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2021-09-15 Pandemic Triggered ‘Avalanche’ of Kids and Teens With Mental Health Problems — But They Have Nowhere to Go Medical experts across the country say the mental health of children deteriorated during the pandemic — with a large number of children taking up beds in emergency rooms due to a shortage of placements, providers and resources to combat the crisis.
Since the onset of the pandemic, Children’s hospitals throughout the country have seen a “meteoric” rise in the number of children who need mental health help. To make matters worse, hospitals that struggled to meet the demand for mental health services before the pandemic are now dealing with even fewer resources — like hospital beds, providers, therapists and counseling — thanks to COVID.
Mental health among young people deteriorated during the pandemic when cabin fever increased family conflicts and closed schools left children isolated from activities and their peers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts during February and March of 2021 were more than 50% higher for teen girls compared to 2019, and more than 4% higher for boys. From April to October 2020, U.S. hospitals saw a 31% increase in 12- to 17-year-old kids seeking help for their mental health, and a 24% increase for kids ages 5 to 11. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-pandemic-kids-teens-mental-health-problems/
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With new mandates being rolled out almost daily, every aspect of your life, from employment to travel to entertainment to education to access to healthcare — even to being able to obtain a bank loan — may soon be tied to your vaccine status.
And if public health officials get their way, no child in this country will be able to attend school without multiple injections of an experimental vaccine — for a virus that poses little or no threat to them. We are in the fight of our lives — not just in the United States, but around the world. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tax-deductible-donation-childrens-health-defense-medical-constitutional-freedom/
2021-09-15 When It Comes to the Delta Variant, the Kids Are All Right Here’s the cost-benefit calculus parents need to consider — and it’s not a close call. There’s little evidence that the Delta variant is more dangerous for kids than earlier versions of the virus. It spreads more easily, yes, but the minuscule death rate among infected children continues to drop compared with versions of the virus circulating last year.
By the end of July 2021, more than 80 percent of COVID-19 cases (adults and children) were caused by the Delta variant, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That sounds like an alarming statistic, and in some ways, it is. But when it comes to children, the facts don’t merit panic. In July, eight children under age 15 died, compared with 17 in July 2020. Some of the decrease may be due to improved treatment and vaccination of children 12 years and older, but the case fatality rate for children too young for the vaccine is lower than last year.
Even older variants are not particularly dangerous for children. According to the CDC, of the 633,786 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began in February 2020, 470 were children under 18.
Any child’s death is tragic, but this number needs to be put into perspective. COVID-19 deaths among children last year are comparable to the number of children who die annually in automobile accidents (636 in 2018) and the estimated 480 deaths from flu among the same age group during the 2018–19 flu season. As Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, put it, “We don’t shut down schools in flu season.”
That’s not to say that no parent needs to worry about COVID-19. Immune-compromised children and those with chronic illnesses such as diabetes might need to stay home during viral outbreaks at their schools. Parents, along with school administrators and public health officials—and, for that matter, doctors—need to balance the risk of COVID-19 infection for generally healthy children, which for the vast majority is either asymptomatic or no worse than a cold, against the harms of missing school.
We also don’t shut down schools or keep kids home for the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, another virus that most kids have had by the age of two—and that kills anywhere from 100 to 500 children under the age of five every year. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/09/15/when-it-comes-to-the-delta-variant-the-kids-are-all-right/
2021-09-15 Judges Temporarily Block Vaccine Mandates for NYC Teachers, NY Medical Workers Two court rulings on Tuesday could have big impacts on New York vaccine mandates. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Aug. 23 ordered New York City public school teachers and staff must get vaccinated for the new academic year. The city’s mandate said the Department of Education employees had until Sept. 27 to get at least one dose of the vaccine. New York Supreme Court Judge Laurence Love on Tuesday issued a restraining order against the mayor’s mandate, temporarily blocking the city from enforcing it. The ruling came after several municipal unions sued the city. https://pix11.com/news/coronavirus/judges-block-vaccine-mandates-nyc-teachers-ny-health-care-workers/
2021-09-15 Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is Unconstitutional On September 9, President Joe Biden unveiled his COVID-19 Action Plan, “a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy” to combat the pandemic. The most controversial provision, covering some 80 million Americans, mandates that all employers with 100 or more employees must ensure that each worker is either fully vaccinated or provides weekly negative COVID test results.
Republican governors were quick to condemn the mandate, with some vowing legal challenges … the courts are likely to strike down Biden’s mandate as a clear violation of the Constitution’s principles of federalism and separation of powers. https://www.city-journal.org/biden-vaccine-mandate-unconstitutional
2021-09-15 U.S. Travel Ban: Are Vaccine Passports the Reason for Stalling? The use of vaccine/health passports for travel in the U.S. received two sources of support this week. One was in the form of a new bill heading to the House of Representatives (asking for all plane and train travelers in the U.S. to show proof of their COVID-19 health status) and the other was from Dr Fauci, declaring his support for banning unvaccinated Americans from flying. Indeed, it has been reported that the White House is only considering reopening travel up to EU and U.K. travelers if people can show proof of vaccination. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/09/15/us-travel-ban-are-vaccine-passports-the-reason-for-stalling/
2021-09-15 California Sheriff Refuses to Enforce Vaccine Mandate, Says Government Lacks ‘Authority’ A California sheriff said he will not enforce any vaccine mandate on employees of his department, citing the government having “no authority to mandate your health choices.” “Over the past couple of weeks, the idea of forced vaccination has caused much concern across the entire country,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said in a statement released Monday. “I will not enforce the vaccine mandate on Sheriff’s Department employees.” “The government has no ability and no authority to mandate your health choices,” he said. “As your sheriff, I have an obligation to guard your liberty and freedom.” https://www.foxnews.com/us/riverside-county-sheriff-california-wont-enforce-vaccine-mandate
2021-09-15 A Pfizer Analysis Makes the Case for a COVID Vaccine Booster The Food and Drug Administration released an analysis by Pfizer on the need for a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer’s analysis says data from Israel and the United States in the context of the Delta variant suggests “that vaccine protection against COVID-19 infection wanes approximately 6 to 8 months following the second dose.” The company said the available data supports its request for FDA approval of a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to be given about six months after the second dose in people 16 years and older. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/15/1037285192/pfizer-analysis-makes-case-for-covid-booster
2021-09-15 Doctor Argues for More Research Into Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines on Menstruation Clinical trials for coronavirus vaccines should include examination of any possible effects on women’s menstrual cycles — if only because so many women are worried about possible problems, a British expert argued Wednesday. But there’s also evidence the immune response prompted by both vaccines and viral infections can temporarily affect menstrual cycles, so studying these effects is important, Dr. Victoria Male, a reproductive specialist at Imperial College London, wrote in the BMJ. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/health/covid-vaccines-menstruation-wellness/index.html
2021-09-15 COVID Vaccine Mandates Wreak Havoc on Healthcare System, Workforce Draconian COVID policies and vaccine mandates are creating an uncertain future for a health care system that was already on shaky ground even before the terrible COVID policies took hold.
In January 2020 — pre-COVID — the Commonwealth Fund published a sobering report. The report shared a number of depressing findings. First, despite the U.S. spending twice as much on healthcare (as a share of the economy) as comparable wealthy nations, Americans have the lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates. Nor is America’s poor bang for its healthcare buck anything sudden or new — a 30-year-old study that compared the U.S. to 15 OECD nations reached the same conclusions.
Restrictive COVID policies have worsened these health indicators, with mounting deaths of despair and a plummeting life expectancy that researchers predict will drop still further. The draconian policies — and especially COVID vaccine mandates for healthcare workers (HCWs) — are also wreaking havoc on the U.S. healthcare system and health workforce. Astoundingly high percentages of HCWs have experienced adverse events after accepting the jabs, rendering some unfit for duty. And among HCWs who, having done their due diligence, have chosen to decline the injections, firings and resignations are growing increasingly commonplace. These kinds of handicaps portend an uncertain future for a healthcare system that was already on shaky ground even before the terrible COVID policies took hold.
States imposing top-down HCW mandates may need to brace for some heavy fallout. The U.S. is already in the midst of an unprecedented nursing shortage, and as the mandates drive out even more of the best and brightest, the situation promises to get worse. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-mandates-health-care-system-workforce/
2021-09-15 FDA Strikes Cautious, Neutral Tone Ahead of Friday Vaccine Booster Meeting Influential government advisers will debate Friday if there’s enough proof that a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective — the first step toward deciding which Americans need one and when. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday posted much of the evidence its advisory panel will consider. The agency struck a decidedly neutral tone on the rationale for boosters — an unusual and careful approach that’s all the more striking after President Joe Biden and his top health advisers trumpeted a booster campaign they hoped to begin next week. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/fda-covid-vaccine-booster-meeting/507-ff4575d7-7056-4308-9978-7e91b70567a3
2021-09-15 The U.S. Makes Coronavirus Vaccinations Mandatory for New Immigrants Beginning Oct. 1, new immigrants to the United States must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a news release on Tuesday. People seeking to become “lawful permanent residents” — or green card holders — have permission to live in the United States and eventually seek citizenship. Applicants for permanent residency must undergo a medical examination.
The new requirement for those seeking permanent U.S. residency is in line with President Biden’s new vaccine mandates for federal workers and contractors. The Pentagon has announced that active-duty military personnel also must be vaccinated. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/politics/us-immigrants-covid-vaccine-requirement.htm
2021-09-15 Big Tech and Privacy: Apple Flirts With the ‘Dark Side’ Apple has built a reputation as the “least evil” Big Tech giant when it comes to privacy. All these companies — Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon — collect our data and essentially spy on us in a multitude of ways. Apple, however, has cultivated a reputation as by far the least invasive of our mainstream technology options. Their recent dramatic reversal on this issue has caused an uproar. What is going on, and what should we do about it? https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/big-tech-privacy-apple/
2021-09-15 Arizona Becomes First State to Sue Biden Administration Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Arizona’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to invalidate President Biden’s latest COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and large companies, becoming the first state to mount a legal challenge to the administration’s newest rules.
In a 14-page complaint filed with a federal district court in Arizona, Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued Mr. Biden’s new vaccine requirements unconstitutionally discriminate against U.S. citizens because undocumented immigrants apprehended by federal law enforcement are not subject to a federal vaccination requirement. While the details of the policies are still being worked out and yet to be made public, the attorney general said they are an “egregious” violation of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-sues-biden-administration-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/
2021-09-15 After Resident Dies, Caregivers Allege Vax Coverup at Assisted Living Facility Two whistleblowers who previously worked for a senior assisted living facility are leveling some damning accusations about the treatment of residents, including the claim that they are being told the COVID-19 vaccine is just a flu shot. The former caregiver also alleged that signature forgery is routine at Aegis Living. “In the past I had not signed for certain things that I knew I hadn’t completed, and I was told by the ACD [Associate Care Director] who had told me to sign them, that I needed to just sign them anyways. Even if I hadn’t completed the task,” Renner said. “…I noticed the other day, or like a little bit ago that one of my signatures looks like it wasn’t mine.” “I had found out that my signature had been forged multiple times. Someone signed for me to claim that I had completed a service that I specifically did not sign because it was not completed,” she added. https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/09/15/after-resident-dies-caregivers-allege-vaxx-coverup-at-assisted-living-facility-lying-to-elderly-forcing-jab-forging-signatures-1134624/
2021-09-15 A ‘Gene Silencing’ Injection Was Just Approved for Use in Humans A new method is nearing a critical development threshold. The United Kingdom’s NHS approved a new cholesterol-reducing shot that will be provided to 300,000 people throughout the next three years, according to a press release from the U.K. agency. Crucially, this marks the first use for a novel new therapeutic called “gene silencing” to treat common illnesses. https://interestingengineering.com/gene-silencing-injection-approved-for-use-in-humans
2021-09-14 Vaccinating People Who Have Had COVID-19: Why Doesn’t Natural Immunity Count in the U.S.? The CDC estimates that SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 100 million Americans, and evidence is mounting that natural immunity is at least as protective as vaccination. Yet public health leadership says everyone needs the vaccine.
When the vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than one quarter of Americans — 91 million — had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate. As of this May, that proportion had risen to more than a third of the population, including 44% of adults aged 18-59.
The substantial number of infections, coupled with the increasing scientific evidence that natural immunity was durable, led some medical observers to ask why natural immunity didn’t seem to be factored into decisions about prioritizing vaccination. “Many of us were saying let’s use [the vaccine] to save lives, not to vaccinate people already immune,”
As more U.S. employers, local governments and educational institutions issue vaccine mandates that make no exception for those who have had COVID-19, questions remain about the science and ethics of treating this group of people as equally vulnerable to the virus — or as equally threatening to those vulnerable to COVID-19 — and to what extent politics has played a role.
As COVID cases surged in Israel this summer, the Ministry of Health reported the numbers by immunity status. Between July 5 and Aug. 3, just 1% of weekly new cases were in people who had previously had COVID-19. “the data suggest that the recovered have better protection than people who were vaccinated.”
The ire being directed at people who are unvaccinated is also indiscriminate — and emanating from America’s highest office. President Biden left no room for those questioning the public health necessity or personal benefit of vaccinating people who have had COVID-19: “We have a pandemic because of the unvaccinated … So, get vaccinated. If you haven’t, you’re not nearly as smart as I said you were.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-covid-natural-immunity/
2021-09-14 Questions Linger on Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors Contracting experts have additional questions about the vaccine mandate for federal contractors ahead of the supplemental guidance expected to be released later this month.
President Biden issued an executive order on September 9 requiring federal contractors, as well as federal employees, to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. The order outlines what should be implemented over the next month and how, but the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force will issue supplemental guidance by September 24 that will further explain the requirements and any exceptions.
The order “applies to new contracts or solicitations issued on or after October 15, 2021, as well as extensions or renewals of existing contracts, or exercises of options on existing contracts, that occur on or after October 15, 2021.” Since there is this ramp-up period, the Biden administration’s Safer Federal Workforce Task Force said in an update on Monday that “prior to being contractually required to be vaccinated, onsite contractor employees who are not fully vaccinated and are not part of an agency testing program must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test from no later than the previous three days prior to entry to federal building.” https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/09/questions-linger-vaccine-mandate-federal-contractors/185343/
2021-09-14 ‘I Just Want My Life Back’ Says 16-Year-Old Who Developed Neurological Symptoms After Pfizer Vaccine In an exclusive interview with The Defender, 16-year-old Sarah Green and her mother described Sarah’s neurological symptoms following vaccination with Pfizer, and how doctors wouldn’t acknowledge the vaccine might be to blame. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sarah-green-16-year-old-neurological-symptoms-pfizer-vaccine/
2021-09-14 GOP Lawmakers Call for Pelosi to Subpoena Fauci on COVID-19 Origin A group of House Republicans led by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas are calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to direct the committees of jurisdiction to subpoena multiple public health officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci — to gain answers on the origin of the coronavirus. In a letter sent to Pelosi on Tuesday, the lawmakers said that they have unsuccessfully attempted to seek information from multiple officials about the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) funding they believe may have been used for gain-of-function research, which can make viruses more infectious. https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/gop-pols-call-for-pelosi-to-subpoena-fauci-on-covid-origin/
2021-09-14 Thousands of State Workers Seek Exemptions to Washington Vaccine Mandate Workers must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18, or lose their jobs unless they have either a medical or religious exemption. More than 4,300 state workers are seeking an exemption to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. That’s about 7% of the approximately 60,000 employees subject to the requirement. https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/washington-state-workers-seeking-covid-19-vaccines-religious-medical-exemptions/281-37b21bdf-6af7-4d5d-ab5e-a02c19954661
2021-09-13 Children’s Health Defense Responds to Biden’s ‘Declaration of War Against Unvaccinated’ In a “deeply disturbing” speech last week, President Biden exhorted medical coercion of an experimental gene therapy for a virus with a 99% survival rate for a large portion of the population, and for which no one bears financial liability in cases where injuries or deaths occur.
He went further still, empathizing with the anger and anxiety of those who’ve been vaccinated and thus presumably protected. He threatened, “We cannot let the unvaccinated undo this progress,” although he muddled the words in delivery.
Biden also took a potshot at dissenting doctors, suggesting they are “conspiracy theorists,” not “real doctors.” His comments echoed the calls of others, including the Federation of State Medical Boards, to take away the medical licenses of doctors who dare to raise questions about vaccine safety.
The president’s speech was deeply disturbing. He exhorted medical coercion of an experimental gene therapy for a virus with a 99% survival rate for a large portion of the population, and for which no one bears financial liability in cases where injuries or deaths occur.
Furthermore, Biden misled the public on vaccine approval. He suggested that because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine on Aug. 23, there’s nothing more for the unvaccinated to “wait for.”
However, the FDA has not licensed the Moderna, Johnson & Johnson (marketed as Janssen) and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, and the licensed Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine is largely unavailable in the U.S.
The shots that are available are overwhelmingly Emergency Use Authorization only, to which federal law requires the right of refusal, under Title 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mary-holland-chd-bidens-war-against-unvaccinated
2021-09-13 Adolescent Boys at Higher Risk of Hospitalization From Pfizer Vaccine Than From COVID According to a new pre-print study, boys between the ages of 12 and 15, with no underlying medical conditions, were four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than they were to be hospitalized with COVID.
The rate of myocarditis after two doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to be 162.2 cases per million for healthy 12- to 15-year-old boys, and 94 cases per million for healthy 16- to 17-year-old boys. The equivalent rates for girls were 13.4 and 13 cases per million, respectively.
At current U.S. infection rates, the risk of a healthy adolescent being taken to the hospital with COVID in the next 120 days is about 44 per million, they said.
Most children who experienced myocarditis had symptoms within days of the second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine, though a similar side-effect was seen with Moderna’s COVID vaccine. About 86% of the boys affected required hospital care, the authors said.
On Sept. 13, UK’s chief medical officers recommended children 12 to 15 years old be offered one dose of a COVID vaccine to help reduce disruption to education, BBC news reported. A single dose was recommended due to the potential risks of myocarditis associated with COVID vaccines.
They acknowledged current COVID vaccines are less effective against the Delta variant compared to previous variants. Estimates also suggest more than half of secondary school age children may already have been infected and acquired natural immunity.
The vaccine is likely to be given in schools, and parents will be asked to give consent. However, if a child and parent are of opposing views and the child is considered competent to decide, the child will get the final say.
It will now be up to ministers whether to accept the recommendation of the UK’s four chief medical officers. Norway also announced it will recommend only one jab due to the risk of myocarditis in teens. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/adolescent-boys-risk-hospitalization-pfizer-vaccine
2021-09-13 Mu Variant, Which May Be Vaccine-Resistant, in All 50 States After Nebraska Case The COVID-19 Mu variant was confirmed to be in all 50 U.S. states after the mutation was detected in Nebraska. According to Outbreak.Info, which uses data from the GISAID virus reporting network, 5,659 Mu variant sequences have been detected worldwide, as of September 4. Of those, 2,436 were detected in the U.S. https://www.newsweek.com/mu-variant-which-may-vaccine-resistant-all-50-states-after-nebraska-case-1627297
2021-09-13 Fauci Botched the AIDS Epidemic so Big Pharma Could Profit. He’s Doing It Again With COVID. During the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Dr. Anthony Fauci discouraged and prevented inexpensive treatments for AIDS and focused exclusively on AZT. He’s doing the same thing today with COVID, focusing on highly profitable vaccines and ignoring potentially safe and effective treatments.
Fauci, named head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984, sparked panic among Americans in the 1980s when he wrote in a medical journal that AIDS could be transmitted not only through sexual contact and sharing needles, but also through “ordinary close contact” with the infected.
Fauci’s remarks followed the discovery of an infant diagnosed with AIDS — a case we would later learn was caused when the child passed through the womb of an infected mother. But the damage was already done. “Public panic had intensified and people were fearing they could get aids from sharing a toilet seat or even from shaking hands. People living with AIDS were being alienated and ostracized from their jobs, homes, communities, and gay men, in particular, were heavily stigmatized.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-fauci-aids-epidemic-covid-vaccines-profits/
2021-09-10 Q&A on Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine-or-Test Rule The most controversial part of the plan is Biden’s directive to the Labor Department to develop a temporary emergency rule for businesses with 100 or more employees that would require workers to be fully vaccinated or be tested at least once a week. Republican governors have threatened to sue the administration to stop implementation of the plan.
Some experts have said the vaccine requirement is legal under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. But as we noted, Republicans have said they will mount legal challenges, and the act hasn’t been used to implement vaccine requirements before. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/09/qa-on-bidens-covid-19-vaccine-or-test-rule/
2021-09-10 Pfizer to Seek FDA EUA for COVID-19 Vaccine for 5- to 11-Year-Olds in Coming Weeks Children as young as five years old may soon get the COVID-19 vaccine. Friday, Pfizer announced that it would submit its clinical trials for their 5 to 11-year-olds to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the coming weeks. This March, Pfizer began testing 4,500 children in a three-age group trial for their COVID-19 vaccine. The groups include school-age children from five to eleven, preschool age children from two to five, and infants from six months to two years old. https://www.10news.com/news/coronavirus/pfizer-to-seek-fda-eua-for-covid-19-vaccine-for-5-to-11-year-olds-in-coming-weeks
2021-09-09 FDA Authorizes Additional Batch of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine From Troubled Baltimore Plant The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized an additional batch of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson at an East Baltimore plant where regulators previously determined several million doses of vaccine were unusable. It is not clear how many doses the new batch contains, but regulators said in a Wednesday letter that they meet the agency’s standards for safety and effectiveness. https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-fda-johnson-johnson-baltimore-batch-20210909-pttd7ypd3rhznmhfbj7fjujesy-story.html
2021-09-08 COVID Vaccines: Public Deserves More Than ‘Just Trust Us’ The notion that corporate, government and scientific forces are collaborating in our best interests is based on a pretense worth examining — blind acceptance of any industry’s solutions for a global crisis has no foundation.
Reports over the last few months about the proposed multi-billion-dollar settlements to end huge opioid-related lawsuits clearly reflect the attitude of drug manufacturers and distributors. Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which marketed the opiate derivative OxyContin as non-addictive, is demanding broad legal immunity in exchange for its $4.5 billion settlement.
With consistent strategy, and in the wake of Big Pharma’s benevolent status for rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines, the defendants are not taking any responsibility for contributing to the opioid epidemic. Rather, for their billions, they are demanding all states and municipalities involved in all lawsuits agree to never again associate their products with drug addiction. Corporations have offered to buy silence about their complicity in the death of half a million people over the last 20 years.
“These deaths did not have to happen. This epidemic was manufactured by an army of pharmaceutical executives and drug distributors.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), empowered to protect the public, has not been able to resist the commanding influence of the pharmaceutical industry. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), empowered to protect the public, has not been able to resist the commanding influence of the pharmaceutical industry.
And now, as the world faces the challenges of an ongoing pandemic, there is unwarranted blind faith in this same consortium. The development of vaccines was fast and furious in the name of an explosive health crisis. Yet when scrutiny of every detail is most needed, the pharmaceutical industry has been given extensive room for error and foul play. The FDA continues to dance to the tune of the pharmaceutical industry as the vaccine makes staggering profits — this should cause immense concern.
And why are those who question their veracity condemned and ostracized? The emotional pleadings and attempts to ostracize anyone who questions whether they should have a COVID-19 vaccination have the telltale signs of a deceitful public relations campaign. Most legitimate questions about the vaccine program from doctors and scientists are now lumped together with challenges mounted by politically motivated, conspiratorial sensationalists.
There is a cult-like, unconscionable attitude toward those who dispute any aspect of the vaccination plan. Instead, angry blame is mounting, with an implication that the unvaccinated are causing the pandemic to continue. The outrage would be more practically applied if focused on known risk factors such as unhealthy diet and poor nutrition, obesity and diabetes.
Why isn’t COVID-19 news coverage replete with guidance for those at risk, with convincing articles concerning life-style and dietary choices? It is because nothing but messages that support vaccination production and sales are acceptable. Deviation from this doctrine is taboo.
As of May 1, the CDC stopped gathering data on breakthrough cases that were not hospitalizations or deaths. This quiet decision came concurrently with the revelation that newer highly contagious variants could infect the vaccinated. With minimal or no symptoms, these people could continue to infect others unknowingly. It is also possible this could drive new variants. Ignoring critical information about breakthrough cases directly illustrates how countering vaccine efficacy is off-limits. This approach to maintaining status quo for a product is not new. An atmosphere where marginalizing dissent and minimizing non-supportive data has been the precursor to every abuse and scandal where Big Pharma dominated the conversation.
With a tremendous financial incentive to grow the market, there is very little discussion about how profits might be influencing promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine. And now the messaging includes that everyone might need to be dosed repeatedly for new variants, perhaps for years. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-public-deserves-more-than-just-trust-us
2021-09-08 Rutgers Freezes Accounts of Several Non-Vaccinated Students According to Rutgers University, more than 98 percent of undergrads have complied with its mandate that students upload their coronavirus vaccine card in order to return to dorms and classes this fall. But the few students who chose not to get the vaccine are now finding themselves locked out of fall classes, even classes they had planned to take online only. Adriana Pinto, 22, is one of those students. Pinto is represented by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that is already suing Rutgers over its vaccine mandate, and Julio Gomez, the Scotch Plains lawyer who filed the lawsuit. According to Gomez, Pinto decided not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. She only has one class left to graduate, Quantitative Methods for her psychology degree, which was offered to students either in person or over Zoom this fall. https://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/rutgers-freezes-accounts-several-non-vaccinated-students
2021-09-08 WHO Extends Call for Moratorium on COVID Booster Doses Until End of Year The World Health Organization has extended its call for a moratorium on COVID-19 booster doses until at least the end of the year. The WHO previously urged world leaders to hold off on booster doses until the end of September. “There has been little change in the global situation since then, so today I am calling for an extension of the moratorium until at least the end of the year to enable every country to vaccinate at least 40% of its population,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing Wednesday. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/08/who-extends-call-for-a-moratorium-on-covid-booster-doses-until-the-end-of-the-year.html
2021-09-08 The Cause of COVID Deaths No One Wants to Talk About Governments focused on the virus itself, fighting it with drugs and vaccines or avoiding it with quarantines and isolation, but ignored the toxic exposures that degrade immune systems, greatly increasing the risk of serious complications and death from COVID.
To find the real culprit behind the pandemic, we must look beyond the coronavirus to the various factors that degrade our immune systems, which greatly increases the risk of dying or having serious complications from the virus. Strategies that target the virus — quarantine, repurposing old drugs, vaccines, etc. — address the most visible outcomes of the pandemic, but not the underlying causes that make many of us vulnerable to infection in the first place.
We know that the vast majority of deaths from COVID-19 are among the elderly with comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, immune compromised status, cancer and obesity.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were comorbidities or other conditions listed on the death certificates of as many as 95% of all COVID-19 deaths. These chronic diseases have been linked to what the study authors call “toxic stressor exposures” (chemical, physical, biological, or psychological stressors) that inhibit the immune system’s ability to deal with viruses.
In short, it is the pervasive, constant exposure to toxic stressors in our environment, in combination with genetic factors, that cause us to develop diseases that impair our immune systems and make us susceptible to serious COVID-19 infection. These factors include:
- Lifestyle: lack of exercise, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, poor diet of processed foods, sugar, and refined grains, and sleep deprivation;
- Pharmaceutical drugs: More than half of adults 65 and older (54%) report taking four or more prescription drugs;
- Biotoxins like mold, viruses, and bacteria;
- Environmental exposures to things like endocrine disruptors, radiation and Wi-Fi, heavy metals, PFAS, fine particulate matter and many others;
- Psychosocial factors like depression and stress.
2021-09-08 ‘Medical Racism’ Producer Tells RFK, Jr.: Black Americans ‘Waking Up to Medical Tyranny’ Kevin Jenkins, CEO of Urban Global Health Alliance and producer of the film, “Medical Racism,” told RFK, Jr. that Blacks and whites must unite to fight the greatest tyrannies of all time. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-medical-racism-kevin-jenkins-tyranny/
2021-09-08 30-Year-Old Still Seeking Answers 6 Months After Developing Neurological Complications Following Pfizer Vaccine In an interview with The Defender, Dominique De Silva described her frustration trying to get answers for the neurological complications she developed after her first dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, and with doctors who dismissed her symptoms and refused to acknowledge the vaccine as a possible cause. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dominique-de-silva-covid-vaccine-injury-neurological
2021-09-08 Novavax Begins Early-Stage Trial for Combined Flu/COVID Vaccine Vaccine developer Novavax said on Wednesday it has initiated an early-stage study to test its combined flu and COVID-19 vaccine. The trial, to be conducted in Australia, will enroll 640 healthy adults between the ages of 50 and 70 years and who have either been previously infected with the coronavirus or given an authorized COVID-19 vaccine at least eight weeks prior to the study.Participants will receive a combination of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373, and its Influenza shot NanoFlu along with an adjuvant or vaccine booster. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/novavax-begins-early-stage-trial-combined-flu-covid-vaccine-n1278711
2021-09-08 Australia to Have Vaccine Passport System Ready Within Weeks for International Travel The Morrison government will have a system in place within weeks to support the resumption of international travel as vaccination rates rise, the trade minister, Dan Tehan, says. With senior federal ministers meeting on Wednesday to continue work around vaccine passports, Tehan told reporters the resumption of international travel would require “a system that can enable recognition of vaccination — a vaccination certification scheme.” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/08/australia-to-have-vaccine-passport-system-ready-within-weeks-for-international-travel
2021-09-07 The Pandemic Has Set Back the Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria The COVID-19 pandemic has severely set back the fight against other global scourges like H.I.V., tuberculosis and malaria, according to a sobering new report released on Tuesday. Before the pandemic, the world had been making strides against these illnesses. Overall, deaths from those diseases have dropped by about half since 2004. “The advent of a fourth pandemic, in COVID, puts these hard-fought gains in great jeopardy,” said Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC, a nonprofit organization promoting H.I.V. treatment worldwide. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/health/covid-tb-hiv-malaria.html
2021-09-07 Arizona Attorney General: Vaccine Mandate for Tucson City Employees Is Illegal Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) said that Tucson’s vaccine mandate for city employees is illegal. In a news release Tuesday, Brnovich’s office announced that the city of Tucson violated a state law approved this summer prohibiting local governments from implementing vaccine mandates for their employees. Tucson’s new legislation requires employees to be vaccinated or face a five-day suspension without pay, according to The Associated Press. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/571117-arizona-attorney-general-vaccine-mandate-for-tucson-city-employees-is
2021-09-07 New Documentary on WHO Exposes Widespread Corruption, Massive Funding by Bill Gates “TrustWHO,” a documentary film produced by Lilian Franck, reveals the clandestine influences — including Bill Gates’s role as No. 1 funder — controlling the World Health Organization, to the peril of public health. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/trustwho-documentary-who-corruption-funding-bill-gates
2021-09-07 The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) surprised even many of its harshest critics this week when it strongly defended coercive programs and other mandates from the state in the name of fighting COVID.
What makes the ACLU’s position so remarkable — besides the inherent shock of a civil liberties organization championing state mandates overriding individual choice — is that, very recently, the same group warned of the grave dangers of the very mindset it is now pushing. In 2008, the ACLU published a comprehensive report on pandemics which had one primary purpose: to denounce as dangerous and unnecessary attempts by the state to mandate, coerce, and control in the name of protecting the public from pandemics. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-aclu-prior-to-covid-denounced
2021-09-07 WHO Says COVID Will Mutate Like the Flu and Is Likely Here to Stay COVID-19 is likely “here to stay with us” as the virus continues to mutate in unvaccinated countries across the world and previous hopes of eradicating it diminish, global health officials said Tuesday. “I think this virus is here to stay with us and it will evolve like influenza pandemic viruses, it will evolve to become one of the other viruses that affects us,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program, said at a press briefing. lhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/07/who-says-covid-is-here-to-stay-as-hopes-for-eradicating-the-virus-diminish.html
2021-09-07 650,000+ Injuries Reported After COVID Vaccines, as Biden, FDA Spar Over Boosters VAERS data released Friday by the CDC showed a total of 650,077 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 13,911 deaths and 85,971 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 27, 2021. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-injuries-reported-covid-vaccines-fda-boosters
2021-09-07 Detroit Hospital System Employees File Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Around 50 health care employees are suing a Detroit hospital system over its requirement for all workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, arguing that the mandate unconstitutionally infringes on a person’s bodily autonomy. The complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, said that the vaccine mandate from the Henry Ford Health System, which is scheduled to officially take effect Friday, violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of “personal autonomy and bodily integrity.” https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/571201-detroit-hospital-system-employees-file-lawsuit-against-covid-19-vaccine
2021-09-07 220+ Medical Journals: ‘Catastrophic Harm to Health’ if World Leaders Fail to Act on Climate The authors of a joint editorial published Sunday in more than 220 publications wrote: “The science is unequivocal; a global increase of 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/medical-journals-act-on-climate-human-health
2021-09-07 COVID Vaccine Patch Breakthrough COVID vaccines that must be stored at certain temperatures are of little use to people living in remote areas with limited resources. In an attempt to overcome this barrier nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have pioneered potential vaccines, made using viruses from plants or bacteria, that are able to take heat.
In addition these raw materials are tough enough to be fabricated – using heat – into implants and microneedle patches. “Imagine if vaccine patches could be sent to the mailboxes of our most vulnerable people, rather than having them leave their homes and risk exposure,” said Jon Pokorski, a professor of nanoengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, whose team developed the technology to make the implants and microneedle patches. https://www.innovatorsmag.com/covid-vaccine-patch-breakthrough/
2021-09-07 100+ Ontario Youth Sent to Hospital for Vaccine-Related Heart Problems, Report Shows According to a report released last week by Public Health Ontario, as of Aug. 7, there were 106 incidents of post-vaccine myocarditis and pericarditis in people under the age of 25 in Ontario.
Since the start of the COVID immunization program in Ontario on Dec. 13, there have been a total of 314 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis following receipt of mRNA COVID vaccines. As of Aug. 7, there had been a total of 202 emergency room visits across all age groups for heart inflammation following vaccination, with 146 leading to hospitalization. Three cases resulted in ICU admission.
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle that can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death. According to researchers at the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, but “more commonly the myocarditis is a result of the body’s immune reaction to the initial heart damage.”
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) — the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. —There have been 482 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in 12- to 17-year-olds with 474 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine. There have been 4,100 total reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in all age groups with 3,194 cases attributed to Pfizer and 1,090 cases attributed to Moderna.
Britain’s vaccine advisers last week said they would not recommend vaccination of healthy 12- to 15-year-olds against COVID, preferring a precautionary approach due to the potential for vaccinated teens to develop heart inflammation, Reuters reported. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation also said children were at such a low risk from the virus that vaccines would offer only a marginal benefit.
an 18-year-old from Arkansas, Isaiah Harris, had a heart attack after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. Harris had no pre-existing conditions prior to suffering a heart attack. A 19-year-old college student who died of heart-related problems after taking the Moderna vaccine, and a 13-year-old who died in his sleep from a heart problem three days after taking the Pfizer vaccine.
“We simply do not have the evidence to make COVID vaccine decisions on that assumption,” that the cases of myocarditis and pericarditis would not cause long-term harm. “What they didn’t explain is that mild means hospital care and follow-up care indefinitely,” she said. “Aiden’s cardiologist told us no case of myocarditis is ‘mild.’ That’s like saying a heart attack is mild.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/public-health-ontario-youth-hospital-vaccine-related-heart-problems/
2021-09-07 America Needs to Decide How Much COVID-19 Risk It Will Tolerate More than a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, America still doesn’t agree on what it’s trying to accomplish. Is the goal to completely eradicate COVID-19? Is it to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed? Is it hitting a certain vaccine threshold that mitigates the worst COVID-19 outcomes but doesn’t prevent all infections? Or is it something else entirely? At the root of this confusion is a big question the U.S., including policymakers, experts, and the general public, has never been able to answer: How many COVID-19 deaths are too many?
The vaccines were supposed to be a way out. But between breakthrough infections, the risks of long Covid, and new variants, it’s becoming clear the vaccines didn’t get rid of the need to answer the underlying question of what the Covid-19 endgame is. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22651046/covid-19-delta-vaccines-social-distancing-masking-lockdowns
2021009-07 Third Person Dies in Japan After Taking Contaminated Moderna Coronavirus Vaccine A third man has died in Japan after receiving an injection from one of three batches of Moderna vaccines since identified as contaminated, though authorities say no causal link has yet been found. The 49-year-old man had his second shot on 11 August and died the following day. His only known health issue was an allergy to buckwheat, the health ministry said on Monday. As with the previous two deaths, the ministry said it had yet to establish if the latest fatality was linked to the vaccine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/07/third-person-dies-in-japan-after-taking-contaminated-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine
2021-09-06 Chile Authorizes Sinovac Vaccine for Kids of 6 and Older Chilean health authorities approved on Monday the use of the Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus for 6-year-old children and older, the first Latin America’s country to take that step. Heriberto García, director of Chile’s Public Health Institute, said the institution approved the new measure by five votes in favor and one against.
Few regulators around the world have evaluated the safety of COVID-19 shots in kids, but the approvals are starting. The United States, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong are all allowing the use of the Pfizer vaccine in children as young as 12. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chile-authorizes-sinovac-vaccine-kids-older-79863155
2021-09-06 COVID-19 Kills 113 Fully Vaccinated Oregon Residents; 13,166 New Cases Are Reported. Since January, at least 113 Oregonians who were completely vaccinated have died of COVID-19. At least 63 of the deaths affected adults above the age of 80. There were 29 cases involving persons aged 70 to 79, 15 cases involving people aged 60 to 69, three cases involving people aged 50 to 59, and three cases involving residents aged 40 to 49. https://washingtonnewsday.com/news/covid-19-kills-113-fully-vaccinated-oregon-residents-13166-new-cases-are-reported/
2021-09-05 One Hospital Denies Oklahoma Doctor’s Story of Ivermectin Overdoses Causing ER Delays for Gunshot Victims One hospital has denied Dr. Jason McElyea’s claim that ivermectin overdoses are causing emergency room backlogs and delays in medical care in rural Oklahoma, and Rolling Stone has been unable to independently verify any such cases as of the time of this update. The doctor is affiliated with a medical staffing group that serves multiple hospitals in Oklahoma. Following widespread publication of his statements, one hospital that the doctor’s group serves, NHS Sequoyah, said its ER has not treated any ivermectin overdoses and that it has not had to turn away anyone seeking care. The National Poison Data System states there were 459 reported cases of ivermectin overdose in the United States in August. Oklahoma-specific ivermectin overdose figures are not available, but the count is unlikely to be a significant factor in hospital bed availability in a state that, per the CDC, currently has a 7-day average of 1,528 COVID-19 hospitalizations. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gunshot-victims-horse-dewormer-ivermectin-oklahoma-hospitals-covid-1220608/
2021-09-05 Pfizer Booster Likely to Be Ok’d by Sept. 20, But Moderna’s May Lag, Fauci Says The Pfizer-BioNTech shot will likely be the only COVID-19 vaccine booster available by Sept. 20, the Biden administration’s target date to begin offering them, but Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that Moderna’s shot shouldn’t be too far behind. “We were hoping that we would get both the candidates, both products, Moderna and Pfizer, rolled out by the week of the 20th. It is conceivable that we will only have one of them out, but the other would likely follow soon thereafter,” Fauci told host Weijia Jiang. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pfizer-booster-likely-to-be-okd-by-sept-20-but-modernas-may-lag-fauci-says-11630881641
2021-09-04 U.S. Cash Funded Controversial Wuhan Virus Lab Where Research to Make Diseases More Deadly Was Backed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, New Book Says The U.S. was funding China‘s controversial Wuhan laboratory as it embarked on a secretive project to identify deadly viruses with pandemic potential, a new book has claimed.
According to “What Really Happened in Wuhan: the Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research,” by Sharri Markson, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was creating a database of potentially lethal viruses with the help of Shi Zhengli – aka ‘batwoman.’. Ms Zhengli, who earned her nickname sampling thousands of bats in remote caves, collected 19,000 samples while at Wuhan, with 2,481 of those containing coronaviruses.
The Global Virome Project (GVP) was supposed to be an international collaborative effort to identify within 10 years all of the planet’s viruses which have pandemic or epidemic potential in humans. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), headed by Dr Anthony Fauci, was funding the research at the lab – which included experimenting with coronaviruses. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9957329/US-cash-funded-Wuhan-virus-labs-research-make-diseases-deadly-new-book-says.html
2021-09-04 Time to Pull the Plug on COVID Madness in US, Sweden Shows While many countries and parts of the United States use the COVID pandemic to exert a vise-like grip on their population, Sweden is showing the world that the answer is something that should be woven into the fabric of every American — freedom.
Sweden took a common sense approach — to keep its citizens informed on the disease and allow them to make their own decisions, based upon their own particular circumstances. Although Sweden recorded more coronavirus cases per capita than many other European countries, it recorded fewer deaths.
Using personal responsibility rather than draconian mandates as an approach to combat a disease should come naturally to Americans — it should be in our DNA. [MEK Note: Common sense is the key here. Many in America have little!] https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/sweden-covid/2021/09/01/id/1034618/
2021-09-03 UK Ministers Could Defy JCVI and Go Ahead With COVID Jabs for All 12- to 15-year-olds Ministers could for the first time defy the advice of their official vaccine advisers and push ahead with COVID jabs for all 12- to 15-year-olds, after the scientific body concluded the net health benefit in vaccinating the age group was too small. In a statement on Friday, after days of speculation, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said that while the health gains from vaccinating the entire age group were greater than the risks, “the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12- to 15-year-olds at this time.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/03/uk-rules-out-covid-vaccinations-for-children
2021-09-02 The Covidian Cult (Part III) In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not “insanity” or “an overreaction,” but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, a globalized, pathologized, depoliticized form, which is being systematically implemented under the guise of “protecting the public health.”
In order to oppose this new form of totalitarianism, we need to understand how it both resembles and differs from earlier totalitarian systems. The similarities are fairly obvious — the suspension of constitutional rights, governments ruling by decree, official propaganda, public loyalty rituals, the outlawing of political opposition, censorship, social segregation, goon squads terrorizing the public, and so on — but the differences are not as obvious.
Whereas 20th-Century totalitarianism (i.e., the form most people are generally familiar with) was more or less national and overtly political, New Normal totalitarianism is supranational, and its ideology is much more subtle. The New Normal is not Nazism or Stalinism. It is global-capitalist totalitarianism, and global capitalism doesn’t have an ideology, technically, or, rather, its ideology is “reality.” When you are an unrivaled global ideological hegemon, as global capitalism has been for the last 30 years or so, your ideology automatically becomes “reality,” because there are no competing ideologies. Actually, there is no ideology at all … there is only “reality” and “unreality,” “normality” and “deviations from the norm.” https://consentfactory.org/2021/09/02/the-covidian-cult-part-iii/
2021-09-02 The Push for Vaccine Passports Ignores the Arguments Raging Around Them Vaccinations are the high point of human reason. Devised under clinical conditions by scientists interested only in what works, they represent the mastery of the rational world over chaotic nature; and also, of course, they save lives. Vaccine passports, then, should in theory be no more than the rubber stamp of reason. So why does the policy, not to mention the discussion surrounding it, look so irrational?
In late July, shortly after nightclubs had reopened for the first time in over a year, Boris Johnson appeared to go against his previous approach – let’s call it, for brevity, “loosey goosey” – and announced a plan to make “full vaccination the condition of entry” to nightclubs and other crowded indoor events. The prime minister didn’t have the experience of Boardmasters, the Cornish festival in mid-August, which seeded so many COVID infections that the county, had it been abroad, would have been placed on the red list. Yet he did have that data by this week, when he restated this intention.
So he knew that a Covid passport requirement wasn’t decisive in the spread of infection. The festival organisers already had a Covid-status check in place, with every ticketholder aged over 11 required to show either a recent negative test result or a vaccination status. It must have been a disappointment to everyone concerned, that those two failsafes – the open air, and the vaccine – did, in 4,700 cases, fail. Yet it is unlikely that a legal or regulatory requirement to do the very thing the organisers already did would have made a difference. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/02/vaccine-passports-boris-johnson-anti-vaxxers
2021-09-02 COVID NEWS WATCH (news articles from the U.S. and around the world)
- Schools Aren’t COVID Infection Hubs, Says Public Health Boss
- New Study: Nursing Home Residents, Healthcare Workers Lose More Than 80% of Their COVID-19 Immunity Six Months After Pfizer Vaccine
- Nursing Home COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Protect the Most Vulnerable, But Pose a Hidden Threat to Residents
- AMA Calls on Doctors to Immediately Stop Prescribing Ivermectin for COVID
- Gov’t Probes Death of Medical Student After COVID-19 Vaccine
- Joe Rogan Says He’s Taking Ivermectin After COVID-19 Diagnosis
- Prince Harry Blames ‘Mass Misinformation’ for COVID Vaccine Hesitancy
- COVID-19 Transmission at School Rare for Children With Disabilities
- Pfizer, Merck Launch New Trials of Oral COVID-19 Drugs
- WHO Warns New Mu Coronavirus Variant Could Be More Vaccine-Resistant
- Moderna to Recall COVID-19 Doses in Japan After Stainless Steel Contaminants Found
- Detroit Zoo’s Most Susceptible Animals Are Getting COVID-19 Vaccinations https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-schools-arent-infection-hubs/
2021-09-02 Professor Sues Over CA School’s Vaccine Mandate, Says He’s ‘Naturally Immune’ to COVID A California professor is suing his school’s officials over a COVID-19 mandate, saying that he already contracted the virus and is “naturally immune.” Aaron Kheriaty, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine, filed a lawsuit Aug. 18, saying he got sick with COVID-19 in July 2020. The University of California said in July 2021 that all faculty, staff and students will be required to be vaccinated against COVID two weeks before they’re expected to be on campus for the fall semester. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/coronavirus/article253941803.html
2021-09-02 ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: ‘Vaccines Have Inexcusable Liability Protections’ + More This week, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president, and Polly Tommey, co-producer of “Vaxxed,” cover the latest COVID headlines, including New York’s decision to mandate the COVID shot for all healthcare workers and eliminate religious exemptions, and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handing out of free limited edition comic books to kids 12 and up if they get a COVID shot.
Also on tap this week is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recommendation to mandate COVID shots for American schoolchildren, and the Biden administration’s plan to approve COVID booster shots for adults starting at least six months after the previous dose, rather than the previously announced eight-month gap.
- Mary and Polly also cover Bill Maher’s refusal to get a COVID booster shot after demanding “medical autonomy,” and an LA Times report on how federal vaccine court fails to help people injured by COVID shots.
- A physician said she resigned from a California clinic because it decided to no longer see unvaccinated patients, and will not allow them into the building..’”
- A report in The Defender by Meryl Nass, M.D. explained why no one can force you to take Pfizer’s newly “approved” Comirnaty vaccine.
- A report by Science Insider said people who recovered from COVID have “greater immunity than a vaccine,” but still insisted the vaccination is “vital.”
- BBC radio host, Lisa Shaw, 44, died from vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a condition that leads to swelling and bleeding of the brain, three weeks after her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
- New Zealand’s Auckland remains in lockdown, while officials reported the country’s first death linked to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.
- Japan suspended 1.6 million doses of the Moderna vaccine due to contamination.
And much more: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mary-polly-vaccines-have-inexcusable-liability-protections/
2021-09-02 New York Health Commissioner Repeals Mask Mandate for Unvaxxed After Federal Lawsuit Filed Children’s Health Defense supported the lawsuit filed by William Ouweleen which challenged the constitutionality of the emergency mask mandate requiring unvaccinated people to wear masks while vaccinated people could go mask-free. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ny-health-commissioner-mask-mandate-federal-lawsuit-william-ouweleen/
2021-09-02 The Cassandras Were Right: The ‘Cure’ for COVID — a Global Takedown of the 99% — Has Proven Far Worse Than the Disease Early in 2020, shocked citizens and social scientists predicted the widespread imposition of extreme “non-pharmaceutical interventions” in response to COVID would prove to have horrible and costly human and economic trade-offs — turns out they were right.
Never before have so-called NPIs — which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also euphemistically refers to as “community mitigation strategies” — so aggressively taken center stage during a declared disease outbreak.
In the U.S., the five most adopted state-level COVID NPIs have been state-of-emergency orders, bans or limits on social gatherings, school closures, business restrictions (notably, restaurants) and stay-at-home orders. The daunting list of “top-down … and bottom-up” NPI measures also includes travel bans, curfews, social distancing, masks, chemical hygiene and remote working — all adding up to the behavior change equivalent of shock doctrine financial austerity.
Noting the disproportionately harsh socioeconomic impact for an illness for which “the numbers of infections and deaths … were smaller than the numbers of those from tuberculosis or seasonal influenza,” a preventive medicine expert who chronicled the Korean fiasco observed, “the people who undertake the costs incurred by movement restriction are not the same people who benefit.”
A similar observation can be brought to bear on the prevailing COVID situation. Eighteen months in, most of the world is still being subjected to an endless Groundhog Day loop of dystopian restrictions (with a virus hardly even needed as justification anymore), while global elites widen the wealth gap to obscene levels and steadily consolidate technocratic controls.
NPI policies have been particularly disastrous for children. the researchers reported children born during the pandemic are displaying significantly lower cognitive performance (verbal, motor and overall) compared to children born pre-pandemic. The researchers’ IQ testing of pandemic babies produced an average score of around 78, versus a mean IQ score that, over the past decade, hovered around 100.
2021-09-01 Why Are We ‘Suddenly Rejecting Science by Forcing Vaccines on Absolutely Everyone?’ Asks The Hill’s Kim Iverson Political commentator Kim Iverson says conventional science has always favored natural immunity when it comes to longer lasting and stronger protection against infection — so why are we now “suddenly rejecting science by forcing vaccines on absolutely everyone?”
In the largest real-world observational study, conducted in Israel — one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world — scientists followed 700,000 people, splitting them into three groups: vaccinated people who received two doses of the Pfizer jab, unvaccinated people who recovered from COVID, and individuals who both recovered from the virus and received one dose the Pfizer vaccine.
The study found natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization. “The researchers hypothesize that it’s because of B and T cell memory,” Iverson explained. “And the fact that people who recovered from the virus are exposed to the entire virus, not just the spike protein that the vaccines expose the body to.”
“For some strange, politicized reason,” said Iverson, “this scientific fact has been hotly debated in the U.S.” For example, she explains:
“In the incidence of chickenpox, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends vaccination for those who haven’t had a previous infection. On their website, under the heading, ‘Who needs a chickenpox vaccine?’ the CDC says: ‘People 13 years of age and older who have never had chickenpox or received chickenpox vaccine should get two doses, at least 28 days apart.’
“Same thing for the measles, and even polio, if they are not combined with other vaccines. Even during the smallpox outbreak, when vaccines became mandated, the certificate of immunity clearly gives clearance for those who had previously recovered from smallpox.” So, Iverson asks, why are world health officials ignoring the science of natural immunity? https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iverson-rejecting-science-natural-immunity-forcing-vaccines/
2021-09-01 Majority of Companies Plan to Have COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Survey Finds Once a touchy subject in the private sector, a new survey indicates that most firms are now planning on having COVID-19 vaccine mandates for their workforce. The number of companies requiring workers to get the shot is expected to surge over the next several months, according to data released by Wednesday by Willis Towers Watson, a multinational advisory and insurance firm. Over half of the employers surveyed (52%) said that by the fourth quarter of 2021, they could have one or more vaccine mandate requirements in the workplace. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/majority-companies-plan-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-survey/story?id=79765288
2021-09-01 LONG-HAULERS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FUTURE Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/covid-19-long-haulers-pandemic-future/619941/
2021-09-01 Irish Musician Jim Corr and RFK, Jr. on Pandemrix Scandal, Vaccine Injuries Jim Corr of the Irish pop band The Corrs told RFK, Jr. that “once you start to question the church of vaccination, that’s when the attacks really start.” He is outspoken about the harm caused by vaccines — a choice he said has resulted in “phenomenal attacks” on his character.
The Pandemrix vaccine was manufactured in 2009 by GlaxoSmithKline in Europe to protect against the H1N1 influenza. It was given to more than 30.5 million Europeans.
It was later revealed the vaccine did not undergo proper safety testing and was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome, narcolepsy and Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
We learned the “World Health Organization was accused of faking the pandemic in an effort to promote vaccine sales for Big Pharma,” Corr told Kennedy. “I realized that vaccine injury was not the rare phenomenon that I had believed it was.” In September 2018, the British Medical Journal published a study that detailed how world governments conspired to mislead the public about Pandemrix’s safety.
A young Oxford researcher named Jeremy Farrar orchestrated the coverup. Farrar, who is now director of the Wellcome Trust, was the first person Dr. Anthony Fauci called when he realized SARS-CoV-2’s lab origins were about to be exposed. “GlaxoSmithKline started the Wellcome Trust with a giant contribution of its stock,” “It’s now the biggest pharmaceutical stock in the world and Farrar runs it. He’s the UK version of Bill Gates.”
After speaking out about the Pandemrix vaccine on national television, Corrs said he became the subject of a smear campaign. “Once you start to question the church of vaccination, that’s when the attacks really start,” said Corrs. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-irish-musician-jim-cor-pandemrix-scandal-vaccine-injuries
2021-09-01 CDC Asks the Unvaccinated Not to Travel This Weekend and Says Even the Vaccinated Need to Weigh the Risk Due to the surge of COVID-19 cases, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking unvaccinated Americans not to travel during the Labor Day holiday weekend.
The U.S. is surpassing an average of 160,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. With the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant and many students returning to the classroom for a new academic year, the rise is concerning officials and health experts.
Health experts have said that vaccination is the best way to protect against the virus’ spread, and many have attributed the spike in cases to the large portion of Americans who are unvaccinated. Of those eligible for vaccinations, which includes Americans 12-years-old and older, 38.5% are not fully vaccinated, according to data from the CDC. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
2021-09-01 Two Top FDA Vaccine Officials Resign, Raising Questions About Pressure From White House to Approve Boosters Dr. Marion Gruber, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines office, and her deputy, Dr. Philip Krause, reportedly said they don’t believe there is data to support the Biden administration’s push to offer COVID booster shots later this month.
Neither believed there was enough data to justify offering booster shots yet, the sources said, and both viewed the announcement, amplified by President Biden, as pressure on the FDA to quickly authorize them. Officials within the FDA were stunned by the news, CNN reported. One source described it as a “big loss” for the FDA and noted it caught leadership off guard.
However, a former senior FDA leader told Endpoints News, Gruber and Krause are departing because they’re frustrated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its advisory panel — the Advisory Committee on Immunizations and Practices (ACIP) — are involved in decisions they think should be up to the FDA.
The source said he heard Gruber and Krause were upset with Marks for not insisting those decisions be kept inside the FDA, and with the White House for getting ahead of FDA on booster shots. “These two are the leaders for biologic [vaccine] review in the U.S.,” wrote Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, weighing in on the news. “They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Bright said. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/2-top-fda-regulators-resign-white-house-approve-boosters/
2021-09-01 Over Half of Employers Plan to Have Vaccine Mandates by the End of the Year Now that the Federal Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, many employers have been ramping up their plans to vaccine their workforce. By the end of the year, 52% of U.S. companies plan to have some type of vaccine mandate in place for their workplaces.
That’s up significantly from the just 29% of employers who reported they already have a vaccine mandate or plan to put one in place by the end of September 2021, according to a new report by Willis Towers Watson. The company surveyed nearly 1,000 employers in August, including both public and private businesses, as well as non-profits and government entities. Companies surveyed had 100 to over 25,000 employees and included those in manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, finance, IT, and general services. https://fortune.com/2021/09/01/vaccine-mandates-companies-employers-requiring-covid-vaccine/
2021-09-01 AP Breaks With Mainstream Media Narrative: Time to Retire ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ Sound Bite In a break from the mainstream media narrative, the Associated Press (AP) today said it may be time to retire the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” sound bite — repeated often by government officials, including President Biden, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci — because it “doesn’t tell the whole story.”
“It is true that the unvaccinated are the biggest driver, but we mustn’t forget that the vaccinated are part of it as well, in part because of the Delta variant. The pandemic clearly involves all people, not just the unvaccinated.” Branding it “a pandemic of the unvaccinated” could have the unintended consequence of stigmatizing the unvaccinated, Topol said. “We should not partition them as the exclusive problem.”
According to AP, a poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in July found that 45% of adults who had not yet received a vaccine said they definitely would not get it, and 35% probably would not. Nearly 2 in 3 (64%) unvaccinated adults said they had little to no confidence the shots are effective against mutations like the Delta variant. Just 3% of unvaccinated adults said they would definitely get vaccinated.
To support her assertion the unvaccinated are to blame for new Delta cases, the CDC’s Walensky in a July 16 White House press briefing claimed “over 97% of people who are entering the hospital right now are unvaccinated.” As it turns out, to achieve those statistics, the CDC included hospitalization and mortality data from January through June 2021, when the vast majority of the U.S. population was unvaccinated. The statistics did not include more recent data, or data related to the Delta variant, which is now the most prevalent strain in circulation. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ap-breaks-mainstream-media-narrative-pandemic-of-unvaccinated/
2021-09-01 Italy Extends COVID-19 Green Pass to Trains, Planes, Ferries and Coaches Italy broadened usage of Green Pass health documents on Wednesday, making them obligatory for anyone traveling on high-speed trains, planes, ferries and inter-regional coaches.
The Green Pass is a digital or paper certificate that shows whether someone has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, has tested negative or has recently recovered from the virus. Prime Minister Mario Draghi introduced the pass earlier in the summer to try to prevent infections and encourage people to get vaccinated. It was initially needed to enter many cultural and leisure venues, but its scope has gradually been widened. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-09-01/italy-extends-covid-19-green-pass-to-trains-planes-ferries-and-coaches
2021-09-01 Biden Pledged to ‘Follow the Science.’ But Experts Say He’s Sometimes Fallen Short. As president, though, Biden has sometimes struggled to follow through on his science-first pledges.
Over the winter, the White House press secretary publicly undercut the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she suggested teachers didn’t necessarily need to be vaccinated for schools to be reopened safely. Then came the administration’s sudden U-turn on mask guidance in May, which was criticized for effectively assuming that unvaccinated Americans would still wear face coverings. Most recently, and perhaps most striking, was the administration’s endorsement of “booster” vaccine doses, which numerous scientists say was based on scant evidence and undercuts the authority of scientific agencies.
Given that Biden campaigned against a president who often downplayed COVID-19 and derided government scientists, many health experts hoped his election would mark the dawn of a more science-focused pandemic response. While the new president has made good on most of his scientific pledges, though, some of his apparent scientific stumbles have led some health experts to question whether he’s been true to his vow to follow the science — and whether politics have played a role in many of his administration’s most critical COVID-19 decisions. https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/01/biden-pledged-follow-the-science-but-hes-fallen-short/
2021-09-01 Who’s Really Being Hospitalized? After a battery of testing, my friend was diagnosed with pancreatitis. But it was easier for the hospital bureaucracy to register the admission as a COVID case.
The mainstream media is reporting that severe COVID cases are mainly among unvaccinated people. An Associated Press headline from June 29 reads: “Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated.” Another, from the same date: “Vast majority of ICU patients with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, ABC News survey finds.”
Is that what’s really going on? It’s certainly not the case in Israel, the first country to fully vaccinate a majority of its citizens against the virus. Now it has one of the highest daily infection rates and the majority of people catching the virus (77 percent to 83 percent, depending on age) are already vaccinated, according to data collected by the Israeli government.
As reported by the Associated Press, “The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data.”
At the same time, data collection is done on a state by state basis. In most states, a person is only considered fully vaccinated fourteen days after they have had the full series of the vaccine. This means that anyone coming into an American hospital who has only had one dose, or who has had both vaccines but had the second one less than two weeks prior, will likely be counted as “unvaccinated.”
Then there is the problem of attributing severe illness and deaths from other causes to COVID, like in my friend’s case. Health authorities around the world have been doing this since the beginning of the COVID crisis. For example, a young man in Orange County, Florida who died in a motorcycle crash last summer was originally considered a COVID death by state health officials (after Fox News investigation the classification was changed.) And a middle-aged construction worker fell off a ladder in Croatia and was also counted as a death from COVID (whether having COVID played a role in his death is still unclear.) https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/whos-really-being-hospitalized_3963392.html?
2021-09-01 NYS Health Dept. Eliminates Religious Exemption for Health Care Workers Avoiding Vaccine The New York State Department of Health has eliminated the religious exemption for health care workers statewide who do not want to get vaccinated. The decision was unanimous.
The department of health also established a deadline that all hospitals and nursing homes must require their employees to be fully vaccinated, with the first dose received no later than Sept. 27. “Years back, when they mandated Measles vaccination, they did so in the absence of any religious exemptions,” said Steven Hanks, St. Peter’s Health Partners Chief Clinical Officer. “They felt that the public health outweighed the religious rights. I don’t believe we’re going to see a huge exodus of staff and I believe that’s the case because everybody is in the same boat.” https://www.rochesterfirst.com/new-york-state/nys-health-dept-eliminates-religious-exemption-for-health-care-workers-avoiding-vaccine/
2021-09-01 Take Another Look at the Spacing Between COVID Vaccine Doses When most Americans showed up to get their first dose of an mRNA vaccine, they were sternly warned that they must schedule a second dose within a month. In my case, I politely explained that I would come back for my second dose at 3 months. The scheduler got flustered and treated me like I was a fugitive of the law. But a growing body of evidence over the last several months has shown that a longer interval provides better immunity in the long-term. It may even eliminate the need for a booster shot that’s now being recommended.
In May, researchers at the University of Birmingham found that delaying the second Pfizer dose to 12 weeks after the first resulted in a 3.5 times greater antibody response in older people. The increase is likely even greater in a younger cohort. Hematologist Paul Moss, MBBS, PhD, a co-author of the study, concluded that it’s a good idea to extend the time between the first and second doses of the vaccine. “An extended interval may help to sustain immunity against COVID-19 over the longer term and further improve the clinical efficacy of this powerful vaccine platform,” he wrote. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/marty-makary/94315
2021-09-01 Military Service Members With Natural Immunity File Lawsuit Against DOD, FDA, HHS Over COVID Vaccine Mandate Two active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces on Aug. 17 filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of themselves and 220,000 active service members who are being forced to get a COVID vaccine despite having had COVID and acquired natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
According to the lawsuit, the military’s existing laws and regulations unequivocally provide the exemption the plaintiffs seek under Army Regulation 40-562 (“AR 40-562”), which provides documented survivors of an infection a presumptive medical exemption from vaccination because of the natural immunity acquired as a result of having survived the infection.
According to the lawsuit, Pfizer’s phase 3 trials — designed to test long-term side effects — are not scheduled for completion until 2023, and that “inexplicably, in the middle of that phase 3 trial, the manufacturer un-blinded the two cohorts, and members of the placebo group were given the opportunity to take the vaccine if they wanted to.” Plaintiffs claim the FDA allowed Pfizer to turn the study from a placebo-controlled, blinded trial into an open, observational study.
Plaintiffs said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System” (VAERS), which contains adverse event reports for all vaccines administered in the U.S. from July 1,1990, shows a significant increase in adverse events since the rollout of COVID vaccines.
According to the lawsuit, before the FDA introduced COVID Emergency Use Authorization vaccines in December 2020, VAERS had recorded a total of 5,039 deaths and 12,053 permanent disabilities for all prior vaccines. However, for the week beginning Aug.13, VAERS showed 13,068 reports of deaths and 1,031,100 reports of serious adverse events from COVID vaccines alone. The plaintiffs said they have the right to be free from unwanted physical intrusion and involuntary inoculation against a virus that poses statistically zero threat to people with natural immunity,
People who recovered from COVID were much less likely than never-infected, vaccinated people to get Delta, develop symptoms or be hospitalized. The study, published as a preprint Aug. 25 on medRxiv, showed people who had never been infected with SARS-CoV-2 but were vaccinated in January and February were six to 13 times more likely to experience breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to unvaccinated people who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/military-service-members-natural-immunity-lawsuit-dod-fda-hhs-covid-vaccine-mandate/
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