These are excerpts of January 2021 articles. For a quick sense of information and faster summary just read the red marked texted.
My primary source is the extremely well researched RFK jr.’s “Children Health Defense” organization. The CHD is suffering some severe censorship on social media because they are exposing government/corporate media inconsistencies, distortions and censored facts about the Covid pandemic!
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2021-01-31 DR JUDY MIKOVITS: HOW COVID-19 ‘VACCINES’ MAY DESTROY THE LIVES OF MILLIONS * The COVID-19 vaccine really isn’t a vaccine in the medical definition of a vaccine. It’s more accurately an experimental gene therapy that could prematurely kill large amounts of the population and disable exponentially more
* Since mRNA normally rapidly degrades, it must be complexed with lipids or polymers. COVID-19 vaccines use PEGylated lipid nanoparticles, and PEG is known to cause anaphylaxis
Free mRNA can signal danger to your immune system and drive inflammatory diseases. As such, injecting synthetic thermostable mRNA (mRNA that is resistant to breaking down) is highly problematic as it can fuel chronic, long-term inflammation
* Many commonly reported side effects from the COVID-19 gene therapy “vaccines” appear to be caused by brain inflammation
* Anyone with an inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson’s disease or chronic Lyme and those with acquired immune deficiency/dysfunction from any microbial pathogen, brain trauma or environmental toxin are at high risk of dying from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines https://www.bitchute.com/video/kbKCIEYQMCaT/
2021-01-30 Exclusive: China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese military BGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company, has worked with China’s military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science, a Reuters review of research, patent filings and other documents has found.
But top U.S. security officials have warned American labs against using Chinese tests because of concern China was seeking to gather foreign genetic data for its own research. BGI has denied that. adversary countries and non-state actors might find and target genetic weaknesses in the U.S. population and a competitor such as China could use genetics to augment the strength of its own military personnel. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-genomics-military-exclusive-idUSKBN29Z0HA
2021-01-28 Doomsday Clock Moves Ever Closer to Midnight In a press conference on Wednesday, January 27th, Rachel Bronson, the director of The Bulletin, stated that “we are now at the two-minute warning due to the man-made threats of climate change and nuclear war.” https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/01/28/doomsday-clock-moves-ever-closer-to-midnight/
2021-01-28 Why Isn’t Anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Banned From Social Media? [MEK Note: If you read the author-organization’s mission statement you will find it is an honor for RFK Jr.’s and CHD to be bashed by this group] RFK, Jr., who blamed the COVID vaccine for causing the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron, continues to spread deadly anti-vaccine nonsense on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The companies’ claims that they’re trying to clean up disinformation ring hollow.
Social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have promised over and over again to combat the spread of fake news, particularly if it leads to harm. This led to the controversial decision to ban or suspend former President Donald Trump from all of those sites. Now, Rudy Giuliani and that guy who sells pillows are next on the chopping block.
Though it’s fashionable to bash social media (and I have bashed away, myself), the tech giants are actually facing a very difficult question: What to do with fake news, lies, and other types of controversial content?
On one side are those who claim that the First Amendment rules supreme. Free speech means free speech. So controversial content should be allowed.
On the other side are those who say that the First Amendment cuts both ways. It allows the freedom of association, but it also allows a freedom not to associate. If social media giants don’t want to associate with a controversial figure, they can cut him or her off. Besides, social media is run by private companies, and the First Amendment does not apply to non-governmental entities.
The counterargument is that sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are essentially monopolies. There are no serious competitors. Additionally, once a site opens to the public, then everyone should be allowed to participate, including controversial people. By analogy, once an establishment (e.g., a coffee shop) decides to open its doors to the public, it can no longer systematically discriminate against certain classes of people.
The counter to that argument is that political views, unlike race or religion, do not constitute a protected class. So, what’s the right policy? I have no idea.
But I do know this: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is one of the biggest scourges on public health, as he encourages the spread of measles, influenza, and cervical cancer through his anti-vaccine propaganda. (As if that isn’t enough, he also blames vaccines for causing depression, anxiety, suicide, and dementia.) He has no business being on social media.
If the tech giants are really serious about putting a stop to dangerous misinformation, then the decision to ban RFK, Jr. should be a slam dunk. The anti-scientific, anti-medical nonsense he spreads literally kills people. [MEK Note: RFK Jr.’ CHD produces very detailed and scientific articles quoting reputable scientists, doctors, researchers and especially info from government sources. Smearing RFK Jr. and CHD because their well researched opinions disagree with the government and government financed institutions does not make them the bearers of false information.] https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/01/28/why-isnt-anti-vaxxer-robert-f-kennedy-jr-banned-social-media-15305
2021-01-21 Non-Invasive COVID-19 Surface Test to Keep Employees Safe Environmental surveillance testing uses the same quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) technology as clinical diagnostics to test surfaces for the presence of SARS-CoV-2. This testing method is not new; it has been used for decades to monitor for pathogens and biothreats in industries like healthcare and food production and has been used in the manufacturing industry to keep employees safe, monitoring for threats such as Legionella.
This testing method is now available to quantify the risk of SARS-CoV-2 on nearly any surface that we encounter, with the results available in under two hours. High-touch surfaces, like elevator buttons, door handles, railings, and bathroom faucets, could be tested at the end of each shift or workday, before cleaning and disinfection. If a result comes back positive, it indicates that someone with the virus was present in the facility during that specific window of time. https://infectioncontrol.tips/2021/01/21/non-invasive-covid-19-surface-test-to-keep-employees-safe/
2021-01-06 How Can We Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance? One of the biggest problems is that the COVID-19 vaccine has been so politicized. Getting people to trust and accept it is a surprisingly tall hurdle. Communications scientists are tackling that task and trying test messages. I’ve been text banking for the elections all fall and have seen how campaigns try slightly different messages to potential voters. Then, based on feedback and response rate to the different messages, they adapt the message to optimize its effectiveness. It’s very much the same with vaccines.
The most important strategy is to build trust. This includes having a public, expert-driven allocation of vaccines for fairness and equitable access. Another strategy for the general public is showing prominent people receiving vaccinations on television. Of course, some question why politicians who are not in a high-risk group and who have been outspoken opponents of masking and public health campaigns, should “jump the queue” and be vaccinated before health care workers and nursing home residents but many people who are vaccine-hesitant have said they would take the vaccine when Dr. Fauci said that he thought it was ok. He just received the Moderna vaccine; President-elect Biden was given Pfizer’s. https://infectioncontrol.tips/2021/01/06/how-can-we-increase-covid-19-vaccine-acceptance/
2021-01-10 COVID-19 Slaughter, CDC Tragedy, and One U.S. Authority without Blood on His Hands It is easy for progressives to blame the staggering calamity of U.S. COVID-19 deaths solely on Trump. Yes, Donald Trump is a self-serving liar, and his vice president, Mike Pence, as chair of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force and Trump henchman, has blocked life-saving guidance from scientific authorities. There is smoking-gun evidence (some of which I will discuss) that convicts Trump and Pence, but if progressives blame only the Trump administration and not politically-intimidated scientific authorities, they will be guilty of failing to prevent another disastrous response to the next pandemic.
We should have expected more from scientists at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), whose compromising of science was chronicled by ProPublica (“Inside the Fall of the CDC”) and noted by the Center for Infectious Disease and Research Policy (CIDRAP). Both the ProPublica and the CIDRAP reports will be discussed here. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/10/covid-19-slaughter-cdc-tragedy-and-one-u-s-authority-without-blood-on-his-hands/
2020-01-06 Capitalism on a Ventilator: A New Book Analyzes the Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. and China While China contained Covid-19 and preserved its economy, the U.S. spins lies while hundreds of thousands of its people die for lack of even a semblance of a national health system. “The United States has 80 times more deaths than China from COVID-19 despite possessing less than a fourth of the population.”
Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S. is an anthology comprised of more than fifty contributions from authors, activists, and journalists seeking to break through the lies and deceit of the U.S.-led capitalist world that have exacerbated and prolonged the effects of the pandemic. https://www.blackagendareport.com/capitalism-ventilator-new-book-analyzes-impact-covid-19-us-and-china
2021-01-01 Which Countries Have Responded Best to Covid-19? The world should learn from the most successful strategies for testing, quarantine, public communication and economic support.
A successful response to Covid-19 turned out to depend on more than a country’s wealth, scientific prowess and history of public health successes. The U.S. enjoys all of these advantages but mounted one of the worst responses to the pandemic: 1 in every 990 Americans has died from Covid-19 since the pandemic began. Bad politics, quite simply, can trump good public health.
Tiawan had 1 reported Covid-19 death per 3,366,140 people. The U.S. now has more cases and deaths every 5 minutes than Taiwan has had all year. Liberia had 1 reported Covid-19 death per 55,040 people. New Zealand had 1 reported Covid-19 death per 204,360 people. Best location in the U.S.: American Samoa Deaths from Covid-19: Zero.
Best at testing: South Korea 1 reported Covid-19 death per 63,290 people. When it became clear that people without symptoms could spread Covid-19, South Korea tested early and aggressively, conducting more than twice as many tests per capita as other countries in the pandemic’s first weeks. Along with other measures, including extensive and highly effective contact tracing and quarantine, this kept cases from increasing rapidly.
Best at quarantining: Hong Kong 1 reported Covid-19 death per 54,810 people. Hong Kong has one of the highest population densities in the world, yet it kept cases low by establishing mandatory isolation protocols and quarantine centers for people with Covid-19 and those who came in close contact with them. Best economic protection: Denmark 1 reported Covid-19 death per 4,970 people. Some countries excelled at protecting people economically and socially. Best at public communication: Finland 1 reported Covid-19 death per 10,510 people. A few countries have fought rumors and distrust by sharing information with the public widely and openly. Finland, helped by its high media literacy, was able to build on a 2014 initiative that educated people about how to counter false information.
Even as we begin to roll out vaccines, we need to keep learning from experience what works in fighting Covid-19. https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-countries-have-responded-best-to-covid-19-11609516800
2021-01-00 Motherhood and Labor in the Pandemic This is an opportunity to see school and childcare, two staples of our society, anew. We could remake them radically so that when we conquer this pandemic, we have stronger, better and more equal public schools and daycare structures.
Unfortunately, our society hasn’t done that. Instead, what we’ve done is ask women of young children to bear the burden of childcare and remote schooling in this disaster. In the process, we have widened economic and social gender inequalities. We have walked back the gains that feminism had made throughout the 20th century, sending women out of the workforce and back into unpaid household labor and childcare.
This is the moment when the world changes. We should be there to grab it and mold it into the shape that will benefit teachers, parents, and children in the future. https://againstthecurrent.org/atc210/motherhood-and-labor-in-the-pandemic/
2021-01-00 When Science Meets Capital “WE’RE NUMBER ONE!” has been the battle cry of American exceptionalism for decades. In the best of times it rings arrogant and boastful. Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic approaches the year mark and the U.S. death toll climbs over 250,000, the chant has taken on the ghostly pallor of delusional.
Conner condemns the Trump leadership as “characteristically fatuous and obstructionist.” Almost two years before the first confirmed U.S. COVID case, the Trump wrecking crew was busy eliminating the vital early warning system so essential in containing the spread of a virus.
In May, 2018, the White House put the National Security Council directorate on the chopping block. This directorate had been set up, in the wake of the earlier SARS and H1N1 flu alarms, precisely to respond quickly to a potential viral pandemic. Another cost-cutting blow came in September, 2019, when the administration shut down a USAID program called Predict. Predict had been responsible for identifying 1200 viruses, among which — what leaps out in retrospect — 160 were novel coronaviruses. TAS goes on to catalogue blunder after blunder by the science-challenged Trump. https://againstthecurrent.org/atc210/when-science-meets-capital/
2021-01-00The 21st Century Plague THE CALAMITOUS MALFEASANCE of the outgoing Trump regime’s response to the coronavirus pandemic threatens to obscure deeper realities of this global as well as U.S. crisis. The incoming Biden-Harris tem faces a deeper and more menacing emergency of both public health and the economy than the 2008-09 financial meltdown that confronted president Obama’s first year.
Throwing money to keep banks solvent, as in the 2009-10 bailout, will not work this time. Distributing vaccines as they become available is a wartime-level challenge. And the racially-driven polarization of the United States’ political culture, escalating under Trump’s reign, has never been more acute, or dangerous.
Roughly 30% of the U.S. populace — mostly among white people — live in a reality-free alternative universe, impervious to facts and open to the most bizarre conspiracy fantasies. That has serious implications not only for politics, but for dealing with the pandemic, the reception of vaccines, and much else.
In several countries (and U.S. states) initial successes in economic closures and stay-at-home “lockdowns” were followed by too-quick uncontrolled re-opening and new virus surges, so that of the sacrifices people made seemed to have gone for nothing.
Lockdowns and quarantines pose tricky political, public health and civil liberties problems. On the one hand, they work: Melbourne, Australia has emerged from a near-total shutdown after 28 straight days of no new cases or deaths. At the same time, harsh closures inflict social as well as economic damage, and become more difficult to enforce the longer they last and the more they’re repeated. The other side of the coin, in a number of Global South nations, is pandemic denial and neglect to avoid economic damage.
What becomes an intractable contradiction — under capitalism with its inherent inequalities and oppression — between public health and basic rights, could be handled quite differently. In a functioning socialist society, human needs would come first. The development and free distribution of vaccines, and of course all medical services, would be top priority. Public health centers would be widely available on the community level, and if lockdown and quarantine measures became necessary they’d be organized with democratically organized mutual aid and solidarity. In that kind of society people would be supported, not isolated, in circumstances of public health emergency.
Despite vaccines, human society today is increasingly vulnerable to novel pandemics. For one thing, rapid mass global travel can carry a virus to the corners of the earth before it’s even detected at the source. Second, human incursions into wildlife habitats greatly increase the interfaces for virus spread from animal to human hosts. Third is the conversion of natural, diverse ecosystems to much simpler agricultural or farming zones removes ecological checks on the rapid multiplication and spread of pathogens. For all these reasons and more, society needs to anticipate a proliferation of outbreaks becoming global pandemics with increasing frequency.
The outgoing criminal-in-chief Trump has shown himself fully committed to sabotaging the economy, wrecking the incoming administration’s capacity to address the multiple crises facing the country, and poisoning political life for years to come, as he exits screaming “rigged election!” on his way out.
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc210/the-21st-century-plague/
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