These are excerpts of October 2020 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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2020-10-29 My San Quentin Death Row Coronavirus Experience In late January 2020, President Donald Trump was fully aware of the potential danger and present threat of Coronavirus, even as it would take the WHO until March 11 to declare a pandemic. In that same month, San Quentin prisoners received an administrative notification that one of the guards tested positive.
San Quentin’s initial flimsy attempt to thwart the virus was to issue face masks, pass out hand sanitizer, cancel all visiting, halt movement except for emergencies, and split the recreational yard in half in an effort to limit the number of prisoners in close contact. These measures would fail completely.
in early days, San Quentin was still relatively free of any Covid-19 cases. Unfortunately, under a court order, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on May 31 transferred 121 prisoners from CIT to an already overcapacity and overcrowded San Quentin.
Several of these transferred prisoners were put in quarantine the moment they stepped off the bus because they exhibited signs of Covid-19! Unsurprisingly, within a matter of days the virus spread wildly, infecting both inmates and guards in high numbers, leading to a lockdown of the prison.
I don’t expect San Quentin to vanquish the virus anytime soon. But I’m glad to be alive and well, along with everyone else in the world who has survived their encounter with this monstrosity. The coronavirus and Covid-19 remind me exactly how vulnerable I am, along with all the people on earth who live in poor communities without political influence or access to proper medical care. It also reminds me, and should remind everyone, that we are all connected, no matter where we are; we share the same earth and our common humanity should inspire us to preserve it by taking good care of it, and of each other. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/my-san-quentin-death-row-coronavirus-experience/
2020-10-27 Estonia and WHO to jointly develop digital vaccine certificate to strengthen COVAX WHO and Estonia recently agreed to collaborate on developing a digitally enhanced International Certificate of Vaccination, a “smart yellow card” to help strengthen the effectiveness of the COVAX initiative, established to speed development and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
The agreement signed between His Excellency Jüri Ratas, Prime Minister of Estonia and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General on 5 October 2020, covers working together across a range of digital health projects and innovations in addition to the vaccination card. These include a global framework for health data interoperability, and guidelines for national ePrescription and eDispensing systems as well as the European Roadmap for the Digitalization of National Health Systems. https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/estonia-and-who-to-jointly-develop-digital-vaccine-certificate-to-strengthen-covax
2020-10-21 How to Get a Non-Invasive COVID Test for Kids Brain-tickling nose swabs make testing kids a nightmare. Here are your alternatives. Spitting into a test tube is more pleasant than getting swabbed in the back of the nose, and recent studies suggest it may be as accurate. When getting your kids a spit test for COVID-19, make sure they don’t eat or drink for at least a half-hour before the test. They will be asked to spit and drool between one and five milliliters of saliva into a small test tube, which can take up to 12 minutes. The sample is then shipped off to a lab and analyzed for the coronavirus. https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/covid-testing-for-kids-non-invasive/
2020-08-20 Corrupted: Those Left Behind We’re focusing on those who have found it especially difficult to get relief, either because the government’s response has favored corporate interests over individual people’s needs, or because relief programs failed to help businesses in time before they folded. There are leftover relief funds and opportunities for new legislation, but it’s too late for some. So, while large companies, companies owned by billionaires, and businesses linked to political elites rapidly scooped up billions in relief loans and government contracts, those who were already at a disadvantage before COVID-19—and are enduring the worst of the pandemic’s health and economic fallout—are left scrounging for crumbs.
Jameian Selmon had to permanently shut down her event-planning business early in the pandemic as clients cancelled their weddings. She’s just one of about 440,000 Black business owners who had to close their doors permanently by mid-April. As another Black business owner told the New York Times, “it’s been a consistent rollercoaster trying to get help” weathering the pandemic. “As far as I know, most of the people that are in our area have gotten nothing or the bare minimum, and they’re still waiting,” Juliet Andersen, who owns two businesses in the Bronx, told the Times.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially devastating for Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans due to socioeconomic factors dating back decades and centuries, as well as for all low-income Americans.
The Trump administration has exacerbated the problem by making it more difficult for certain unemployed Americans to obtain benefits, while giving employers more leeway when applying for exemptions allowed by relief legislation. For example, gig workers are required to file burdensome paperwork to prove they qualify. By comparison, companies that qualify for an exemption from new paid family leave regulations are not required to file paperwork explaining why they must deny employees that leave.
Adding insult to injury, powerful pro-business advocacy groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable are aggressively lobbying Congress to not extend unemployment benefits in the next relief package, while the groups’ member companies eagerly snap up millions in pandemic relief.
The Paycheck Protection Program was intended to help small businesses retain workers by providing loans, largely for payroll expenses, with the possibility of forgiveness if businesses met certain requirements. in many cases, the loans were simply not enough to survive on for more than a few months. So the loans were essentially “a Band-Aid on a bullet wound,” as one small-business owner told the Washington Post.
As lawmakers consider additional relief legislation, they need to take a hard look at what’s worked and what hasn’t worked to help those in need. The CARES Act relief bill, passed in late March, was heavily influenced by corporate lobbyists, with special carve-outs and tax breaks favoring large corporations and specific industries. https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/08/corrupted-those-left-behind/
World First Non-invasive Covid-19 Test https://www.timeshighereducation.com/hub/p/world-first-non-invasive-covid-19-test
2020-10-15 Inside the Fall of the CDC How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
CDC trying to craft guidance to help Americans return safely to worship amid worries that two of its greatest comforts — the chanting of prayers and singing of hymns — could launch a deadly virus into the air with each breath. a furious call came from the office of the vice president: The White House suggestions were not optional. The CDC’s failure to use them was insubordinate, according to emails at the time. Fifteen minutes later, one of Butler’s deputies had the agency’s text replaced with the White House version, the emails show. The danger of singing wasn’t mentioned.
A cataclysmic chain of mistakes and disputes inside the CDC labs making the first U.S. test for COVID-19. A respected lab scientist made a fateful decision to use a process that risked contamination, saw signs of trouble, but sent the tests to public health labs anyway. Many of those tests didn’t work, and the scramble to fix them had serious consequences.
Leading that briefing was Messonnier, the no-nonsense director of the CDC’s powerful immunization and respiratory diseases center, who’d come to prominence during the 2001 anthrax attacks. Asked by the media team to add a personal touch, Messonnier said she’d told her children they needed to prepare for a significant disruption of their lives. But her words had rocked Wall Street and the White House. The market’s fall infuriated the president. Trump had privately confessed to author Bob Woodward that he was publicly downplaying the virus to prevent panic. The CDC would pay the price for undercutting that narrative. The next day, Trump put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of his coronavirus task force and assumed the role of communicator-in-chief. The CDC, which had been the public face of the government during every health crisis in memory, soon became nearly invisible.
In August, the CDC stunned infectious disease doctors everywhere when it recommended that people who had close contact with a COVID patient didn’t necessarily need testing if they didn’t have symptoms.
Once seen as an apolitical bulwark, the CDC endured meddling on multiple fronts by officials with little or no public health experience, from Trump’s daughter Ivanka to Stephen Miller, the architect of the president’s immigration crackdown.
Veteran CDC specialists with global reputations were marginalized, silenced or reassigned — often for simply doing what had always been their job. Some of the agency’s most revered scientists vanished from public view after speaking candidly about the virus.
ProPublica obtained hundreds of emails and other internal government documents and interviewed more than 30 CDC employees, contractors and Trump administration officials who witnessed or were involved in key moments of the crisis. Although news organizations around the world have chronicled the CDC’s stumbles in real time, ProPublica’s reporting affords the most comprehensive inside look at the escalating tensions, paranoia and pained discussions that unfolded behind the walls of CDC’s Atlanta headquarters. And it sheds new light on the botched COVID-19 tests, the unprecedented political interference in public health policy, and the capitulations of some of the world’s top public health leaders.
Senior CDC staff describe waging battles that are as much about protecting science from the White House as protecting the public from COVID-19. It is a war that they have, more often than not, lost. When the next history of the CDC is written, 2020 will emerge as perhaps the darkest chapter in its 74 years, rivaled only by its involvement in the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which federal doctors withheld medicine from poor Black men with syphilis, then tracked their descent into blindness, insanity and death. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc
2020-10-14 YouTube deletes videos against the WHO Covid “consensus” The way YouTube phrased it in a company blog post on Wednesday is that content about vaccine(s) will be banned if it goes against “consensus” that exists between “local” – i.e., national – healthcare authorities, and the global one, the World Health Organization (WHO). But YouTube is already hard at work, with more than 200,000 videos about “Covid misinformation” removed from the platform.
Specifically, content that expresses suspicion the vaccine might have grave consequences on human health, all the way up to killing people. (Once again, while there is value in not helping spread any kind of unsubstantiated panic, Google/YouTube/WHO at present really have no way of knowing that a future vaccine might not in fact cause harm – this is all yet to be determined.) https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-to-delete-videos-that-go-against-the-who-coronavirus-vaccines/
2020-10-14 YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation YouTube says it already removes content that disputes the existence or transmission of COVID-19, promotes medically unsubstantiated methods of treatment, discourages people from seeking medical care or explicitly disputes health authorities’ guidance on self-isolation or social distancing. Conspiracy theories and misinformation about the new coronavirus vaccines have proliferated on social media during the pandemic, including through anti-vaccine personalities on YouTube and through viral videos shared across multiple platforms. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube/youtube-bans-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation-idUSKBN26Z1VD
2020-10-13 Vitamin C Cuts COVID Deaths by Two-Thirds The world’s first randomized placebo controlled trial designed to test high dose intravenous vitamin C for treatment of COVID-19 has reduced mortality in the most critically ill patients by two thirds. [1] The study, headed by Professor Zhiyong Peng at Wuhan’s Zhongnan University Hospital, started in February and gave every other critically ill COVID-19 patient on ventilators either 12,000 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C twice daily or sterile water in their drip. Neither the patient nor the doctors knew who was getting vitamin C or placebo so the trial was “double blind.” This is the ‘gold standard’ of research design.
Overall, 5 out 26 people (19%) died in the vitamin C group while 10 out of 28 (36%) receiving the placebo died. That means that vitamin C almost halved the number of deaths. Those on vitamin C were 60% more likely to survive.https://orthomolecular.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=38af86134b65d0f10fe33d30dd76442e.180&s=6b6cc4626fada8f20d5ca92000534ec7
2020-10-05 Why is Trump Not Facing Impeachment Over COVID-19? If the House of Representatives felt a year ago that Trump’s attempt to use his office for political gain by manipulating Ukraine’s president was worthy of impeachment, then surely abrogating his responsibility to protect people from a predictable and deadly disease is far worse. The evidence of his wrongdoing is all out in the open, and the impact of it is far greater as measured in human lives than anything he has done since 2017. Not impeaching him on this issue in essence lets him off the hook for transgressions too vast to be ignored. Voting him out of office is a good short-term mechanism to stop the crime. But it is neither guaranteed to work nor is it a means by which to hold him accountable for the mass deaths he has overseen.
Laying out Trump’s criminal negligence of the pandemic is an easy exercise. He has numbed the American people so much to his bluster, rapid-fire lies, gaslighting, unethical deeds and corruption, that we are giving him a pass on the mass deaths he has helped to cause by simply relying on an election to oust him. Just because we are fatigued by his endless criminality does not mean that the ever-increasing death toll from the disease ought to be swept under the rug. The staggering crime is not even over—it continues through to today and racks up more victims daily. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/05/why-is-trump-not-facing-impeachment-over-covid-19/
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