Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – September 1-15, 2021

These are excerpts of September articles. For a quick sense of information and faster read read just 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! Please consider joining CHD in this struggle!

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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/

2021-09-15 We Are in the Fight of Our Lives . . .   Make a tax-deductible donation of any amount to Children’s Health Defense by midnight Oct. 31, and your donation will be matched dollar for dollar — up to $1 million.

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. 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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S.2434 – Local Journalism Sustainability Act

S.2434 Local Journalism Sustainability Act Introduced in Senate (07/22/2021)

This bill allows individual taxpayers a tax credit up to $250 in any taxable year for subscriptions to one or more local newspapers for the taxpayer’s personal use. It also allows a local news journalist employer a payroll credit for wages paid to local news journalists.

The bill allows certain small businesses a tax credit for amounts paid for advertising in a local newspaper or through a broadcast of a radio or television station serving a local community.

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U.S. Senate Legislation 117th Congress

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Investigate for Yourself

When you allow government and corporate media to demand your obedience & allow them to censor alternative information you better do some investigation on your own because they are hiding something!

Spend a couple hours on each of the three highlighted issues below and you will be an expert on information the government would rather you not know! Learn more progressive information with other two links at bottom.

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Before COVID, Gates Planned Social Media Censorship of Vaccine Safety Advocates With Pharma, CDC, Media, China and CIA

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Another Nineteen looks at who was in position to accomplish major elements of the crimes that still need to be explained. Detailed evidence is presented that reveals how each of the alternative suspects had the means, motive and opportunity to accomplish one or more aspects of the 9/11 events.

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Coronavirus Covid-19 Research History – August 15-30 2021

These are excerpts of August articles. For a quick sense of information and faster read read just the red marked texted.

My primary source is the extremely well researched RFK jr.’s “Children Health Defense” organization. The CHD is suffering some severe censorship on social media because they are exposing government/corporate media inconsistencies, distortions and censored facts about the Covid pandemic!

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2021-08-25 Pfizer Scheme to Churn Out ‘Variant-Specific’ Vaccines Will Lead to More Variants, Experts Warn Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told Fox News the company has a system in place to turn around a variant-specific jab within 95 days in the likelihood a vaccine-resistant COVID strain emerges, but experts warn that strategy will backfire.

Public health officials have said for months universal vaccination across the U.S. and population abroad would reduce the opportunity for the virus to further mutate and evade vaccines.

The big concern is that the next variant that might emerge — just a few mutations away — could potentially evade vaccines. The UK government’s advisory panel, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, said higher rates of virus circulation and transmission were creating “more opportunities for new variants to emerge.”

But other experts argue it’s universal vaccination that is creating highly transmissible escape mutants capable of evading vaccines and subjecting the unvaccinated to infection. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-variant-specific-covid-vaccine/

2021-08-25 Dr. Peter McCullough Tells RFK, Jr.: ‘The Vaccines Are Failing’ On the “RFK, Jr. The Defender Podcast,” Dr. Peter McCullough discussed a new study by the Oxford University Clinical Research Group and how the Pfizer’s vaccine, at 17% to 42% efficacy, doesn’t meet the regulatory standard of 50% efficacy for vaccines.

The study’s big finding is their calculation of viral load, McCullough said: “This group had actually calculated viral load from oral and nasal secretions in the past. The viral load was 251 times that of the previous unvaccinated era where they had used the same methodology. So, they had previous workers and patients who had COVID-19 before any exposure to the vaccines. And now the vaccinated were carrying a massive viral load and passing it to one another.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-dr-peter-mccullough-vaccines-are-failing/

2021-08-25 Delta Air Lines to Add $200 Monthly Health Insurance Charge for Unvaccinated Staff Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Wednesday said employees will have to pay $200 more every month for their company-sponsored healthcare plan if they choose to not vaccinate against COVID-19.  The move to add a surcharge to health insurance contributions is the latest tactic by corporate America to push employees to get the shots to fight the pandemic. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-add-200-monthly-health-insurance-charge-unvaccinated-staff-2021-08-25/

2021-08-25 Even Mainstream Media Is Now Asking Big Questions About COVID Vaccines “Even mainstream media is now asking big questions about the vaccines” Wednesday’s Liberty Report featured. A couple of recent headlines in Bloomberg and BBC were unexpected in terms the criticism reflected and somewhat skeptical pushback against the ‘consensus narrative.’

Here’s how the very unexpected Bloomberg article, which was published this past weekend, began: Anecdotes tell us what the data can’t: Vaccinated people appear to be getting the coronavirus at a surprisingly high rate. But exactly how often isn’t clear, nor is it certain how likely they are to spread the virus to others. 

Though it is evident vaccination still provides powerful protection against the virus, there’s growing concern that vaccinated people may be more vulnerable to serious illness than previously thought.

And the same day as the BBG headline, there was this from UK government-funded BBC… “Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?”

The story beganIt is now a serious question that has implications for whether children should ever be vaccinated. And whether we use the virus or booster shots to top up immunity in adults. Both have become contentious issues.

“We could be digging ourselves into a hole, for a very long time, where we think we can only keep Covid away by boosting every year,” Prof Eleanor Riley, an immunologist from the University of Edinburgh, told me. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/even-mainstream-media-now-asking-big-questions-about-covid-vaccines

2021-08-25 Global COVID-19 Cases Plateau After Nearly Two Months of Increase, WHO Reports The number of new COVID-19 cases reported globally “seems to be plateauing” after increasing for nearly two months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.

WHO reported more than 4.5 million new cases and 68,000 new deaths worldwide last week — only a slight increase from the more than 4.4 million cases and 66,000 deaths reported the prior week. The cumulative global caseload now stands at more than 211 million, with the total death toll surpassing 4.4 million, according to WHO’s weekly epidemiological update. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/world/who-covid-cases-plateau-intl-hnk/index.html

2021-08-25 Pfizer’s FDA Approval Could Open Floodgates or Corporate Vaccine Mandates The Food and Drug Administration’s clearance of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, which had been rolled out to the public for emergency-use only, paves the way for more employers to require that their workers get jabbed. Although a number of businesses, colleges and other organizations were already requiring workers to be inoculated, many corporations have been hesitant to implement a mandate for a drug not yet fully approved by regulators. Labor attorneys expect Monday’s announcement by the FDA to open the floodgates for mandates across the board. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vaccine-mandates-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-fda-approval

2021-08-25 Washington Public School Requires Student Athletes to Wear Tracking Monitors to Trace COVID A public high school in Washington state is requiring some student-athletes and coaches to wear tracking devices on their wrists to trace COVID-19 during practices. “Where does this end? I feel like this is an experiment on our kids to see how much we can put them through before they start breaking.”  The high school said that both vaccinated and unvaccinated athletes who play on teams with high contact and moderate indoor contact, such as volleyball, basketball and wrestling, are required to wear the devices. The tracking devices, which were paid for by federal funds, are worn during practice to trace the proximity of one player to others in the event of a positive coronavirus case. https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-public-school-student-athletes-tracking-monitors-covid

2021-08-25 Spain’s Supreme Court Rules Against Using Vaccine Passports to Restrict Access to Public Spaces Spain’s Supreme Court made waves last week by becoming the first judicial authority in Europe to rule against the use of COVID passports to restrict access to public spaces — specifically hospitality businesses (bars, restaurants and nightclubs).

It is not the first Spanish court to come out against vaccine passports but it is the most important. So far, only five of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions – the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, Andalusia, Cantabria and Galicia – have proposed using vaccine passports to restrict access to public spaces. And all have been rejected by local judges.

The EU’s Green Pass is a one-piece QR-code document that can be issued to a traveller in both paper and digital format. It is intended to prove that the holder has either received one of the four vaccines authorised by the European Medicine Agency (BioNTech-Pfizer’s, Moderna’s, AztraZeneca’s and Johnson &Johnson’s), has tested negative for Covid-19 in the last 48 hours or has been infected with Covid in the last six months and therefore has natural immunity. However, some countries such as France have chosen only to allow entry to travellers that are fully vaccinated.

2021-08-25 40% of Patients With Weakened Immune System Mount Lower Response to Vaccines A new study found four in 10 people who are clinically vulnerable generate lower levels of antibodies than healthy recipients after two shots of a COVID vaccine. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/patients-weakened-immune-system-lower-response-vaccines

2021-08-25 Biden Receives Inconclusive Intelligence Report on COVID Origins President Biden on Tuesday received a classified report from the intelligence community that was inconclusive about the origins of the novel coronavirus, including whether the pathogen jumped from an animal to a human as part of a natural process, or escaped from a lab in central China, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The intelligence community will seek within days to declassify elements of the report for potential public release, officials said.  … despite analyzing a raft of existing intelligence and searching for new clues, intelligence officials fell short of a consensus, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the report is not yet public. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-u-s-intelligence-report-covid-origins-inconclusivehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/24/covid-origins-biden-intelligence-review/

2021-08-25 U.S. Intelligence Study Inconclusive on COVID Origins, According to Reports A classified U.S. intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, in part due to a lack of information from China, according to U.S. media reports.

The assessment received on Tuesday, which was ordered by President Joe Biden 90 days ago, was unable to definitively conclude whether the virus that first emerged in central China had jumped to humans via animals or escaped a highly secure research facility in Wuhan, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told the Washington Post.   They said parts of the report could be declassified in the coming days.

2021-08-24   2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You About FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccine Buried in the fine print of Monday’s approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Pfizer Comirnaty COVID vaccine are two critical facts that affect whether the vaccine can be mandated, and whether Pfizer can be held liable for injuries.

The press reported that vaccine mandates are now legal for military, healthcare workers, college students and employees in many industries. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has now required the vaccine for all teachers and school staff. The Pentagon is proceeding with its mandate for all military service members.

First, the FDA acknowledges that while Pfizer has “insufficient stocks” of the newly licensed Comirnaty vaccine available, there is “a significant amount” of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine — produced under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) — still available for use.

The FDA decrees that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine under the EUA should remain unlicensed but can be used “interchangeably” (page 2, footnote 8) with the newly licensed Comirnaty product.

Second, the FDA pointed out that the licensed Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine and the existing, EUA Pfizer vaccine are “legally distinct,” but proclaims that their differences do not “impact safety or effectiveness.”

There is a huge real-world difference between products approved under EUA compared with those the FDA has fully licensed.

EUA products are experimental under U.S. law. Both the Nuremberg Code and federal regulations provide that no one can force a human being to participate in this experiment. Under 21 U.S. Code Sec.360bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III), “authorization for medical products for use in emergencies,” it is unlawful to deny someone a job or an education because they refuse to be an experimental subject. Instead, potential recipients have an absolute right to refuse EUA vaccines.

U.S. laws, however, permit employers and schools to require students and workers to take licensed vaccines.

At least for the moment, the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine has no liability shield. Vials of the branded product, which say “Comirnaty” on the label, are subject to the same product liability laws as other U.S. products. But licensed adult vaccines, including the new Comirnaty, do not enjoy any liability shield. Just as with Ford’s exploding Pinto, or Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, people injured by the Comirnaty vaccine could potentially sue for damages. And because adults injured by the vaccine will be able to show that the manufacturer knew of the problems with the product, jury awards could be astronomical.

Pfizer is therefore unlikely to allow any American to take a Comirnaty vaccine until it can somehow arrange immunity for this product.

Given this background, the FDA’s acknowledgement in its approval letter that there are insufficient stocks of the licensed Comirnaty, but an abundant supply of the EUA Pfizer BioNTech jab, exposes the “approval” as a cynical scheme to encourage businesses and schools to impose illegal jab mandates.

The FDA’s clear motivation is to enable Pfizer to quickly unload inventories of a vaccine that science and the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System have exposed as unreasonably dangerous, and that the Delta variant has rendered obsolete. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mainstream-media-fda-approval-pfizer-vaccine/

2021-08-24 Dr. Fauci Says Pfizer FDA Approval Will Bring ‘A Lot More’ COVID Vaccine Mandates Dr. Anthony Fauci, expects “a lot more” COVID-19 vaccine mandates after the Pfizer vaccine received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).   institutions and organizations which previously were reluctant to require vaccinations, which will now feel much more empowered to do that.”   “That could be organizations, businesses, colleges, universities. We’re even seeing it with the military already,” Note: See article above 2021-08-24   2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You About FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccinehttps://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-says-pfizer-fda-approval-will-bring-lot-more-covid-vaccine-mandates-1622540

2021-08-24 As COVID Surges Among Fully Vaccinated, CDC Fails to Properly Track Breakthrough Cases As more celebrities and elected officials announce they are “really really sick” despite being fully vaccinated, questions swirl around whether the vaccines work and why the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention isn’t doing more to track breakthrough cases..

According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 9,716 breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalization or death as of Aug. 16. However, the agency states those numbers are underreported. On May 1, the CDC made a decision to stop tracking all breakthrough cases and instead only track cases in the fully vaccinated that resulted in hospitalization or death.

That leaves public health officials without the full data that can answer questions as the new Delta variant spreads. Not tracking breakthrough data with as much granularity as we would hope is “basically creating blind spots in our understanding of the true impact of the virus, especially the variants that are circulating so widely in the United States.”

Israel has one of the world’s highest COVID vaccination levels with 78% of the population over age 12 fully vaccinated — mostly with Pfizer’s vaccine. The country now has one of the highest infection rates in the world.

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., Children’s Health Defense chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University, said “What we’re seeing is virus evolution 101.”

Hooker said the more a variant deviates from the original sequence used for the vaccine, the less effective the vaccine will be on that variant, which could explain why fully vaccinated people are getting infected with the Delta variant.https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-fully-vaccinated-cdc-breakthrough-cases/

2021-08-24 As Delta Spread, COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Infection Fell From 90% To 66% in One Key Study The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines at preventing infection fell in one study of U.S. frontline workers from roughly 90% to 66% as the Delta variant emerged and became dominant in the country, an updated report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday indicated.

Researchers had previously reported that from Dec. 14, 2020, when the vaccines started rolling out, to April 10, 2021, the vaccines were approximately 91% effective at preventing both symptomatic and asymptomatic infection from SARS-2. The finding underlined the ability of the vaccines to halt infection entirely and slash transmission; the clinical trials that led to the authorization of the vaccines had generally focused on their effectiveness at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 cases. https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/24/as-delta-spread-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-against-infection-fell-from-90-to-66-in-one-key-study/

2021-08-24 Where Do Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Stand on Full FDA Approval? So far, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson are still under Emergency Use Authorization.   Moderna said it would request a Priority Review. This designation would call for the FDA to make a decision within six months rather than the typical 10-month waiting period.  Pfizer started that process in May and the FDA made a decision four months later. It means Moderna’s full FDA approval could come as early as next month. https://www.cbs17.com/community/health/coronavirus/where-do-moderna-and-johnson-johnson-stand-on-full-fda-approval/

2021-08-24 Biden to Receive a Classified Report on The Origins of COVID-19 Today marks 90 days since President Biden ordered a systematic review into the origins of the coronavirus. Many scientists believe that the virus likely came from nature. But an alternative view is that it leaked from a laboratory in China, a theory that had been dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory until recent months.  

Honestly, everyone’s kind of doubtful this report will put the question to rest. First of all, the intelligence agencies weren’t really that focused on Wuhan or bat virus research before the pandemic. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/24/1030561825/biden-to-receive-a-classified-report-on-the-origins-of-covid-19

2021-08-24 New Evidence Points to Antibodies as Reliable Indicator of Vaccine Protection The study was what many interested in the future of COVID-19 vaccines had been eagerly awaiting the results.

The researchers were looking for markers in vaccinated patients’ blood that would indicate protection against COVID-19, what’s known as “correlates of immunity.” What the team of scientists found were neutralizing antibodies — proteins made by the immune system that are known to disarm the coronavirus.

“The antibody levels] were always lower in the vaccinated people who became a COVID case compared to people who remained free of COVID,” Gilbert says.

The results show that antibody levels can be predictive of immunity, which should help develop and test new vaccines at a much faster pace. It’s even possible that COVID-19 vaccine-makers may not need to conduct trials with huge numbers of people to see how many get sick after getting vaccinated. Instead, researchers could simply draw blood and look for antibody levels that correlate with protection.

it’s pretty clear that antibodies alone don’t explain why some people are protected, and other parts of the immune system also play important roles in fighting off the coronavirus, including T-cells. Ultimately, multiple studies will be needed to convince federal regulators that antibody levels alone can be sufficient evidence to support authorization and approval of a future COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/23/1029827996/new-evidence-points-to-antibodies-as-a-reliable-indicator-of-vaccine-protection

2021-08-24 Next up for Covid vaccines: kids under 12. The US Food and Drug Administration has given full approval to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for people age 16 and older. Approval for youths ages 12-15 is expected to follow soon. Parents are already clamoring to hear more about approval or authorization for children under 12, however. Studies looking at that are underway.

It appears that kids can get a much smaller dose of vaccine than adults and still get the same immune response. That’s good news, because it means vaccine supply can be stretched further. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/health/covid-19-vaccines-kids-next-wellness/index.html

2021-08-24 NIH director: Vaccine approval for kids unlikely before late 2021 “I got to be honest, I don’t see approval for kids 5 to 11 coming much before the end of 2021,” said Francis Collins. contradicting the speedier timelines offered by other Biden administration officials.

Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna are currently studying the shot’s safety and efficacy in younger children and infants, with Pfizer expected to deliver the results of its trials for 5-11-year-olds to the Food and Drug Administration sometime in September. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/vaccine-approval-kids-506750

2021-08-24 Does the FDA Think These Data Justify the First Full Approval of a COVID-19 Vaccine? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should have demanded adequate, controlled studies with long-term follow up, and made data publicly available, before granting full approval to COVID-19 vaccines, says BMJ Associate editor Peter Doshi

The concern, of course, was decreased efficacy over time. “Waning immunity” is a known problem for influenza vaccines, with some studies showing near zero effectiveness after just three months, meaning a vaccine taken early may ultimately provide no protection by the time “flu season” arrives some months later.

If vaccine efficacy wanes over time, the crucial question becomes what level of effectiveness will the vaccine provide when a person is actually exposed to the virus? Unlike COVID vaccines, influenza vaccine performance has always been judged over a full season, not a couple months.

Enter Pfizer’s preprint. As an RCT reporting “up to six months of follow-up,” it is notable that evidence of waning immunity was already visible in the data by the March 13 data cut-off. But although this additional information was available to Pfizer in April, it was not published until the end of July. And it’s hard to imagine how the Delta variant could play a real role here, for 77% of trial participants were from the U.S., where Delta was not established until months after data cut-off.

whatever its cause — intrinsic properties of the vaccine, the circulation of new variants, some combination of the two, or something else — the bottom line is that vaccines need to be effective. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/peter-doshi-fda-data-approval-covid-vaccine/

Why the FDA should not have rushed to license Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

2021-08-24 New CDC studies point to waning immunity from vaccines The publication of the studies comes a week after the agency released its first three reports on vaccine efficacy. One study, which focused on frontline health care workers, found that vaccine effectiveness declined by nearly thirty percentage points since the Delta variant became the dominant strain in the U.S.
The second study examined 43,000 Los Angeles residents
 age 16 and older. It found that 25 percent of new infections from May to July were in fully vaccinated individuals, while 71 percent occurred in unvaccinated people. The study also showed that the hospitalization rate was significantly lower for fully vaccinated people than for unvaccinated people. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/cdc-studies-vaccine-immunity-506782

2021-08-24 If COVID Vaccine Refusers Are Turned Away at the Hospitals and Doctor Offices, Is That Ethical? Dr. Jason Valentine informed his patients this month that, effective Oct. 1, he would no longer treat those who hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19. A leaked memo indicated that the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guideline Task Force was considering whether to take Covid vaccination status into account in deciding who gets ICU beds when more of them are needed than are available.

Can either of these actions be considered ethical? In short, it depends.

Determining when it’s ethical for doctors and hospitals to refuse to provide their services, including considering whether a patient has adhered to public health precautions, such as vaccination, rests on the intentions of those turning people away and whether their decisions are consistent with professional norms and established practices. It would be unethical if a doctor were to refuse treatment because of anger, resentment or frustration, including over a patient’s decision not to get vaccinated. Doctors, and health care professionals more broadly, are bound by moral obligations to prevent illness and restore health for anyone without regard to certain objections they may have about them. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/if-covid-vaccine-refusers-are-turned-away-hospitals-doctor-offices-ncna1277475

2021-08-24 Caught in the Crossfire Over COVID’s Origin In the early days of the pandemic, scientists reported a reassuring trait in the new coronavirus: It appeared to be very stable. The virus was not mutating very rapidly, making it an easier target for treatments and vaccines.

At the time, the slow mutation rate struck one young scientist as odd. “That really made my ears perk up,” said Alina Chan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Chan wondered whether the new virus was somehow “pre-adapted” to thrive in humans, before the outbreak even started.

“By the time the SARS-CoV-2 virus was detected in Wuhan in late 2019, it looked like it had already picked up the mutations it needed to be very good at spreading among humans,” Dr. Chan said. “It was already good to go.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/health/coronavirus-origins-alina-chan.html

Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci is a household hero to half of America.  Drug companies, government officials and the pharma-funded corporate media invoke his name to justify lockdowns, masks and experimental vaccines. 

But who is Dr. Fauci really?  In my new book, I show that Dr. Fauci has done little to earn the sobriquet  “America’s Doctor.” 

Instead, he has survived 50 years as the J. Edgar Hoover of public health by consistently prioritizing Big Pharma profits over the welfare of his countrymen, and through mercenary homage to the chemical and agricultural industry, the military industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus and all the other pushers of pills, potions, powders, poisons, pricks and the police state.

His disastrous mismanagement ran up one of the biggest COVID death counts among all nations.  

We need to stop Dr. Fauci and the coup d’état against the Constitution, human rights and liberal democracy globally. Because this book threatens their trillion-dollar vaccine enterprise, Dr. Fauci and his allies in the medical cartel, the media and military will hurl fierce criticism and use censorship — to debunk and silence “The Real Anthony Fauci.”  It is my hope that this book will motivate — and mobilize — millions more advocates for truth, health and democracy.

“The Real Anthony Fauci” publication date is Nov. 9. By pre-ordering your copy today, you’ll help push the book to bestseller status, diminishing the powers of the censors to silence me. Thank you. In Truth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. P.S. I will donate 100% of the profits from “The Real Anthony Fauci” to fund the work of Children’s Health Defense. Please order your copy today.
P.S.S. You can order my book at other outlets, including Barnes & NobleIndieBoundBookshop.orgTargetWalmart and Books-A-Million.

2021-08-23 University of Virginia Disenrolls Unvaccinated Students Ahead of Fall Semester Forty-nine students who registered for fall classes at the University of Virginia have been disenrolled after failing to meet the school’s vaccine mandate, officials said last week.

The campus unveiled its vaccine mandate in May and the overwhelming majority of the campus is in compliance, officials said. More than 96 percent of U-Va. students are vaccinated against the coronavirus and 335 students with religious and medical exemptions have been granted permanent waivers, officials said. An additional 184 temporary waivers were granted to students who have had trouble getting vaccinated but plan to get their shots upon arriving to campus. [MEK Note: Mandates are illegal for experimental unapproved vaccines and the Pfizer EUA is still not approved]

2021-08-23 The FDA Reveals the New Name for the Pfizer COVID Vaccine According to the FDA, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be marketed as Comirnaty — pronounced “koe-mir’-na-tee.”  The vaccine will be marketed as a vaccine to protect against COVID-19 disease for those 16 years old and up.  Anyone from 12 to 15 years old can get the vaccine under emergency use approval, but it has not been fully approved for those age groups..

Per the FDA, Comirnaty contains mRNA genetic material, which “is used by the body to make a mimic of one of the proteins in the virus that causes COVID-19.”

  • “The result of a person receiving this vaccine is that their immune system will ultimately react defensively to the virus that causes COVID-19,” according to the FDA.
  • And the mRNA from Comirnaty “is only present in the body for a short time and is not incorporated into — nor does it alter — an individual’s genetic material,” per the FDA.
  • Overall, Comirnaty has the same makeup as the vaccine approved for emergency authorization, and it is given out in two doses, per the FDA.

https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2021/8/23/22637786/pfizer-covid-vaccine-new-name-comirnaty-pronounce

2021-08-23 Maryland Gov. Hogan Calls for Expedited Approval of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children Under 12 Maryland Governor Larry Hogan called for an expedited approval for the COVID-19 vaccine in children younger than 12 years old on Monday.   “We want to thank federal officials for authorizing full approval of the Pfizer vaccine, which is something we have been pushing for over the last several weeks. For people who are still hesitant about getting the vaccine, this is an assurance that it has met the most rigorous standards for safety and effectiveness.”

“We also continue to call on the federal government the expedite approval so that our 5- to 11-year-olds can begin receiving COVID-19 vaccines,” the statement continued. “Getting our children vaccinated is critical to giving parents greater peace of mind, but we are being told approval is still months away.” https://www.newsweek.com/maryland-gov-hogan-calls-expedited-approval-covid-19-vaccine-children-under-12-1622226

2021-08-23 Pfizer and BioNTech Surge After the FDA Officially Approves Its COVID-19 Vaccine Shares of Pfizer and BioNTech surged on Monday after the FDA officially approved their COVID-19 vaccine.   Pfizer jumped as much as 5% to near record highs, while BioNTech was up as much as 11% in Monday trades …

Pfizer’s first-mover advantage in the COVID-19 space helped the company gain more than $30 billion in revenue from its vaccine in 2021. That revenue figure could move even higher going forward as the company evaluates a third booster shot, which is expected to be administered next month. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/pfizer-biontech-stock-price-fda-approves-covid-vaccine-comirnaty-2021-8

2021-08-23 Meggan Ingram was fully vaccinated when she tested positive for COVID-19 early this month. The 37-year-old’s fever had spiked to 103 and her breath was coming in ragged bursts when an ambulance rushed her to an emergency room in Pasco, Washington, on Aug. 10. For three hours she was given oxygen and intravenous steroids, but she was ultimately sent home without being admitted. Seven people in her house have now tested positive. Five were fully vaccinated and two of the children are too young to get a vaccine

As the pandemic enters a critical new phase, public health authorities continue to lack data on crucial questions, just as they did when COVID-19 first tore through the U.S. in the spring of 2020. Today there remains no full understanding on how the aggressively contagious Delta variant spreads among the nearly 200 million partially or fully vaccinated Americans like Ingram, or on how many are getting sick.

The nation is flying blind yet again, critics say, because on May 1 of this year — as the new variant found a foothold in the U.S. — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mostly stopped tracking COVID-19 in vaccinated people, also known as breakthrough cases, unless the illness was severe enough to cause hospitalization or death. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-stopped-tracking-breakthrough-covid-infections-vaccinated/

2021-08-23 Government ‘Flying Blind’ on Breakthrough Infections, as COVID Infections Among Fully Vaccinated Soar The CDC’s decision to stop tracking COVID in vaccinated people, unless they are hospitalized or die, means we have no full understanding on how the Delta variant spreads among the nearly 200 million partially or fully vaccinated Americans, or on how many are getting sick

2021-08-23 Biden Urges Businesses Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine Following Full Approval of the Pfizer-Biontech Shot President Biden leaned into the new FDA licensure, or full approval, of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, encouraging businesses to require vaccinations among employees.

“Today I’m calling on more companies … in the private sector to step up the vaccine requirements that will reach millions more people,” “If you’re a business leader, a non-profit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that …  do what I did last month, requiring employees to get vaccinated or face strict requirements.”

Biden touted full FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, calling it a “key milestone in our nation’s fight against COVID,” and urged unvaccinated individuals to receive their shots amid rapid spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant driving infections nationwide. [MEK Note: See article above 2021-08-24   2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You About FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccinehttps://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/biden-urges-businesses-mandate-covid-19-vaccine-following-full-approval

2021-08-23 Disney World Reaches Deal With Unions To Require COVID-19 Vaccinations for Unionized Employees unionized employees working at Walt Disney World in Florida to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 22, 2021.  The move comes nearly a month after Disney mandated that all of its salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S. needed to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by the end of September.  No deal has been struck with unions on the west coast that cater to Disneyland Resort employees

2021-08-23 The NFL’s COVID Reality: Unvaccinated Players Are a Liability For months, the NFL’s vaccine stragglers have clung to the nebulous need for more. More data, more research, more approval.  Now they’ll need more excuses.

That’s what Monday’s biotech news brought, by way of the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine. It’s a development that is sure to be followed in the coming months by other approvals in the space, just as it’s sure to be blown off by some NFL players who refuse to get vaccinated. But this time around, players won’t be able to lean on the lack of an FDA approval, leaving some to continue grasping at their own nebulous concoction for why they refuse an added layer of protection from COVID-19. https://sports.yahoo.com/the-nf-ls-covid-reality-unvaccinated-players-are-a-liability-024644111.html

2021-08-21 Parents Get Coached on How to Escape Mask and Vaccine Rules Across the U.S., religious figures, doctors, public officials and other community leaders are trying to help people circumvent COVID-19 precautions. https://apnews.com/article/health-religion-education-coronavirus-pandemic-5abb8a7505515f8b3248f2f71914728b

2021-08-21 Americans are creating their own vaccine mandates by cutting ties with the unvaccinated The Harris Poll, at least 30% of Millennials or Gen Zers in the U.S. say they have cut ties with a friend, family member or acquaintance because they wouldn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Of all four generations surveyed, millennials are the group most likely to have younger children who are unvaccinated, which could contribute to the divide as parents may be concerned about the safety of their kids. Older Americans may know fewer unvaccinated people as 90.1% of Americans 65 and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with 59.7% of the overall U.S. population, according to the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine tracker. In the past few weeks, more employers announced plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for workers who report to in-person offices.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/americans-are-creating-their-own-vaccine-mandates-by-cutting-ties-with-the-unvaccinated/ar-AANo5mr

2021-08-20 Monoclonal Antibodies Are Free and Effective Against COVID-19, but Few People Are Getting Them When Mike Burton came down with a breakthrough case of COVID-19 earlier this month, the infection posed a double threat to his family. At 73, the retired surgeon faced elevated risk of serious illness. His wife, Linda, has a suppressed immune system, the result of drugs she takes after two liver transplants that put her in greater danger of life-threatening illness.   The Burtons, both vaccinated, moved to separate parts of their Mount Sterling, Ky., home, masked up and hoped for the best.

Then a friend called and insisted they ask their doctors about monoclonal antibodies — an effective, widely available COVID-19 therapy that few people are receiving.

The drugs often prevent severe disease, keeping people like Mike Burton out of the hospital if taken within seven to 10 days after symptoms begin. And since last month, they can be given prophylactically to millions of people like Linda Burton who have been exposed to the coronavirus and are at high risk of serious consequences. 

Monoclonal antibodies are free to patients and there have been almost no side effects. They are accessible on an outpatient basis, via a single infusion or four injections. Hospitals, urgent-care centers and even private doctors are authorized to dispense them.   But Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, maker of the only authorized, free monoclonal antibodies, said it is reaching fewer than 30 percent of eligible patients, up from fewer than 5 percent a month ago.

The White House COVID-19 Response Team reported last week that just more than 600,000 people have received the treatment since Regeneron and Eli Lilly received approval for separate versions in November. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-monoclonal-abbott/2021/08/19/a39a0b5e-0029-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

2021-08-19 CDC Studies Show Vaccine Protection Wanes Over Time, Less Effective Against Delta Variant The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday released three studies on the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. A UK study released Tuesday showed people with “breakthrough” infections carry as much virus as the unvaccinated.

The CDC released three new studies focusing on the vaccines’ effectiveness in light of the Delta variant. The third study, using New York state data, found all three vaccines’ effectiveness against infection dropped from 92% in early May to 80% at the end of July, but the effectiveness against hospitalization remained relatively stable.

Data from the three reports in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, helped convince the Biden administration to recommend booster shots to people eight months after receiving their second dose, despite no completed late-stage clinical trials assessing the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of a third dose. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaccine-protection-less-effective-against-delta-variant/

2021-08-19 The CDC announced the creation of a disease forecasting center to assess emerging health threats and help guide public health decisions. In the earliest and darkest days of the pandemic last year, health experts were plagued by a lack of coronavirus testing, long wait times for results and an incomplete picture of what was driving outbreaks.

Now, more than a year and a half later, many public health professionals are confronting the same issues. The delta variant is fueling a devastating new surge of infections, but experts say declines in testing and a lack of granular data about hospitalizations make it difficult to know just how much the virus is circulating in communities — and who remains most vulnerable.

That makes it harder to control new outbreaks, including those in schools as students return. It also hampers scientists’ ability to catch other, potentially more worrisome strains that may emerge. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/delta-variant-response-hindered-covid-test-limitations-lack-data-rcna1692

2021-08-19 Zuckerberg Deflects Questions About Vaccine Disinformation on Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg skirted a question on Thursday about coronavirus vaccine disinformation on the social network, choosing to phrase the problem instead as primarily one of “vaccine hesitancy” among the U.S. public. Zuckerberg said that Facebook has removed more than 18m posts containing misinformation from their website, but failed to answer when pressed by King on how many people viewed or shared these posts. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/19/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-vaccine-disinformation

2021-08-19 Sneak Preview: RFK, Jr. Shares Details About His New Book, ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ On the “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shares details about his new book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” with Robyn Openshaw, author and founder of GreenSmoothieGirl. The book, which will be released Nov. 9, is now available for pre-order.

Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gives a provocative exposé of the true Anthony Fauci, and how he used U.S. public health agencies to fund dangerous gain-of-function research that can be used to create bioweapons.

 the implications of those tie —  between the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), headed by Fauci, and the military, which provides substantial funding to NIAID.

The two also discuss how Fauci has played a key role in “agency capture,” said Kennedy, which is the pharmaceutical industry’s coup d’état against democracy. Kennedy explained how NIAID is one of 24 agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that’s been subject to industry capture.

Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s budget comes from buying, selling or distributing vaccines, said Kennedy. “It’s the biggest vaccine distributor in the country.”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIAID also own royalties on pharmaceutical profits, including vaccines, Kennedy said. “These are no longer regulators. It’s a polite fiction to say NIH does public health. It does not do public health. It does pharmaceutical promotion,” he said. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-robyn-openshaw-sneak-preview-new-book-the-real-anthony-fauci/

2021-08-19 S.F. moves to suspend police, fire and sheriff’s employees who refuse to report vaccination status San Francisco is moving to suspend 20 employees in the police, fire and sheriff’s departments who refused to disclose whether they are vaccinated against the coronavirus, demonstrating how seriously officials are taking the city’s vaccine mandate for its employees. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-moves-to-suspend-police-fire-and-16399089.php

2021-08-19 PHD DR. SEAN BROOKS (OXFORD) TELLS YOU WHEN AND HOW THE VACCINATED WILL DIE – EXPOSING THE FRAUD (video) https://www.bitchute.com/video/Xxed7jUAiDnT/

2021-08-19 Culver City Unified To Require Students 12 And Older To Get COVID Vaccine The Culver City Unified School District is believed to be the first in California to mandate its students ages 12 and older get vaccinated against the coronavirus. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/culver-city-unified-to-require-students-12-and-older-to-get-covid-vaccine/ar-AANvlVy

2021-08-19 A New Resource for Fighting Vaccine Misinformation The #ScienceUpFirst initiative was created to provide, support and amplify accurate scientific information to help people make informed health decisions.

There have been over four million deaths resulting from COVID worldwide, including over 34 million cases and more than 610,000 deaths in the United States alone. Worse, we do not appear to be near the end of the pandemic. Recent increases in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID have occurred, mainly in people who are either fully unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. Making this all the more tragic is its preventability; we know that vaccines are still effective against the Delta variant, which is now the predominant strain in the United States of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID. In this vein, health misinformation can fuel vaccine hesitancy, which the World Health Organization has listed as one of the top 10 threats to global health. That threat becomes very clear and very immediate in the context of COVID. With vaccination programs underway, vaccine hesitancy could threaten the goal of herd immunity, which is key to ending the pandemic. [MEK Note: Lots of suspect statements above associated with this group: Covid cases in Vaccinated people are not being tracked, booster shots now required, breakout cases are significant, vacine adverse events and decreasing vaccine efficy counter vaccine effectiveness, reputable sources say vaccines that allow people to get and spread Covid nixes any idea of herd immunity. ]

The #ScienceUpFirst team is independently represented from an array of Canadian universities and organizations. Operationally, the project is supported by the Canadian Association of Science CentersCOVID-19 Resources Canada and the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta.

In essence, #ScienceUpFirst uses social media to promote and amplify the best available science-based content in an effort to debunk misinformation.

At the social media level, the campaign does two things:

  • It seeks out, evaluates and boosts existing, evidence-based content, with the intention of engaging people to help to share and amplify that content on social media. Importantly, this involves efforts to adapt content and ensure that it reflects and speaks to diverse sociodemographic populations.
  • It takes information from community partners, followers and other official sources of data to determine the most relevant and timely content that is needed. It then creates scientifically accurate and easily digestible content in a visually appealing way and this content is vetted before it is posted on the campaign’s social media platforms.

[MEK Note: This all amounts to a major propaganda project to convince people to vaccinated. Based on earlier suspect statements of “fact” the group would most likely label honest rebttal misinformation and false news. Censoring information can be more dangerous than statements of misinformation.]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-resource-for-fighting-vaccine-misinformation/

2021-08-19 4 Out of 10 Parents Have No Plans to Get Child Vaccinated for School: Poll Almost 90% of U.S. parents plan to send their kids back to the classroom this fall, but fewer than 60% plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine for those who are old enough, a new poll reveals.

Anxiety is also high among many parents, who wonder just how safe in-person learning will be as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads nationwide and the pandemic grinds on. https://consumer.healthday.com/b-8-19-4-out-of-10-parents-have-no-plans-to-get-child-vaccinated-for-school-poll-2654706573.html

2021-08-19 Where’s the data on delta? Lack of testing, info makes it hard to see virus’s full scope The CDC announced the creation of a disease forecasting center to assess emerging health threats and help guide public health decisions.

The delta variant is fueling a devastating new surge of infections, but experts say declines in testing and a lack of granular data about hospitalizations make it difficult to know just how much the virus is circulating in communities — and who remains most vulnerable. That makes it harder to control new outbreaks, including those in schools as students return. It also hampers scientists’ ability to catch other, potentially more worrisome strains that may emerge.

“Without adequate data, policymakers are just swinging in the dark,” “What you get is a discordant response and somewhat chaotic policies that frequently change, and people are left worse off.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/delta-variant-response-hindered-covid-test-limitations-lack-data-rcna1692

2021-08-19 Study: Fully vaccinated people with “breakthrough” COVID Delta infections carry as much virus as the unvaccinated People who contract the Delta variant of COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated carry a similar amount of the coronavirus as those who catch the disease and have not been inoculated. The researchers stressed that vaccination still offers good protection against catching the disease in the first place, and protects against getting seriously ill with it. The survey of real-world U.K. data indicates, however, that vaccinated people with “breakthrough” infections could still pose a significant infection risk to those who have not been vaccinatedhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-delta-variant-infections-carry-same-virus-load-unvaccinated/

2021-08-19 Big Pharma Eyes Next Childhood Vaccine Cash Cow — mRNA Vaccines for RSV Now that COVID vaccines have established mRNA technology as the “new frontier for vaccine development,” pharma giants have set their sights on an mRNA vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — which they hope to add to an already overburdened childhood vaccine schedule.

Over the decades since childhood vaccines began rolling out on a widespread scale, pediatric vaccine injuries have left many parents regretful for forgetting or ignoring a basic history lesson.

That lesson, in the words of Harvard medical historian David Jones, is that “when it comes to vaccines and immunization … there always has been a risk and there always will be a risk.”

Sixty-five years ago, families learned about the risks of medical experimentation the hard way when they allowed researchers to use their infants as test subjects for a vaccine against a newly discovered illness dubbed “respiratory syncytial virus” (RSV), a common-cold-like illness now considered to affect “virtually all children,” mostly uneventfully, by age two. he disastrous RSV vaccine led to the death of two infants and to hospitalization for the majority of other young clinical trial participants.

Since that time, vexed researchers have continued to deploy “trial-and-error approaches.” But they admit the “road to an effective RSV vaccine is paved with challenges,” in large part because of the tricky problem of “vaccine-associated disease exacerbation” — a problem that has also plagued coronavirus vaccines.

The gist of the “exacerbation” issue, also called antibody-dependent enhancement or pathogenic priming, is that the vaccine “primes” recipients to later develop more severe disease instead of protecting them.

The foundational ethical standards underpinning research on human subjects demand special attention to vulnerable populations, including fetuses, neonates, pregnant women and the institutionalized elderly. Yet these are precisely the populations that RSV studies have targeted — all flops, with none leading to a licensed vaccine and a bare minimum of disclosure about safety.

Shocked by the scale and severity of COVID vaccine injuries in their adolescents, some parents are pushing back against the “one in a million” narrative, reminding the world that there is no accountability or liability for injuries caused by any experimental or licensed vaccine.

With roughly 400 adverse events documented in the package inserts of existing childhood vaccines, other parents might do well to consider whether the risks of either RSV or COVID injections are worth the tenuous benefits. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-pharma-childhood-mrna-vaccine-respiratory-syncytial-virus/

2021-08-19 US university announces it will fine, cut internet access to unvaccinated students Quinnipiac University issued the new regulations to students via email explaining it will apply a weekly fee of up to $2,275 per semester for unvaccinated students, mandatory weekly COVID-19 tests and loss of access to campus network and WiFi.

The email detailing these penalties was sent to roughly 600 students who had not submitted any proof of vaccination. Less than 10,000 students attend Quinnipiac, per a university spokesperson.  “Our goal is to protect the health of our entire university community,” the email read. “In order to accomplish this we must know if you have been vaccinated.”

Many colleges and universities are implementing vaccination requirements, taking cues from agencies and private sector firms as the fall term is set to begin.  https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/568427-us-university-announces-it-will-fine-and-cut

2021-08-19 Will Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine recipients need booster too? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the data behind the booster plan includes studies that demonstrated waning vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection in people who received either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna two-dose shots. The rollout for those shots began months before the Johnson & Johnson vaccine received FDA authorization, however, so the data on long-term effectiveness is forthcoming.  

“We also anticipate booster shots will likely be needed for people who received the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine,” Eight months is the mark officials pinned for the booster timeline regarding mRNA vaccines, but it’s yet to be seen what they will decide for the viral vector shot.  https://www.foxnews.com/health/johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-booster

Washington State Sets Highest Bar Yet for School Vaccine Mandates Teachers and staff of all schools must get vaccinated by Oct. 18 or face possible dismissal, with few exceptions. School boards in Miami and Tampa defy the state’s ban on mask mandates in classrooms. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/18/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

2021-08-18 Local Police Department Sues Over ‘Unlawful’ Vaccine Mandate The Tucson (Arizona) Police Union is suing the city after an ordinance was passed that makes vaccines mandatory for all city employees.

City officials met on Friday and voted 6 to 1 on an ordinance that requires all of the city’s approximately 4,500 employees to provide proof of vaccination, this includes the 750 employees of the police force. Of these 4,500, the city estimates that about 1,000 are unvaccinated, according to City Manager Michael Ortega’s memorandum. Those who do not will face a five-day suspension unless they have previously noted religious or medical exemptions. However, if at least 750 unvaccinated employees get vaccinated before August 20 the ordinance will not go into effect. https://www.newsweek.com/local-police-department-sues-over-unlawful-vaccine-mandate-1620690

2021-08-18 Biden says US will require nursing homes get staff vaccinated or lose federal funds Biden said he is directing the Department of Health and Human Services to draw up new regulations making employee vaccination a condition for nursing homes to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. The decision on nursing home staff represents a significant escalation in Biden’s campaign to get Americans vaccinated and the tools he is willing to use, marking the first time he has threatened to withhold federal funds in order to get people vaccinated. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/politics/nursing-homes-federal-funding/index.html

2021-08-18 Why A Push For Boosters Could Make The Pandemic Even Worse Officials at the World Health Organization said Wednesday that it strongly opposes booster shots for all adults in rich countries because the boosters will not help slow down the pandemic. By diverting doses away from unvaccinated people, booster shots will help drive the emergence of more dangerous mutants, the WHO doctors said. The problem with a call for boosters, she said, is that the virus is primarily circulating in unvaccinated people — not in the fully vaccinated.

The WHO estimates 11 billion doses are needed to bring the pandemic under control. Billions of people have not received even one dose of the vaccine. To stop the evolution of new variants, the world needs to focus on immunizing these populations before handing out extra protection to low-risk individuals in rich countries, Aylward said. “The problem is not enough people have been vaccinated. So our first priority is relatively simple: Get as many of the unvaccinated with two doses before you move beyond that.” https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/18/1028941909/why-a-push-for-boosters-could-make-the-pandemic-even-worse

2020-08-18 Opinion | Why So Many Holdouts Still Won’t Get Vaxxed — And Why We Should Learn to Live With It The million-dollar lottery appears to have failed to win vaccine hearts and minds. Can we change resisters into enthusiasts by encouraging them to become pill-popping hypochondriacs? Probably not. Convert them into enthusiasts by providing more facts? Assuredly not. Now that billions of doses safely have been served and untold thousands of lives have been saved, it’s hard to imagine a fact we could conjure that would persuade them. If visiting an intensive care unit and finding that nearly every ventilated person is unvaccinated won’t convince you to take the vaccine, what will? Should we teach fear of the virus by screening the Covid-19 equivalent of those old bloody drivers’ ed films? Lecture the anti-vaxxers for the 100th time that prevention via vaccination is superior in almost every way to treatment? Explain the cost-benefit argument one more time? Appeal to their altruism? Explain once more that, absent a vaccine, it’s less a question of whether you’re going to get a brutal case of Covid-19 than when?

Mandating vaccination for employment or for admittance to the next Foo Fighters concert will move some people on the margins, as will public shunning of the unvaccinated. But persuasion, shame, nudging and the setting of barriers have limited powers over people. Governments can enforce laws requiring vaccination, according to a Supreme Court precedent from 1905. But the punishment is only a fine, and recent rulings have upheld religious exemptions to the laws. A world in which 100 percent of the population volunteered for Covid-19 vaccination would be the best. But that’s not the one we live in.  [MEK Note: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/opinion-why-so-many-holdouts-still-won-t-get-vaxxed-and-why-we-should-learn-to-live-with-it/ar-AANt6Hm?ocid=msedgntp

2021-08-14 Eugenics/Wuhan Lab Leak? – Ralph Nader Hour Andrew Kimbrell, director of the International Center for Technology Assessment, joins us to talk about his documentary “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics, and the American Dream.” and to give us an update on the Wuhan Lab leak theory. 

“We now know that’s it’s somewhere in the range of possible, probable, and for some scientists a near certainty that this (the Wuhan Lab] is where it (Covid-19] came from.” “It doesn’t make any difference if we finally get what happened (lab leak or wet market). That can deflect us from the critical work we need to do to ban this type of ‘gain of function’ research.” https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/eugenics-wuhan-lab-leak-donziger-update/

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Cheney, Richard Bruce “Dick”

Dick Cheney – Wikipedia

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Cheney, Richard Bruce “Dick” is currently Vice President of the United States. He is a former Secretary of Defense and served as White House Chief of Staff under Gerald R. Ford. From 1978 to 1989, he served as a U.S. Representative from Wyoming. ¶

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton Company, which greatly benefits from contracts with the U.S. government, especially in the war with Iraq. Cheney has ties to the Carlyle Group, is a former Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, served on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and has been linked to the Project for the New American Century.

He is the believed to be a member of the U.S. Committee on NATO, a non-profit bi-partisan
organization formed to promote the expansion of the NATO alliance. ¶

Mr. Cheney is still drawing a $1,000,000 per year paycheck from Halliburton while serving as the Vice President. He evidently sees no conflict of interest between taking this paycheck, and participating in White House decisions that have allocated billions of dollars of bids to Halliburton that have not gone to open tender.

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Bush, John Ellis “Jeb”

Jeb Bush – Wikipedia (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

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Bush, John Ellis “Jeb” is the brother of President George Walker Bush and the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Jeb Bush was elected as Florida’s Republican Governor in November 1998 and was re-elected November 2002 (term expires January 2007). ¶

His role in the 2000 Presidential Election is still under question by many Americans. ¶

Jeb Bush was one of the signers of the Project for the New American Century documents Statement of Principles (June 3, 1997).

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Bush, George Walker

George W. Bush -Wilipedia (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.

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Bush, George Walker became the 43rd and current President of the United States of America on January 20, 2001. Immediately prior to attaining the office, he was Governor of the State of Texas. ¶

Bush was the winner of one of the closest elections (see 2000 Presidential Election) in American history, defeating Democratic Vice President Albert Gore, by only 5 electoral votes. His father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st President of the United States. His brother Jeb Bush is the current Governor of Florida . ¶

Bush began his career in the oil industry in 1975 when he formed the oil and gas exploration
company Arbusto Energy and continued working in the energy industry until 1986. His forays into the industry were disastrous, losing millions of dollars. ¶

Bush was involved in controversial stock trades while serving on the board of directors of Harken Energy Corp. in 1990. The sale of Harken stock helped pay off a loan for his purchase of a partial interest in the Texas Rangers. He served as managing general partner of the Rangers until he was elected Governor of Texas on November 8, 1994 over
incumbent Ann Richards. When the team was sold in 1998, Bush had earned $15,000,000. ¶

He went on to become the first Texas governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms. His tenure in office featured a reputation for bipartisan leadership, and some controversy, even international controversy. During Bush’s tenure, Texas saw a sharp rise in capital punishment. ¶

Once Bush Jr. came into office, his administration began negotiations with the Taliban for a pipeline deal through Afghanistan. (See Taliban-Afganistan Pipeline) ¶

Although Bush has never been a direct member of PNAC he has several close ties to the organization. His Brother Jeb Bush has been involved heavily over the years; Paul Wolfowitz co-authored the Bush Doctrine which borrows many ideas directly from PNAC’s Rebuilding America’s Defenses; several staff members of the Bush Administration are or have
been involved with PNAC in the past.

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Bennett, William J

William Bennett – Wikipedia William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative punditpolitician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush.

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Bennett, William J. is co-director of Empower America and Empower.org. He was formerly Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan and Director of National Drug Control Policy under George Herbert Walker Bush. ¶

Bennett is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American
Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton.¶

Bennett is senior advisor and founder of Americans for Victory Over Terrorism and serves on the advisory council of Center for Security Policy. ¶

Bennett is the John M Olin distinguished fellow in Cultural Policy studies at the Heritage Foundation.

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Abrams, Elliott

Elliott Abrams – Wikipedia born January 24, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for Presidents Ronald ReaganGeorge W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative.[2] He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.[3] He served as the U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela from 2019 to 2021 and as the U.S. Special Representative for Iran from 2020 to 2021.

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Abrams, Elliott was appointed to the National Security Council by George Walker Bush. He served as Assistant Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.

Abrams is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶

He is associated with the Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East. He has ties to the Hudson Institute and the Center for Security Policy. ¶

Abrams was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1991, Abrams
was indicted by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor for giving false testimony before Congress in 1987 about his role in illicitly raising money for the Nicaraguan Contras. He pleaded guilty to two lesser of ofenses of withholding information to Congress in order to avoid a trial and a possible jail term. He was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush along with a number of other Iran-Contra defendants on Christmas night 1992. ¶

After Reagan left office in 1989, Abrams, like a number of other prominent neo-conservatives, was not invited to serve in the Bush Sr. administration. Instead, he worked for a
number of think tanks and eventually became head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center where he wrote widely on foreign-policy issues, including the Middle East, and the threats posed by U.S. secular society to Jewish identity. He also remained an integral part of the tight-knit neo-conservative foreign policy community in Washington that revolved around one of his early mentors, Richard N. Perle and former UN Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the American Enterprise Institute. ¶

Recently, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice appointed Elliott Abrams as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council.

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