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May 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Watch: Fauci Declares Pandemic Has Highlighted How Racist America Is BY TYLER DURDEN MONDAY, MAY 17, 2021 - 03:05 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
The White House Senior Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci stated Sunday that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed that the US is a fundamentally racist country.
Speaking to graduates of Emory University, Fauci declared that the virus has revealed the "undeniable effects of racism in our society."
"Covid-19 has shone a bright light on our own society's failings," said Fauci, arguing that African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans are all more susceptible to the virus because of pre-existing health conditions stemming directly from social factors including "access to healthcare" and "availability of an adequate diet."
"Very few of these comorbidities have racial determinants," Fauci claimed, further stating "Almost all relate to the social determinants of health dating back to disadvantageous conditions that some people of color find themselves in from birth regarding the availability of an adequate diet, access to healthcare and the undeniable effects of racism in our society. "
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/w6EkSceuErQ
Meanwhile, Senator Rand Paul has continued to criticise Fauci, urging Friday that he is a "little dictator" who "acts like an ignoramus every day" where mask mandates are concerned.
Appearing on Fox News, Paul stated that Fauci "probably has the highest IQ for someone who actually acts like an ignoramus every day of the week."
After Fauci decreed that kids should keep wearing masks , leading to the CDC head echoing his calls, Paul countered "Kids don't get this disease. When they do get it, it's a mild form. They don't transmit it well. We've got two years worth of evidence on this."
"They [the CDC] still have their camp provision. They want them going around camp wearing a mask, doing the 6-foot stuff," Paul continued, adding " There's no science behind it. It's all conjecture, it's all Tony Fauci, his way or the highway."
"Mr. Little Dictator . . . If Fauci wants kids to mask up and wear masks everywhere, he should show us the science," Paul emphasised.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/np5X-x2ACJ8
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CheapBastard 2 hours ago
JimmyJones 2 hours agoFauci is in a panic worried his funding of the bioweapon in Wuhan that killed millions of people will be exposed.
Calls for major distraction, defaming Americans and throwing them to the gutter.
19331510 2 hours ago remove link100% thats why the mask mandate bs is coming to an end even in the Blue States.
Macho Latte 1 hour agoThe CDC's own study indicates masks limited transmission by less than 2% and closing public dining area reduced transmission by approximately 1%.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/del-debunks-cdc-mask-spin/ (rate reduction 6:00-7:15)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
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A group of experts present to the Florida legislature.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/the-data-on-masks-is-clear/ (children:3:40, 6:00)
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A random controlled trial in Denmark reveals mask are ineffective.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/03/efficacy-of-surgical-masks.aspx
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Masks can stop bacteria but not viruses.
According to the current knowledge, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)] [16], [17], while medical and non-medical facemasks' thread diameter ranges from 55 µm to 440 µm [micrometers (one millionth of a meter), which is more than 1000 times larger [25]. Due to the difference in sizes between SARS-CoV-2 diameter and facemasks thread diameter ( the virus is 1000 times smaller ), SARS-CoV-2 can easily pass through any facemask
https://principia-scientific.com/nih-stanford-study-proves-face-masks-worthless-against-covid/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
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-The average diameter of a single bacterium is 4.25 micrometers. A micrometer is one thousandth of a meter. A meter is 39.37 inches. The average diameter of a coronavirus is 90 nanometers. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
- There are roughly two orders of magnitude (100 times) difference between a single bacterium and a virus. We can see a single bacterium with a very powerful optical microscope. We cannot see viruses with optical microscopes. We need very powerful electron microscopes to resolve a virus.
-Most doctors are very good in medicine but have very little understanding of physics. The same holds true for virologists and other researchers in the field.
https://principia-scientific.com/are-facemasks-effective-against-viruses-or-not/
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As a rationale for masks this fails because it does not mention a necessary prior element. In order to work, masks have to attenuate the guilty aerosols. The individual aerosols involved could be only a micrometer or few micrometers in size. The individual virions are in the range of 50-130 nanometers.[6] I have looked at a number of cloth masks that one can purchase and found their pore sizes to be 0.05 to 0.15 millimeters. This is 1000 times larger than virions and hundreds of times larger than small aerosols.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/03/16/tba/
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https://principia-scientific.com/the-science-exposing-the-myths-about-medical-masks/
https://principia-scientific.com/masks-the-science-myths/
https://principia-scientific.com/20-reasons-mandatory-face-masks-are-unsafe-ineffective-immoral/
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Conclusion: Respiratory pathogens on the outer surface of the used medical masks may result in self-contamination .
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Where is the data supporting mask wearing?
https://principia-scientific.com/rand-paul-rips-fauci-over-post-vaccine-mask-mandates/
19331510 1 hour agoFauci is a parasite
An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci
by Larry Kramer
Originally published May 31, 1988https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/05/28/an-open-letter-to-dr-anthony-fauci/
Not Your Father's ZH 1 hour agoDr. Lee Merritt, Dr. Tenpenny, Dr. Richard Fleming and Dr. Vanden Bossche have trying to warning people about the risks of the experimental gene therapies for sometime.
1CSR2SQN 1 hour agohttps://www.bitchute.com/video/BLeCULQx45Nm/ (BitChute: Dr. Merritt)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7hqSgsZn1vCC/ (BitChute: Dr. Tenpenny)
Not Your Father's ZH 2 hours ago (Edited) remove linkThey don't deal with data, that's just the point and the media is even worse, they don't deal with reality. Occult bots, all they are.
Pandelis 2 hours agoFauci (Which means "jaws" in Italian, BTW) may be right on this racism angle: Gates is American and has sickened and maimed and killed millions of Africans with his "vax" programs.
Nuremberg 2.0 NOW: 1,000 Lawyers and 10,000 Doctors Have Prepared a Lawsuit . . . against the Gates/Fauci/CDC/WHO/WEF crime syndicate for their crimes against humanity.
konputa 2 hours ago (Edited) remove linkdid dr. fauci incriminate himself and lied to congress?
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4962333/senator-paul-dr-fauci-clash-research-funding-wuhan-lab
Yeah one wonders if perhaps Fauci has noticed the rate of obesity among Blacks and Hispanics.
Non-Hispanic Black adults (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanic adults (44.8%), non-Hispanic White adults (42.2%). People that are morbidly obese will tend to have a litany of other serious comorbidities, leading to more risk.
Maybe the obvious answer is the correct one.
May 17, 2021 | www.youtube.com
research everything , 5 days ago
Jeffrey Bunke , 5 days agoFauci has a long sordid history of involvement in Gain of Function meddling! Having him as an advisor to the US about the abominable efforts to make a virus jump from bats to humans which they achieved in the Wuhan lab is truly the fox guarding the henhouse. He DID fund that lab through a huge contribution to another source that then sent that money to Wuhan.
NickelCityPixels , 4 days ago"We don't send Wuhan money" ....... "Let me explain why we sent them money..."
247Marketing , 2 days agoFauci: "We didn't fund the Wuhan lab." Paul: "Funding was laundered through a middle man, Eco Health." Fauci: "Let me explain why we funded the Wuhan lab..."
El Sucio Federali , 5 days agoFauci contradicted himself twice, that's purgery
Dual Use = scientific and military application ! We can NEVER allow these loons to be in a position to make crucial decisions way outside of their lanes.
Don G , 2 days agoFauci's defence is according to the lefts' playbook -- semantics. Fauci is in up to his neck and is trying to weasel his way out of any tie to corona virus 🦠 research.
Guy's Picks , 5 days agoLeo Nielson , 2 days ago"Dr. Baric is not doing gain-of-function research, and if he is, it is being conducted according to the guidelines"
1:57 Fauci: "Let me explain to you why that was done: the SARS CoV-1 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) *originated in bats in China*. It would have been irresponsible of us if we did not investigate the bat viruses and the serology to see who might have been infected." For all those who say the virus didn't come from China . . . Fauci just admitted that the virus came from China.
Emv , 3 days agoKrystal, did you really say Biden Admistration is committed to finding the origin of virus? They are investigating themselves. Let me guess conclusion," we have investigated ourselves and we found we did nothing wrong", please......
T , 4 days agoFauci trying to say that it's not gain of function reminds me of north Korea saying they don't have concentration camps because "we don't use that term, so we don't have them."
May 12, 2021 | www.youtube.com
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Dr. Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony on the Covid-19 response.
June Stolt , 2 days agoI have to give Krystal and Saagar credit for staying focused and not distracted by who ever is stomping around with heavy boots on a hardware floor...or whatever is happening because it's blowing up my ADHD!
PigIron BigIron , 5 days agoRand Paul is the reason they are gaslighting us by saying we don't need to wear masks less than 24 hrs again
Sam G , 3 days ago"We don't send money to Wuhan." "Let me explain why we send money to Wuhan". "We don't do gain of function, but if we do".... He's a disgusting worm.
Daniel Corona , 2 days agoI'm so happy this show is on The Hill you guys deserve more attention and the lefty Hill better not drop you guys
Danny De La Cruz , 1 day agoFauchi knows this whole time that his hands have blood on them.
L Karamazov , 2 days ago1:49 Rand Paul: you did send money, it was a sub grant Fuci: right Literally wow
Thierry Herreman , 3 days ago"It's not gain of function because I, the great Faucci say it's not!"
If Fauci robbed a bank, he would say:"I took money from the bank, but I don't call that stealing".
JB202 , 4 days agoFauci: "It absolutely, unequivocally, was not gain of function research." Paul: "Well, what kind of research was it?" Fauci: "Fain of Gunction."
Sukey Watson , 2 days agoGain of function funding* was reinstated in 2019 after having been suspended on 2014 ( or 2015 - I read this recently but don't quite remember the exact date of the original suspension )
Stephanie Carrow , 5 days agoFauci: If it was Gain of Function, it was done in North Carolina. Whew! That makes me feel safer. 😥😥
Charlotte Williams , 2 days agoKevin Nowicki , 2 days agoI believe the place I first heard about the University of North Carolina working on gain of function with China was on the Anonymous YT channel. I believe there was a female epidemiologist saying covid 19 is clearly a manipulated virus, would've taken 10,000 years for a virus to naturally evolve to the level of virulence. That video was posted in late January or February 2020.
They think the American people are completely ignorant. They think that we as a people cannot put the pieces of the puzzle together and see that the picture reveals there is something awful that happened in Wuhon, China and it appears that the U. S. Funded it in some way. It's not a coincidence that this virus started in the same town where these disease processes are studied.
May 17, 2021 | www.youtube.com
Pat Madsen , 1 day agoIt's hard to believe that WHO chief who quoted that there is no evidence of "Human to Human transmission of the virus" in Jan 2020 is still in charge of that organisation which has failed the world miserably
Machado Doreen , 2 days agoThat's exactly what Dr. Judy Mikovits was trying to tell the world on YouTube a year ago before they shut her down.
Davina Gray , 2 days agoBoth American research scientists and the Chinese research scientists who are suspect should be investigated thoroughly. We cannot let this go.
FEM.B0T .1.0.1 , 3 days ago🤥Of course he Never thought he'll get CAUGHT. 🤥🤥 Now, let's see what happens to him. [[ Don't hold ur breath]]
Et V , 4 days agoMay God reveal the wicked and all their evil works that justice may be visited on their evil heads.
E Pasternak , 2 days agoMuch respect to India for having news outlets that cover the stories the western press refuse to touch.
Jack Vai , 1 day agoHe is a criminal, India my heart breaks for you, I want to send my prayers to the people, allot of us here in America are very sad. God be with all of you and your beautiful country.
Jaguar Lopez , 1 day agoHE'S RUNNING INTERFERENCE, DAILY, FOR WUHAN... I'D SAY THAT HE'S INVOLVED. HE'S AN EVIL LITTLE GUY...I HOPE GOD IS WATCHING.
mightysun89 , 1 day agoThis lady knows what's up, and she doesn't have time for BS! 👍🏽👆🏽
Reza Rahimi , 5 days agoThis was known last year. the government of many countries funded that lab. They will have to face the judgement from Lord of Lord when they die and stand before the judgement seat.
Saleh Othman , 1 day agoWhen I saw his picture with Bill Gates, I was assured they are hiding the truth.
Zara , 1 day agoAnd this is a character that everyone is putting their lives on the line trustingly abiding by his words!!
B0omer96 , 1 day agoThat they inject him with the truth serum and put the lie detector on him at the same time.
Boba Fett , 3 days ago (edited)In order to get uncensored and unbiased news about my country the United States I have to get my news from Sky News Australia and WION. Mad world. Ty for your objectivity WION.
Palki Sharma is an amazing journalist and a reporter. A brave woman who speaks with facts and she knows her scope well. And yes! Dr. Fauci knows everything about this virus but he will not say the shocking obvious about it to the world. Thats all.
May 12, 2020 | www.youtube.com
Senator Rand Paul, R-KY, says he strongly believes Obama 'gave orders' on Michael Flynn case, and weighs in on heated argument with Dr. Fauci in Senate hearing. #FoxNews
Edwin Jansen , 4 weeks ago (edited)
David Hersh , 4 weeks ago (edited)"Heated argument". I found the whole thing quite disappointing. Fauci was never asked about his funding decisions related to Wuhan. Nor about his clear conflicts of interest with regards to available cures and vaccines. There were no scientist asking questions about the health effects of lockdowns or asking critical questions about the earlier prediction and computer models who clearly were way off. Non of it. These were no hearings! These were just a few people having a monologue battle. I found the whole hearing amounted to nothing. Nothing new was disclosed or brought to light that has not been reported in the mainstream media before. I am very disappointed in Rand Paul. I expected so much more of him.
HeyJude , 3 weeks agoRand is great! But, unfortunately, he couldn't say that Fauci is part of the problem. Everyone knows Fauci is linked to Gates.
Goodwomen Goodman , 3 weeks agoIs Fauci really a physician, does he see patients. When was the last time he was in practice. He's an academic. He shouldn't have as much public access as he does. Spreading false information.
rainwolf034 , 3 weeks agoA great Senator. We don't have many senators like him. A great American
DocLarsen44 , 3 weeks agoThey thought Hillary would win so all this would get swept under the rug...
I have one argument with Senator Paul: his statement that Dr. Fauci "is a good person." Dr. Fauci is NOT A GOOD PERSON in my opinion. One need look no further than Fauci's underhanded dealings with Dr. Judy Mikovits as shared by her on the Thomas Paine Podcast - Mike Moore EPISODE 19, 21st April 2020. Rand Paul's statement that Fauci is a "good person" holds no more validity than Donald Trump's statement that Bill and Hillary Clinton are "good people."
May 07, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
How about a job performance appraisal of Dr. Fauci and Dr. Rick? It appears that BARDA hasn't accomplished much of that strategy layed out in 2011."The nation has endeavored over the past ten years to become better prepared for the medical consequences of catastrophic events such as bioterrorist events and pandemic influenza. During that time period Project BioShield, The National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority have emerged to support the development and acquisition of medical countermeasures (MCMs) and the domestic manufacturing capacity to prepare for and respond to an emergency. "
BARDA strategy page, by Dr. Bright's predecesor. Apparently he didn't see a need to update it in the 4 years he was in charge.
https://www.phe.gov/about/barda/stratplan/Pages/message-for-the-barda-director.aspxPaging Dr. Bright, looks like that pandemic you spent four years preparing for is here.......
"support the development and acquisition of medical countermeasures (MCMs)" That's the strategy, what say you Dr. Rick? Are we ready
"Dr. Rick Bright is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of immunology, therapudic intervention, vaccine and diagnostic development. He is also one of the nations leading experts in pandemic preparedness and response and in the design of diagnostic tools required to track pandemics..."
page 29, whistleblower complaint.
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6882560-Rick-Bright-Whistleblower-Complaint
Okay boys and girls, how about a job performance appraisal. Dr. Rick's performance on BARDA's strategy for:
" domestic manufacturing capacity to prepare for and respond to an emergency."
A) "internationally recognized expert" level
B) "nations leading experts in pandemic preparedness" level
C) Grossly incompetent and should be in jail
D) Let's blame Trump insteadDr. Rick's performance on BARDA's strategy for:
"development and acquisition of medical countermeasures"
A) "internationally recognized expert" level
B) "nations leading experts in pandemic preparedness" level
C) Grossly incompetent and should be in jail
D) Let's blame Trump insteadYou should read his complaint, it's a great insight into just how much red tape and green money there is in drug approval. If anybody in the House is reading, please let Nancy, when she's done with her ice cream break, know that we need an investigation. I hear there are some experienced lawyers out of work, maybe she can call Bob Mueller and see who he can recommend to investigate this one.
May 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Natalie Winters via The National Pulse
Recipients of grants from Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases headlined a Wuhan Institute of Virology conference focusing on "gain of function research and gene editing," The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.
A press release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – believed by many to be the source of COVID-19 – recounts the "2nd China-U.S. Workshop on the Challenges of Emerging Infections, Laboratory Safety and Global Health Security."
The May 2017 event was "co-organized by U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), CAS and Hubei Society for Microbiology."
According to the Wuhan lab, the event had five academic sessions, the first of which was "gain of function research, gene editing, targeting and delivery and other novel biotechnology."
Among the Americans in attendance as special guests were Professors Linda Saif, James LeDuc, and David Relman. Together, the three professors have received nearly 200 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with 75 coming from Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
LeDuc, whose earliest grant can be traced to 2006, has received 32 grants from the NIAID, according to the NIH registry. He runs the Galveston National Laboratory, which was " constructed under grants awarded by the NIAID/NIH."
Saif, who counts funding from NIAID since 1985, has received a total of 56 grants from the NIH, 43 of which came from Fauci's NIAID.
And Relman, who's been funded by the NIH since 1996, has received 90 grants from the NIH. He has also received the NIH's Pioneer Award and the Transformative Research Award.
The unearthed conference follows a heated exchange between Fauci and Senator Rand Paul, where the NIAID Director denied providing funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain of function research.
NIH grant records reveal, however, that money sent to the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance was used for research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The official event web page states:
The opening ceremony was chair by Prof. Zhiming Yuan, the Director of Wuhan National Biosafety Level 4 (P4) Laboratory. Prof. Xinwen Chen, the Director General of WIV, delivered the opening address, in which he pointed out that as a qualified academic exchange activity, this workshop will definitely put forward new ideas for the research on emerging viral diseases control, biosafety laboratory and global health security. The workshop is divided into five academic sessions, including (1) gain of function research, gene editing, targeting and delivery and other novel biotechnology; (2) public health response to outbreaks and issues; (3) emerging infectious diseases and global health security; (4) high-level biosafety laboratory: construction, commissioning, and sustainment, and (5) biosafety, biosecurity and bioethics. Experts delivered 23 speeches in the workshop, and mainly discussed policies in response to emerging infectious diseases. Prof. Linda Saif (academician) from Ohio State University, Prof. David Relman (academician) from Stanford University, Prof. James LeDuc, the Director of Galveston National Laboratory, and Prof. George F. Gao (academician) from Institute of Microbiology, CAS attended the workshop as special guests. y_arrow
Lordflin 1 hour ago
nmewn 1 hour ago (Edited) remove linkI said some time back this creature was running for cover...
He was starting to realize... too late I suspect... that when people started looking for heads his would be one of the very first offered up...
radical-extremist 1 hour ago"The unearthed conference follows a heated exchange between Fauci and Senator Rand Paul, where the NIAID Director denied providing funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain of function research.
NIH grant records reveal, however, that money sent to the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance was used for research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
So. Dr.StrangeElf lied.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4962333/senator-paul-dr-fauci-clash-research-funding-wuhan-lab
radical-extremist 1 hour ago (Edited) remove linkAs Rand Paul said "He lied.". He said he never funded gain of function research, but merely funded research into SARS-1. You're not researching SARS-1 without gain of function research. That's what they were doing, to try and devise a vaccine for SARS-1...which became SARS-2 or COVID-19...and escaped the Wuhan Lab.
I wonder it 60 Minutes will rescind it's glowing Fauci profile segment.
MASTER OF UNIVERSE 1 hour agoAs soon as the virus hit in January 2020, Fauci's first reaction was to get way ahead of the story before it could be traced back to him. People of authority who create messes often do this...so they can then be the hero.
You don't run from the problem, you get right in the middle of it so you can control the messaging. It's obvious that's what he's been doing...and our lapdog media fell right into his vortex of charm and absolute certainty.
sbin 38 minutes ago remove linkDr. Anthony Fauci is the world's biggest Epidemiological Research funding chair in the entire existence of global university research into anything Epidemiology. He has been in full control of the funding arm of Epidemiological Research for decades, and he, as well as Gates et al. think that they are untouchables.
This is how Gates & Fauci were able to align with DARPA, CIA, Fort Detrick U.S. Army, and the global research networks of Epidemiology.
The United Kingdom is heavily linked to this and the main Epidemiological BSL-4 in Britain also deployed a bioweapon for the UK variant mix that both M-I6, CIA, Mossad, Five-Eyes lackeys all intended on attacking the world with so that they had control via Fourth Generation Biowarfare given that Western Intelligence knows it is effin' screwed via whole system insolvency.
CIA are douchebags.
MOU
charlieparker 1 hour ago (Edited) remove linkWuhan lab was a patsy.
George Bayou 1 hour agoFauci never struck me as an evil genius. Just a mediocre, greedy administrator with no empathy or conscience. His true role is that of a fall guy. He's only got one plan left, now he is this exposed.
1. Lie through his teeth.
2. If that doesn't work, blame Daszak.
After the way my entire life has been ruined by this Covid-19 farce, it will be some compensation to see these two c****s go down. Imagine having nearly the entire world blame you for starting a pandemic, whether it is real or fake! Silly sods must have thought that the people pulling their strings would protect them.
Jack Offelday 1 hour ago remove linkNotice how Fauci always talks in statistics? That's because to him the individual doesn't matter. "GoF is worth the risk." He is willing to risk millions in the chance that he will be viewed as a heroic scientist.
Max21c 10 minutes agoJust show us the smoking gun: Fauci's signature on the grant documents.
Clearing 28 minutes agoTogether, the three professors have received nearly 200 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with 75 coming from Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The Pentagon is guilty, the CIA is guilty, the National Security Council is guilty. Fauci is just the front man.
Londo 1 hour ago (Edited) remove linkAs I have said many times on this site, and as Chris Martenson said well over a year ago (see his Youtube videos), Fauci approved this funding to help his chums. It's simply criminal negligence. He knew "gain of function" "research" was simply witchcraft and BS. And how many people have died because his Dr. Strangelove friends decided to goose SARS? Fauci and his friends are simply criminal scum.
Max21c 13 minutes agoFauci has nothing to do with it. Pentagon has a secret bio weapon unit operating as a branch of NIH, CDC. Fauci and the rest of NIH, CDC have no authority ,oversight over it.
Which is very interesting, why is the Pentagon funding bio weapons research,call it gains of function if you like, in Wuhan ?
I could be wrong. It might be a CIA operation. Time frame when Pompeo was CIA director. Everything fits.
Max21c 15 minutes ago (Edited)Together, the three professors have received nearly 200 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with 75 coming from Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Fauci may be guilty of collaborating with the secret police and state security apparatus but the intelligence community knew about this and was likely onboard in backing and supporting the intelligence/spying operation...
Jack Offelday 1 hour agoTogether, the three professors have received nearly 200 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with 75 coming from Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
And this likely was initially concealed from the public and covered up by the official media because it likely points to the Obama era intelligence community and Obama era National Security Council and Obama era Pentagon... These types of intelligence community operations are generally not ad hoc and require considerable lead time... So anything funded in 2017 was being planned in the years beforehand...
Somebody from Berlin 59 minutes ago (Edited)Fauci has all the earmarks of a psychopath.
Max21c 8 minutes agoHe is one, plain an simple. That is not a smear or derogative term for him, that is the objective truth.
wootendw PREMIUM 14 minutes ago remove linkSummary: Washington & Washingtonians instead of acting appropriately and encouraging China not to engage in gain of function research instead wanted to play silly little spy games and funded the actual biological warfare programs of the PLA that they should have not collaborated in and should have stood steadfastly against.
The Industrial accident may not have been their fault but all the horrible mismanagement of the pandemic afterwards is on Washingtonians. What came after the industrial accident is entirely the fault of Washingtonians. They made a mess of things. They mishandled it. They were inept, incompetent, incoherent, and ineffective. Taiwan has 12 deaths as of today. The USA has 500,000 deaths. Quality of government matters as does quality of leadership and bureaucracy and political class competency all upon which Washingtonians miserably fail.
twh99 26 minutes ago"LeDuc, whose earliest grant can be traced to 2006, has received 32 grants from the NIAID, according to the NIH registry. He runs the Galveston National Laboratory, which was " constructed under grants awarded by the NIAID/NIH."
Saif, who counts funding from NIAID since 1985, has received a total of 56 grants from the NIH, 43 of which came from Fauci's NIAID.
And Relman, who's been funded by the NIH since 1996, has received 90 grants from the NIH. He has also received the NIH's Pioneer Award and the Transformative Research Award."
Lock each of them up in a no-human-contact, padded cell for the rest of their lives, feeding them dog food and water through a hole at the bottom of the door.
Posa 40 minutes agoGene editing might be useful, especially if you are researching benign viruses and want to see how they work.
But doing Gain of Function work on dangerous viruses should be illegal. There is no possible good outcome with that type of research. In fact I would hazard that the only people who want that research are those who are developing bio weapons.
Dr David Relman, who attended the 2017 conference has been publicly skeptical for many months. He recently told the NYPost :
"We're reasonable scientists with expertise in relevant areas and we don't see the data that says this must be of natural origin."
May 14, 2021 | thehighwire.com
THE DEFINITION OF A BIO-WEAPON
Fauci Denies NIH Funding; Defining a Bioweapon; CDC Stops Looking for Vaccine Failure; The Growing Toll of Vaccine Injury; Eric Clapton's Powerful Message #TheHighWire #EricClapton #StandAndDeliver #NIH #GainOfFunctionBroadcasted 5/13/21 2:00pm - 5/13/21 4:12pm
May 13, 2021 | www.wsj.com
People who have been fully vaccinated should still follow precautions in doctor's offices, airports, nursing homes, the agency recommends
Fully vaccinated people don't need to wear a mask or physically distance during outdoor or indoor activities, large or small, federal health officials said, the broadest easing of pandemic recommendations so far.
The fully vaccinated should continue to wear a mask while traveling by plane, bus or train, and the guidance doesn't apply to certain places like hospitals, nursing homes and prisons, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The fully protected can, however, resume doing many of the things they had to give up due to the pandemic, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said.
"We have all longed for this moment, when we can get back to some sense of normalcy," Dr. Walensky said. "That moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated."
The CDC considers people fully vaccinated either two weeks after receiving their second dose of an mRNA vaccine, such as the one from Pfizer Inc. PFE 1.03% and partner BioNTech SE or Moderna Inc., MRNA -1.84% or two weeks after getting the single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson .
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MAY 13, 2021
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News (emphasis ours)
Senator Rand Paul continued to slam White House medical advisor Thursday, saying that Anthony Fauci could be culpable for the entire coronavirus pandemic.
Paul was attacked by leftist media Wednesday for merely questioning Fauci's extensive role in granting funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology at a Senate hearing.
CNN's Anderson Cooper declared that Paul should "have more respect at least for medical science."
Paul hit back, noting that Fauci is lying about the NIH's involvement in funding of the Wuhan lab .
Now in a further appearance on Fox And Friends , Paul has gone even deeper, accusing Fauci of being personally to blame for the global pandemic.
" The person they hired to investigate the lab for the WHO perspective is the guy who gave the money ," Paul urged.
" So NIH gave the money to EcoHealth. The head of EcoHealth – they got him to investigate whether Wuhan was doing anything inappropriate in their lab. But if they were then wouldn't he be culpable? " The Senator questioned.
" Doesn't he have a self interest in smoothing things over ," Paul continued, adding "I'm not saying he did cover things up but you wouldn't appoint someone who is in the line of the supply chain of giving the money to them."
"Ultimately here's the rub. I don't know whether it came from the lab. But who could be culpable? Dr. Fauci could be culpable for the entire pandemic!" Paul emphasised.
As Infowars reported in April 2020 , the NIH awarded a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct coronavirus gain of function research.
Additionally, the results of the US-backed gain of function research at Wuhan was published in 2017 under the heading, " Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus ."
Fauci has come under increased scrutiny as the NIH's involvement with the Wuhan lab is being called into question.
May 11, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Paul alleged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had used a middle-man to funnel money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance - which worked with the lab on bat coronavirus projects.
Paul specifically referenced so-called "gain-of-function" research which in this case has been focused on how to make animal viruses more transmissible to humans - specifically bat coronaviruses .
"Government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function research," Paul began...
...only to have Fauci interject "I don't favor gain of function research in China," adding "You are saying things that are not correct."
Paul pushed back - continuing:
"[Those who favor gain of function] say that COVID-19 mutations were random and not designed by man."
"I do not have any accounting of what the Chinese may have done," Fauci shot back, adding that he's in favor of further investigation, but that the NIH had nothing to do with the origins of COVID-19.
"We have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology," he added.
"No matter how many times you say it, it didn't happen."
More from Sen. Paul via Twitter:
Senator Rand Paul @RandPaul · May 11, 2021 Dr Fauci dissembled or tried to hide his long time support for 'gain-of-function' research which creates super-viruses that jump from animals to humans.
ohm 4 hours ago (Edited) remove link
nodhannum 3 hours agoYou can't sit on your thumbs and run year long investigations and background checks while thousands are dying .
But that's just the point, thousands were not dying . Instead of seeking out opposing viewpoints, he relied on the bogus Ferguson model that predicted 2 million deaths presented by Fauci and Birx. Plenty of qualified opposing voices were out there - John Ionnides of Stanford for instance. Trump needs to own up to his mistakes and vow not to repeat them.
Plus Size Model 1 hour agoHow many renminbi do they pay you comrade...as in be "han" or be gone. I've been to a number of seminars given by Fauci back in his HIV days but he is a lying sob now. It's getting hard for the fellow to cover hisw *** now even with the Maserati marxists in power here.
smallblockchevy350 3 hours agoreplaceme 5 hours agoRand 2024. I wanted Rand over Trump in 2016 too, but the MSM memed Trump into being the GOP candidate somehow.
HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 5 hours agoSo now fauci is on record lying about it, nice.
win95o PREMIUM 5 hours ago remove linkYeah. Classic psychopath. He can't help himself at this point.
YesitsTrue98 4 hours agoWhy would Fauci say the following in 2017:
"There will be a surprise outbreak"
this_circus_is_no_fun 4 hours ago"We are not prepared for a pandemic," Biden tweeted on Oct. 25, 2019, saying the country needs leadership that "mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores."
adonisdemilo 5 hours agoAt first Fauxi denied the allegation. Then, after Paul cornered him with facts, Fauxi said something like "this is why we did that". So, he admitted that he did what he was denying just a few seconds before . He is literally incapable of telling the truth. I guess he's not called Fauxi for nothing.
chinese.sniffles 5 hours agoFauci has known from day one what's going on and going wrong. He's up to his neck in it and taking a good look at his body language under questions from Rand Paul, HE'S CONTINUING TO LIE.
thezone 5 hours agoDr. Fauci:
Have you or your team send or granted permission for work projects to Wuhan or China?
What were those projects?
Why did you send them?
Why did you not do these projects in the USA?
Were any of these projects illegal in the USA?
etc. simple line of questioning, let him perjure himself.
surfer4444 5 hours agoFauci (the politician) knew to not write a check out to the lab directly. It was great to hear Dr Paul bring up EcoHealth. A shell company to facilitate.
radical-extremist 5 hours ago remove linkExactly, blame it on the sub contractor....an old game and the elite are using it well
chiquita 5 hours agoFauci knows full well the story in the Democrat State News media will be about how he was ATTACKED by Rand Paul, and not about him lying under oath about funding the Wuhan Lab.
What a mess_man 4 hours ago (Edited)This information has been out for a while if you follow War Room, Steve Hilton, and some other sources. Peter Navarro has been hammering at Fauci relentlessly for the last few months and now the MSM is going after Navarro, trying to discredit him. Gee, I wonder why when it looks like the truth about Fauci is falling apart.
Meatballs 3 hours ago (Edited)Tucker blew this wide open last night. Of course lots of us here knew all this many months ago. Fauci is lying through his teeth here, and both he and Daszak are deep in the Chicom's pockets. As Tucker said, in a functioning world there would be a criminal investigation. Instead Biden and Co. kiss his *ss and make him our foremost authority on Covid and vaccines. Clown world for sure.
vic and blood PREMIUM 2 hours ago remove linkActually, Saagar beat Tucker to the punch. Either way, the unraveling has begun.
Itinerant 4 hours agoDon't let the bioweapon profiteer, Daszak, off the hook.
Both greedy psychopaths should hang for their crimes against humanity.
Furthermore, we have no business sharing infectious disease technology with China, even if they could run a lab properly.
toady 4 hours agoThis story is about 14 months old, though not for the MSM.
Actual documentation of the grants from the NIH via the Eco Alliance have been circulating in the public domain for all that time. In it they exactly describe the gain-of-function research that is being outsourced to China, the viruses involved, the methods, the type of experiments, and the aims of the research ... exactly and technically.
There is no room for caveats, or 'allege' or interpretation or anything like that.
The evidence is rock hard and crystal clear.dogbert8 5 hours ago remove linkYet there are no prosecutions.
bsdetector 5 hours agoFinally, the unmasking (pun intended) of Fauci has started.
Jack Mayorhaufer 5 hours agoJust listened to the questions and answers. Fauci qualifies his answers with information that was not sought in the questions. His answers change the character of his denials... "we did not fund GOF research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
OK Dr. Fauci, please identify the viruses that you did fund for GOF research at the Institute.
novictim 2 hours ago remove linkmaster gaslighters once they reach certain status and paygrade on the Hill
CleeTorres 2 hours ago"I don't know how many times I can say it? We did not fund gain of function research to be done in the Wuhan Institute of Virology ...(under his breath) because we funded Eco Health Alliance/Peter Daszak which granted the research funding to do gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Onthebeach6 2 hours ago (Edited) remove linkA simple internet search shows Fauci is lying about funding for this research. But he knows the media won't do their jobs.
boyplunger7777 4 hours ago remove linkLet me assist Dr Fauci with the truth.
Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan
Dr Christina Lin
April 2020
"A U.S. NIH-funded $3.7 million project was approved by Trump's Covid-19 advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2015, after the Obama White House imposed a ban on 'monster-germ' research. In October 2014, the federal government declared a moratorium on gain-of-function research to weaponize viruses related to influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). As a result, the research was outsourced to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is currently at the center of scrutiny for the Covid-19 pandemic."
https://www.ispsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/689_Lin.pdf
Max21c 3 hours ago (Edited) remove linkFauci looks very nervous . Perhaps why he has been so adamant about constantly moving the goalposts? If you were guilty of something wouldn't you keep changing the focus and appear to be very helpful and concerned?
TheRapture 3 hours ago remove linkWhich people in & around the National Security Council, CIA, and Pentagon are involved in this attempt to gain access, penetrate and spy on the PLA Biological Weapons/Warfare programs via funding mechanisms route? Which people had contact with this institute and programs and what if anything did the spy games produce?
When are they in Washington going to establish civilian rule over the US military and CIA and National Security Council?
When are they going to knock off these silly spy games and spy world operations off and stop this nonsense which produces zero positive results?
What did the gangsters on the Intelligence/Spy Committees in Congress know? What did the gangsters atop the Pentagon, CIA, National Security Council know?
Which Washingtonian assholes are going to go to prison for this boomerang disaster?
How many other groups similar to "EcoHealth Alliance" operate as part of the US/UK intelligence "community" and what other stupid stuff are the idiots mixed up in?
WorkingClassMan 3 hours agoThere is a great deal of evidence (NIH, State Dept grants to offshore USA bioweapons research, Bat Lady was the protege of Dr. Ralph Baric at UNC who has been doing coronavirus bioweapon research for more then twenty years, initial and simultaneous infections in Wuhan at different locations suggesting an intentional release, etc., etc., etc.) And of course, Trump had motive, opportunity and means to stage a false flag to destroy China's economy and damage China's political relations with other countries.
It is likely the USA, no doubt using a CIA proxy, released SARS-CoV-2 in simultaneously in multiple locations in Wuhan. The evidence is substantial. But most Americans can't bring themselves to stare down that particular rabbit hole.
sarret PREMIUM 3 hours agoI'd rather an honest CCP commie ruling the roost than those traitors anyway.
"If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it."
― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My LegionariesFish Gone Bad 4 hours agoFauci is such a liar, pulling school kid mentality out of a hat to answer serious questions. Likely in his mind he knows it all to be true but since the correct name is 中国科学院武汉病毒研究所 then unless you say that name, or the exact name of the exact subsidiary that was funding or was being funded, then it is not correct and therefore he can answer the question incorrectly without calling himself a liar internally and without saying what the error was in the question that led him to be able to this.
In all respects he just disregards the spirit of the question when he knows full well that he is in the wrong, but denies it every single time based on some concocted fabrication in his mind that the question is not precise enough to nail him to the cross.
Completely disingenuous, can't trust a word he says.
radical-extremist 5 hours ago remove linkLawyer speak:
We have not funded gain of function research on this virus
They funded all kinds of gain of function on all kinds of permutations of the virus, just not THIS virus.
the Mysterians 5 hours agoFauci is also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of men in San Francisco by covering up Bath Houses as the origin of the spread of AIDS...for Mayor Diane Feinstein's political career. No one dares talk about this today.
Flying Monkees 5 hours ago (Edited)"I did not have sex with that woman!"
Posa 5 hours agoWhat could possibly be the reason for gain-of-function research if not bio-warfare?
These evil, irresponsible, arrogant a-holes need to pay.
surfer4444 5 hours ago remove linkThe Eco-Alliance grant from Fauci's NIAID states
We will use S [ie the Spike Protein that makes the SC-2 virus highly infectious] protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential.
That has been interpreted as a commitment to Gain of Function research on the Spike Protein which is the key to turning SARS into a virulently transmissible pathogen.
Posa 5 hours agoExactly...im just baffled how this PoS can blatantly lie to a Senate committee and get away with it...there is zero accountability in our government...end times
Posa 4 hours agoFauci can lie because his audience is a convention of lazy, cowardly , illiterate dunces. If Rand Paul were serious he would have had the damn grant in front of him and read the same quotes as I provided in this post. PAul would have held these hearings last year when his Party controlled the Senate.
George Bayou 5 hours agoNOTE: This post was censored by The Hill. Typical free speech in America.
notfeelinthebern 4 hours ago (Edited)"11 labs in the US create these super-viruses in the US and one of them collaborated with Wuhan Virology Inst -- Fauci has supported NIH funds for all these labs!"
Why is this a-hole still working?
George Bayou 5 hours agoYap, yap,. yap. Another dog and pony show and the show is painfully old. They parade personage after personage before congress and ask lots of questions. The swamp rats in the hot seat lie by omission and with sleight of hand answers and when done with the act walk away with smug faces....The show must go on.
GeneKelly 5 hours ago remove linkHere's an interesting article on Dr. Baric and what he was doing, mutating virus using serial passaging so that the virus are able to infect a completely different species:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
Take, for instance, this paper from 1995: "High Recombination and Mutation Rates in Mouse Hepatitis Viruses Suggest That Coronaviruses May Be Potentially Important Emerging Viruses." It was written by Dr. Ralph Baric and his bench scientist, Boyd Yount, at the University of North Carolina. Baric, a gravelly voiced former swim champion, described in this early paper how his lab was able to train a coronavirus, MHV, which causes hepatitis in mice, to jump species, so that it could reliably infect BHK (baby-hamster kidney) cell cultures. They did it using serial passaging: repeatedly dosing a mixed solution of mouse cells and hamster cells with mouse-hepatitis virus, while each time decreasing the number of mouse cells and upping the concentration of hamster cells. At first, predictably, the mouse-hepatitis virus couldn't do much with the hamster cells, which were left almost free of infection, floating in their world of fetal-calf serum. But by the end of the experiment, after dozens of passages through cell cultures, the virus had mutated: It had mastered the trick of parasitizing an unfamiliar rodent. A scourge of mice was transformed into a scourge of hamsters. And there was more: "It is clear that MHV can rapidly alter its species specificity and infect rats and primates," Baric said. "The resulting virus variants are associated with demyelinating diseases in these alternative species." (A demyelinating disease is a disease that damages nerve sheaths.) With steady prodding from laboratory science, along with some rhetorical exaggeration, a lowly mouse ailment was morphed into an emergent threat that might potentially cause nerve damage in primates.
DeeDeeTwo 1 hour ago remove link"We have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,"
Sociopaths can lie without registering on a detector by simply defining terms differently in their cerebral cortex and then answering -- from their perspective truthfully -- "no" because the question doesn't match their internal definition.
So Fauci wasn't funding "gain of function". He was actually funding "increasing the virulence of pathogens" or "enhancing the pathogens' ability to infect different species".
Rand and others will have to ask the question a hundred ways to force Fauci to spill the beans.
Txjac 5 hours agoTucker finally called Fauci a "criminal" at least twice and said, "In any functioning society Fauci would be investigated."
Everybody All American 5 hours ago remove linkFauci also owns the patents on the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines
Downhill from here 5 hours agoHow is it that only one Congressman dare questions Dr. Fauci? One tough questioner. These cowards all need to hang for the crimes they are allowing. If they think we are just going to sit back and watch this man for much longer lead us they are sadly mistaken.
replaceme 5 hours ago (Edited)Being an MD, Paul has some credibility on the topic. At least educationally and by training, Fauci and Paul are peers.. More than likely other R's are letting him take point.
Wilde1 2 hours ago remove linkI forgot, that's the same dr daszak that sent the letter to the lancet saying that covid didn't come from Wuhan, and that he had no reason to falsely say this. THAT Dr daszak. Got it.
Totally_Disillusioned 2 hours ago (Edited)https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/anthony-fauci-40-years-of-lies-from-azt-to-remdesivir/
scraping_by 5 hours ago (Edited) remove link"We [NIH/Fauci] did not fund gain of function research to be done in Wuhan." What the weasel didn't say is that the NIH did in deed fund Dr Baric who was working in collaboration with Wuhan with gain of function experiments on the SARS virus. Baric worked with Ft Dettrick and Univ NC researchers who in turn were collaborating with Canada and Wuhan.
Fauci can parse words but he's a traitor and ought to be held responsible along with all others involved with this.
zorrosgato 14 minutes ago remove linkOne amendment to the story --
Carlson was quoting a story by Nicholas Wade, former science editor to the NYT. Published in Medium. So it's not just a talking head repeating newsroom copy, as in CNN.
Looking4 6 hours agoFauci is part of a flawed system and don't be fooled in believing he is part of any solution. His endorsing of impractical mask mandates along with mandatory vaccinations of the population, using unproven genetically engineered drugs is proof enough.
https://medium.com/swlh/mrna-therapy-a-new-form-of-gene-medicine-5d859dadd1e
wonder which university in North Carolina could possibly be involved in this ???? :) to be sure they would not have a "bat lab"...would they?
Apr 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
lwilland1012 1 hour agoINTJ Economist 1 hour agoHow many times can a declared "expert" be wrong before they are not an expert anymore!
Ask an economist. Wrong more than 50% of the time and still fully employed. When was the last time an economist got fired for being wrong?
May 09, 2021 | www.wsj.com
Some view herd immunity -- the point at which a critical mass of a population become immune to a disease-causing virus or bacteria -- as a key factor in determining when Covid-19 will be conquered and economies will return to normal. Until herd immunity is reached, some say, governments will restrict activities to prevent the disease's spread, resulting in fewer goods and services being produced and consumed.
Other economists say businesses can reopen and economic activity can rebound without full herd immunity, and likely will.
Part of the challenge for economists is that it is hard to know exactly when a given place will achieve herd immunity, if ever. For Covid-19 , epidemiologists generally believe it will require having at least 60% to 80% of a population develop antibodies, curbing the virus's ability to spread.
... ... ...
Economists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have tried to incorporate immunity estimates into their forecasts by looking at daily vaccination progress around the world and take account of estimates of how many people have already been infected.
According to their calculations, 60% of the population in the U.S. and U.K. are already immune to Covid-19; the biggest economies of Europe will get there by August.
Serg Bezrukov
I agree with Umesh Patil.
For example, there is no herd immunity from South African mutation in the USA for those who were immunized with the Moderna vaccine and Johnson and Johnson vaccine .
And more mutations will follow this and the next year. So the concept of "herd immunity" when applied to coronaviruses looks to me fuzzy; in this sense this is the goal that the nation probably can't achieve. Remember the "flattering of the curve" fiasco in NYC. Quarantine measures were completely decimated by Floyd-gate riots and authorities were forced to swallow the bitter pill. Measures they advocated proved to be useless and economically damaging.
Coronaviruses like C19 are a moving target. Moreover, there are large swats of the US population that have weakened immune system (including some seniors) who that does not respond to vaccination, creating no protection. In large cities like NYC they will serve as the reservoir of virus mutations vaccination, or no vaccination.
Rick Schaler SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago
We have Fauci making unfounded statements that confuse everyone and now economists are going to tell us when herd immunity will become operative. Can't do any worse than the 'media docs'.Umesh Patil
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play_arrowGreed is King 1 hour ago
- Dr. Henry Ealy and his team started looking at CDC data on COVID-19 cases and fatalities in mid-March 2020, quickly realizing the agency was vastly exaggerating fatalities
- Over-reporting of fatalities was enabled by a March 2020 change in how cause of death is reported on death certificates. Rather than listing COVID-19 as a contributing cause in cases where people died from other underlying conditions, it was to be listed as the primary cause
- As of August 23, 2020, the CDC reported 161,392 fatalities caused by COVID-19. Had the long-standing, original guidelines for death reporting been used, there would have only been 9,684 total fatalities due to COVID-19
- The CDC violated federal law, as the Paperwork Reduction Act requires data collection and publication to be overseen by the Office of Management and Budget. Proposed changes must be published in the Federal Register and be open to public comment. None of these transparency rules were followed
- We don't yet know who was responsible for altering the reporting rules in violation of federal law. To identify the culprits, formal grand jury investigation petitions have been sent to all U.S. attorneys and the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting a thorough, independent and transparent investigation; a direct public effort to gather signatures also commenced on the one-year anniversary of the CDC reporting change
May 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Patricia McCarthy via AmericanThinker.com,
In 1949, sometime after the publication of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World (1931), who was then living in California, wrote to Orwell. Huxley had briefly taught French to Orwell as a student in high school at Eton.
Huxley generally praises Orwell's novel, which to many seemed very similar to Brave New World in its dystopian view of a possible future. Huxley politely voices his opinion that his own version of what might come to pass would be truer than Orwell's. Huxley observed that the philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is sadism, whereas his own version is more likely, that controlling an ignorant and unsuspecting public would be less arduous, less wasteful by other means. Huxley's masses are seduced by a mind-numbing drug, Orwell's with sadism and fear.
The most powerful quote In Huxley's letter to Orwell is this:
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
Aldous Huxley.Could Huxley have more prescient? What do we see around us?
Masses of people dependent upon drugs, legal and illegal. The majority of advertisements that air on television seem to be for prescription drugs, some of them miraculous but most of them unnecessary. Then comes COVID, a quite possibly weaponized virus from the Fauci-funded-with-taxpayer-dollars lab in Wuhan, China. The powers that be tragically deferred to the malevolent Fauci who had long been hoping for just such an opportunity. Suddenly, there was an opportunity to test the mRNA vaccines that had been in the works for nearly twenty years. They could be authorized as an emergency measure but were still highly experimental. These jabs are not really vaccines at all, but a form of gene therapy . There are potential disastrous consequences down the road. Government experiments on the public are nothing new .
Since there have been no actual, long-term trials, no one who contributed to this massive drug experiment knows what the long-term consequences might be. There have been countless adverse injuries and deaths already for which the government-funded vaccine producers will suffer no liability. With each passing day, new side-effects have begun to appear: blood clots, seizures, heart failure.
As new adverse reactions become known despite the censorship employed by most media outlets, the more the Biden administration is pushing the vaccine, urging private corporations to make it mandatory for all employees. Colleges are making them mandatory for all students returning to campus.
The leftmedia are advocating the "shunning" of the unvaccinated. The self-appointed virtue-signaling Democrats are furious at anyone and everyone who declines the jab. Why? If they are protected, why do they care? That is the question. Same goes for the ridiculous mask requirements . They protect no one but for those in operating rooms with their insides exposed, yet even the vaccinated are supposed to wear them!
Months ago, herd immunity was near. Now Fauci and the CDC say it will never be achieved? Now the Pfizer shot will necessitate yearly booster shots. Pfizer expects to make $21B this year from its COVID vaccine! Anyone who thinks this isn't about money is a fool. It is all about money, which is why Fauci, Gates, et al. were so determined to convince the public that HCQ and ivermectin, both of which are effective, prophylactically and as treatment, were not only useless, but dangerous. Both of those drugs are tried, true, and inexpensive. Many of those thousands of N.Y. nursing home fatalities might have been prevented with the use of one or both of those drugs. Those deaths are on the hands of Cuomo and his like-minded tyrants drunk on power.
Months ago, Fauci, et al. agreed that children were at little or no risk of getting COVID, of transmitting it, least of all dying from it. Now Fauci is demanding that all teens be vaccinated by the end of the year! Why? They are no more in danger of contracting it now than they were a year ago. Why are parents around this country not standing up to prevent their kids from being guinea pigs in this monstrous medical experiment? And now they are " experimenting " on infants. Needless to say, some have died. There is no reason on Earth for teens, children, and infants to be vaccinated. Not one.
Huxley also wrote this:
"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' -- this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats ."
Perhaps this explains the left's hysterical impulse to force these untested shots on those of us who have made the decision to go without it. If they've decided that it is the thing to do, then all of us must submit to their whims. If we decide otherwise, it gives them the righteous right to smear all of us whom they already deplore.
As C.J. Hopkins has written , the left means to criminalize dissent. Those of us who are vaccine-resistant are soon to be outcasts, deprived of jobs and entry into everyday businesses. This kind of discrimination should remind everyone of ...oh, Germany three quarters of a century ago. Huxley also wrote, "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." That is precisely what the left is up to, what BLM is planning, what Critical Race Theory is all about.
Tal Zaks, Moderna's chief medical officer, said these new vaccines are "hacking the software of life." Vaccine-promoters claim he never said this, but he did. Bill Gates called the vaccines " an operating system " to the horror of those promoting it, a Kinsley gaffe. Whether it is or isn't hardly matters at this point, but these statements by those behind the vaccines are a clue to what they have in mind.
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears , so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
This is exactly what the left is working so hard to effect: a pharmacologically compromised population happy to be taken care of by a massive state machine. And while millions of people around the world have surrendered to the vaccine and mask hysteria, millions more, about 1.3 billion, want no part of this government vaccine mania.
In his letter to Orwell, Huxley ended with the quote cited above and again here because it is so profound:
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
Huxley nailed the left more than seventy years ago, perhaps because leftists have never changed throughout the ages. 61,497 173
Fat Beaver 14 hours ago (Edited)
strych10 14 hours agoIf i am to be treated as an outcast or an undesirable because i refuse the vax, i will immediately become someone that has zero reverence for the law, and i can only imagine 10's of millions will be right there with me.
Dr. Chihuahua-González 13 hours agoWelcome to the club.
We have coffee in the corner and occasional meetings at various bars.
Fat Beaver 13 hours ago (Edited)I'm a doctor, you could contact me anytime and receive your injection.
sparky139 PREMIUM 10 hours agoI've gotta feeling the normie world you think you live in is about to change drastically for the worse...
bothneither 2 hours agoYou mean you'll sign papers that you injected us *wink *wink? And toss it away?
Unknown 6 hours ago (Edited)Oh geez how uncommon, another useless doctor with no Scruples who sold out to big Pharma. Please have my Gates sponsored secret sauce.
Deathrips 15 hours ago (Edited) remove linkBoth Huxley and Orwell are wrong. Neoliberalism (the use of once office for personal gains) is by far the most powerful force that subjugates the inept population. Neoliberalism demolished the mighty USSR, now destroying the USA, and will do the same to China. And this poison dribbles from the top to bottom creating self-centered population that is unable to unite, much less resist.
19331510 14 hours ago (Edited)Tylers.
You gonna cover Tucker Carlsons show earlier today on FOX news about vaxxx deaths? almost 4k reported so far this year.Joe Joe Depends 13 hours agohttps://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/death-stats
AGE Deaths
0-24 23
25-50 184
51-65 506
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JimmyJones 9 hours agoIndia up in arms about mere 1%
spanish flu was 3%
Nelbev 10 hours agoIs the population of india up in arms or is the MSM?
19331510 14 hours agoFacebook just flagged/censored it, must sign into see vid, Tuck also failed to mention mRNA and adenovirus vaxes were experimental and not FDA approved nor gone through stage III trials. Beside deaths, have blood clot issues. Good he mentioned how naturally immune if get covid and recovered, better than vaccine, but not covered for bogus passports. Me personally, I would rather catch covid and get natural immunity than be vaccinated with an untested experimental vaccine.
Ultramarines 15 hours ago (Edited)Covid19 links.
Websites:
https://www.americasfrontlinedocs.com/media/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/
https://www.constitutionalrightscentre.ca/category/news/
https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/
https://www.flemingmethod.com/
https://principia-scientific.com/
https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak
https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/ https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/links/general-links/
Video Sharing : https://www.bitchute.com/ ; https://brandnewtube.com/ ; https://odysee.com/ ; https://rumble.com/ https://superu.net
Healthcare Professionals :
Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya; Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche; Dr. Ron Brown; Dr. Ryan Cole; Dr. Richard Fleming; Dr. Simone Gold; Dr. Sunetra Gupta; Dr. Carl Heneghan; Dr. Martin Kulldorff; Dr. Paul Marik; Dr. Peter McCullough; Dr. Joseph Mercola; Dr. Lee Merritt; Dr. Judy Mikovits; Dr. Dennis Modry; Dr. Hooman Noorchashm; Dr. Harvey Risch; Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Dr. Richard Urso; Dr. Michael Yeadon;
A list of Canadian doctors: https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak
Lawyers : Dr. Reiner Fuellmich; Rocco Galati;
Drug Adverse Reaction Databases:
http://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html (Search; Suspected Drug Reactions Reports for Substances) COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414); COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH; COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19); COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html
Research papers :
https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/ (pcr tests)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/ (face masks)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484 (lock downs)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670 (child/teacher morbidity)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1 (transmission by children)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm (masks/restaurants)
https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/199 (biased trial reporting)
Covid19 links.
Websites:
https://www.americasfrontlinedocs.com/media/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/
https://www.constitutionalrightscentre.ca/category/news/
https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/
https://www.flemingmethod.com/
https://principia-scientific.com/
https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak
https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/ https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/links/general-links/
Video Sharing : https://www.bitchute.com/ ; https://brandnewtube.com/ ; https://odysee.com/ ; https://rumble.com/ https://superu.net
Healthcare Professionals :
Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya; Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche; Dr. Ron Brown; Dr. Ryan Cole; Dr. Richard Fleming; Dr. Simone Gold; Dr. Sunetra Gupta; Dr. Carl Heneghan; Dr. Martin Kulldorff; Dr. Paul Marik; Dr. Peter McCullough; Dr. Joseph Mercola; Dr. Lee Merritt; Dr. Judy Mikovits; Dr. Dennis Modry; Dr. Hooman Noorchashm; Dr. Harvey Risch; Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Dr. Richard Urso; Dr. Michael Yeadon;
A list of Canadian doctors: https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak
Lawyers : Dr. Reiner Fuellmich; Rocco Galati;
Drug Adverse Reaction Databases:
http://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html (Search; Suspected Drug Reactions Reports for Substances) COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414); COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH; COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19); COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)
Research papers :
https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/ (pcr tests)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/ (face masks)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484 (lock downs)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670 (child/teacher morbidity)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1 (transmission by children)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm (masks/restaurants)
https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/199 (biased trial reporting)
Mineshaft Gap 10 hours agoHis making of the gamma and delta workforce was quite prescient. We are seeing it play out now, we all know gammas and delta. There was a really good ABC tv movie made in 1980 Brave New World. Excellent show, it shows the Alphas and names them Rothchild and so on. Shows what these people specifically want to do to the world. I wonder if the ruling psychopaths actually wait for science fiction authors to plan the future and then follow their script.
If Huxley were starting out today no major publisher would touch him.
They'd tell him Brave New World doesn't have a diverse enough of cast. Even the mostly likable totalitarian guy named Mustapha turns out to be white! A white Mustapha. It's soooo triggering. Also, what's wrong with a little electronic fun and drug taking, anyway? Lighten up , Aldous.
Meanwhile his portrait of shrieking medieval Catholic nuns who think they're possessed in The Devils of Loudun might remind the leftist editors too uncomfortably of their own recent bleating performances at "White Fragility" struggle sessions.
Sorry, Aldous. Just...too...problematic.
Apr 27, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
Leftists reacted with fury after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said people who wear masks outside should be mocked and that parents who made their kids wear them were engaging in "child abuse."
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Carlson noted that masks were "purely a sign of political obedience like Kim Il-Sung pins in Pyongyang" and that the only people who voluntarily wear masks outside are "zealots and neurotics."
He then asserted that the tables should be turned on Biden voters who have been harassing conservatives for almost a year for not wearing a mask in public.
"The rest of us should be snorting at them first, they're the aggressors – it's our job to brush them back and restore the society we were born in," said Carlson.
"So the next time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalk or on the bike path, do not hesitate. Ask politely but firmly, ' Would you please take off your mask? Science shows there is no reason for you to be wearing it. Your mask is making me uncomfortable, " he added.
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"We should do that and we should keep doing it until wearing a mask outside is roughly as socially accepted as lighting a Marlboro on an elevator."
The Fox News host went on to call mask wearing "repulsive" while asserting that forcing children to wear masks outside should be illegal.
"Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your response to seeing someone beat a kid in Walmart. Call the police immediately. Contact Child Protective Services. Keep calling until someone arrives," Carlson said.
"What you're looking at is abuse, it's child abuse, and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it," he added.
As expected, Carlson immediately began trending on Twitter, with hysterical leftists hyperventilating over Tucker once again challenging their cult. Many called for the Fox News host to be fired while others ludicrously described him as a "national security threat."
As we highlighted yesterday , even Dr. Fauci now admits that the risk of vaccinated people spreading COVID outside is "minuscule," and yet some health professionals are pushing for the mask mandates to be made permanent.
The transmission of COVID-19 outdoors is almost non-existent, making mask mandates merely a political tool of population control.
In a recent open letter to the German government and state premiers, five leading members of the Association for Aerosol Research (GAeF) wrote, "The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 viruses takes place indoors almost without exception. Transmission outdoors is extremely rare and never leads to cluster infections as can be observed indoors."
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Robert Neville 7 hours agoIn all fairness... Tucker should have pointed out that SOME MASKS do filter out the virus most of the time.
Wearing a mask outdoors in most situations is ridiculous, stupid, and dangerous.
3M N95's 1860 which are electrostatically charged have good filtration protection against most virus.
Why the us government did not fund this type of mask for all is telling what the overall strategy is.
Controlling you, your neighbor, and others that think for themselves.
Its not about the virus
Fiscal.Enema 6 hours agoActually, M95 masks filter out 95% of particles over 4 microns in diameter in perfect conditions. In the real world it is much less effective than that. Viruses are generally less than one micron in size so they are ineffective for most viruses. Also, the masks are so hard to breath through that some version have an exhale valve so they do nothing to protect others if you are infected. Most masks don't protect your eyes. The only thing that works is a space suit that is decontaminated before you remove it. The rest is virtue siganling.
Dickweed Wang 10 hours ago (Edited)PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!
Properly fitted n95's do protect against virus and the science proves it.
This is an excerpt from the "Stanford Study" from November 2020 (that's been making the rounds in the alternative media and conservative media space recently) about the uselessness of masks in preventing "the virus":
A meta -analysis among health care workers found that compared to no masks, surgical mask and N95 respirators were not effective against transmission of viral infections or influenza-like illness based on six RCTs [28] . Using separate analysis of 23 observational studies, this meta -analysis found no protective effect of medical mask or N95 respirators against SARS virus [28] . A recent systematic review of 39 studies including 33,867 participants in community settings (self-report illness), found no difference between N95 respirators versus surgical masks and surgical mask versus no masks in the risk for developing influenza or influenza-like illness, suggesting their ineffectiveness of blocking viral transmissions in community settings [29] .
It's predictable that the usual suspects have come out of the woodwork to "fact check" and disparage the entire paper (do an internet search for 'Stanford Mask Paper' and you'll see what I'm talking about). Their main criticism is 'that wasn't published by Stanford', while they totally ignore the claims made in the paper. When you look at the people and organizations doing the fact checking it really shows that the entire mask issue is a political/control ploy. Here's the link to the entire paper if anyone is interested:
Mar 17, 2021 | blog.nomorefakenews.com
Anthony Fauci steps off a small boat floating in a river at the bottom of a great cavern. A lamp cuts into the darkness and illuminates a small table and two chairs. Fauci walks to the table and sits down. He is joined by his old mentor, whose name is unknown.
It’s been a long time, Anthony. Remember me?
Of course. But why am I here?
You need a refresher, Anthony. You’ve been wobbling badly. Apparently you’ve forgotten our first lesson.
I was in medical school then. That’s when we promised you significant rewards if you performed well for us. That day, I told you: you need to lie with CONSISTENCY.
Yes, sir. And I’ve obeyed your order.
No you haven’t. You’ve cooked a goose and a cake in the same pan. You’ve said it was raining and not raining. You’ve worn only a jock strap and spread sunscreen on your body in the Arctic, and you’ve bundled up at the Equator. You’re a mess.
I didn’t mean to be a mess.
I’m not interested in excuses. I’m going to straighten you out. I want you to pay close attention. Otherwise, you go in the Lake of Fire.
I’m VERY sorry, sir…
You said masks were useless. Later you said people should wear two. You admitted the vaccine was experimental, implying the people were guinea pigs. Then you said the vaccine was absolutely safe and effective. You said asymptomatic people never drive an epidemic by transmitting a virus. Then you said millions of asymptomatic people who merely tested positive were a major source of transmission. You said running the PCR at 35 cycles or higher yielded meaningless results. But labs all over the world are running the test at 40 cycles. You’ve turned into a buffoon. A clown.
I’ve made a few mistakes. I’ll correct them.
It’s too late. The cat is out of the bag.
Then what can I do?
Ignore your past contradictions. As if they never happened. You’re a matinee idol to millions of soccer moms. They’re bubble brains. They can’t think their way out of a wet paper bag. Climb back on the straight and narrow. Claim the test is very accurate, the case and death numbers are alarming, more lockdowns will be necessary, new mutations of the virus are here, and people must take vaccine. And THAT’S ALL. Don’t try to EXPLAIN things. That’s when you screw the pooch. You’re not a medical genius, Anthony. You’re our agent. Just do your job.
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May 01, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by John Tamny via TheMarket.ch,
Let's travel back in time to March of 2020. It was then that predictions of mass death related to the new coronavirus started to gain currency. One study, conducted by Imperial College's Neil Ferguson, indicated that U.S. deaths alone would exceed 2 million.
The above number is often used as justification for the initial lockdowns. "We knew so little" is the excuse, and with so many deaths expected, can anyone blame local, state and national politicians for panicking? The answer is a resounding yes.
To see why, imagine if Ferguson had predicted 30 million American deaths, and hundreds of millions more around the world. Imagine the global fear, which is precisely the point. The more threatening a virus is presumed to be, the more superfluous government force is. Really, who needs to be told to be careful if a failure to be could reasonably result in death?
Death predictions aside, the other justification bruited in March of 2020 was that brief lockdowns would flatten the hospitalization curve. In this case, the taking of freedom allegedly made sense as a way of protecting hospitals from a massive inflow of sick patients that they wouldn't have been able to handle, and that would have resulted in a public health catastrophe. Such a view similarly vandalizes reason. Think about it.
Really, who needs to be forced to avoid behavior that might result in hospitalization? Better yet, who needs to be forced to avoid behavior that might result in hospitalization at a time when doctors and hospitals would be so short staffed as to not be able to take care of admitted patients?
Translated for those who need it, the dire predictions made over a year ago about the corona-horrors that awaited us don't justify the lockdowns; rather they should remind the mildly sentient among us of how cruel and pointless they were. The common sense that we're to varying degrees born with, along with our genetic predisposition to survive, dictates that a fear of hospitalization or death would have caused us to take virus-avoidance precautions that would have well exceeded any rules foisted on us by politicians. Goodness, masks and hand sanitizers were selling out in Germany at a time when politicians were still downplaying the virus.
Vital Signals Get LostTo which some will reply with something along the lines of "Not everyone has common sense. In truth, there are lots of dumb, low-information types out there who would have disregarded all the warnings. Lockdowns weren't necessary for the wise among us; rather they were essential precisely because there are so many who aren't wise." Actually, such a response is the best argument of all against lockdowns.
Indeed, it cannot be stressed enough that "low information" types are the most crucial people of all during periods of uncertainty. Precisely because they'll be unaware of, misunderstand, or reject the warnings of the experts, their actions will produce essential information that the rule-followers never could. In not doing what the allegedly wise among us will, low information citizens will, by their contrarian actions, teach us what behavior is most associated with avoidance of sickness and death, and more important, what behavior is associated with it.
One-size-fits-all decrees from politicians don't enhance health outcomes as much as they blind us to the actions (or lack thereof) that would protect us the most, or not. Freedom on its own is a virtue, plus it produces crucial information.
But wait, some will say, "how elitist to let some people act as Guinea Pigs for the rest of us." Such a statement is naïve. Heroin and cocaine are illegal, but people still use both. Thank goodness they do. How could we know what threatens us, and what doesn't, without the rebellious?
Economic Growth Is the Best MedicineStill, there's the question of "elitism," or comment about it. The view here is that the lockdowns were the cruelest form of elitism, by far. The implied statement about the lockdowns was that those who had the temerity to have jobs that were destinations would have to lose them. The lockdowns destroyed tens of millions of destination jobs, destroyed or severely impaired millions of businesses, not to mention the hundreds of millions around the world who were rushed into starvation, poverty or both as a consequence of nail-biting politicians in rich countries that chose to take a break from reality. Talk about elitist actions, plus the very idea of wrecking the economy as a virus-mitigation strategy will go down in history as one of the most abjectly stupid policy responses the world has ever endured.
That's the case because economic growth is easily the biggest enemy death and disease have ever known, while poverty is easily the biggest killer. Economic growth produces the resources necessary so that doctors and scientists can come up with answers to what needlessly sickens us or shortens our lives altogether.
If anyone doubts the above truth, it's useful to travel back in time to the 19th century. A broken femur then brought with it a 1 out of 3 chance of death, while those lucky enough to survive the break had only one option: amputation. A child born in the 19th century had as good a chance of dying as living. A broken hip was a death sentence, cancer most certainly was, but most didn't die of cancer because tuberculosis and pneumonia got them first.
So what happened? Why don't we get sick or die as easily as we used to? The answer is economic growth. Business titans like Johns Hopkins and John D. Rockefeller created enormous wealth, only to direct a lot of it toward medical science. What used to kill us became yesterday's news.
Even though freedom is its own wondrous virtue, even though freedom produces essential information that protects us, and even though free people produce the resources without which diseases kill with sickening rapidity, panicky politicians erased it in 2020 on the supposition that personal and economic desperation were the best solution for a spreading coronavirus. Historians will marvel at the abject stupidity of the political class in 2020.
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takeaction 16 hours ago (Edited)
mijev 15 hours ago remove linkNo politician panicked...
Everything going as planned...NOW.
First we have Trump accidentally beating Hillary(The cheating machine goofed). This was the Dems ultimate f&^k up. He was NEVER supposed to win. Then the plan was taken off the shelf. We must destroy Trump...economy is booming, and he will win re-election if we don't do something fast. So then came the cheating plan. Create a pandemic (Make the next wave of normal flu into a huge boogie man)...this will force mail in ballots, which we can stuff and fake....and then we can clean up and Joe is in. While we are at it...let's crush the economy...hand out money like crazy and raise taxes. We want more people depending on just the government and wipe out small business. While we are at it...let's see how far the people will follow...Masks....Social Distancing etc. and then try to force an untested vaccine on the pleabs. The plan is much more integrated and complex then this...but this is how I feel it is going down.
NOTE: Starting yesterday here in Portland Oregon all restaurants are no longer to have indoor dining. Gyms...no matter how big are only allowed 6 people. We are being locked down again...Our Governor is insane. Remember...We have had "Cheat by Mail" since 1998 in Oregon and it is very clear what has happened and is going on with our elections. Oh yeah...Tonight is the May Day Antifa Riots downtown. More fun.
One final note...remember when they said "We just have to flatten the curve". Well...that was a lie...as with most other claims from anybody with power.
Hypocritical lying pieces of s^%t. All of them. And what is really sad is the majority of folks following orders. Sorry for the long rant. Just super pissed.
LetThemEatRand 15 hours agoImagine that you'd spent a year in the wilderness with no access to tv or the internet and you get told that there's been a pandemic. So you ask what happened in the most densely populated country in the world, Singapore, which is basically a massive cruise ship. "Oh, they had 35 deaths."
sleeping on a volcano 14 hours agoI would rethink the part about Trump not being part of the plan. Remember it is Trump himself who wants the vaccine called the Trumpcine. It is kind of bizarre how so many people believe the entire virus thing is part of a NWO plan but still think Trump was riding a white horse to save us. He was one of the four horsemen, maybe.
NoDebt 16 hours ago (Edited) remove linkTrump is not only a vaccine pimp. His cabinet was the swamp personified. He hired bill barr (check out his history with ruby ridge and waco), he hired chris wray (check out his investments in russia via king & spaulding). Trump ABANDONED the people HE INVITED to the capitol. Trump, the lifelong democrat, his progeny are also dems, is either complicit or even dumber than the MSM claims he is. I think it's pretty obvious.
adr 15 hours ago remove linkThe view here is that the lockdowns were the cruelest form of elitism, by far.
What do you mean WERE? They are still happening and being rapidly reintroduced in many areas they had previously been lifted.
And I'm going to let you in on a little secret: They'll happen again. Over and over as political expediency dictates. They will NEVER end. And nobody in the elites will EVER admit they are a mistake because they aren't. They are a PLAN.
GoodyGumdrops 15 hours agoFor the first time in history, nobody anywhere in the world died of the Flu.
The United States officially recognized 1713 cases of the flu from September 1st 2020 to April 30th 2021.
Did you know that every single Covid PCR test can't tell the difference between Covid and Influenza A, B, H1N1 and all other variants?
Go look up the technical documents. It is written on the first page under the bold type, FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY, NOT TO BE USED AS A DIAGNOSTIC TEST.
Fauxchi has never answered the question, can the PCR test be used to diagnose an infection?
I know people who agreed with the lockdowns and the mask mandates. I now know their true character Their livelihood wasn't affected by these draconian rules, so they had no problem turning a blind eye to those who were being affected.
When the lockdowns started, that's when I knew this wasn't about a cold/flu virus. It made absolutely no sense to shut down businesses worldwide and to force people to lose their income. The consequences of these lockdowns in the near future will be incalculable.
Apr 30, 2021 | www.breitbart.com
28 Apr 2021
During a Wednesday appearance on NBC's "Today," White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed the new mask guidelines that allow vaccinated people to go outside without masks.
Host Savannah Guthrie asked Fauci when kids are going to be able to play without masks.
Apr 30, 2021 | www.breitbart.com
Mea culpa: I spent a lot of time on these here digital pages defending Dr. Anthony Fauci. Brother, was I wrong. Fauci is a stone-cold liar. And if he's not a stone-cold liar, his only defense is that he is a fraud. Either way, shame on him and me.
For months Fauci has been everywhere, all over TV, urging Americans to lock themselves down, to abandon their jobs, their sick and dying family members, the small businesses they spent their lives getting off the ground; he urged us to drive our economy into the dirt, pull children who desperately need structure out of school, forgo once-in-a-lifetime graduations and graduation parties, cancel weddings and vacations
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Fauci's message was clear, militant, terrifying, and relentless: If you don't do these things, if you don't sacrifice these things, if you don't give up your liberty and prosperity, you are no better than a serial killer. The coronavirus is a unique and deadly killer, a particularly infectious and fatal disease unlike anything we've seen in more than a century.
And because Fauci became America's trusted scientific (and moral) authority, because he assured us he spoke only as a scientist and infectious disease expert, because he assured us he would always tell us like it is, and do so at any cost because public health was his only priority, look at what happened
A woman was arrested for reopening the business that fed her family. Christians were persecuted for attending church in the safety of automobiles. Teens were held up to national ridicule for behaving like teens in Florida and the Ozarks. Countless Americans suffered untold anguish after hospital visits were forbidden and funerals canceled. Everyday Americans were relentlessly demonized for daring to speak out or even question the Holy Writ of Fauci
And God help those who came out to protest the lockdowns, because bitter, power-hungry tyrants such as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) and the hate-filled media that empower her, waved the Holy Writ of Fauci to justify smearing these Americans as racists and punishing them with lockdown extensions.
Heh, heh, heh Take that, Deplorables!
All this was allowed, all the inhumanity, all the flagrant violations of our Constitutional rights, all these Kafka-esque rules that protected Big Businesses like Walmart and further empowered massive corporations like Amazon, while small business withered and died. Democrat New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was finally allowed to openly practice his antisemitism All this was excused and even made virtuous by the Holy Writ of Fauci and the Cult of Personality he allowed to build up around his heroic fidelity to facts, science, and public health.
Well, we now know Fauci is either a fraud or liar.
We know this because for ten whole days Fauci said nothing as the Perfect Infection Storm hit America, as massive violations of social distancing and lockdowns took place all across the country (including the Ground Zero of New York City). There it was, everywhere Fauci's nightmare scenario come to vivid life: crowd after massive gathering after mob after parade Protesters and rioters shouting, shoulder to shoulder -- and Fauci said nothing And when he did finally speak out, it was to squeak on some local radio station.
Worse still, Fauci said nothing as the very same sanctimonious health care workers and "experts" who used the emotional blackmail of "We're at work for you, stay home for us" came out in full-throated support of leaving home and gathering in massive crowds.
So, which is it
Is Fauci a fraud or liar?
Was all his talk about concern for public health, his duty to tell it like it is no matter the personal or political fallout, just a big lie? Is he a fraud who still believes these mass gatherings are a nightmare scenario, but is unwilling to use his massive public platform to say so out loud because shaming protesters who hold the "approved" views among America's hideous elite would risk Fauci feeling the disapproval of those elites?
Or is he a liar, does he in fact know the coronavirus is nowhere near as deadly as he played it up to be? Is he a liar who misled us into agreeing to destroy our amazing economy in order to undermine the Bad Orange Man's re-election?
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Either way, Fauci's a sociopath. Either he's a sociopath who furthered his political ambitions and abused his authority and public trust to talk hundreds of millions of Americans into shattering their own lives and mental wellbeing when there was no real danger, or he's a sociopath who chooses the good opinion of elites over raising the alarm to save the lives of thousands and thousands of protesters, and the countless millions those thousands will infect.
What kind of man raises the alarm about the fact the black population is disproportionately killed by this virus and then remains silent as the black population gathers en masse, and remains silent as his fellow healthcare workers openly encourage the mass gathering of black America?
I'm almost as disgusted with myself for trusting Fauci as I am with him.
Never again will I trust the "experts."
Fuck them.
Fuck them all forever.
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Jul 03, 2020 | wellnessforumhealth.com
Fortunately, the public no longer has to listen to daily briefings by Fauci and Birx, two of the most incompetent doctors in the U.S. In my opinion, both should lose their jobs and Fauci should lose his medical license (Birx no longer holds a medical license) because they used bad information provided by unreliable sources to make policy recommendations that resulted in death and devastation throughout the U.S. Many people might refer to this as malpractice.
Suicides and overdose deaths increased exponentially as people became despondent over factors like isolation, economic ruin, and food insecurity. Child and spousal abuse increased. Murders increased. Nursing home patients died as a result of neglect when family members no longer could visit and supervise their care. People died who could not access medical treatment while hospitals and other facilities were closed and all resources were set aside for the COVID patients who never showed up.
The debacle starts with a model developed by Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College of London which predicted that tens of millions of people would die due to COVID-19 infection. COVID-19 was compared to the Spanish flu, which killed approximately 50 million people in 1918. Ferguson's report stated that the only way to prevent massive deaths would be for the entire population of the planet to be locked down and for people to remain separated for 18 months until a vaccine was available. Total isolation would be needed because the isolation of just vulnerable populations like the elderly would only reduce deaths by half. [1]
Ferguson's report was deemed so convincing that the World Health Organization, which had previously stated that lockdowns were not effective for containing infectious diseases, recommended that the world follow China's example, which included mandatory lockdowns and contact tracing. [2]
It seems that nobody, including Fauci and Birx, checked out Ferguson's background. In 2002, he predicted that 150,000 people would die from Mad Cow Disease, but only 2704 died. His estimation was 55 times higher than the real number. A few years later he predicted that 65,000 people would die of swine flu, and only 457 people died – his estimation was 142 times higher than the real number. [3] And his prediction of deaths from bird flu was 200,000,000 and only 455 people died – a prediction 439,560 times higher than the real number. [4]
As of June 8, total deaths worldwide had reached 410,000 – not tens of millions – and even this number is questionable. This time Ferguson was off not by thousands or hundreds of thousands – but by millions. And the average age at death was 80, with almost all who died having multiple co-morbidities. This hardly justifies destroying the lives of hundreds of millions of people by locking them down.
It seems that people who claim to be as smart as Fauci and Birx might think to check out the track record of the person who recommended such extreme measures prior to taking action. I'm regularly told by my critics that I'm not nearly as smart as Fauci, yet we do this type of checking in our office as standard procedure. One might also assume that the World Health Organization would check out Ferguson's track record prior to making decisions that would affect over seven billion people. Apparently not. Yet there are those who still listen to and revere these doctors and the WHO. Amazing!
A group of researchers at Stanford Prevention Research Center published an article on June 11 expressing significant concerns about both the models, some of which were not accompanied by any disclosure concerning methodology, and the actions taken in response. What resulted was a misallocation of hospital resources, and unjustified delayed healthcare for non-COVID patients. The researchers also point out the negative impact on mental health, increased unemployment, the loss of health insurance, prospect of starvation, and the potential spread of other infectious diseases as just some of the negative consequences of the grossly incompetent actions of Fauci and Birx and their brainwashed followers.
Here are some examples of the disparities cited between predictions and reality in individual states:
New York
Prediction: up to 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 intensive care units with ventilators would be required
Reality: 18,569 hospitalizations and 4908 intensive care units required. (Predictions almost 87% off on both)
Tennessee
Prediction: 15,500 hospital beds, 2500 ICU beds and 2000 ventilators would be needed to keep people alive
Reality: 1232 hospital beds, 245 ICU beds and 208 ventilators required 92% and 90% off respectively), projected loss of $3.5 billion in revenue by Tennessee hospitals by June 30 as a result of cessation of non-COVID patient care.
California
Projection: up to 1.2 million beds would be required.
Reality: COVID patients occupy less than 5% of California hospital beds, and less than 20% of ICU beds
Georgia
Massachusetts General Hospital projected over 23,000 deaths in Georgia within a month of opening the economy and the actual number was only 896 (almost 96% off).
The Stanford Group listed reasons for this debacle which included lack of expertise; groupthink and the bandwagon effect; and selective reporting (otherwise known as lying). In other words, top health officials in the U.S. and in many states were incompetent and willing to blindly follow what others said without question, and then lied about it.
The researchers also note that this is not a new problem and expressed surprise that forecasting is still used given its "dubious track record." One of the reasons, they say, is that there are no serious consequences for people who make these bad decisions. To this point, as of the writing of this article, Fauci and Birx have not been criminally indicted for the death and destruction they have caused, and have not even been fired from their jobs.
The Stanford group goes on to write that even if a calamity the size of which the models predicted were to occur, policies like lockdowns have little impact on the death rate and generally do more harm than good, and add that exaggerated forecasts " may cause more harm than the virus itself." [5]
It's somewhat amazing that in view of his colossal failure, Fauci now has the nerve to say that the problem is not him or his incompetence. It's Americans. Instead of an apology, he takes us all to task in a recent podcast, stating that " for reasons that are inconceivable and not understandable – they just don't believe science and they don't believe authority." He goes on to say that "science is truth," which is true, but Fauci has not used science – he used information provided by a known charlatan who had been grossly mistaken before. Not able to help himself, he likens those of us who listened to him lie every day on national television and determined that he was a fraud to "anti-vaxxers" who do not want to be vaccinated even though, according to Fauci, the science clearly supports their safety. He never backs down, never admits he's wrong. [6]
We must do everything possible to make sure that Fauci, Birx, state health directors, and elected officials will at some point stand trial for their crimes against humanity. And we must take back our freedoms and liberties and our government so that this can never happen again.
[1] Ferguson NM, Laydon D, Nedjati-Gilani G et al. "Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand." Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team March 16 2020
[2] World Health Organization, Non-Pharmaceutical Public Health Measures for Mitigating the Risk and Impact of Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza , October 2019; World Health Organization, "Considerations for Quarantine of Individuals in the Context of Containment for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)," March 19, 2020.
[3] National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit. "Disease in the UK (By Calendar Year." University of Edinburgh May 4 2020
[4] Sturcke J. "Bird flu pandemic could kill 150,000." The Guardian Sept 30 2005
[5] Ioannidis JPA, Cripps S, Tanner MA. "Forecasting for COVID-19 has failed." International Institute of Forecasters June 11 2020 https://forecasters.org/blog/2020/06/14/forecasting-for-covid-19-has-failed/
[6] Caplan J. "Anthony Fauci: Americans 'Don't Believe Science and They Don't Believe Authority" Breitbart News Jun 18 2020
Apr 30, 2021 | www.wmal.com
The following is authored by a non-clinician.
I never liked Dr. Fauci, his diminutive stature, gravelly voice or Napoleonic, tough guy attitude. He seemed to me the consummate phony. His actions have all but confirmed this to be true.
When the pandemic first began in earnest, Fauci was packaged up and sold to the president and worried American populace as "the foremost epidemiologist in America" and innumerable other permutations of this outright falsehood.
Based on the past year, Anthony Fauci is nothing of the sort; he's not even close to the "foremost," "most prominent" or "most respected" epidemiologist this country has.
Those titles would go to Dr. Ian Lipkin at Columbia University, who traveled to China to investigate the Wuhan virus in February of 2019 when Dr. Fauci was still calling cable media outlets scheduling his countless appearances.
Or, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, whose been questioning and shattering Fauci's flip-flopping and dangerous advice to Americans from the beginning. Dr. Bhattacharya is also a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration which is a foundational document laying out precisely how the cure was worse than the virus and why we have been taken to the cleaners in listening to those only wanting to keep us inside, masked up and economically decimated.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff is another infectious disease expert and professor of Medicine at Harvard University, who has consistently spoken out against Fauci's advice and prognostications.
Dr. Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health is yet one more of the brave warriors fighting the tidal wave of lies, disinformation and propaganda inflicted on worried Americans in crisis. He went after Fauci like a centurion on the hydroxychloroquine swindle Fauci peddled for the last year.
These four examples of actual doctors who could've likely helped the world in this emergency have been real researchers and actual, live hands-on doctors with stethoscopes working with actual COVID patients.
When was the last time Fauci saw a patient and provided treatment, if ever? Even today, I have yet to see evidence he ever set foot in a COVID ward and showed any interest whatsoever in what Americans were going through. You can be sure there'd have been a media circus if he did.
This person, so instrumental in terrifying 330 million Americans for the last year is clearly some kind of a charlatan, empty vessel clearly reminding us of someone else with new-found, unlimited power.
We were told Fauci had been a fairytale hero of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. We were told he was a savior of the SARS virus. And we were told repeatedly by a complicit press that he was just the man to beat the daylights out of COVID-19. Again, here he was nothing of the sort.
The real truth about Dr. Fauci is that he did very little to solve the AIDS or SARS problems and actually made them worse. His real goal, it seems, was conducting vast media campaigns touting his own imaginary triumphs to be used later for more false hopes in a medical crisis.
Just look at the last year of his consistently wrong pronouncements, demands and admittedly outright lies to the American people such as flip-flopping on masks, lockdowns, treatments, and so on.
Likewise, his continual stabs to discredit the idea of herd immunity was bizarre, and his advice has led to tens of millions of American students being sequestered for a year or more with his inanity.
Whether intentional or not, Fauci has been a willing and intentional pawn of the Marxist Left in this country. Regardless of his intent, he's been a failure in every respect.
And of course, he still had false adulation ladled on him by our mainstream media like a well-basted Thanksgiving turkey throughout all his decades of quiet fiascoes.
Yet, in spite of it all, Fauci is the highest paid government employee in the country -- more than the president -- and his lightning-quick conversion to "chief medical advisor to President Biden," shows not only his utter lack of any loyalty but that his previous decrees were highly suspect.
As Fauci's reign of blundering and misinformation comes to an end, there's little doubt that all Americans have a tough lesson to be learned from all this chicanery.
Don't automatically trust or assign any credibility whatsoever to a doctor or politician. Is this case, Fauci was both.
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Apr 30, 2021 | www.ronpaulinstitute.org
Flip-flopping Fauci's ridiculous idea of masking children proves he's completely lost touch with reality written by robert bridge tuesday march 30, 2021
At a time when the US urgently needs a trusted voice of authority in the fight against Covid, it has instead received a smooth-talking snake oil salesman hawking politically tainted advice to an unsuspecting public.
Despite my best efforts to resist such sentiments, there is something bizarrely likeable about Anthony Stephen Fauci, 80, who serves as the chief medical adviser to the US president. And judging by his amazing staying power, millions of other Americans seem to feel the very same way.
Fauci comes off as the charismatic uncle who's always the center of attention at the dinner table with stories so fantastic that you want to believe they are true. It's that sort of mesmeric charm that could explain why this man has been so successful at sweet-talking America into medically-induced bondage for the next year, or decade, or maybe even forever? Who knows? Certainly not Anthony Fauci, that's for sure – the man who has turned flip-floppiness into a veritable field of science.
For example, who else but Washington's famous Covid guru could have convinced Americans, already at their wits' end over lockdowns, social distancing and an infernal mask regime, to roll up their sleeves for a vaccine, while also telling them it will do nothing to free them from lockdowns, social distancing and the infernal mask regime? To be perfectly blunt, selling that 'used car' to the public would require some superhuman bulls**tting abilities, with which Fauci seems to be inordinately endowed.
"I would recommend to people to not to abandon all public health measures just because you've been vaccinated," Fauci told CNN with a perfectly straight face. "Because even though for the general population it might be 90 to 95 percent effective, you don't necessarily know for you how effective it is."
America just shrugged its weary shoulders, unquestioningly accepting the gibberish as gospel because it came out of the mouth of Anthony Fauci. There was one person, however, who was not fooled by the silver-tongued fox, and that was US Senator Rand Paul. In an epic exchange during a Senate hearing on Covid, Paul, himself a medical doctor, told Fauci that continuing to wear a mask after infection or vaccination was mere "theater."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ff-PJp1f5v4
"You've been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks for show," Paul told Fauci in a dressing down long in the making. "You are defying everything we know about immunity by telling people [who have been vaccinated or previously infected] to wear a mask Do you want to get rid of 'vaccine hesitancy'? Tell them to quit wearing the mask after they get the vaccine! Give them a reward instead of telling them that the nanny state is going to be there for three more years and you got to wear a mask forever."
Fauci disagreed, saying, "masks are not theater, masks are protective."
Whatever the case may be, Paul's challenge to the formerly unassailable Fauci seems to have given others courage to speak out, because days later, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who dared mention the elephant in the hospital room – herd immunity.
Makary took exception with Fauci and his argument that the country needs to vaccinate 70 to 85% of the population to reach herd immunity from Covid-19. Why? Because Fauci, a strong advocate for vaccines, "inexplicably ignores natural immunity" which occurs when people are exposed to the disease.
"Undercounting or removing the many Americans with natural immunity from any tally of herd immunity is a scientific error of omission," Makary wrote. "When people wonder why President Biden talks about limiting Fourth of July gatherings, it's because [Anthony Fauci] has dismissed the contribution of natural immunity, artificially extending the timeline."
After a year of examining "millions of Covid-19 cases in the US, it's clear that reinfections are rare," he continued. "Natural immunity is real and shouldn't be ignored."
Amid this tepid yet growing pushback from the US political and medical communities, you would think that Anthony Fauci would practice some moderation, perhaps even ease up on his draconian proposals. In fact, just the opposite is happening. Over the weekend, in an interview on CBS' 'Face the Nation', Fauci said that children, who have shown a remarkable natural ability to fight off Covid, should wear masks around each other – even outdoors in the fresh air.
"When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks when they're interacting with groups or multiple households," he said.
When asked whether children can return to summer camp and playgrounds this summer, Fauci refused to give a definite answer, even though Covid infections are dropping across the country, saying only that it was "conceivable that will be possible."
Fauci's comments come even as it is being demonstrated how ineffective masks are in preventing the spread of the disease. On March 10, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the termination of coronavirus restrictions in his state, much to the dismay of health officials. Two weeks later, however, the average number of daily new cases of the coronavirus in Texas decreased by 42.5%.
Such optimistic news, far from providing hope that a return to some semblance of normalcy is on the horizon, only gives people like Fauci more incentive to push on with measures that fly in the face of science and common sense. In short, they are tyrannical measures being pushed by would-be tyrants drunk on power.
Depriving children of the best years of their life against an almost nonexistent threat cannot be justified as anything other than an abuse of power – 'child abuse', to be more precise.
Anthony Fauci should be exposed as the charlatan he is. America needs someone who truly respects science, as opposed to merely someone who hides behind it for ulterior motives that have nothing in common with public health.
Reprinted with permission from RT .
Mar 14, 2021 | www.yahoo.com
The United States' top pandemic advisor said Sunday that authorities were considering cutting social distancing rules to three feet (one meter), a move that would change a key tenet of the global fight against Covid-19.
Anthony Fauci, a world-respected figure during the coronavirus crisis, said experts at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were examining a Massachusetts study that found "no substantial difference" in Covid cases in schools observing six-foot and three-foot rules.
Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" show whether that meant that a three-foot separation was sufficient, Fauci replied, "It does, indeed."
While cautioning that the CDC was still poring over the new data and conducting tests of its own, he said its findings would come "soon."
The six-foot social distancing rule has been a widely-adopted global measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, along with mask-wearing and hand-washing.
School officials across the world are under enormous pressure to fully reopen as soon as safely possible, but many say the six-foot requirement makes it extremely difficult without adding portable classrooms or shortening the school day.
Many teachers unions have also insisted on six-foot distancing.
Policies on reopening schools and businesses have varied sharply across the US and around the globe as government try to balance quelling infections with a return to normal life.
The study led by the Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Massachusetts, surveying 251 school districts, found "no substantial difference in the number of cases of Covid-19 among either students or staff" between those observing the three- and six-foot rules when all wore masks.
The findings, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, add to a growing body of evidence that Covid-19 transmission rates are low in schools.
...A three-foot rule would have an enormous impact on prospects for fully reopening schools, offices and even public areas such as sports venues.
Apr 28, 2021 | www.rt.com
White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and communications director Kate Bedingfield have made a point of belittling and attacking podcaster Joe Rogan for daring to have a mixed opinion on Covid-19 vaccines.As Rogan has skyrocketed over the years to arguably the most influential and successful podcaster around, he has also turned into an intensely controversial figure, mainly for liberals who fear his willingness to give a platform to right-wing figures like Alex Jones and his less-than-PC takes on everything from transgender athletes to Covid-19 vaccines.
The latter is what landed the former 'Fear Factor' host in the hot seat this week as a clip from a recent episode of 'The Joe Rogan Experience' made its way across social media and critics painted Rogan as an anti-vaxxer spreading disinformation.
The controversy stems from Rogan saying, during a conversation with fellow comic Dave Smith, he would not recommend that a healthy person in their early 20s get a Covid-19 vaccine as they are not as vulnerable to the virus as older generations (who account for the majority of Covid deaths in the US) and people with preexisting medical conditions.
The Spotify podcaster also said pushing for kids to be vaccinated is "crazy," citing his own childrens' history with getting Covid-19, as both recovered relatively quickly.
Critics painted Rogan's comments as an angry anti-vaxx rant, urging his millions of listeners to avoid getting inoculated against Covid-19. However, they ignored the fact that Rogan says in the clip (and has said in the past) that getting vaccinated seems mostly safe and is indeed "important" for certain people.
Criticism of Rogan reached a bizarre new level on Wednesday when the White House appeared to launch a coordinated effort to disparage and belittle the podcaster, completely dismissing his opinions.
In multiple interviews, Fauci blasted Rogan for ignoring "societal responsibilities," arguing even young and healthy people should get vaccinated as asymptomatic individuals can still spread the virus.
The infectious disease expert also believes "kids of all ages" will be vaccinated by the end of the year – there are no vaccines on the market in the US approved for anyone under 16 – and everyone should "absolutely" get inoculated.
ALSO ON RT.COM Rose McGowan tells Democrats they are in a cult, and their whining, defensive responses prove her rightBedingfield also dismissed Rogan's opinion in a CNN interview where she said Rogan not being a doctor basically strips his words of any merit.
"I guess my first question would be, did Joe Rogan become a medical doctor while we weren't looking?" she asked. "I'm not sure that taking scientific and medical advice from Joe Rogan is perhaps the most productive way for people to get their information."
Initial social media criticism of Rogan is one thing, but the White House pitting themselves against a private citizen having an open and frank discussion on a podcast is concerning. It's alarming enough that White House officials busy with vaccination efforts and a still-fresh administration would take the time to debate Rogan on the subject, but the responses to his discussion also show that administration officials are fearful of open debate and conversations about the vaccines. If one even strays from the belief that vaccines are 100% safe and every single person, regardless of age or health, should take them, they are attacked, at least if you have the following that Rogan has.
Rogan's discussions on Covid-19 vaccines do not boil down to a debate on whether getting inoculated against the virus is good for everyone or not. The recent viral clip even opens with the podcaster saying vaccines are safe, and he acknowledges that what he says about children and young, healthy people is not true across the board. He merely expresses concerns as a father and gives a personal opinion that in no way discourages everyone from getting a vaccine.
Looking at Fauci and Bedingfield's responses, it appears they aren't even debating what Rogan actually said.
Fauci, who has been a controversial figure himself and accused of flip-flopping multiple positions during the pandemic, argues that it is the potential transmission of the virus from one person to another that is the reason everyone should be vaccinated. Rogan never talks about the risk of transmission though. He simply makes the argument that a healthy individual who is younger may not need a vaccination to protect themselves from the deadlier aspects of Covid.
Bedingfield's argument is even lamer as she says without a "Dr." title, Rogan simply can't have concerns about vaccinations for children and others. She argues no one should take "medical advice" from a podcaster, setting Rogan up as a man who presented himself as some kind of expert on vaccines, dishing out advice to his listeners, who apparently aren't intelligent enough to make up their own minds, according to these critics.
Fauci and Bedingfield and any other White House official who decides to paint Rogan as the face of anti-vaxxers should be ashamed of themselves. Their personal attacks are an opportunistic way to take a shot at someone who has somehow become a near-pariah on the left, and to discourage open and frank discussions about vaccines. Their swift dismissal of a comedian who is not quite waving the flag for every single person to be vaccinated shows that they don't want discussion from citizens they want compliance and for people to keep nodding their heads at their ever-changing talking points and guidelines.
It really doesn't matter who is right in the White House versus Joe Rogan debate because there shouldn't be a White House versus Joe Rogan debate. Ironically, Fauci and Bedingfield have probably made more people aware of Rogan's comments by addressing them. They and other officials have taken questionable criticism of a fairly harmless conversation and used it to create a false narrative about one man to strike fear into anyone who would dare consider what he or anyone else would say above what they do.
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Apr 27, 2021 | sputnikvaccine.com
Covid-19 Vaccine Thrombosis:
THE GAMALEYA CENTER STATEMENT
- Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccination - NEJM
- Do preservative and stray proteins cause rare COVID-19 vaccine side effect? - Science Mag
- The Gamaleya Center statement - Sputnik V
A comprehensive analysis of adverse events during clinical trials and over the course of mass vaccinations with the Sputnik V vaccine showed that there were no cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST).
All vaccines based on adenoviral vector platform are different and not directly comparable. In particular, AstraZeneca’s ChAdOx1-S vaccine uses chimpanzee adenovirus to deliver the antigen, consisting of S-protein combined with leader sequence of tissue-type plasminogen activator. The vaccine from Johnson&Johnson uses human adenovirus serotype Ad26 and full-length S-protein stabilized by mutations. In addition, it is produced using the PER.C6 cell line (embryonic retinal cells), which is not widely represented among other registered products.
Sputnik V is a two-component vaccine in which adenovirus serotypes 5 and 26 are used. A fragment of tissue-type plasminogen activator is not used, and the antigen insert is an unmodified full-length S-protein. Sputnik V vaccine is produced with the HEK293 cell line, which has long been safely used for the production of biotechnological products.
Thus, all of the above vaccines based on adenoviral vectors have significant differences in their structure and production technology. Therefore, there is no reason and no justification to extrapolate safety data from one vaccine to safety data from other vaccines.
The quality and safety of Sputnik V are, among other things, assured by the fact that, unlike other vaccines, it uses a 4-stage purification technology that includes two stages of chromatography and two stages of tangential flow filtration. This purification technology helps to obtain a highly purified product that goes through mandatory control including the analysis of free DNA presence. In addition, the volume of nucleic acid is several dozen times lower in adenoviral vectors compared to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines (1 to 2 mcg vs 50 to 100 mcg, correspondingly).
A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on April 9, 2021, discusses that the cause of the thrombosis in some patients vaccinated with other vaccines could be insufficient purification that leads to the emergence of significant quantities of free DNA. Insufficient purification or use of very high doses of target DNA/RNA can result in adverse interaction of a patient’s antibodies that activate thrombocytes with elements of the vaccine itself and/or free DNA/RNA, which can form a complex with the PF4 factor.
Link to the study:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840?query=featured_home
The Gamaleya Center is ready to share its purification technology with other vaccine producers in order to help them minimize the risk of adverse effects during vaccination.
Apr 26, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com,
For many months now, Dr. Anthony Fauci has advocated that people remain masked outdoors to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"When you are indoors, make sure you have a mask. When you're outdoors, keep the mask on," he said back in August, though he acknowledged that being outdoors was significantly safer than being indoors.
Now, Fauci is saying that he believes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide updated guidance on wearing face masks outdoors, and says it's "common sense" to reconsider the guidance.
I call it science, but I'll take it.
Fauci also concedes that the risk of contracting COVID-19 while engaged in outdoor activities is "minuscule."
"What I believe you're going to be hearing, what the country is going to be hearing soon, is updated guidelines from the CDC," Fauci said on ABC's This Week .
"The CDC is a science-based organization. They don't want to make any guidelines unless they look at the data and the data backs it up."
"But when you look around at the common sense situation, the risk is really low , especially if you're vaccinated," he added.
You think? Why did it take so long to figure this out?
You think? Why did it take so long to figure this out?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/e8PyIIe00fw
Dr. Fauci's credibility has taken some severe hits, particularly in recent weeks. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott axed the state's mask mandate and other COVID-related restrictions on businesses and people, Dr. Anthony Fauci called it "risky" and "potentially dangerous." But no surge happened .
Earlier this month Fauci struggled to explain how Texas defied his own predictions during an appearance on MSNBC, arguing at the time that there might be a "lag." Three weeks later, there's still no surge in cases in Texas.
Fauci also defended the "pause" in the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, even though you're more likely to die from general anesthesia than you are to get severe blood clots from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine .
Jim in MN 2 hours ago
BouncingCat 2 hours agoSorry, anyone pushing universal 'vaccinations' is still an enemy of humanity.
BinAnunnaki 2 hours ago100% vaccination makes as much sense as 0% vaccination, but, wait, Pfizer is pushing for a third round.
Bacon's Rebellion 1 hour ago (Edited)So is Moderna
Bacon's Rebellion 1 hour ago""But when you look around at the common sense situation, the risk is really low , especially if you're vaccinated," - Fauci
What? The vaccine DOES NOT prevent you from becoming infected, getting sick, hospitalized or dying...it "reduces the likelihood of a severe case"..and I've yet to find solid data of this reduction percentage of severe cases!...GTFO!
""Because in a certain situation, one can get vaccinated, have no clinical disease at all, but get infected and not even know it and have replication of virus in your nasopharynx and inadvertently transmit it to somebody else who might actually be unvaccinated and get ill." - Fauci
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Study Results
~44,000 Participants
1,594 "cases" in the vaccine group
1,816 "cases" in the placebo group
(12% effective at "reducing cases"...lol...junk science)ZERO DEATHS! ( 1 person died 3 days after injection; wasn't Covid or the vaccine though...no mention of what killed the person..lol..yeah, right;)
Vaccinated or not...NO...ONE...DIED!
No data was provided on the severity of the "cases". Read the document, they define a "case"; saying you don't feel good, and you test positive, qualifies as a "case".
(Link downloads a PDF | Pfizer Emergency Use Application)
https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/downloadBacon's Rebellion 1 hour ago (Edited)Kentucky, March 2021
CDC Findings
COVID-19 Outbreak
Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination ProgramNote: " Skilled Nursing Facility" = you are very near the end of your life due to illness/age.
Findings Summary: If you're not old and/or near death, Covid WAS NOT a threat to your life.
Vaccination Rates:
52.6% of the 116 employees fully vaccinated
90.4% of the 83 residents were fully vaccinated."Cases":
46 COVID-19 cases total
26 residents (18 fully vaccinated) – 69% of the resident "cases" were fully vaccinated!!!
20 employees (4 vaccinated )
48% of "cases" were in people that were "fully vaccinated"!Deaths:
2 unvaccinated residents died
1 vaccinated resident died.
So, 3 people, OUT OF 83, or 3.6%, whom were near the end of their life at the start, died of complications from a flu virus..shocking!ZERO EMPLOYEES DIED
ZERO EMPLOYEES WERE HOSPITALIZED
20 EMPLOYEES HAD THE SNIFFLES!Read it for yourself.
CDC Outbreak Findings
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7017e2.htmLoocust 1 minute agoThe New England Journal of Medicine
Large Scale Study of BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine>>Estimated vaccine efficacy for severe Covid-19 is 92%
>>WOW! Fantastic! We're all saved!Devil in the details...
596,618 in the vaccinated group
596,618 in the not vaccinated group229 people...0.00019... OUT OF 1,193,236 PEOPLE...developed a "severe case" of Covid19
55 in the Vax group
174 in the Un-Vaxed group99.9999% in Vaxed group did not experience severe Covid19
99.9970% in Un-Vaxed group did not experience severe Covid1941 people...0.00003...OUT OF 1,193,236 PEOPLE...DIED of Covid19
9 in the Vax group (9 out of 55 severe cases = 16.4% died)
32 in the Un-Vaxed group (32 out of 174 severe cases = 18.4% died).000015 of all the fully vaccinated people died
.000054 of all the un-vaccinated diedLooks like "The Science" is saying your odds of dying from Covid19 are pretty slim whether or not you are vaccinated.
The New England Journal of Medicine
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765Misesmissesme 1 hour ago remove linkHave you read the document you linked yourself? Quickly glanced over it and it doesn't say what you says it does.
The numbers you quote are from page 41:
"Among 3,410 total cases of suspected but unconfirmed COVID-19 in the overall study population, 1,594 occurred in the vaccine group vs. 1,816 in the placebo group."
These are "suspected cases of symptomatic COVID-19 that were not PCR-confirmed".
On page 4 you will find the actual result:
"Vaccine efficacy for the primary endpoint against confirmed COVID-19 occurring at least 7 days after the second dose was 95.0% with 8 COVID-19 cases in the vaccine group compared to 162 COVID-19 cases in the placebo group."
These are PCR confirmed covid-19 cases.
See table 6 for these numbers per age-group.
On page 40 the 6 (not 0, not 1) deaths during this study are looked at in more detail.
"cardiac arrest 62 days after vaccination #2 and died 3 days later"
"pre-existing atherosclerotic disease and baseline obesity and died 3 days after vaccination #1"
For placebo group: "myocardial infarction (n=1), hemorrhagic stroke (n=1) or unknown causes (n=2)".
Did you link another document then you wanted to link? Or you didn't read/understand what you linked?
Not Your Father's ZH 45 minutes ago"even though you're more likely to die from general anesthesia than you are to get severe blood clots from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine ."
Yea, but typically I'm getting general anesthesia because I'm about to have surgery that is necessary to save my life or fix something that is seriously broken or not working correctly. The experimental jab fits neither of those two criteria.
Apples and orangutan butts.
Froman 1 hour ago remove linkBut, maybe: Major Signal the COVID-19 Fearmongering is Ending
MAGAMAN 59 minutes ago remove linkFollow the money. Jabs mean $$$ for the politicians and the drug companies. The more jabs the merrier. It is always all about the benjamins. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
chunga 2 hours ago remove linkThe jabs are nothing compared to the medical bills that can be run up, in the wake of the damage.
For example, Statin drugs R cheap and the cost of pushing them on the public is a loss leader, but once someone used statin drugs for 5-8 years, they'll be on 8 or so very expensive drugs.
BinAnunnaki 2 hours agoI heard on the radio experts saying it's just fine to get Dystopia Virus shot number two up to three months later. This tells many people who got shot number one have decided they made a mistake and don't want shot number two.
BinAnunnaki 2 hours agoThey hear how sick people got after the second one. Colleague got a stinging red rash up and down his legs
End Times Prophecy 2 hours agoThey hear how sick people got after the second one. Colleague got a stinging red rash up and down his legs
orangedrinkandchips PREMIUM 2 hours ago remove linkYou can hate Trump all you like be he was right on the money with his assessment of Fraud Fauci.
homeskillet 47 minutes agoi like Trump but "cmon man"....calling Fauci out was easy.
he's political hack.
Heroic Couplet 1 hour agoTrump did nothing to remove Fauci and is a fan of vaccine - Fraud.
JRobby 2 hours agoTrump is a fool, with or without Fauci.
gmak 2 hours ago (Edited)The man displays none of the characteristics of a scientist and all of the characteristics of a politician/career bureaucrat
boyplunger7777 2 hours agoIt's not that he flip-flops. Data and information that is available can change and one needs to adjust. It's that he has admitted that he LIES TO MANIPULATE the general population because he doesn't believe that they are open to hearing the data and information nor capable of managing their own individual risks.
He believes that he knows what is good for us better than we do in our individual lives. He believes that it is OK to lie and manipulate to achieve a result that HE BELIEVES is necessary.
He is a LIAR and a MANIPULATOR when we need true LEADERS. That is why so many are responding to De Santis, BTW.
Fiscal Reality 2 hours ago (Edited) remove linkMost expensive govt employee at $430,000/year. Done more damage to the nation than anyone in recent history. Bought and paid for by big pharma. Trump was a fool to give this clown a platform.
Pigeon 2 hours agoIf you haven't mentally determined that Fauci is an IDIOT and a medical carnival barker, you're hopeless.
Mask up, vax up and stay terrified forever, sheep. COVID is ONLY 99.99% survivable. A dog bite is more dangerous.
Mrs. Fiscal is in an unnamed South American Country. They are hopelessly hypnotized by the COVID hysteria. Masks EVERYWHERE, even while riding bicycles or motorcycles or riding alone in a car.
Just like like Oregon, CA or NY.
Nona Yobiznes 1 hour agoSame quack who played up the "heterosexual risk of AIDS" as high as gay sex, IV drug use risk.
OrazioGentile 2 hours ago (Edited) remove linkFauci is a trainwreck. He has destroyed the credibility of the CDC, and no amount of media fluff pieces is going to change that.
Dumpster Elite 51 minutes ago remove linkMore from the Ministry of Disinformation! What constitutes outside and inside? If you are on the plains of Iowa, you definitely are outside...but if you are walking down a street in NYC with sidewalk cafes full of people without masks are you really outside? If you take the vaccine are you really immune to catching the Virus or is the vaccine more of a therapeutic that will lessen the symptoms if you do catch Covid? If you take said vaccine can you still pass it to others even if you are "immune"? Perhaps Dr. Tony could clarify these questions as opposed to giving advice on other topics....? At least Dr. Birx seemed to be more straight forward than this guy.
A. Lee Ess 1 hour ago"The CDC is a science-based organization. They don't want to make any guidelines unless they look at the data and the data backs it up."
Also, there were no suitcases full of ballots underneath desks at the State Farm arena, the Steele Dossier is totally truthful and fact-based, and Hunter Biden has never committed a criminal act.
Nona Yobiznes 1 hour ago (Edited) remove linkI believe that Zerohedge had a story a while back on a track coach that got fired for not requiring his kids to mask up while practicing. He should put up a billboard asking for an apology.
BitchesBetterRecognize 59 minutes agoI hope he sues. Fired for trying to protect kids from harmful masks during physical exertion. We must protect them from a virus that doesn't affect them, using a tool that doesn't work, in an environment where they are extremely unlikely to spread germs. Our world has gone nuts.
Nelbev 1 hour ago remove linkIf people in the USA just bothered backtracking the endless lies, inconsistencies, contradictions & misinformation provided by Fauci, CDC & MSM while putting the pieces together, then the Plandemic should have been over by last summer
I still can't fathom why people keep participating in the Plandemic hoax, given all the irrefutable evidence that already exist to repel it completely.
Give Me Some Truth 20 minutes ago remove linkFvck Facuci. If the vaccine is so safe, then why does big pharma refuse to sell it in any country unless governments grant full legal immunity against vaccine injury liability torts. They skipped animal trials, normal vaccine phase III testing will not be finished till 2023.
Double mask, no mask outside, who is this idiot? 300 TV interviews last year and highest paid gov employee, how much time to read the growing hundreds of pier reviewed and published scientific papers, some from NIH, which say masks, lockdowns, social distancing do not work. If they did, you would see a drop in covid deaths a week or two after imposed by states or countries and can statistically test, but even without statistics can just look at data at a state like Texans and neighbors or Sweden and see.
His rec that young kids get vaccinated is idiotic. Data shows people under 30 are basically immune from death and if asymptomatic not spreaders. Their chance of being mauled to death by a local pet dog is greater than covid, same for car accidents, same risk logic to be safe should ban driving in cars and execute all dogs and cats. If you are under 30 or have already have had covid, you are crazy to to get vaccinated.
They got their mail in ballots and took the election. Why keep this meme going? I guess as soon as data out vaccinated people dying of covid, they will have to have everyone vaccinated every 6 months for rest of life and no civil liberties as new strains mutates like the common cold or seasonal flu.
They want me to get vaccinated so I do not spread to other non-vaccinated people, well non-vaccinated people have chose not to take risk of experimental vaccination, should not force upon us, no work, no travel, mask, social distance, stay home, stores closed, more propaganda.
GoodyGumdrops 1 hour agoFauci is like J. Edgar Hoover? He has too much dirt on too many people to be fired? He certainly seems to have gotten a life-time appointment.
MAGAMAN 1 hour ago remove link"But when you look around at the common sense situation, the risk is really low , especially if you're vaccinated," he added.
Yeah, because after getting injected with an experimental Covid shot, and you now have a cocktail of toxins altering your body's cells, you'll definitely have more serious things to worry about than just getting Covid.
play_arrowlawofone 2 hours agoIt amazes me how people follow a man that is so totally corrupt.
PrivetHedge 2 hours ago remove linkREPORT: Pfizer Vaccine Confirmed To Cause Neurodegenerative Diseases – Study
https://nationalfile.com/report-pfizer-vaccine-confirmed-to-cause-neurodegenerative-diseases/
untested gene therapy experiment. what a disaster.
hanekhw 33 minutes ago (Edited)Some people don't seem to understand that Fauci is a corrupt clown, a jester, just put there to laugh and make fun of us. No one should listen to anything he says.
The CDC is a corporation who has it's own agenda, currenyly infused with Gates's agenda od death for all. No one should listen to anything it says.
Biden, in advanced dementia and a globalist puppet, is also there to laugh at us and make fun of us, while our friends and family take the death jab, and infect the rest of us with mRNA shedding and spike proteins that guarantee infertility. No one should listen to anything he says.
We don't need the parasitic government and the mainstream media. It's the same gang, who want to kill us. In 2-3 years time tens of millions will be dead of ADE from the jab. The birth rate will be non existent.
We are losing this war.
The Vel 2 hours agoThe widespread distrust of this man is well earned. Centuries of effort to create trust of the entire medical profession has been wiped out in little over a year. THAT damage is much worse than the pitiful few deaths from a Pandemic that was a fraud from the beginning perpetrated entirely for political power.
Enraged 4 minutes ago remove linkSo, why are morons wearing masks outside?? Of course, the question is rhetorical.
Londo 2 hours agoThe CDC represents Big Pharma, so the mission to recommend vaccines and drugs for profit.
I would say Fraudci is losing credibility, but he never had it.
Another misleading title. Quoting Fauci out of context. Its about crowding . Disease will spread if you have crowding outdoors. LIke the Indian Diwali festival. Or the marathon runner in Italy last March. One runner spread it to 100.
Apr 26, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
2 hours ago remove linkRead this and commit seppuku, Fauci. In fact, masks make you SICK!!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Physiological effects of wearing facemasks
Wearing facemask mechanically restricts breathing by increasing the resistance of air movement during both inhalation and exhalation process [12] , [13] . Although, intermittent (several times a week) and repetitive (10–15 breaths for 2–4 sets) increase in respiration resistance may be adaptive for strengthening respiratory muscles [33] , [34] , prolonged and continues effect of wearing facemask is maladaptive and could be detrimental for health [11] , [12] , [13] . In normal conditions at the sea level, air contains 20.93% O 2 and 0.03% CO 2 , providing partial pressures of 100 mmHg and 40 mmHg for these gases in the arterial blood, respectively. These gas concentrations significantly altered when breathing occurs through facemask. A trapped air remaining between the mouth, nose and the facemask is rebreathed repeatedly in and out of the body, containing low O 2 and high CO 2 concentrations, causing hypoxemia and hypercapnia [35] , [36] , [11] , [12] , [13] . Severe hypoxemia may also provoke cardiopulmonary and neurological complications and is considered an important clinical sign in cardiopulmonary medicine [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] . Low oxygen content in the arterial blood can cause myocardial ischemia, serious arrhythmias, right or left ventricular dysfunction, dizziness, hypotension, syncope and pulmonary hypertension [43] . Chronic low-grade hypoxemia and hypercapnia as result of using facemask can cause exacerbation of existing cardiopulmonary, metabolic, vascular and neurological conditions [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] . Table 1 summarizes the physiological, psychological effects of wearing facemask and their potential long-term consequences for health.
Apr 20, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Deap , 14 February 2021 at 12:07 PM
CDC website continues to recommend cholorquinine as a good choice when traveling to malaria prone countries. The same drug CDC-Fauci claims will "kill you" if you are in "covid" countries.
Apr 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
3 hours ago (Edited)Science says that masks don't stop viruses but wearing them can lead to sickness and death. Fauci follows that science -- in his mission to kill.
play_arrow 4 play_arrowUS National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of HealthFacemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis
Conclusion
The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 , supporting against the usage of facemasks. Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death. Governments, policy makers and health organizations should utilize prosper and scientific evidence-based approach with respect to wearing facemasks, when the latter is considered as preventive intervention for public health.
in4mayshun 1 hour ago remove link
Another good link: (PCR test is worthless...)
Apr 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
2 hours ago remove linkOh well, apparently all that hand wringing about surfaces was a tad overdone. Last week the CDC announced that the risk of contracting the virus by touching a "contaminated" surface was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 and 10,000. Another myth born of Covid-hysteria has bitten the dust.
enough of this 3 hours ago remove link
chunga 3 hours agoDr. Foh Chi is always wrong but never in doubt.
onemorething 3 hours ago (Edited)This Fauci character is a deranged medical terrorist. He became a fake doctor to avoid the draft. See: Yellow Berets.
CheapBastard 3 hours agoI once attended a polo match in the UK.
there was a long line of people waiting to use porta-potties, but I noticed the hunt club's restrooms had only three people waiting there, so my girlfriend and I sauntered over to the shorter line.
i asked GF, " I wonder why everyone's waiting in line over there, when over here are shorter lines and better bathrooms? "
An older woman in mink, dripping in diamond jewelry, was in line ahead of us.
She turned around and haughtily exclaimed
because people... are sheep.
justyouwait 2 hours agoFauci refuses to comment on the maskless, unvaccinated flood of illegals coming across the border, while at the same time he trashes restaurants and Churches.
fanbeav 3 hours agoThe contradictions in how they enforce their lies is mind bending. Last summer BLM/Antifa were somehow immune to the disease while they attacked and burned America to the ground. The real powers behind this whole scam thought their actions were great and were thus sanctioned as they thought they would throw a bad light on Trump. Peacefully going for a walk down the same streets was seen as spreading death from one end to the other.
Once again, riot season has started and the powers that are in charge of the scam are back to avoiding those uncomfortable conversations about the peaceful protesters out there. They had told us that the EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS would get us back to normal once most of the population had taken them. Now they are talking about booster shots forever (you know, the gene altering treatments that surely won't have any dangerous side effects). They are also now starting to tell us that masks and distancing will never go away (they haven't put it in those terms but if the shots we are getting now won't get us off masks and distancing then neither will the boosters). This is the "new normal" folks.
HeyThere 2 hours agoI work with idiots who wash their hands every time they touch a public surface. Wear their face diapers to walk from their car to the office with no one around. Then remove the face diaper at work. Replace the mask when deliveries come into the office. When delivery person leaves, they remove the mask. Put it back on when the days is over and they walk back to their car.....alone!
Now they are bragging about getting the "jab" like they are in some super dupper club.
1 play_arrowHC-CZ 3 hours agoDo you like anagrams? FAUCI >>>> CIA FU.
DesertEagle 3 hours agoSaw a woman at Home Depot a few days ago.
Face shield, mask, gloves, and hair wrapped up in plastic. Outside.
MCDirtMigger 3 hours ago"I work with idiots who wash their hands every time they touch a public surface. Wear their face diapers to walk from their car to the office with no one around.
Now they are bragging about getting the "jab"
These brainwashed airheads are like cult members - the Cult of Covid...
Fauxi is the 21st century version of the 16th century Pope declaring the world to be flat. Because, you know, the 'consensus ' tells him it is so.
Apr 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets ,
For over a year well-to-do Americans have quite literally been "quarantining" packages shipped to them, and that were dropped off at their residences by "science-denying" untouchables who lacked the means to similarly "shelter-in-place."
The package-terrified have usually waited 48 hours before handling said box and contents.
What about the Clorox wipes that were never in stock thanks to frantic science believers clearing the shelves of them? Some never left their homes.
Of course, when the corona-fearful actually ventured outside, they wore gloves while still not touching anything. They jumped out in the street when passing another human since, well, you know, the very humans who've driven all progress for millennia were suddenly a lethal menace to one another. But the main thing is that if they had to risk their lives by being in public, the science reverent more than masked up: they wiped down everything they came near.
Even though airlines were sending out texts ahead of boarding meant to comfort the nail-biting about plane interiors that had been thoroughly scrubbed, passengers still brought their own wipes on planes; that, or they accepted wipes from flight attendants in order to double up on the work done by maintenance. At present, Hilton essentially co-brands its rooms with Lysol .
Oh well, apparently all that hand wringing about surfaces was a tad overdone. Last week the CDC announced that the risk of contracting the virus by touching a "contaminated" surface was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 and 10,000. Another myth born of Covid-hysteria has bitten the dust.
Since it has, the reasonable in our midst can only hope that Corona-celebrity Anthony Fauci is asked to comment on the new findings. They're very telling, and not solely because what was once believed deeply has turned out to be so wrong.
But since all the hysteria about surfaces has been revealed as much ado about nothing, it's worth starting there . More realistically, it's worth traveling back in time nearly 40 years to 1983. It was then that Fauci asserted in a paper that "routine close contact, as within a family household" could spread AIDS. To say that Fauci was wrong brings new meaning to understatement.
At the same time, Fauci's false assumptions in '83 don't indict him. Back then little was known about AIDS. Doctors were flying blind as it were, so they worked tirelessly to learn more.
Applied to the present, all-too-many on the left have hysterically criticized the "science-deniers" in their midst who are only deniers insofar as they haven't always accepted the present consensus about the coronavirus. As opposed to deniers, these skeptics were just being reasonable. Think about it. It's not "science" if there isn't doubt.
And as Fauci's incorrect assumptions from long ago yet again remind us, there's so much we don't know. There's so much we get wrong in the early days as we're learning . In the 1980s the view from the NHS experts in England was that one in five Brits would contract AIDS for which there was no cure. Even in hyper-lefty Hollywood, homosexual actor Tony Perkins went to great lengths to hide his AIDS diagnosis given his reasonable belief that he would never work again. Hollywood had overreacted. By many miles. How little we knew.
That so many got AIDS so wrong not too long ago should hopefully cause the hysterical of the moment to perhaps dial down their certainty. What you believe likely won't age well, which is the point. It explains why so many of us were so horrified by lockdowns.
You see, we weren't solely against lockdowns because we deny science or that we don't care about the virus, or didn't believe it existed. In truth, we were against the lockdowns because freedom produces abundant information in addition to being a virtue on its own.
We were also against the lockdowns simply because force is superfluous if something threatens; particularly if the threat is thought to be lethal. About Covid's lethality, doesn't the latter explain why some of the science-worshipful were so terrified, and so desperate to "quarantine" packages, wipe down doorknobs, and avoid human contact? OK, but if you were that scared, then what was the point of forced lockdowns ?
Indeed, as has been made plain, the fearful were already going to great lengths to do what they thought would protect them from the virus. The latter yet again explains the lack of Clorox wipes, masks, etc. It's a reminder that people didn't need to be forced.
No doubt the fear expressed by the scrubbers and washers has proven overdone and unwarranted in retrospect, which speaks to why freedom of action during "crises" is so important. In other words, those who threw caution to the wind and who couldn't be bothered to disinfect everything were just as important as the corona-obsessed when it came to finding answers. Arguably more important. The "deniers" provided information about virus spread that the "believers" could not. Get it?
In this case, the deniers who lived their lives were correct. Avoiding all contact proved idiotic. The "doubters" had science on their side.
It's all yet again a reminder that hysterical certitude isn't the same as knowledge. Emotion is its own form of denial. 3 hours ago
Fauci = Big Pharma Whore
The End Game 3 hours ago
mikka 3 hours ago
" What was the point of forced lockdowns?"
Is that really even a question anymore? If it is, then you have not been paying attention!
Sir Edge 1 hour ago
It would be funny if it wasn't true.
xious 3 hours ago (Edited)
CDC / Fauci / Gates - Epidemic created Fear is FIRST about control and then second about the profits from the drugs or vaxes... so they have more resources to do it AGAIN... as in now the vaccinated may 'NEED' a third shot ?
Savyindallas 2 hours ago
Trump did nothing to stop covid scam. He is one of them.
This is way bigger than Trump, you should know that by now.
Billy the Poet 2 hours ago
very true. I will be so happy when Trump apologists finally realize we were conned by "Con Don--crisis actor extraordinaire. After being an early and avid supporter, it took me about two years to finally admit the Truth. The rest of you need to come to terms with this fact and move on-- otherwise, we are truly screwed.
CheapBastard 2 hours ago (Edited)
I thought Trump was a convenient monkey wrench to toss in the works and he was. Trust in government, media, academia and corporations is at an all time low. It's an anarchist's dream.
This is a much better point to be moving forward from than if it hadn't happened.
It's a shame you can't see that.
DesertEagle 3 hours ago
"We're all in this together."
Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic
EnoughBS21 3 hours ago
" What was the point of forced lockdowns?"
Very simple. The 85-90% of the population not at high risk for serious Covid illness were locked up to prevent natural "herd immunity" from developing. In order to force the warp speed "vaccines" on everyone. And then to implement tracking and control of the sheep via Vaccine Passports and ultimately micro chipping of everybody but the elites running the Covid psyop.
JoeyChernenko PREMIUM 3 hours ago
This idiot is a complete Deep State fraud and should be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity and hanged!
desertboy 2 hours ago remove link
Do a fundraiser. Kind of like those fundraisers where you get to hit an old car with a baseball bat. We could pay off the national debt. I'd pony up $10,000 or so.
Jack Offelday 3 hours ago
In Fauci's defense: he's not simply neurotic; he had a very real profit motive.
whatisthat1 2 hours ago
Fauci will infamously be remembered as the face of COVID. What a legacy.
Bunter Hiden 3 hours ago
This post and other evidence demonstrate dr Fauci is a fraud and nefarious career bureaucrat....
williambanzai7 1 hour ago
I stopped taking any kind of precautions about 1 month after the hysteria started. No masks, no gloves, no quarantining, etc. I've gone about my life as normal, well as normal as you can with 80% of the population freaking out.
Fauxchi is a quack. Look at what he said about SARS-1 and SARS-2. Totally contradictory.
When something doesn't pass the sniff test, throw it away.
liberty2 3 hours ago
Dr Fauci and his cohorts seem to be having great difficulty understanding anything about this virus other than it's money making attributes.
DesertEagle 3 hours ago
"Nobel Prize-Winning Inventor Said Dr. Fauci Is A Complete Fraud"
https://rumble.com/vbsh8v-nobel-prize-winning-inventor-said-dr.-fauci-is-a-complete-fraud.html
R.I.P. Kary Mullis
dustnwind 46 minutes ago
Fauci has been a charlatan forever. A Grifter who gets tons of money from the likes of Bill Gates and Big Pharma. Don't forget he pushed immunity from legal liability for vaccine makers through Congress back in the '80's.
5G-Powered Nanobots 36 minutes ago
Why is the focus on Fauci instead of the politicians giving him so much power? Deflection perhaps?
Because he's a virologist with decades of experience
Apr 09, 2021 | www.wsj.com
Originally from: Stop Taking Shots at Those Who Fear Them - WSJ By Robert M. Kaplan April 8, 2021 6:21 pm ET
Distrust of the establishment plays a role in vaccine hesitancy, but it's probably time to back off on the prevailing commentary suggesting that those avoiding vaccines are irresponsible, uninformed or politically manipulated. Achieving herd immunity requires that about 70% of Americans are vaccinated or contract Covid and develop natural immunity, which official numbers place around 10% of the population. Polls consistently show that 21% say they will definitely not get the vaccine and about a third rate their chances of taking the vaccine as less than 50%. It's better to address common fears and concerns respectfully and informatively than with hectoring and condescension.
Dr. Kaplan is a faculty member at the Stanford School of Medicine Clinical Excellence Research Center and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He has served as associate director of the National Institutes of Health and chief science officer at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Apr 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Originally from: US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says - The Daily Call
In 2017, a subagency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci - resumed funding a controversial grant to genetically modify bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China without the approval of a government oversight body, according to the Daily Caller .
For context, in 2014, the Obama administration temporarily suspended federal funding for gain-of-function research into manipulating bat COVID to be more transmissible to humans. Four months prior to that decision, the NIH effectively shifted this research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) via a grant to nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance, headed by Peter Daszak.
Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance The first $666,442 installment of EcoHealth's $3.7 million NIH grant was paid in June 2014, with similar annual payments through May 2019 under the " Understanding The Risk Of Bat Coronavirus Emergence " project.
Notably, the WIV "had openly participated in gain-of-function research in partnership with U.S. universities and institutions" for years under the leadership of Dr. Shi 'Batwoman' Zhengli, according to the Washington Post 's Josh Rogin.
In 2017, however, the " Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO) Framework was formed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)," which was tasked with evaluating the risks involved with enhancing dangerous pathogens, as well as whether proper safeguards are in place, before a grant into 'gain-of-function' or similarly risky research can be issued.
Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - the subagency which funded EcoHealth - didn't think the grant needed review , and resumed their relationship with Daszak without flagging it for the P3CO committee , an NIH spokesperson told the Caller .
EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak toasts with WIV's 'Batwoman' Shi Zhengli " This is a systemic problem ," says Rutgers University professor of chemical biology, Richard H. Ebright, referring to the loophole in the review process - and adding that NIAID and NIH have "systematically thwarted–indeed systematically nullified–the HHS P3CO Framework by declining to flag and forward proposals for review."
The NIH, however, says that the grant wasn't flagged for review because "NIAID determined research in the grant was not gain-of-function research because it did not involve the enhancement of the pathogenicity or transmissibility of the viruses studied," the spokesperson told the Caller , adding: "We would not submit research proposals that did not meet the definition, because otherwise we would need to submit everything."
We'll just have to take their word for it, as the P3CO framework didn't require the HHS review committee to take a second look at the NIAID's claim that the EcoHealth grant doesn't cover gain-of-function research.
More via The Daily Caller (emphasis ours)
How Federal Oversight Of Gain-Of-Function Research Is BypassedThe Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is at the center of widespread speculation that COVID-19 could have accidentally leaked from a lab into the human population. EcoHealth's grant to study bat-based coronaviruses in China included the transfer of $600,000 to the WIV.
Had EcoHealth's grant been subjected to P3CO review, an HHS panel would have independently evaluated the grant and, if necessary, recommended additional biocontainment measures to prevent potential lab leaks -- or even recommended that the grant be denied entirely .
The WIV is a biosafety level 4 laboratory, the highest level biocontainment certification, but U.S. Embassy officials issued two diplomatic cables warning about inadequate safety at the lab after a visit in 2018. One of the cables warned that the lab's work on bat-based coronaviruses represented the risk of a new SARS-like pandemic, according to The Washington Post .
An annex to the World Health Organization's COVID-19 origin report released Tuesday describes the WIV's work using "recombinant viruses" in tests involving bat coronaviruses, which Ebright said are descriptions of gain-of-function research .
The U.S. government paused funding of gain-of-function research in 2014 after lab workers were accidentally exposed to anthrax by the Centers for Disease Control, according to The New York Times . The incident came on the heels of widespread scientific outcry in 2011 when it was revealed that laboratories in Wisconsin and the Netherlands were intentionally modifying the H5N1 bird flu virus so it could more effectively jump between ferrets.
Federally funded gain-of-function research resumed in 2017 after new oversight procedures were implemented. The review framework split oversight responsibilities between two groups -- the funding agency (the NIAID in the case of the EcoHealth grant) and the P3CO Review Committee, an interdisciplinary group convened by HHS.
The committee is responsible for recommending whether a research grant involving gain-of-function needs to include any additional risk mitigation measures, an HHS spokesperson told the DCNF . But the committee is kept in the dark on any grant until the funding agency flags one for its review.
The P3CO Framework doesn't require the HHS review committee to take a second look at the NIAID's determination following its review that the EcoHealth grant did not involve gain-of-function research.
The NIH spokesperson said it would be "misleading and inaccurate" to suggest NIAID was required to notify the HHS review committee of its determination.
An HHS spokesperson confirmed that the department's P3CO Review Committee only reviews research grants that are flagged for additional review by funding agencies such as NIAID. The spokesperson did not answer when asked if the review committee had knowledge of the EcoHealth grant.
Ecohealth has a history of manipulating bat-based coronaviruses. The group's president, Peter Daszak , said as much during a podcast interview filmed in Singapore just weeks before the first reported cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan in December 2019.
"You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily," Daszak said. "Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus. Zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein -- and we work with Ralph Baric at [the University of North Carolina] to do this -- and insert the backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab."
Ebright told the DCNF that NIAID was wrong to determine that the EcoHealth grant did not involve enhancing the transmissibility of Chinese bat-based coronaviruses. He said the project's abstract for the 2019 fiscal year, which referenced "in vitro and in vivo infection experiments" on coronaviruses, "*unequivocally* required risk-benefit review under the HHS P3CO Framework."
Other scientists have said EcoHealth's NIH-funded work in China involved gain-of-function research on bat-based coronaviruses.
"It is hard to overemphasize that the central logic of this grant was to test the pandemic potential of SARS-related bat coronaviruses by making ones with pandemic potential, either through genetic engineering or passaging, or both," Drs. Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson wrote in June.
The NIH terminated the EcoHealth grant in April 2020. NIH deputy director for extramural research, Michael Lauer , told the group in a letter that the agency "does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities."
Fauci said during a hearing before the House Energy & Commerce Committee in June that the EcoHealth grant was canceled "because the NIH was told to cancel it."
"I don't know the reason, but we were told to cancel it," Fauci said.
Fauci told Politico following the hearing that former President Donald Trump's White House ordered the NIH to cancel the grant.
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Read the rest of the report here .
Apr 03, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
tyberious 20 hours ago
They lied about masks.
They lied about social distancing.
They lied about shut downs.
They lied about HQC.
They lied about ivermectin.
They lied about the vaccines.
They lied about covid.
Now they want vaccine passports, why?
To protect your health, naw, there is something in that vaccine that they want everyone to have!
Apr 01, 2021 | science.slashdot.org
Re:Sarah Palin ( Score: 5 , Informative)by DamnOregonian ( 963763 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:42PM ( #61224624 ) Of course that question is being asked.They reuse masks, they touch their masks all day, they adjust htem, they don't have them properly fitted ( this is a big one ).
All of these things are liable to reduce the efficacy of a mask. None of them could possibly lead to a negative efficacy.
I will provide data, but first, I want to really assess why you're truly skeptical of the idea.
The mask is not collecting other peoples' droplets. It's collecting yours. So why would you think that you misusing your mask is going to increase your chances of getting the disease vs. not wearing one at all?
That's like arguing that "the real world is messy, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to learn that pulling out was actually morel likely to get a girl pregnant than not!"It's absurd.
Now, for the laboratory and epidemiological efficacy data. [ucsf.edu] Reply to This Parent Share Flag as Inappropriate
Re:I'd argue that there have been large-scale test cases which seem to show that masks do lower transmissibility. Those tests were conducted in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The United States was the control group.
What you see from the numbers is that those countries had far lower covid rates than the United States and also were countries where inexpensive surgical masks are widely available in mini-marts and people willingly wear them as well. In addition, all of those countries are very crowded and you'
Re:Sarah Palin ( Score: 4 , Informative)by dgatwood ( 11270 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:04PM ( #61225048 ) Homepage JournalThe question that isn't being asked, but should be, is, "Are masks lowering the transmissibility?". Looking at the dataset, I don't believe so.
I'd argue that there have been large-scale test cases which seem to show that masks do lower transmissibility. Those tests were conducted in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The United States was the control group.
That's an okay approach, but IMO a better approach with fewer confounding factors is comparing cases at the county level within the United States [cdc.gov]. The 24 counties in Kansas that implemented a mask mandate showed a 6% drop in cases between a week-long period in early July and a week-long period in mid-August. The 105 counties that did not implement a mask mandate showed a 100% increase in cases over that same time period. Reply to This Parent Share Flag as Inappropriate
Not a controlled experiment [Re:Sarah Palin]Not a controlled experiment, sorry.
Correct. There are differences between countries other than mask wearing. Re:
That is not a proper control group. There are plenty of studies which look at infection trends before and after mask mandates and lockdowns, which all show a decrease in infections. So no need to point to research which tries to compare different countries with far too many other factors to mitigate. Re:Sarah Palin ( Score: 5 , Informative)by SpankiMonki ( 3493987 ) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:04PM ( #61224726 )
The question that isn't being asked, but should be, is, "Are masks lowering the transmissibility?".
That question has been asked since early in the pandemic, and there have been many observational studies performed showing mask use lowering transmissibility to one degree or another. Like this early study [bmj.com] of mask use in China:
Face mask use by the primary case and family contacts before the primary case developed symptoms was 79% effective in reducing transmission
Now mod me down because this goes against the local dogma. Must not question the narrative!
Well, since "Uninformed" is not a moderation option, I don't think you should be modded down for mere ignorance. But that's just me. Reply to This Parent Share Flag as Inappropriate Re:
There is no way you have looked at any relevant data if you have come to that conclusion. There have been studies tracking transmission rates before and after mask mandates, and transmission rates did significantly drop. It is even more true for lockdowns. You can look at any trend-line for any US state/county or any country and identify when either increased mask mandates or lockdowns were put in place because a week or two later the case rate goes down dramatically.
In the US you could see case rates slowi Re:Those are interesting data points, but they're not really indicative of anything simply due to how many factors can influence CFR between 2 countries/societiesAlso not a controlled experiment [Re:Sarah Palin]Also not a controlled experiment. Comparing two countries that have social, geographical, and population density differences makes it impossible to tell what the effect of which variable is.
Correct. There are differences between countries other than mask wearing.
I am particularly skeptical about analyses that pick compare countries without a very good reason to explain why those two. There are 195 countries in the world. Out of the 18,915 possible comparisons of two countries, why did you pick those parti Re:
How is it people who are supposed to be smart (slashdot readers) can be so uneducated? Re: Sarah Palin
Bullshit. Re:Sarah Palin ( Score: 5 , Interesting)by cusco ( 717999 ) < brian...bixby@@@gmail...com > on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:58PM ( #61224690 )
We had a customer who was a paratrooper in Normandy, and my brother made that stupid comment for some reason. Dick immediately reamed him a new asshole and said, "More atheists are made in fucking foxholes than anywhere else, since no god worth worshiping would allow shit like that to happen!"
Apr 01, 2021 | www.wsj.com
J Jeffrey Mason SUBSCRIBER 29 minutes ago The last straw for me on CV19 and these vaccines was when I heard Fauci talk about how he wants to vaccinate kids at the age of 6 months in 2022. Absolutely ridiculous. Like thumb_up 1 Reply reply Share link Report flag W William Long SUBSCRIBER 23 minutes ago If the goal is herd immunity and suppressing creation of new variants, then you have to vaccinate kids. Absolutely essential. Nothing ridiculous at all.Like thumb_up 2 Reply reply Share link Report flag J Jeffrey Mason SUBSCRIBER 20 minutes ago An unproven vaccine in a 6 month old baby?? Not my kid Anthony Aaron SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago 12-15 year olds -- those who actually get the Fauci flu -- already have a 99.9999% survival rate so, given the small sample size, their 100% survival rate is likely statistically meaningless. B Brendan Fieger SUBSCRIBER 5 minutes ago Infants are at almost no risk from Covid. Anyone who would give their six-month old an experimental vaccine should not be a parent. It's unconscionable. D Don Tezza SUBSCRIBER 31 minutes ago I realize that some people are mathematically challenged, but hypothetically speaking, if a virus claims 1,000,000 lives within a population of 330,000,000 people, the survival rate would calculate at 99.70%. How exactly are we measuring the effectiveness of the vaccine; are we looking for a jump to 99.80%?
Like thumb_up Reply reply Share link Report flag W William Long SUBSCRIBER 28 minutes ago The whole point of vaccination is that is reduces the death rate to essentially zero. If you, or a close relative, die from COVID, you don't give a rip about the total population. Like thumb_up 1 Reply reply Share link Report flag J Jeffrey Mason SUBSCRIBER 25 minutes ago (Edited) I have the same chance of getting struck by lightning and surviving as I do dying of COVID. Why should I live in fear if I have taken care of my body and have a strong immune system?
Mar 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
CNN weirdo Brian Stelter announced with Glee Sunday that Dr Anthony Fauci is the subject of a new children's book titled "Dr. Fauci: How A Boy From Brooklyn Became America's Doctor," prompting many to immediately label it a propaganda campaign.
... ... ...
Fauci, who has repeatedly flip flopped and lied about the use of masks and admitted that there is no science behind lockdowns, has been ever present on CNN and every other pro-lockdown news bilge station for the past year.
katemessner @KateMessner · Mar 21 Exciting morning here - @CNN 's @brianstelter just revealed the cover for DR: FAUCI: HOW A BOY FROM BROOKLYN BECAME AMERICA'S DOCTOR on @ReliableSources ! (Coming 6/29 from @simonschuster & available for pre-order today - https:// bookshop.org/books/dr-fauci -how-a-boy-from-brooklyn-became-america-s-doctor/9781665902434 ) 63 79 361
ted41776 2 hours ago remove link
cankles' server 2 hours agochildhood and adolescent suicides are through the roof thanks to these "experts" and what they have done to the planet
all covaids deaths, of course
Bartertown 2 hours ago"The ignorance, prejudices, and groupthink of an educated elite are still ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink -- and for those with one percent of the knowledge in a society to be guiding or controlling those with the other 99 percent is as perilous as it is absurd."
∼ Thomas Sowell in 'Intellectuals and Society'
0.1 2 hours agoThe **** who stole Christmas.............
Sol Invictvs 2 hours agoThat's funny!
Plunge Protection 2 hours agoHow a "doctor" from Brooklyn became the biggest grifter and certified con man of the 21st century.
eatapeach 59 minutes agoHe's a useless bureaucrat
Kanzen Saimin 2 hours agoHe was educated by the US military, and he hasn't stopped doing their bidding. He's way up the PsyOp pole...
GotGalt 2 hours agoDrag queen story-time kids!
Onthebeach6 2 hours ago remove linkLOL ... so true!
0.1 2 hours agoI must have stumbled into a parallel universe where doctors who help fund pandemics that kill half a million Americans and enable a coup become role models pushed by a propaganda spewing MSM.
I guess if he'd done something wrong he would have been treated like Dr Seuss.
itstippy 1 hour agoWe live in Crazy Town! Dr. Seuss is banned, and Fauci the Fake is being published.
InnerCynic 2 hours agoFauci is "America's Doctor"? But I don't want him as my Doctor. I already have a Doctor. I thought if I liked my Doctor I could keep my Doctor.
MrBoompi 2 hours agoFraudci: How A Brooklyn Born Bastard Scammed America
2willies 1 hour agoHey kids let's all congratulate Dr. Fauci for being industrious enough to send his gain-of-function virus research to a Wuhan, China biolab after he was shut down here in the US!
Now he's locking us down and destroying our way of life!
What a role model!!
Dear Old Hedge 1 hour agoFauci is an obvious psychopath.
Ghost of Porky 1 hour agoVenal as they come, and shamelessly amoral.
JamesJOMeara 2 hours agoChapter 6: How I profited from the AIDS crisis
Chapter 7: How I profited from the EBOLA crisis
Chapter 8: How I profited from the SARS crisis
Chapter 9: How I profited from the COVID crisis
sparky139 PREMIUM 1 hour agoFirst Cuomo, now Fauci... also, every traitor who "leaves" DC writes a book of lies: Mueller, Comey, Brennan... plus all those "statesmen" like both Clintons, now Obama... what is it with Liberals and their stupid "books"? They can't read or write anything sensible, they cancel anything worthwhile (even Dr Seuss!) but they love immortalize themselves with ******** "books" that they don't write and no one buys, and have other Liberals gush about them on the TV. It truly is a cargo cult.
Shirley Yugest 2 hours ago remove linkThey write books that nobody reads (or buys) so that their bribe money can be whitewashed as advance money.
LetThemEatRand 2 hours agoOne mask, two mask...
Al Capone 1 hour agoI wonder if there's a chapter about his gain of function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab in 2019. https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
runningman18 1 hour agoFinally, a book worth burning.
LMFAO!
Jim in MN 1 hour agoWill the book mention that Fauci was the one that sent millions of dollars to the virus lab in Wuhan for research into transferring coronavirus from bats to other mammals....?
lynnybee 1 hour agoLate in the pandemic collapse, went for a long hike with my daughter yesterday in the distant lake areas of a blue suburban county.
Comedic confusion reigned as masked and maskless families eyed one another suspiciously and scattered across the lovely hill nearest the lake and park visitor center (CLOSED of course).
People walking the paths nervously. I waved, smiled and said hi to every one of them. Only a few said anything back, many looked down miserably.
I personally detest Fauci and everything he and his masters and Rod Rosenstein's sister (CDC infectious disease director) have done to society.
My daughter laughs when asked about taking a shot. "Maybe in ten years" she says.
Er Wang Dong 1 hour agoFauci is Jesuit. It's all on the net for those who are good at searching and digging for the truth. Don't use google search. Use DuckDuckGo or Gibiru. I read a lot and don't like his background.
He isn't trustworthy.
NIRP-BTFD 1 hour ago (Edited)One year ago, the absolute last guy I would have guessed to have his very own cult of personality would have been this little gerbil...
Er Wang Dong 1 hour agoI don't think he has a following. its just the *** media pretending he is liked. Like they said Cuomo the ape like crature is the most sexy man alive and gave him an emmy.
NotTiredOfWinning 1 hour agoYou're probably right, but it's still amazing.
But don't doubt that there are many true believers out there who hang on this clown's every word.
Hey, somebody is watching CNN...
Lore 1 hour agoLike Rush said, "If the Media builds you up they can take you down", this guy is a total fabrication.
Colonel Klink 1 hour ago (Edited)Disgusting, subhuman figurehead, the epidemiological equivalent of Al Gore. It would be a better world if somebody invented a vaccine that would immunize society against their pathological ilk. We should look forward to these scum facing meaningful justice, wiped off the face of the earth, but I fear that it will only happen after the so-called "vaccines" and related projects have claimed the lives of millions.
boattrash 1 hour agoPropaganda, Fauxchi is responsible for a huge number of deaths too.
Proof is what he advocated for during SARS Covid 1 -vs- what he did for SARS2 Covid (the China virus)
His stance on hydroxychloroquin, etc.
Odin McHaggis 1 hour agoDestroy Dr Seuss and give Dr Fauci a platform?
I don't phukkin think so!
Mantis Toboggan - M.D. 1 hour agoFourth Reich
Robert De Zero 59 minutes ago remove linkIve been saying since 03/2020...the reason Fauci never says anything positive is because he LOVES the attention. He loves being on media every other day interviewing about "science". Now he is a character in a children's book...he absolutely loves this. He will never want lockdowns to end and never want less than two masks..the longer this is a crisis the longer he is a hero.
Huxley's Ghost 1 hour ago remove linkHe looks nothing like the caricature. He's ugly inside and out. The POS got everything wrong. He's a loser NWO puppet, not a role model.
M ost of us are descended from immigrants so why does that matter? That lame as s starter still plays?
Mar 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jackrabbit , Mar 15 2021 14:45 utc | 10
Will American sheeple ever be allowed to question the Trump Administration many failures in fighting the pandemic - starting with Trump's bogus air travel ban and his lying about the severity of the virus? Not likely. New York State Governor Cuomo is now being hounded out of office with flimsy sex allegations to (IMO) prevent a review of the policy of sending people home to "self-isolate". "Self-isolate" and the "bend the curve" goal (instead of defeat the virus) virtually guaranteed that the pandemic would continue to spread.
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jared , Mar 15 2021 14:56 utc | 11
ptb , Mar 15 2021 17:55 utc | 32The attack on Cuomo seems organized.
I don't care for the guy, seemed a political hack, but I also suspect there is a need to eliminate effective leadership to clear the way for globalist domination - as we do to other nations.
I believe success of AOC, De Blasio and Biden are symptom of same.
Idiot king > French Revolution > Napoleon.Jackrabbit , Mar 15 2021 18:14 utc | 36@10,11 Re: Gov. Cuomo
Yes, clearly organized. No sympathy for him from here (sunny upstate NY).
As the second-generation son of a governor, and head of a mighty, and thoroughly corrupt political machine, for years the state budget process was three guys alone in a conference room. The obvious result was billions of state $ funneled to pet projects led by cronies. He had no shortage of enemies, I'm sure.
Covering up the alarming rate of nursing home Covid fatalities was the straw that broke the camel's back, but I suppose even that was too unsightly for the media. So instead they suddenly discover that for years he's been a d-bag in his relations to younger women he comes across. While that may well be true and is reason enough for him to be gone, what it really means is they don't have the guts to air the actual issues.
Bemildred , Mar 15 2021 18:57 utc | 43ptb @Mar15 17:55 #32
I'm also a New Yorker - "Downstate". And I too have no sympathy for corrupt NY politicians.
But I think it's very important to ask WHY he is being 'cancelled'.
Political parties usually look after their 'stars' in higher office. Cuomo is being thrown under the bus. And it isn't because his aids fudged the numbers of dead. I see THAT as merely the start of the effort to remove him.
So why the concerted effort to forcibly remove him? The policy that killed people in the nursing homes was essentially nation-wide. I don't know of any effort to quarantine people in USA. To fight the nursing-home scandal, Cuomo would point to guidance from the Federal government (CDC, NIH, Homeland Security, and others in the Trump Administration).
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jared , Mar 15 2021 18:57 utc | 44Posted by: ptb | Mar 15 2021 18:50 utc | 42
Yes, it did occur to me that it might be someone wants Cuomo out of the way. It's a very popular method, and used selectively. Nevertheless, you have to wish them Godspeed with their "plot" against him. Perhaps one of Trump's offspring wants to run. I hear Chelsea is thinking about it too.
Piotr Berman , Mar 15 2021 19:26 utc | 50@ Posted by: ptb | Mar 15 2021 17:55 utc | 32
There are always reasons to be against any established public official.
Probably The Cuomo regime more than most.
But still, I would be very cautious about the motivations behind it.
There is I believe a trend of removing effective, powerful leaders to be replaced by others groomed to be compliant to other interests.
I would think that it would be reasonable to investigate who and why is behind what seems a transparent, organized take-down. I have heard it claimed that Cuomo was becoming too powerful in the demo party. Dirty politics is destructive and harms us all.
It would be past time for Cuomo to go, but I hate to see him replaced by someone representing interests more corrupt.jared , Mar 15 2021 19:33 utc | 51The attack on Cuomo seems organized.
I don't care for the guy, seemed a political hack, but I also suspect there is a need to eliminate effective leadership ...
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Effective leadership? Are you writing about THAT Cuomo?Mao Cheng Ji , Mar 15 2021 20:53 utc | 62@ Posted by: Piotr Berman | Mar 15 2021 19:26 utc | 50
Cuomo has been fairly successful, last 10 years.
And his father before him.Hillary had her eye on NY in the past (((shudder))).
vetinLA , Mar 15 2021 22:03 utc | 74@11 "The attack on Cuomo seems organized."
It seems to be organized in the following manner: let us drown credible accusation of killing 15,000 people in nursing homes and trying to cover it up by falsifying records -- in an endless stream of trivial 'metoo' bullshit. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would've concluded that Andrew Cuomo paid those accusers to make accusations and thus change the subject.
Jrabbit @ 56 asked; "Ask yourself: Is pussy-grabber Trump a liar or a sex fiend?"
Actually, both, but then, most men, IMO, have a problem with the latter. Nature it seems, has endowed us with the stronger urge to "repopulate the species", and when joined with an over abundance of $, some think it's a license to act out our sexual fantasies. It isn't, but Epstein made it a business model. Entitlement is entitlement, no matter how it manifests, and rich and powerful men suffer from it often.
DJT and Cuomo are our latest examples. Rich, powerful, scum-bags.....
Feb 25, 2021 | www.brighteon.com
The HighWire with Del Bigtree
The one-time hero of the pandemic, Tony Fauci, is losing the trust of mainstream America after flip flopping on critical #Covid19 information one too many times. His latest admission is the final straw for many public figures, including avid pro-vaxxers.
Dorothy M Neddermeyer, PhD • 13 days ago ,Ruth Burns • 15 days ago ,Dr. Fauci is parroting what the Oligarchy instructs him to report. FOLLOW the money.
Cmore Butts • 14 days ago • edited ,He is full of it. Get rid of Fauci.
Tamlew Cmore Butts • 12 days ago ,heard fauci has a monetary connection to either pfizer or moderna. Maybe that placebo he took will show symptoms on his opposite arm, lol. what a joke.... on us. Maybe he will mutate into Dr Cornelius from planet of the Apes.
Or maybe he already is? Throw him a banana.Yes Fauchi has massive conflict of interest due to patents held on the covid 19 virus and "vaccines" (they are not vaccines, they are gene modifying devices, NEVER before been done!) Fauchi violated federal law and engaged in gain of function studies on HIV, etc. Check out Judy Mikovits' eye witness testimony against this murderous ghoul. These gene modifying devices have HIV in them too. They are kill shots on so many levels. NO human should ever take them!!
Feb 26, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Dear Old Hedge 6 minutes ago
Unlike Fauci's fake jab, where he forgot which arm it was as he lied into the camera, no one will forget where the swab went.
Fauci -Points-To- Wrong - Arm -After-Vaccine & Wrong Arm ! Dr. Anthony "Pinocchio" Fauci - YouTube
Feb 26, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
And now for the chaser; The CDC just admitted in its own report that asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission within households - a key justification for lockdowns - turns out to be virtually nonexistent. Household transmission is the primary mode of infection for COVID-19.
Yah. But there are still guys out there yammering about "superspreader" events and blaming everything on the Sturgis bike rally last August.
Evil-Edward-Hyde 21 minutes ago
Taking away our freedom
one mask at a time.
Jan 27, 2021 | www.reuters.com
'Crazy and evil': Bill Gates surprised by pandemic conspiracies
By Kate Kelland
3 MIN READ
LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of "crazy" and "evil" conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, but said on Wednesday he would like to explore what is behind them.
Slideshow ( 2 images ) In an interview with Reuters, Gates said the millions of online posts and "crazy conspiracy theories" about him and about top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci had likely taken hold in part because of the combination of a frightening viral pandemic and the rise of social media.
"Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent in these really evil theories," Gates said.
"I'm very surprised by that. I hope it goes away."
Gates, a billionaire who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp in 2014, has through his philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes support for some makers of vaccines, diagnostics and potential treatments.
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Since the pandemic began a year ago, millions of conspiracies have spread over the Internet, fuelling misinformation about the coronavirus, its origins and the motives of those working to fight it.
They include claims that Fauci and Gates created the pandemic to try and control people, that they want to profit from the virus' spread, and that they want to use vaccines to insert trackable microchips into people.
"But do people really believe that stuff?," Gates asked.
"We're really going to have to get educated about this over the next year and understand .. how does it change peoples' behaviour and how should we have minimized this?"
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EXCITED ABOUT BIDENGates praised Fauci and Francis Collins, head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, as "smart" and "wonderful people", and said he looked forward to seeing them able to work effectively and speak the truth under the new administration of President Joe Biden.
During former President Donald Trump's handling of the pandemic, Gates said, it had "sometimes felt like they were the only sane people in the U.S. government."
"I'm excited about the team that Biden has picked" to tackle the health crisis, Gates said.
Gates said he was also pleased that under Biden, the United States has rejoined the World Health Organization, and "that he's appointed smart people, and the fact that Dr. Fauci won't be suppressed."
Jan 21, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Suddenly Optimistic Fauci Sees Pandemic "Plateauing," Feels "Liberated" Under Biden Admin BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, JAN 21, 2021 - 16:57
Summary:
- Washington DC revives indoor dining after inauguration
- French Prez warns permanent immunity should not be assumed
- Biden says US cases plateauing, as Biden Admin "liberates"
- EU leaders call for more lockdowns, curfews
- Even Dr. Fauci has agreed that it appears US cases are "plateauing"
- UK blocking entry fri ifal ris
- Goldman data shows COVID hospitalizations may be trending lower
- US cases, hospitalizations decline; deaths at highs
- Hungary first in EU to approve Russian vaccine
- UAE also approves Russian vax
- Dr. Fauci confirms US commitment to Gates-backed vaccine program
- Ireland latest in Europe to extend lockdown
- Saudi Arabia, UAE complain of vaccine supply delays
- UK suffers deadliest day yet
* * *
Update (1415ET): We've seen a flurry of new coronavirus news reported published early this afternoon, beginning with a slight ray of hope for Washington DC residents after a difficult week. On Friday, the inauguration-related "pause" on dining in public will be lifted, allowing Americans to eat indoors, so long as the capacity is 25% of total.
Elsewhere, vaccine skepticism is once again the name of the game in France on Thursday, where President Emmanuel Macron warned French politicians and the French people not to assume that the virus will simply disappear once vaccinations are complete.
In other news, a reporter grilling Joe Biden about the US's weak vaccination targets elicited a frustrated response from Biden, who raged "Give me a Break!" at the reporter in question. Here's how that went down.
REPORTER: "You set the goal at 100 million vaccines, is that high enough? Should you set the bar higher? That's basically where the US is right now." BIDEN: "When I announced it, you all said that it's not possible. Come on. Give me a break, man".
As if the press hasn't already fawned over Biden enough...but we digress. In other news, Biden insisted that wearing masks until April may help save 50K lives, another number apparently pulled out of a hat.
Finally, Dr. Fauci said Thursday that it looks like new cases in the USA might actually be plateauing, despite the holiday surge we were promised by him a few months ago. But where is this more optimistic frame of mind based on? Well, the diminutive doctor admitted that he feels "liberated" by Biden.
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The data would appear to bear that out.
Finally, in Europe, where travel bans, curfews and lockdown extensions continue (even as Bavaria bucks the trend in Europe) the UK is now banning arrivals from Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Across the continent, EU leaders are agreeing that lockdown measures need to be strengthened, despite the growing body of evidence that they do little to stop the spread of the virus, according to a massive peer-reviewed study that hit recently.
They're even agreeing that across the Continent, all leisure and business travel must be curbed, at least for now. In the Netherlands, PM Mark Rutte has unsurprisingly managed to convince residents that a travel ban is ready,
And so much for all the mutant strains that policy makers have used to justify new lockdowns in the US, because Bloomberg's data shows cases are now falling in the vast majority of the US. In 42 US states, the seven-day case average has fallen more than 10% from a week earlier, while the other four had more modest drops, according to Covid Tracking Project data. Overall, the US seven-day average is down 20% from a week ago, to 192,825, because the drop is much greater in some states, down 39% in Missouri, for instance.
* * *
Yesterday was a mixed bag for the US on the COVID front: After the US topped 400K COVID deaths earlier this year, the US saw a new daily record number of deaths to coincide with Biden's inauguration. Meanwhile, the WHO finally acknowledged that the "conspiracy theorists" were right about the COVID "case-demic", and that Ct overmagnification during PCR testing might be producing many false positives.
On Monday, it appears more evidence is beginning to emerge that COVID hospitalizations in the US are seeing a trajectory-shift which should feed through to lower mortality numbers in the weeks ahead, according to models produced by analysts at Goldman Sachs.
An analysis of how vaccinations are impacting hospitalizations shows that there is a correlation between growing vaccination numbers, and lower hospitalizations.
Before introducing a second chart, the Goldman team writes that it "analyzed hospitalizations for the 25 largest states (by population) representing 88% of all US hospitalizations. We find there has been a 55% correlation between the vaccinations as of the beginning of the year and the YTD decline in hospitalizations. This further supports the connection between recent vaccinations and the decline in hospitalizations."
As the COVID Tracking Project data show, daily cases have continued to move lower in all four regions of the country, while nationally hospitalizations have started to dip (a trend that, as Goldman's charts suggest, may be extended).
It's just the latest sign that Wall Street truly believes that we have reached "the beginning of the end" of COVID ...whether that actually turns out to be accurate, however, is another story.
Meanwhile, after Biden officially ordered the US to halt its departure from the WHO yesterday and rejoin its Covax vaccine-sharing program spearheaded by Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared at an early morning meeting Thursday where he reaffirmed America's commitment to the WHO.
Dr. Fauci, who will now lead the US delegation, said "I am honored to announce that the United States will remain a member of the World Health Organization." His words marked the first public statement by a member of Biden's administration to an international audience - and a sign of the priority that the new president has made of fighting COVID-19 both at home and with world partners.
Meanwhile, over in the EU, Viktor Orban's Hungary has become the first EU country to grant approval to "Sputnik V", the COVID vaccine developed by the Gameleya Institute and Russia's Sovereign Wealth Fund. Orban's regime coupled the approval with a complaint that it has been unable to procure enough (western-made) vaccines from Brussels, and so has been forced to look elsewhere. The UAE also approved the vaccine for emergency use on Thursday.
Here's some more COVID news from overnight and Thursday morning:
Thailand approved AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine for emergency use, making way for the country to begin inoculating its 67MM people as it endures an increase in coronavirus cases (Source: Bloomberg).
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said they would reschedule vaccine appointments because of supply delays from Pfizer. Lebanon extended its nationwide lockdown, which began last week, for another two weeks (Source: Bloomberg).
Ireland has become the latest European country to extend its lockdown, which will continue "well into February" before the rules are "reviewed", Prime Minister Micheal Martin said (Source: Bloomberg).
* * *
Finally, in the UK, the mutant COVID strain appears to be causing major strife as early evidence shows the strict lockdowns - England's third, which citizens are starting to rebel against - haven't had much near-term impact on reducing case numbers. The UK suffered its deadliest day yet, with 1.8K deaths recorded in 24 hours, as Boris Johnson's chief scientific adviser warned some hospitals now look "like a war zone."
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8 hours ago (Edited)
I'm sure the timing of this announcement, along with the WHO test story (posted above) and Xiden's installation, is just a coincidence . play_arrow 49 play_arrow 1
SERReal1 8 hours ago
Bill of Rights 8 hours agoNothing to see here, move along.
pro·le·tar·i·at 46 minutes agoThese people have been LYING to your faces since DAY 1..
adr 8 hours ago remove link15 days to flatten the curve bro
freedommusic 8 hours ago (Edited) remove linkYou only have a .3% chance of coming into contact with someone who has tested positive within the last month.
You have around a .01% chance of coming into contact with someone who is currently symptomatic.
4.5 million people were seriously injured last year in automobile accidents with many leading to permanent disability.
You have a greater chance of being hospitalized from an automobile accident than coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid and could maybe be contagious.
If you are under 60, you have a far greater chance of being killed in an auto accident than being hospitalized for Covid. Even higher than coming into contact with someone who tested positive and is symptomatic.
We are forced to wear masks for odds that are infinitesimal.
TRM 7 hours agoIt's funny, for a long time I've been hearing about all these empty hospitals and then there are a few that are reported as overwhelmed. I was wondering what could account for this discrepancy? I just heard yesterday directly from someone who was there, that these hospitals are overrun with homeless and illegals claiming they are sick looking for a free meal and a bed. Very clever, they use the homeless to steal votes from and to fill up the hospitals.
Makes perfect sense now why they have shut down all charities attempting to feed the homeless . They are competing with the hospitals where they need those bodies so the media can film them for their propaganda to perpetuate this pandemic myth.
What a friggin sinister operation...
Robert Kennedy Jr has been doing a lot of work with his "Children's Health Defence Organisation".
The CDC is over counting covid-19 deaths by 90%
Why is the USA counting deaths of people WITH covid-19 as deaths FROM it? Gunshots, auto accidents are being counted as covid-19 deaths if they test positive.
- Conclusion: If it was as bad as the government says they would NOT have to inflate the numbers.
And now even the CDC is admitting it:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities
"This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid-19. That's 9,210 deaths.
The other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses & the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age; 90% in nursing homes. "
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