 11)
Fauci testified before Congress in early March where he was asked to estimate the severity of the disease in comparison to influenza. His testimony that Covid was "10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu" stoked widespread alarm and provided a major impetus for the decision to go into lockdown.
The problem, as Ronald Brown documented in an epidemiology journal article , is that Fauci based his estimates on a conflation of the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) and Case Fatality Rate (CFR) for influenza, leading him to exaggerate the comparative danger of Covid by an order of magnitude. Fauci's error – which he further compounded in a late February article for the New England Journal of Medicine – helped to convince Congress of the need for drastic lockdown measures, while also spreading panic in the media and general public. As of this writing Fauci has not acknowledged the magnitude of his error, nor has the journal corrected his article.
- Anthony Fauci credits lockdowns for beating the virus in Europe (July 31)
In late July Anthony Fauci offered additional testimony to Congress. His message credited Europe's heavy lockdowns with defeating the virus, whereas he blamed the United States for reopening too early and for insufficient aggressiveness in the initial lockdowns. As Fauci stated at the time, "If you look at what happened in Europe, when they shut down or locked down or went to shelter in place -- however you want to describe it -- they really did it to the tune of about 95% plus of the country did that."
The message was clear: the United States should have followed Europe, but failed to do so and got a summer wave of Covid instead. Fauci's entire argument however was based on a string of falsehoods and errors.
- Anthony Fauci touts New York as a model for Covid containment (June-December)
By all indicators, New York state has suffered one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world. Its year-end mortality rate of almost 1,900 deaths per million residents exceeds every single country in the world. The state famously bungled its nursing home response when Governor Andrew Cuomo forced these facilities to readmit Covid-positive patients as a way to relieve strains on hospitals. The policy backfired as most hospitals never reached capacity, but the readmissions introduced the virus into vulnerable nursing home populations resulting in widespread fatalities (to this day New York intentionally undercounts nursing home fatalities by excluding residents who are moved to a hospital from its reported numbers, further obscuring the true toll of Cuomo's order).
New York has also fared poorly during the fall "second wave" despite reimposing harsh restrictions and regional lockdown measures. By mid-December, its death rate shot far above the mostly-open state of Florida, which has the closest comparable population size to New York. All things considered, New York's weathering of the pandemic is an exemplar of what not to do.
Cuomo's policies not only failed to contain the virus – they likely made it far more deadly to vulnerable populations. Enter Anthony Fauci, who has been asked multiple times in the press what a model Covid response policy would look like. He gave his first answer on July 20th : "We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York."
Fauci was operating under the assumption that New York, despite its bad run in the spring, had successfully brought the pandemic under control through its aggressive lockdowns and slow reopening. One might think that the fall rebound in New York, despite locking down again, would call this conclusion into question. Not so much for Dr. Fauci, who told the Wall Street Journal on December 8 : "New York got hit really badly in the beginning" but they did "a really good job of keeping things down, and still, their level is low compared to the rest of the country."
Dec 28, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Twelve Times The 'Lockdowners' Were Wrong BY TYLER DURDEN SUNDAY, DEC 27, 2020 - 23:35
Authored by Phillip Magness via The American Institute for Economic Research,
This has been a year of astonishing policy failure. We are surrounded by devastation conceived and cheered by intellectuals and their political handmaidens...
The errors number in the thousands, so please consider the following little more than a first draft, a mere guide to what will surely be unearthed in the coming months and years. We trusted these people with our lives and liberties and here is what they did with that trust.
- Anthony Fauci says lockdowns are not possible in the United States (January 24):
When asked about the mass quarantine containment efforts underway in Wuhan, China back in January, Fauci dismissed the prospect of lockdowns ever coming to the United States :
"That's something that I don't think we could possibly do in the United States, I can't imagine shutting down New York or Los Angeles, but the judgement on the part of the Chinese health authorities is that given the fact that it's spreading throughout the provinces it's their judgement that this is something that in fact is going to help in containing it. Whether or not it does or does not is really open to question because historically when you shut things down it doesn't have a major effect."
Less than two months later, 43 of 50 US states were under lockdown – a policy advocated by Fauci himself.
- US government and WHO officials advise against mask use (February and March)
When mask sales spiked due to widespread individual adoption in the early weeks of the pandemic, numerous US government and WHO officials took to the airwaves to describe masks as ineffective and discourage their use.
https://lockerdome.com/lad/13084989113709670?pubid=ld-dfp-ad-13084989113709670-0&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&rid=www.zerohedge.com&width=830
Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted against masks on February 29. Anthony Fauci publicly discouraged mask use in a nationally broadcast 60 Minutes interview on March 7. At a March 30 World Health Organization briefing its Director-General supported mask use in medical settings but dissuaded the same in the general public.
By mid-summer, all had reversed course and encouraged mask-wearing in the general public as an essential tool for halting the pandemic. Fauci essentially conceded that he lied to the public in order to prevent a shortage on masks, whereas other health officials did an about-face on the scientific claims around masking.
While mainstream epidemiology literature stressed the ambiguous nature of evidence surrounding masks as recently as 2019 , these scientists were suddenly certain that masks were something of a magic bullet for Covid. It turns out that both positions are likely wrong. Masks appear to have marginal effects at diminishing spread, especially in highly infectious settings and around the vulnerable. But their effectiveness at combating Covid has also been grossly exaggerated, as illustrated by the fact that mask adoption reached near-universal levels in the US by the summer with little discernible effect on the course of the pandemic.
- Anthony Fauci 's decimal error in estimating Covid's fatality rates (March 11)
Fauci testified before Congress in early March where he was asked to estimate the severity of the disease in comparison to influenza. His testimony that Covid was "10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu" stoked widespread alarm and provided a major impetus for the decision to go into lockdown.
The problem, as Ronald Brown documented in an epidemiology journal article , is that Fauci based his estimates on a conflation of the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) and Case Fatality Rate (CFR) for influenza, leading him to exaggerate the comparative danger of Covid by an order of magnitude. Fauci's error – which he further compounded in a late February article for the New England Journal of Medicine – helped to convince Congress of the need for drastic lockdown measures, while also spreading panic in the media and general public. As of this writing Fauci has not acknowledged the magnitude of his error, nor has the journal corrected his article.
- "Two weeks to flatten the curve" (March 16)
The lockdowners settled on a catchy slogan in mid-March to justify their unprecedented shuttering of economic and social life around the globe: two weeks to flatten the curve. The White House Covid task force aggressively promoted this line , as did the news media and much of the epidemiology profession. The logic behind the slogan came from the ubiquitous graph showing (1) a steep caseload that would overwhelm our hospital system, or (2) a mitigated alternative that would spread the caseload out over several weeks, making it manageable.
To get to graph #2, society would need to buckle up for two weeks of shelter-in-place orders until the capacity issue could be managed. Indeed, we were told that if we did not accept this solution the hospital system would enter into catastrophic failure in only 10 days, as former DHS pandemic adviser Tom Bossert claimed in a widely-circulated interview and Washington Post column on March 11.
Two weeks came and went, then the rationale on which they were sold to the public shifted. Hospitals were no longer on the verge of being overwhelmed – indeed most hospitals nationwide remained well under capacity, with only a tiny number of exceptions in the worst-hit neighborhoods of New York City.
A US Navy hospital ship sent to relieve New York departed a month later after serving only 182 patients , and a pop-up hospital in the city's Javits Convention Center sat mostly empty . But the lockdowns remained in place, as did the emergency orders justifying them. Two weeks became a month, which became two months, which became almost a year. We were no longer "flattening the curve" – a strategy premised on saving the hospital system from a threat than never manifested – but instead refocused on using lockdowns as a general suppression strategy against the disease itself. In short, the epidemiology profession sold us a bill of goods.
- Neil Ferguson predicts a "best case" US scenario of 1.1 million deaths (March 20)
The name Neil Ferguson, the lead modeler and chief spokesman for Imperial College London's pandemic response team, has become synonymous with lockdown alarmism for good reason. Ferguson has a long track record of making grossly exaggerated predictions of catastrophic death tolls for almost every single disease that comes along, and urging aggressive policy responses to the same including lockdowns.
Covid was no different, and Ferguson assumed center stage when he released a highly influential model of the virus's death forecasts for the US and UK. Ferguson appeared with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on March 16 to announce the shift toward lockdowns (with no small irony, he was coming down with Covid himself at the time and may have been the patient zero of a super-spreader event that ran through Downing Street and infected Johnson himself).
Across the Atlantic, Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx cited Ferguson's model as a direct justification for locking down the US. There was a problem though: Ferguson had a bad habit of dramatically hyping his own predictions to political leaders and the press. The Imperial College paper modeled a broad range of scenarios including death tolls that ranged from tens of thousands to over 2 million, but Ferguson's public statements only stressed the latter – even though the paper itself conceded that such an extreme "worst case" scenario was highly unrealistic. A telling example came on March 20th when the New York Times's Nicholas Kristof contacted the Imperial College modeler to ask about the most likely scenario for the United States. As Kristof related to his readers, "I asked Ferguson for his best case. "About 1.1 million deaths," he said."
- Researchers in Sweden use the Imperial College model to predict 95,000 deaths (April 10)
After Neil Ferguson's shocking death toll predictions for the US and UK captivated policymaker attention and drove both governments into lockdown, researchers in other countries began adapting the Imperial College model to their own circumstances. Usually, these models sought to reaffirm the decisions of each country to lock down. The government of Sweden, however, had decided to buck the trend, setting the stage for a natural experiment to test the Imperial model's performance.
In early April a team of researchers at Uppsala University adapted the Imperial model to Sweden's population and demographics and ran its projections. Their result? If Sweden stayed the course and did not lock down, it could expect a catastrophic 96,000 deaths by early summer. The authors of the study recommended going into immediate lockdown, but since Sweden lagged behind Europe in adopting such measures they also predicted that this "best case" option would reduce deaths to "only" 30,000.
By early June when the 96,000 prediction was supposed to come true, Sweden had recorded 4,600 deaths. Six months later, Sweden has about 8,000 deaths – a severe pandemic to be sure, but an order of magnitude smaller than what the modelers predicted . Facing embarrassment from these results, Ferguson and Imperial College attempted to distance themselves from the Swedish adaptation of their model in early May. Yet the Uppsala team's projections closely matched Imperial's own UK and US predictions when scaled to reflect their population sizes. In short, the Imperial model catastrophically failed one of the few clear natural experiment tests of its predictive ability.
- Scientists suggest that ocean spray spreads Covid (April 2)
In the second week of the lockdowns several newspapers in California promoted a bizarre theory: Covid could spread by ocean spray (although the paper later walked back the headline-grabbing claim, it is outlined here in the Los Angeles Times ). According to this theory – initially promoted by a group of biologists who study bacterial infection connected to storm runoff – the Covid virus washed down storm gutters and into the ocean, where the ocean breeze would kick it up into the air and infect people on the nearby beaches. As silly as this theory now sounds, it helped to inform California's initially draconian enforcement of lockdowns on its public beaches.
The same week that this modern-day miasmic drift theory appeared, police in Malibu even arrested a lone paddleboarder for going into the ocean during the lockdown – all while citing the possibility that the ocean breeze carried Covid with it.
- Neil Ferguson predicts catastrophic death tolls in US states that reopen (May 24)
Fresh off of their exaggerated predictions from March, the Imperial College team led by Neil Ferguson doubled down on alarmist modeling. As several US states started to reopen in late April and May, Ferguson and his colleagues published a new model predicting another catastrophic wave of deaths by the mid-summer. Their model focused on 5 states with both moderate and severe outbreaks during the first wave. If they reopened, according to the Imperial team's model, New York could face up to 3,000 deaths per day by July.
Florida could hit as high as 4,000, and California could hit 5,000 daily deaths. Keeping in mind that these projections were for each state alone, they exceed the daily death toll peaks for the entire country in both the fall and spring. Showing just how bad the Imperial model was, the actual death toll by mid-July in several of the examined states even fell below the lower confidence boundary of its projected count . While Covid remains a threat in all 5 states, the post-reopening explosion of deaths predicted by Imperial College and used to argue for keeping the lockdowns in place never happened.
- Anthony Fauci credits lockdowns for beating the virus in Europe (July 31)
In late July Anthony Fauci offered additional testimony to Congress. His message credited Europe's heavy lockdowns with defeating the virus, whereas he blamed the United States for reopening too early and for insufficient aggressiveness in the initial lockdowns. As Fauci stated at the time, "If you look at what happened in Europe, when they shut down or locked down or went to shelter in place -- however you want to describe it -- they really did it to the tune of about 95% plus of the country did that."
The message was clear: the United States should have followed Europe, but failed to do so and got a summer wave of Covid instead. Fauci's entire argument however was based on a string of falsehoods and errors.
Mobility data from the US clearly showed that most Americans were staying home during the spring outbreak, with a recorded decline that matched Germany, the Netherlands, and several other European countries. Contrary to Fauci's claim, the US was actually slower than most of Europe to reopen. Furthermore, his praise of Europe collapsed in the early fall when almost all of the lockdown countries in Europe experienced severe second waves – just like the locked down regions of the United States.
- New Zealand and Australia declare themselves Covid-free (August-present)
New Zealand and Australia have thus far weathered the pandemic with extremely low case counts, leading many epidemiologists and journalists to conflate these results with evidence of their successful and replicable mitigation policies. In reality, New Zealand and Australia opted for the medieval ' Prince Prospero' strategy of attempting to wall themselves from the world until the pandemic passes – an approach that is highly dependent on their unique geographies.
As island nations with comparatively lower international travel than North America and Europe, both countries shut down their borders before the as-of-yet undetected virus became widespread and have remained closed ever since. It's a costly strategy in terms of its economic impact and personal displacement, but it kept the virus out – mostly.
The problem with New Zealand and Australia's Prince Prospero strategy is that it's inherently fragile. All it takes to throw it into chaos is for the virus to slip past the border – including by accident or human error. Then heavy-handed lockdowns ensue, imposed with maximum disruption at the spur of the moment in a frantic attempt to contain the breach.
The most famous example happened on August 9 when New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared that New Zealand had reached 100 days of being Covid-free . Then just two days later a breach happened , sending Auckland into heavy lockdown. It's a pattern that has repeated itself every few weeks in both countries.
In early December, we saw a similar flurry of stories from Australia announcing that the country had beaten Covid . Two weeks later, another breach occurred in the suburbs around Sydney, prompting a regional lockdown . There have been embarrassing missteps as well. In November the entire state of South Australia went into heavy lockdown over a single misreported case of Covid that was mistakenly attributed to a pizza purchase that did not exist. While both countries continue to celebrate their low fatality rates, they've also incurred some of the harshest and most disruptive restrictions in the world – all the result of premature declarations of being "Covid-free" followed by an unexpected breach and another frantic lockdown.
- "Renewed lockdowns are just a strawman" (October)
In early October a group of scientists met at AIER where they drafted and signed the Great Barrington Declaration , a statement calling attention to the severe social and economic harms of lockdowns and urging the world to adopt alternative strategies for ensuring the protection of the most vulnerable. Although the statement quickly gathered tens of thousands of co-signers from health science and medical professionals, it also left the lockdown supporters incensed. They responded not by scientific debate over the merits of their policies, but with a vilification campaign .
They answered by flooding the petition with hoax signatures and juvenile name-calling, and by peddling wildly false conspiracy theories about AIER's funding (the primary instigator of both tactics, ironically, was a UK blogger known for promoting 9/11 Truther conspiracies ). But the lockdowners also adopted another narrative: they began to deny that lockdowns were even on the table.
Nobody was considering bringing back the lockdowns from the spring, they insisted. Arguing against the politically unpopular shelter-in-place orders in the fall only served the purpose of undermining public support for narrower and more temperate restrictions. The Great Barrington authors, we were told, were arguing with a "strawman" from the past.
Over the next several weeks in October a dozen or more prominent epidemiologists, public health experts, and journalists peddled the "lockdowns are a strawman" line . The "strawman" claim saw promotion in top outlets including the New York Times , and in an op-ed by two principle co-signers of the John Snow Memorandum, a competing petition that lockdown supporters drafted as a response to the Great Barrington Declaration.
The message was clear: the GBD was sounding a false alarm against policies from the past that the lockdowners "reluctantly" supported in the spring as an emergency measure but had no intention of reviving. By early November, the "strawman" of renewed lockdowns became a reality in dozens of countries across the globe – often cheered on by the very same people who used the "strawman" canard in October.
Several US states followed suit including California, which imposed severe restrictions on private gatherings up to and including meeting your own family for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And a few weeks after that, some of the very same epidemiologists who used the "strawman" line in October revised their own positions after the fact. They started claiming they had supported a second lockdown all along, and began blaming the GBD for impeding their efforts to impose them at an earlier date. In short, the entire "lockdowns are a strawman" narrative was false. And it now appears that more than a few of the scientists who used it were actively lying about their own intentions in October.
- Anthony Fauci touts New York as a model for Covid containment (June-December)
By all indicators, New York state has suffered one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world. Its year-end mortality rate of almost 1,900 deaths per million residents exceeds every single country in the world. The state famously bungled its nursing home response when Governor Andrew Cuomo forced these facilities to readmit Covid-positive patients as a way to relieve strains on hospitals. The policy backfired as most hospitals never reached capacity, but the readmissions introduced the virus into vulnerable nursing home populations resulting in widespread fatalities (to this day New York intentionally undercounts nursing home fatalities by excluding residents who are moved to a hospital from its reported numbers, further obscuring the true toll of Cuomo's order).
New York has also fared poorly during the fall "second wave" despite reimposing harsh restrictions and regional lockdown measures. By mid-December, its death rate shot far above the mostly-open state of Florida, which has the closest comparable population size to New York. All things considered, New York's weathering of the pandemic is an exemplar of what not to do.
Cuomo's policies not only failed to contain the virus – they likely made it far more deadly to vulnerable populations. Enter Anthony Fauci, who has been asked multiple times in the press what a model Covid response policy would look like. He gave his first answer on July 20th : "We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York."
Fauci was operating under the assumption that New York, despite its bad run in the spring, had successfully brought the pandemic under control through its aggressive lockdowns and slow reopening. One might think that the fall rebound in New York, despite locking down again, would call this conclusion into question. Not so much for Dr. Fauci, who told the Wall Street Journal on December 8 : "New York got hit really badly in the beginning" but they did "a really good job of keeping things down, and still, their level is low compared to the rest of the country."
Dec 27, 2020 | www.rt.com
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the epidemiologist revered almost religiously as a hero by mainstream media outlets and Democrat politicians, has admitted that he lied to Americans to manipulate their acceptance of a new Covid-19 vaccine.The intentional deception involved estimates for what percentage of the population will need to be immunized to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 and enable a return to normalcy.
Earlier this year, Fauci said 60-70 percent – a typical range for such a virus – but he moved the goalposts to 70-75 percent in television interviews about a month ago. Last week, he told CNBC that the magic number would be around "75, 80, 85 percent."
When pressed on the moving target in a New York Times interview , Fauci said he purposely revised his estimates gradually. The newspaper, which posted the article on Thursday, said Fauci changed his answers partly based on "science" and partly on his hunch "that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks."
"When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent," Fauci said.
Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85.
Fauci added that he doesn't know the real number but believes the range is 70-90 percent. He said it may take nearly 90 percent, but he won't give that number because Americans might be discouraged, knowing that voluntary acceptance won't be high enough to reach that goal.
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But the doctor's changing story on herd immunity is only the latest in a series of Covid-19 flip-flops, including 180-degree shifts on such core issues as whether members of the general public should wear masks and whether children should be sent back to school.
Just as his tone on herd immunity changed, his view on prospects for a return to normalcy shifted dramatically. A few days before the November 3 presidential election, he echoed Biden's gloomy Covid-19 outlook and implied that the Democrat challenger would deal with the crisis more seriously than President Donald Trump. After the election, he turned far more optimistic.
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"This is not the first time that Fauci has admitted to deceiving the public for utilitarian purposes in regard to coronavirus," journalist Ari Hoffman tweeted . Another observer agreed, pointing out Fauci's flip-flop on masks. "The fact that people still listen to these experts is the most worrying thing," he said.
Setting expectations for getting economic activity back to normal is virtually impossible without realistic projections for the vaccination rate that would provide herd immunity. Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser for the Trump administration's vaccine rollout, said in late November that "true herd immunity" would take place without about 70 percent of Americans being inoculated, which might be achieved by sometime in May 2021.
Fauci's admitted Covid-19 deception is symptomatic of how government officials "infantilize the American people," one commenter said . "We're going to be in trouble when we don't have Trump to blame everything on and people have to find a way to cope."
Marek Weglinski 22 hours ago 24 Dec, 2020 09:09 PM
Dr. FRAUDCI is the face of chaotic, contradictory and completely bungled approach to this pandemic, in the country which infamously claims the top spot of the number of the dead and infected. Not any hero (what did he contribute beside the lies and misinformation?), and definitely nothing to celebrate. His leadership and that of most other decision makers', thoroughly failed the American people, during this challenging time. The real heroes are the UNKNOWN, -those who put their lives on line to save others (mostly medical personnel).It's me 23 hours ago 24 Dec, 2020 08:32 PMAnd the next day, Dr Fraudci did a video: Had a good nights sleep, but the arm was a bit sore (grabbing his RIGHT arm) but it's not that bad. Really, you can't remember which arm you got Jabbed after 1 day. Normally you can't move the arm that gets jabbed with a needle without a lot of pain.ClairvoyantHW It's me 4 hours ago 25 Dec, 2020 03:39 PMI don't unterstand why they can't use a real placebo in the studies when Fauci just recieved one..Arian1 It's me 18 hours ago 25 Dec, 2020 01:47 AMIt was a sugary solution. He is a demente
Dec 27, 2020 | www.youtube.com
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Healthy JeanSUBSCRIBE If you want to find out more about the #casedemic https://healthyjean.com/corona/ . Sorry, but I do not have more context about this video. I will tell you that Kary hated Fauci because Fauci is one of the main people behind the AIDS scam. Read here straight from Kary's website https://www.karymullis.com/pdf/On_AID... On AIDS Regarding AIDS I have published a hypothesis wherein the Retroviridae in general, rather than a particular species, is the problem. This was published in Genetica 95:195- 197, 1995. It offers a mechanism for how the disease develops, and importantly makes predictions that can be experimentally confirmed or falsified easily in rodents. This hypothesis may or may not be true but it illustrates the nature of a useful scientific hypothesis. This is in contrast to the current AIDS establishment's "It's the virus, stupid!" No experiments were ever done or even suggested to test the HIV hypothesis. The fact that antiretroviral therapies may prolong the lives of some people infected with retroviruses says nothing more than the fact, that. in other cases they are not at all useful. Something is going on here that we don't understand. Scientists have to keep that in mind. If you want to see another great video on this topic of Kary then go https://youtu.be/zYYmpT2y7Io . It talks about how the PCR is not really a test. He clearly states the PCR is not being misused. What Fauci and the others are doing is amplifying the tests beyond what should be done. The issue is they use these results as is they are meaningful is the problem. He also states that the measurement is not exact. He is clearly talking about how the results are being used to say someone has AIDS when they clearly do not. Again, the interpretations are the issue. The PCR not meant to diagnose, period.Carolyn Gutman Dey , 2 weeks agoExcellent. Thanks for the video. I'd just like to throw this reminder out there re: the title of the video. PCR is not a test.
Here is a link to a larger excerpt of this interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifgAvXU3ts However, this isn't the entire interview. I will try to find the entire interview.... everyone start searching. In any case, I think THIS part of it might not be in the link I just posted (I haven't checked yet). Because a few months ago I watched this video and I don't remember him going after Fauci this hard. But I will rewatch it to see. We need to find the original video interview as a whole, that would be best.
Dec 25, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Thanks in part to a massive investment in research by the British government, a lot of interesting data has come out of the UK, including a study which supposedly found evidence that immunity to COVID 'degrades' in the months after infection . Now, other studies have come to seemingly contradictory conclusions . It's just another reminder how fraught and complicated the process of study and research can be during an unprecedented pandemic.
It should also be a reminder, particularly as all the world's top COVID-vaccine manufacturers reassure the public that their vaccines will work against the more infectious mutated strains allegedly discovered in the UK and South Africa, among other places, that the leading scientific and public health authorities aren't always 100% certain when it comes to - as they like to call it - "the science".
And in yet another reminder of this principle, the American Medical Association's JAMA Network Open journal has published new research from a government-backed study that appears to offer new evidence that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 may be significantly lower than previously thought.
Some members of the public might remember all the way back in February and January when public officials first speculated that mass mask-wearing might not be that helpful unless individuals were actually sick. They famously back-tracked on that, and - for that, and other reasons - decided that we should all wear masks, and that lockdowns were more or less the best solution to the problem, even as millions of Americans continued to flout the new "rules" daily.
But for those who don't, this paper makes one thing clear: For all the talk in the press about asymptomatic people being infectious, which included a heavy-handed rebuke of a WHO scientist who nonchalantly said a few months back that asymptomatic people don't spread the virus as effectively, there haven't been many large-sample-size longer-term studies that study how "asymptomatic" patients actually spread the virus vs. how "symptomatic" patients do, since most public health agencies don't even collect data on whether people who test positive are asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, or symptomatic (a specification which, as most people probably know by now, can vary widely).
Since the pandemic has only been ongoing for less than a year now, researchers have instead tried conducting "meta studies" - that is, comparing data collected in dozens of studies examining some aspect of the virus's functionality. In the paper noted above which examined 54 separate studies with nearly 78K total participants, the authors claim that "The lack of substantial transmission from observed asymptomatic index cases is notable...These findings are consistent with other household studies reporting asymptomatic index cases as having limited role in household transmission."
This is of course not the first time we have heard this. Aside from the WHO scientist example cited above, two British scientists recently published an editorial in the BMJ imploring scientists to rethink how the virus spreads "asymptomatically".
They pointed to "the absence of strong evidence that asymptomatic people are a driver of transmission" as a reason to question such practices as "mass testing in schools, universities, and communities."
That's not to say that asymptomatic people can't spread the virus, it's just to say that maybe there is a significant difference in risk levels in terms of exposure . Of course, public health officials at this point seem to be afraid to acknowledge anything that questions the notion that everybody is potentially a threat. To be clear, the WHO's current guidance on the issue is that "while someone who never develops symptoms can also pass the virus to others, it is still not clear to what extent this occurs, and more research is needed in this area" - but at this point, they have changed their guidance and flip-flopped so many times, who even knows, understands or cares what they say?
Anyway, it's just some more food for thought next time somebody tries to lecture you about "the science".
adr 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link
valjoux7750 1 hour agoAsymptomatic people can not spread a viral infection.
This was considered fact until 2020.
Robespierre2020 23 minutes agoFriend of mine passed away from non covid illness and the hospital offered to pay all his medical bills if allowed to record as covid. His wife accepted.
Itchy and Scratchy 1 hour agoThey will never, ever admit that asymptomatic actually means false positive. They must keep the case count up at all costs to keep stoking the fear.
Newstarmistagain 1 hour agoThe Big Lie is mutating quickly! Hide the women & children!
PanGlossius 1 hour agoAnybody else get the feeling that this coronavirus nonsense is really nothing more than a huge Pavlovian experiment being conducted on the entire population? You do realize that Pavlov's dogs ended up catatonic, and in a state of perpetual fear, eh goiyim cattle?
namrider 1 hour ago remove linkRight on. This smells like the brute simplicity of Skinner or Pavlov programming. Crude, careless, short time horizon. Like the practitioners are just running out the clock.
MrBoompi 33 minutes agoConflicting reports and information because it = PSYOP
jomama 46 minutes agoWhat is a "covid patient"? Someone who tested positive? The pcr test doesn't detect live viruses. Why would someone who is not sick, aka asymptomatic, be considered a patient?
This is the fraud we are enduring.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
Out of ~10,000,000 people observed, not a single case of asymptomatic transmission.
This lie has the been premise for healthy people to wear masks.
Reject the authoritarianism immediately.
Dec 21, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Do mask mandates work? As we've noted repeatedly in recent months, evidence is piling up that they do not .
According to analysis by data expert Justin Hart, who has been following COVID-19 data for months , demonstrated in a Sunday Twitter thread that states with mask mandates had a greater number of COVID cases per 100,000 people than states without mandates .
See thread below:
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And while there were some objections to Hart's analysis - such as whether there might be bias towards getting tested for mask-wearers, or regional differences in population density, many of the replies to Hart's thread support his findings:
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And a hypothesis:
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Maybe the CDC, WHO, Dr. Fauci and the Surgeon General were right in February when they said masks don't work? On the other hand, they're so useful for other things...
Dec 21, 2020 | twitter.com
Kevin McKernan @Kevin_McKernan Dec 14
It's an intuitive hypothesis Since the mask doesn't kill virus, it just collects them reversing your natural defenses of expelling virus with large droplets that hit earth. The mask accelerates evaporation through capillary action making smaller droplets 2 allow deep inhalation.Kevin McKernan @Kevin_McKernan Dec 14In effect, the masks are a viral trampoline making the virus exponentially more infective and reaching deeper into more thrombotic tissue. Some evidence Kanas jumped on this trampoline in the summer.DeFauw @jdefauw Dec 14
Zacharias Fögen @ZachariasFoegen · Dec 14 You can translate the german intro with google if you want. The study is written in English. https:// reitschuster.de/post/studie-er hoehen-die-masken-die-sterblichkeit/Replying to@Kevin_McKernan Dec 14@Kevin_McKernan At best, we can say for aerosolized virus that mask does nothing. At worst, worse after mask saturation. For non-aerosolized virus, it would actually do some good. On the other hand, airborne transmission of this type is minimal. Handwashing, good hygiene take care of the rest.Eric @emckinney9134 Dec 14Replying to@Kevin_McKernan Dec 14@Kevin_McKernan Interesting paper. It's somewhat difficult to disambiguate increased CFR from the Foegen effect or another confounding variable (e.g., poor aseptic technique). The mathematical comparison does a good job normalizing the two groups. Plotting as a function of time may be of use.
Dec 17, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Much heralded COVID-19 model-student South Korea saw new infections with the virus rise again to more than 1,000 cases per day, dramatically higher than during the first wave in February and March.
Here's CNN : "In Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan and other Asian nations, mask wearing is uncontroversial, near universal, and has been proven effective ..."
Here's Forbes : " What South Korea teaches us is that ... mass production and distribution of face masks and the promotion of their use, are winning strategies in this battle. "
Here's NYTimes : "The country showed that it is possible to contain the coronavirus without shutting down the economy... Television broadcasts, subway station announcements and smartphone alerts provide endless reminders to wear face masks ..."
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has hailed South Korea as demonstrating that containing the virus, while difficult, "can be done." He urged countries to "apply the lessons learned in Korea and elsewhere."
As Statista's Willem Roper notes , the country has been praised extensively for reducing cases of COVID-19 , but a continuously climbing case count shows how the threat of new outbreaks looms even after flattening the curve (twice before).
After a second outbreak in August and September was squashed, South Korea had already tightened restrictions again.
The highest number of daily new cases in the initial wave was recorded at 813 on Feb 29.
https://610bc4ea67a8d8ec5db4f06859c42979.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
You will find more infographics at Statista
Still, these cases being recorded now are only a sliver of those detected daily in the U.S. and Europe. There, daily new case counts of COVID-19 are still in the tens of thousands... so keep wearing your masks!!!
🔥 🔥 🔥!!!!
This is insane! Every country that introduced mandatory masks had their case numbers explode after!! Mask don't work!
Retweet!!!! pic.twitter.com/3VssX0WK4V
-- The Epigenetic Whisperer 👉The Bodhisattva Bastard (@epigwhisp) December 16, 2020
ebworthen 14 hours ago (Edited)
skizex 14 hours agoBecause masks don't do a beaver dam thing.
Never have, never will. Especially not "surgical" masks, or cloth rags.
Symbolic only. Symbolic for oppression of the individual and the freedom of choice.
afronaut 13 hours agoand makes beaver eatin difficult if not downright unpleasant.
Billy the Poet 13 hours ago (Edited)Thats submissive and unhygienic
xious 11 hours agoHas it gotten cold enough yet for masks to start freezing to the faces of folks out in the wind waiting for a bus?
hawkinsse6543 7 hours ago (Edited)In the summer, I almost drowned in one. Then I quit my job the next day. Haven't worn a mask from that day, and never will again.
artless 2 hours agoPoint three percent according to a Danish Study
.3% effective
I heard zinc impregnated masks work so it will increase effectiveness to what? I'm Too lazy to do the mathSunshine, D3, Tonic Water, C, wash hands (only thing proposed I agree with) moderate preventives not a cure. But the virus goes where it goes and lets promote stopping smoke with a chicken wire fence.
Arising 2.0 13 hours ago99.8% survival rate or as we say in there real world...
a cold virus. A flu.
all BS from day one.
exactly correct about sunshine, D3 ( also known as sunshine) and if really concerned a zinc supplement as prophylaxis along with all the Vit C you want. Same as every winter as all my 51 years. Currently on a 36-38 years streak of NEVER having a flu and I have worked in every possible situation in which I should have gotten sick. Never have. never will.
dude675 13 hours agoMasks are the elites pointing and saying 'look there' with the their right hand while stealing wealth, your freedoms and your capacity to fight back with their left hand.
metaforge 10 hours agoWag the dog
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoChoke the Chinkkkkk
trailer park boys 13 hours agoWe're all prisoners of China, forced into solitary confinement with matching outfits.
JuliaS 13 hours ago (Edited)If masks worked, that box of masks you bought at the drug store or online would say so. They don't. In fact, just the opposite, disclaiming any protection against any virus, including covid.
Slaytheist 13 hours agoMasks and lockdowns worked. They weakened immunity to the point where a common cold now puts a person in a coma.
afronaut 13 hours agoFvcking NPC yelling at people to put a scrap of cotton on their face to contain a virus, because the science is settled. Maybe eugenics isn't a 100% bad thing.
skizex 12 hours agoI loved the eugenics program.
metaforge 10 hours agoTheir's is Psyience not Science.
here's some good info this damn maskuerade
Public Health articles by Colleen Huber, NMD
Censorship vs the science regarding masks, 10/29/2020
(Co-authored) Masks: False safety and real dangers,
Part 2 : Masks and microbial challenges, 10/14/2020
(Co-authored) Masks: False safety and real dangers,
Part 1 : Loose fibers and particulate, 9/23/2020
COVID-19 is a lack of nutrients, exploited by a virus 8/27/2020
Masks are neither effective nor safe, 7/6/2020 <meta study
freedommusic 10 hours agoFree lead for NPCs! That's a government program I could get behind.
Fireman 8 hours agoMasks can't stop a psyop.
They can only measure it's effectiveness.
chemist46 7 hours agoBest comment today!
Grand Solar Minimum 4 hours agoHow can they possibly work?
They are NOT designed to stop particles as small as a virus.
Surgical masks were not designed as filters and were not intended to be used as filters. Surgical masks were designed to be used by surgeons standing face down over an operating table holding a patient with an open wound. The surgeon wearing the mask would be able to talk to others in the room without discharging spittle droplets into the patient's wound. Spittle droplets are large and can cause infection.
I witnessed a test of surgical masks. Small plaster particles were generated in a room. They were visible as a white dust in the air. A man was properly fitted with a surgical mask and spent a short time in the room. When he came out the mask was removed. A camera was focused on the man's face. The entire area that had been covered by the mask was coated by the white dust. The camera showed that his nostrils and his mouth had been penetrated by the white dust. The dust particles were measured and found to be around 40 micrometers in diameter. The particles that penetrated the mask were the same diameter.
Covid-19 virus molecules are about 0.1 micrometers in diameter. That is 400 times smaller than the plaster particles that penetrated the mask.
Surgical masks will not prevent the wearer from inhaling or exhaling viruses or bacteria. They provide absolutely no protection for either the wearer or anyone nearby. They create a very dangerous false sense of security for everyone. They also force the wearer to rebreath carbon dioxide. Which will over time reduce the wearers blood oxygen level. That can become very dangerous especially for older people.
This farce is being promoted by sleazy politicians who believe that if they can convince people that they are protecting them or creating a safe environment for them by pushing this mask farce those people will re-elect them.
All politicians pushing this dangerous mask farce should be voted out of office as soon as possible.
Nature_Boy_Wooooo 13 hours agoMinor correction.
All politicians pushing this dangerous mask farce should be jailed soon as possible.
That's better.
@Amen 13 hours agoThey rushed mask science out faster than the vaccine.
Worse...they debunked actual science done on N95 masks 4 years ago that said masks don't work..... without a single scientific experiment.
They should never have lowered the bar for education.
FightClubPanties 13 hours agoIt's not the masks. USA and most western countries forced their citizens to wear them, most of them do, without visible results. Could it be that drinking green tea and taking zinc really helps? (ZH wrote about it months ago). Everyone can get the virus, mask or no mask, but the difference in consequences is quite startling.
In Deaths per million population, the leader is Belgium, with 1,582 / million, USA is in 12th place, with 958 per million.
In South East Asia:
Japan 22 deaths per million,
Hong Kong 16
South Korea 13
Singapore 5
Vietnam 0.4
Taiwan 0.3
(Data from www.worldometers.info as of today).
Boosting one's immune system from cheap and easy-accessible sources would not make the elite and big corporations rich, nor make the would be dictators in governments and regulatory agencies so powerful, second to God.
So, we keep dying, destroying our economy, and voting for the mass murderers again and again.
Happy 2021!
@Amen 12 hours ago (Edited)Whadda bout ChyNa?
halcyon 10 hours agoChina has 3 deaths per million, you make the judgement about the accuracy of their reporting. Nevertheless, they drink mostly green tea and eat stuff rich in zinc. And they have undestricted partying for months now, even in Wuhan.
Link to the past ZH article from last august is
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-08-05/hydroxychloroquine-and-coronavirus
and, so far, it works for me here in Canada. Costco supplies green tea (from Japan) and Walmart zinc tablets, about 6 bucks for three months worth of prevention. And I don't plan to take the vaccine, even if its free here.
Snaffew16 10 hours agoIMASK+ PROPHYLAXIS PROTOCOL
https://covid19criticalcare.com/i-mask-prophylaxis-treatment-protocol/
Table 6. I-MASK+ Prophylaxis & Early Outpatient Treatment Protocol for COVID-19
PROPHYLAXIS PROTOCOL MEDICATION
lvermectin RECOMMENDED DOSING
Vitamin D3 Vitamin C Quercetin Zinc MelatoninWorks!
KirkPatrickN 7 hours agoIt's quite obvious that people should be exposing themselves to this predominantly non lethal virus as much as possible. Herd immunity has likely already been achieved here in the US and globally, but there is so much money to be made on these untested, genome altering vaccines that they will not stop the propaganda. The incredible surge in power and control over the populations has also enabled them to up their game in regards to ripping every freedom imaginable from the populace and stepping the bullsh*it up to hyperdrive---
If you have already tested positive, then there is absolutely zero reason to get a vaccine. if you had just recovered from the flu, do you run out and get a flu vaccine? Nope...there is no reason to.
afronaut 13 hours agoEven if masks worked for more than the first few minutes, that would mean we'd become dependent on them.
Cobra Commander 12 hours agoFvk I've had enough of this ****.
metaforge 10 hours ago"This tweet is from a suspended account. "
Thanks for nothing, Twitter. I just wanted to see the graph comparing mask wear with positive cases.
Oh, is that too dangerous for me to see?
Cobra!
louie1 PREMIUM 12 hours agoWow when even Cobra Commander calls someone evil? They MUST be evil.
Cobra!
Corn Popp 12 hours ago (Edited)If you are at risk then take precautions. Everyone else- get on with life and tell the government to go **** themselves.
metaforge 10 hours agoThe corporations wont do that. and people have to work. There are not enough jobs outside those businesses. and those businesses are forcing employees to wear face diapers or get fired. It has to be a top down movement against the progenitors and they must be held accountable, otherwise none of the states and business will follow thru to restore individual rights
Tigbits 13 hours agoOnly good comment I've seen from a premium tagged Kappo yet.
Corn Popp 13 hours ago (Edited)Amazing that after nine months they still want to keep beating the mask drum. Exhausting.
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoI'm sure you are aware by now that all it ever was is a clear sign of your submission to them. As well as a training tool to get you to accept whatever they push on you...ie..mandatory vaxxing for sterilization, control and culling.....the next step. Well, and to have a good laugh and masturbate to misery and suffering. It's what gets them off
Alan Cruiser 11 hours agoRead the ZH article on the nurse collapsing and sort by Worst comments.
These people pushing vaccines will literally giggle as you drop dead.
Taffer 12 hours agoThe conclusion is wrong, if cases are still climbing so much, then apparently the masks don't work because everybody is already wearing them. I am getting so tired of the nonsense.
halcyon 11 hours agoLiberal God Fauci in April: "Masks don't work! Only healthcare workers need to wear them or even should be wearing them."
Liberal Keebler elf Fauci in May: "Masks work! Everyone should be wearing a mask!"
Seriously, you can't make lies on this level up. The man says this on national tv, calls himself an expert, and the useful idiots lap it up like CNN propaganda.
Patmos 13 hours agoFauci co-authored a paper in 2008 that showed that napkin wearing increased prevalence of bacterial pneumonia.
Maybe he just forgot about it...
FightClubPanties 13 hours agoPsychological warfare techniques from The Cold War to The War on Terror, compared to COVID restrictions:
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1327119271047159812
But ignore that, because this is all about safety. [/sarcasm]
Oh-Globits 14 hours agogo look at the compliance rates for Covid-Burqas. The US is among the very highest compliance.
afronaut 13 hours agoWear a face diaper...it's patriotic!
KirkPatrickN 8 hours ago (Edited)It looks like underwear to me. I'd be too embarrassed to put one on in public. Its dirty and looks retarded
Mrgior31513 14 hours agoI've never worn one. My (no) mask is to protect YOU (from tyranny).
FightClubPanties 14 hours agoMasks are simply worse for a blatantly obvious reason: they provide false confidence and therefor breed irresponsible behavior from the perceived sense of safety.
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoReusing any mask defeats the claimed purpose. And everybody is wearing filthy pieces of cloth; stuffing in their purses, pants, fingering them on and off.
Tom Angle 5 hours ago (Edited)Some people hang them on their rear view mirror and I saw one with several shades of lipstick on the inside.
I'd like to see a bacterial analysis of these masks people are wearing, and see them under a black light.
Pater-Mater 7 hours agohttps://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
"We did not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza transmission, either when worn by infected persons (source control) or by persons in the general community to reduce their susceptibility ( Figure 2 ). However, as with hand hygiene, face masks might be able to reduce the transmission of other infections and therefore have value in an influenza pandemic when healthcare resources are stretched."
It was known from the beginning. Are you tired of the lies and tyrrany yet? Stand up like men and stop it.
Cincinnatuus 9 hours agoA 2008 study in Turkey showed a significant reduction in oxygen intake or rather carbon monoxide respiration. This directly lowers the immune system making infection much more likely. Do circumvent this oxygen is pumped into operating rooms..
Secondly, in medical practice the mask is changed every twenty minutes and not touched at all. This is now followed.
Lastly, the virus has mutated to a benign form, it is highly likely that everyone has it, thusly the likelihood of any further great event or health crisis is next to none. Aannd, RLF-100 trial will be over soon, it's already proven effective, it's cheap, there are no long term consequences, it will cure nearly all intensive care situations.. the propaganda is obvious.
KirkPatrickN 7 hours agoThe number of cases of the China Flu is inversely proportional with the number of hours of sunlight.
Supplement your Vitamin D (5,000 IU), and when you get it, you won't even know you had it!
Obake158 11 hours agoExactly. Cold symptoms ARE Vitamin D deficiency. Covid victims have proven to be deficient. Staying inside and wearing masks outside only hurt matters (you shameless, shivering RETARDS).
What's the best natural source of, or supplement for Vitamin D?
metaforge 10 hours agoSo I can see the plan from the Globohomos already. They are going to lower the PCR test thresholds from 45 to 20 and claim that the vaccine has substantially lessened the severity and prevalence of Democrat Meme Flu. The cat is out of the bag now regarding the fake testing regimen and people are waking up to the PCR testing amplification thresholds being set way too high thus a massive wave of false positives. My state tests at 45 cycles. Anything over around 20 renders the test useless with so much background noise as to almost ensure everyone testing will be positive for viral RNA. So here is the next leg of their plan, mass inoculate the fearful NPCs and then claim success while quietly manipulating the testing regimen.
Dash8 6 hours agoMy state's "cases" were already dropping fast from the "winter peak" even before the BS vaccine. So that won't fly here, even if they try it.
KirkPatrickN 4 hours ago (Edited)Masks are for virtue signalling libtards.
The end.
AVmaster 13 hours agoMasks never would have become a thing had we not let all the women become obese parasites. For years the grocery store has been depressing as countless women of every race scramble to buy free things with their EBT cards while hating on wh ite men. These creatures willingly covered their faces because they are embarrassed to be seen.
Fizzy Head 14 hours ago"The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has hailed South Korea as demonstrating that containing the virus, while difficult, "can be done.""
Umm... we are way past the phase of containment...
... covid 19 is everywhere in the world...
wtf are you really talking about you idiots...
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoSo what happens when the ICU nurses become the patients? Well now we have a problem...
JuliaS 10 hours ago (Edited)It's called flu season.
KirkPatrickN 7 hours agoYou could've had a functioning economy and a disease. You chose only the disease. Now the healthy won't be able to help the sick, and will see how long the saved grandma will last after her grandkids commit suicide due to depression, or overdose on drugs.
Thanks for saving the world.
Lore 12 hours agoIt's the equivalent of a pilot of a loaded jumbo jet announcing "This is the pilot speaking. Due to my fear of catching sniffles I've decided it's just too dangerous to land. Ever."
asteroids 13 hours ago"Case" doesn't mean beans, because the polymerase chain reaction was never intended for use as a "test." You might as well use a black box electronic device to tally votes in a national election. Oh, wait...
Show us the data for deaths sans co-morbidities and fudge, and then we'll talk. In the meantime, it's just another layer of BS.
metaforge 10 hours agoOne way or another, you WILL get the virus. Resistance is futile. Wake me up when "masks" are as effective as birth control.
pods 7 hours agoNot me bitch. I'm superdosing C, D, Zinc, Echinnacea, etc. That fvcking virus ain't jumping this wall!
Magnum 13 hours agoCareful on zinc. Too much is not good.
FightClubPanties 14 hours agoTwitter suspended The Epigenetic Whisperer now that he's pointed this out.
writeround 7 hours agoI have no idea if their reporting isn't fraudulent, any more than the Japanese or chinchongs.
Pater-Mater 7 hours agoThe increase d number of of cases is irrelevant unless presented as a percentage of the number of tests. More tests/more cases?
Usuage of masks is usless if missused. Daily use of the same mask/turning mask inside out/close proximity in enclosed places/not washing or sanitsing hands are all transmission methods.
kellys_eye 8 hours agoSo is reduced oxygen intake, increased carbon monoxide intake and a reduced immune system. Why wouldnt infections increase?
NIRP-BTFD 8 hours ago... because wearing a mask that doesn't work to prevent an illness that doesn't exist (or at worst has a 99.8% recovery rate i. e. better than the flu/influenza) is all our 'exceptional leadership' can come up with?
The problem isn't the virus - the problem is and always has been the MEDIA.
Fireman 9 hours agoNo the problem are corrupt politicians that work for the 0.1% instead of the people. The media of course is owned by the 0.1% so they are an issue as well.
Nona Yobiznes 12 hours agoOxygen Deprivation Therapy ....all that can save US now.
Remember oh tax chattel, as Onkel Adolf said "Hypoxia und Hypercapnia macht frei."
Sieg Heil.......same as it ever was.
Onward to your doom, rag mouths coz the satanists need y'all dead.
hypoxia
[hi-pok´se-ah]
diminished availability of oxygen to the body tissues; its causes are many and varied and includes a deficiency of oxygen in the atmosphere, as in altitude sickness ; pulmonary disorders that interfere with adequate ventilation of the lungs; anemia or circulatory deficiencies, leading to inadequate transport and delivery of oxygen to the tissues; and finally, edema or other abnormal conditions of the tissues themselves that impair the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between capillaries and tissues. adj., adj hypox´ic.
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/hypoxia
hypercapnia
(hī′pər-kăp′nē-ə)
n.
1. An abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood, usually caused by acute respiratory failure from conditions such as asthma and obstructive pulmonary disease. It can lead to seizures and death if acute and untreated.
2. Carbon dioxide poisoning due to abnormally high concentrations of carbon dioxide in an organism's environment.
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/hypercapnia
Take the poll and see how many globally have figured this Psy Op Satanic pedovore bankster cull for what it is.
you_do 5 hours agoIt's very obvious masks don't do **** to stop infection. Anyone who still says they do is willfully blind.
whatisthat 6 hours agoHmmm... When looking at the Korea graph, I get the idea that there might be some seasonal influence?
Meritocrat 7 hours agoThis post demonstrates how American taxpayers are fools for believing propaganda from the deviant corrupt WHO....
NIRP-BTFD 8 hours agoLedlak 8 hours agoMaybe it has something to do with even mask manufacturers have a disclaimer on their surgical/cloth masks stating "does not protect against viruses".
Fireman 8 hours ago (Edited)"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
Songalini 9 hours agoDespite the herd of self-harming, virtue-signalling masked mutton that surrounds you there are indeed millions of aware and decent people around the planet that get it. You are not alone, we are 5%, as much of the population as the ruling psychopaths and sociopaths i.e. the disgusting, Satanic pedovores like Schwab, Gates, STASI "Erika" Merkill, Bozo the clown, banksters, presstitutes and almost all political mutts the sheeple call their "leaders" and the rest of the evil Rothschild enablers.
The docile herd can be turned like a weathervane and will be turned again...that is the beauty of the balance built into nature. Evolution has created a mass of ignorant, pliant human livestock with a purpose. 10% of the naked apes can more or less reason and act upon that reasoning for good or bad...the rest will be turned like sheep and always have been. Look at the history of pedovores running the Catholic Church and yet the peasants flock to these evil bastards on a Sunday to "commune" with God....god help us. Ask yourself the question; would you prefer to live in a world with 90 wolves and ten sheep, or a world with 90 sheep and 10 wolves? As for the evil Klaus "Schwab", the geriatric bastard progeny of NAZI Germany... his NAZI spawners also hallucinated about their wondervoll 1000 Year Reich dystopia and if I recall...they and their anglozionazi backers may have slaughtered millions, but in the end we are still pissing on their NAZI graves.
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Enemy-Money-Can-Buy/dp/1939438233
Take the poll and please spread far and wide.
deadcat2 8 hours agoI get where you're going with this article.
Ultimately what I think you're saying is that masks are not the be all and end all to ending the covid pandemic.
And with that I wholeheartedly agree.
But where we differ is on the conclusions from this counter-intuitive fact.
Ultimately what masks do is they reduce the transmission of the virus. I say this from the following observation...
It makes sense logically that masks prevents a lot of transmissions of the covid virus because at the end of the day only sick people can infect others. It has been shown on the Japanese broadcaster NHK that the particles thrown out by a sick person coughing when masked up vs. non-masked is exponentially less. Infra-red cameras show that masks block a lot of particles and thus even if a person is sick, their likelihood of infecting others through spraying particles everywhere around them, is greatly reduced.
And it makes logical sense without overthinking it (a good example of Occam's razor) - if you have some fabric that blocks your coughs, isn't it logical to presume that pretty much all the spit and phlegm that usually accompanis a cough would be blocked by that same fabric? (I mean why else do tissues get wet when u sneeze or cough in them?)
So the effectiveness of masks is in that they prevent a lot of dangerous situations from turning into a transmission event. Its a preventative measure, people! That's the fundamental thing you need to understand!!!!!
Is it gonna prevent every ******* roll of dice from turning into a transmission event? Of course not.
There'll be instances where due to present circumstances a potential infection turns into an actual infection. That is not something we can avoid. Something will always get through the gates - how many times has a seemingly impregnable defence been breached throughout history? I can name the Maginot Line and the Multiple Walls of Constantinople.
The point we all have to understand is that there is no silver bullet to this piece of **** virus. We can't keep arguing about the fundamental fact that masks help prevent transmissions. It prevents but does not eliminate - elimination is impossible. This ****** will eventually, always get through the most carefully laid traps.
We just need to learn that effective prevention means that half the war has already been won.
on't tell me you actually think
KirkPatrickN 8 hours ago (Edited)A truly stupid comment. What you should be asking is, When is a case, positive test or an infection an actual illness. Who is supervising the labs which do the tests? Who decides on what the size of the 'amplification should be? Karry Mullis, the world famous scientists and Nobel prize winner who actually invented and designed the PCR test said, amplifications above 30 are useless. Currently, all countries are amplifying above 45 and some even as far as 50. Lets put it this way: if there were no tests there would be no virus numbers. The only numbers that would matter would be hospital admissions. Did you know, that here in the UK a hospital admission is counted even if the patient is discharged the same day !!
The evidence shows that hospital admissions are the same this year (for the UK and the US at least) as they have been on average for the last ten years.
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoScience is not based on your personal observation of what your female brain considers logical.
It's about a double blind, placebo controlled study to PROVE something.
There is no silver bullet for these piece of **** people pushing lockdowns, masks and vaccines over sniffles based on their innermost feelings.
Galieo 7 hours agoLook at the side view of people in masks. There is a direct path to their mouth. Their breath is now pushed sideways (see physics) and probably goes even further (just like whistling is louder than breathing).
Pater-Mater 7 hours ago+5
Masks help a lot, distance is even better.
MCDirtMigger 6 hours agoYou are looking at a single element justifying everything. If people can't be helped to not sneeze on someone it's a bigger issue... Then why aren't only sick people wearing them? What about oxygen deprivations? Increase risk and cases of bacterial infection?(from masks) carcinogens of surgical masks??
Masks are not a solution, there is no science to back this, only the opposite.
pictur3plane 13 hours agoFrom the CDC website:
In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25)
If you live somewhere cold, put your mask on, go outside and exhale a big breath of air, come back and tell us what you see. Don't be an idiot.
adr 13 hours agoThe facts haven't changed: unless you are wearing a properly fitted N95 respirator your mask is doing little to protect you or other people. While it is better than no mask as there is the chance it will somewhat reduce to viral inoculum and possibly the severity of infection, it gives people a false sense of security. The media/celebrity mantra of "JUST WEAR THE MASK" gives the impression that is all you have to do to protect yourself. Also, most people are so incredibly stupid. Have you seen people try and drive a car correctly? And you think these people are well versed in how invisible disease is spread? I can't tell you how many times I see people take their mask off unless someone comes in the office. They don't get it. They are morons. It is kind of a miracle only 300,000 people a day are getting infected in this country.
pictur3plane 12 hours agoN95 respirators are not designed for and can not filter virus. Anyone saying so is lying. The literature packed with every real N95 mask even says in the warning that they are designed to filter specific particles and will not protect from biological agents.
The manufacturers aren't going to open themselves to billions in liability lawsuits for making a claim that can not be backed up with evidence and an actual standard.
No mask outside a full on respirator with disposable filters will help you. If you are infected, they are worthless because they only filter incoming air, not exhaled. So you will be contaminating anything you breath on.
Cloth masks will not reduce the severity of an infection, they will make it worse. You will increase the load of any respiratory pathogen as you breath it into the cloth and breathe it back in.
Studies done on surgical masks found that they had no effect on preventing bacterial infections of surgical wounds. The only purpose of a surgical mask is to prevent expelled fluids from open body cavities from entering a surgeon's nose and mouth.
Sorry to break the bad news.
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoThere is no such thing as free floating virus particles. They are attached to respiratory droplets which are large enough to be filtered by N95 masks.
The idea that you would somehow increase your viral load by wearing a mask and re-breathing particles back into your lungs is whatever the opposite of known science is.
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoWhile you are at it, why not drink your own urine to help stop the droplets from spreading. And wear a diaper instead of using the rest room. My Depends are to protect YOU.
pictur3plane 6 hours agoN95 masks have a release valve. They don't help others.
KirkPatrickN 4 hours agoIt really is quite a spectacle to watch complete morons who don't know what they're talking about strut around like hillbilly peacocks in the ZH comment section.
KirkPatrickN 4 hours agoDear angry, pudgy woman: please explain how N95 masks (specially designed with a VALVE on the front) "protect others". What study proves they do?
Meanwhile, Surgical masks only work for 15 minutes in a STERILE environment. Hint: your hand and Walmart are not sterile. What study proves masks do any good whatsoever? We know filthy spit wads do lots of harm by cutting off children, oxygen and humanity.
pictur3plane 3 hours agoI've had a box of 3M N95 masks since 2014 (back when they had an Asian guy on the box - how you say Kung Fru?). Never wore one because it says right on the side of the box "DOES NOT PREVENT COVID OR FLU".
KirkPatrickN 4 hours agoA box of masks for 2014 says "DOES NOT PREVENT COVID", huh?
Go back to your NASCAR videos.
FightClubPanties 14 hours agoDescribe how any study could possibly prove that "masks help others". Fat girls made that up after donning them willingly to cover their fugly faces. Then they wanted the pretty girls to do the same thing. Now: equality!
Delusion Spotter 3 hours ago (Edited)A couple of thousand cases among 30 plus million. give me a break. And we don't even know what their cycle threshold is if using the PCR test.
NumbNuts 10 hours agoNot Wearing Masks = today's Freedom Fries!
Think the more important issue is Lockdowns, which destroy businesses, livelihoods, and the Economy.
Definately need legislation that would impose prison on any politician that proposes Lockdowns for any reason in the future (Is immediate public Burning at a Stake after due process / legal trial too extreme??)).
trada101 11 hours ago (Edited)Masks don't beat phony test results.
metaforge 11 hours agoWhy do people have such short memories??? There is nothing surprising about the winter surge. How many dumbasses are out there? People have been warning about the winter surge since the summer.
Since you idiots don't seem to understand why, it's precisely BECAUSE
1. People spend more time with each other indoors during colder months leading to increases viral load.
2. People also spend more time indoors for get togethers with friends ad family and not wear masks.
Cincinnatuus 9 hours ago#1 right
#2 half right
and not wear masks
You apparently missed the whole point of this article: masks don't work .
KirkPatrickN 8 hours ago3. People don't get enough vitamin D in the winter. Supplementing with 5K UI of D will fend off any virus...
Solio 11 hours agoCold symptoms ARE Vitamin D deficiency symptoms. There is no vaccine for a vitamin deficiency. We still have to eat a healthy diet.
Amel 14 hours ago (Edited)Relying on the bs that we have been fed for 75 years makes the garden fertile for total idiocy.
FightClubPanties 13 hours agoMy experience is transmission is primarily occurring in high traffic indoor spaces.
I wore a 3M industrial grade respirator inside a bulk food store last week stocking up for the apocalypse and within hours my eyes were feeling infected, again. Being my second exposure to covid, I know how my symptoms manifest. It did not get into my lungs because I used a respirator, not a mask. I treated myself with a sinus rinse 10 drops betadine (Iodine) per 1 cup water as per my ENT's direction for ANY sinus infection that night. The next 24 hours were pretty rough but after that I was fine,
If you have to line up to get inside a building in a dense urban area, use a respirator and goggles inside. Masks are a joke, respirators work. Ebay has lots of respirators for sale, they are hard to find locally.
adr 13 hours agoAnd those respirators, i.e. N95 cannot be reused.
Stranded Observer 13 hours agoSure buddy. You might want to pull Fauchi's rod out of your mouth.
If the virus was floating in the air, everyone on Earth would have been infected 100 times over by June.
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoGreat story. You are a lucky man to have cheated death like that. It must have been terrifying
skizex 14 hours ago (Edited)You're "stocking up for the apocalypse" that people like YOU created by trembling in fear for 10 months and counting over sniffles?
"It did not get into my lungs because I used a respirator, not a mask. "
Are you sure it's not because you weren't wearing panties that day, because of your GRINDR date?
Overpowered By Funk 14 hours agoNMD Colleen Huber study of studies:
https://www.primarydoctor.org/masks-not-effect ive or safe
-OMG - DeBlasio clip on FOX (sound off because of those gdamned "you can catch covid ...here'" PSAs))
urging faith leaders to push the vax! 'Spread the word!" J.C.!
Crush the cube 14 hours agoWhy don't we just do what the Chinese did? It seems to have worked. Whatever it was they did.
Mrgior31513 14 hours agoPointed an accusatory finger at the weapon wielder and threatened to expose.
JuliaS 13 hours agoMake tests read negative most likely.
waterwell 1 hour agoChinese men in biosuits sprayed mystery syrup everywhere and then they were confident the virus was gone. Safe to assume that if the lab worked on the virus, they also knew what the antidote was.
Totin 3 hours agoWhy is it that the entire continent of Africa appears to have been able to avoid the high rates of cases and deaths caused by the Covid-19 virus.
somedude 3 hours ago (Edited)Why is it that with all the Brown Shirt enforcement in Kalifornia that they are suffering the worst?
RIGHTPOWER 3 hours agoMaybe the Chinese put something in those made in China masks.
Americans buying masks from the Chinese is like **** buying masks from the Nazi.
thimbus_xyz 4 hours ago (Edited)as long as housing prices keep crashing all is well
SweetDoug 3 hours agoSo let me make sure I understand this correctly.....
South Korea, a country with over 5x the population density of the US , has 1,100 new cases per day (or .002% of population ).
The US has 280,000 new cases (or .085% of population ), that's 43x the rate of South Koriea
And the conclusion of this idiot is masks don't work.....hmm interesting. I see the republican strategy of dumbing down our education is getting the desired results.
Still, these cases being recorded now are only a sliver of those detected daily in the U.S. and Europe. There, daily new case counts of COVID-19 are still in the tens of thousands... so keep wearing your masks!!!
🔥 🔥 🔥!!!!
Uh no, in the US we count new cases in the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.
USA USA USA BITCHES.
thimbus_xyz 3 hours ago'
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You just watch the spread/infection rate increase. Learn a bit aboutr infection spreads. Think oil on water and the increasing size of the diameter/area.
Give it a few months...
Everyone is gonna get this, sooner or later schmuck.
You stay in your basement.
OJO
V-VGoldbugger 4 hours agoThat's a lot of words to say nothing.
What exactly did I get incorrect? That would be nothing. Facts is tough that way. LOL.
Zerohair PREMIUM 4 hours ago" The disproportionately higher rates of COVID deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 7 for example, are due to higher rates of obesity, diabetes, asthma and heart disease than among more privileged U.S. communities."
Research 8 suggests even mild obesity can influence COVID-19 severity, raising the risk of respiratory failure by 2.5 times and the risk of needing intensive care by nearly five times. Inflammation triggered by obesity is also thought to be responsible for the threefold greater risk of pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs) seen in obese COVID-19 patients. 9,10
Certain groups -- particularly the elderly and those with darker skin -- are also far more prone to the illness due to the fact that they're also at highest risk for vitamin D deficiency .
Grand Solar Minimum 4 hours agoIt's been said before, Dumbo's feather.
StephenHopkins 4 hours agoAlice-the-dog 6 hours agoIt's a Chinese bioweapon. Military tribunals and GITMO for TRAITORS.
flat earth guy 6 hours agoAs if there was a test for COVID that was remotely reliable. Both exhibit an abundance of false positives. THE CASES THE CASES THE CASES, and deaths for that matter, are adjustable to fit the needs of any tyrant that has any control over the number of tests administered. Need more control of your subjects? More tests, more cases, more deaths. Want to make your vaxx look good, or the unelected POTUS look good? Reduce testing, fewer cases and deaths.
TRM 7 hours agoViruses are not alive, they are not contagious. Its a detox of the body.
Masks are stupid to use for viruses.
Terrain theory was allways right germ theory is wrong
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https://youtu.be/_Mxa3bCprWcnanook007 11 hours agoI don't even know of I believe this.
KirkPatrickN 7 hours agoThis is what happens when african monkeys are put in charge of anything.........failure !
halcyon 11 hours agoDon't talk about monkeys that way!
Monkeys don't require $8800 per year on average in welfare to survive in the US.
metaforge 10 hours agoR€TARDS! Stop looking at case counts, they mean nothing.
Number of positive tests in SK is still not on the level of wave1 and has started to shrink. So much for horrible wave3, even by their own statistics.
Slapper 11 hours ago remove linkYup, the Thanksgiving Superspreader Doom was a nothing burger, just like the Trump rally superspreader doom. They are LIARS! And the ones at the top... traitors.
Nona Yobiznes 12 hours ago (Edited)In WW1 and WW2 the same people marched you off to a war...
KirkPatrickN 8 hours agoArgentina has worn masks since April or even March. Their cases didn't stop rising. In fact they rose exponentially until a few weeks ago, which coincided with late spring for them. Seasonality overrides all other factors.
Obesity doubles Covid risks. Should we mandate diets? I know it's inconvenient, but suck it up, people. It's to save lives.
Dec 06, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
The lockdowns are based on surging "cases" which are based on positive PCR test results.
However, what exactly is a positive PCR test result? What does it mean? As Dr. Tommy Megremis summarized recently :
If you are generally aware, the PCR test is used to amplify small amount of genetic material so as to recognize patterns of DNA by "cycling." (Also, for RNA virus, the RNA is converted to DNA in order to be detected, it's just the way the test works) This is how we have been able to recognize the genomes in Egyptian mummies and Wooly Mammoths. It works because if you amplify and cycle enough times to "grow" legitimate DNA fragments, you get something with with a fair amount of specificity. W hat is becoming more and more apparent is that the PCR test was not designed as a diagnostic tool for infection, and really cannot function as one without having a huge amount of false positives, period.
When it comes to COVID, the presence of viral particles picked up by the PCR technique does not and has not been quantitatively linked to an active "symptomatic" infection. It simply cannot be so, because infection threshold as a result of viral load is different for each patient. It turns out, if you "cycle" over around 25 times, the false positivity of COVID infection starts getting very high.
I and others have explained in blogs how people can be exposed to virus, and mount a simple innate immune response and never know any differently. When you test these people with very low viral loads, who are not sick, you can find the viral RNA code that is used to "diagnose" if you cycle enough times. The last I read, Labcorp cycles at least 40 times to detect viral genome fragments. The PCR test was never intended for diagnosis of infection but as a qualitative test for presence of parts of a virus genome. I know there has been some confusion circulating the net about what the inventor Kary Mullis had said about that. But we walk daily with people who have any number of parts of killer virus or bacterial genomes which one could pick up with a PCR test if one had the specific test for it. Would we claim that that individual was an infected patient? No!
So given all that, PeakProsperity's Chris Martenson explains below , in great details, the answer to the most important question you should ask if you or a loved one gets a positive PCR test result .
"What's the Cycle Threshold (CT) value for that test?"
Sounds wonky but it's actually really important to understand. A low CT value means someone is loaded with virus. A high value, oppositely, means less of a viral load.
Beyond a certain level the load is insufficient to either infect someone else or be of any clinical or epidemiological relevance whatsoever.
The problem? Governments all over the country and world are basing their decisions on CT values that are very high. Too high.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eWqNl4UUlH0
https://lockerdome.com/lad/13084989113709670?pubid=ld-dfp-ad-13084989113709670-0&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&rid=www.zerohedge.com&width=890
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Links:WHO PCR 47 (!) Cycles
CT over 35 is non-infectious
Cycle Thresholds Too Damn High
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
Corman Drosten retraction request
https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/
Bad Testing Video Sept 1
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GenuineAmerican 3 hours agoJon Rappoport (excellent blog) nails it in some of his recent posts.
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"July 16, 2020, podcast, 'This Week in Virology': Tony Fauci makes a point of saying the PCR Covid test is useless and misleading when the test is run at '35 cycles or higher.' A positive result, indicating infection, cannot be accepted or believed.
"Here, in techno-speak, is an excerpt from Fauci's key quote: ' If you get [perform the test at] a cycle threshold of 35 or more the chances of it being replication-competent [aka accurate] are miniscule you almost never can culture virus [detect a true positive result] from a 37 threshold cycle even 36 '
"Too many cycles, and the test will turn up all sorts of irrelevant material that will be wrongly interpreted as relevant.
"That's called a false positive.
"What Fauci failed to say on the video is: the FDA, which authorizes the test for public use, recommends the test should be run up to 40 cycles. Not 35.
"Therefore, all labs in the US that follow the FDA guideline are knowingly or unknowingly participating in fraud. Fraud on a monstrous level, because millions of Americans are being told they are infected with the virus on the basis of a false positive result, and
"The total number of Covid cases in America -- which is based on the test -- is a gross falsity.
"The lockdowns and other restraining measures are based on these fraudulent case numbers.
play_arrowBaNNeD oN THe RuN 7 hours agoFauci has lied again the PCR maximum cycle for a accurate test results is 25 NOT 35. PCR is run, or should be run at 21-25 cycles everything else will give a false positive. Had a friend in Scottsdale MAYO. I had to go to this god-forsaken place to get him out. They were running the PCR at 42 cycles to keep him in the hospital because he had very, very good UNION insurance!! The health industries are all crooks, lying to people to get more money being paid to the orgainizations by the feds.
NatsarimAmericanoLion 6 hours agoIQ tests were always seriously flawed, just like the PCR test
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
It does not measure creative or lateral thinking ability at all.
I had scores that put me in the top 0.5% but I had no illusion that made me anything more than a good test taker.
choctaw charley 5 hours ago remove linkU.S TOTAL DEATHS
2015: 2,602,000
2016: 2,744,248
2017: 2,649,000
2018: 2,839,205
2019: 2,909,000
According to usalivestats(dot)com, there are 2,486,700 so far this year. There could be a lag in reports, but I doubt enough to fulfill their doomsday claims. The CDC still admits only 6% of these "COVID" are without 2 or more comorbidities, so that's about 25,000 or so. This is a mild flu season. Here are the recent flu numbers:
FLU DEATHS 2010's
2010: 36,656
2011: 12,447
2012: 42,570
2013: 37,930
2014: 51,376
2015: 22,705
2016: 38,230
2017: 61,099
2018: 34,157flyonmywall 9 hours agoso what's the purpose behind the bogus plandemic. In order to institute a one world plantation several things have to happen. Foremost is the sense of "nationhood". a nation can be thought of as modeled on the family unit. We look similar, we share religious beliefs, economic and political views and we have a common history which we take pride in. We trust rely on and help another. If you have half a brain you don't need me to describe how all these are under attack. So how does the plandemic play into this? Yesterday you neighbor was your neighbor. Today he is behind a mask because the government tells you that he is a threat to you and your family and you to his! The plandemic was used to to hugely expand the mail-in ballot fraud further driving in the wedge suspicion. Then there is this: when you get your covid test there will be a permanent file created with your name on it. It will contain your genetic code and the test result. this will become the social register that is all over Europe. Get a traffic ticket; late in making a payment; engage in disapproved political activity as I am doing at this moment? All these will find their way into your file and will in the future determine the rate you pay on your home mortgage whether you can be employed in a government job, what you have to endure to board a commercial aircraft etc. There is also a great likelihood that contained in the vaccine will be a tracking component. Consider also population segment most vulnerable to covid: older retired people drawing on an already bankrupt social security ponzi scheme. Hitler referred to these as "Useless Eaters". He had a system in place to rid society of these. Later these faciliries were expanded to include the Jewish population.
Zero-Hegemon 4 hours agoI've done lots of PCR in my life. If you have to do over 35 cycles to detect or amplify something, you're probably barking up the wrong tree or there is something wrong with your assay.
Once you ramp up the cycles to past 35-40 cycles, you're just amplifying non-specific competing amplification products, of which there are always some.
You could have the best designed primers in the world, there is always some random **** that happens to get amplified at high cycle counts.
KimAsa 9 hours ago (Edited)False positives are beneficial for obtaining COVID money and creating hysteria.
Ride_the_kali_yuga 9 hours agothese psychopaths have redesignated the normal course of annual deaths from heart disease, and other common ailments that old people die from, to Covid 19, to create the illusion of a deadly pandemic. they claim to have isolated this virus out of one side of their mouth, out the the other side they claim it has mutated (how many times?) so can't produce proof that this virus even exists. and out of their ******* they claim to have developed a vaccine?
this is and always has been about the vaccinating the public for free moral agency prevention.
africoman 9 hours agoCovid "tests" are an efficient way to feed the false pandemic narrative with nonsensical numbers of "contaminations". Masks are a mark of submission.
Schooey 6 hours agoRe-posting someone's comment from this article Here
- If the masks work -- Why the six feet?
- If the six feet works -- Why the masks?
- If both of the above work -- Why the lockdowns?
- If all three of the above work -- Why the vaccine?
- If the vaccine is safe -- Why protect it with a no liability clause?
- If the vaccine is safe---Why not test it on animals first before using it on humans?
- If SARS-CoV-2 exists -- Why has it never been isolated?
- If SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated -- How can an effective vaccine be developed?
- If the RT-PCR test works -- Why so many false positives?
- If Kary Mullis, the inventor of the RT-PCR test who conveniently died in August 2019, says his test shouldn't be used to diagnose infectious diseases -- Why use it to detect SARS-CoV-2?
- If there is an epidemic---Why so many empty hospitals?
- If large numbers of people are dying from SARS-CoV-2---Why so many fake causes of death on death certificates?
- If SARS-CoV-2 exists -- Why give doctors financial incentives to diagnose SARS-CoV-2?
- If the official COVID-19 narrative is defensible -- Why censor people who dispute this narrative?
by John Wear, (retired) lawyer, accountant, and author.
Excellent points, now let's threw a monkey wrench in it to the Operation Warp Speed play_arrow
KimAsa 9 hours ago (Edited)Its all BS
Ms No 8 hours agothese psychopaths have redesignated the normal course of annual deaths from heart disease, and other common ailments that old people die from, to Covid 19, to create the illusion of a deadly pandemic. they claim to have isolated this virus out of one side of their mouth, out the the other side they claim it has mutated (how many times?) so can't produce proof that this virus even exists. and out of their ******* they claim to have developed a vaccine?
this is and always has been about the vaccinating the public for free moral agency prevention.
smacker 8 hours agoThey actually murdered people with the lockdown too though. Knowingly and premeditated...certainly some of those were also declared covid.
kellys_eye 9 hours ago" this is and always has been about the vaccinating the public "
Correct.
That has become clear. What we are only now slowing learning is what the sinister motive is.
Harry Tools 5 hours agoIs the test for Covid or Covid-19. Can it tell the difference? The 'normal' flu and influenza are both corona viruses and this is the 'high season' for such cases in the Northern hemisphere.
Strangely (or not) the incidence of actual flu and influenza are suspiciously MUCH lower than they should be.
Ergo - tests that prove 'positive' for Covid are likely either false OR reporting on the flu/influenza.
The LIES keep mounting and mounting.
RedNeckMother 3 hours agothere is no pandemic
MoreFreedom 5 hours ago remove linkI will add another: FDA: 40 recommendation for testing
And let's not forget the comments by Fauci that if they're testing at 35 they're going to get a lot of false positives.
There's an attorney in Ohio who has filed a FOI to obtain all the ct levels used by the labs testing in Ohio. It will be very interesting once that is revealed - I'm sure our governor already knows the answer. If I recall, the NYT itself did an article on this very topic awhile back and estimated that 90% of the positive results in CT and NY were bogus. And going from 40 to 35 I believe reduces positives by 63%.
We're being played.
SRV 7 hours agoDr. Martenson's videos are very good. He's clear.
As for "the science" and scientists, we all make mistakes. If we didn't make mistakes, we wouldn't have scientists pointing out other scientist's mistakes. But it's not a question of whose science is correct, it's that science is no excuse for taking away peoples' liberty.
smacker 9 hours agoThe inventor of the test (Dr Kary Mullis) was very outspoken that it was NOT developed for human virus confirmation...he died of cancer just weeks before the first Covid cases (hmmmm).
The test procedure was developed as a screening tool in lab research, and he won a Nobel Prize for it!It's in your face proof of the scam we're all being subjected to that almost no one ever questioned (brilliant move really)... ONE cycle above 35 (each cycle doubles the amplification) will explode the the false positives.
And... if you have no symptoms you DO NOT have the virus (remember how much play the "asymptomatic" BS story got early on... another psyop). Notice how none of the athletes never get sick and are back in two weeks... yet it's never questioned by a soul paid to look the other way!
smacker 7 hours ago remove link" What is becoming more and more apparent is that the PCR test was not designed
as a diagnostic tool for infection, and really cannot function as one without having
a huge amount of false positives, period. "This is not knew and didn't need to become "more and more apparent".
The inventor of the PCR test Kary Mullis is on video record stating it. Sadly his expert
knowledge has been wilfully ignored by the political elites and countless talking heads
and "experts" because it doesn't suit them and didn't fit their agenda.It's time to prepare the gallows and stock up with rope.
smacker 7 hours ago remove linkThe PCR test is used precisely because it can be manipulated to produce as many "cases" as wanted.
Just turn the dial up on "amplification cycles" and hey presto, you get as many positives as you want.
The cases are not genuine cases but simply PCR positive tests, but are reported as "cases" and then
"infections" by MSM who are "In On It".The idea is "FEAR Management" which allows draconian CovID rules like lockdowns and tiers and
social distancing to be introduced which accustoms people to being managed and controlled.It then ramps up demand for vaccines which is the ultimate objective. Initially (or soon after), the
vaccines will contain nano-technology - dust-chips - which will be used for surveillance and control.
Some say they will also contain ingredients to render people infertile (ie population control).We are seeing in plain sight the biggest coup ever against mankind.
It must be stopped.
The PCR test is used precisely because it can be manipulated to produce as many "cases" as wanted.
Just turn the dial up on "amplification cycles" and hey presto, you get as many positives as you want.
The cases are not genuine cases but simply PCR positive tests, but are reported as "cases" and then
"infections" by MSM who are "In On It".The idea is "FEAR Management" which allows draconian CovID rules like lockdowns and tiers and
social distancing to be introduced which accustoms people to being managed and controlled.It then ramps up demand for vaccines which is the ultimate objective. Initially (or soon after), the
vaccines will contain nano-technology - dust-chips - which will be used for surveillance and control.
Some say they will also contain ingredients to render people infertile (ie population control).We are seeing in plain sight the biggest coup ever against mankind.
It must be stopped.
4 hours ago
Dec 02, 2020 | www.youtube.com
Fake news and fake awards.
John Tucker , 2 days agoJan Fogle , 2 days agoCuomo cut funding to Hospitals during first wave
considering cuomo was responsible for spreading the virus exponentially in the early days, he probably has had more influence on all of our lives than the others
Pookie Wookie , 2 days agoZeljko Dakic , 53 minutes agoObama got a Nobel Peace Prize and dropped more bombs than any other President in history and took us from 3 to 7 wars.
Story about Fauci, at least at the time was that it was so hospitals wouldn't be liable for deaths among medical staff. But I think it was completely bad what both Cuomo and Fauci
Kathleen McCormick , 1 day agoFryeKitFox , 2 days agoFauci is complicit and not to be trusted. He's worse than Cuomo.
Techloid Tech , 2 days ago (edited)Time is inconsequential. Neoliberal rag.
Still can't believe people defend Fauci. Then again people defend Obama and Bush...
John Sutherland , 18 hours agoDr. Fauci was the trusted expert who intentionally lied to the American people and made things far worse. Cuomo is directly responsible for why New York's response to the virus was so bad and cost many lives. Bullshit award.
airmark02 , 2 days agoFake Media Fake Heros Fake Awards
Nov 30, 2020 | www.youtube.com
Krystal takes it to the Medical Industrial Complex in the age of Covid.
Peter Sepall , 5 days ago (edited)Well, this is exactly why they HAD to stop Bernie Sanders.
Daniel R , 5 days agoThe american public exists as a resource to be exploited by a small group of narcissistic sociopaths.
Oof! Krystal on point yet again. Don't lose your touch!
Eric Butler , 5 days agoFinally, someone is talking about this! I don't want Covid, not because I'm afraid of dying, but because I don't want to survive to see that bill!
Nov 23, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Vasco da Gama , Nov 22 2020 22:51 utc | 58
There is evidence that asymptomatic transmission DOES NOT occur :
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China
Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.my emphasisThis study comes supporting early (June 2020) official statements by WHO where:
We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing. They're following asymptomatic cases, they're following contacts and they're not finding secondary transmission onward. It's very rare and much of that is not published in the literature. From the papers that are published there's one that came out from Singapore looking at a long-term care facility. There are some household transmission studies where you follow individuals over time and you look at the proportion of those that transmit onwards.We are constantly looking at this data and we're trying to get more information from countries to truly answer this question. It still appears to be rare that an asymptomatic individual actually transmits onward.( my emphasis ) COVID-19 daily press briefing 08 June 2020 (~33m24) - transcriptThere existing or not "asymptomatic transmission" is a key piece of information because there lies the fundamental justification for isolation measures imposed on asymptomatic individuals with positive rtPCR test results. Further, without asymptomatic transmission, general confinements can not be scientifically justified for the purposes of slowing down/flattening the curve as has been claimed .
This recenters the pandemic response where it should be all along: properly diagnosed cases.
It is very curious that no later than 24 hours, WHO, was backtracking on the original statements , letting us know that models [as opposed to actual epidemiological studies] suggest otherwise but since they were models they were not mentioned. I'll chalk that up as excess zeal at best.
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The supplementary material the study published in Nature was also revealing in terms of the rtPCR testing protocol, which employed, following Chinese National Guidelines, Ct values of ~35/34 (ORF and N genes respectively) on average. This arcs back to the question that has been haunting us, why are these tests being threshold at such high Ct values. In the Chinese case there appears to be an explanation. As the very title of the study mentions, these are tests made for screening purposes not diagnostic .
The following is very enlightening, contrast the following case definitions:
The European Case definition for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as of 29 May 2020
(...)Diagnostic imaging criteria
Radiological evidence showing lesions compatible with COVID-19
Laboratory criteria
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid in a clinical specimen [2] [rtPCR test]
(...)
Case classification
- Possible case: Any person meeting the clinical criteria
- Probable case:
Any person meeting the clinical criteria with an epidemiological link
OR
Any person meeting the diagnostic criteria- Confirmed case: Any person meeting the laboratory criteria [see above]
my emphasis
-------------------------------------------------------The Chinese Diagnosis and definition of confirmed cases with COVID-19
Mild case The clinical symptoms are mild and no pneumonia manifestations can be found in imaging .Moderate case
Patients have symptoms such as fever and respiratory tract symptoms etc., and pneumonia manifestations can be seen in imaging .Severe case
Patients who meet any of the following criteria: dyspnea or respiratory rate ≥30 breaths/min; oxygen saturation ≤93% at a rest state; arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2)/oxygen concentration (FiO2) ≤300 mmHg. Patients with >50% lesions progression within 24 to 48 hours in lung imaging should be treated as severe cases.Critical case
Patients who meet any of the following criteria: occurrence of respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation; presence of shock; other organ failure that requires monitoring and treatment in the Intensive Care Unit.[at this severity they apparently dispense with imaging]Clinically-diagnosed cases
The clinically-diagnosed cases were only allowed for the cases in the Hubei Province for the period of February 9 to 19 based on the 5th edition of the Scheme released by the National Health Commission of China released on February 8 and abolished on February 19. A presumptive case was defined as meeting the following criteria: (1) recent travel history to Wuhan City or Hubei Province; or close contact with a confirmed or probable case; or cluster transmission; (2) fever and/or respiratory symptoms; (3) laboratory evidence of normal or decreased number of leukocytes and/or lymphopenia. Those presumptive cases with further radiographic evidence showing pneumonia but without a positive RT-PCR test result were defined as clinically-diagnosed cases .
my emphasis
-------------------------------------------------------The take away: The Chinese rely on radiological imaging to confirm COVID-19 cases NOT on rtPCR tests which they limit for screening purposes, as opposed to the European which use radiological imaging to define a probable case and rtPCR testing to confirm. The Chinese rely on a tried and tested method for confirming diagnostic and the European rely fallible method generaly used for screening to confirm diagnostic .
This is absolutely absurd!
Nov 18, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Micron , Nov 17 2020 11:47 utc | 102
This whole coronavirus thingy is becoming ridiculous. I don't think it's a complete fake ; yes, there is coronavirus named COVID-19, yes it is highly contagious, yes it's a health hazard.
But to sum it up, we have here a new coronavirus which is slightly more dangerous than the flu, which kills practically only very old people with comorbidities, with 99,98% chances (ok, 99,95% if you like) of surviving it. given these odds, I'll pass on the vaccine, thank you.
From the beginning, the whole treatment of this thing stank to high heaven. I'm sorry, but the only meaningful explanation I can give is this one : big pharma and its various shills (politicians or doctors) recognized the opportunity such a virus would mean ; they then set out to systematically downplay or kill any possibility of cheap and effective treatments, and cleverly directed the firehose of dollars which was poured onto the laboratories developing a vaccine.
Some facts :
- in France, we had two large-scale studies, Discovery and Hycovid, which were started (very reluctantly) and were pratically forced to include HCQ+AZ in their panel.
- In the weekend following publication of the fraudulent Lancet newspaper, our health minister ordered a full stop.
- Since then, months have gone by; NOT ONE JOURNALIST has either 1) investigated who were the accomplices of the Lancet fraud 2) questioned why all national and international authorities reacted in lockstep 3) and most importantly WHY THE DECISIONS TO STOP THE STUDIES WERE NOT REVERSED following the Lancet's retractation.
-In October, we learn that the EU Commission gave a cool 1 billion to buy remdesivir. ONE WEEK before the WHO study concluding on the ineffectiviness of remdesivir came out.I'm sorry, but this is becoming a little too much. One coincidence OK, but here we are talking about a string of improbable events, with NO ONE analyzing with a cool head what happened or reversing decisions that were taken based on obvious frauds.
Three weeks ago, our president solemnly declared that our OR would be saturated in mid-November with 9000 people under respiratory assistance, no matter what we do. Well here were are, and the tally is 4.800. Not a good situation, but still only half ; and with nobody pointing out that every winter, our OR are saturated anyway due to the flu and the influenza.
I think we should all grow up and do a more level-headed analysis of the pros and cons. The most ridiculous thing perhaps is to see all those politicos sanctimoniously declare the sanctity of life ; in a world where you can abort babies at your convenience, practices eugenics, and where euthanasy is aggressively pushed into the mainstream, this is perhaps the most hypocritical bullshit I have ever heard.
DG , Nov 17 2020 12:15 utc | 104
Avid Lurker , Nov 17 2020 13:53 utc | 109Fauci was promoting AZT as a safe cure for AIDS in the 90's. AZT was killing people. I lost many dear friends from AZT.
Fauci is a fraud.
gm , Nov 17 2020 14:44 utc | 116@ dave at 115:
False Positive Covid Tests Will Extend Unjustified Lockdowns, Fauci Admits 'Miniscule' Accuracy
Hausmeister , Nov 17 2020 15:06 utc | 119@Posted by: Avid Lurker | Nov 17 2020 13:53 utc | 117
Meh...Fauci is a political creature who has talked on both sides of his mouth on many $ubject$, and goes with the (money)flow as long as he can get away with it without reducing his credibility too much.
I wonder if Fauci is *still* singing the praises of Gilead's remdesivir, that $3K per treatment apparent snake oil, according to critics:
Dr. Eric Topol, vice president for research at Scripps Research sez:
https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1319395937018470400?lang=en
and this,
and this:
Nevertheless the $3K per shot remdesivir just got *full* FDA approval, no doubt thanks in large part to High Priest Fauci's blessings and hosannas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/22/fda-approves-remdesivir-coronavirus-431336
Most likely a game changer:
Portugiese court rule against PCR-test
Sorry, guys, this is a link to one of the best real-left Corona blogs, but in German language. In Portugal a court decided that a PCR-test cannot be accepted as a proof of a viral infection. Now think about its consequences!
Nov 17, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
The Great Revenge - How Tony Fauci F*cked Donald Trump Liberty Blogger , Nov 16 2020 20:12 utc | 2
In January 2017 the CIA claimed that Russia had kompromat on Trump. Trump shot back at the CIA. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer then warned the incoming president:
"You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you," Schumer, a New York Democrat, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this."As the years after the warning passed by it proved to have been valid. The CIA 'whistle blowers' put a great effort into sabotaging Trump's presidency. But they were largely unsuccessful.
The CIA failed to sabotaged Trump's reelection. It was health community, including parts of Trump's administration, which did that.
Trump had especially angered Dr. Fauci, the well known infectious-disease expert and member of the government's coronavirus taskforce. Fauci's advise had been ignored and efforts were made to hold him back from making public pronouncements.
On November 1, two days before the election, Fauci gave a widely distributed interview to the Washington Post :
President Trump's repeated assertions the United States is "rounding the turn" on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading into a long and potentially deadly winter with an unprepared government unwilling to make tough choices."We're in for a whole lot of hurt. It's not a good situation," Anthony S. Fauci, the country's leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. "All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly."
Fauci's interview was not the first intervention he made. In October two leading vaccine companies were ready to announce the success of their vaccine trials. But with at least the knowledge of Fauci and the Federal Drug Administration both companies deviated from their clinical protocols to intentionally move their success announcement to a date after the election.
During the summer Trump had been hopeful that a vaccine against the Covid-19 disease could be announced before the election. It would have been proof that his strategy to (not) fight the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had at least one success. The announcement of a vaccine was part of President Trump's planned 'October surprises' to win the election.
Trump's summer hope that a vaccine success could be announced during October was not unreasonable. Two important vaccines candidate, one from Pfizer with BioNTech and one from Moderna, had been successful tested in their first phases and were ready launch their large phase 3 trials.
In a phase 3 vaccine trial several ten thousand people are put into two groups. The people in one group receive the vaccine, the people in the other one a placebo. One then has to wait and see how many people will get the disease. At certain points a statistical team will look at those cases and check how many occurred in each group. The differences of the number of people in each group who catch the disease is a scale for the vaccines efficacy. For a known group size one can estimate in advance after how many disease cases determinations should be made to show statistical significance.
Pfizer had published its clinical protocol for the phase 3 trial which foresaw four points of interim analyses (IA) during which it would become clear how well the vaccine was working:
During Phase 2/3, 4 IAs are planned and will be performed by an unblinded statistical team after accrual of 32, 62, 92, and 120 cases. At each IA:
- [Vaccine efficacy] for the first primary objective will be evaluated. Overwhelming efficacy will be declared if the first primary study objective is met. The criteria for success at an interim analysis are based on the posterior probability (ie,P[VE >30%|data]) at the current number of cases. Overwhelming efficacy will be declared if the posterior probability is higher than the success threshold. The success threshold for each interim analysis will be calibrated to protect overall type I error at 2.5%. Additional details about the success threshold or boundary calculation at each interim analysis will be provided in the SAP.
The time plan, on which Trump was certainly briefed, foresaw that the first interim analysis would likely occur in late September or early October.
However Pfizer did not publish any results when the first two interim analysis points were met. On November 9, after the election, Pfizer announced very positive results at the third interim analysis point:
Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement -- and relief -- in the face of the global pandemic.The vaccine is the first to be tested in the United States to generate late-stage data. The companies said an early analysis of the results showed that individuals who received two injections of the vaccine three weeks apart experienced more than 90% fewer cases of symptomatic Covid-19 than those who received a placebo.
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The story of how the data have been analyzed seems to include no small amount of drama.
...
The first analysis was to occur after 32 volunteers -- both those who received the vaccine and those on placebo -- had contracted Covid-19. If fewer than six volunteers in the group who received the vaccine had developed Covid-19, the companies would make an announcement that the vaccine appeared to be effective. The study would continue until at least 164 cases of Covid-19 -- individuals with at least one symptom and a positive test result -- had been reported.However, the announcement at the two first interim analysis points was never made.
[William Gruber, Pfizer's senior vice president of vaccine clinical research and development,] said that Pfizer and BioNTech had decided in late October that they wanted to drop the 32-case interim analysis . At that time, the companies decided to stop having their lab confirm cases of Covid-19 in the study , instead leaving samples in storage. The FDA was aware of this decision. Discussions between the agency and the companies concluded, and testing began this past Wednesday. When the samples were tested, there were 94 cases of Covid in the trial.This means that the statistical strength of the result is likely far stronger than was initially expected. It also means that if Pfizer had held to the original plan, the data would likely have been available in October, as its CEO, Albert Bourla, had initially predicted.
In October Pfizer already knew from its first interim analysis that its vaccine was successful. But it intentionally held back on the announcement of its success. The FDA knew of this!
Today Moderna announced the success of its Covid-19 vaccine. This is a vaccine in which Dr. Fauci's organization is directly involved in. It seems that Moderna had, like Pfizer, held back its very positive results until after the election:
The drugmaker Moderna announced on Monday that its coronavirus vaccine was 94.5 percent effective, based on an early look at the results from its large, continuing study.Researchers said the results were better than they had dared to imagine.
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Moderna, based in Cambridge, Mass., developed its vaccine in collaboration with researchers from the Vaccine Research Center, part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the institute, said in an interview: ...
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Moderna had planned a first interim analysis of its trial data when the number of Covid-19 cases among participants reached 53. But the recent surge in cases drove the number to 95 , and it is likely to speed completion of the study.Moderna, like Pfizer, skipped the announcement of the results at the first interim analysis point in its clinical protocol.
The FDA and Dr. Fauci were involved in Pfizer's as well as the Moderna's decision to deviate from their clinical protocols. Any change in these protocols must get the FDA's approval. If the companies had not changed their plans the announcement of the good efficacy of both vaccines' would have come before the election.
Trump's well planed vaccine 'October surprise' was sabotaged by two pharmaceutical companies with at least the approval of Dr. Fauci and the FDA.
This might well have cost him his reelection.
It was the health community that really had 'six ways from Sunday' to get back at Trump.
Posted by b on November 16, 2020 at 19:54 UTC | Permalink
How many ways did the vultures steal the US election?
The Big Guy will ensure Americans continue to pay twice as much for pharmaceuticals. His 10% is doubled too, after all.
norecovery , Nov 16 2020 20:16 utc | 3
lysias , Nov 16 2020 20:20 utc | 4The Corporate State envelopes the administrators of the MSM, Medical and Academic Institutions, and State and Local Governments, in order to create and enforce a largely fictitious health emergency -- the latest in a series of Disaster Capitalist scenarios designed to rob us blind.
Hadn't Trump talked about limiting the prices that pharma companies can charge?
Nov 16, 2020 | www.globalresearch.ca
By World Travel & Tourism Council Global Research, November 13, 2020 World Travel & Tourism Council 11 November 2020 Region: USA
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A staggering 9.2 million jobs could be lost in the U.S. Travel & Tourism sector in 2020 if barriers to global travel remain in place, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) revealed.
The new figure comes from WTTC's latest economic modelling, which looks at the punishing impact of COVID-19 and travel restrictions on the Travel & Tourism sector.
According to the latest data, 7.2 million jobs in the U.S. have been impacted. If there is no immediate alleviation of restrictions on international travel, as many as 9.2 million jobs – more than half of all jobs supported by the sector in the U.S. in 2019 – would be lost.
WTTC has identified the four top priorities which should be addressed, including the adoption of a comprehensive and cost-effective testing regime at departure to avoid transmission, the re-opening of key 'air corridors' such as between New York and London, and international coordination.
The challenge of restoring safe travels in the new normal is one of the biggest issues facing the U.S. as it grapples with a depressed economy devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the Travel & Tourism sector particularly hard.
The WTTC Economic Impact Report for 2019 revealed that Travel & Tourism contributed $1.84 trillion to the U.S. economy and was responsible for more than one in 10 (10.7%) American jobs.
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ADKC , Nov 13 2020 0:48 utc | 92
"Surgeons have been using surgical masks since their introduction in 1897. It has for some years been customary for surgeons and nurses to wear surgical masks in the operating theatre and to change masks part of the way through any procedure lasting more than a few hours.
"The dangers associated with mask wearing were assessed by five doctors and published in the journal Neurocirugia in 2008.
"Although it is customary for operating theatres to be fitted with air conditioning systems, the writers of the article, entitled, Preliminary Report on Surgical Mask induced Deoxygenation During Major Surgery, pointed out that it is known that heat and moisture are trapped beneath surgical masks and concluded that 'it seems reasonable that some of the exhaled carbon dioxide may also be trapped beneath them, inducing a decrease in blood oxygenation'.
"A total of 53 surgeons, of both sexes, all employed at university hospitals and aged between 24 and 54 years of age were tested. All were non-smokers and none had any chronic lung disease. The test involved pulse oximetry before and after the course of an operation. The study showed that the longer a mask was worn the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels. This may lead to the individual passing out and it may also affect natural immunity – thereby increasing the risk of infection.
"The masks used were disposable, sterile, one-way surgical paper masks. To eliminate the effect of dehydration over a several hour surgical operation, the surgeons were allowed after every hour to drink water through a straw.
"The authors of the paper concluded that, 'When the values for oxygen saturation of haemoglobin were compared, there were statistically significant differences only between preoperational and post operational values. As the duration of the operation increases, oxygen saturation of haemoglobin decreases significantly."
From "Proof That Face Masks Do More Harm Than Good" by Dr Vernon Coleman (which was published on "Smashwords" but was suddenly removed the book in an gratuitous act of censorship even though the book was entirely factual)
Nov 02, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jackrabbit , Nov 1 2020 16:42 utc | 9
jef @Nov1 16:15 #4
You fail to address the question of W H Y we are told lies or misrepresentation about the disease, and Western governments (especially USA) have failed while other governments (Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, New Zealand, etc.) have been much more effective.
I have proposed that:
- Trump allowed the virus to spread so that he could declare a national emergency that allowed him to bailout Wall Street (which was facing tens of billions of dollars in bad loans) and Boeing;
- Trump/US Deep State find it desirable to blame China - more deaths = more outrage;
- healthcare for older people is very expensive - early deaths save the government a lot of money (Trump's military build-up has been very costly);
- Poor, mostly people of color are the other category of people most likely to have bad outcomes from SARS-COV-2 - they are just not important in USA;
- funneling money to Big Pharma.
FYI My explanation is very different that the proposition set forth by the astro-turfed Libertarian mob: that governments want to control us by making us wear masks (referred to derogatorily as "muzzles" or "diapers") and destroying our ability to earn a living.!!
jef , Nov 1 2020 17:53 utc | 14
donkeytale , Nov 1 2020 17:59 utc | 15Jackrabbit@9 - Your first two reasons are most likely a factor but I would not include Trump in the calculation as he is not capable of that level of planning. Your third reason end of life care is how the system wrings out every last penny of the elderly, gov pays very little of that.Your las two reasons are not wrong.
IMO the why is this;
Terrain Theory - nutrition, environment, healthy lifestyle, strong immune system, add it all together and it is maybe a couple billion dollars for the economy.
Germ Theory - healthcare industry, medical devices, hospitals, pharma, insurance, equals hundreds of billions and in fact Terrain Theory directly threatens those hundreds of billions so it is roundly dismissed at every turn.
jackrabbitNathan Mulcahy , Nov 1 2020 18:14 utc | 16True enough Trump bailed out Wall Street and more importantly, it's wealthiest globalist customers. The strength of the dollar is tied to the religious monetary faith of dollar holders.
Obama ditto.
Biden will do the same.
The biggest difference between Trump and Biden is Biden will also re-establish "normalized" relations with China by ending the trade war. Oh sure, there will still be political frictions and trade issues, blah blah blah ad nauseum, but the silliness of Trump's playing off the cuff loosely and for pure politics is destructive to him as well as his supporters.
Biden's ending of the trade war will unleash the stock markets around the globe and provide increased riches for the wealthiest and middle class investors, while the poorest of the poor will pick up the tab, as they always will under the globalist structure.
Trump's trade war was...by far...his biggest mistake, an unforced error of untold proportions. In comparison, the COVID crisis will be considerably less important as time goes on and the world learns to cope.
Trade wars accomplished nothing positive (as anyone with even a passing understanding of economics always knew it couldn't) and forced Trump to also bail out corporate agriculture with billions in tax payer subsidies. High end manufacturing jobs can't be re-shored until the USD permanently weakens and is no longer the reserve currency. And even then this will take a sustained period of time of retrenchment if in fact the USD loses that status which won't happen even in our grandchildren's lifetimes, imo. The general view at the bar that the US is so decrepit and teetering on collapse is the fanciful wishful thinking of economic illiterates who absorb too much poilitical propaganda.
China has little desire to be the world reserve currency. They are in fact ever more linking closely to world debt and equity markets where the USD is entrenched and anyway the world's wealthiest will never place their faith in the renminbi to the extent necessary for this to occur. The Chinese economy is well situated under the status quo, minus the trade war. They are in development growth mode and can better accomplish their long term goals hitched to global markets and their emerging bourgeois class gains from the weakness of the renminbi because of the often quoted (and generally misunderstood) PPP leveraging the value of the onshore yuan to keep domestic wages low.
The US will face political collapse well before economic collapse. Remember you read it hear first.
On another note, this will be the last post I make at MoA. My work is done. The bosses have reassigned me.
Good luck to you all in future.
Covid-19 is a dangerous disease and I take precautions to protect myself. However, the public depiction of the disease in the media and the actions being taken by most governments cannot but raise some very serious questions.For example, you see everywhere how many "new covid cases" are being detected. The problem is manifold.
1) in reality the number they are citing is the number of positives in PCR test - IT IS NOT THE NUMBER OF CASES. A "case" in epidemiological sense is when medical intervention is needed or when a patient dies. If "case = infection" then one wouldn't need two epidemiological parameters IFR (infection fatality rate) and CFR (infection fatality rate). Furthermore, roughly 30% of the world population harbor the tuberculosis bacterium. Yet, I have never heard that the global TB case is several billions. Only a very small fraction of those harboring the bacterium will get the disease called TB, when it will become a case. So, why is COVID-19 is being treated differently in the media as well as by authorities?
2) The PCR test DOES NOT diagnose a disease called Covid-19. It simply identifies fragments of RNA of the virus called SARS-COv2 in a person indicating that HE MAY have had the virus in his body. This is very different than saying that he has a disease called Covid-19.
3) PCR tests are neither validated, nor standardized - therefore, there are too many false positives.
4) PCR test IS NOT APPROVED AS A DIAGNOSTIC TEST. If you combine the first four bullet points then how can you not think that there is something wrong in the whole picture?
5) Most vaccines have taken 10 years to be developed (I believe that there is a single case where it was developed in 5 years). And after 30 decades we still do not have a vaccine for AIDS virus. So, when governments are on record having said from the beginning that we'll get back to normal only after a vaccine will be available - then you cannot but question their motive.
Nov 02, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bemildred , Nov 1 2020 20:25 utc | 29
Fauci bets on Biden:
Nov 01, 2020 | www.rt.com
Get short URL Anthony Fauci is shown testifying in a US Senate hearing in September. © Reuters 18 Follow RT on Anthony Fauci used his last Friday night before the election to give an interview to the Washington Post in which he praised Joe Biden's attitude toward the Covid-19 pandemic and criticized President Donald Trump's.Intentionally or otherwise, Fauci put his thumb on the electoral scale by painting a doomsday picture of the nation's Covid-19 outlook and suggesting the Democrat candidate is more focused on the pandemic than is the Republican incumbent. Asked about differences between the two on the virus issue, Fauci praised Biden for "taking it seriously from a public-health perspective," and said Trump looks at it from the standpoint of "the economy and reopening the country," according to the Post, which published its article Saturday evening.
ALSO ON RT.COM Trump failed to fight and expose the establishment's Covid narrative – and now it may cost him re-electionFauci, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, echoed Biden's predictions of a "dark winter," saying, "We're in for a whole lot of hurt. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly."
The doctor didn't specifically attribute his gloomy assessment to Trump's policies, but Biden has made the virus outbreak the centerpiece of his campaign, repeatedly blaming the president for the nation's Covid-19 death toll, which stands at more than 230,000.
ALSO ON RT.COM 'Bad arm!' Trump blasts 'disaster' Fauci in campaign call, slams doctor's baseball pitchingFauci complained to the Post that Trump is increasingly leaning on medical adviser Scott Atlas for advice on the pandemic. "I have real problems with that guy," Fauci said. "He's a smart guy who's talking about things that I believe he doesn't have any real insight or knowledge or experience in. He keeps talking about things that, when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn't make any sense."
Fauci said in April that Trump had immediately backed all the Covid-19 mitigation recommendations made to him by US public health officials, including Fauci himself. In September, he said the president had taken the outbreak very seriously from the beginning.
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White House spokesman Judd Deere blasted Fauci for "choosing three days before an election to play politics," after previously praising Trump's actions.
"As a member of the (White House coronavirus) task force, Dr. Fauci has a duty to express concerns or push for a change in strategy, but he's not done that, instead choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known by praising the president's opponent – exactly what the American people have come to expect from the swamp," Deere told the Post.
Fauci said in February that the risk of coronavirus in the US was "relatively low," and told CBS's 60 Minutes program in March that "people should not be walking around with masks." By October, he was voicing support for a national mask mandate.
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Atlas contended in an interview with RT's Going Underground show that Covid-19 lockdowns have been an "epic failure" and are "killing people" without curbing the spread of the virus.
"The public-health leadership have failed egregiously, and they're killing people with their fear-inducing shutdown policies," Trump's coronavirus adviser said.
Investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel took to Twitter to criticize Fauci for attacking Atlas while offering "zero evidence, data, etc," calling the comments "a little character-assassination attempt by the tiny totalitarian."
Tweet See new Tweets Tweet Jordan Schachtel @JordanSchachtel · 19h Fauci has complete breakdown, resorts to crying to the media. Notice his little rant (loaded with extreme amounts of professional jealousy) has zero evidence, data, etc. A little character assassination attempt by the tiny totalitarian. Quote Tweet Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT · 21h "I have real problems with that guy," Fauci said of Atlas. "He's a smart guy who's talking about things that I believe he doesn't have any real insight or knowledge or experience in...when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn't make any sense." https:// washingtonpost.com/politics/fauci -covid-winter-forecast/2020/10/31/e3970eb0-1b8b-11eb-bb35-2dcfdab0a345_story.html 18
Oct 28, 2020 | www.rt.com
Two young sisters stabbed a security guard at a Chicago athletic store 27 times and hit him with a trash can after he demanded they put on masks and use hand sanitizer before entering. Their lawyer argued it was self-defense.Jayla and Jessica Hill (18 and 21, respectively) have been charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder each and were ordered to be held without bail on Tuesday following their arrest. The incident, which was caught on surveillance camera at the Snipes athletic store in the Chicago suburb of Lawndale, happened on Sunday as the store was about to close.
Older sister Jessica is accused of stabbing the store's security guard 27 times with a " comb knife " while her younger sister Jayla held him by the hair to stop him from moving. Both the store manager and the guard himself reportedly pleaded for the young women to stop attacking the guard, to no avail.
ALSO ON RT.COM WATCH: Woman attacks drug store employee with 'kung fu' after reportedly being asked to wear a maskWhen he finally broke free, the sisters allegedly kicked him in the head and body, while Jessica declared he was a " b***h " who'd been " f***ed up " by her and her sister. Despite his wounds, the guard himself apparently stopped the pair from running away before the police made it to the scene.
The unnamed man was treated at nearby Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition even though he did not require surgery for the wounds on his neck, back and arms. The sisters, too, were treated for " minor lacerations " at St. Anthony Hospital.
The women were stopped by the security guard as they attempted to enter Snipes around 6pm on Sunday and became confrontational when he asked them to put on masks and use hand sanitizer. Jayla took out her phone to start filming and can reportedly be heard on the footage inviting someone (presumably her sister) to " kick his ass " as the 6 foot 5 (1.96 meters), 270-pound (122.5 kg) guard attempted to grab the phone from her.
The sisters were then asked to leave, and one can apparently be seen on surveillance footage hitting the guard in the face with a trash can before Jessica took out her weapon and started stabbing him. Other outlets have reported one of the girls punched the guard.
The Hills' lawyer has argued they acted in self-defense, reasoning that Jayla filmed at least part of the incident and no one planning a murder would go out of their way to create video evidence of the crime. The girls are also bipolar, the attorney told the court. Both recently graduated from Chicago Public Schools, and local media described them as " college-bound ."
ALSO ON RT.COM Chicago crime on the rise as 51 shot, including 8yo girl, over Labor Day weekendThe judge declined to release the girls on bail, noting that while they may not have any criminal history, the " sheer number " of stab wounds indicated something " too random and quickly escalating " for their release to take place in " conditions that would protect the community ."
" It's the complete randomness of this ," Judge Mary Marubio said in her decision on Tuesday. " It's terrifying. "
While local media has reported neither sister had a criminal record, Heavy.com noted that the Chicago Police Department has a record for Jessica Hill's arrest in October 2017 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She was bailed out on a $1500 bond.
Already a high-crime city, Chicago has seen homicide rates spike 50 percent over the past year, and 139 percent in July alone, a microcosm of nationwide trends. During last month's Labor Day holiday weekend alone, some 51 people were shot, 10 fatally, down slightly from the previous weekend that saw 55 people shot. Amid the carnage, one man was killed by police as he attempted to stab an officer. 5ohswi 5 hours ago "The Hills' lawyer has argued they acted in self-defense, reasoning that Jayla filmed at least part of the incident and no one planning a murder would go out of their way to create video evidence of the crime." ... Just like nobody would abandon a laptop at a computer shop when it is loaded with incriminating e-mails and photos of himself engaged in sex acts with underage girls. Or maybe they are just not that smart. Maybe they are not really college bound. Juan_More 6 hours ago I think that the side effect of the zombie apocalypse must be mass stupidity. Most people will only be in the shops for a few minutes, wearing a mask helps keep the shops open and people employed. If you don't like the hand sanitizer then just don't go into that shop. Three shops where I live demanded that I use the hand sanitizer, two provided an alternative (hand washing). I haven't been back to two of them and the third maybe because a buddy owns the shop. There is no need for violence but then that is the American way. If convicted they won't have to worry about what type of sneakers they want. They will be provided without laces.
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Sisters stab Chicago security guard 27 TIMES over masks & hand sanitizer dispute at athletic store, plead self-defense 28 Oct, 2020 21:20 / Updated 6 hours ago Get short URL FILE PHOTO © Reuters / Mark Makela 59 Follow RT on Two young sisters stabbed a security guard at a Chicago athletic store 27 times and hit him with a trash can after he demanded they put on masks and use hand sanitizer before entering. Their lawyer argued it was self-defense.
Jayla and Jessica Hill (18 and 21, respectively) have been charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder each and were ordered to be held without bail on Tuesday following their arrest. The incident, which was caught on surveillance camera at the Snipes athletic store in the Chicago suburb of Lawndale, happened on Sunday as the store was about to close.
Older sister Jessica is accused of stabbing the store's security guard 27 times with a " comb knife " while her younger sister Jayla held him by the hair to stop him from moving. Both the store manager and the guard himself reportedly pleaded for the young women to stop attacking the guard, to no avail.
ALSO ON RT.COM WATCH: Woman attacks drug store employee with 'kung fu' after reportedly being asked to wear a maskWhen he finally broke free, the sisters allegedly kicked him in the head and body, while Jessica declared he was a " b***h " who'd been " f***ed up " by her and her sister. Despite his wounds, the guard himself apparently stopped the pair from running away before the police made it to the scene.
The unnamed man was treated at nearby Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition even though he did not require surgery for the wounds on his neck, back and arms. The sisters, too, were treated for " minor lacerations " at St. Anthony Hospital.
The women were stopped by the security guard as they attempted to enter Snipes around 6pm on Sunday and became confrontational when he asked them to put on masks and use hand sanitizer. Jayla took out her phone to start filming and can reportedly be heard on the footage inviting someone (presumably her sister) to " kick his ass " as the 6 foot 5 (1.96 meters), 270-pound (122.5 kg) guard attempted to grab the phone from her.
The sisters were then asked to leave, and one can apparently be seen on surveillance footage hitting the guard in the face with a trash can before Jessica took out her weapon and started stabbing him. Other outlets have reported one of the girls punched the guard.
The Hills' lawyer has argued they acted in self-defense, reasoning that Jayla filmed at least part of the incident and no one planning a murder would go out of their way to create video evidence of the crime. The girls are also bipolar, the attorney told the court. Both recently graduated from Chicago Public Schools, and local media described them as " college-bound ."
ALSO ON RT.COM Chicago crime on the rise as 51 shot, including 8yo girl, over Labor Day weekendThe judge declined to release the girls on bail, noting that while they may not have any criminal history, the " sheer number " of stab wounds indicated something " too random and quickly escalating " for their release to take place in " conditions that would protect the community ."
" It's the complete randomness of this ," Judge Mary Marubio said in her decision on Tuesday. " It's terrifying. "
While local media has reported neither sister had a criminal record, Heavy.com noted that the Chicago Police Department has a record for Jessica Hill's arrest in October 2017 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She was bailed out on a $1500 bond.
Already a high-crime city, Chicago has seen homicide rates spike 50 percent over the past year, and 139 percent in July alone, a microcosm of nationwide trends. During last month's Labor Day holiday weekend alone, some 51 people were shot, 10 fatally, down slightly from the previous weekend that saw 55 people shot. Amid the carnage, one man was killed by police as he attempted to stab an officer. 5ohswi 5 hours ago "The Hills' lawyer has argued they acted in self-defense, reasoning that Jayla filmed at least part of the incident and no one planning a murder would go out of their way to create video evidence of the crime." ... Just like nobody would abandon a laptop at a computer shop when it is loaded with incriminating e-mails and photos of himself engaged in sex acts with underage girls. Or maybe they are just not that smart. Maybe they are not really college bound. Juan_More 6 hours ago I think that the side effect of the zombie apocalypse must be mass stupidity. Most people will only be in the shops for a few minutes, wearing a mask helps keep the shops open and people employed. If you don't like the hand sanitizer then just don't go into that shop. Three shops where I live demanded that I use the hand sanitizer, two provided an alternative (hand washing). I haven't been back to two of them and the third maybe because a buddy owns the shop. There is no need for violence but then that is the American way. If convicted they won't have to worry about what type of sneakers they want. They will be provided without laces.
Oct 30, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Fall enrollment has plunged , some colleges are shuttering operations, revenues across the entire higher education industry are collapsing, and the shift from physical to virtual education due to the virus pandemic could prick the next bubble: the student housing debt market.
Our warning about the coming implosion of the higher education industry (see here from 2014) , as a whole, has become louder and louder over the last six-plus years as the student debt bubble has recently swelled to more than $1.6 trillion. Years ago, no one at the time, could've forecasted a virus pandemic would doom colleges and universities.
Credit rating agency Moody's recently downgraded the entire higher education sector to negative from stable, and the American Council on Education estimates colleges and universities will experience a $23 billion decline in revenues over the next academic year.
Bloomberg outlines the increase of virtual education in a virus pandemic has resulted in an abundance of empty dorms at colleges and universities, creating a $14 billion headache for the student housing debt market.
"West Virginia State University, already hit with a 10% enrollment drop, plans to give money to a school foundation so it can meet its bond covenants for residence hall debt. A community college in Ohio is using part of a $1.5 million donation for a financially-strapped student housing project. And officials at New Jersey City University, which serves largely first-generation and lower-income students and has recorded years of deficits, are prepared to shore up a dorm there," Bloomberg said.
The squeeze on university finances comes as the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center warned about a 16% drop in first-year undergraduate students enrolled for the fall semester. This means new revenue streams are quickly drying up for overleveraged colleges and universities.
"The limiting factor is some of these schools themselves are facing uncertainty with many of their revenue streams," S&P Global Ratings analyst Amber Schafer said in an interview. "It's a matter of not only willingness, but if they're able to support the project."
"Typically, privatized student housing debt is paid off by the revenue generated by the dorms -- meaning there's little recourse for bondholders if things go south," Bloomberg said. With occupancy rates already declining as coronavirus cases are surging, well, this could be bad news for colleges and universities heading into 2021.
"Borrowers have begun revealing how empty residence halls are as the pandemic spurs many campuses to keep classes online. According to the school foundation that sold the debt, West Virginia State University's dorm is 71% full, putting it about 20 percentage points from where it needs to be to satisfy debt covenants. Other privatized student housing projects, like two on Howard University's campus, are virtually empty due to online-only instruction there," Bloomberg said.
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Bloomberg warns: "Privatized dorms are struggling the most given that they weren't structured to withstand 20% to 30% drops in occupancy -- or no students at all."
"West Virginia State University may have to step in to help student housing bonds at risk of violating a debt service coverage ratio, Moody's warned this month. The historically-black college faces "considerable" challenges in backstopping the bonds, Moody's said.
The nearly 290-bed residence hall with rents of $3,881 per semester was just 71% occupied this fall, while it needed to be about 92% occupied, said Patricia Schumann, president of the university foundation that sold the debt. Schumann said the university is projected to provide a $75,000 payment in January. In the meantime, she said the school was working to bolster its financial position and boost recruitment and donations.
"We're not standing still," she said.
Ohio's Terra State Community College, which has more than 2,100 students, was downgraded deeper into junk over the risk posed by a dorm owned by a nonprofit, given that the school "appears to provide an unconditional guarantee" to meet the debt obligations, Moody's said. The project was financed through a bank note.
The dorm's occupancy fell to 62%, and the college is using a previously-received donation to cover a shortfall in project revenue amounting between $500,000 to $600,000, the ratings company said in a report this month.
At New Jersey City University, a student housing project financed though a separate entity will likely miss a required debt service coverage ratio. The public school having to step in to help the bonds would be a challenge, but a surmountable one, said Jodi Bailey, the university's associate vice president for student affairs. The student housing bonds aren't a debt of the university, so the school would be choosing to provide financial support, according to bond documents .
The school is working to cut expenses related to the dorm. "Is it a harder year? Most definitely," she said.
The student housing bonds, issued by West Campus Housing LLC in 2015, were slashed deeper into junk in September by S&P, which said in a report that residence halls' occupancy there had fallen to 56% so the school could accommodate social-distancing guidelines," said Bloomberg.
To summarize, plunging enrollments, resulting in falling occupancy rates for dorms, is a debt bomb waiting to go off for many overleveraged colleges and universities that are panicking at the moment to divert enough funds to service debts, as the usual revenue streams, that being rent checks from students, are nowhere to be found as virtual learning keeps young adults in their parents' basements and out of dorms.
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If occupancy rates continue to slide through 2021, then we must revisit what we said months before the virus pandemic began in the US:
"...20% of colleges and universities will shut down or merge in the next ten years , and probably more."
Absent of a federal bailout, things could get ugly for colleges and universities in 2021.
Oct 26, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Down South , Oct 25 2020 14:27 utc | 4
Not being American I decided to do some research as to whom is responsible for the health response to COVID-19 in the US. The MSM and Democrats put the blame for the high death toll squarely onThe Tenth Amendment states that
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."Meaning that:
As University of Texas law professor Bobby Chesney has recently reminded us, the states are independent entities within our system of federalism, not mere subordinate jurisdictions of the national government. In areas reserved to the states, he says, the federal government "cannot coerce the states into taking actions to suit federal policy preference."
https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/03/25/trump-or-governors-whos-the-boss/amp/What powers does the president have:
As we have seen, the president can restrict international travel, harden the borders, and invoke national emergency powers such as the Defense Production Act. Without federal leadership, the states will have hard time coordinating their policies on the many aspects of the current pandemic that cross state lines.So the way understand it while the federal government can block overseas travel and co-ordinate policy between states and increase production of essential medical equipment it is up to the states to determine the response to COVID-19. If the states want to implement a lockdown they can and if they want to make mask wearing mandatory they can. This applies too to social distancing and other measures to prevent COVID-19. These measures are entirely the prerogatives of the state and not the federal government.
Now at least 40% of the deaths have been elderly living in nursing/cares homes. This interesting article takes a look at why that is:
Nursing homes were already struggling with infection control before the pandemic hit. A Government Accountability Office report published in May found that more than 80 percent of nursing homes were cited for infection-prevention deficiencies from 2013 to 2017. About half of those homes had "persistent problems and were cited across multiple years." The report describes, among other incidents, a New York nursing home where a respiratory infection had sickened 38 residents. The home did not isolate or maintain a list of those who were sick, and continued to let residents eat meals together.
https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/613855/The nursing homes it seems to me are the responsibility of the state they are in. Meaning that any COVID-19 prevention measures need to be taken by the state in which the homes are based and not the federal government.
It was the governor of New York who forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients when they did not have the means to deal with this crisis as seen in the article above. It is not surprising that COVID-19 spread like wildfire in these already poorly maintained nursing homes. At least 6000 people died in nursing homes in New York and that figure only includes those who died in the actual nursing homes. The governor of New York was not the only one who did this. Michigan did the same and I think a few other states.
Take into account that when Trump did try and ban overseas travel from China he was pilloried for it. Biden called him a xenophobic. Pelosi in late February was telling people to join her for festivities in China Tiwn. De Blasio did the same. It is clear the Democratic leadership did not take COVID-19 seriously at the beginning of the pandemic and neither did many governors.
Down South , Oct 25 2020 14:28 utc | 5
Argh!Down South , Oct 25 2020 14:37 utc | 6... blame squarely on Trump... NOT the Tenth Amendment.....
The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court ruled Friday that ballots in the state cannot be rejected because of signature comparisons, backing up guidance issued by the state's chief elections officer heading into Pennsylvania's first presidential election with no-excuse mail voting.Down South , Oct 25 2020 14:40 utc | 7
https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/23/pennsylvania-court-ballot-signatures-431794This is extraordinary. The potential for fraud is limitless.
https://youtu.be/5649FAF3_wsdh-mtl , Oct 25 2020 14:48 utc | 8Sky News Australia special report on the Hunter Biden laptop.
Another 'senior moment'?JoeG , Oct 25 2020 14:52 utc | 9When will Joe bring out his new crack grandbaby from Hunter's Arkansas stripper?Don Bacon , Oct 25 2020 14:54 utc | 10
That will surely earn a few broken home votes!Meanwhile 80 folks showing up to listen to Barack Hussein bray in anger.
6000 massed for the POTUS speech down the road.ONLY FOUR MORE YEARS TO GO SNOWFLAKES!
Wail.
Gnash.
:)@ Down South #4
Not being American I decided to do some research . .
And you did your research perfectly, putting many Americans to shame IMO.
It is a fact that the USA is a republic of states, and a "state" back in those days was a country. So the citizens who are blaming Trump for everything that goes wrong disregard the simple facts that you present in your comment.
The president is an executive, executing the laws that Congress passes in those areas listed in Article I, Section 8 -- "The Congress shall have Power To . ." and public health is not on the list. The president should not be considered as an autocrat making decisions on everythng. This is supposed to be a democracy.
Public health, like public education for example, is a function of the states, and they failed us to a great extent. . . .good job!
Oct 25, 2020 | www.thegatewaypundit.com
One of the biggest questions in the world right now is whether the use of masks is beneficial in preventing contracting the China coronavirus. A study attempted to do just that but publishers will not take it on and are preventing it from being published. A large mask study out of Denmark is complete but being delayed in publishing. Although the size of the study and the study's design are well within the parameters of a solid study, publishers will not take it on:
The purpose of the study was once and for all to try to clarify the extent to which the use of masks in public space provides protection against the corona infection.
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One of the authors of the study is upset the study has not been published for peer review. The world needs to know the results of the study and should be provided a chance to challenge it and determine its viability:
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Alex Berenson shared that the study should be released – we need to know if wearing masks is harmful:
We can guess right now why the study is not being published – because masks don't work in preventing the spread of the China coronavirus and likely are harmful to your health.
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Oct 19, 2020 | www.rt.com
After Dr. Anthony Fauci gave an interview in which he claimed the White House was controlling his media appearances, the president lashed out at him, even taking to comparing how each of them throws a baseball."Dr.Tony Fauci says we don't allow him to do television, and yet I saw him last night on @60Minutes," Trump tweeted on Monday, referencing the interview where Fauci made his claims about being limited in who he can talk to.
"He seems to get more airtime than anybody since the late, great, Bob Hope," the president added, referencing the late comedian known for his near-constant rotation on television while he was alive.
ALSO ON RT.COM New York Governor Cuomo goes 'full anti-vaxxer' on Covid-19 vaccine, says people should be 'very skeptical'Trump said he wants Fauci to "make better decisions" and claimed the original strategy to defeat the pandemic suggested by Fauci was "no masks & let China in."
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In the campaign call, Trump reportedly called Fauci a "disaster" and said people are tired of coronavirus and hearing from "Fauci and all these idiots."
While Fauci has been frequently criticized by conservatives for his support of lockdowns to battle Covid-19, his popularity with Democrats has been growing. Presidential candidate Joe Biden has said he would give Fauci the opportunity to continue working with the White House on the pandemic if he won the election.
Thus, Democrats have not taken Trump's latest criticisms of the doctor all that well with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and others targeting the president on social media.
"After deceptively using Dr. Fauci's words in a TV ad last week, now Trump is attacking him as a 'disaster.' For what? For telling the truth. We all know who the disaster is here, Mr. President. You," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) tweeted .
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Biden also released a statement condemning Trump's Fauci comments and claiming he is waving the "white flag" on the pandemic.
garyo550 1 hour ago Some time ago-this year-Fauci was outed as having endorsed, 15 years ago, Hydroxychlorquine as a drug that would kill AIDS, Ebola, SARS and a legion of other bugs. What has changed? Filthy lucre is one reason touted.
Oct 19, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
During a conference call with campaign staff that White House reporters were bizarrely allowed to listen in on, President Trump complained that "there's a bomb" every time Dr. Anthony Fauci goes on television, which is most days.
This is far from the first time President Trump has complained about the good doctor. But it might be the first time he's offered some direct commentary on exactly why he won't fire Dr. Fauci, even as Trump seems to have moved on with a new COVID-19 advisor, Dr. Scott Atlas, who has faced persecution by Big Tech for his views on how to approach COVID-19.
Though he conceded that the good doctor is "a nice guy" who has "been around for 500 years", Trump said the problem with Dr. Fauci is that every time he goes on TV "there's a bomb", yet if you fire him, "there's an even bigger bomb".
"People are saying whatever...just leave us alone. People are tired of COVID... People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong...every time he goes on television there's always a bomb, but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him. This guy's a disaster."
With less than 3 weeks to go before election day, Trump also asserted that the American people are moving on from COVID-19 as cases rebound, while hospitalizations are also starting to creep higher. However, so far at least, deaths have been mostly subdued.
Confirming that he was speaking mostly off the cuff, Trump added after that if there was a reporter on the call (he didn't seem to realize that multiple WH reporters were apparently listening) they could report it "just how I said it."
"If there's a reporter on you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less," Trump said.
According to the NYT , Trump's campaign manager had organized the call to discuss strategy, before Trump pivoted to Dr. Fauci, an issue that was clearly on his mind following the doctor'scriticisms of Trump's campaign ads last week.
The NYT also brought up an interview with Dr. Fauci on '60 Minutes' last night where the doctor refuted Trump's claims that the end of the outbreak is just around the corner.
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Trump also reportedly called an NYT article claiming Trump was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with some of his aides - which followed Trump hinting that he might not bring back AG Bill Barr if elected for a second term due to his inability to charge any of the FBI officials involved with Operation Crossfire Hurricane despite the mountain of evidence suggesting some skulduggery was afoot as the FBI tried to put together an "insurance policy" to protect the nation from Trump.
"I love Mark Meadows," Trump reportedly said (the NYT report focused on frictions between the president and his chief of staff).
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Finally, Trump also told staff that the Wall Street Journal - which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns and controls the New York Post, the paper the published the string of damning reports about Hunter Biden's influence-peddling abroad - is working on "an important story".
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Boing_Snap , 1 hour ago....If there's a reporter on you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less," Trump said.
And that, my friends, is why Trump won the first time and will win again.
Freeman of the City , 3 hours agoGreat link many thanks.
Izzy Dunne , 3 hours agoYep, you don't like Trump or America, good.
Move to China.
spqrusa , 3 hours agospqrusa:
You deluded sycophant. Fauci is head of NIAID.
He was APPOINTED to lead Trump's Corona virus task force.
Les D , 3 hours agoTrump did not appoint Fauci - Fauci is a permanent fixture in government protected from firing by your know... "laws"
What a crock - the President HAS the Authority under the Constitution to FIRE ANYONE under his command.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN , 3 hours agoYup, sure did, and too many others.
Wray, Barr, Bolton, Kelly, McMaster, Sessions, Tillerson, Cohn, Mattis, Kelly, Mooch, Kiersten and her successor McAleenan; CIA Brennan lap dancer Haspel; promoted Rosenstein to 1st Asst who then took over; Minarosa or whatever her name was.
Add who I'm forgetting. The worst performance of any president, brings in one snake after another. Gorsuch will be the next one that becomes obvious. His first majority opinion sounded the alarm. PT, Gorsuch said publicly Justice Kennedy, a 100% traitor turncoat, who he clerked for and swore him in, was his Judicial Idol. Donald, duh?
Inept, inattentive, betrayed, too trusting--choose your analysis but his people decisions, his favorite word: "A disaster".
Pig Circus , 4 hours ago@spqrusa
Correct, ultimately Dr. Fauci reports to the Director of the Department of Health & Human Services and Trump could insist that he be fired.
"... and that sumbytch got fired."
Love him or hate him The Trumpster tells it like it is. Most transparent President in history.
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MOSCOWEXILE September 23, 2020 at 12:34 am
MARK CHAPMAN September 23, 2020 at 9:07 amMy wife is in a bad way, is still on a ventilator and an IV drip, but her condition is slowly improving. Her temperature is now normal.
Yesterday, a man from the Moscow health authority paid us a visit. He was dressed all in white in hazmat gear from head to toe, wearing goggles and a proper medical hazard mask, not a waste-of-time piece of paper "surgical mask.
He was here a long time. A very decent type of bloke he was. He spent ages filling out medical forms for me, Vova, Lena and Sasha. He checked out our state medical insurance policies and my passport and right of residence permit here as a foreign citizen. Having done all of this paperwork, which business took over an hour -- we left him alone at my elder daughter's writing desk in her room: I felt sorry for the poor bugger, for I thought he must be sweating like a pig inside all that safety gear -- he then, having first taken all our temperatures and pulse rates, stuck a swab on the end of a long stick up each of our nostrils, and did a swab of our throats.
We then each had to sign 5 times our copious documents that he had completed for us.
We have to go to our local state polyclinic, which happens to be right next door to our housing block, in a couple of days for the results.
Vova asked him if it was true that you can have covid yet show no symptoms: he said it was and that's why we were being checked out because their mum was in hospital with covid.
I feel like crap: head aching all the time and my lungs have started wheezing. My temperature is normal, however.
My lungs are partly buggered up in any case, as I have already long ago long described on here, the result of chronic bronchitis, which is endemic in that place where I was raised, and my previous occupation.
I went down with pneumonia here around 2001, I think, and the doctors here found a shadow on one of the lobes of my lungs, which the bastards in the UK never thought worth mentioning to me the last time I had a compulsory mineworker's lung X-ray in 1983.
JENNIFER HOR September 23, 2020 at 12:37 pmMy wife's friend Oksana has it as well; all the people I actually know who have it are in Russia. Oksana (who lives in Dalnegorsk) said that she felt weak all the time, and lost her sense of smell, which they tell me is a fairly common symptom. I think she is doing okay and we are confident she will recover fully as most non-compromised people do. I'm rooting for you and your family; take care of yourself.
MOSCOWEXILE September 23, 2020 at 7:54 pmGoodness, you don't sound too good and yet here you are posting impressive news every day. I am in awe.
I have heard the same, that initial COVID-19 symptoms include loss of senses of smell and taste, along with dry cough, fatigue and fever. Nausea and diarrhoea may be present. Paraesthesia (pins and needles sensations in skin) and chilblains sensations in fingers and toes have been reported as well.
Wishing your wife a comfortable and speedy recovery. Take care of yourselves and I wish you all well.
MARK CHAPMAN September 23, 2020 at 8:28 pmI fear I have contracted coronavirus. I have just spent a night in semi-delirium. I am cold. My limb extremities are very cold. I cannot keep warm in bed. I am shaking and feel very weak. I have had to put on a sweater whilst in bed and a lambswool shawl. My head is aching all the time and I nearly fall over when I try to get up and walk around. However, I do not think I have a high temperature.
CORTES September 23, 2020 at 9:39 pmI expect you have, considering a family member with whom you have been in close contact has it. You should probably notify the hospital if you have not already done so, as you may have to be admitted. You are, by your own description, in a high-risk group, although even people who are getting on a bit are at relatively low risk if they are otherwise in good health. You walk everywhere and do not smoke or drink. Your immune system should be relatively solid and maneuvering to do battle.
Your symptoms sound very much like a conventional fever, which surely you have had before. It's no fun, but you have shaken it off in the past. That's not intended to downplay the necessity to notify medical authorities.
I was almost certain I had already had it as well, but it would have been back in late November/early December, long before there were any cases here. Still, for a transportation worker who comes in contact daily with travelers from far-flung corners, it's possible. It was the worst chest cold I have ever had; coughing hurt so badly that I would breathe in tiny sips of air so as not to trigger a coughing response, which seemed to happen every time I drew a deep breath. No fever, though, or headache.
Since there was no coronavirus panic then, I did not take any special precautions; the Mate on the same ship also had it, and probably I either gave it to him or got it from him. No other crew members were affected that I know of. No family members caught it. The Mate was away from work for a day or two – in my case, the only day I was too sick to go to work happened to be a day off, so I did not miss any work; the next day I felt well enough to answer the call of duty, although still a bit ropy. After that, I recovered quickly and completely.
It may not have been coronavirus, but it may have been. However, different regions experience different mutations of the virus, and mine might be nothing like yours. Of course I cannot give you advice as I am not a medical professional, but it seems to me you are doing all you can do, and the correct measures you can take on your own against what sounds like a fever minus the sweating, which you usually do not see until it is getting near breaking anyway. Courage, and keep up your nourishment.
JAMES LAKE September 24, 2020 at 3:42 amTake care, and speedy recovery!
And that's an order.
JEN September 24, 2020 at 4:43 amThe most common symptoms of fever include:
headache
warm forehead
chills
aching muscles
general feeling of weakness
sore eyes
loss of appetite
dehydration
swollen lymph nodesSounds like you have a fever – your body fights infection and ends up becoming too cold. Try taking a hot shower / bath and Parecetomol to help your temperature normalise
ET AL September 24, 2020 at 7:11 amSounds like flu. You need to see a doctor as flu can be just as serious as COVID-19 for older people.
ET AL September 24, 2020 at 7:45 amIt's also about the time you are supposed to get your winter flu jabs too. Normally I wear a scarf and hat indoors to try and keep my temperature constants.
Like you lot, I think I've also had COVID-19 as I felt bad for a couple of weeks back in March which is way, way longer than the usual two to three days.
Best wishes for a quick recovery to ME and Da Missus.
MOSCOWEXILE September 24, 2020 at 12:10 pmEh, I cannot write properly today. This might be because the dog cat ikes fighting me. I meant to write that When I have the flu or whatever I wrap up indoors. And have a very hot curry.
CORTES September 24, 2020 at 12:13 pmI spent almost a full day today being tested at a clinic with a CT scanner.
They diagnosed pneumonia. I refuse to be hospitalized: I wanna die with my boots on.
I feel like shit.
MARK CHAPMAN September 24, 2020 at 3:49 pmTake care, ME. And take the advice of the professionals.
CORTES September 24, 2020 at 3:57 pmUnless they tell you to hop on one foot everywhere you go. Because that will mean they have been gotten to by the shoemakers.
MARK CHAPMAN September 24, 2020 at 4:01 pmBlessed are the shoemakers
For they make all soles evenET AL September 24, 2020 at 12:30 pmSign above the door of a fish & chips shop: "These are the tines that fry men's soles".
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JEN September 24, 2020 at 4:38 pmBOLLOCKS! You definitely have Old Monia. That's my professional opinion.
Get thee to a nunnery/popery/pot-pourri/no-curry hospital forthwith and stop assing around ME. Do it for Odin.
ET AL September 25, 2020 at 12:58 amHis god is Woden and Woden must be missing his usual offerings of whiskey and tobacco .
MARK CHAPMAN September 24, 2020 at 2:46 pmNot wooden, like my jokes?
JEN September 24, 2020 at 4:48 pmPneumonia is no fun, but it's not COVID. It will take more than pneumonia to kill an old bastard like you. Drink a cup of cinnamon tea, and do 50 jumping jacks as penance.
MOSCOWEXILE September 25, 2020 at 1:20 amLemon, ginger and honey tea is good too if cinnamon tea is not to your taste. You need to have lots of hot tea drinks and wafting the steam to your nose (but don't burn your hand or your face) will help clear your nasal passages and make breathing easier.
Keep well and I hope the rest of the family is staying well too.
BLATNOI September 25, 2020 at 3:38 amI woke up in the night feeling bad but by 6 a.m. my temperature was normal. I've been taking the medication. Seems to be working. In the end, I conceded to my wife, after her continuously nagging that I go to hospital. I told her I would cure myself at home, but she doesn't want a 71-year-old geriatric with pneumonia in the flat with her children.
I was about to get ready to set off, when the local clinic phone with the results of the coronavirus test that Vova, Lena, Sasha and I had undergone a few days ago.
Apart from Vova, we all have coronavirus. The clinic said we must not leave the flat and that a doctor would visit us later today. As regards being hospitalized because of pneumonia, the doctor who is going to visit us will decide.
MOSCOWEXILE September 25, 2020 at 3:55 amCoronavirus does cause pneumonia as there are such things as viral pneumonia, or it can weaken the lungs for bacteria to cause bacterial pneumonia. Please get some rest as there is not much that can be done to cure a viral infection except rest (although in Russian and many American hospitals they now give a steroid which lowers the immune system overresponse and seems to work really well).
I highly doubt you are in a 'real' risk group, since you are too young, and also don't drink and are not overweight, but please take it easy nonetheless. Coronavirus symptoms can come and go and it can drastically increase the heart rate all of a sudden (because it can get into the blood stream), so it's best to just lie in bed as much as possible to lower the risk of cardiac problems and wait until your immune system makes antibodies.
ET AL September 25, 2020 at 5:12 amСобянин призвал пожилых москвичей оставаться дома из-за коронавируса
12:28 25.09.2020Sobyanin has urged elderly Muscovites to stay at home because of coronavirus
12:28 25.09.2020MOSCOW, September 25 – RIA Novosti. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has called on elderly Muscovites and people with chronic diseases to change over to remote work or take a vacation owing to to the coronavirus situation. The new rules will take effect on 28 September.
"Muscovites over 65 and younger citizens suffering from chronic diseases should not leave the house or leave their garden plot without a special need for doing so. Please temporarily refuse making contact with relatives and friends who live separately. Walking and physical exercise in the fresh air is restricted", says the personal blog of the mayor.
Yeah, well I'm not a Muscovite -- so bugger off!
They've told me and my 3 children to stay put in our flat.
The doctor has still not come though. When he does, I 'm sure he'll say there's no need to go to hospital. My temperature is now normal .
In my CT analysis that I have now finally read from top to bottom, it says that observations of my scan "may correspond to the manifestations of viral pneumonia".
That's rich: may correspond !
MOSCOWEXILE September 26, 2020 at 1:32 amIt might be a lady doctor. Then you would have no choice! 😉
MOSCOWEXILE September 26, 2020 at 2:03 amIt was, and she wasn't the least interested in me and told me so. I proffered her my CT analysis and she said that she needed nothing off me, that she was a paediatrician and was only interested in my children's health. So I said to her: "I'm a big kid really!"
She may not have understood me because because I said that to her in English.
And she thought I was their ancient grandpa as well, which always pisses me off.
She wasn't aware that Vova was getting ready to bugger off to the dacha for the weekend with the delightful Anastasia, albeit he is supposedly confined to barracks as well. As soon as she had left, he was away to the country with his girlfriend.
JEN September 26, 2020 at 4:06 amBy the way, Vova is the only one in my family who has not been registered as corona-positive. That must be because when he was in the Crimea for the first 11 days in August, 3 days before he was due to return here, he fell ill and his temperature rocketed. he had breathing difficulties and they took him to a coronavirus clinic in Sevastopol, from where they sent him to a lung hospital in Balaclava. They gave him a CT scan there and said he he had pneumonia and he needn't go into isolation and could fly back to Moscow. So he must have immunity now.
" [She] wasn't the least interested in me and told me so. I proffered her my CT analysis and she said that she needed nothing off me "
The way this part of the comment reads, it looks like a hilarious propositioning scenario.
Sep 26, 2020 | www.rt.com
Thousands of Britons who suffer heart attacks and strokes are dying at home instead of seeking medical treatment, a new study has found, as new government figures show 75,000 are projected to die as a result of lockdown measures.
Stay-at-home orders prompted countless people suffering from serious medical conditions to avoid hospitals, according to the study's findings, which were published in the Heart medical journal and first reported by the Daily Mail. The paper noted that deaths from heart disease in private homes surged by 35 percent from March to July, resulting in 2,279 more fatalities on average over the past six years. However, heart and stroke deaths in hospitals dropped by around 1,400 during the same period, suggesting that some who chose to stay home would have died anyway even if they had been hospitalized. The researchers calculated that in total, there were 2,085 excess deaths in England and Wales that could be linked to heart attack and stroke sufferers who refused to seek out medical treatment. This means that between March 2 and June 30, every day 17 people died needlessly from heart attacks.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, weighs in on the Breonna Taylor decision, his argument with Dr. Fauci and the new Senate Hunter Biden report. #FoxNews
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...On Wednesday, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh called out CNN's hypocrisy on this matter, noting that "if people can protest in the streets by the tens of thousands, if people can riot, if people can gamble in casinos, then certainly they can gather peaceably under the First Amendment to hear from the president of the United States."
https://www.mrctv.org/embed/553665
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/shameless-cnn-says-blm-protests-are-safe-covid-not-trump-rallies
Butthurt from this exchange, CNN Newsroom drafted in "medical analyst" Leana Wen , who happens to be a former Planned Parenthood president, to explain why science means COVID doesn't affect BLM protests as much as Trump rallies.
"It does not care why it is that people are gathering but it does care about the conditions under which they're gathering," Wen argued, adding "outdoors much safer than indoors and wearing masks obviously much safer than not wearing masks."
"I would also in this case would distinguish between the behavior of the participants while at protests versus rallies," she continued, arguing that BLM protesters are more "aware" of the risks than Trump supporters.
"At protests many people are aware of the risks and doing everything they can to reduce that risk versus at many of the rallies we are seeing people going in defiance," Wen claimed.
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Dr. Quack? CDC's Redfield Claims Masks "Guaranteed To Protect Against COVID" by Tyler Durden Thu, 09/17/2020 - 14:09 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
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In February, Redfield said healthy people should *not* wear masks.
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Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday morning, CDC Director Robert Redfield entered further into quack doctor territory, claiming that wearing a mask protects the wearer against the novel coronavirus, even more so than a high-efficacy vaccine.
"These facemasks are the important, powerful public health tool we have," Redfield said, while touching both sides of his mask and unconsciously contaminating it with his hands. "I might even go so far as to say that this facemask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine," he added.
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This appears to be another "scientific" evolution on masks from the "public health expert" class. At first, we were advised not to wear masks. Then, the "my mask protects you. Your mask protects me" mantra became the widely disseminated narrative. Now, masks apparently have the incredible power of protecting the mask wearer from the virus.
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In February, Redfield said the exact opposite about masks.
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In the February hearing, Redfield told Americans not to buy medical-grade masks , saying there's "no role for these masks in the community."
There remains zero evidence that cloth masks or the earloop masks displayed by Redfield helps to slow the spread of COVID-19 or protect the wearer from infection. No country in the world has proven a link in slowing or stopping the spread due to mask wearing mandates, which are in effect in countless nations.
Given the lack of demonstrated evidence supporting it, mask-wearing has become a cult-like religious movement in the United States , one that relies on complete subservience to total mysticism. Members of the mask movement frequently target Americans who engage in non-compliance, likening these individuals to evil, plague-carrying menaces. Redfield's testimony will only add fuel to the mask mania that is sowing discord in America.
In his testimony, Redfield added that a COVID vaccine probably won't be available to the general public until at least the second or third quarter of 2021.
"If you're asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American public, so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life, I think we're probably looking at third, late second quarter, third quarter 2021," he testified, adding that first responders may have access to the vaccine before the end of the year.
Like many institutional bureaucracies in the federal government, the CDC has become plagued with corruption and "woke" politics. A whistleblower recently revealed that the CDC was forcing its staff to undergo "critical race theory" training.
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American Thinker has run several articles like this one about Dr. Anthony Fauci's political bias (which is his right). But the Miami Herald published an article that was aimed at undermining President Trump , which actually contains compelling evidence that Fauci's bias or ignorance is affecting what he is telling the American people about Covid-19. In the article, Dr. Fauci: 'I have to disagree' with Trump on coronavirus , the author writes:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, disagreed on Friday with President Donald Trump's assertion that the country is "rounding the corner" on the coronavirus pandemic.
"I really do believe we're rounding the corner," Trump said during a White House briefing on Thursday. He added that newweekly cases have gone down by 44% since July.
"I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with that because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, Andrea, they're disturbing," Fauci told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Friday.
"We're plateauing at around 40,000 cases a day and the deaths are around 1,000.
From his interview with Andrea Mitchell Friday, the Herald quotes Fauci as stating, "We're plateauing at around 40,000 cases a day and the deaths are around 1,000."
In fact, he is very wrong : the average daily new cases for the past two weeks have been 31,411, dramatically less than Fauci's 40,000 number; and the average daily deaths for the past two-weeks have been 697, a full 30% less than Fauci's 1,000.
More significant, do these graphs of weekly average new cases (blue graph) and deaths (red graph) from Bloomberg look like we're "plateauing?"
Source: Bloomberg
Fauci has a right and obligation to express his views about the current situation and the future risks, but he should not mislead the public about the facts.
As a reminder, here are his comments from last week:
"We've been through this before," he said. "Don't ever, ever underestimate the potential of the pandemic. And don't try and look at the rosy side of things."
"I keep looking at that curve, and I get more depressed and more depressed about the fact that we never really get down to the baseline that I'd like," he said.
EmmittFitzhume , 59 minutes ago
GoldenDebt , 58 minutes agoDeep State Fauci has to go. Perhaps to prison
SMSpiff , 42 minutes agoDr FRAUDci is non stop lying and flip-flopping
Pope Innocent III , 37 minutes agoIt's safe to come out of your basement now, Joe.
Jerky Miester , 32 minutes agoThe nature of the Fauci scam is the total intentional destruction of induction and deduction.
NotAGenius , 39 minutes agoYou've been ****ting up this board for 3 years 7 months, you little phaqqot. Time to get out of the basement and earn an honest living....unless you make your bread and beer money being a pro troll. KYS now.
Covidiot Lvr , 7 minutes agoThis is the legal argument to indict Fauci on mass murder charges, justified but justice no longer exists in the USA, written by a legal writer. These comments and Fauci's crimes would convict Fauci of mass murder and sentence him to prison for life:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/bad_medicine_on_hcq_faucis_waterloo.html .
knopperz , 55 minutes agoZeroes want Fauci's head on a stick...but decry liberals who interfere with the free speech rights of conservatives on college campuses.
Free speech or no free speech - which is it, Zeroes?
CheapBastard , 53 minutes agoThe flu vaccination is now 78 years around.
The flu is still there.Next Stop --> 78 Years wearing a diaper in your face.
Get used to it suckers.All those people pushing the Corona Narrative should be hanged by the Balls.
2hangmen , 54 minutes agoWe are obviously rounding the corner with fewer cases and fewer deaths. Most businesses trying to reopen. Fauci is political hack and was from the start. he's also totally incompetent or a liar giving Americans completely wrong advice from the start. The MSM loves him because he's anti-Trump.
NotAGenius , 44 minutes agoFauci has been wrong since day 1 on Covid. He's done multiple 180s on policies, and the fact this is NOT a deadly virus in comparison to all other virus outbreaks. He's still playing politics and he's still making millions from Big Pharma and the Deep State. Fauci, please say good bye, and ride off into the sunset with your ill gotten gains.
blueapples Staff , 33 minutes agoTrump can't fire Fauci. He is a career government employee. Trump gave him a platform in the beginning. Trump has been right about Fauci now and mostly about this cold virus too, advocating the best medicine possible for it - hcq - while Fauci prevented Americans from getting this cheap commercial safe and effective medical treatment. Fauci has committed mass murder by withholding a life-saving medicine from Americans. The FDA is criminal too, same reason. FDA has also been paying hospitals $39,000 for every patient they kill with the fatal ventilators, killing more than saving according to records. But the government wants more deaths for bigger numbers. The American medical system is actually a genocidal organization now, trying to kill as many Americans as possible in many different ways, many associated with this medical fraud. Fauci should be imprisoned for life were any justice to exist in America. At best, Trump can minimize and ignore him and arrange for him to have no venue to spout b.s. and lies publicly. That's what we basically need: Fauci minimized if not disappeared.
JaWS , 49 minutes agoWhy would he ever fire the fall guy? If he fired him, you'd still have the push for lockdowns, the policies based on flawed statistical models, and all the other nonsense. Except then without a guy like Fauci to place blame on, the administrations role in this becomes much more apparent.
It makes more sense to have a guy like Fauci on board to deflect to, especially given his career as a government employee, so that it looks like there's some nefarious underlying force that is working against the administration when the reality is that that nefarious underlying force is working in tandem with it.
Samual Vimes , 23 minutes agoDamn the cases. I know about 10 people that have tested positive for covid19. Most cases are not much more than a cold. Some not even that bad. Look at the deaths. That's where the narrative should go. They are significantly down from the peak.
serotonindumptruck , 38 minutes agoSAY WHAT! -- FDA is outsourcing Covid-19 testing to 10 Chinese companies
SummerSausage , 36 minutes ago"Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert ..."
I have to disagree with this.
Bollixed , 6 minutes agoIf they left off the word "expert" it would be an accurate statement.
curtisw , 9 minutes agoFauci is an expert. An 'ex' is a has-been and a 'spert' is a drip under pressure. He fits the bill perfectly.
scottyji , 19 minutes ago"Because I have a vaccine to peddle."
-- A. Fauci
Ergo I.C. , 28 minutes agoFAUCI BELONGS IN PRISON.
Fauci's narcissisticly obsessed with his "expert image" and his lucrative role as pimp for Big Pharma = total Napoleon Complex, two-faced, stinkin' bureaucrat of the Deep State.
adr , 39 minutes agoBecause Fauci and his buddy Bill Gates are trying peddle vaccines worth billions of dollars.
Solarstone , 30 minutes agoSince Fauchi is supposedly an expert, maybe he can tell us why people suffering from hay fever are being told they have Covid.
CallingDrFraudschi , 25 minutes agoBecause you can have both. Try again
Consuelo , 36 minutes agoProof please.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I 2 = 30%, p = 0.25)
https://swprs.org/who-mask-study-seriously-flawed/
A. General flaws
- Of the 29 studies analyzed by the Lancet meta-study, seven studies are unpublished and non-peer-reviewed observational studies that should not be used to guide clinical practice according to the medRxiv disclaimer (references 3, 4, 31, 36, 37, 40 and 70; see table above).
- Of the 29 studies considered by the meta-study, only four are about the SARS-CoV-2 virus ; the other 25 studies are about the SARS-1 virus or the MERS virus, both of which have very different transmission characteristics: they were transmitted almost exclusively by severely ill hospitalized patients and not by community transmission.
- Of the four studies relating to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, two were misinterpreted by the Lancet meta-study authors ( refs. 44 and 70 ), one is inconclusive ( ref. 37 ), and one is about N95 (FFP2) respirators and not about medical masks or cloth masks (see detailed analysis below).
- The Lancet meta-study is used to guide global facemask policy for the general population. However, of the 29 studies considered by the meta-study, only three are classified as relating to a non-health-care (i.e. community) setting . Of these three studies, one is misclassified ( ref. 50 , relating to a hospital environment), one showed no benefit of facemasks ( ref. 69 ), and one is a poorly designed retrospective study about SARS-1 in Beijing based on telephone interviews ( ref. 74 ). None of these studies refer to SARS-CoV-2.
- The authors of the Lancet meta-study acknowledge that the certainty of the evidence regarding facemasks is "low" as all of the studies are observational and none is a randomized controlled trial (RCT). The WHO itself admitted that its updated facemask policy guidelines were based not on new evidence but on "political lobbying" .
In view of these shortcomings, University of Toronto epidemiology professor Peter Jueni called the WHO study "methodologically flawed" and "essentially useless".
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- In the US state of Kansas , the 90 counties without mask mandates had lower coronavirus infection rates than the 15 counties with mask mandates. To hide this fact, the Kansas health department tried to manipulate the official statistics and data presentation.
aelfheld , 34 minutes agoFauci has been torpedoed here --- even without his lying numbers (of cases & deaths). With the actual non-LYING numbers, he should be stripped of his medical license and prosecuted for gross negligence, even gross-er Incompetence, and for potential Criminal $Gain off his rather cozy relationship with Big Pharma and Bill Gates...
This whole thing was a $SCAM of the highest order.
Everybodys All American , 43 minutes agoFauci's a bureaucrat.
Bureaucrats have unqualified immunity.
drstrangelove73 , 6 minutes agoDuring the Spanish Flu of 1918 no one as I can tell was advocating for everyone to be vaccinated either for or against their will. That tells you everything about this Dr. Fauci imo. He should be removed from the planet.
asteroids , 14 minutes agoI've posted about Tony several times this year.I spent an academic quarter as a medical student on his service at the NIH,then saw him again many times in the 80's when I returned as a fellow.He is a lifelong democrat,and card carrying member of the deep state who has played politics with the management of viral infections for 40 years.Let that sink in.He has been the director of the same NIH institute for 40 years.No one else in the history of the institute has been a director for half that long.You think he doesn't know how to play the game? _arrow
Hyzer , 9 minutes agoHow does Fauci explane Sweden? The number of new cases is very low. Their death rate is almost zero. Sweden now has herd immunity without a vaccine.
TannyDanner , 3 minutes agoHe pretends it doesn't exist, just like the MSM.
legalize , 18 minutes agoHe's trusting the plebs won't do their own research. I'm looking at the data almost daily and am beyond thankful that Sweden had the balls to go about it the way they did and not bow down to the bullies.
Useful_Idiot714 , 35 minutes ago
- Fauci himself has said that asymptomatic cases are "not the driver of infection"
- We keep measuring "cases" instead of symptomatic cases
- Therefore, I could give **** all about "case numbers"; I want to know about number of people who are infectious/symptomatic
SummerSausage , 46 minutes ago700 mostly old people with other diseases are dying from this each day in a country of 325,000,000. Sounds like we need mail in voting so that the frightened commies can vote early and often to save us by electing a senile racist rapist pedophile.
Robert Paulson , 30 minutes agoPanic is Fauci's objective.
Democrats love big government which means more power for Fauci, more taxes and less freedom for you.
Loser Face , 16 minutes agoPanic is too unpredictable, and disruptive.
The "hope" is for respectful, solemn acceptance that Big Brother/Sister can save "us" from ill health, poverty and international "enemies."
I mean **** was broken across most institutions throughout Western Civilization before the flu was weaponized into a means of control. But the whole theater has become absurd.
JamcaicanMeAfraid , 27 minutes agoEveryone should watch this video, which explains the US mortality curve: https://youtu.be/8UvFhIFzaac
The casedemic is pure and blatant FUD targeted towards Trump and Americans.
aelfheld , 44 minutes agoI predict on November 4th and if Dementia Joe is elected Fauci and his super ego will stand before any microphone put in fromt of him and say "Joe Biden has put a stop to covid, he has conquered the virus."
JaWS , 51 minutes agoFauci sees the statistics as disturbing because they indicate an endpoint to his prominence.
GoldenDebt , 1 hour agoThere are 4 men in my county that were tested positive within about 3 days of each other and they had to quarantine for 14 days. About a week into it they started meeting everyday down at the local fishing hole to fish while no one else was around. One of these men is 80 years old. The other 3 are in their 70s. Does this sound like something to shut the entire country down?
moneybots , 13 minutes agoDont be a moron
Dr Fraudci is all politics and he's LYING. Dr FRAUDci also never condemned the protests as being potential SUPER-SPREADER events
He's a criminal
Thalamus , 45 minutes ago"I really do believe we're rounding the corner," Trump said during a White House briefing on Thursday. He added that newweekly cases have gone down by 44% since July.
"I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with that because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, Andrea, they're disturbing," Fauci told Andrea Mitchell on Friday.
The statistics say Trump is right, according to the chart. Why is Fauci lying to the American people?
Zerogenous_Zone , 48 minutes agoFauci's worst case prediction of 1.7 million deaths from Covid-19 kind of came up short at only 10K; but at least he didn't yell fire in a crowded theater .
which statistics?
to quote the great Mark Twain (now classified by the leftists as a rassiss)...
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics ."
the one statistic that is relevant, is the decrease in mortality...
and I for one, would like to know how they created a Covid-19 specific test...wait...what was that?
THEY HAVEN'T?! it is an antigen test...that is, if you have any residual from your LAST flu shot (they inject you with lysed virus to build up your antibody count...antigens!) you could test positive...
and probably a majority of the tests are at issue since the test is highly inaccurate...
but who cares? the virus is out of the box and here to stay...so you have either already been exposed, or you will soon be exposed...and NO vaccine will be sufficient (since viral strains mutate almost immediately)...especially the comment cold (news flash!! the 'common cold' is a CORONAVIRUS!!)
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honest injun , 3 hours ago
Choomwagon Roof Hits , 3 hours agoAt what point does the man on the street realize that he has been had? It took me about 2 weeks, 6 months ago to realize what Fauci and his cronies were saying was nonsense. Smart people that I know, took months to reach the same conclusion but many people are still buying the disinfo.
fackbankz , 3 hours agoOnce I started getting into the influenza-like-illness data and realized this was spreading exponentially worldwide since at least November - there were probably millions or tens of millions of people infected and recovered in the US by the time the first cases were identified.
The scam just gets bigger and more absurd every week.
Wait until cold and flu season when people freak out over every little case of the sniffles. Many will have forgotten completely that one year ago it was normal for people to catch cold, and nobody worried about it.
Sep 15, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research,
Just when the fear starts to subside, and growing public skepticism seems to push governors into opening, something predictable happens . The entire apparatus of mass media hops on some new, super-scary headline designed to instill more Coronaphobia and extend the lockdowns yet again.
It's a cycle that never stops. It comes back again and again.
A great example occurred this weekend. A poll appeared on Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It showed that confidence in Anthony Fauci is evaporating along with support for lockdowns and mandatory Covid vaccines.
The news barely made the headlines, and very quickly this was overshadowed by a scary new claim: restaurants will give you Covid!
It's tailor-made for the mainstream press. The study is from the CDC, which means: credible. And the thesis is easily digestible: those who test positive for Covid are twice as likely as those who tested negative to have eaten at a restaurant.
"Eating and drinking on-site at locations that offer such options might be important risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection," the study says.
Very scary!
Thus the implied conclusion: don't allow indoor dining! Otherwise Covid will spread like wildfire!
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After six months of this Corona Kabuki dance, driven by alarmist media and imposed by wacko, power-abusing governors and mayors, I've become rather cynical about the whole enterprise, so I mostly ignore the latest nonsense.
In this case, however, I decided to take a closer look simply because so many millions of owners, workers, and customers have been treated so brutally in the "War on Restaurants."
It turns out, of course, that this is not what the study said. What's more interesting is to consider exactly what's going on here. The study was based on interviews with 314 people who had been tested of their own volition. It included 154 patients with positive test results and 160 control participants with negative test results.
The interviews took place two weeks following the tests, and they concerned life activities two weeks prior to getting the test.
Before we go on here, remember that what alarmed people about Covid was the prospect of dying. The study says nothing about this subject, nor about hospitalization. It's a fair assumption that the positive cases being interviewed here got it (presumably, if the tests are accurate, which they are not ) and got over it.
This alone is interesting simply because it reveals how much the whole subject has been changed: the pandemic has become a casedemic.
Now, to the question of life activities. In the study, based on answers to a survey, the following were not correlated in any significant degree with positive cases of Covid:
Wearing a mask or not wearing a mask
Going to church
Riding on public transportation
Attending large house parties
Going to the gym
Going to the office
Going to the hair salon
Going shopping
Now one might suppose, if you think the study has any merit, that this would be the headline.
The massive power of the state has been deployed all over the United States and the world to force the closure of churches, gyms, offices, salons, and malls. This all happened and is still happening. Also mask mandates became the new normal. The public has been invited by health authorities to jeer at, denounce, and turn in anyone who doesn't have a cloth strapped to his or her face.
All of this happened in complete contradiction to every commercial right, property right, or normal human freedoms. We threw it all away in the name of virus control. Our lives have been completely upended and our assumptions about our rights and liberties have been overturned.
And yet here is a study that is unable to document any correlation between these life activities and catching the disease.
That's an amazing conclusion that could have generated headlines like:
Salons Won't Get You Sick, CDC Reports
You Won't Catch Covid at the Gym, CDC Shows
No, Your Hairstylist Doesn't Spread the Coronavirus
Scared to Go Shopping? Don't Be, Says the CDC
Your Mask Is Pointless, New Study Says
Church Goers Shouldn't Fear Sickness, Scientists Reveal
Study: Your House Party Didn't Spread the Virus
And so on. But none of this was to be. Not one single story in the mainstream press said anything like this, even though this was all implied by the CDC study.
The one place that the study revealed a positive correlation between positive cases and life activities was going to restaurants.
So that's what got the alarmist headlines. Yes, these are all real.
New COVID-19 Study Blames Coronavirus Spread on Restaurant Dining
Coronavirus Patients Twice As Likely To Have Eaten In Restaurants Before Getting Ill: CDC Study
Adults with COVID-19 twice as likely to have eaten at restaurants, CDC study finds
Study finds bad news for bar and restaurant-goers during COVID-19
US govt study highlights Covid-19 risk from bars and restaurants
And so on for thousands of times in every mainstream venue. They are all competing for clicks in the great agenda of extending lockdowns and feeding public fear as much as possible. So the worst-possible spin on this slightly sketchy study gets all the headlines.
Thus is it burned into many people's minds that restaurants are really disease-spreading venues. Go out to eat and you might die!
And here is what makes this even stranger. The interviewers never asked the people in the survey whether they were eating indoors or outdoors, as incredible as that seems. The authors admit this:
"Of note, the question assessing dining at a restaurant did not distinguish between indoor and outdoor options."
Why not? Did they just forget to ask? What's going on here?
Which is to say that even if the results are meaningful – and there's so much about this study that is murky and error prone – they are practically useless for knowing what to do about it. If there is no distinction between indoor and outdoor, all speculation about ventilation or crowds or the presence of food and so on, is utterly pointless.
Without knowing that, we are at a loss to figure out any answer to the question of why and what to do. Instead, the message comes down to: don't go out to eat.
Here is how bad the science has become. In the discussion, the authors write the following:
"Direction, ventilation, and intensity of airflow might affect virus transmission, even if social distancing measures and mask use are implemented according to current guidance. Masks cannot be effectively worn while eating and drinking, whereas shopping and numerous other indoor activities do not preclude mask use."
Here is what is weird: the study itself supports none of that paragraph.
The survey never asked about ventilation because the people who made the survey somehow forgot to make a query concerning indoor vs. outdoor dining . As for masks, the study did in fact ask respondents about mask wearing and the results showed no correlation between the sickness and whether and to what extent people were wearing masks!
In other words, that paragraph in the discussion is contradicted in two places by the authors' own study.
In addition, the authors themselves point to an intriguing issue: the people in the survey might have biased their answers based on their personal knowledge of the test results.
Think about it this way. The people who had a positive Covid test are more likely to ask themselves the great question: how did I get this? Going to restaurants is such a rare activity these days that it stands out in one's mind. When the survey asked people if they had gone out to eat, it is possible that the memory of the Covid positive person might be more likely to blame the restaurant, whereas the Covid negative person might be more likely to have forgotten the locale of every meal in the last 30 days.
In other words, the real result of the study might be: Covid patients are more likely to scapegoat restaurants than gyms, churches, and salons.
Alas, none of these interesting considerations appear in the media-rendered version of this study: panic and keep the lockdowns in place!
Lockdowns have become a conclusion in a desperate search for evidence. Imagine if you undertook a study of C-positive vs. C-negative cases and asked the people if they mostly wear lace-up or slip-on shoes. If you come up with some positive correlation, the CDC will publish you and a media panic will ensue.
This is precisely where we've been for six solid months now. The media has become the handmaiden of lockdown tyranny, blasting out simplistic versions of sketchy studies to keep the panic going as long as possible. And the public, which is far too trusting of the media and its capacity for rational and accurate reporting, eats it up.
For now. Once the dust settles on all of this, it seems highly likely that media science reporting will lose credibility for a generation. It certainly deserves that fate.
Meanwhile, an entire industry is being creamed .
play_arrow Walter Melon , 3 hours agoLA_Goldbug , 3 hours agoSame CDC that said this the other day:
"Cloth masks that are used to slow the spread of COVID-19 offer little protection against wildfire smoke. They do not catch small particles found in wildfire smoke that can harm your health."
Just checking if that's the same CDC.
honest injun , 3 hours agoWow !!!!!
Nice find :-)
At what point does the man on the street realize that he has been had? It took me about 2 weeks, 6 months ago to realize what Fauci and his cronies were saying was nonsense. Smart people that I know, took months to reach the same conclusion but many people are still buying the disinfo.
Sep 10, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Are we overreacting to COVID-19?Be it Resolved, the scientific community has overreacted to the threat of COVID-19 and the data prove it...
GUESTSSix months into a global pandemic and 63,000 scientific papers later, scientists and medical researchers continue to be perplexed by COVID-19. There are many unknowns with the virus, and one of the most controversial is how deadly it really is. Since the beginning of the pandemic, leading health institutions such as the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have warned that COVID-19 is much more dangerous than the seasonal flu and that, without expansive public health measures, millions of people around the world could die from the virus.
But there are some in the scientific community who disagree. And they say they have the data to prove it. Antibody testing of large population groups indicates that we could be grossly underestimating the number of people who have been infected by the virus – which means we are dramatically overestimating the death rate. Given these findings, they question whether sweeping public health controls are the way to approach a possible second wave of COVID-19 this autumn.
To understand the true prevalence of COVID-19 infections in the United States, Jay Bhattacharya has recently undertaken several seroprevalence studies (the study of antibodies in a population). You can read about his study of Santa Clara County in California here and his study of 5,600 Major League Baseball employees here .
Sten Vermund has published numerous scholarly studies on infectious diseases, which you can view here .
During the debate both Jay and Sten speak about COVID-19's "infection fatality rate" (IFR). IFR is one of the most important characteristics of an infectious disease in determining its severity. It is basically the ultimate measure of a disease's ability to cause death. You can learn more about IFR and how it is estimated here . In the debate, both Jay and Sten agree that the current estimates of the COVID-19 infection fatality rates are overestimated and therefore misleading. To learn more, read Jay's Wall Street Journal op ed.
During the debate, Sten points out that between March and May of 2020 there was a 19 per cent excess death rate in the United States. Excess death rates refer to the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time period and expected number of deaths in the same time period. According to Sten, the excess rates are probably 28 per cent higher than the official deaths tally of COVID-19 because so many cases are not reported. This Nature.com article supports this view.
Jay argues that part of the science community's overreaction to COVID-19 has been censorship of unpopular scientific views . Jay refers to an op ed in the New York Times by Michael Eisen that expresses concern about how scientific study pre-prints are being released before they are peer reviewed, and calling for the establishment of a scientific "rapid review" service for pre-prints.
One of the scientists Jay identifies as having an unorthodox view on COVID-19 is Gabriela Gomez, She speaks about her research on herd immunity occurring when as little as ten percent of the population has been infected with the virus here and you can read her research article here .
Sten and Jay disagree with each other about the feasibility of isolating the most vulnerable members of society, particularly the elderly, while letting the rest of the population continue to live normally . Sten refers to a New York Times article by David Katz which supports the strategy of "vertical interdiction", where those over 60 are "preferentially protected."
Jay refers to the recent release of findings from a Public Health England study that found negligible spread among one million students who returned to school in June.
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During the debate Jay identifies Sweden's approach to COVID-19 as a model for the world, while Sten argues it represents a failed strategy. You can decide for yourself by listening to the Munk Debate, Be it resolved, Sweden is the model for how to fight this pandemic and the next.
Listen to the full debate below:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/962-the-munk-debates-podcast-p-52131924/episode/be-it-resolved-the-scientific-community-71215453/?embed=true
Sep 05, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
In the past, our reports raising questions about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests have been met with accusations of 'fearmongering' and spreading 'misinformation'.
But not today.
That's because new research from the University of Oxford's Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and the University of the West of England has found that the swab-based technique used for most COVID-19 testing is at risk of returning "false positives" since copies of the virus's RNA detected by the tests might simply be dead, inactive material from a weeks-old infection. Although patients infected with COVID-19 are typically only infectious for a week or less, tests can be triggered by virus genetic material left over from a weeks-old infection.
The team's research involved analyzing 25 studies on the widely used polymerase chain reaction test. PCR tests use material collected with a swab - the most common type of test around the world, and especially in the US - then utilize a "genetic photocopying" technique that allows scientists to magnify the small sample of genetic material collected, which they can then analyze for signs of viral RNA.
What the researchers here have effectively found is that these PCR tests just aren't sensitive enough to distinguish if the viral material is active and infectious, or dead and inert.
For those who desire a more comprehensive understanding of how these tests work, the chart below can be helpful.
Professor Carl Heneghan, one of the authors of the study, said there was a risk that a surge in testing across the UK was increasing the risk of this sample contamination occurring and it may explain why the number of Covid-19 cases is rising but the number of deaths is static.
"Evidence is mounting that a good proportion of 'new' mild cases and people re-testing positives after quarantine or discharge from hospital are not infectious, but are simply clearing harmless virus particles which their immune system has efficiently dealt with," he told the Spectator.
Professor Heneghan added that international scrutiny might be required to avoid "the dangers of isolating non-infectious people or whole communities." ZKnight 14 minutes ago
Fake science. How about purify the virus first and establish a gold standard for testing first. No, of course not because the CDC has a patent for Covid-19 and nobody is allowed to try find it to see if it exists. play_arrow LogicFusion 27 minutes ago
Everybody is a Covid-19 / Coronavirus expert now!
Read about the failed coin dealer and convicted felon's performance. It's hilarious!
Martin Armstrong becomes Covid-19 Coronavirus Expert overnight play_arrow ducksinarow 59 minutes ago
Covid -19 has been so politicized that I don't believe a word of any publication for or against testing, existence of the Virus, or anything that provokes testing or issues opinions about locking down communities. Just like the riots, Covid news is just plain boring. play_arrow ominous 3 hours ago
Link to spectator.co.uk goes to home page, not this story.
Where is the original story posted? play_arrow play_arrow ominous 3 hours ago (Edited)
Perhaps this
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/infectious-positive-pcr-test-result-covid-19/ y_arrow 1 Rabbi Blitzstein 38 minutes ago
"Give me control of a nation's money, and I care not who makes the laws" - Mayer Amschel Rothschild. play_arrow play_arrow tangent 4 hours ago remove link
People who recommend a vaccine for an entirely cured virus should lose their license to practice medicine. 99.9% cure rate applying to people who take it before being hospitalized is one of the biggest success stories in the history of medicine for HCQ. Not only that, but there are multiple other likely cures that simply have not been studied well. You'd think people would appreciate the fact that the common cold has been cured, but instead they just whine that big pharma isn't getting those bucko bucks.
I honestly expected a ticker tape parade like in the movies when that first cure study came out. But instead they took a massive **** on the study and on the doctor... ****ty world we live in. ay_arrow Pair Of Dimes Shift 2 hours ago
An exec (55+) at my company is gung ho about the vaccine.
Unfortunately, I just had to give him a "wait and see" response although I know vaccines for coronaviruses are impossible. play_arrow 2 play_arrow ThanksIwillHaveAnother 4 hours ago (Edited)
Viruses are not full cells. They are DNA/RNA wrapped with a protein the clings to a cell then the cell imports the DNA/RNA to start making its proteins. So what is inactive? If that person sneezes on another person depending on immune system status that other person could get a bad infection. y_arrow 4 CrabbyR 3 hours ago
viruses utilizes CELL structures and host DNA to replicate dna or rna according to the viruses genetic code, the protein jacket is the final product to
disguise the virus from detection and to bind on another cell after the compromised cell RUPTURES, there's more to it but if it cannot copy itself effectively it can become nonviable and unable to infect another cell. It replicates DNA inside a host cell, It is not a complete organism and cannot replicate unless it can inject its DNA into a host cell. Antibodies cling to viruses and destroy this ability to bind to a target cell. A non viable virus has a damaged coat or DNA RNA that has to many Dimers (damage or code breaks) Bacteria is more in line with what you think a virus is y_arrow onewayticket2 4 hours ago (Edited) remove link
they lost me when they changed the definition of "death" to include "presumed, untested" cases (while bI@#$% ing at me that we needed to "follow the science")....and even got busted for the laughable motorcycle accident being classified as a covid death and the Labs that were sending in 100% positive results. (until they were caught) play_arrow OutaTime43 4 hours ago remove link
The test detects RNA. Not necessarily viable virus. Also, it will detect RNA presence in an individual who may already have antibodies and may be immune. We are bombarded daily by viruses of which we already have immunity. play_arrow sun tzu 10 hours ago
Shocking news that the South Koreans already discovered and published back in May. Western big pharma driven medicine is garbage 😂😂😂
play_arrow Roger Casement 10 hours agoWTF!!!!
World Bank exporting COVID-19 Testing Kits in 2018??????
https: // wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/ALL/year/2018/tradeflow/Exports/partner/WLD/nomen/h5/product/300215 play_arrow 7 play_arrow sun tzu 10 hours ago
Interesting play_arrow play_arrow Jack Mehoff 1 more time 9 hours ago
Business as usual play_arrow play_arrow Argon1 7 hours ago
Preparation for agenda 2021 in 2017. play_arrow 1 play_arrow CrabbyR 4 hours ago
WOW.......ties a few strands from other sources together into a real ugly picture play_arrow play_arrow Welsh Bard 10 hours ago
The professor who won the Nobel prize for work in this field, said that the way this test is being operated with over forty cycles, means that any results are entirely meaningless.
In Britain, having spent over £15 billion setting up PCR testing systems and a shaky test and trace apparatus on top of that, it appears that 90% of positive results now appear to be false. This is compounded by the fact that when a hot spot develops, more testing is done to show a rapid increase in more false positive results, meaning further new lockdowns and even more testing to prove yet more false positive results ad infinitum.
Now whether this is by design or ineptitude, people must decide for themselves but the outcome is utter chaos.
For those countries who have not followed the Swedish model especially countries like Australia and New Zealand who have set up complete isolation, now face a future perpetually cut off from the rest of the world.
Okay, new techniques will and are coming along to treat the disease like HCQ when used correctly maybe as a prophylactic and a vaccine that will need to be constantly upgraded like the Flu vaccine, means that the whole world has painted itself into a corner unless drastic revision is now made to the whole sorry mess.
In the meantime, we will now be stuck with digital currency and the introduction of ID Health Cards that will limit people in how they travel where they work and access to a whole heap of things like government services.
Welcome to the new world order! play_arrow 1 KuriousKat 11 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Don't tell the Shameless Aussie gov that after arresting hundreds for simply voicing doubt on need to lockdown entire city...Next time it will be thousands and not a damn thing they can do to stop it..These people are trickling us the truth how worthless the tests are when pretty much everyone knows. play_arrow espirit 12 hours ago remove link
Lessee.
WHO
Imperial College
John Hopkins
CDC
Line all those peeps up against the wall, and the first one to rat gets to live.
I'll provide my own ammo... ay_arrow Sick Monkey 6 hours ago
Not everyone working in these agencies are dishonest but like you and I we have to work and eat.
Most of them are trapped in this mess with bills to pay threatened by NDA.
play_arrow 1 Urban Roman 12 hours agoNot particularly new news. Been talked about since April at least -- it's an RNA virus, it has its own polymerase, and it leaves lots of RNA fragments in its wake.
The Corona family of viruses make 5 or 6 strands with partial copies of their RNA molecule. negative copies are made first, and then copied again into positive copies. Finally the one big RNA is made with the entire genome on it.
So about a dozen RNA molecules are made for each finished virus particle that is produced. And finally, a variety of different primers are used for the PCR tests, some are matched to the small partial RNA copies and others are matched to various features on the large whole-virus RNA. They can give different results for the same sample.
So, someone who registers on a PCR test has probably been exposed to the virus, but the test gives no clue as to whether it is an active infection, or the person is contagious, or they are just coming down with it, or they got over it six months ago. play_arrow 4 play_arrow 1
10 play_arrow gordo 12 hours ago remove link
Sweden, no masks, no lock downs, ALL SCHOOLS OPEN, herd immunity, no second wave.
Still think your masks and lock downs are working muppets?
1 play_arrow The 3rd Dimentia 13 hours agohttps://youtu.be/sjYvitCeMPc SARS-CoV2 and the Rise of Medical Technocracy. Lee Merritt, M.D. play_arrow 3 play_arrow hugin-o-munin 13 hours ago
I'm glad to see that many are starting to counter the official narrative.
We've been asleep for too long and allowed these agendas to fester to the point we're at now where a college dropout software salesman and a former 3rd world communist terrorist (neither of whom have any medical degree) are dictating to the world how everyone needs to get a DNA altering vaccine and a medical ID. It's completely nuts and bonkers yet more or less the entire planet's governments follow in 'lockstep' with ever more draconian laws and regulations incarcerating people in their own homes, making them wear masks causing oxygen deprivation and shutting down the entire world economy.
lay_arrow Warthog777 , 13 hours ago
Cabreado , 13 hours agoArticle is poorly written by someone who does not know medical science. There are no viral "cells" so the headline is a put off right away. The comment about "sensitivity" is misplaced as PCR tests are too sensitive: ergo false positives. I believe "specificity" is the word the author was searching for. If a test lumps true positives with false positives, then it lacks specificity.
Crush the cube , 13 hours ago"accusations of 'fearmongering' and spreading 'misinformation'.
But not today."Well, much of the world has known for months now about the testing lies...
and I'd be remiss to not remind the Tylers that they indeed played a role in the fear mongering along the way; quite intently so.
Digital-Anarchy , 14 hours agohttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Flavio_Bell_Covid_24?id=SxrxDwAAQBAJ
Busted, published 2018, what a scam.
hugin-o-munin , 13 hours agoAnyone who would use the term "virus cells", has no clue what they're talking about and should be completely disregarded. Viruses are not cells. PCR tests are searching for something your body produces in response to a virus as well. They are not produced specifically for a singular virus either. The entire concept of PCR testing is garbage. This **** was a scam from the get-go.
snblitz , 14 hours agoYes it is evident now that this entire pandemic is false and political. The goal seems to be to vaccinate entire populations and the question people need to ask is - why? what for? Aside from the obvious economic motives there are some more sinister plans that most people will have a hard time accepting but these need to be looked at. Several years ago there were a group of doctors and researchers that died of suspicious suicides who were collaborating and studying vaccines and the link to autism.
The effort was led by Dr.Jeffrey Bradstreet who was researching the natural substance GcMAF and how this could boost the immune system. What he discovered was that many vaccines had a compound/substance called Nagalase in them that is unnatural and has a detrimental effect on the immune system and function of GcMAF (which is produced by our own bodies) and has no business at all being in vaccines. Just before he was able to blow the whistle on this he also died of a suspicious 'suicide' and today most of the clinics and research groups working on GcMAF have been destroyed and ruined. Draw your own conclusions.
snblitz , 14 hours agoDr. Kary Mullis invented the PCR test. He said it was ineffective for this purpose.
Though he was addressing its use in a prior virus hoax unleashed upon the world.
I bet you didn't know this scam has been used before.
That is why I was able to call out the scam right from the start. The second I saw them using the PCR again, I knew it was from the same playbook.
aldousd , 13 hours agoSo many lies.
Viruses are not alive. They have no metabolic functions. They cannot move.
Don't believe me? Get a degree is virology or microbiology or just a read a book on the subject. Or capture a wuhan-virus yourself and watch it under a microscope. It won't move. It won't consume anything. It will just sit there inert.
The problem is that you are being lied to at a scale you cannot imagine.
I know, off to the fema re-education camp for me for spreading false information about the wuhan-virus.
Though I am not the one spreading fear and hysteria.
mstyle , 11 hours agoThere article is confused, but the work of the doctor is not. Viruses use your cells to reproduce. When your immune system targets the virus it actually kills your own cell which has become host to the virus. The virus particles and markers, and the DNA of the virus can be detected in these dead cells, but dead cells cannot serve as a factory for more viruses. So it's effectively a dead virus infected cell. Not a dead virus cell.
So while the transcription of the idea here was done by an idiot, it's not an idiotic idea. The tests cannot tell if the virus came in a living cell that is actively producing more viruses or a dead host cell that has been assassinated by your immune system. That's what they're talking about here.
hugin-o-munin , 11 hours agowhat about the chromosome 8 stuff that has been mentioned lately?
(since you appear to be rather intelligent)
IRC162 , 14 hours agoThanks. Well the chromosome 8 discovery in the PCR test specifications/details is strange and worrying because it makes you wonder why it's part of this at all. Some believe it's to get more false positive results while others believe it is what the mRNA vaccines are intended to target and if that's right then it's really sinister. What exactly is the plan? To make all of us get Downs Syndrome? I don't know but judging by all their other lies and schemes it wouldn't surprise me.
adr , 15 hours agoFuggin progressives and their pandemic political prop. But really this reaction is the same as their reaction to 'racial injustice'. They focus on feelings before the facts are known in order to achieve their end, and then do their best to bury/ignore the facts when they are gathered later.
94% COVID deaths with multiple comorbidities.
10 unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019 (6 were in self-defense).
Antiduck , 14 hours agoWhy didn't you mention that nearly all labs are running 35-40 cycles which guarantees a positive test, simply from noise.
The inventor of the test said if you don't find anything after 15 cycles, it probably isn't there. After 20 cycles the noise starts to be greater than any real information. By 30, the test is mostly noise. More than 35, the test is completely worthless.
Of course I've been saying this for five months, but most people didn't listen. After the NYT article came out, people I know started saying, "How did you know?"
I said, "Because I have critical thinking skills. Why didn't you believe me? Name a time I've steered you wrong."
ZenStick , 12 hours ago333 labs in florida had 100% positivity. (stupid word.)
Identify as Ferengi , 15 hours agoExactly correct.
Nobody will touch this line of reasoning in public or on media.
Bastages.naro , 15 hours agoSee above, Born2Bwired.
The PCR test is not useful for what they are using it for apparently. This has been known since the beginning. Here is quote regarding AIDS:
"Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in Science for inventing the PCR, is thoroughly convinced that HIV is not the cause of "AIDS". With regard to the viral load tests, which attempt to use PCR for counting viruses, Mullis has stated: "Quantitative PCR is an oxymoron." PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral load tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.
What PCR does is to select a genetic sequence and then amplify it enormously. It can accomplish the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack; it can amplify that needle into a haystack. Like an electronically amplified antenna, PCR greatly amplifies the signal, but it also greatly amplifies the noise. Since the amplification is exponential, the slightest error in measurement, the slightest contamination, can result in errors of many orders of magnitude."
NYTimes article last week suggested that only 10% of Covid positive PCR tests are clinically significant and infectious.
Sep 06, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
LetThemEatRand , 15 hours ago
afronaut , 15 hours agoIn six or twelve months a majority of people will start to get that they were had. It will be too late.
palmereldritch , 14 hours agoDoubt it. Unless the media or government says it
mstyle , 11 hours agoThere will be mask wearing long before then for totally different reasons.
_wayfarer , 9 hours agoThere's a rather large percentage of the US population that's going to die with a mask on their face, a BLM sign in their yard, and a Lemon on their screen.
Sad :-(
Salisarsims , 5 hours agoThey were had with 9/11, never got it.
BlueGreen , 15 hours agoMost of the United States where had by 9/11, and still are.
drendebe10 , 15 hours agoEnd lockdowns around the world now! Lockdowns kill. Never again. Sweden's death rate is lower than US, and many other countries.
NoDebt , 15 hours agoGaedamfukn democrap virus. Botox face carcinogenic hair dyed fossilized demented nasty wicked witch of the west ... and her army of flying monkey stooge guvners and mayors keeping their states shut down to oust Orange Julius and they could give two diarrhea schitz about you and your family All these terds care about is power
MaF , 15 hours agoIt's not just that the (government) response to this virus has ****** a lot of people royally, it's the absolute certainty that they will do it again in exactly the same manner, pretty much every damned year moving forward forever.
drendebe10 , 15 hours agoIn many blue states they can do it until 2022 when they are voted out...unless the people rise up.
PaulDF , 15 hours agoSheeple rise up? Phat phukn chance
palmereldritch , 14 hours agoHey, some people think that as long as Trump is gone ~ it doesn't matter what it takes. Nothing is too extreme.
Implied Violins , 15 hours agoThe MS-DOS virus subscription model.
Sound familiar? lay_arrow
EuroPox , 16 hours agoThe Nobel Prize winner, Kary Mullis, who developed the PCR test called out Fraudci for his ******** during the AIDS crisis on Nightline back in 1994:
https://www.sott.net/article/434439-Was-the-COVID-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus
Even then that ******* was practicing fraud in order to garner more tax dollars. His "test" ruined hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives.
Fraudci deserves to be EXECUTED for his BS.
TeamDepends , 16 hours agoWho cares how many 'cases' there are? The virus is not lethal except for a tiny number of people, who already have other problems. Quarantine them and let the rest of us get on with it.
COVID-19 is as real as Muhammed Atta.
Aug 31, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Urban life has always been about the concentration of life and work, but it doesn't have to be at the colossal scale.
In just a few months, New York City became the poster-child for what's shaping up to be a staggering transformation of the American urban scene. Our giant metroplex cities are set to contract and go broke in the years ahead. The trend was already clear before Covid-19 came on the scene, but the virus accelerated the complex dynamics behind it. Of course, most of our cities occupy important geographic sites, so something will remain; but they will be smaller and increasingly troubled places as the agonizing process plays out. And eventually, they may be better places, in a different way.
The short version of the story is that our biggest cities have exceeded the viable scale of their operation as we enter an era of resource and capital scarcities that will inescapably shrink economies. Their infrastructure is too complex and costly to maintain. The skyscrapers and megastructures that were built to accommodate a particular way of organizing work have very suddenly gone obsolete. The cities face default on their ruinous debt obligations and pension promises. Social and ethnic conflict has turned ugly, and both life and property are at risk as public order founders.
By May 2020, The New York Times reported that 420,000 residents had fled America's largest city, not a few of them permanently (my literary agent among them, whose pre-virus life revolved around eating lunch with editors every day). The wealthiest neighborhoods were the biggest losers -- and they were the city's leading taxpayers. Of course, the initial impetus for flight was fear of catching Covid-19 in an environment densely packed with people. But as corporate offices shuttered, many of these refugees performed their work duties at home over the Internet, and it dawned on the corporations that perhaps it was a waste to lease expensive, high-status headquarters in Manhattan. The iconic Time-Life Building at 1271 Sixth Avenue had accommodated 8,000 workers before Covid-19. In mid-summer 2020, 500 people were showing up there.
Meanwhile, as politicians forced lockdowns, the city's restaurants and shops went dark, along with theaters, museums, stadiums, and the other organisms that made up the city's rich ecosystem of daily life.
The prospect of midtown perhaps permanently abandoned by office workers made an eventual return to normality even less plausible. After four months of virus, the June riots and looting that followed the horrific death of George Floyd sealed the deal, with the luxury stores on Fifth Avenue smashed up and burgled. Who would reopen such a business when riots and looting could break out over a fresh pretext at any time?
All of that completely changed the business model for the owners of skyscrapers -- whole floors going empty and now the ground-floor businesses shut down, too. These buildings, with their massive maintenance costs, no longer produced enough revenue to operate them. Overnight, they were transformed from assets to liabilities.
The situation also harmed the condominium model for residential towers. Without the ground-floor rents, the homeowner's associations would have to steeply raise the monthly maintenance fees for each apartment owner, while significantly lowering each unit's resale value if the owner had to move out. All of this would thunder through the banks and REITs (real estate investment trusts) which owned and managed many of these properties, and ultimately through the city's dwindling treasury coffers.
Many like to believe that office towers can be easily converted to apartments. That's just not true. Apart from purely physical issues, like the layout of plumbing stacks, the coming scarcity of capital will obviate these ventures, and, anyway, tower apartments only exist because they're companions to office towers, which may now be permanently obsolete. The age of giantism is over. Cities are certainly about the concentration of life and work, but it doesn't have to be at the colossal scale. For many centuries it wasn't.
The pre-virus 21st century New York was a grandiose product of the financialization of the economy, including the global money-laundering orgy that incentivized the luxury condo tower building boom. That's over too. With so many other legacy economic activities flickering out, Wall Street was all that remained. All that held up Wall Street's stock and bond markets was "liquidity" (i.e. money in figment form) prestidigitated by the Federal Reserve. And now even Wall Street had little incentive for maintaining its headquarters on Wall Street, with its wealthy denizens trading and finagling via the Internet from comfortable perches in the Hamptons and the Connecticut hinterlands.
All American cities are not the same, of course, and they will get to downscaling in their own special way, subject to different combinations of forces. For instance, Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas are mostly composed of low-rise buildings. But they owe their stupendous growth since 1950 to the phenomenon of universal air-conditioning and mass motoring, both of which will prove to be extraordinary short-lived luxuries of the cheap fossil fuel age. Los Angeles will be challenged by ethnic friction, water problems, and its extreme car dependency (and you can forget about solving that with electric cars). All the cities will be plagued by an epic loss of tax revenue and the failure of government to maintain essential services.
The foregoing suggests epic demographic shifts. People will be on the move -- they already are -- as the cities decant. If the current political mood is any index of things to come, those movements will occur against the background of considerable disorder. That has already begun, too, in the summer of 2020 as looting, burning, and anarchy spread from one place to another. For the moment, a lot of former city people are seeking refuge in the suburbs. That will prove to be a bad choice. The suburbs, too, are headed for trouble -- and I'll take that up in next month's commentary.
James Howard Kunstler is The American Conservative' s New Urbanism Fellow. He is the author of numerous books on urban geography and economics, including his recent work, Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward .
Dr. Ron Paul: "Here's What I Think Is Coming Next for America" Stansberry Research
dermotmara • 19 hours agoAbout 15 years ago, I started telecommuting several days a week. Our employer, the National Institutes of Health, even provided PCs and subsidized our ISP fees. That started me wondering why businesses kept building office buildings when it would be less costly to work from home. NIH likely got more work out of me because I did not have to drive to lunch, and time telecommuting was often spent working. Even before telecommuting, Skype meetings were at least a weekly occurrence as we had projects in foreign countries, and professional activities included collaboration with overseas colleagues across the US.
The best answer I could come up with I derived from my years of organizational surveys for FAA and the White House. Most supervisors opposed telework because they had no metrics to ensure people were not slacking off. This struck me as odd, because slacking off would be readily apparent in a drop off in productivity, or increasing customer complaints, or even co-worker complaints. Those are crappy metrics, but they are better than nothing - yet bosses wanted to visually count noses.
Of course, there were other signs that office buildings were going obsolete. For example, Chicago started renaming the iconic John Hancock building and the Sears Tower. Something was not right. The pandemic merely hastened the wake-up call that nobody needed a headquarters anymore. Cities turned deserted factories into lofts. I wonder what they will used empty skyscrapers for.
Victor_the_thinker • 17 hours agoIt's an interesting view, and may come to pass. Do you think this will be the case in Chinese cities which dwarf most US cities, but are centrally controlled? Or in European cities which have been on a drive for space & livability instead of high-rise, and public transport or biking instead of cars?
Dan Fay Victor_the_thinker • 15 hours agoWow, there's like no facts in this article. Dense living is actually cheaper than sprawl. You need significantly less infrastructure to supporter tall buildings than you do for the same square footage spread out over acres.
Less heating and cooling is needed as well since the building have smaller surface areas (1 roof and 1 ground touching floor compared to 50 roofs and floors for a 50 story building). The writer works in a low margin, low innovation industry. Major cities dominate the high innovation industries, that will continue.
Also what is he talking about an era where we lack capital? We have tons of capital. We are the reserve currency. If he's talking about social security and can print out own money and haven't seen inflation still. We have massive room to raise taxes too. We're at the highest level of inequality seen in a century and far outstrip other developed countries on this metric.
Victor_the_thinker Dan Fay • 14 hours agoYes and no. From a high-level perspective, cities should be cheaper to provision infrastructure for. In practice, at least in the US, infrastructure projects are immensely expensive in big cities.
It gets even worse when you look at the provisioning of public goods like K-12 schools and policing.
pja Victor_the_thinker • 3 hours agoRegardless of what you think about the cost of infrastructure projects, they are expensive where wherever you do them. Rural areas are the most expensive areas to do infrastructure in America.
gnt Dan Fay • 2 hours agoyou are correct. There is a reason broadband in rural America either lousy, expensive, or both. Low densities make it problematic on a per capita basis. Hence why Congress appropriated $20b for rural broadband - no provider wants to build where they can't turn a proft
Connecticut Farmer Victor_the_thinker • 15 hours agoHigher population density means there are more people to tax to pay for infrastructure maintenance. I've read about suburbs that are struggling to pay for essential maintenance.
Victor_the_thinker Connecticut Farmer • 14 hours ago"Major cities dominate the high innovation industries, that will continue."
I would substitute "major metropolitan centers" for "major cities" (see examples below):
Google--Menlo Park,CA
Facebook--As above
IBM--Armonk, NY
Microsoft--Redmond, WA
Apple--Cupertino, CAGoogle, FB and Apple are located in the SanFran-Oakland metro area, with IBM and Microsoft located in suburban New York City and Seattle respectively. There are many tech companies in Boston strewn along both the outer I-495 and inner I-95 belts, both of which wrap around Boston (Raytheon is based in Waltham, MA, just east of I-95). as well as the famous Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle. Tech companies need space-"campuses" as they are called-in order to do their work. Such space is limited in big cities, especially older cities.
Wydra Victor_the_thinker • 11 hours agoThe vast majority of the high tech stuff in Boston is within Cambridge, not those old rt 128 buildings. Almost the entire biotech/pharma industry is within a few miles in Cambridge. Google has a location in Cambridge. The IBM Watson lab is in Cambridge. All that biotech requires lab space. There is a ton of it within the city.
Victor_the_thinker Wydra • 11 hours agoRte 128 had a good shot until Ken Olsen came to the conclusion that nobody would ever want to have a computer in their home.
The proximity to world class Universities and Colleges will ensure that the Boston/Cambridge metro area will remain attractive.
empidonax_road Connecticut Farmer • 14 hours agoThe majority of those jobs have moved into the city now. There are still huge amounts of high tech jobs being produced in Boston. I work in Pharma in business development. You HAVE to have a presence in Boston if you're going to be on the cutting edge of biological research. The universities are spinning off companies left and right. California is leading in computer based tech for sure but Boston is leading in biotechnology.
Astral Traveller empidonax_road • 14 hours agoGoogle has a massive three-city-block facility in NYC, with plans to expand, Twitter has a good-sized building a few blocks away (the one Laura Loomer chained herself to briefly). Disney has leveled a full city block a bit to the south of that and is currently building a new massive structure on the site.
Tech is an area where competition for top workers is ferocious. Possible that it's easier to recruit people to live in Chelsea than in Armonk?
What Should Be Astral Traveller • 12 hours agoTech's growth is a great stimulus. And that to Congress' recent expansion of H1B visas these cities will soon resemble Bombay.
MPC What Should Be • 4 hours ago"And that to Congress' recent expansion of H1B visas these cities will soon resemble Bombay."
That's got to change. Unemployment is the worst in almost a hundred years, tens of millions of Americans. H1B and all the other foreign worker visa program should have been abolished long ago, at the very latest after the pandemic started, but our corrupt politicians keeps letting them come.
There should be no foreigners or foreign workers here now. None. Americans need every job in America, the law should state and enforce that, and American executives who evade it with outsourcing tricks and falsified visa affidavits should be in prison.
Victor_the_thinker Connecticut Farmer • 14 hours agoLong ago, when the unemployment rate was the best in a long time? It'd perhaps be good to have mechanisms that tie visas to unemployment in some impartial way, that sentiment I can agree with as a practical matter, but the rest of your statements about foreigners are ridiculous. Moderated immigration of talented, ambitious people is a big net gain. I grew up around people like this and you better be on your toes and push yourself because they leave you in the dust otherwise. Agribusiness, tech, media, ie America's biggest cash cows are all heavily reliant on immigrants.
Extreme positions like 'no foreigners!' play right in to the uncoordinated duct taped system we have now. You need to realize that everyone has a seat at the table, and consensus is needed for action.
Annie from Alaska Connecticut Farmer • 13 hours ago • editedJust so you know, Raleigh-Durham isn't a huge tech leader at least as measured by VC funding. It only constitutes .5% of all VC spending. Atlanta is a bigger deal as far as VC spending than the research triangle.
Connecticut Farmer Annie from Alaska • 13 hours agoGoogle, FB and Apple are located in the SanFran-Oakland metro area,They are located in the outskirts of what grew from Sand Hill Road. Silicon Valley has San Francisco as an amenity, not the other way around.
This supports your point, though.
IBM and Microsoft located in suburban New York City and Seattle respectively.I didn't think of Armonk as a suburb before, but you're right. I suppose you'd probably drive to White Plains and then take the train, or something like that.
IBM has a very distributed workforce, though, including a highrise in NYC's midtown, so there may be an element of confirmation bias at work here.
Tech companies need space-"campuses" as they are called-in order to do their work. Such space is limited in big cities, especially older cities.This might be wrong. Google owns the Port Authority building in NYC. It's a full city block and 20 floors, which competes in terms of raw space with their campuses.
In Mountain View their hiring consolidation combined with NIMBYism has sent housing prices through the roof. In NYC Google's hiring doesn't make a dent because they're spread over a large city with companies and people coming and going all the time. The housing bubble and low quality of life in Mountain View is an international joke.
The "campus" model is good for a stable company that will exist for multiple generations without changing size so housing can be built for the workers of that company and not peak or crater in value. When the company implodes the town is destroyed. People's accumulated home wealth is destroyed with it so the individual people are not more mobile than the homes they live in. I think this happens too often, and somewhat by design. Our laws around companies make them easy to start and easy to fold up. I don't think a company stable enough to warrant a company-town campus, like Armonk was and is or like Mountain View has recently become, exists. This concept was also a bubble that had a culty appeal in that brief span between when it was invented and when the first company-town companies started to implode.
We don't want towns to become dependent on any one company, and the companies are becoming huge. That means the convenient and sustainable commuting radius of the town needs to be huge in terms of number of people, not miles. It could be a dense place with bad trains like NYC or a sprawling place with good trains like Washington DC.
I look forward to seeing the "new urbs" take on this arrangement. Will we work and live in the same town? If not, how will we get around?
Victor_the_thinker Annie from Alaska • 13 hours agoInteresting. I've heard that about Mountain View, by the way. Also, I understand that apartment rentals in San Francisco have gone through the roof with the influx of high paid tekkies who commute to/ from Silicone and who can't afford to buy.
Jason Segedy Victor_the_thinker • an hour agoPeople who work in high tech industries are disproportionately likely to be married to spouses with similar levels of education and income these days. Usually they don't work at the same company. They need to live near other areas with high end job opportunities for their spouses. It's known as the two body problem.
I Don't Matter • 15 hours agoJHK has written multiple books on the topic of sprawl, cities, and urban development. His writing is informed by plenty of facts. I suspect that he has read, thought, and written more about the topic than you have.
Matt • 15 hours agoYes the guy who had been wrong about everything forever pens another just so story boldly stating fictions and making predictions about the future without a date in sight. Capital scarcity? Resource scarcity? Any evidence for either with both interest rates and commodity prices in the dump? No, who needs evidence when there's a story to tell.
empidonax_road • 14 hours agoWhat is the reasoning behind the claim that we are about to "enter an era of resource and capital scarcities"? This article gives none.
Viking Raffi Le Pen • 5 hours agoThese are awfully big conclusions to be drawing from not quite six months of crisis: NYC is making progress on reopening, helped considerably by widespread (though not perfect) adoption of the basic public prevention methods. Restaurants have taken a hit, but the survivors are investing in outdoor spaces, which are being enthusiastically patronized. Museums are reopening (Met this week, others in the next four or five weeks). People are starting to see their friends in person again.
We're still a long way from the full menu - live performances, for example are still a long way off - but the things that draw people to the city and keep them here are coming back online.
No one thinks the old normal is going to be the new one, but I'm more optimistic about the city's future than I was back in April.
MPC Viking • 4 hours agoIn the long run, fossil fuels are likely to go up and up in price, as they get more expensive to extract. Even if we disregard the effect on the environment, do you really doubt that a great many of the conveniences we now take for granted may be far more expensive in the future? This is barring our finding some effective substitute(s) for coal, natural gas, and petroleum, of course. Can't be ruled out, but we are taking our chances by continuing to live our current lifestyles, I'd say.
Collin Reid • 13 hours agoI've gamed out the possibilities a bit, it's an interesting topic to me.
Anything hard to transition off of 100% petroleum I think will have a hard time first. Air travel and international shipping. Perhaps alternatives will develop, but they won't be nearly as efficient as before. Economies will localize again.
Electricity is the most able to replace generation fuels but as others decline that's going to place huge reliance on just one key system for almost everything. Even if we did get solar and wind and backup power reserves roaring at a decent price, which I think we can, everything is riding on that one basket and the increasingly complex delivery. Hydro is a gold mine if you're lucky enough to have it (US really does not in most parts).
Also there's the mining angle, eventually some resources are just going to be economically exhausted. Solar panels can't be made of wood...yet.
PeteZilla Collin Reid • 13 hours ago • editedConsidering the lack of facts in this article and assuming lots of 'trends' over the last 6 months, this does very little to convince people.
1) Since 2000, we have heard endless articles about the end of mega-cities and it never happens.
2) Looking at the population growth of Texas cities and suburbs the last 20 years, seems like cities/urban areas continue to grow even if New York's population is flat.
3) What the heck is 'the challenged by ethnic friction?' What if it does not happen? This just like Trumpian good Housewife talk.
4) Mega-cities have not only grown in the US, but they have grown in all developed nations.
YT14 • 12 hours ago • editedAgree with this point.
I think the writer fails to mention or understand that cities have gone thru changes in the last decade or so.
For example the economies in the Bay Area California grew and changed so much to pull into the regions around it.
They call it a super region that connects Sacramento, San José, etc. New York has something similar. I know folks who commute from Sacramento to San Francisco for work and vice Cerda.
Cities make it effective for industries that thrive on collaboration AND competition. I work for a software company that works with other software companies (and competes with). Apple and Google both collaborate with hundreds of companies near them. Really thousands.
As long as industries keep hiring (and paying decently) these regions and industries will continues to drive markets.
If anything cities are becoming effective at catering to certain industries.
What I hope to see is more allowance and leeway with remote work. So people can work from places where they can afford a home.
My company used to avoid having too many workers working remotely. But we are struggling to find talent that now we look remotely. COVID added to that push now as well.
Victor_the_thinker YT14 • 11 hours agoI wouldn't trust this swan song on metropolitan demise. In the long run, plagues are momentary disturbances - they are frequently over in a year or less despite horrific loss of life in between. The same goes for aerial bombardment of European cities during WW2. Once war was over, the cities rebuilt fast. Only few were arguing it was too dangerous to live in a city anymore.
What makes cities disappear is the breakdown and disintergration of the state-order. For example, many cities went into a major decline after the fall of the Western half of the Roman empire.
Harry Huntington YT14 • 7 hours agoYes and the experience of the Roman Empire simply isn't relevant today. At the time of Rome, the vast majority of the population was illiterate. The people who were knowledgeable and were pushing the empire forward technologically were a very very small constituency in the population. The knowledge that they had was all contained in analogue format so a fire burning down a library really could destroy hundreds of years of work. This isn't a possibility today. We now have hundreds of thousands of scientists and engineers capable interpreting the innovative science we produce and knowledge is distributed around the world and is much easier to reconstitute.
YT14 Harry Huntington • 7 hours ago • editedStill waiting for Detroit and Gary, Indiana to reconstitute, as you put it. In NY, shootings are getting out of control. In Chicago, over the past 18 months, shootings, muggings, and assaults have skyrocketed in the 1st and 18th Police Districts (where the fancy people live). Folks are afraid to walk at night. I live in Chicago near the lake.
On any typical night within a quarter mile of my home there will be police reports of "man with a gun," "woman assaulted," "woman with knife," "man using bottle as weapon," or "group fighting." Not the stuff you want to hear if you want to take a 9:00 PM jog through Grant Park or along the lake.
I good friend of mine had her cell phone grabbed out of her hand during the middle of the day in the skate board park at the South End of Grant Park. Crime of this sort is what drives people out of cities. The promise of downtown Chicago was you could walk or rely on public transportation. You cannot do either when people are mugged every day on public transportation or along the main city streets in downtown.
To your credit, maybe a big City like Houston can survive. Reality is, however, Houston is more a sprawl than any kind of connected city. Major employers in Houston actually have rules against walked to work (because of the heat).
Viking • 6 hours agoWell yes, breakdown of the state-order is an important factor. As the proverbs state: "pray for the welfare of the government: if not for the fear it inspires, man would swallow his neighbor alive."
Depending on the definition of "mega-city", I'm not sure its age ever arrived. A town only needs a population of five thousand to qualify as "urban" - when I was growing up, it was half that - which means much of the urban population consists of small towns.
For significantly larger cities, it has long been the case that the population of the suburbs and exurbs tends to be at least half of the total metropolitan area. Jacksonville and Albuquerque may be exceptions to this rule, but they are in the minority, and anyway I doubt that James Kunstler has them in mind when he writes of mega-cities. I seriously doubt that there was ever a time in America when the megalopolis dweller was in the majority, or even the plurality.
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"So get this straight – based on the recommendation of doctors Fauci and Birx the US shut down the entire economy based on 9,000 American deaths to the China coronavirus." The Gateway Pundit."
"... the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the liberal mainstream media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate more like a typical seasonal flu – the media was lying again.
Doctors Fauci and Birx were next to push ridiculous and highly exaggerated mortality rates related to the coronavirus:
- Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.
- The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.
- The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March
- Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model
But the Imperial College model Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed was garbage and they recommended the destruction of the US economy using this model." Gateway Pundit
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Hmmm ... The Fauci is a god crowd will heap scorn on this but, thing about it. pl
Eric Newhill , 30 August 2020 at 11:17 AMEric Newhill , 30 August 2020 at 05:10 PMYes, Col Lang., as you know, this is what I've been saying for months. It is what the good data and analysis (not that CDC garbage) reveals. However, no one wants to believe the evil capitalist private insurance companies. They think government is far more trustworthy and competent. More of that conditioning of attitude and perception by the powers that be in the plan to implement a big global govt.
The govt could have worked with the insurance companies to understand this thing. Seems like the logical move if you have poor quality data and insurance has good data, and you really believe there is a lethal pandemic on the loose.
Eric Newhill , 30 August 2020 at 05:15 PMLaura Wilson,
When you are over 75 years old, you are going to succumb to serious underlying conditions covid or no covid. Those who's deaths are being attributed to covid are primarily in that age group. It is disingenuous to create a panic over a virus that almost exclusively contributes (at most) to the deaths of the elderly with underlying serious conditions. Many of those who have died, succumbed to the underlying condition, but incidentally had covid.
Another new report has come out that shows a significant proportion of covid positive tests are showing positive for minuscule viral loads in the system; not enough to cause illness (or serious illness). How many of those elderly that died of underlying conditions fall into that category? Many of the tests show false positives.
This whole thing has been one big scam - and I believe deliberately.
turcopolier , 30 August 2020 at 06:13 PMActually, Laura, when you are over 75 years old, the risk of dying increases, period. Once you're into the 85 year old and over bucket, which many covid deaths are, you were probably going to die regardless; unless you're a vampire or some other inhuman death defying creature. Is this really news to anyone?
We must look at years of expected life lost, not raw body counts. That approach reveals covid to not be a threat to society.
rho , 30 August 2020 at 06:44 PMwalrus
The numbers are consistent because the strategy has been carefully worked out to have consistent documents. There will not be 20 million COVID cases requiring hospitalization because a high percentage do not get sick. In re the IO, been there done that myself. My question is, which group or constellation of groups is running the op.
Jack , 30 August 2020 at 07:04 PMdan of steele,
"Here in old Europe it seems we are on the verge of a new outbreak. Some people have gone on vacation and the number of daily new cases is on the rise."
The number of daily new cases in Germany has recently doubled because the number of daily tests has also roughly doubled. The share of positive tests among all tests has remained constant at around 1% for 3 months now.
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/EpidBull/Archiv/2020/Ausgaben/35_20.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
(see page 11)Must be a very strange "new outbreak". The number of Covid patients in the ICUs of German hospitals have been stagnating at a very low level (around 250 patients in the whole country) for several weeks.
https://www.divi.de/joomlatools-files/docman-files/divi-intensivregister-tagesreports/DIVI-Intensivregister_Tagesreport_2020_08_30.pdf
(look at the pink line in the bottom right diagram)Where are all the sick people that you are so worried about?
Deap , 30 August 2020 at 07:24 PMAll
What has intrigued me about the Wuhan virus is the panicked, off-the-cuff response. A pandemic is not new. We've had several in the recent past. SARS, H1N1, H2N2.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/basics/past-pandemics.html
CDC has an annual budget of $12 billion. Then there are public health budgets at NIH and other federal, state and counties.
How come there was no agreed upon pandemic response plan? If there was, why wasn't it executed? Do public health authorities have a plan now that can be executed?
It would appear to me this was a failure across all segments of society. The public because they so easily succumbed to fear. The media for fanning the flames of hysteria. Private healthcare for not providing realistic and alternative views. The government for not executing a coordinated response.
Money is never the issue in the USA. No one spends like us on healthcare, education, national security. Outcomes are a different matter altogether. Value for money is poor since there's a high "corruption" factor.
We've had many "wars". War on Poverty. War on Drugs. War on Terror. We've spent huge amounts on each. They've all been failures!
dan of steele , 30 August 2020 at 07:28 PMLaura, When you get to a certain age, everyday you wake up to most of obituaries being for people younger than yourself. It is a landmark point in one's life.
Before they were all so old. Now they are all so young. And no, they did not die "of covid". The died. Fate played out their final hand. And you ask not for whom the bells toll ............. you just praise every single blessed day that is still yours to enjoy.
182,000 did not die "of covid" in the US. CDC played games with the numbers from day one. The only mystery is why? And why did we let them do this. Because we did - Brix admitted up front on TV they tossed anyone suspected of "covid" into the covid basket.
Any screw up were not facing covid, but overkilling "covid". The leftist cabal made sure no other points of view were allowed. If a covid report did not include or imply OrangemanBad, it never reached the airwaves. Please don't have selective memory problems about any of this. Or else you have come to the wrong place to push them.
So now tell us where the new CDC data is flawed (9K deaths), and why that is justification for believing their prior data is not flawed. (182K deaths)
Deap , 30 August 2020 at 07:31 PMrho
I don't have a dog in this fight. I do hope that one day we will find out what is really going on with this covid-19. I merely look at worldofmeters corona virus page and watch the numbers of new cases, serious cases, and deaths. Those numbers were horrible for Italy for a long time and after months of being locked down hard, the numbers got better.
15 August is a very famous Italian holiday with everyone going to the beach, having picnics, and so on. Oddly enough a week to 10 days later the numbers of new cases went up...quite a bit. Happily the deaths have not gone back to the 1000 a day from the early days but I am holding my breath. In our little village we have 4 active cases and 21 in quarantine. They were infected by people who had gone on vacation somewhere else.
as for Germany, my son lives near Hamburg and he is mostly teleworking and overall they are quite good at implementing good pandemic control measures. Testing was free but I believe they are starting to charge for it again. My brother in law went to Cyprus on his vacation this year and upon return he and his family were all tested.
believe me, I don't want this crap to go on any more than you do. It does not affect me all that much as I am finally retired and have a single family home with a yard. being somewhat of a recluse anyway didn't make it worse.
Deap , 30 August 2020 at 07:44 PM"New outbreaks" that lead to herd immunity are a good thing; when the death rate remains static or declines. Which is what is happening right now.
As long as every passing day adds more very elderly with 3.5 co-morbidities to the body count, one can assume this flu is taking its normal course through this population demographics.
As it does every single year, since the flu was always previously known as "the old man's friend". Sad, of course. Any death is sad. Very sad.
For reflection on eternal life however, take a look at the Czech opera "The Makropolus Case". The diva lives for 300 years, and when it comes time to take the magic potion again that keeps her eternally alive, she muses about the trials, tribulations and practical burdens of her eternal life.......... and she finally decides to .......?????
Fred , 30 August 2020 at 08:16 PMAlways hate it when media reports a percentage increase - "twice as many cases" -- but never mentions the numbers. 2 case is twice as many as one case. Zut alors! We need new cases to finally reach herd immunity.
Cases are okay. In fact, it is relief we are finally existing outside of this artificial bubble, and at a time we now know a lot more about treatment and to stop killing people with forced ventilator abuse.
Original game plan - flatten the curve - end up with the same numbers of cases, but over a longer period time to ensure health care delivery would not be overwhelmed should they all happen at once. That was the bargain - flatten the curve, but not change the numbers infected.
When did "someone" demand we flat-line the numbers of infections, until they reach absolute zero? Who, what, where, when, how or why did that change?
Will anti-Trump riots after Trump's 2020 re-election push "covid" off the front pages?
cirsium , 30 August 2020 at 08:28 PMLaura,
How many of the 500,000 attendees at Bike Week died of this, it's been three weeks already? How about all those 'mostly peaceful' protests? (Not counting than the two who died of the AR15 virus in Kenosha)
Mark , 30 August 2020 at 08:33 PMdan of Steele - a contributory factor in the death toll in Italy might be the mandatory influenza vaccine. In the autumn/winter 2019, a super influenza vaccine (4 strains in one dose) was administered to old people and health care workers in Italy. Research suggests that influenza vaccine derived virus interference is significantly associated with coronavirus.
See https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m810/rr-0
and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31607599/For some reason, the authorities want COVID-19 to be recognized as The New Black Death. Rising numbers of 'cases' substitute for deaths in order to keep the fear factor high (as far as I can make out) when higher case numbers are an unsurprising consequence of ramped-up testing. There are allegedly high numbers of false positives, and many if not most of the cases uncovered by testing are in people who are asymptomatic or not very sick, certainly not in danger of dying or even having to be hospitalized.
The WHO admitted publicly that the chief reason it declared a pandemic was that too many countries were - in its opinion - not taking the threat seriously enough. Therefore, even the declaration of a pandemic was for scare value. When COVID-19 was at its peak for infections and deaths, the WHO (Dr. Fauci himself, actually) claimed that medical-grade masks were not necessary for the public, because the WHO deemed it necessary to reserve the supply of masks for medical use. I don't think anyone would disagree that non-medical cloth masks have much less filtration capability. But then Fauci reversed himself, and now a plethora of 'experts' claim it is proven that non-medical cloth masks work to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and there is growing and relentless pressure from the busybody sector to make them mandatory wear in all public settings. Now, when the death rate is steadily dropping. No clinical trials have ever achieved results which demonstrate that cloth masks do anything to stop the spread of an airborne virus - not masks and only masks. Trials in which the subjects regularly washed their hands, avoided touching their faces after touching other surfaces AND wore a mask demonstrated a somewhat reduced infection rate. Tests in which only masks were used showed either a statistically insignificant difference or no difference at all, but were not proper clinical trials as the sample size was comparatively small and the masked group contained a significant number who admitted they did not wear it all the time. But forcing everyone to wear a mask has become a test of will for public authorities against a public in which many do not want to wear them and are afraid compulsory wear will become the norm. Once again, there is NO PROOF that they work, as the theory has never been properly tested, I don't care what 'expert' is telling you the results are in, and masks work.
For those 'COVID warriors' who label all dissenters 'maskholes' and 'Covidiots', cite me a proper clinical trial that establishes masks on their own significantly reduced the infection rate of an airborne virus. That means show me how uninfected people wore a mask and did not take other precautions, in the presence of an infected person (without touching them or handling objects infected people handled) and remained uninfected. While you're at it, find me where the '6-foot rule' came from. Nobody seems to know how that number was arrived upon, the WHO says it did not come from them, and how does it account for different environments such as the presence or absence of wind? People have to stand six feet apart outside while waiting to be allowed in to the grocery store. How does that protect you from an airborne virus that theoretically can only travel six feet in still air?
I am always willing to have my mind changed by actual science. But so far I am not seeing it. Just a lot of politics.
Aug 31, 2020 | www.rt.com
By Peter Andrews , Irish science journalist and writer based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics
It's time to stop fetishizing scientific methods. We have to accept that there are many elements of Covid-19 that science may never understand and if we wait for it to do so, we will never again be able to live a normal life.
The Covid-19 outbreak is largely over, and man's attempts to slow, stop or understand the virus have failed. Science will eventually discover more about the pandemic but it is a slow process.
Science, if it is working properly, will not come to a conclusion that is wholly wrong. But not everything that is true can be established by a randomized control trial followed by peer review. Take the theory, popularized by Dr John Lee's work in the Spectator , that Covid has become less deadly as it spreads, and is now basically inert.
This would perfectly explain why so many people died of Covid-19 in a short period of time, and why deaths have basically flat-lined since April. It fits with many Covid studies confirming fast evolution , different strains and reinfection . Furthermore, a change to the virus itself could explain why the same patterns in deaths have been seen everywhere, irrespective of lockdowns, demographics, contact tracing or any other scheme.
ALSO ON RT.COM Weird science: Covid-19 does NOT cause heart damage, as blockbuster study had basic calculation errorsIn fact, with each passing day it is increasingly probable that the virus has mutated to a milder form. The trouble is it would be nigh on impossible to establish this with the instruments of science, now or any time soon. The vagaries of individual human bodies and microscopic particles are just beyond the scope of exact science.
People need to accept this about Covid (and hopefully later, much else) and stop fetishizing the scientific method at times when a bit of common sense would do the job. We are paralysed by a need for the World Health Organization or Public Health England to conjure up some peer-reviewed study or other confirming to 99.9 percent likelihood that we can go back to normal now. That will never happen, but we have to get back to normal.
Consider this article , written by three scientific minds. It is a measured and 'data driven' analysis of whether Covid is becoming less deadly. But is blinkered by an assumption that only official data, no matter how muddled, can be relied upon. All you really need to do is ask doctors whether they are seeing people come in with Covid, or if they are dying of Covid when they do. Instead it focuses on case numbers, which are not worth the paper they are written on.
Here is another paper , co-authored by the brilliant Professor Carl Heneghan of the University of Oxford's Center for Evidence-Based Medicine. He has been tireless in his questioning of the government's interpretation of coronavirus statistics, although it has taken far too long for him to be given any kind of platform from which to address the public.
The study, while no doubt accurate and valuable for establishing fine points of detail, seeks to answer whether the infection fatality ratio has been falling in the UK. A comprehensive review of the limited data suggests that it has, but so what? What does that mean to the average Joe, confused as to whether they should send their child to school in the morning, or whether it would be irresponsible to give their elderly parents a hug?
ALSO ON RT.COM Just wait for a vaccine? First confirmed REINFECTION means there may be no way to eradicate CovidSo many people have been so frightened – understandably – by exaggerated accounts of the threat posed by Covid-19, and it will take a lot to persuade them that they have been sold a pup. But they need to be persuaded, so that can get their old lives back. The present regime will never take on this responsibility because it would center on an admission of massive guilt on their part.
What is needed now from all sensible people is calm but insistent argument, with friends, relations and authorities alike, for the total abolition of all coronavirus-related restrictions. We saw some of that in London and Berlin over the weekend, and it was fantastic to see such well organized and clear minded dissent against the sinister 'new normal'.
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PATIENT OBSERVER August 26, 2020 at 2:15 pm
ATIENT OBSERVER August 26, 2020 at 2:29 pmAnd this is also ominous:
https://www.rt.com/usa/499147-justice-dept-nursing-homes-democrats/he US Justice Department is mulling civil rights investigations of four Democrat-run states whose governors forced elder care homes to take in Covid-19 patients, potentially contributing to thousands of deaths.
The governments of New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have been ordered to turn over Covid-19 data to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division as the agency weighs whether to pursue the probes, according to a statement released on Wednesday. Investigations would be launched under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), a law meant to protect the rights of those living in state-run nursing homes.
Likely the responses will be "We didn't know " or "How could anyone accuse us compassionate/all-caring/liberty-affirming of doing nothing but good ".
Now, there is a campaign weapon the Trump team should wield like a sledge hammer. It will be high quality protein for the us conspiracy-theory folks as well.
MARK CHAPMAN August 26, 2020 at 3:23 pmWorth quoting from the above:
All four states' Democratic governors infamously required care homes to admit patients from hospitals without testing them for Covid-19, despite knowing that the virus could – in the now-immortal words of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – spread through the facilities "like fire through dry grass."As public outcry grew with awareness of the NY governor's order, Cuomo tried to blame virus-stricken care homes for not disobeying him and refusing Covid-19-positive patients. The order itself was even stealthily deleted from the New York healthcare website amid the outrage.
While Cuomo has tried to defend his policies by arguing New York actually had a lower percentage of deaths in nursing homes than other states, recently-released federal statistics suggest the state dramatically undercounted its care home fatalities by omitting residents who died in hospitals from the totals. While the official tally of 6,600 care home deaths is already the highest in the nation, an AP report earlier this month suggested the real number may be as much as 65 percent higher.
Per the internet, total Covid deaths in New York State is currently about 35,000. Per the above, nearly 11,000 were killed in nursing homes or in hospitals after being infected in nursing homes. Most of those were apparently in the early stages of the pandemic thus perhaps accounting for a majority of the deaths.
Per the internet, over 40% of all fatalities were related to nursing homes nation-wide.
https://www.nytimes.com/svc/oembed/html/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2020%2Fus%2Fcoronavirus-nursing-homes.html
Protect those people who comprise less than 0.4% of the population but who accounted for over 40% of the fatalities. JHC!
PATIENT OBSERVER August 26, 2020 at 3:51 pmI have to say, the behavior of governments in the COVID 'crisis' has been appalling. Formerly polite and reserved Canada is no more, and I would say it is just like America if America had not reached for new levels of bizarre that still just barely edge it out – let's settle for saying Canada is just like America was just before the COVID/BLM/pre-election frenzy of hyperbole. Check this out;
"But Ball went too far. He responded with amendments to the province's Public Health Protection and Promotion Act that looked more like something from a police state than a democracy. The new law suggested inspectors could pull people over, scroll through their cellphones, copy their private information and forcibly perform COVID-19 tests. The law made clear that if two ministers decided that a person had contravened the act, he or she could be imprisoned or expelled from the province without a hearing. The province also began barring non-Newfoundlanders from entering, contrary to the division of powers set out in the Constitution Act, 1867, and without any regard to the interprovincial mobility rights set out under Section 6 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This unconstitutional order meant that a woman who lived in Nova Scotia -- which was nearly COVID-free -- couldn't attend her mother's funeral."
The 'crisis' has encouraged people who could not be trusted to look after your cat while you're in Little Rock to assume limitless powers, to the point where jumped-up jackass 'ministers' have the power to expel you from your province if they determine you have contravened some 'Act' they just made up. If they don't look out, they'll have an armed insurrection on their hands, just like our neighbours – threatening to 'deport' people because they are suspected of spreading a virus that most people have a better than 99% chance of surviving and which global medics are trying to kill by suppression, by denying it victims. Everyone has lost their minds.
There is at the present time not a single soul in the Canadian political stable who is worth the effort of casting a ballot. Democracy is just another word for nothing left to lose. Political parties everywhere should be starved to death the way they are trying to starve the coronavirus – by waking up to find the entire electorate stayed home and not a single vote was cast. It'll never happen, because too many people are sheep and buy that 'change is coming' bullshit that accompanies every election the way flies swarm on dung. But 'democracy' has descended too deep into farce to be saved.
It has happened so fast! One must assume that there is a renewing reservoir of people with a propensity to become petty tyrants when it was safe and the opportunity was there to do so. What a profoundly sick society!
However, I will vote and vote for Trump. Heck, I might even put a Trump in 2020, 2024 and 2028 sign in my yard (although we live at the end of a dead end street so hardy anyone will see it). Why? If this country is heading for a civil war, lets get it on.
Aug 27, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
All of this happens just days after WSJ published a lengthy piece of "analysis" examining dissenting views on the efficacy of lockdowns?
The problem with "science" is it's often in flux, and such is the situation right now with SARS-CoV-2, a mysterious virus that continues to confound even seasoned epidemiologists and virologists.
But now, Dr. Fauci - in his latest attempt at playing mediator - is saying he believes the CDC guidelines are being misinterpreted. Though he also told CNN that the decision was made without his direct involvement, because he was in surgery.
"I was under general anesthesia in the operating room and was not part of any discussion or deliberation regarding the new testing recommendations," Fauci told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
He reiterated that asymptomatic spread is of "great concern", and that people shouldn't get the wrong message just because the guidelines on testing have changed slightly.
"I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact, it is," the doctor added.
We suspect this will be an even bigger deal tomorrow.
Aug 22, 2020 | www.unz.com
No Friend Of The Devil , says: August 20, 2020 at 8:48 pm GMT
One thing that is definitely Not Happening is the psychopaths in both parties, the media, the medical mafia, Wall Street, and corporations taking responsibility for their crime spree and fraud.
Now the medical community has been fully exposed to be less legitimate than crack dealers, because at least crack dealers are not pretending to cure people like the medical mafia is all based on blatant scientific fraud!
Now that these evil fraudulent psychopaths have totally destroyed the lives of hundreds of millions locking the country down resulting in people losing their businesses, jobs, homes, and apartments let Nuremburg 2 trials begin!
Aug 21, 2020 | www.unz.com
No Friend Of The Devil , says: August 20, 2020 at 8:48 pm GMT
American Citizen 2.0 , says: August 21, 2020 at 3:41 pm GMTOne thing that is definitely Not Happening is the psychopaths in both parties, the media, the medical mafia, Wall Street, and corporations taking responsibility for their crime spree and fraud.
Now the medical community has been fully exposed to be less legitimate than crack dealers, because at least crack dealers are not pretending to cure people like the medical mafia is all based on blatant scientific fraud!
@No Friend Of The Devil ree-for-all for cash where you don't even have to be a US citizen to get benefits anymore What exactly is the point of having a military other than it's just another way to spend loads of cash. I definitely wouldn't support any kind of war on behalf of "American Interests" now.We have been swamped by illegal immigrants and the government is owned by finance people. I guess we can't really stop them from using the money to pay for military stuff but the idea that any of this has any relationship to what's good or bad for "Americans" has been proven to be a complete crock of bull.
We are all basically squatters in the parking lot of a shopping mall living in RVs and eating whatever food they sell at the nearest convenience store. That's all America is for me these days.
Aug 02, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
y_arrowSardonicus , 3 hours ago
Here in Georgia, a YMCA camped had an outbreak. 262 people infected. Mostly children. Highest rate of spread was the 6 to 10 age group.
Kind of blows up the myth that kids don't get or spread it.
The only reason it seemed that way is because most kids have been isolating at home since March.
Georgia camp outbreak shows rapid virus spread among children
Aug 02, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
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TRM , 3 hours ago
Macho Latte , 3 hours agoNobel-laureate Dr. Michael Levitt (Chemistry and structural biology at Stanford) has made another prediction on July 25, 2020:
"US COVID19 will be done in 4 weeks [Aug 25] with total reported deaths below 170,000. How will we know it is over? Like for Europe, when all cause excess deaths are at normal level for week. Reported COVID19 deaths may continue after 25 Aug. & reported cases will, but it will be over."
Yes this is the same person who on May 04, 2020 said:
"If Sweden stops at about 5,000 or 6,000 deaths, we will know that they've reached herd immunity, and we didn't need to do any kind of lockdown."
July 27, 2020: As of July 24, 2020 Sweden has 5,700 deaths:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105753/cumulative-coronavirus-deaths-in-sweden/
He was correct and the conclusion is that the lockdown was needless.
So will the politicians "follow the science" or continue to enforce stupid mask laws.
slightlyskeptical , 1 hour ago
WuFlu Hysteria Ends Nov. 4More than 55.3 million tests confirm:
✓ Deaths from WuFlu = Flat Line
✓ Hospitalization from WuFlu = Flat Line
The Virus Charts thru 7/31/20 https://ibb.co/QF2ZBLKDemonRats = an Existential Threat to America & Humanity
WuFlu Lies Matter
Flat line at a pretty high level.
Aug 02, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Contrary to claims by the media and the ego maniac Dr. Fauci about a tidal wave of Covid infections, I have first hand, albeit anecdotal evidence, that there is a lot of bullshit surrounding reports of people who have "tested" positive for Covid.
Aug 01, 2020 | www.ajc.com
Some 260 cases of the coronavirus have been tied to attendees and staff at a North Georgia YMCA children's camp in June, according to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the largest known superspreading events in the state.
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The report details how COVID-19 spread rapidly among children and teens within the camp and raises questions about the effectiveness of safety protocols as school districts and colleges contemplate reopening for in-person instruction this fall.
YMCA Camp High Harbour, identified in the report as Camp A, suffered an outbreak at its Lake Burton location in late June. As of July 10, about 85 cases of the virus had been linked to the camp, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported, a figure that has since tripled. Explore Complete coverage of COVID-19 in Georgia
The CDC study of 597 campers and staff from Georgia found the camp did not follow its guidance to require campers wear masks, though staff did.
Three-quarters of the 344 attendees and staff for whom the CDC was able to obtain test results tested positive for the virus. Credible reporting in incredible times.
Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE NOWThe CDC said the overall attack rate of the virus was 44%, though the agency acknowledged that's an undercount because it includes more than 250 for whom they had no results.
"This investigation adds to the body of evidence demonstrating that children of all ages are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and, contrary to early reports might play an important role in transmission," the report said.
Explore The AJC's redesigned COVID-19 dashboard with real-time chartshttps://3e33db899339e8977e70a67a31244693.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
Brian Castrucci, CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, a Maryland nonprofit that assists public health agencies and a former epidemiologist in Georgia, said the report is a warning for local school districts and others about the potential for spread in congregant settings.
"This should show you how actively kids can transmit it," he said. "If you have a low prevalence in your community, you can start to do things. If you have rampant and rapid community spread, then there is no opening school, there is no opening colleges. It is not going to work."
Ga. OK'd camps with restrictions
Gov. Brian Kemp initially allowed day camps to open for the summer as part of the state's broader reopening plan. An executive order in May later allowed overnight camps to operate, but outlined health and hygiene guidelines, including temperature checks and a requirement for campers and staff to have a negative COVID-19 test within 12 days of the start of camp.
Though many camps opted not to open, some, including High Harbour, did.
Spokespeople for Kemp did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
"This investigation adds to the body of evidence demonstrating that children of all ages are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and, contrary to early reports might play an important role in transmission."
- New CDC reportDr. Harry J. Heiman, clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, said spread of the virus was growing in June, presenting a high likelihood the virus would spread in a camp setting.
"We know that congregate settings, particularly indoor congregant settings, are among the highest risks," he said.
High Harbour followed the governor's executive order, the federal report said, but the camp did not follow CDC recommendations for universal masking of campers or for increased ventilation in buildings. Staff were required to wear masks, the report said.
"Relatively large cohorts sleeping in the same cabin and engaging in regular singing and cheering likely contributed to transmission," the CDC said. "Use of cloth masks, which has been shown to reduce the risk for infection, was not universal."
Explore From May: Summer camp operators gauge how to work with Georgia's new rulesThe CDC said its investigation is ongoing and will attempt to identify specific sources of exposure, the course of the illness and "any secondary transmission to household members."
"Physical distancing and consistent and correct use of cloth masks should be emphasized as important strategies for mitigating transmission in congregate settings," the report said.
Statement of regret
The YMCA did not make anyone available for an interview. In a written statement, Parrish Underwood, chief advancement officer for the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, said the organization now regretted holding the camp.
"We made every effort to adhere to best practices outlined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Camp Association," and the governor, Underwood said.
"Attending Camp High Harbour is a tradition numerous generations of Y families look forward to every summer," Underwood's statement said. "Many of these individuals reached out to our staff to express their desire for us to open our residential camps in an effort to create normalcy in their children's lives due to the detrimental impact of COVID-19. This weighed heavily in our decision to open, a decision in retrospect we regret."
Explore COVID-19 'superspreading' took place across metro Atlanta, study findsThe YMCA said it notified parents that a counselor tested positive for COVID-19 on June 24. The camp told parents they could pick up their children early. The YMCA closed its Lake Burton and Lake Allatoona locations.
The YMCA said the counselor passed required health screenings, as did all other campers and staff.
Parents who have spoken to the AJC have said they did not think the YMCA showed enough urgency. The camp was not immediately closed. Parents were given the option of picking up their children over a period of a few days before the camp closed for the season.
Fever, headaches and sore throat
The CDC study offered some caveats to the infection rates. Georgia suffered high rates of spread at the end of June, and some of the infections might have occurred prior to or after the camp.
Information about the conditions of infected campers and staff also was limited, and the report did not detail the severity of infections.
But the report said of the 136 cases with symptom data, about a quarter reported no symptoms. Of the three-quarters reporting symptoms, fever, headache and sore throat were the most common.
The median age of campers was 12 and staffers was 17. There were seven staffers between the ages of 22 and 59.
Explore Atlanta Public Schools to start year with virtual learningFifty-one kids, or roughly half, of the children aged 6 to 10 tested positive. About 44% of children aged 11 to 17 tested positive and a third of the remaining people from 18 to 59 tested positive, the report said.
Cases of COVID-19 tend to be milder for children and young adults than for the elderly, but the disease isn't without risk.
There have been 12,290 confirmed cases among children 5 to 17 in Georgia, with 165 hospitalizations and one death, an analysis of state data shows.
To date, 186,352 people in Georgia have tested positive for the coronavirus, including about 4,000 announced Friday. There have been 3,752 deaths, including 81 reported on Friday.
Georgia in the 'red zone'
Knowledge of transmission between children and adults is not well understood, but health experts have told the AJC they fear infections in children and adults can easily spread to more vulnerable people.
Though people over 60 make up the largest cohorts of hospitalizations and deaths, a recent Emory University study said children and adults under 60 are much more likely than the elderly to spread the disease to others.
Some schools are pushing forward with August opening plans, while allowing home instruction or blended in-person and distance learning.
Other systems, including Atlanta Public Schools, announced plans to delay the start of the school year and to begin instruction online amid substantial community spread of the virus.
On July 24, the CDC published guidance endorsing the full reopening of schools, citing risks to children's health and education that could be inflicted by not having schools open for in-person instruction. That guidance came after pressure from President Trump, who has called for full reopening of schools.
The CDC guidance called for keeping students in small groups, staffed by a single teacher and to use outdoor spaces for learning. The guidance includes recommendations for masking and other hygiene protocols and plans for when a student contracts the virus.
But many independent public health experts, while acknowledging the importance of in-school instruction, have been critical of the new CDC guidance.
Heiman, the Georgia State professor, said schools often have poor ventilation. Reopening for in-person instruction endangers students and their family members and school staff.
Georgia is one of 21 states outlined in a White House task force report in the "red zone" for coronavirus spread. That report has recommended the state mandate masks and close bars, nightclubs, entertainment venues and put stricter limits on indoor dining and groups.
Kemp has so far decided not to mandate masks, though he has encouraged face coverings. He also has balked at new restrictions on the movement of business and people.
A group of more than 2,000 medical professionals have called on Kemp to implement the White House task force's recommendations and to allow local jurisdictions to enact stricter measures.
"Many of us have said all along that unless we can get the level of COVID-19 down in communities, it is not safe to open schools and colleges," Heiman said. "This (report) certainly reinforces that."
Aug 01, 2020 | www.msn.com
WASHINGTON -- An investigation released Friday by House Democrats says President Donald Trump's administration overpaid by up to $500 million on ventilators as the coronavirus pandemic first struck the United States.
Click to expand 00:00 00:47 Fauci optimistic on COVID-19 vaccine availabilityIn a review of thousands of pages of internal administration documents, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said Phillips North America was contracted to deliver 43,000 ventilators to the federal government for a significantly higher price than it did under previous contracts for functionally identical ventilator models delivered under contracts dating to President Barack Obama's administration.
© Evan Vucci, AP Images President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House."The American people got ripped off, and Donald Trump and his team got taken to the cleaners," said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., whose subcommittee led the investigation. "The Trump Administration's mishandling of ventilator procurement for the nation's stockpile cost the American people dearly during the worst public health crisis of our generation."
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Democrats called for Phillips to return the amount of money they said the government was overcharged.
More: Trump praises Jim Jordan and Anthony Fauci after they clashed during coronavirus hearing
More: Biggest coronavirus vaccine deal yet: $2.1 billion to Sanofi/GSK for up to 100 million doses
Phillips denied the report's findings, saying the company did not raise prices in relation to the pandemic, and argued the increased price of the ventilators actually represented a "discount."
Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips, said in a statement the company did "not recognize the conclusions in the subcommittee's report, and we believe that not all the information that we provided has been reflected in the report."
"I would like to make clear that at no occasion has Philips raised prices to benefit from the crisis situation," van Houten said.
According to Phillips, the list price of the ventilator ordered under the contract is $21,000 and was supplied to the Trump administration for $15,000, which the company called a "discount" given the rushed production schedule.
More: How ventilators work and why COVID-19 patients need them to survive coronavirus
The report, however, disagreed with Phillips' claim. A functionally identical ventilator was delivered to the Obama administration under a 2014 contract for $3,280. Based on the report's review of purchases between December 2019 and May 2020, other small purchasers, even those that purchased only one ventilator of the same model, secured them for as low as $9,327.
"No American purchaser paid more than the U.S. government," the report said.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere told USA TODAY in a statement the report was "misleading and inaccurate."
"Because of the President's leadership, the United States leads the world in the production and acquisition of ventilators. No American who needed a ventilator was denied one, and no American who needs a ventilator in the future will be denied one."
Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Ryan Murphy said the Trump administration's efforts ensured the "federal government procured enough equipment to care for all hospitalized patients in the United States who needed a ventilator for respiratory support related to COVID-19 infections."
Some of the ventilators ordered under the contract were already in use to treat COVID-19 patients, he added.
Murphy declined to comment on an ongoing contract, but said HHS follows "all Federal Acquisition Regulations for Strategic National Stockpile contracting efforts."
The Trump administration has frequently touted the production of ventilators as evidence of its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
"When you look at the United States response, you look at the fact that we were supposed to have a ventilator shortage. In fact, we had a ventilator surplus," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a Friday briefing.
Phillips had first signed a contract with the Obama administration to deliver 100,000 ventilators in the event of a pandemic by June 2019, but the delivery date was pushed back, eventually to June 2021, as the company missed deadlines, the report said. Phillips approached the Trump administration about moving up the delivery date in January 2020, when the first coronavirus cases were reported in the United States, but the Trump administration ignored the offer, according to the report.
Then, in March 2020, the Trump administration agreed to extend the ventilator delivery deadline to September 2022, but did not ask Phillips to produce more ventilators or move up delivery times. Instead, in April 2020, the Trump administration negotiated a new contract with Phillips to deliver 43,000 ventilators at a price of $15,000 per ventilator.
According to the report's review of documents, "the Administration accepted Philips' first offer without even trying to negotiate a lower price."
According to emails released by the committee, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who served as the lead negotiator with Phillips, offered to prepay half of the total cost, or over $323 million, to Phillips before a single ventilator was even delivered. Department of Health and Human Services staff later reduced the amount prepaid to 10% of the total cost of the contract, or about $65 million.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump administration overspent on ventilators by as much as $500 million, Democrats' report says
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AntiSpin , Jul 30 2020 19:55 utc | 7
@ the disinformationists posting @ #1 and #2
N95 Masks DO WORK, and the Proof is Available All Over the Net!
There has been so much oh-so-earnest and so much oh-so-authoritarian nonsense bruited about on this site about the non-effectiveness of the N95 masks that it's getting really, really disgusting. It also calls into question either the honesty (trolls?) or the intelligence of those who could so easily have just looked up the information from, and about, the inventor of the N95, Dr. Peter Tsai.
If they had done just that little bit of research, they would have discovered that the N95 works because of an inner layer of plastic fiber that carries an electro-static charge that attracts and destroys the virus, and that can be cleansed and sterilized for re-use by a number of different techniques.
Please do not believe any of the contra-factual and sometimes dangerous nonsense being spewed about by people who don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Oh, and N95 masks are not all "vented to breathe straight out without filtration." Not those intended for medical use, for certain. There are some vented N95 masks that are intended for firefighters and other non-medical usages, and not for protection against viruses. And as you can see below, the electric charge attracts even sub-micron particles, so the idea that the mask cannot trap viruses because they're too small is simply more nonsense from uninformed and/or deviously motivated individuals.
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Here's just a small sample of information that's easily found all over the net:
Brief bio: Peter Tsai, Ph.D.
Employment: Research faculty, Joint Institute of Advanced Materials, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Expertise: Development of meltblowing (MB) systems and the electrostatic charging (EC) of materials for making air filter electrets. The MB and the EC developed by Tsai have been used in the industries worldwide making tens of billions of pieces of N95 respirators or face masks. He has received three prestigious awards from UT in recognition of his contribution to technology innovation. Tsai is a Fellow Member of American Filtration and Separation Society and a member of Electrostatic Society of America.
https://utrf.tennessee.edu/information-faqs-charged-filtration-material-performance-after-various-sterilization-techniques/
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Peter Tsai and the Electrostatic Filter Mask
https://engineeringethicsblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/peter-tsai-and-electrostatic-filter-mask.html
"Prof. Tsai's innovation was to find a way to take a cold pre-fabricated mat of non-woven material and subject it to two electric discharges of opposite polarity, one after the other. Under the right conditions, this process embedded quasi-permanent electric charges into the plastic fibers and made them very attractive to even sub-micron particles, like the 100-nanometer-diameter SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The charge is durable and will persist even if the masks are sterilized with steam, according to a new article that Prof. Tsai just put up on a University of Tennessee website.'
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The retired inventor of N95 masks is back at work, mostly for free, to fight covid-19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/07/07/peter-tsai-n95-mask-covid/
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More technical information for those curious enough:
https://aim.autm.net/public/project/53844///
Finally, let's dispense with a couple of other oh-so-popular misconceptions:
"Q: Do face masks cause oxygen deficiency?
"A: The prolonged use of medical masks when properly worn, does not cause oxygen deficiency nor CO2 intoxication, according to WHO. Make sure your face covering fits properly and that it is tight enough to allow you to breathe normally.
" 'This is a common misconception being perpetuated that has no evidence behind it,' said Krutika Kuppalli, a Palo Alto infectious disease doctor and a biosecurity fellow with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security."Q: Does wearing a face covering put you at risk for carbon dioxide poisoning?
"A: No. CO2 molecules diffuse easily through everything from bandannas to medical masks to N95 respirators, allowing for normal breathing."
Aidin Vaziri. San Francisco Chronicle
uncle tungsten , Jul 30 2020 21:14 utc | 17
Peter AU1 , Jul 30 2020 21:59 utc | 23Thanks b. The mask - a simple and elegant precaution in high risk environments. But so much foaming hysteria and opposition from pumped up nay sayers its just like the response to the early motor car or the mandatory seat belt. Extraordinary, hyperventilated nonsense and inflamed debating points.
I assume this noise is to distract from calling it by its proper name - Fort Detrick Flu.
dp , Jul 30 2020 21:59 utc | 24Yankistan IQ
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-30/louie-gohmert-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-donald-trump/12506114
""It's really ironic, because a lot of people have made a big deal out of my not wearing a mask a lot. But in the last week or two, I have worn a mask more than I have in the whole last four months."Mr Gohmert then wondered if his mask was to blame for contracting COVID-19.
"But I can't help but wonder if my keeping a mask on and keeping it in place, that if I might have put some germs or some of the virus onto the mask and breathed it in -- I don't know. But I got it, we'll see what happens from here, but the reports of my demise are very premature," he said."
The 'mask'.
https://am23.mediaite.com/tms/cnt/uploads/2020/07/louie-gohmert-mask-coronavirus-positive.jpgJohn Iacovelli , Jul 30 2020 22:03 utc | 25about a decade ago there was outbreak of TB in Seattle I was a nurse at the time. We were told by infection disease at the time if we were to see TB patients we had to wear an individually fitted respirator... every nurse was fitted and red pepper was sprayed around the masks to test the fit. I couldn't wear one ... and was told I could wear a surgical mask but that it would only provide about 30 min of protection and then I would need a new mask... Now tell me why me way a fashion mask, a bandanna or scarf can protect me or another from a virus (which is much smaller than a TB bacteria?
I just drove from coast to coast across the US. I avoided large cities and felt perfectly comfortable with social distancing. I was in two states that never had a "true" lock down and no mask mandates,,,, and you know what people weren't dropping like flies, people weren't afraid... they were just acting respectful to one another"s personal space.Lurk , Jul 30 2020 22:24 utc | 29Let's see now... we have an aerosolized pathogen; shades of the discussion in 2001 regarding weaponized Antrax! We have, seemingly, a very low number of mutations; it's either been out there or cultured for some time. No one has any 100% accurate test; the test criteria of Koch's Postulates seem to have been forgotten or ignored. In the dearth of trustworthy data, the deluge of untrustworthy data, and the general level of greed-generated-mistrust towards all western societal organizations, no one in the general public has the proper knowledge to make life-or-death decisions concerning themselves or their families. Perhaps, rather than the "Trump flu" that the partisan-oriented commenter proposed previously, if a large group of people called it instead the "Fort Detrick Flu," western governments might be persuaded to seek and/or spread truthful data.
Roberto , Jul 30 2020 23:19 utc | 34@ dp | Jul 30 2020 21:59 utc | 24
The purpose of the mask is to stop (asymptomatic) carriers of the disease from spreading it, or at least dramatically reduce the spreading. The mask limits outgoing aerosols, not incoming ones.
Moreover, rural areas where people spend a lot of time outdoors and generally meet only a limited amount of different people are much less likely to be affected by the initial phase of a pandemic than densely populated cities where most people spend most of their days closely packed with numerous other random people in badly ventilated indoor places such as offices, factories, subways.
Dear friends and foes,
on "benefits" of masking:
1) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y
2) https://fortune.com/2020/07/29/no-point-in-wearing-mask-sweden-covid/
3) Belarus no mask no lockdown....then they get very nice numbers.On panic:
On lockdown:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/490659-ferguson-undermined-uk-lockdown/
Best regards to you all
Un gran abrazo a todos desde Chile
Jul 31, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
This new disposition of things, which we are quite unprepared for, will demand a revival of the building wisdom of the ages. It will be a vast improvement over the anxious, neurotic exercises that can now be plainly described as yesterday's tomorrow . The necessary return to traditional modes and materials will yield a revived architecture of grace notes, humility, and decorum. Wait for it!
James Howard Kunstler is The American Conservative's New Urbanism Fellow. He is the author of numerous books on urban geography and economics, including his recent work, Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward .
Mccormick47 • a day agoIt surprises me that James makes no mention of sacred geometry in architecture . It relates to this topic .
Rkramden66 Mccormick47 • a day agoTAC seems to publish an article deriding modern architecture on a monthly basis. Like jazz or cilantro, modern architecture is something you either love or hate. Waste of space to argue about it.
Pete Barbeaux Mccormick47 • a day agoI agree with this.
Ugly disposable culture = ugly disposable architecture
Anything else would be a surprise, but this is a dog-bites-man non-story.
L RNY • a day agoThere's actually a specific group of olfactory genes (OR6A2) that people have or don't have, that changes the taste of cilantro and causes this whole differentiation.
briarpicker • a day agoThe thing I find about modernist architecture is that some of it is quite beautiful such as the early BauHau and Art Deco design aesthetic. If you compare lets say a band or an entertainers early work which is smart, crisp, new, innovative to their later works which often arent good. They look like copies of earlier successes (resting on ones laurels so to speak). In modernist architecture which was truly innovative at the time incorporating large plate glass windows (from floor to ceiling) integrated the outdoor environment with the indoor environment. It created rooms with lots of natural light and unobstructed views which made older buildings which were gorgeous on the exterior with architectural embellishments and gorgeous moldings, wallpapers, paint colors, fabrics moldings, etc adorning the interior, look like windowless caves or coffins. Modern and Contemporary Architecture (form, fit, function) was innovative because it deconstructed all architecture down to the skeletal structure and windows but then comes the problem. A design can only be deconstructed so much before its sterile, bland, dead. Its why some of the great modern and contemporary architecture is surrounded by older buildings that have more embellishments which magnify the clean lines of the structure. Its hard to achieve urban density with modern buildings because the clean lines and large windows require some open space between the buildings. As with most art and design movements, the best of the prior movements will be incorporated into something new....but instead of deconstructing...a new architectural movement will be adding rather than subtracting
aha! • a day agoSalingaros published ATOA in 2006, and has published several books since. Not that his writing isn't timeless, but there are no details in this piece to tease out what is new.
Myron Hudson • a day agoYes, a lot of ugly junk out there. Some of the houses built in the 1960's appeal to me, after that, not so much.
Ed • a day agoEasy to overlook is the role of building designers in pushing their idea of ..whatever... and the role of developers especially in wanting things built as quickly and cheaply as possible. The latter are primarily responsible for strip malls, which are truly awful, but utilitarian..
Arch Stanton • a day agoI'll be reading both these books, but the key failures of contemporary design and planning aren't really about style, its about building codes, land use laws, transportation and the way development is financed. Why does the strip look like the strip? Because its the preferred mode of planning commissions, tax collectors and, most of all, banks who are lending the money.
Stephen • a day ago"When we build, let us think that we build for ever" - John Ruskin
joanhello Stephen • 15 hours agoI agree with the author that modern architecture is ugly, but this is not some isolated, mysterious ailement. Architecture is a form of art, and modern art is every bit as ugly, inhuman and soul killing as modern architecture. I recently spent a seven month stretch working inside many very expensive homes in Aspen Colorado. These multi-million dollar homes are full of the most ugly and repugnant examples of modern art you could ever imagine. There are paintings that sell for over a million which literally look like someone vomited on the canvas. I don't have to tell that today's music is mostly garbage. All of this reflects perfectly the modern world view. Namely, there is no God, there is no Truth, there is no beauty. Humans are just accidental, meaningless beings, living pointless lives in a pointless universe. As long as modern society clings to these awful lies, art in it's many forms has no chance of making a comeback. When we earnestly return to God and reverence for the eternal beauty of his creation, we will again seek to honor God and our fellow humans with works of love and beauty. It's not complicated really.
Davyd • 2 hours agoThe taste of the rich does not stand separate from their relations with the rest of us. In acknowledging the turning point about a hundred years ago, Kunstler overemphasizes WWI and under-emphasizes the 1917 Communist revolution in Russia. Before that year, Marxism was a fringe movement that had never held power anywhere. Given that atheism was part of its philosophical foundation, people of faith could not believe it would ever be anything else. After that year, the elite realized that God was not protecting their supremacy and began to fear the common people. Therefore the old aesthetic which allowed the elite to have the same taste as everyone else but just express it more expensively was supplanted by a new aesthetic that upheld tastes acquired and formed through an expensive education. The point was not to impress the common people but to confuse them. It was part of the Cult of the Expert. Its purpose was to convince the common people that they could not understand what was going on at the elite levels and therefore they were not fit to rule. I remember some British writer who called sunsets "sentimental", which puzzled me until I figured out that this writer was part of (or was mocking) a movement to narrow the definition of beauty to that sort of beauty that only people of refined (i.e., elite) taste could appreciate, while beauty that could be appreciated by everyone was downgraded by renaming it "sentimentality". After the decline of the Soviet Union became obvious in the 1980s, ornament and detail were allowed to return, but only in an ironic or whimsical way. There's still an element of confusion there, of calculated incomprehensibility.
At a time like this one, beauty is still being produced but on the fringes. Surrealism lives on in the works of artists like Jesse Allen and Susan Seddon Boulet, who don't rate Wikipedia pages but whose paintings are easily googled. Michael Reynolds builds Earthships (conservationist architectural fantasies in the mode of Antoni Gaudí) out of literal trash. (It's no accident that Reynolds, like Christopher Alexander and many other architectural innovators, went to the Southwest, where snobbery-informed building codes have historically been lax or non-existent. Traditional musicians from around the world connect with each other and cross-fertilize to produce the genre known as world music. If you don't care what the elite like, it's actually a glorious time for the arts.
Modern architecture neglects the person and substitutes visual ideas as its mission for providing places to foster human well-being, delight and comfort.
The whole game is given away by an exchange with one of my design tutors while studying architecture: we gave our presentations of our displayed projects (that is, pretend buildings) and the tutor remarked that none of us talked about people. We had all tried to mimic the journals (picture books usually) that we read and pretended to be abstract sculpture artists. Crap, of course.
But being cheeky, I piped up and said "its because you guys never talk about people!"We had been taught that buildings are 'walk-in scupltures' where as they are places for meaningful personal purpose.
Jul 27, 2020 | www.msn.com
During an in-depth interview that will air Tuesday night on ABC News as part of a primetime special, "American Catastrophe: How Did We Get Here?," Fauci was pressed to explain why, months after COVID-19 first reached U.S. soil, the U.S. government is still struggling to provide adequate testing for Americans and sufficient personal protective gear for essential workers.
"We keep hearing when we go to these task force meetings that these [issues] are being corrected," Fauci said. "But yet when you go into the trenches, you still hear about that."
Fauci said he does not have a "good answer" and "cannot explain" the discrepancy, especially since those matters are not part of his "day-by-day" responsibilities, but part of the problem stems from the fact that "many of the things that we needed were not produced in the United States."
The U.S. government ended up competing for those materials with other nations stricken by the pandemic, and the White House ultimately had to invoke emergency powers to push U.S. companies to help.
Those challenges were exacerbated by what Fauci admitted were early missteps on testing by the Centers for Disease Control, which developed tests that "didn't work" initially because – it turned out – their results were based on potentially contaminated samples. That forced the federal government to further rely private companies.
Asked about any missteps he may have made himself – including initially telling the public that the average American didn't need to wear a mask – he said such decisions were "based on the information at the moment."
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Mark2 , Jul 23 2020 18:00 utc | 17
I'd be interested on peoples views on this important link.
One hour long. A whistle blower nurse in a hospital in New York ! I have watched 10 mins and am already shocked, disgusted and sickened. I'll get back to it when I'v calmed down.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0hOOB3oG4
America is now a mad house, if you are a sane member of the public hit the streets and protest. Or god help you.
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@ james | Jul 19 2020 18:35 utc | 20 they are designed to breathe out freely
That is only the *valved* masks. Non-valved medical masks do not breath out freely. See here.
More factual information from 3M here: (PDF).
The real problem is masks that don't measure up. This article says half of the masks manufactured in China don't actually capture 95% of particles. Since all of my masks are from China, that is concerning to me. However, even if a mask only does 50%, that's still better than most non-respirator masks.
As for health issues from wearing masks... here's the scoop on that. In short - no, they don't.
Further">https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/whats-the-difference-between-n95-and-kn95-masks/">Further discussion on Chinese KN95 masks - *if made properly*, they are just as good as American N95 masks.
The Smart Air company has a number of good articles on masks for use with the pandemic. I recommend reading them.
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willie , Jul 20 2020 7:20 utc | 86
Mask-wearing obligatory in confined public spaces in France from today .Initially announced by Macron in his july 14th speech for the first of August,but over the weekend Health minister said it is in application from this monday 2 july.Fine is 135 euros.This will lead to more gigs cancelled,unless they are in the street.How can one sing masked?
Well,I tried wearing one saturday,but it is a sloppy experience and I don't think I will wear one correctly,it hangs down from my nose,it is to escape french fines.Before people start insulting me for that,i have to tell you that I see practically nobody,apart from going to supermarket once a week....Richard Steven Hack , Jul 20 2020 3:27 utc | 60
@ Perimetr | Jul 19 2020 17:09 utc | 10
I pointed out that cloth masks were ineffective relative to N95 months ago here. The hierarchy is N100, N99, N95, surgical masks, then anything else. There is a reduction of maybe 25% in effectiveness per level (except for the N masks.) T-shirts are almost useless, having an effectiveness of maybe 10-15%.
*Doesn't mean they shouldn't be worn.*
People don't seem to understand that avoiding infection is a game of probabilities. It's not a binary either-or situation. Anything you can do to impede the progress of a viral load from the environment to your vulnerable surfaces is worth doing if it's practical. Wearing a mask is practical.
Minor repeated reductions in oxygen or increases in carbon dioxide is not going to kill you and is unlikely to have long-term physical effects. And there's a good chance that eventually we'll stop wearing them once the virus has been reduced in the environment.
Asians have been wearing masks frequently for a long time. Health workers wear masks frequently for extended periods. Cite a study where that has had long-term negative health effects.
Jul 21, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
The COVID-19 peak death rate occurred the week of April 11- 18
"But there is a graph here that if I explain this properly, it'll make sense to you. This is from the Centers for Disease Control. And it is death counts attributable to COVID-19 through July 11th. The week ending July 11th, which is the most recent date for data. They run about, you know, a week to two weeks behind here.
So throw the chart up. This is by age. All sexes by age. So if you look at the top line, the red line, the very top, that is the week ending April 11th. You can't see this on the chart. Go ahead and put the chart up there, Brian, switch it over. The top line is red. You can't even probably tell that. But, trust me. The top-most line is red, and it occurs on April the 11th. That is the peak death rate, and it's probably about 6,000 . I don't know in what interval that this thing is reporting.
Probably Eh, it's in a week. The key is to go all the way over to the right side. You see the peak of death rates was April the 11th. It isn't now. The peak death rate was April 11. That red line is people 85 years and older. The line under it is people 75 to 84. That's the yellow line. The blue line underneath that is people 65 to 74. We're under 4,000 now in a week. So the top line is people 85 and older.
If you go to the This is where I'm not gonna There are two reds, but you can't tell the difference in them. Just trust me. Let's move to the far-right side of the chart. That's July 11th, and you'll see that the death rate is not even 500, right now, per week -- CDC -- in all ages, in all demographics, says the CDC. We're not at peak death rate. The peak death rate was April the 11th to April the 18th." Limbaugh
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But, what would Fauci say? pl
scott s. | 21 July 2020 at 11:05 AM
I see now we are being encouraged to ignore "death rate" as unimportant. What we are told to panic about is a higher incidence of "positives" among population under 40 years of age. This population apparently doesn't have as bad an outcome (hospitalization/death) and that's "bad" because they don't get contact traced and thus have "community spread".
I just love how AP/NYT and local journos all quote seemingly random "experts" with no discussion of just what their "expertise" consists of, other than perhaps a credential (and the relevance of the credential to the "expert statement" (more correctly opinion) is never provided).
At least Fauci has some standing.
Eric Newhill | 21 July 2020 at 11:18 AM
Sir,
Yes. You are thinking right about Cuomo murdering the elderly that cost the state so much money - many having the homes and medical treatment paid for by Medicaid (Medicare only pays for 30 days). Only it wasn't just Cuomo it was also Witmer in Michigan and Murphy in New Jersey. They killed off the costly elderly and got the bonus of more deaths to raise the fear of the virus and gain subsequent control over the lives of citizens + via twisted logic, try to give Trump a black eye. Those govs are are morally sick people. It is a no brainer, if you care about the elderly, to not place people with what you believe is a deadly highly contagious virus in homes full of elderly infirm people. I mean what is there to even consider or weigh about that decision?Had those murderers handled the nursing homes correctly (like Florida did) the virus would have been a lot less deadly.
Btw, with regard to schools re-opening, note that the line of the graph for school and college age people is basically synonymous with the X-axis; meaning they didn't die from the virus even at its peak lethality.
Jim | 21 July 2020 at 02:47 PM
To know what Fauci [don't wear a mask it don't help; wear a mask it helps] would say, let's look at how Aristotle would help us elucidate this answer.
Q: What can one conclude from [the mouth of] the liar [Fauci]?
A: Answer: nothing
Absolutely Nothing.
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And on this basis, from his mouth, our national "pandemic" "strategy" was thus formulated, from Mr. Nothing aka Fauci.And onto more black humor, and the wearing a mask as virtue signalling -- since they can only slow down by at most ten minutes any disease transmission of the novel coronvirus, there is this "gem" spoken by someone who apparently believes the mask kool aid? I D K . . . --and for me at least, his essay, Attorney Jonathan Turley, was funny to read, irrespective of whether that was his intent:
[[There is a new form of protests sweeping across the country as individuals put on anti-Mask masks to defy mandatory mask rules. The anti-masks are made of thin material, mesh or even crochet and are advertised as having no protective qualities for Covid-19. The question is whether they are legal. They appear to be so.]]
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/18/are-anti-mask-masks-legal/
Jul 21, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Whether you like it or not, the world is going for "herd immunity." Unfortunately, there is no other viable option; there will be no vaccine, there will be no miracle cure and besides, the virus isn't even all that dangerous if you are young and healthy. Simply put, COVID-19 won't flame out until 50 to 80 percent of us get it (the precise number is open to debate).
For the past century, most people have accepted that from time to time they'll get a cold or flu. It was considered a fact of life and an inconvenience. Somehow, in this age of fake news and social media, a disease that's a bit worse than the annual flu, has taken on a persona that's terrifying. I understand why that's happened; the media and various "influencers" sell fear and astute politicians harness this fear for votes. Meanwhile, anyone with a dissenting voice is marginalized. Along the way, data has been tampered with and facts have become bastardized. Is anyone else disturbed that the Democrats and Republicans each support different miracle cures? Basic science hasn't been this politicized since Galileo opined about celestial bodies.
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Now, I don't intend this post to be political; you can twist most data to prove almost any spectrum of facts. Rather, let me throw out a strawman; let's assume COVID-19 led to almost certain death, do we have the ability to stop it? We could quarantine all of humanity for years, but COVID-19 would still be out there; it wouldn't die out -- there would always be new flare-ups as people got sloppy or ignored the rules. We tried an aggressive quarantine in America and did little more than "flatten the curve." Unlike smallpox or polio, there will never be a vaccine (there has never been a COVID vaccine for a variety of reasons) -- therefore, as soon as quarantine ends, we'd all begin to spread it again, as there will always be infected humans. Countries that hermetically sealed their borders would not be immune either -- they've simply deferred infection. Eventually, there would be an accident -- one single pathogen would undo years of work. You can quarantine a village in Africa and stop a disease like Ebola that strikes fast and often kills the host. You cannot stop the spread of something that tens of millions of global citizens unknowingly have, while lying dormant for up to three weeks.
I think it should be obvious that you cannot stop COVID from spreading, at best, you can slow it down so that hospitals do not become overwhelmed. Instead, governments are passing draconian and arbitrary laws that do little to slow the spread, yet destroy businesses and communities. If anything, this takes a biological crisis and turns it into an economic one.
Jul 21, 2020 | www.msn.com
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's recent criticism of him in which he called the infectious disease expert an "alarmist."
... Fauci warned last week that the coronavirus pandemic could be as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed at least 50 million people worldwide. He also warned late last month that the number of COVID-19 cases could top 100,000 a day.
Jul 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
m , Jul 20 2020 7:09 utc | 83
Is the high share of 70% asymptomatic cases really confirmed?? The last time I heard something about that isue it whas claimed to be 15-20% with no evidence for high numbers of undiscovered asymtomatic cases. The extensive testing with a low percantege of positives seems to confirm this.
If the asymptomatic cases were really around 2/3 then this would mean the number of real cases is much higher the the number of officially counted cases, by the factor of 3 roughly.
Jul 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Blue Dotterel , Jul 20 2020 9:13 utc | 96
For anyone who has forgotten, Fauci told 60 Minutes that:
There's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think it is. And often there are unintended consequences – people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face."
But he does make an astute point:
"Recently I had the poor judgment to turn on National Public Radio for about an hour, under the impression that I was going to learn something about the day’s news.
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No – for a solid hour, I heard the following: that COVID19 – in reality, at most, a moderately serious flu virus – is the worst medical threat the United States has ever faced.
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But the real theme of the hour was masks, masks, masks: how to make them, how to wear them, their different types, who doesn’t seem to have enough of them, and why muffling our faces (even though no such thing was ever demanded of us during dozens of past viral outbreaks) is absolutely, positively good for us all."
Jul 18, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Stockman: The Clown Cars Are Fully Loaded And Dr. Fauci's Is Leading The Parade by Tyler Durden Sat, 07/18/2020 - 11:30 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
When it comes to the topic of clown cars, we'd say Dr. Fauci gets a limo version all to himself...
Yesterday he uttered the following incoherent babble, saying the recent surge in new cases is because the Virus Patrol didn't go far enough in throwing 50 million Americans out of work:
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'We did not shut down entirely,' Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said. 'We need to draw back a few yards and say, "OK, we can't stay shut down forever." You've got to shut down but then you've got to gradually open.'
Got that?
What does this pretentious old windbag think - that the blooming, buzzing mass of a $21 trillion economy can be calibrated up and down by the week via some magical dimmer switch?
Never mind because he was then on to this preposterous comparison:
Fauci also said he expects the public to compare the Covid-19 pandemic to the 1918 pandemic flu, which killed around 50 million people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Well, it so happens that the US death rate from the Spanish Flu was 655 per 100,000 persons (675,000 deaths in a population of 103 million). That's obviously orders of magnitude larger than the 39 per 100,000 deaths to date from the Covid.
In fact, the impact of the Spanish Flu was not only 17X greater in terms of the overall mortality rate, but it was also a true Grim Reaper in the sense that it struck across the entire age spectrum of the population (dark blue bars).
It actually started in the giant domestic military training compounds stood up by Woodrow Wilson to join a European war that was none of America's business, but the virus did kill tens of thousands of 18-30 year-old draftees in their own barracks long before they got to the killing fields of France.
By contrast, as we now surely understand, and you would think Fauci would, too, the Covid (light blue bars) is primarily a harvester of elderly persons already struggling with life-threatening respiratory, heart, vascular, renal and diabetic illnesses.
Accordingly, among the 191 million Americans under the age of 45 years, there have been only 1.5 WITH-Covid deaths per 100,000, while for the elderly, the opposite is true. Nearly 70,000 or more than 60 percent of all WITH-Covid death have been among the 75 years and older population, resulting in mortality rates as follows:
85 years & Over: 581 per 100,000 persons;
75-84 years: 200 per 100,000 persons;
Now, you don't need to take a single class in epidemiology to understand a core truth: That is, when nearly 60 percent of the population under 45 years accounts for only 2.5 percent of the reported WITH-Covid deaths and has a rounding error mortality rate, while the 6.5 percent of the population 75 years and older accounts for 60 percent of the deaths -- you don't fight the disease with a one-size-fits all strategy of generic lockdowns, quarantines, and social regimentation.
And surely you don't shutdown the schools, gyms, bars, restaurants, movies, ball games, concerts, beaches, theme parks etc. because the vulnerable elderly don't patronize these venues in appreciable numbers anyway, and could easily be warned to stay strictly away.
The key point, however, is that this whole unspeakable Lockdown Folly does not remotely stem from the "science", as the MSM supporters of Fauci claim.
It's just a hair-brained experiment in social control that happened because the Donald was too weak, ill-informed, distracted, and innumerate to send Fauci and his camarilla of doctors and vaccine-peddlers packing when the mid-March guidelines were first issued by the CDC.
Yes, the Donald's political enemies in the ranks of big city mayors and Blue State governors have feasted upon the chum Fauci & Co have persistently tossed into the fetid waters of national politics, but that doesn't let Trump off the hook.
If the truth be told, this is the Trump Lockdown Folly and ranks among the greatest blunders ever committed by a US President. That's because even at this late date nearly four months into the resulting economic disaster:
there is no evidence that asymptomatic persons are transmitters of the virus,
there is powerful statistical evidence that 95 percent of the population can cope with the disease and recover if they do become infected.
Yet, the twin pillars of Fauci's hare-brained social regimentation scheme assumes they very opposite: Namely, that healthy Americans must be put under house arrest because they are silent spreaders and killers of their fellow citizens; and that the disease is so virulent that its #1 enemy -- the powerful immune system of every healthy American -- cannot be trusted to do its job if the virus is permitted to follow its natural course of contagion and eventual herd immunity.
As to the silent spreaders trope, here is how the very head of WHO's COVID-19 Task Force, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, recently explained that transmission of the virus from asymptomatic patients appears to be very rare:
It still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual."
For crying out loud. That knocks the very rationale for stay-at-home orders to hundreds of millions of healthy citizens into a cocked hat.
In a constitutional democracy, where the liberties and properties of citizens are protected by law, you need overwhelming proof of an existential threat to society before ordering mass house arrests. But in this instance, the head of the WHO task force–the agency that fomented the whole coronavirus hysteria in the first place–has said quite unequivocally: No cigar!
In a word, Dr. Fauci is peddling dangerous humbug under the banner of pseudo-science, and should have been shut-up and forced into retirement long ago. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the Donald is too chicken to use the Fake "your fired" tool that made him a short-lived TV star, if not a successful businessman.
His defenders, of course, mumble that his hands are tied because Fauci is a member of the legally protected Senior Executive Service (SES). That's Jimmy Carter's gift to insubordinate bureaucracy, which your editor happily voted against back in the day -- but the excuse is poppycock.
Under Federal law, Fauci can be fired if he is found to have engaged in --
misconduct, neglect of duty, malfeasance, or failure to accept a direct reassignment or to accompany a position in a transfer of function", is or to be "less than successful [in his] executive performance.
If not "malfeasance", what would you call the absolute savaging of the livelihoods and life's work of tens of millions of American workers and small businessmen for no good reason of state, which have resulted from Fauci's idiotic pronouncements and guidelines?
The thing is, after four months Fauci's blatherings and instructions to state and local authorities have fomented an outright public Hysteria of biblical proportions.
It is not just that officialdom has closed restaurants and gyms via unconstitutional "takings" of their owners' properties. By now, Fauci's Virus Patrol and its megaphones and misanthropes in the MSM have rendered large portions of the American public fearful about leaving their own homes.
And, needless to say, they have also given the Donald's legions of rabid political enemies license to stage malign theatrics in the name of Covid-fighting that would be unthinkable under any other circumstances.
For instance, it has now been announced that the school districts of Los Angeles and San Diego, which collectively serve nearly one million students, will not have in-person teaching to start the school year.
But if you are conversant with any facts at all, you can only sputter: WTF!
There are nine million school age children in California, and not a single WITH-Covid death has occurred among them.
That's right. There have been 27,400 positive tests among these nine million kids, but all of them, positively all of them, have been either asymptomatic or mildly ill -- as children are wont to become -- and have recovered.
Yet here is where America's growing fleet of clown cars comes in. It seems that the politicization has gone so far off the deep end that the LA teachers union–35,000 strong -- is now taking the schools hostage for their own parochial ends.
They recently proclaimed that no schools should open in LA until there is a Charter School freeze; the police are defunded; Medicare-for-all is adopted by the US Congress; new state taxes on the wealthy are enacted; and there is a Federal bailout of the LA school district.
You can't make this stuff up. And while they were taking the children hostage in the name of Covid-fighting, they also insisted that the already dysfunctional schools of LA become completely pointless:
The union outlined numerous major provisions it says will be necessary to reopen schools again, including sequestering students in small groups throughout the school day, providing students with masks and other forms of protective equipment, and re-designing school layouts in order to facilitate 'social distancing.'
Of course, the latest outbursts of this kind of mindless social destruction has been fueled by the absolute mendacity of the Virus Patrol and its MSM megaphones with respect to the so-called outbreak of new cases in the Sun Belt states.
But the whole brouhaha is a crock. There is no public health crisis in the so-called hot spots, as the up-to-date chart below makes abundantly clear.
Yes, the 42-day trend of "new cases" has risen sharply in tandem with far more testing, and repeat testing of the same individuals -- outcomes that were inherent in re-opening plans, which required employers to have their employees tested as a condition of operating.
But, alas, the death count trend in these 50 counties has not risen at all - except for the last few days when a lot of "catch-up" data for earlier fatalities was thrown into the data hoppers by some of the counties involved.
That hasn't stopped the Covid-Howlers from proclaiming a phony medical crisis in Texas and elsewhere, with the same old tropes about overflowing hospitals and strained ICU capacity in places like Houston.
But as the eagle-eyed maven of the corona-data, Alex Berenson, tweeted this AM, it's just a big fat lie. While CNN may have managed to find one or two crowded facilities in the whole of the Houston-Harris county region of some 5 million souls, there are actually still more than 2,500 empty hospital beds in the area.
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Here's the thing. The Virus Patrol has switched from the death count to the "case" count because the latter is not at the 3,000 per day predicted by the CDC in early May, and ballyhooed by the NYT and MSM as the leading edge of a horrid "second wave" coming down the pike.
In fact, during July to date (thru the 14th), the daily WITH-Covid death count has averaged 613, or only one-fifth of the projected June-July-August surge; and even that level is suspect, given the growing evidence that many local jurisdictions are doing retrospective death audits to pad their case counts.
In any event, the readily available state-by-state data tells you all you need to know. This so-called Sun Belt wave of cases is, indeed, the equivalent of the normal flu.
In the case of Florida, for instance, during the first 14 days of July, there have been 139,195 new cases reported, but only 4,322 new hospitalizations. So that means only 3.1 percent of this ballyhooed surge of cases was sick enough to even require hospitalization.
Needless to say, that's not a crisis; it's just one more part of the indictment against Fauci and his gang of malpracticing doctors. They have put the anti-Trump press into a rabid feeding frenzy, and that coverage, in turn, has caused the American public to head back into their Covid holes.
As it happened, three of the nation's largest banks reported their totally confected earnings for Q2 this AM, but the one thing that stood out as meaningful was a collective $28 billion provision for future loan losses. That is, they see the massive wave of defaults set in motion by Fauci's misbegotten Lockdown Nation strategy, and are getting prepared for the worst.
Meanwhile, the Fed's lunatic $3 trillion injection of liquidity into the canyons of Wall Street since the Lockdown Nation incepted in mid-March continues to do its mischief, fueling a stock market bubble that gets more ludicrous (and dangerous) by the day.
We noted yesterday that during the Monday's great reversal on the stock market that Tesla had gained a "GM" ($38 billion) in the morning spike, but lost a "BMW" ($42 billion) in the afternoon.
A timely piece by Bloomberg this AM helps explain how this kind of madness actually happened:
Almost 40,000 Robinhood accounts added shares of the automaker during a single fourhour span on Monday, according to website Robintrack.net, which compiles data on the investing platform that's much beloved by day trading millennials.
The frenzy in interest means that as of the end of Monday's trading session, there are now roughly 457,000 users on the Robinhood app that hold shares of the company in some form. That makes it the 10th-most popular stock on the platform, ahead of even Amazon.com Inc., which is held by 358,000 users.
The one-day return may not have turned out so well. Tesla was up as much as 16 percent at one point before paring gains through the day and finishing 3 percent lower. It was a rare losing day for the high flying stock, which has surged 56 percent over the past 10 days.
So how did these mindless gamblers reason about a company that has never, ever made a four-quarter profit, and which reported Q2 volumes well below last year, in coming to a peak valuation of $325 billion Monday morning?
Well, a sell-side analyst explained both that question, and the large fleet of clown cars now cruising up and down Wall Street about as well as could be expected. Said this master of the crystal ball:
'At the current price, Tesla's stock reflects an expectation of 2030 volume of 5 million units, which is more than ten times what the company appears on track to achieve this year,' Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said.
Why, you don't say!
Then again, projecting EV car sales in the year 2030 is probably as good a use for Wall Street's clown car riders as any other.
Certainly, it would not dawn on them to ask whether a stock market held up by the Terrific Ten, and especially the FAANGs and Microsoft, has anything at all to do with the dire state of the US economy.
It seems these trading sardines make up a quarter of the S&P 500 index by value, but just 8 percent of its composite revenues and a mere 1 percent of jobs in the American workforce.
So, yes, the Acela Corridor has the clown cars coming and going - even as the stock bubble which will take down this whole fantasy reaches its historic asymptote, as we will essay further in Part 3.
Jul 18, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Record Number Of Americans Died From Drug Overdoses In 2019 As Fentanyl Moved West
Nearly 71,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year...
Soaring overdose deaths in the US have helped drag down average life expectancy for 3 straight years, and by the looks of it, No. 4 might be right around the corner.
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sbin , 1 hour ago
Lucius Quinctius , 1 hour agoSt Floyd died of an overdose.
2 years of drug overdose killed as many Americans as plandemic.
Work for funeral homes many more overdose and suicide deaths 20 to 40 year olds than covid +70 and most were already dead but still breathing and making nursing home money.
MerLynn , 1 hour agoThe Chinese have a legitimate grievance ,(actually several), with regards to the deliberate introduction of opium into their country by the British, in the 1800 s,as a means to repatriate sterling used to pay for tea .Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,(HSBC),very central to funding this traffic as well as a Jewish-British banking family, the Sassoons, originally from Baghdad ,directly involved.The immiseration of millions of Chinese in opium addiction as well as the failed Chinese attempt To free themselves from this in the Opium Wars has left them bitter,rightfully.
So, introducing fentanyl to the west is payback. Two years ago I looked up on Alibaba ,out of curiosity ,the cost , quantity and availability of a common antibiotic, Vancomycin. It was amazing, at least 30 responses, producing in quantity, hundreds of kilograms, cheap ....,,you want it when? The Chinese pharmaceutical production capacity is enormous. Fentanyl is no problem to produce in huge quantity for these folks. They, in their minds, have reason to send it our way. We are at war.
Sid Davis , 1 hour agoyes its a Bio Chemical War.... and all Bio Weapons come from the Barrel of a Needle
If you are free, that means you can make good choices for yourself and bad ones, too.
When you are a slave on the big government run plantation we call the USA, pain from being subjugated encourages escape, and since the underground market in drugs is one of the few remaining free markets, you still have the freedom there to make bad choices.
It isn't much solace to those you leave behind that you managed to permanently escape your pain.
Jul 17, 2020 | off-guardian.org
kevin , Jul 16, 2020 10:44 PM
Off topic, but yesterday on Newsmax network in the US the guest COMPLETELY ripped into Gates and Fauci. Newsmax is a major conservative media outlet that has both a TV network and website with millions of viewers/readers. You can watch it here:
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1283315374025515008
Jul 15, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
"And when Fauci was telling the White House Coronavirus Task Force that there was only anecdotal evidence in support of hydroxychloroquine to fight the virus, I confronted him with scientific studies providing evidence of safety and efficacy. A recent Detroit hospital study showed a 50% reduction in the mortality rate when the medicine is used in early treatment.
Now Fauci says a falling mortality rate doesn't matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening. The lower the mortality rate, the faster and more we can open." Navarro in USA Today
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"Laputa's population consists mainly of an educated elite, who are fond of mathematics, astronomy , music and technology, but fail to make practical use of their knowledge. Servants make up the rest of the population.
The Laputans have mastered magnetic levitation. They also are very fond of astronomy, and discovered two moons of Mars. (This is 151 years earlier than the recognized discovery of the two moons of Mars by Asaph Hall in 1877.) However, they are unable to construct well-designed clothing or buildings, as they despise practical geometry as "vulgar and mechanick". The houses are ill-built, lacking any right angles, [6] and the clothes of Laputans, which are decorated with astrological symbols and musical figures, do not fit, as they take measurements with instruments such as quadrants and a compass rather than with tape measures . [7] They spend their time listening to the music of the spheres. They believe in astrology and worry constantly that the sun will go out." wiki on Gullivers Travels.
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Ah, I see it now! Dr. Fauci is a Laputan seer! He is devoid of any real comprehension or respect for the ordinary humans trying to deal with actual pandemic problems rather than "the music of the spheres."
Is he a Democratic Party operative? I doubt it. He is simply "out of it." pl
nbsp; Mike46 , 15 July 2020 at 12:40 PMThe first thing that should popped up like a red flag that Fauci was a few bricks of a shy load upstairs, was his 'luv' for Hillary.
From 2013:https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/sketchy-fauci-2.jpg
Mark K Logan , 15 July 2020 at 12:47 PMFauci doesn't matter. Over the weekend the WH tried to strongarm parents to get on board with school reopening. They are fucking with the wrong interest group.
Terence Gore , 15 July 2020 at 02:07 PMThere is a better, albeit a more difficult way to undermine Fauci. Educate the people that this issue has vast economic consequences and we must factor in those consequences when crafting an over-all policy. Fauci, I expect, will openly admit he is approaching the topic from a purely medical perspective...which is exactly what he's supposed to be doing.
As is, Trump is leaves himself wide open to the obvious counter: Neither he nor his economic adviser have any medical expertise.
Trump may be trapped in a zero-sum game mindset.
"Tony Fauci has many, many vaccine patents and there's one vaccine patent that he has that is a way of packaging a coronavirus with some other vaccine in a protein sheet and then delivering it through a vaccine he somehow ended up owning that patent Tony Fauci will be able to cash in . So Fauci's agency will collect half the royalties for that vaccine [related to the coronavirus]."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-DMKNT7xI
The founding of moderna on mrna medicine. At end of video talks about analogy of climbing Mt Everest and needed to have 1 big investor
"Sunderland co-founded the VC firm, known for making ambitious investments, after having led program-related investments for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided financial support to Moderna while she was there. Since 2010, Moderna has been working on developing messenger RNA (mRNA) that allows the body's cells to act like reprogrammed biological factories, producing antibodies needed to battle diseases, including viruses.
"The nice thing about big bets is that they play out over time. ... We made an investment five years ago in Moderna, and mRNA was a big bet, and you see it playing out in terms of their ability to get a rapid vaccine for Covid. ... You have to take those big bets," Sunderland said."
Fauci interview
"The other thing that is amazing in its evolution is the amount that we've learned about HIV pathogenesis, the reservoir, the potential for controlling the virus, either in the absence of antiretroviral [treatment] or in a modified regimen that takes away the need to have a single pill or multiple pills every single day. The thing that remains the holy grail of unaccomplished goals is the development of a highly effective, safe vaccine. And that is something that's not surprising because of the very special situation with HIV, that the body -- as much as we study pathogenesis and understand it so incredibly well -- the body does not make an adequate immune response against HIV, which is the reason why no one has yet spontaneously cleared the virus by their immune system. And so what we need to do, and where we're combination putting a lot of effort into, but also struggling with, is the issue of the development of a vaccine that would be effective enough to be able to be deployed.
We have one situation that took place, well after that meeting in San Francisco, where a trial of a candidate vaccine -- in a trial named RV 144 that took place in Thailand -- showed a 31% efficacy, which gave us some great hints of correlates of immunity and are the basis for a number of subsequent trials, but still was not good enough to deploy. So we have a number of very large vaccine trials, going on now throughout the world, including a heavy concentration in southern Africa. But we also are pursuing another line of vaccine research, which is the attempt to present to the body, in the proper conformation with sequential immunizations, the capability of making broadly neutralizing antibodies. And if we're successful in that, then I think we have a really good chance of developing a vaccine that would have an efficacy and safety profile good enough to actually deploy it."
I think over time mrna "vaccines" will change medicine. Are we opening Pandora's box? Possibly.
Jul 15, 2020 | www.msn.com
Navarro wrote in the op-ed for USA TODAY Tuesday that "Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, but he has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on."
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The White House's deputy chief of staff for communications, Dan Scavino, who has been by the president's side since the 2016 campaign, on Sunday posted a cartoon on Facebook depicting Fauci as a running faucet washing the U.S. economy down the drain.
"Sorry, Dr. Faucet! At least you know if I'm going to disagree with a colleague, such as yourself, it's done publicly -- and not cowardly, behind journalists with leaks. See you tomorrow!" Scavino wrote in a caption accompanying the cartoon.
Neoconned , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:57 am GMTJul 09, 2020 | www.unz.com
There is particular danger at the moment that powerful political alignments in the United States are pushing strongly to exacerbate the developing crisis with Russia. The New York Times, which broke the story that the Kremlin had been paying the Afghan Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers, has been particularly assiduous in promoting the tale of perfidious Moscow. Initial Times coverage, which claimed that the activity had been confirmed by both intelligence sources and money tracking, was supplemented by delusional nonsense from former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who asks "Why does Trump put Russia first?" before calling for a "swift and significant U.S. response." Rice, who is being mentioned as a possible Biden choice for Vice President, certainly knows about swift and significant as she was one of the architects of the destruction of Libya and the escalation of U.S. military and intelligence operations directed against a non-threatening Syria.
The Times is also titillating with the tale of a low level drug smuggling Pashto businessman who seemed to have a lot of cash in dollars lying around, ignoring the fact that Afghanistan is awash with dollars and has been for years. Many of the dollars come from drug deals, as Afghanistan is now the world's number one producer of opium and its byproducts.
The cash must be Russian sourced , per the NYT, because a couple of low level Taliban types, who were likely tortured by the Afghan police, have said that it is so. The Times also cites anonymous sources which allege that there were money transfers from an account managed by the Kremlin's GRU military intelligence to an account opened by the Taliban. Note the "alleged" and consider for a minute that it would be stupid for any intelligence agency to make bank-to-bank transfers, which could be identified and tracked by the clever lads at the U.S. Treasury and NSA. Also try to recall how not so long ago we heard fabricated tales about threatening WMDs to justify war. Perhaps the story would be more convincing if a chain of custody could be established that included checks drawn on the Moscow-Narodny Bank and there just might be a crafty neocon hidden somewhere in the U.S. intelligence community who is right now faking up that sort of evidence.
Other reliably Democratic Party leaning news outlets, to include CNN, MSNBC and The Washington Post all jumped on the bounty story, adding details from their presumably inexhaustible supply of anonymous sources. As Scott Horton observed the media was reporting a "fact" that there was a rumor.
Inevitably the Democratic Party leadership abandoned its Ghanaian kente cloth scarves, got up off their knees, and hopped immediately on to their favorite horse, which is to claim loudly and in unison that when in doubt Russia did it. Joe Biden in particular is "disgusted" by a "betrayal" of American troops due to Trump's insistence on maintaining "an embarrassing campaign of deferring and debasing himself before Putin."
The Dems were joined in their outrage by some Republican lawmakers who were equally incensed but are advocating delaying punishing Russia until all the facts are known. Meanwhile, the "circumstantial details" are being invented to make the original tale more credible, including crediting the Afghan operation to a secret Russian GRU Army intelligence unit that allegedly was also behind the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury England in 2018.
Reportedly the Pentagon is looking into the circumstances around the deaths of three American soldiers by roadside bomb on April 8, 2019 to determine a possible connection to the NYT report. There are also concerns relating to several deaths in training where Afghan Army recruits turned on their instructors. As the Taliban would hardly need an incentive to kill Americans and as only seventeen U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan in 2019 as a result of hostile action, the year that the intelligence allegedly relates to, one might well describe any joint Taliban-Russian initiative as a bit of a failure since nearly all of those deaths have been attributed to kinetic activity initiated by U.S. forces.
The actual game that is in play is, of course, all about Donald Trump and the November election. It is being claimed that the president was briefed on the intelligence but did nothing. Trump denied being verbally briefed due to the fact that the information had not been verified. For once America's Chief Executive spoke the truth, confirmed by the "intelligence community," but that did not stop the media from implying that the disconnect had been caused by Trump himself. He reportedly does not read the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), where such a speculative piece might indeed appear on a back page, and is uninterested in intelligence assessments that contradict what he chooses to believe. The Democrats are suggesting that Trump is too stupid and even too disinterested to be president of the United States so they are seeking to replace him with a corrupt 78-year-old man who may be suffering from dementia.
The Democratic Party cannot let Russia go because they see it as their key to future success and also as an explanation for their dramatic failure in 2016 which in no way holds them responsible for their ineptness. One does not expect the House Intelligence Committee, currently headed by the wily Adam Schiff, to actually know anything about intelligence and how it is collected and analyzed, but the politicization of the product is certainly something that Schiff and his colleagues know full well how to manipulate. One only has to recall the Russiagate Mueller Commission investigation and Schiff's later role in cooking the witnesses that were produced in the subsequent Trump impeachment hearings.
Schiff predictably opened up on Trump in the wake of the NYT report, saying "I find it inexplicable in light of these very public allegations that the president hasn't come before the country and assured the American people that he will get to the bottom of whether Russia is putting bounties on American troops and that he will do everything in his power to make sure that we protect American troops."
Schiff and company should know, but clearly do not, that at the ground floor level there is a lot of lying, cheating and stealing around intelligence collection. Most foreign agents do it for the money and quickly learn that embroidering the information that is being provided to their case officer might ultimately produce more cash. Every day the U.S. intelligence community produces thousands of intelligence reports from those presumed "sources with access," which then have to be assessed by analysts. Much of the information reported is either completely false or cleverly fabricated to mix actual verified intelligence with speculation and out and out lies to make the package more attractive. The tale of the Russian payment of bribes to the Taliban for killing Americans is precisely the kind of information that stinks to high heaven because it doesn't even make any political or tactical sense, except to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and the New York Times. For what it's worth, a number of former genuine intelligence officers including Paul Pillar, John Kiriakou , Scott Ritter , and Ray McGovern have looked at the evidence so far presented and have walked away unimpressed. The National Security Agency (NSA) has also declined to confirm the story, meaning that there is no electronic trail to validate it.
Finally, there is more than a bit of the old hypocrisy at work in the damnation of the Russians even if they have actually been involved in an improbable operation with the Taliban. One recalls that in the 1970s and 1980s the United States supported the mujahideen rebels fighting against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. The assistance consisted of weapons, training, political support and intelligence used to locate, target and kill Soviet soldiers. Stinger missiles were provided to bring down helicopters carrying the Russian troops. The support was pretty much provided openly and was even boasted about, unlike what is currently being alleged about the Russian assistance. The Soviets were fighting to maintain a secular regime that was closely allied to Moscow while the mujahideen later morphed into al-Qaeda and the Islamist militant Taliban subsequently took over the country, meaning that the U.S. effort was delusional from the start.
So, what is a leaked almost certainly faux story about the Russian bounties on American soldiers intended to accomplish? It is probably intended to keep a "defensive" U.S. presence in Afghanistan, much desired by the neocons, a majority in Congress and the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), and it will further be played and replayed to emphasize the demonstrated incompetence of Donald Trump. The end result could be to secure the election of a pliable Establishment flunky Joe Biden as president of the United States. How that will turn out is unpredictable, but America's experience of its presidents since 9/11 has not been very encouraging.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email protected] .
Zarathustra , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:28 am GMT
Milton , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:35 am GMTAlso there are the poppy fields.
anonymous [316] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:05 am GMTThe Deep State vermin who pulled-off the violent, proxy overthrow of Yanukovych in 2014, and who are also behind the Arab Spring, Syrian Rebels, ISIS, and the ongoing domestic unrest Stateside, are the descendants of the vermin who overthrew Christian Russia in 1917 using the same modus operandi of color revolution and “peaceful protests.”. Putin undid all their hard work in Russia and kicked them out and seized their ill gotten gains: this, coupled with their congenital hatred of Russia, is the reason for the non-stop, bipartisan refrain of “Russia, Russia, Russia.”
vot tak , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:10 am GMTIt is probably intended to keep a “defensive” U.S. presence in Afghanistan, much desired by the neocons, a majority in Congress and the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), and it will further be played and replayed to emphasize the demonstrated incompetence of Donald Trump.
There are other reasons for wishing to stay in Afghanistan. Generals don’t like losing wars. It is personally humiliating to retreat. The whole country is also worn down by lost wars and the psychological blow lasts for over 10 years like during the post-Vietnam era. Keeping 10,000 troops in Afghanistan permanently won’t win the war but it will prevent a defeat and potentially humiliating last minute evacuation when the Taliban retake Kabul.
Also Al-Qaeda is still present in Afghanistan: “Al-Qaeda has 400 to 600 operatives active in 12 Afghan provinces and is running training camps in the east of the country, according to the report released Friday. U.N. experts, drawing their research from interviews with U.N. member states, including their intelligence and security services, plus think tanks and regional officials, say the Taliban has played a double game with the Trump Administration, consulting with al-Qaeda senior leaders throughout its 16 months of peace talks with U.S. officials and reassuring Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, among others, that the Taliban would “honour their historical ties” to the terrorist group.” https://time.com/5844865/afghanistan-peace-deal-taliban-al-qaeda/
Robert Dolan , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:12 am GMTWhile the melodrama about trump=pro Russia and dems=anti Russia makes good political theater to keep folks running in circles chasing their tails, this is not the main reason for the continuous attacks on Russia by organs of the zpc/nwo. The main reason is Russia is not owned by them. Not a colony. The main reason for the psywar is not about trump vs dems, it is about keeping the Russia=bad guys theme seeded in the propaganda. That was the main reason behind “Russiagate”, as well. And as with that scam, both “sides” knowingly played their part hyping the theater to keep that Russia=bad guy propaganda theme in the mind of americans.
Harold Smith , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:29 am GMTI can’t imagine that any intelligent person believes this bullshit about Russia. I completely tune it out the same way I tuned out any news about “CHAZ.”
Some things are just too silly to bother with.
Alfred , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:30 am GMT“So, what is a leaked almost certainly faux story about the Russian bounties on American soldiers intended to accomplish? It is probably intended to keep a “defensive” U.S. presence in Afghanistan, much desired by the neocons, a majority in Congress and the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), and it will further be played and replayed to emphasize the demonstrated incompetence of Donald Trump.”
Let’s say for the sake of argument that the story is true. So what? I don’t see how it can be used as justification to double down on a pointless war. (Reasonable people might see it as another reason to get out of Afghanistan sooner rather than later).
Moreover, I don’t think they’d have to create such drama to get Trump the imperialist to keep the troops in Afghanistan (if he actually had any intention to withdraw them in the first place).
This propaganda effort reminds me of the Skripal affair. Perhaps Trump’s handlers and enablers realize that he’ll lose the election (if we have one) so they’re trying to manipulate him into escalating tensions with Russia (just as they are with China, Iran and Venezuela).
Patagonia Man , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:33 am GMTThe Americans were always very proud and upfront about how they organized, trained, equipped and financed the Taliban to oust the Russians from Afghanistan. In view of this, why do they act so surprised should the Russians do something similar on a much smaller scale?
Obviously, the whole story was concocted in Washington, but so what?
Anyone with half a brain should know that the Americans are in Afghanistan because the Americans control the world trade in narcotics. Columbia is the cocaine end of the business.
I do wish some smart chemists would synthesize heroin and cocaine in a laboratory and put the CIA out of business.
No Friend Of The Devil , says: July 7, 2020 at 6:51 am GMT“and it will further be played and replayed to emphasize the demonstrated incompetence of Donald Trump”
The demonization of a democratically-elected President by the zionist-owned New York Times , Washington Post and CNN is somewaht reminiscent of the demonization of a certain Austrian in the Western media after the 1933 World Jewry’s declaration of war on Nazi Germany.
“He who controls the narrative controls the consciousness”
With Wolf Blitz’s, Bolton’s, and this week’s release of Trump’s relative’s book discrediting his mental health. How many books is that now???
But, times have moved on. Trump can ride this wave by learning the dark art of playing the victim using the mantra ‘look how hard I’m trying’ and appealing to US voters as their ‘law and order’ president.
Geopolitically speaking, if the US Zio-cons were smart, rather than suffering from ‘Groupthink’, they would be trying to entice Russia away from its partner, China, and draw Russia into playing a greater role in Europe. Recall that Putin had asked if Russia could join NATO.
But, alas, they’re still making the same mistake they did in 1991 after the collapse of Central Industrialism in the former USSR.
Mike_from_Russia , says: July 7, 2020 at 7:32 am GMTThe Mujahudeen morphing into Al Qaeda is a new one on me that I have never heard before. I had read and heard countless times that it was Al Qaeda all along in Afghanistan that the U.S. assisted to fight against the USSR. It does not make sense either, since the MEK ( Mujahudeen ) is a twisted Shiite cult Iranian, and Al Qaeda is Arabic and twisted Sunni cult. So, the language and religious differences do not make any sense that one became the other.
I guess that it makes perfect sense to say anything at all, regardless of the facts, to the Terrible Trio in the DNC, just to keep the focus on themselves, rather than on Biden.
Mikhail , says: • Website July 7, 2020 at 7:40 am GMTWe in Russia read both the main and alternative press in the United States with great interest. Sites with those translations are quite popular.
Achilles Wannabe , says: July 7, 2020 at 7:54 am GMTInitial Times coverage, which claimed that the activity had been confirmed by both intelligence sources and money tracking, was supplemented by delusional nonsense from former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who asks “Why does Trump put Russia first?” before calling for a “swift and significant U.S. response.” Rice, who is being mentioned as a possible Biden choice for Vice President, certainly knows about swift and significant as she was one of the architects of the destruction of Libya and the escalation of U.S. military and intelligence operations directed against a non-threatening Syria.
The pathetic Rice has plenty of company. During a 7/5 CNN puff segment with Dana Bash, Tammy Duckworth (another potential Biden VP), out of the blue said that the Russians put out a bounty on US forces. Of course, Bash didn’t challenge Duckworth.
Downplayed in all of this is the fact that Russia was one of the first, if not the first nation, to console the US on 9/11, followed by Russian assistance to the US military operation in Afghanistan.
Ray Caruso , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:01 am GMT“…the kind of information that stinks to high heaven because it doesn’t even make any political or tactical sense, except to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and the New York Times.”
Pelosi is the proud daughter of a shabbos goy father; Schumer is “shomer” or professed guardian of Israel; Schiff is the decendent of the Internationale Banker who supported Trotsky’s take down of the Czar; the NYT is what happens when Hebrews learn to write English. The Jews have been trying to rule Russia for almost 200 years as Solzhenitsyn would have told us if he could have gotten a publisher in the Jewish American publishing industry. If Stalin hadn’t thrown the Bolshevik Jews out, there might not have been a cold war. Watch out Gentiles. These people have taken us into 3 wars for their interests and they NEVER change.
Emily , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:10 am GMTAnd, of course, the “conservative” maggots are going along with the obvious liberal lies once again. There has never been a group of more cowardly and worthless individuals than American “conservatives”.
Emily , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:15 am GMTRussia
The hope of the world.
Edgar Cayce
Famous US psychic.As the USA continues its path into a political, moral and military cesspit of pure corruption, lies, violence, mass murder and sheer evil, it is increasingly difficult to argue with Cayce.
He was certainly on to something, and that something was like, 80 years ago.
One can even put more belief and trust in a psychic these days – than anything being claimed or reported by the USA alphabets, government or MSM
Sickening and frightening really.@ZarathustraAnn Nonny Mouse , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:23 am GMTAbsolutely and full of the USA military.
Take a look.
Notice U tube has censored the Vid.
Tells you all you need to know about the content – if you have half a brain …….
https://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053Emily , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:25 am GMTPhilip, I wish you hadn’t written, “a certainly forks story.”
I’ve been seeing that too much, recently, that silly fashion of using “forks” for “false”.
Please stop it. Use correct English.
@anonymousFranklin Ryckaert , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:47 am GMTThere are other reasons for wishing to stay in Afghanistan. Generals don’t like losing wars
You would have thought by now the American Generals would have got used to ‘losing wars’.
They haven’t won one other than Grenada in living memory.
The Russians even had to win WW2 for them….
Russia and China would eat them alive today.
So we are now down to sheer bullying, bluster and illegal economic sabotage.
Venezuela springs to mind.@MiltonAnn Nonny Mouse , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:59 am GMTYes, but they also hate Putin for liberating Russia from its rapacious oligarchs, nearly all of whom were Jews. The present artificially created hatred for Russia in the US is in reality the hatred of the frustrated Jewish Mafia.
@Alfredanimalogic , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:07 am GMTI agree. Except it would be fatal for the smart chemists. They’d all die for reasons smart chemists wouldn’t be able to work out.
But isn’t this the Art of the Deal? Breaching the deal? Hadn’t the US just made a deal with the Taliban to pull out? Pull its troops out?
So Russia was needed to help the U.S. pull out of the deal, right? Doesn’t Russia provide that help again and again and again?
@Robert Dolananimalogic , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:14 am GMT“I can’t imagine that any intelligent person believes this bullshit about Russia”
Lenny is clapping his hands excitedly.
“Oy believe it, George ! I do – I do – I do !”
George grunts, clears his throat & spits with some force & accuracy at a scrunched up copy of the NYT.@Harold SmithAnon [833] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:26 am GMT“Let’s say for the sake of argument that the story is true.”
For amusement’s sake, lets wonder what would happen should the Russians offer a bounty to US & allied troops to kill each other . A kind of cash incentive to bring back the final years of the Vietnam war.animalogic , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:29 am GMTIt sure will be entertaining to watch Joe Biden try to cope with the duties of the presidency. He makes the fictional President Camacho from the movie “Idiocracy” look like a statesman with the intellectual skills of a Teddy Roosevelt by comparison. I can picture his inaugural address in my head, as he inevitably loses his place on the teleprompter and starts babbling about pony soldiers and you know, the thing. After a grope fest at his inaugural ball, instead of the Oval Office he will immediately be consigned to the White House basement for the duration of his term. If you thought an inarticulate President Donnie made for good reality TV, just wait till a totally incoherent President Joe has the whole world rollicking with laughter. Plus, Republicans get their turn to amuse with grid lock of the Congress and the discharge of mass quantities of bog sediment at the administration every single day for four solid years. It’s a win for comedy no matter which candidate is elected!
@Ann Nonny Mousemcohen , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:51 am GMTAnn, you’ve got the quote wrong. Here is what he actually wrote:
“So, what is a leaked almost certainly faux story about the Russian bounties”
I’m going to assume you didn’t mean “forks” but actually “faux”.
Using “faux” is here is not incorrect. Giraldi could have meant the NYT article was “not real, but made to look or seem real” — which goes considerably further than “false”.
However, that does not necessarily mean that other users of “faux” are not indulging themselves in a “silly fashion”.Robjil , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:52 am GMTMeena talk to me
@Ann Nonny MousePatagonia Man , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:56 am GMTForked tongue.
In that sense it makes sense.
The US/Israel and its Zion MSM always talks in Forked tongue.
@Emily to consecrate Russia to the heart of Mother Mary – which still hasn’t fully been fulfilled, btw – is another indication of Russia’s leadership in a community of a shared future for humanity, aka Community of Common Destiny (CCD), as advocated by the Russian President’s ‘double-helix’ partner, China’s President Xi Jinping.Patagonia Man , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:07 am GMTCompare and contrast that with, then President, Obama’s words to Putin: “The United States has exclusive rights to anywhere in the world.”
What an incredibly exciting time to be alive!
Cheers!
@anonymousFranz , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:15 am GMTJust a headsup!
Newsweek, TIME, The Readers Digest , & CNN are US propaganda outlets. It would be unwise to cite any of these sources.
Cheers!
@Alfred family bankruptcy when every pharmacist knows they re-branded and off-shored their loot several years ago. Their fine was pocket lint to them.tyrone , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:43 am GMTBut that fake allowed the corporate-government axis to make ALL serious painkillers effectively illegal, including the ones being used safely before Purdue Pharma came along.
Narcotics are safe when used properly, but where’s the CIA’s take there? So they killed their competitors and made your family doctor an agent. And sell lots of dope. Because the nation the CIA protects is in terminal debt, agencies need hard cash from somewhere .
@Robert Dolantyrone , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:51 am GMTYeah, but you don’t want to accidentally drive into some “CHAZ” ……planet of the apes scenario.
@EmilyErzberger , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:52 am GMTThat’s why the democrats and the left fight to keep the southern border open ,the hordes of third world peasants are just a “bonus”……look at who the drugs are destroying i.e. the target
peter mcloughlin , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:57 am GMTThe Democrats have predictably been outdone by the anti-Trump Republicans in this matter. You can’t sink any lower in Russia-baiting than the Lincoln project’s recent release, “Fellow Traveler”. Beyond stupid and revolting. Gives you a clue of their very low opinion of the American voter
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eUBAAeuBpPQ?feature=oembed
Sick of Orcs , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:18 am GMTThere is a dangerous illusion – characterized in part by demonizing rivals – and that is the developing crisis is merely a re-run of the Cold War. After the Napoleonic wars the Congress system was established to maintain peace in Europe. It worked reasonably well, interrupted significantly by the Crimean war, but finally buried with the outbreak of WWI in 1914; it did not prevent that cataclysmic conflict. Then came the League of Nations for a short time; it did not stop WWII. The United Nations and other post-war institutions were established in the 1940s. Now we are in the approaches to WWIII. But very few see. The apocalyptic conflict feared during the Cold War is nearing.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/BL , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:30 am GMTRussia Hoax 2 is supposed to keep our minds off the Uniparty’s anarcho-tyranny, but it’s awfully hard to fear Putin with orcs and shitlibs running amok wrecking statues of racist elks.
@Robert Dolan olostomy Bag, or were able to steal it on election night, Trump would be spending the rest of his life in prison right now.Tom Welsh , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:55 am GMTAnd Russia would have acquiesced to, though more likely quietly assisted, the frame-up. What we don’t know at this point is what generational geopolitical payoff Russia was promised by Brennan in March 2016, for its participation. My suspicion is that Nord Stream II was merely a down payment.
I don’t envy Barr or Durham. How do they resolve this greatest political scandal in American history when at the center of it you have a former CIA Director who is a Russian mole.
JoaoAlfaiate , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:55 am GMTMichael Morell: “Let Us Kill Iranians and Russians in Syria!”
https://gosint.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/michael-morell-let-us-kill-iranians-and-russians-in-syria/
Really No Shit , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:55 am GMTIf you review the New York Times editorial page and its oped pieces you will see more half of the content each day is anti Trump. The Times has also played up the civil rights aspect of the BLM movement while playing down the hooliganism of Antifa and the looting by Blacks which has accompanied it. Many neighborhoods in Manhattan were trashed and looted far beyond what The Times reported. So promoting the “Russian Bounty” lie doesn’t surprise me at all. Remember also Times employees went absolutely crazy when the paper printed an oped by Sen. Tom Cotton. What a bunch of lying flakes and chicken shits.
@Franklin RyckaertTom Welsh , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:57 am GMT“The Deep State vermin…” that @Milton is talking about is about the Jews. You’re merely reinforcing his salient points.
@AnonPatagonia Man , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:57 am GMT“… the intellectual skills of a Teddy Roosevelt…”
????
@tyrone of more and more of the total of products and services produced in the US economy every year (GDP) goes to capital, i.e., the holders of wealth, rather than workers, which in turn creates a drag on further GDP – so eventually it becomes self defeating.Tom Welsh , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:59 am GMTThink: Vicious Cycle of Poverty, as opposed to Virtuous Cycle of Prosperity.
But that explains why neither the Dems / Repubs are determined to do anything about the 1,000,000+ illegal immigrants crossing the US-Mexican border every year.
As said many times by many others: ‘The US has one political party – the business party, with 2 wings.’
@EmilyOld and Grumpy , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:00 pm GMT“The Russians even had to win WW2 for them….”
The Soviets actually had to stop the Wehrmacht cold (very cold, indeed) and be ready to start rolling it back before the USA even dared to join the war.
@Patagonia ManZ-man , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:04 pm GMTUS Ziocons movement is a family affair. They’re into the second and third generation, who are still following their daddy’s’ or grandpa’s playbook. Original ideas are hard to come by with this lot.
anonymous [400] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:06 pm GMTThe Democrats are suggesting that Trump is too stupid and even too disinterested to be president of the United States so they are seeking to replace him with a corrupt 78-year-old man who may be suffering from dementia.
Good one but what do you mean may be suffering ? (Grin)
Not only replace Trump with Biden but with all the radicals now infesting theDemo’krat party and manipulating demented, sleepy Joe.Patagonia Man , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:12 pm GMTThese are all made up stories. By the time one fake story is laboriously dismantled another one is made up. It’s always a game of playing catch-up. Russia makes a good boogyman and has served well in that role for three generations now so it’s a tested formula. It’s a dangerous game since all these idiots could sleepwalk us into an armed clash with Russia somewhere. Then of course there’ll plenty of problems but perhaps there’s a calculation that something like that could benefit this band of war inciters.
@BL ?Old and Grumpy , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:17 pm GMTAre you not aware that cover stories are used to control explanations – to prevent any critical thinking by American voters of any incident/event?
This excellent,, short article explains what you need to know to defend yourself against cover stories in the future: Cover Stories Are Used To Control Explanations – UR columnist & insider Paul Craig Roberts.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/05/25/cover-stories-used-control-explanations/Patagonia Man , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:19 pm GMTI know old liberals have ate up all things Russia, Russia, Russia. Have the POBs (people of brown)? Have all those post ’67 immigrants? They all vote democrats, and are now the future demographic of America. Its their kids that have to wanna die for the war machine now. Has the Yiddish propaganda sheet worked its magic on them? The 1619 Project sure did. My humble guess is no, despite their voting. Most just want money.
Folks, it is time to get your love ones to stop enlisting and re-enlisting in the US military. It is the only boycott we can do that will actually hurt.
@anonymousanonymous [144] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:20 pm GMTanonymous[400]
“but perhaps there’s a calculation that something like that could benefit this band of war inciters.”
What better way for a tiny ethno-religious (~22 million) of getting majority-Christian nations to wipe each other out?
Same was true of WWI.
Except for Japan, the same was true of WWII.
Its not referred to as the oldest hatred for nuttin’!
Truth3 , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:30 pm GMTFor what it’s worth, Pillar got shitcanned and rusticated by Cofer Black, Kiriakou got locked up, Ritter got framed as a pedo, and McGovern got the shit beat out of him by my DoS goons. So shut the fuck up a little, OK?
XXOO
Mistress Gina
Z-man , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:31 pm GMTExplainable in one simple sentence…
JEWS ARE LIARS AND THEY HATE RUSSIA AND WILL USE ANY LIE AS A WEAPON NO MATTER HOW STUPID IT MAY BE.
Dick French , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:40 pm GMTSo, what is a leaked almost certainly faux story about the Russian bounties on American soldiers intended to accomplish?
To sound like a broken record again , the CABAL hates Russia and specifically Putin because he re-established Christian Orthodoxy as the de facto state religion of Mother Russia. They would get The USA into a hot war with Russia if it meant hurting Putin, never mind what it would do to us. Their hatred is so strong that they could care less what it would do to America, the snakes that they are.
Richard B , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:45 pm GMTAll Russians would have to do to exploit the current unrest in America would be to knock out a social media platform or two, or perhaps to leak dirt on the people ginning up war. Those targets are absolutely hated by the American people outside the Imperial City.
@Zarathustra and historically illiterate pseudo-intellectual BS about 1619 and Evil America that, because its evil, should change the names of the military bases where those soldiers trained under the impression they were going to defend their country!dimples , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:45 pm GMTThe Hostile Elite is a rabid dog so totally out of control it needs to be put down immediately.
Whatever happens, no one should ever take the moral condemnation of psychopaths seriously.
Battered Wife Syndrome?
I give you Battered Nation Syndrome.
Time to prove to the world it’s possible to recover from it and move into a larger freedom.
@No Friend Of The Devil not called al-Jake , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:46 pm GMT
Qaeda at this stage but some other name. Apparently the name al-Qaeda was first used by the FBI to reference this group due to some sort of misunderstanding, but it eventually became the name they adopted for themselves since that was what everybody was calling them anyway when they became famous after further adventures.The above should be taken with a grain of salt since this is only what I have been able to glean from reading various articles. Presumably what is called al-Qaeda today are the descendants or associates of personnel from this particular group as opposed to other groups, but I don’t know.
Beavertales , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:46 pm GMTWhen Russia was controlled by Marxists, Leftists and Liberals loved Russia, defended Russia, excused Russia, promoted Russia. Now that Russia has survived Marxist totalitarianism and begun rediscovering Russian cultural heritage, which features Christianity, Leftists and Liberals HATE Russia.
Who coulda thunk it possible?
More important is that our Neocons and our old guard Yank ‘conservatives’ – who control foreign policy for both Republicans and Democrats – in the military and the spy game see Russia today exactly as the Leftists and Liberals see Russia.
Both the Neocons and the Yank WASP Country Club types in the so-called ‘conservative’ arena agree with Leftists and Liberals about Russia.
There’s plenty of meaning there for those with ears to hear and eyes to see.
Anglo-Zionist Empire.
Erzberger , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:47 pm GMTThe Dem’s election strategists are grasping at straws again.
The deplorables they despise the most are flyover Americans who go to church or who serve in the military. These are the people they think are stupid and easily manipulated by wild tales and false flags.
The “bounty on American soldiers” is hogwash to gin up what they perceive to be a voting bloc of gullible whites.
The Dems weakness with working class whites is one they will try to shore up by crassly fake, flag-waving appeals to bedrock patriotism.
@anonymous equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”Jake , says: July 7, 2020 at 12:51 pm GMTWith Russia abolishing serfdom and slavery at the time – and much later than Western Europe – something had to be done to not be outdone by the Russians, of course. The hypocrisy would indeed have been unbearable. It still is.
@Really No Shit the mass of whites before the post-WW2 era, then you are ignorant. If you think the current Deep State is entirely Jewish, or even majority Jewish, you are ignorant.mike99588 , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMTWithout any doubt, Jews now, and for decades, have per capita dominated the American Deep State. But they did not create it, nor did they create its evil. The Mossad did NOT create MI6 and the CIA. British Secret Service created the CIA and the Mossad.
America has a Deep State that flowed naturally from the British Deep State. The Brit Empire was the Anglo-Zionist Empire Part 1. America is the Anglo-Zionist Empire Part 2.
@Tom Welshmike99588 , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:05 pm GMTBest to let someone else do the dying for you…
US strategy at the end of WWII included letting Germans and Soviets wear each other down and kill as many of each other as possible, without US forces involvement. Obviously “we”, various US investors and the US taxpayer still gave the Soviets too much stuff, that propelled USSR economic success claims for the next 20 years.
@BeavertalesRichard B , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:10 pm GMTJust more Liberal/Dim/Zio/CCP sponsored horsesh*t, to drive US and Russia apart, to drive Russia toward China, when US would be better off trying to treat Russia neutrally (hang our CCP paid dems).
@MiltonAhoy , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:24 pm GMTThe Deep State vermin who pulled-off the violent, proxy overthrow of Yanukovych in 2014, and who are also behind the Arab Spring, Syrian Rebels, ISIS, and the ongoing domestic unrest Stateside, are the descendants of the vermin who overthrew Christian Russia in 1917 using the same modus operandi of color revolution and “peaceful protests.”.
Spot on!
But, a more accurate name than The Deep State is Judeocracy Inc.
Alfred , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:28 pm GMTHenry when he was running the world. All smiles and happiness for things going well.
Then after this very polite send off Russia is bad, very bad.
https://www.thejc.com/culture/books/review-world-order-1.59212
@MikhailEliteCommInc. , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:30 pm GMTfollowed by Russian assistance to the US military operation in Afghanistan.
Few people seem to understand the logistics of the war in Afghanistan. The US and their allies were hugely dependent on the Russian railway system. It is just so ridiculous to listen to these monkeys who pretend to be statesmen and women.
Susan Rice clearly uses skin whitener and hair straightener to look as much as possible like those she hates so much.
Emily , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:30 pm GMTUnfortunately, the matter with Russia is settled. And while I did not think there was evidence to support the matter. The current executive sign an intel report that accused the Russians and Pres. Putin specifically with sabotaging US election and murder and attempted murder. Unless our executive can reconcile that matter by extracting some manner of penance for hat behavior — reconciling with Russia is just a flat water tide.
Their actions constituted acts of war and while I may disagree with the assessment —
that is the US disposition on which nothing Russia says can be taken further than a pipe.
That intel report which this executive signed locks our posture in place regarding Russia. We kill people in this country for being suspects.
I don’t think the US citizen would look to kindly on shaking hands with a saboteur and murderer.
Whether the signing was a matter of political expediency is irrelevant,. The executive openly cited Russia as an enemy of the US. For me it was one of the most painful memories of the executives tenure, because
1. destroyed a large portion of our foreign policy agenda of toning down our presence anywhere
2. demonstrated the executive was not as string as I believed he needed to be.
If they were willing to interfere in our election and engage in political murder in allied states —there’s no reason to doubt that they would support the murder of our troops in a conflict one.
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It was a devastating moment when the executive agreed to that intel report.
@tyrone 07110001-8Tom Welsh , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:33 pm GMT
https://ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_gangs_and_crack/
https://artvoice.com/2017/10/27/american-made-cia-drug-sex-trafficking-national-interest/
Latest on the final arrest of Kosovo vile war criminal Thaci a couple of weeks ago
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-ally-indicted-organ-trade-murder-scheme/5717900@No Friend Of The Devil iv>Z-man , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:35 pm GMT“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”.– Alexander Pope (“Essay on Criticism”)
The MEK is one of many organisations that use the word “mujahidin” in their names. That word is quite generic.
mujahedin (also mujahidin, mujaheddin, or mujahideen)
n plural noun Islamic guerrilla fighters.ORIGIN
from Persian and Arabic mujahidin, colloquial plural of mujahid, denoting a person who fights a jihad.– Concise Oxford English Dictionary
@JakeEmily , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:39 pm GMTAgree. See post #49 above.
@mike99588 r Germany.Jake , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:45 pm GMT
And vastly profiting from both sides – shamelessly.
Britain and the Commonwealth faced Germany alone through dark days indeed until Russia became our ally – before the USA incidently – conveniently overlooked..
The Americans finally came in Dec 1941 after Russia was already standing with us.
It has not been forgotten in Britain to this day.
The USA bled this country for decades, paying for what was so much crap amongst all else..
Lend lease – what a scam that was!!!!!
Whilst you traded and supported the nazi war machine against us.@Truth3Gidoutahere , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:51 pm GMTWhen you work that into the British Empire acting to prevent Russia from forcing the Turks out of Europe and thereby liberating Constantinople, and acting to harm Russia deeply in order to win ‘The Great Game,’ you perhaps will then see that back to Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans that WASP Empire is Anglo-Zionist Empire.
David Rodriguez , says: July 7, 2020 at 1:59 pm GMTWell, unlike the JewSA, Russia isn’t enthralled with the Jews. Putin and company kicked out Soros and his Open Society as well as the Rothschild bankers. Lastly the four billionaire Jew oligarchs who were running the Yeltsin economic shitshow were also shown the door. Perhaps the “Assad must go” flop played into Jewish ire as well.
Agent76 , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:08 pm GMTAmusing to see Democrats so deeply concerned over the “Russian threat”. I was in the Agency during the Cold War. When the Soviets REALLY were a threat, most of those same Democrats urged retreat, compromise, submission. It makes my guts churn to see these “patriots” making hysterical claims against Russia. It is almost as if they resent the fact that Putin has rejected their entire Globalist plan, re-Christianized Russia, and locked up at least a few of the so-called “oligarchs” who were looting the Russian people of their patrimony. The case of Bill Browder deserves some attention. This Red Diaper baby (his grandfather was Earl Browder, chief of the CPUSA) has been one of the cheerleaders in the campaign to demonize Russia. Following the family tradition of a lack of loyalty (he holds British and U.S. passports, just in case!) this weasel used his granddad’s old Soviet contacts to make hundreds of millions carting off anything of any value left in the old Soviet Union. Of course, he worked with an equally greasy gang of former Soviets to do this, including one Sergei Magnitsky, a “tax advisor” working with Browder who assumed room temperature in a Russian jail after he was nabbed by the tax police. I really wonder if some of these Democrats and others who so denounce Putin had visions of sugar plums and hundreds of millions of dollars dancing in their heads, dreams rudely brought to earth by Putin?
Zarathustra , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:15 pm GMTFollow the CIA drug money!
Oct 20, 2009 Taliban Is Getting American Troops Hooked On Heroin
It diminishes the effectiveness of our troops as well as raises money for the Taliban, who are the ones growing the poppy. How can the US combat this new strategy?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cb3BXJIA1P8?feature=oembed
December 3, 1993 Opioid problem America?
The CIA Drug ConnectionIs as Old as the Agency
LONDON— Recent news item: The Justice Department is investigating allegations that officers of a special Venezuelan anti-drug unit funded by the CIA smuggled more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States with the knowledge of CIA officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/03iht-edlarry.html
June 10, 2014 Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium
U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
@EmilyAgent76 , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:18 pm GMTVery noble endeavor. US Government should be really proud of it.
Alfred , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:24 pm GMTJul 4, 2020 78% of Russians VOTE to break away from western neoliberal dogma
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Thursday that the result was a clear sign of the Russian people’s trust in president Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9QrHFids_s4?feature=oembed
@EliteCommInc. e accused is served by having his lawyers present. Since the defendants have refused to appear in person – three of them disputing the Dutch jurisdiction — the defence lawyers should withdraw.”Erzberger , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:30 pm GMTTHE DUTCH WRITING ON THE UKRAINIAN WALL – STEENHUIS RULING IN MH17 TRIAL PREJUDGES VERDICT
@Emily t was only done to get into a position to share the spoils. Britain was no more than a vassal state of the US after WW I, and in no position to defeat Germany. Only Russia could, and they did, and would have done so with or without the Anglo-Americans. Stop whining about suffering you brought onto yourself. Besides, Britain suffered very little compared to the continent, including Germany, and European Jewry, and all of them would have suffered less without the British arrogance that they had to defend their national honour. Hope they stay out of European affairs now but it doesn’t look good at this fake Brexit momentChuckOrloski , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:57 pm GMTAlfred , says: July 7, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMTWisely, Agent76 said, “The CIA Drug Connection is as Old as the Agency.”
Re; above, I suggest Grandfathered by Operation Gladio and it’s Vatican Bank money laundering component???
Am aware how an England bank, USBC, was caught laundering the Afghanistan drug trade billions and got a “slap on wrist.”
Linked below is an obscure article on President Putin’s special (on scene) Afghanistan envoy, Zamir Kabulov, who accused US intelligence in Afghanistan of drug trafficking.
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan/russia-answers-bounty-claims-says-us-drug-trafficking
Also, my special thanks to commenters, Harold Smith, Franz, and Alfred.
@No Friend Of The Devil to attack Iran. They are totally despised by ordinary Iranians. They are a cult with something in common with the Cambodian Pol Pot way of life. Very dangerous people. They have absolutely nothing in common with the Taliban who are trying to liberate their country from the Americans.Steve from Detroit , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:08 pm GMT@AlfredImaBotKnot , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:08 pm GMTI’m not joking, I initially thought that was Michael Jackson.
@Gidoutahere ld bring to an end a fledgling democracy and a return to the Cold War days.annamaria , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:15 pm GMT“In return, Maxwell’s massive debts would be wiped out by a grateful Kryuchkov, [Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB] who planned to replace Gorbachev. The KGB chief wanted Maxwell to use the Lady Ghislaine, named after Maxwell’s daughter, as a meeting place between the Russian plotters, Mossad chiefs and Israel’s top politicians. ? Apparently the Rothschilds/Israel Deep State wanted Gorbachev or Yeltsin.
Events are so tangled and interconnected, as Ghislaine is still a Israel Deep State operative.
@anonymous ease the MIC and the Lobby. It is not for nothing that Rice was called “the Typhoid Mary of the Obama-era foreign policy.”Trinity , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:24 pm GMT
“Her religion is Christianity.” Oh my. What church has been allowing the war criminal Susan Rice to attend religious service next to decent people? This church of anti-Christians: https://bluebicyclebooks.com/2019/10/13/former-u-n-ambassador-susan-rice-at-grace-church-cathedral-mon-nov-18-7-pm/ Grace Church Cathedral, 98 Wentworth St., downtown Charleston.neutral , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:41 pm GMTFunny, I don’t see White Russians hating themselves or other Whites for being proud of their heritage.
Funny, I don’t see White Russians tearing down monuments and statues or desecrating their flag.
Funny, I don’t see White Russians wanting their country to be invaded by hordes of hostile nonwhite WMD.
Funny, I don’t see White Russians apologizing or backing down from identifying themselves as a Christian nation.
Oh, I get it. This is why the so-called, “Deep State” and “Neo-Cons aka Neo-Commies” hate Russia so much. I get it now. It burns (((their))) collective asses that there are actually some largely homogeneous and traditional White nations still around who aren’t willingly accepting their own genocide or apologizing for being evil White racists. My gawd, this is my epiphany, this is MY AWAKENING ( shout out to Dr. Duke’s EXCELLENT BOOK), now I know why Russia is so vilified by (((our media.))) (((Our media))) is racist against Whites, and (((they))) hate the idea that a traditional White Christian nation still exists, especially a powerful nation like Russia. Oh dear, how could I be so gullible not to see this one. I’m Irish American and I am told I must hate the Russkies to be patriotic by other patriotic Israel Firsters.
Mefobills , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:51 pm GMTIt has to do with two things, and only those two things, all other rubbish about “human rights”, “international law”, blah blah blah, is propaganda meant for the common man.
1) Russia is white, that means it can easily be demonized and is demonized.
2) The jews that fled Russia are an especially virulent strain of the jew, their hatred for Russia has few equal.@Jake http://canadianpatriot.org/origins-of-deep-state-part2/barr , says: July 7, 2020 at 3:53 pm GMT
http://canadianpatriot.org/what-is-the-fabian-society-and-to-what-end-was-it-created/Note that the bad actors were anglo-zionists of their day, grabbing with usury. Their understanding of sin was already perverted in that era.
The sin nature of the Jew has spread and become a sect within Christianity, hence Judeo-Christianity and Zionist-Christianity
Agent76 , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:00 pm GMTRussia is killing US soldiers. Trump’s response is a shameful dereliction of duty
Michael H Fuchshttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/07/trump-russia-us-soldiers-afghanistan-putin
seems that BBC CNN NYT and Guardian -all are taking their cues from the coteries of Hillary Biden Cotton Rubio.endthefed , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:01 pm GMTJul 7, 2020 IMF PONZI scheme in Ukraine continues BLM Ponzi scheme boomerang
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NMFBly-o0Ug?feature=oembed
Jeff Davis , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:05 pm GMTMaybe someone has already stated the obvious. Regardless of the validity (or lack of) a bounty program; it’d be real hard to affect US troops if there were no US troops in Afghanistan.
@anonymousCurmudgeon , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:16 pm GMTIntel community horseshit.
@Erzberger ica and the Balkans.DaveE , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:18 pm GMT
Fourth, had the Admiral Canaris led traitors not been hiding munitions or sending them to the wrong place, the Soviets may not have recovered even with the US re-supply.If there is something to yawn about, it is the WWII narrative is tiresome. Stalin wasn’t a “good guy”, and neither were Churchill or Roosevelt. The reality is that it took the “world” to defeat Germany. The Italians were of no help, and the Japanese were as much a drain as a resource to Germany. Germany was destroyed to allow the advancement of Marxism, which had already embedded itself in the UK and US.
@Patagonia ManBill Jones , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:20 pm GMT‘The US has one political party – the business party, with 2 wings.’
Those two ‘wings’ are the Globalists and the Zionists. The Democrats and Republicans are just interns looking for a summer job.
@EliteCommInc.Desert Fox , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:25 pm GMT“If they were willing to interfere in our election and engage in political murder in allied states”
No you fool, we’re talking about Russia, not Israel.
Alfred , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:31 pm GMTThe zionists are pissed that Russia has saved Syria from the zionist mercenaries aka AL CIADA aka ISIS, which are creations the CIA and the MOSSAD and MI6 and NATO and so the anti Russian propaganda, pouring out of the zionist owned MSM.
@mike99588annamaria , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:35 pm GMTObviously “we”, various US investors and the US taxpayer still gave the Soviets too much stuff, that propelled USSR economic success claims for the next 20 years
The Russians paid for all the “giving” with gold. Kindly stop repeating lies. Even the British went almost bankrupt repaying the Americans for their “generosity”.
It will be interesting to see how the Russians will treat the Americans when the USA experiences feudalism. I suspect the Russians will be far more generous than the Americans deserve.
@neutral kids.Harold Smith , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:38 pm GMT
Hilary Clinton has been a very effective butcher of Libyan and Syrian population at large; young children and pregnant women were the greatest victims of Clinton’s subhuman policies.
Susan Rice was good at promoting mass slaughter in Syria, and, along with H. Clinton, S. Rice should be credited with the slave markets in Libya.
Nuland-Kagan helped to make Ukraine into the poorest country in Europe, where zionists and neo-nazis found a complete mutual understanding. So much for holobiz squealing.What’s wrong with the US? How come that the US society produced these monstrosities?
@barrDaveE , says: July 7, 2020 at 4:49 pm GMTBeing that America kills other countries’ soldiers (and civilians) all the time, why can’t Russia (or any other country) do the same thing? What goes around comes around, right?
anonymous [245] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:08 pm GMTSome things (Russiagate) are just too silly to bother with.
I agree – except that I’m getting quite a chuckle these days at the sheer, utter desperation of the “Russia did it”, “Saddam did it”, “Bin Laden did it”, “Assad did it”, etc. etc. etc. noise from the crowd who DID do it.
Shlomo is cornered and exposed – and that IS worth the subscription fee to watch, FINALLY.
@EliteCommInc.Wally , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:29 pm GMTPlease at least proofread your gibberish. Some of it might even make sense.
@AlfredTrinity , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:35 pm GMTsaid:
“Anyone with half a brain should know that the Americans are in Afghanistan because the Americans control the world trade in narcotics.”– Yawn. I’ve heard that before, but have seen no proof.
– So use your “half a brain” and give us the proof.
Sorry, Hollywood movies are not proof.
No doubt you’re one of those ‘No Blood For Oil’ types that Zionists love so much.
Zarathustra , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:35 pm GMT“There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states.” General (((Wesley Clark)))
Obviously a patriotic “American” General like Mr. Clark has no problem with the racist state of Israel.
Just another COHENcidence? Nah, after finding about “6 million” COHENcidences you start thinking for yourself, stop dropping the idea that “conspiracy theories” are “conspiracies” and start realizing you have been fed a load of horseshit for a century and counting. We don’t have a Russia problem but Houston, we do have a problem. Wonder what that problem is?
@CurmudgeonMr. Cocktail Party Talk , says: July 7, 2020 at 5:48 pm GMTAnd we have to believe you? {You are a real jerk.)
@Tom Welsh te Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, at a time when that meant something. He also wrote (presumably without the assistance a ghost writer) some 40-odd books, as Tucker Carlson pointed out in a recent monologue.Really No Shit , says: July 7, 2020 at 6:31 pm GMTI think by any standard, these achievements indicate a fairly high level of intellectual skills.
Whether or not he was a nutcase is another matter, and not mutually exclusive of his having considerable intellectual skills. A good place to start on this question is to read what H.L. Mencken wrote about him.
And it is said that Roosevelt is included in the Mt. Rushmore tableau because he was friends with Borglum the sculptor.
@JakeAlfred , says: July 7, 2020 at 6:43 pm GMTYou retort:
“The Brit Empire was the Anglo-Zionist Empire Part 1. America is the Anglo-Zionist Empire Part 2.”
I rest my case!
@Trinity of different nations. But they live in harmony. Their common language is Russian. When Putin goes to visit the Dagestan, he tells them that their men are brave and their women beautiful. They love it. And they love Putin for it. Sadly, Google and Youtube seem to have cleaned up this stuff.Ann Nonny Mouse , says: July 7, 2020 at 6:49 pm GMTHere is some compensatory eye-candy:
@JakeThreeCranes , says: July 7, 2020 at 6:58 pm GMTThe current news that the Brutish govt has approved new arms sales to Saudia because Saudi mass killings of Yemeni civilians are all “isolated incidents” so it’s quite proper to sell them the means seems to prove your point.
@ZarathustraCurmudgeon , says: July 7, 2020 at 7:21 pm GMT“(You are a real jerk)”. Also sprach Zarathustra.
And this is your idea of a sound argument? Nietzsche would hide his face in shame.
@Zarathustra tinue to ignore the truth.Trinity , says: July 7, 2020 at 7:38 pm GMThttps://www.amazon.ca/s?k=9780898753974&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs
No. 6 (page 15) from November 4, 1941:
“Your decision, Mr President, to grant the Soviet Union an interest-free loan to the value of $1,000,000,000 to meet deliveries of munitions and raw materials to the Soviet Union is accepted by the Soviet Government with heartfelt gratitude as vital aid to the Soviet Union in its tremendous and onerous struggle against our common enemy — bloody Hitlerism.” (here)
@AlfredAnon [127] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:13 pm GMTIceland is looking better each and every day especially from behind enemy lines in Negro occupied JawJah.
@AlfredAntiwar7 , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:19 pm GMTThe US is in central Asia for much more than that, it’s about blocking China and Russia, as well as partially cutting off Iran on it’s eastern flank. Iran is almost surrounded by US bases. The US wants to have more control point/choke point control over continental transport routes in Asia. (One such prize would be the Dzungarian Gate, but that’s a little too ambitious for the moment. ) Afghanistan does have resources, but it would be a target without them, as it is so valuable as a (potential) transit corridor.
@Robert DolanLarchmonter420 , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:45 pm GMTTotally agree. So that gives an estimate of how many people are intelligent.
@mcohenAce , says: July 7, 2020 at 8:48 pm GMTMeena talk to me
The most intelligent person ever walked on earth. A walking taking genius like Einstein on earth!
@Emily ulture/history/item/4691-china-betrayed-into-communism" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4691-china-betrayed-into-communism">Marshall’s doing all in his power to ensure the victory of Mao over Nationalist forces in 1949Zarathustra , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:02 pm GMTU.S. civilian leaders seem to swoon over enemy sanctuaries for some strange reason. Kill U.S. troops in theater. No problemo but pinky swear we won’t go after you if you go back across the border.
God bless Richard Nixon and his destruction of NVA base areas in Cambodia. Thereafter, enemy activity ceased around my camp and all through MR IV.
@ThreeCranesMoi , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:28 pm GMTHe claims to read the minds of dead people.
That was kind of too much for me.@Richard BMoi , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:30 pm GMTThe US is a Judeocracy
@MiltonTruth3 , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:36 pm GMTAnybody who believes what “our” government or the MSM tells us an idiot (and/or a regular American).
Moi , says: July 7, 2020 at 9:36 pm GMTThank you again to Phil Giraldi, for your tireless work to expose the evil with healthy doses of TRUTH.
@Ray CarusoEmily , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:00 pm GMTThere was no need to qualify Americans by saying American conservatives. Ignorance, stupidity and violence are like apple pie for us.
@WallyBill Jones , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:02 pm GMTReading your comment, Wally, I find your name extremely apt.
None so blind as those who refuse to even read.
You can take a horse to water but cannot make him drink.
You can put all the proof necessary but if you refuse to check it out – well – stay a ‘ Wally’.
I guess you subscribe to the philosophy of ‘Ignorance is bliss’.@Agent76Erzberger , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:08 pm GMTI found this interview on Putin and what, how and why he’s setting up a post Putin power structure interesting
https://www.spreaker.com/user/tomluongo/episode-16-alexander-mercouris-and-whats
Would that there was his like in the West.
@Curmudgeon Wehrmacht, the Warsaw Rising they so strongly encouraged would not have happened, and not have led to the disaster it was for the city and its inhabitantsErzberger , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:20 pm GMT“Stalin wasn’t a “good guy”, and neither were Churchill or Roosevelt. “ no objections
“The reality is that it took the “world” to defeat Germany. “ Much of Europe fought on the side of Germany because they realized that Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt weren’t good guys, and they had nothing to look forward to but a horrible peace in case of their victory. Why do you think the EC got together so quickly after the war?
@ErzbergerMichael888 , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:29 pm GMTAlso: the sheer idiocy of claiming that poor little “Britain and the Commonwealth” stood alone against the German monster state! Do you ever look at a map? at human and natural resources? This should have been a turkey shoot if your side had not been as lacking in courage as it was, and as incompetent. And if the rest of Europe wasn’t to a very large extent in the German camp, as it is today
EliteCommInc. , says: July 7, 2020 at 10:56 pm GMTScott Ritter has a separate article at consortiumnews noting that the Russians have been giving money to the Taliban (AID) to fight Americans, the CIA and their ISIS proxies since 2014. Surely Obama and/or Biden would have stopped these Russian “bounties” if they were important.
EliteCommInc. , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:17 pm GMT“Please at least proofread your gibberish. Some of it might even make sense.”
The executive in the WH has agreed that Russia sabotaged the US election process and engaged murder and attempted in states of our allies.
There is no turning the clock bank unless Russia makes some gesture of amelioration — there behavior constitutes an attack on the US. As such they are active enemies of the US.
Unfortunately anyone seeking some manner of Russian love fest — should probably forget it. Whether the executive signed for politically expedient reasons simply doesn’t matter.
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anonymous [245] • Disclaimer , says: July 7, 2020 at 11:25 pm GMT“If you believe any of the Skripals nonsense and the MH-17 false flag, you are either gullible or a troll.”
Uhhhh, wholly irrelevant. My position in opposition to the contend that Russia sabotaged the US election was vehemently dubious. My comments at the time make my position abundantly clear. The evidence for the case against Russia in the US simply no there. But at the end of the day, the executive choose to go the other direction. That is unfortunate. But it was also a sign of things to come concerning the executives ability to stand.
And my comments today make that very clear. Your knee-jerk response that I believe what the executive signed onto is incorrect. I knew that his choice destroyed a good deal of his foreign poliy admonition to reduce tensions.
But that was his choice mistake or not he made that choice and as I expressed at the time — we would have to live by it.
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In fact, if I were on the opposition, I would like nothing better for the executive to start behaving as though the intel report doesn’t exist. Because I would pull out that report with his signature and commence calling him a weakling, indecisive, and a danger to the US — who is to toothless to hold Russia accountable for her acts of terror in the US and Europe.
I would then commence a campaign explaining why the executive wants to decrease troops ion Europe — he wants to cede our allies over to Russian domination —
But then I am not on the opposition. It was a mistake on the facts for the executive to sign that report for which there was little to no evidence supporting it.
Now if you have a response that gives the president some manner of face saving as he makes nice with a country that overthrew a US election in the US, and engaged in murder and attempted murder — have at it.
—————Minus some kind of amelioration by the Russians or an about face by the current executive (and tat would really be interesting) no peace and love and understanding can move forward. I can say with certainty
Russia, Pres. Putin has no intention of apologizing for something they most likely did not do regarding US elections.
Though I am sure he will once again have reason to chuckle.
Those of you angry, frustrated, irritated . . . and yada I suggest you take that up with the WH They made that choice.
But by all means name call as opposed to deal with the obvious reality.
@EliteCommInc.Hibernian , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:03 am GMTOr not.
@EmilyArt , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:28 am GMTYou do understand that the US and the UK have been separate sovereigns since 1776, don’t you?
Neoconned , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:36 am GMTTrump should put on his big boy pants, tell the “Russia Russia Russia” types to go to hell – and schedule a meeting with Putin.
Let the “conservatives” and Jew media poop on themselves.
The voters will love it.
Mefobills , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:38 am GMTI find it ironic given that during the Soviet era it was those on the left who laughed at Republicans for being Sovietphobes.
But later now its the neolib media pushing the identity politics narrative that has dusted off the tired old Cold War Russia chicken little stuff.
EliteCommInc. , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:43 am GMTRussia-baiters may also be upset by new Constitution changes in Russia.
AnonFromTN , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:44 am GMT“Or not.’
The US can not make nice with Russia until Russia makes amends for sabotaging the US election and engage in acts of murder or attempted in murder in the sovereign states of our allies. So says the executive in the WH. In fact he says that Pres. Putin ordered the sabotage and murder.
I think you understand.
There is no way for the current executive to move forward with better relations with Russia without extracting some admission and compensation for sad acts without reaping serious political damage — I would say a loss of credibility, but that is already in question – sadly.
Art , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:50 am GMTInterestingly, whoever invented this lie about Russia and Taliban not only did not know the realities of Afghanistan, but was stupid enough not to consult someone who knows. There is no such thing as a bank transfer in Afghanistan. It exists in the Middle Ages (democracy, my foot!), so the only form of money that functions there is cash, in hand, in a case, or in a bag, depending on the amount.
joun , says: July 8, 2020 at 1:23 am GMTSerious questions – does the CIA run the State Department and US foreign policy?
Did Pompeo just move the CIA’s agenda to the State Department, when he became Secretary of State?
Who sets US foreign policy – the CIA and the Pentagon? Why are a spy agency and generals running world policy – what good can come of that?
Is Trump the tail on the US foreign policy dog? It seems as though, those two do what they want – not what Trump and his voters desire.
dimples , says: July 8, 2020 at 1:45 am GMTThe USA is quickly going to find itself in a corner. There is no realistic path away from a total confrontation with Russia. No politician will dare dissent. I hope Russia is prepared for this.
@BeavertalesBob Gwen , says: July 8, 2020 at 1:49 am GMT“The deplorables they despise the most are flyover Americans who go to church or who serve in the military. These are the people they think are stupid and easily manipulated by wild tales and false flags.”
Well let’s face it, they usually are. These are the milch cows the MIC relies on to keep its funding secure.
gsjackson , says: July 8, 2020 at 2:27 am GMTEveryone knows that Americans are the most dumbfuck stupid people on the planet. It is more shocking to think that propaganda would NOT affect most of the population.
@Emily ass="comment-text">anon [327] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:11 am GMTAnecdotally, when my family lived in England in a village near London in 1957-58 we were treated like royalty. I’ve always assumed it’s because we were the beloved Yanks who saved Britain’s behind in the war. That doesn’t undercut what you say about the underlying resentment, but my clear impression and that of my parents was that the post-war Brits loved them some Yanks.
Another anecdote, this one not so feel-good. In 1956 we lived on Lakenheath AFB in the UK. During the Suez crisis the base was on full stand-by alert in case we had to go to war with Britain. Seriously.
Derer , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:33 am GMTIn these tough times of toilet paper,
the NYT and WaPo are most useful.The ink is sustenance for roaches;
the paper is bedding, blanket, headrest,
and ass wipe for the homeless.Both are well known virus carriers.
@Patagonia Man re in Washington is beyond repair. The despicable sinister schemes, backstabbing, lies, fake facts in a quest for power has nothing to do with democracy but criminality.Wizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:48 am GMTIt is time to galvanize support for direct voting…enabled by evolving technology. That process would eliminate:
@ need for electing deceiving proxies that always betray their promises to represent the public interest.
@ Washington proxies making decisions…should be reduced to debating issues.
@ the special interest groups, lobbies self-serving agenda.
@ sending our young people dying on far away places in unnecessary wars.@Patagonia Mananonymous [157] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:50 am GMTWhen was Paul Craig Roberts last an insider? Do you think him capable of picking cover stories generically, that is without relevant particular knowledge of inside stuff?
And you seem to claim to have that ability to pick a cover story. So…. how? What are the generic indicia?
@annamaria cyclebooks.com/2019/10/13/former-u-n-ambassador-susan-rice-at-grace-church-cathedral-mon-nov-18-7-pm/">https://bluebicyclebooks.com/2019/10/13/former-u-n-ambassador-susan-rice-at-grace-church-cathedral-mon-nov-18-7-pm/Oh gee, your point would make one think that no other pagan Christian Church has produced such mass murderers, or in fact, even greater ones… which would be ludicrous as per history, yeah?
The real source of such satanic evil should be traced to Whitevil (including their Judevil cousins of course) supremacy and their in-house “niggas,” such as the witch you mention.
@AlfredAnn Nonny Mouse , says: July 8, 2020 at 9:08 am GMTLooks like a lot of the blonds here except the ones here date thugs and run around til they’re 24ish from dude to dude til they discover the joys of pills & meth and take the full bath into the toilet….
@Ann Nonny Mouse political dancing around and inventing another culprit as criminals always do, successfully disappeared them. Don’t hope they will ever appear again.anonymous [245] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 10:01 am GMTAnd this is the Brutish government that killed another Russian by polonium poisoning and of course invented another culprit, again as criminals always do.
And is now selling weapons for mass killing to Saudia says mass killings are merely incidentals.
Consistently, modern Britain makes Nazi Germany look angelic. Consistently.
These are not Christian moral values. What religion or ritual system or control system acts like this once it takes charge?
@Wizard of Oz The same person also fuzzes up threads by pretending to be more than one commenter, the technique known as “sock puppetry.” See under Mr. Derbyshire’s February 15, 2019, article comment ## 28, 42, 43, 44, 68, 122, where he/she/they got sloppy also posting as “Anon[436].”anonymous [157] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 10:45 am GMTOver time, Wizard has emerged as sympathetic to the international bureaucracy of the Establishment of which he may even be a (former?) part, the type of “diplomat” exemplified by Mrs. Nuland’s Ivy League cookie caddy in Ukraine. He broke character a while back, showing emotional hostility to China. But who can be sure? Among this website’s oddest, sophisticatedly trollish commenters.
@No Friend Of The DevilPatagonia Man , says: July 8, 2020 at 11:25 am GMTIt does not make sense either, since the MEK ( Mujahudeen ) is a twisted Shiite cult Iranian, and Al Qaeda is Arabic and twisted Sunni cult.
Both of those cults share the same patron… the pagan Christian cult of Whitevil terrorists.
The patron must be destroyed, if we are to destroy other terrorist cults, and for this wretched earth to have any hope of peace.
@Emilygeokat62 , says: July 8, 2020 at 12:30 pm GMTYou will find that Roosevelt privately was giving both the UK & France assurances that if either were attacked, the US would come to their aid well before 1938 – even tho’ US multinational corporations were still trading with the NSDAP in Germany well into 1941.
Talk about walking both sides of the street!
Wizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 1:42 pm GMThttps://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1280562342099480576&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Fpgiraldi%2Frussia-baiting-is-the-only-game-in-town%2F&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&width=500px
@Ann Nonny MouseWizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 1:48 pm GMTAs you can’t even get the Julian Assange bit right I don’t suppose it’s any use asking you to justify your bald assertions or even flesh them our with detail. Let alone explain when Britain became “modern” and ceased to be the country which is rightly credited with ending theslave trade and led the way in abolition of slavery.
Yes, several governments have treated Assange contemptibly but he is remanded without bail pending the resumption of the extradition hearing, not imprisoned for life in cruel or any conditions. How can you waste readers time with such garbage?
@geokat62Alfred , says: July 8, 2020 at 2:02 pm GMTHow much credit do you give to someone who sloppily uses the term “terrorist in that context referring to the equovalent of precision bombing in contrast to area bombing without precise aiming?
@EliteCommInc.Alfred , says: July 8, 2020 at 2:06 pm GMTSorry if I misunderstood you.
I am really not qualified to comment on the internal wrangling of the various factions in the USA. I look at their foreign policy actions, not proclamations, with much greater interest.
@gsjacksonWizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 2:14 pm GMTOversexed Overpaid and Over Here: The American Airmen In Britain DVD (Timereel)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NERTDbNmdv0?feature=oembed
@Erzberger ut down war industry was started by Germany, arguably in Belgium in August 1814 but certainly in December 1914 when German cruisers indiscriminately shelled three North East England towns. An aberration? No. It was followed by Zepellin raids on London and the use of Big Bertha against Paris. Then, what message and implicit set of rules do you find in the destruction of Guernica? And many civilians were killed in the bombing of Warsaw. Even the virtually symbolic bombing of Berlin was a response to bombs dropped on London, the only point in your favour there being the fact that those bombs were probably not meant to be dropped on London.Anon [427] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT
@anonymousgeokat62 , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:05 pm GMTHow intriguing. Not having your obsessive interest in warning about Wizard of Oz I have failed, at my level of diligence, to find any evidence at all of emotional hostility to China or indeed, about anything much except perhaps the hypocritical mistreatment of individuals like Julian Assange by governments. Can you help?
@Wizard of OzFranklin Ryckaert , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:21 pm GMTHow much credit do you give to someone who sloppily uses the term “terrorist
The Wizard of Pedantry obsessed about the proper usage of a term, while the offending party is committing acts of war, lol.
@geokat62Franklin Ryckaert , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:26 pm GMTquod erat expectandum .
@Wizard of OzTrinity , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:27 pm GMTAlright then, call it “precision terrorism” (an Israeli specialty). Will that be acceptable to your hasbara boss?
Franklin Ryckaert , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:40 pm GMTThe Germans couldn’t believe how inept the average French, American, and British soldier really were, even British described how frightened many of the America soldiers, most barely old enough to shave, appeared. The German was appalled at the physical fitness of the British soldier as well, describing them as weak and frail for the most part. Here is the truth, Western Europe and America fought the German B team at best, often these Germans were little more than schoolboys in some cases. Everyone knows that the bulk of the serious fighting was done on the Eastern Front. Think if tiny Germany hadn’t had to fight on two fronts against what must have seemed like half the world. It doesn’t speak well that it took so many years to defeat a country as small as Germany, a country that was at an extreme disadvantage. The average Western soldier, be it a Frenchmen, a Brit or an American was nothing special to say the least. This isn’t a I hate America thing, but merely the truth. The average German soldier was head and shoulders above the average Brit or America G.I.
@anonymousGrahamsno(G64) , says: July 8, 2020 at 3:55 pm GMTWizard of Oz = Wizard of Iz.
annamaria , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:03 pm GMTI’m surprised that this hasn’t been posted yet.
https://www.rt.com/russia/494077-nyt-taliban-gru-evidence/
Finally, seven days after its ‘scoop’, the NYT ran another story on the subject, entitled ‘New Administration Memo Seeks to Foster Doubts About Suspected Russian Bounties’, which was published on July 3 and buried in the bowels of the paper.
Its opening paragraphs sought to back up the original story, claiming that an intelligence memo had said the “… CIA and the National Counterterrorism Centre had assessed with medium confidence – meaning creditable sources and plausible, but falling short of near certainty – that a unit of the Russian military service, known as the GRU, offered the bounties.”
It was only in the last paragraph that the real story – that there was no story – was revealed: “The agency did intercept data of financial transactions that provide circumstantial support for the detainee’s account, but the agency does not have explicit evidence that the money was bounty payments.”
So the blood libel lasted a week!
One of the greatest things about the Trump Presidency was to carve the ‘Fake News’ meme on the MSM’s forehead.
@Aceannamaria , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:19 pm GMTThe US has its comeuppance in the locally-produced “democracy on the march.” The jolly game of regime change is now played in American towns.
Cheney the Traitor and Obama the Fraud are only marginally different. The US is run by financiers and war criminals.
@EliteCommInc.annamaria , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:20 pm GMT“…there behavior constitutes an attack on the US”
Mister/Miss, since when the zionized Congress of the US serves the citizenship of the US? Thank you for reminding (and you do this regularly) of the unfortunate fact that the US is an occupied territory and the US Congress is a nest of liars, war profiteers, and rabid zionists.
Les Wexler, Ben Cardin, Chuck Schumer, and Clintons have inflicted more harm to the US than any Maria Butin and such. And don’t forget Dick Cheney and Co, the committed traitors and profiteers by any means.
@EliteCommInc.Wizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:29 pm GMTSkripals! Well. There was also the Steel dossier and Browder/Magnitsky Act. You certainly have a weak spot for bad forgeries.
@geokat62Wizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 4:35 pm GMTIn my experience people who are sloppy with language are sloppy with thinking. I thought you might have had similar relevant experience unlike most commenters here. For example, if you were employing a director of research or even just a junior researcher for a committee of inquiry would you not rate their careful use of language as a qualification? You want to be able to rely on the facts they turn up and their reasoning underlying proposed conclusions do you not?
@Franklin RyckaertDerer , says: July 8, 2020 at 5:35 pm GMTI am content to know that you don’t read my comments and are as sloppy and inaccurate in calling me hasbara as the person who called destroying an Iranian nuclear facility “terrorist”. To extend my last comment, you wouldn’t even be on the long list for assisting any inquiry I chaired.
@AceErzberger , says: July 8, 2020 at 5:48 pm GMTDo you know at least, what were you fighting for in Vietnam? How Vietnam threatened US shores?
Do not tell me fighting communist ideology, because the same Nixon and Kissinger that bombed Cambodia civilians embraced that communist ideology in China with grave consequences. We have lunatics in Washington and it is time for direct voting – majority rules.
@Wizard of Oz as right in the sense that despite the British and French declaration of war, not much happened – other than the naval blockade and the lame French invasion of the Saar region. Neither Britain nor France had the courage to follow up on their war declaration, for fear of unpopular casualties or further destruction of land and people (France), and both hoped to gain a cheap victory by starving out the German war effort. Had they actually opened a second front in the fall of 39, the Germans would have collapsed, and the war would have been over before Christmas.Curmudgeon , says: July 8, 2020 at 5:59 pm GMTThe GErman victory over FRance surprised everyone, including the Germans
@Erzberger https://barnesreview.org/product/the-stroop-report/Derer , says: July 8, 2020 at 6:00 pm GMTI think the EC got together so quickly because the US wanted to impose their economic model on Europe with the illusion of control. The Marshall Plan was unraveling as the swindle it was, and the EC was the answer to keep up the illusion. While the UK was in on the scam, they were the front for the Americans, as the idiot Churchill had pissed away the Empire to buy his 15 minutes of fame.
Once the shooting starts there are no good guys. Like all wars, WWII was an economic war. The German economic system could not be allowed to succeed, it was catching on.
@EliteCommInc.anon [178] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 6:09 pm GMTYou must must have quite a deteriorated mind when Russia can influence your vote. Tell me the logistics of the process. You must have equally deteriorated mind believing what CNN, MSNBC, WP or NYT and others dishonest outfits tell you – they are a propaganda machine for a small unpatriotic parasitic group.
Derer , says: July 8, 2020 at 6:10 pm GMTThere is a hierarchy in the blame game . Trump isn’t on the top . If he were, the vile Democrats would be asking review and discussion by broader media ,Dept of Justice and Treasury either to discredit or confirm the following story
in–“Venezuela’s interim government wants access to funds confiscated in the US from corrupt officials, saying it belongs to the Venezuelan people. But US officials appear to have other plans. The Treasury Department diverted $601 million last year from its forfeiture fund to help build President Trump’s border wall. (Leer en español) https://www.univision.com/univision-news/latin-america/legal-battle-over-venezuelas-looted-billions-heats-up Since the United States initiated a coup attempt against Venezuela’s elected leftist government in January 2019, up to $24 billion worth of Venezuelan public assets have been seized by foreign countries, primarily by Washington and member states of the European Union. President Donald Trump’s administration has used at least $601 million of that looted Venezuelan money to fund construction of its border wall with Mexico, according to government documents first reviewed by Univision Univision reviewed US congressional records and court documents and found that the Trump administration tapped into $601 million of the Treasury Department’s “forfeiture fund” to supplement the wall constructio https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/29/trump-stolen-venezuelan-money-border-wall-mexico/
Reason no-one is doing it is because hating Trump could always be swapped for worshipping something more sinister and idiotic .
We would have heard a similar story only if Russia extracted something like this from Ukraine or Libya .
@EliteCommInc.Curmudgeon , says: July 8, 2020 at 6:18 pm GMTI suggest you seek treatment for you pathological hate. Russia want to be a friend in peaceful coexistence but it is sinister players in Washington that constantly need/create enemies to build military industrial complexes instead of consumer goods which are supplied from China.
@TrinityEliteCommInc. , says: July 8, 2020 at 6:22 pm GMTIn Iceland she would not be especially good looking, just another face in the crowd.
Wizard of Oz , says: July 8, 2020 at 6:32 pm GMT“Sorry if I misunderstood you.”
I have been a supported of the current executive before he considered running. And his choice to agree with the intel report and more was a fairly tough pill to swallow. As it turns it was but one of many.
No I found the intel dubious. And I think the executive could have challenged in a manner that did not call the CIA and other agencies DIA, etc. or damage his ability to curtail his policy agenda. But having signed — he essentially states Pres Putin and the Russians are active enemies of the US given that scenario
one would draw on our behavior in Afghanistan hen we supported the Taliban with weapons to kill Russian soldiers —-
tit for tat foreign policy is not new.
@Trinity fought more effectively and efficiently than the novice American soldiers. Then there were technical factors which were naturally advantageous to the more experienced military. For example the famous 88mm anti-aircraft gin turned anti-tsnk gun was never matched by the Allies (I thin) and the German tactics for its use were also superior. Germany, though less than the Soviet Union had another advantage over Britain and France. It’s population went on growing fast for a generations beyond the end of high growth in Britain and, especially, France. For example there were 2 million Germans born in 1913 to provide young men for the army in the 30s.Z-man , says: July 8, 2020 at 7:18 pm GMT
@DererErzberger , says: July 8, 2020 at 7:54 pm GMTYes, as I’ve said repeatedly, the ‘sinister players’, the Judaic NEOCON cabal want to keep America and Russia apart mainly for their hate of Christianity and gentiles, and try to destroy them both.
@Curmudgeon uld be a return to what was indeed Hitler’s scheme of continental autarky and a more even distribution of wealth, and a democratic model much more in line with the Prussian model, the latter bearing significant resemblance with the Chinese Mandarin system. The Chinese Communists are really doing nothing different than the old emperors running a meritocracy rather than an idiocracy. Western democracies, esp the US, with their insane and horrendously expensive election circuses tend to achieve the latter. I hear Kanye West is running for president now. The problem with China is not Communism but their adoption of Western state-capitalism.Buck Ransom , says: July 8, 2020 at 9:24 pm GMT
@Art ry in WW2.Ace , says: July 8, 2020 at 9:38 pm GMTI am sure President Putin would be delighted to draw international attention to this new symbol of a Christian resurgence in Russia. President Trump would appreciate the splendor of such a backdrop for his meeting with another major head of state. Many of the Evangelicals among Trumps’s base would be gobsmacked to learn that Mr. Putin is not running a godless, soulless Communist hellstate. And many of people in the US State Department and the rest of the Swamp would utterly sh*t their pants.
A win all around. Maybe the President will do it.
@annamariamike99588 , says: July 8, 2020 at 9:55 pm GMTTrue dat. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the exceptionals.
And Cheney’s daughter burns the midnight oil in order to keep the pot boiling in Afghanistan. MUST have U.S. troops there to oppose “terrorists” with AKs.
Ace , says: July 8, 2020 at 10:08 pm GMTNYT is a rental rag that always favored Soviets and now CCP, why cite it anymore?
The Russia distraction distracts from Piglosi, Feinstein, Biden, Bushes, congress and corps etc etc being in bed$ with China. With the side benefit of Russian alienation from the US driving Russian goods into the China slaughter house on the cheap.
@Derer pants over Assad’s or Gaddafi’s purported authoritarianisms like they’re skunk pie. Eeeww!Ace , says: July 8, 2020 at 10:26 pm GMTYou’re right that we have lunatics in Washington but I don’t think “direct voting” is the answer. Devolution plus draconian anti-trust enforcement. crucifixion of the Antifa filth, massive deportations, ending black privilege, brutally honest debate over black failure, draconian anti-vote fraud operations, and naming and neutralizing the role and power of organized Jewry and its wealth seem more likely to get us back on track. Please be more creative then “majority rule.”
@AnonAnn Nonny Mouse , says: July 8, 2020 at 10:41 pm GMTJesus. “Choke points” can be dealt with from afar. It takes a while to rebuild railroad bridges. The concept of the Russian and Iranian enemies has worn a little thin these last few days. It’s just assumed that Russia is a malignant force just as it’s universally assumed that “special sauce” is the way to go on McDonalds’ hamburgers. I accept neither proposition.
I want troops on the U.S. southern border not on the “flanks” of Iran or policing “transit corridors” here and there but that’s just me.
@Wizard of Oz a refuses to extradite a woman to Britain for actual homicide. Zero grounds to hold him.EliteCommInc. , says: July 8, 2020 at 11:13 pm GMTFrom their political standpoint the safest way out is for Assange to simply die in the maximum-security prison, so the extradition proceedings can simply be dropped. All problems solved.
So, he is in actual fact in prison for life.
Never mind that Britain did something virtuous in the distant past. Today is today. And notice that serial murderers can be friendly and courteous between murders but that nice behaviour doesn’t exonerate them for the murders. Nazi Germany looks angelic relative to the Britain of today.
geokat62 , says: July 8, 2020 at 11:38 pm GMT“The Gulf of Tonkin “event” was a lie, so there’s that.”
No. It in reality, it was a series of confused messages from the patrol boat. But was used to support a defense of S. Vietnam — the matter is of no consequence. The US was going to defend S. Vietnamese sovereignty regardless of the Tonkin event.
anon [402] • Disclaimer , says: July 8, 2020 at 11:57 pm GMTMust watch interview…
DAVID VS. GOLIATH: GAB’S ANDREW TORBA TELLS RICK HIS BATTLE TO COMPETE WITH TWITTER
Description:
Today on TruNews Rick interviews Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a free speech alternative to the tyrants at Twitter. They discuss how the Silicon Valley elite use their satanic bias to silence opposition and have a mission to purge Christianity from their platforms.
Patagonia Man , says: July 9, 2020 at 12:09 am GMTFYI while BLM and RG draw our attention and now RABAS have made all other conspiracies recede into Corona graveyard
( Russia gate and Russia Afghan Bounty American Solider )
Kushner stoke and his DNA repaired the monetary damages back at home of origin .Israel lobby organizations such as the Zionist Organization of America ($2-5 million), Friends of the IDF ($2-5 million) and the Israeli American Council ($1-2 million) are grabbing huge 100% forgivable loans from the CARES Act PPP program.
According to SBA data released on Monday, Israeli’s Bank Leumi has doled out a quarter to a half billion dollars under the PPP program, despite being called out for operating in the occupied West Bank.
Leumi has given sweetheart deals to fellow Israeli companies Oran Safety Glass (which defrauded the US Army on bulletproof glass contracts) and Energix, which operates power plants in the occupied Golan Heights and West Bank.
This exchange took place today on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.This video clip with additional information is available on IRmep’s YouTube Channel.
Grant F. Smith is the author of the new book The Israel Lobby Enters State Government. He is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy IRmep in Washington, D.C. which co-organizes IsraelLobbyCon each year at the National Press Club.
@geokat62Anon [377] • Disclaimer , says: July 9, 2020 at 12:45 am GMT
– colonial expansion,
– rolling genocide of the Palestinian people, witness 2014 Operation Protective Edge,
– terrorist attacks of neighboring Arab/Muslim states – Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Occupied Territories, Iran & Syria;
– terrorist attacks on Western nations, incl. the UK, the US, & France (since its Parliament voted to recognize Palestine as a state in 2014), and
– sponsoring of terror organizations e.g, ISIS, to continue its proxy war on Syria.
– etc, etcTo be forewarned is to be forearmed.
@MefobillsDerer , says: July 9, 2020 at 2:09 am GMTBecause Biblical word “sin” is not understood, it gives cover and sanction for creditors to run wild.
This truth cannot be stressed enough.
True meaning of Sin = Debt
@JakeWizard of Oz , says: July 9, 2020 at 3:33 am GMTIn addition to Constantinople, years later defending Ottoman remnants in Bosnia and Kosovo against the Christians by “cigar” Clinton and warmonger Blair that introduced the Islamization of Europe.
@Erzberger e lines of making distinctions e.g. between deliberate murder of harmless civilians and forcing choices on them (starve Russian prisoners and ration food to mothers and children e.g.). Of course the choice to get rid of their government and stop the war is unrealistic even in the post Cold War world. What did sanctions on Iran produce?? Just civilian deaths.Wizard of Oz , says: July 9, 2020 at 3:50 am GMT** it is only recently that I discovered that it made a big contribution to diverting German effort from the Eastern Front though it is not surprising that Stalin thought the absence of a Second Front in France was meant to help the Germans savage the USSR.
@Patagonia Man he approx dozen Israeli dual citizens he alleges are in the Australian Parliament contrary to the provisions of the Australian constitution.anonymous [157] • Disclaimer , says: July 9, 2020 at 4:12 am GMTSo, don’t encourage him Geo, by thanking him. That Israeli nonsense is enough to brand him as a nutter.
As to Quadrant, what does it matter that, in the 50s, and maybe till about 1970, it was given some financial support by the CIA? Really, what is the point in the 21st century? Does it matter to current affairs that Robert Maxwell owned the Daily Mirror till the 90s?
If I don’t reply to all the rubbish no one should infer the truth of anything Patagonia Man alleges.
@Z-mananonymous [157] • Disclaimer , says: July 9, 2020 at 5:40 am GMTPutin because he re-established Christian Orthodoxy as the de facto state religion of Mother Russia.
You make it sound as if Putin single-handedly guided “mother” Russia from godlessness, to true God-awareness. Lol!
Except, Christianity of all flavours will always remain, Pagan Polytheist Mangods-worship, or Hindooism-lite, or Godlessness.
@MefobillsAlfred , says: July 9, 2020 at 5:47 am GMT“Professor” Hudson sounds like a kook.
He takes various commandments of God and distills it into a silly… Debt = Sin. Indeed, it is true that one can take anything and make it fit their delusional way of thought. E.g. the 3 in 1, of the pagan Trinity.
Of course, that does not mean, Usury (extortionate moneylending) ≠ Sin, which it most certainly is.
The Ten Commandments were about debt? A silly interpretation. They are primarily about Monotheism and a righteous way-of-life, and refraining from usury is just one aspect of it.
Christianity got perverted? Yes, it most certainly is a pagan perversion of True Monotheism.
@CurmudgeonAlfred , says: July 9, 2020 at 5:56 am GMTIn Iceland she would not be especially good looking, just another face in the crowd
Sorry to rain on the parade.
@Ann Nonny MouseAnn Nonny Mouse , says: July 9, 2020 at 7:08 am GMTI suspect Assange had to be “put away” in case he leaked documents about the then forthcoming Coronascam. The timing is right.
@Patagonia ManPatagonia Man , says: July 9, 2020 at 7:19 am GMTI don’t always agree with the wizard but your mad ad-hominen attack is beastly nonsense, Patagonia Slug.
@Wizard of Ozannamaria , says: July 9, 2020 at 10:44 am GMTForever the denialist, thanks for demonstrating the point.
@Erzbergerannamaria , says: July 9, 2020 at 10:59 am GMT“Sure, Poland bears major responsibility for WW 2, and lending themselves to now hosting US nukes and troops to be moved over from Germany signals that they once again have not learned a thing from their past.”
— Stepping on rakes as a national pastime.
@Ann Nonny Mouse an associated organisation whose stated objective is to ‘maximise support for the State of Israel within the British Liberal Democrat Party’…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Friends_of_Israel
Both groups of “Friends of Israel” have been openly disloyal to the UK.
Both groups of “Friends of Israel ” have been actively promoting the rape and
destruction of Syria and Libya. The protection and glorification of White Helmets’
murderous jihadis is a nice illustration. Patagonia Man ,
says: July 9,
2020 at 1:09 pm GMT
@Ann Nonny MouseFranklin Ryckaert , says: July 9, 2020 at 1:17 pm GMTSo what kind of self-righteousness is this? I said from my experience
When I want your opinion I’ll ask for it.
In future, don’t comment until you’re specifically addressed.
@annamariaErzberger , says: July 9, 2020 at 2:07 pm GMTWhat British politics urgently needs is a lobby Friends of Britain in all of its political parties.
@Wizard of Oz will be as cruel as the Soviets. Were they wrong?Erzberger , says: July 9, 2020 at 2:13 pm GMThttps://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-nazis-exploited-shermans-march-the-sea-25437
Spaight claims that drawing the war to the British isles was done in solidarity with the Soviets. This is nonsense but a timely propaganda move at a time when German defeat was assured. Stalin did no fall into that trap. He lknew about Operation Pike and Operation Impossible, and had zero reason to trust the British. Wikipedia has a page on either Operation
@ErzbergerErzberger , says: July 9, 2020 at 2:28 pm GMTcorrection: Operation Unthinkable
@annamariaAnon [288] • Disclaimer , says: July 9, 2020 at 2:38 pm GMTTrue. Victimhood is essential to Polish nationalism, and their last defense against becoming Europeans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Europe#Historical_critics
@Patagonia ManWizard of Oz , says: July 9, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMTDenialist? A careful textual analysis tells me you are saying WoZ denies what you assert, which is that there are about a dozen Israeli dual citizens in the Australian Parliament, contrary to law. Instead of coyly dancing around the issue what about meeting the challenge to name at least some?
@Erzberger Thanks. Mind you I think the Blitz was pretty indiscriminate bombing before Britain was in a position to inflict much damage on Germany. I gather attacks on London from the start were a strategic error by Hitler because the Liluftwaffe should have kept up its attacks on Britisk airfields. Interesting that Albert Speer, in the “World at War” series, said that four more raids like the 1000 bomber raid on Hamburg (or maybe it was Cologne) would have finished the war. Why couldn’t Bomber Command do I it? Maybe it was because Eisenhower won the battle to have bombers diverted to bombing the Pas we Calais (mostly) and Normandie.Erzberger , says: July 9, 2020 at 3:33 pm GMT
@Wizard of OzZ-man , says: July 9, 2020 at 5:45 pm GMT“Mind you I think the Blitz was pretty indiscriminate bombing before Britain was in a position to inflict much damage on Germany.”
Wrong.
BTW, the Blitz is a misnomer. Blitzkrieg is tactical air support for ground troops. Neither applies to the air attacks on German cities in May 1940, or the German retaliation, several months later, that we know as the Blitz.
Richard Overy though has argued that the German Blitz showed the British how it was done efficiently, so they improved their bombing strategy accordingly afterwards. Whatever
@annamaria— Stepping on rakes as a national pastime.
LOL!!! Good one.
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Dirk , Jul 8 2020 18:11 utc | 3
Aren't they counting now everyone who doesn't say "No, I don't have the virus"? It's strange to me that they shift the narrative every time - even including all the tricks they use - it looks like it's finally over.
Kevin , Jul 8 2020 18:12 utc | 4
So why have the absolute number of covid-19 deaths been in decline since mid-April? Where are all the stories of overloaded hospitals?Kevin , Jul 8 2020 18:14 utc | 5If masks are effective, why was it necessary to release prison inmates to prevent them from getting covid-19?KD , Jul 8 2020 18:33 utc | 6Wearing mask(if it eventually ingrains itself as a widespread public behaviour) will bring deathknell of all the facial recognition hardware & softwares? What will happen to the millions of webcams which were capturing 24x7 in the public spaces but cant capture now! All investment lost ? It seems to me this is a battle by some TPTB vs some other TPTB.Michael Droy , Jul 8 2020 18:37 utc | 7Much as I love MofA's work I am getting rather fed up with the horror stories with no sense of scale over Covid.barovsky , Jul 8 2020 18:38 utc | 8
What proportion have been infected to date? 5% 15% 25%. No comment from MofA.
Is there a proportion of the pop that is simply immune (like most kids seem to be)? No comment from MofA.
Assume everyone caught it how many would that kill? No estimate from MofA.Of course it is fair to say that no scare mongers talk about these things, not governments, not the mainstream media that is terrified of challenging the Fear factor. But I have learnt to expect proper analysis from MofA.
6 months in, we are still debating Public policy and personal policy without even discussing the potential scale.
My guess is that if nothing is done to prevent everyone being exposed to Covid, then on average we will have our lives reduced by 2 months per person. Which sounds pretty awful for someone in the last 2 years of their life, but frankly is nothing given the big gains in life expectancy in the last couple of decades (excluding US).
I'll happily debate that 2 month estimate with anyone who dares to discuss estimates of the crucial scale factors above.
But recall the CDC implied estimate of death rates per infection is 0.26% - and I haven't seen one scare monger accept a 1% number yet.It's called CULLING! There are no jobs, it's Marx's 'reserve army of the unemployed', surplus to requirement (by capitalism). Once more, it's NOT THE VIRUS that's killing Americans, it's CAPITALISM!_K_C_ , Jul 8 2020 18:40 utc | 9@1 - Indeed. Hit the nail on the head. More than any previous (corrupt) administration, the Trump administration is a kleptocratic enterprise designed, in part, to enrich himself and his business cronies. They have, and will, use any event positive or negative to that end.Lucci , Jul 8 2020 18:41 utc | 10@Kevin (multiple) - 1) Use any search engine. USA Today is reporting that 56 Florida hospitals have hit peak ICU capacity. That's just in Florida. 2) You clearly know nothing about the American system of jails/prisons. You're lucky to get a meal that consists of more than 6oz. of week-old Frito pie (look it up if you're not American). Furthermore, masks were incredibly hard to come by and the Trump administration had, in fact, shipped a buttload of them over to China in secret while they were in short supply in the USA. And finally do you think that they'd give masks to prisoners even if they had them? LOL if so.
I'm sorry to the doubters; it's time to accept that this thing is real and that masks work in more ways than one provided they are used properly and sterilized correctly if needed. But I feel more sorry for the people who suffered and died (will die) as the result of the shoddy American political and medical systems.
So why have the absolute number of covid-19 deaths been in decline since mid-April? Where are all the stories of overloaded hospitals?_K_C_ , Jul 8 2020 18:45 utc | 11Posted by: Kevin | Jul 8 2020 18:12 utc | 4
That's your homework. Go to your local hospital and ask where Covid19 are being kept. You want to disprove something you're going to need hard evidence to back your own claim.
If masks are effective, why was it necessary to release prison inmates to prevent them from getting covid-19?Posted by: Kevin | Jul 8 2020 18:14 utc | 5
This is dunning Kruger effect. You must have heard your assertion somewhere instead of coming up with that yourself.
Virus are spread through droplets either from your mouth or noses. Wearing masks can help to contain said droplets spread to others or into public space where many people can be at risk. The virus did not hover in the air through fine dust particles.Where did anyone read that the "absolute number of COVID-19 deaths" (in the USA) is in decline? The count increases every single day.vk , Jul 8 2020 18:46 utc | 12If what they mean is why is the death rate falling, presuming it is and stays that way, then the answer is complex and still unfolding, but on a high level it's because they are finally able to test more people and many of the positive tests are the asymptomatic or light cases. Hence, we just *know about more* of the actual cases, not to mention that lockdowns, bar and beach closures, and mask mandates have also helped slow it down. For now. The fall and winter could be horrible.
Comandante , Jul 8 2020 18:47 utc | 13White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House's thinking, who requested anonymity to reveal internal deliberations. Americans will "live with the virus being a threat," in the words of one of those people, a senior administration official.That's also Boeing's strategy post-737 MAX. Be aware with its soon to be re-licensed planes.
US has currently raging Covid fires in Florida, Texas, Arizona. Cali and S Carolina and Louisiana are not far back. Forget about deaths for a minute. The large # of daily infections and hospitalizations will still put a major strain on US healthcare, logistics, food supply and then economy.Achim , Jul 8 2020 18:48 utc | 14The hospitalizations should be a huge wake up call alone. Only 130 ICU beds in entire Arizona left available. A state of 7 million inhabitants.
It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that at the very least there will be a huge hospital bed shortage in US for months and months.
Businesses will keep closing and going out of business for then foreseable future.
Even if we get zero deaths for Covid from today on, this is still a clusterf....
MofA topped my dailing reading during the Syria war and until February.karlof1 , Jul 8 2020 18:50 utc | 15No longer, as other readers I am sick and tired of the Covid paranoia spread on this blog. The coverage shows a complete lack of political, economic and even statistical analytical skills. Almost as if there are two different authors.
Read Swiss Policy Research for a realistic, science-based assessment of this election year propaganda hoax.
Within the Outlaw US Empire, there's been some consistently accurate reporting done by USA Today , but it's clear the Troll Brigade's talking points remain the same; and quite frankly, they are becoming very tiresome, allowing today's Global Times editorial to invoke a Chinese Proverb that:Kevin , Jul 8 2020 18:52 utc | 16"describes someone as quenching one's thirst with poisoned wine, and now the proverb can be used on the hysteric US government....
"while US society has become accustomed to it and even cooperated with it, which is degeneration ."
I'll repeat the citation I posted on the previous thread from a baseball player for it describes the way out via collective responsibility:
"Just like on the field, success will depend on how many players are safe at home.
"'That's going to be the biggest challenge for this game to move forward -- the off-the-field stuff and what guys do,' said Vincent, an eight-year major league veteran. 'It's just going to take one team to mess it up for everybody. I hope everybody gets that. It'll take five guys to get a whole team sick, and then if a whole team is sick, that could end the season for everybody else.'"
And COVID-19's growth is almost completely related to "community exposure." I think it's rather important for b to echo the message of the linked editorial:
"The Trump administration is leading the country to 'co-exist with the novel coronavirus.' But we must tell Americans that such inaction is terrible . People's understanding of the virus is insufficient, but it has been proven that it can spread fast and infect humans, and the death rate of COVID-19 is much higher than the common flu. If the US keeps the status quo, its number of deaths will be incalculable, and so will be the lasting of the raging virus and its long-term impact on the economy ." [My Emphasis]
I see Chicago now requires a 14-day quarantine of people arriving from the same states as does New York:
"Effective Monday, July 6, travelers from the following states are directed to quarantine upon arrival in Chicago: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah."
The new book coming out about Trump is titled correctly: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man .
Go to the average deaths per day graph. Seems the trend is pretty clear.Lucci , Jul 8 2020 18:52 utc | 17Much as I love MofA's work I am getting rather fed up with the horror stories with no sense of scale over Covid.Seneca , Jul 8 2020 18:54 utc | 18
What proportion have been infected to date? 5% 15% 25%. No comment from MofA.
Is there a proportion of the pop that is simply immune (like most kids seem to be)? No comment from MofA.
Assume everyone caught it how many would that kill? No estimate from MofA.Of course it is fair to say that no scare mongers talk about these things, not governments, not the mainstream media that is terrified of challenging the Fear factor. But I have learnt to expect proper analysis from MofA.
6 months in, we are still debating Public policy and personal policy without even discussing the potential scale.
My guess is that if nothing is done to prevent everyone being exposed to Covid, then on average we will have our lives reduced by 2 months per person. Which sounds pretty awful for someone in the last 2 years of their life, but frankly is nothing given the big gains in life expectancy in the last couple of decades (excluding US).
I'll happily debate that 2 month estimate with anyone who dares to discuss estimates of the crucial scale factors above.
But recall the CDC implied estimate of death rates per infection is 0.26% - and I haven't seen one scare monger accept a 1% number yet.Posted by: Michael Droy | Jul 8 2020 18:37 utc | 7
You don't have to fear it but you shouldn't forgoes the medical guidelines against pandemic either. Else you might contributed to catastrophic healthcare system overloading.
What's your plan other than going into hospital once you're sick ? There are no over the counter medicine that are effective against this new diseases.It is simply not true that there are 1 Million tests in Germany per week. There is no such thing like mass testing in Germany. Only if you feel ill or in the few cases of contact tracing tests are being conducted, I personally know no one who has been tested at all. Due to the low numbers of active symptomatic cases numbers of tests should be low accordingly. Greetings from Germany !Roberto , Jul 8 2020 18:56 utc | 19Dear Mr. Moon of Alabama, the real issue is not the number of new cases. The real issue is the number of death. That number is decreasing.Kevin , Jul 8 2020 18:57 utc | 20From https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/ :
There were approximately 100,000 test-positive deaths in the United States by the end of May. The overall mortality rate since the beginning of the year was, however, in the range of the strong flu season of 2017/2018 (see chart below).
In an open letter, over 600 doctors warned US President Donald Trump of the dangers of an extended lockdown. The lockdown was itself a "mass casualty incident".
@_K_C, Why would more testing drive the number of deaths down? Is there some miracle treatment that they are keeping a secret? Consider also the generous criteria for classifying a death as resukting from covid-19.Steve , Jul 8 2020 19:00 utc |