I know the Left never quits, but this is ridiculous.
The Left has been pursuing its dream of controlling the people through healthcare for more than a century. Those chasing the dream in Vermont had a rude awakening a few years ago when the Democrat Governor killed a single payer proposal after realizing it would bring payroll taxes to 25 percent to pay for it. But now they’re back, pushing a bill that would phase in single payer in Vermont over ten years. Apparently, it’s the boil-the-frog-slowly theory – hoping people won’t notice a huge tax increase if taxes are raised a little at a time as the state takes over more pieces of the healthcare system.
Meanwhile, a single payer healthcare bill in California died last month after its main sponsor pulled it from the floor for lack of votes. Even Democrats don’t all agree single payer is a good idea. The bill would have cost $400 billion a year, doubling California’s budget. It would have turned everything upside down even though only a tiny fraction of California residents are without insurance or public healthcare assistance. But you can bet the radical nurses associations and other Leftists will try to bring single payer back next year.
Leftists are still chasing the dream of single payer at the federal level, as well. The socialist sympathizer Pramila Jayapal is back with another single payer bill which has 120 co-sponsors in the House. But if they can’t get the whole enchilada at once, salami-slicing their way to single payer will do. Super-sizing Obamacare subsidies is just the first slice. To paraphrase a Tibetan proverb, beware of salami offered on a sharp knife.
Public option insurance, now in its second year in Washington state, is another slice. But it’s not going so great, there. Enrollment is nothing to write home about. Advocates are already talking about forcing hospitals to participate because hospitals won’t voluntarily join public provider networks on their own. Other states planning public option insurance are looking at this and building coercion into their plans right from the start. America, land of the free – unless you’re a hospital, I guess.
A single payer bill being considered in New York would raise taxes to unprecedented levels. The bill would spread the misery around through hikes in payroll taxes, income taxes, and capital gains taxes which would more than double the state’s already stratospheric tax take. The bill would hit self-employed people especially hard. Careful what you wish for. High state tax rates means wealth will pick up and move to another state. Just ask Maryland which tried to institute a millionaire’s tax some years ago.
Meanwhile, more town are virtue-signaling their support for single payer. The most recent town resolutions are pending in Ft. Collins where the Democratic Socialists of America are involved, and Cleveland Heights. Gotta hand it to the Left. Pretty clever to get politicians to vote for something their town will never have to pay for. Great way to make it look like the idea is gaining momentum.
The Left has also taken the fight for single payer to the AMA, the membership of which narrowly defeated a support proposal in 2019, encouraging supporters to try again. It’s a certainty the fight’s not over there yet, given that the AMA has recently gone Woke, urging doctors to recognize their minority patients as “oppressed” and “historically marginalized”.
There are lots of reasons to oppose single payer. In my most recent commentary on this subject [1/14/22], I talked about how healthcare will become totally politicized and doled out the way Washington wants, not the way you want and you won’t have any options left. Today, I’ve mentioned tax hikes in single payer proposals in Vermont, California, and New York. The CBO found a year ago financing federal single payer could double income tax rates, or worse. It found more recently single payer could cut GDP by 10 percent if you take away the assumption it could be financed by cutting the federal budget in other places. It’s not likely you could ever cut the budget enough in other places to pay for single payer. That leaves destructive tax hikes as the most likely outcome if the Left succeeds.
The Left never quits, so we must keep fighting. Remember, single payer is not about healthcare. Relatively few people are without insurance, government healthcare assistance, or the means to pay for it themselves. This means the fight is about controlling the people through their healthcare, not about healthcare itself, just like the congressman let slip during the Obamacare fight. The Left makes single payer sound so sweet, but what it really means is the Left’s complete domination over the rest of us. It comes down to this: Do you want to keep your freedom or not?
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At this point, it’s just about absolute power and seizure of our most basic freedoms. This is a crime against humanity.
Scores of studies have been published on the inefficacy of masks. This is not about masks.
Airlines to Biden: Drop the Mask Mandate.
10 CEOs of US passenger and cargo airlines, including Alaska, America, JetBlue, and Southwest, send letter to President Biden calling for an end to the mask mandates. pic.twitter.com/SZutrtvTto
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How the COVID Vaccine Altered These People’s Lives
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Some people who have received COVID-19 shots experience a range of debilitating symptoms or death
Healthy teenagers, athletes and doctors are among those who have died within hours or days of receiving COVID-19 shots
Others have experienced stroke-like symptoms, paralysis, tics, partial blindness and seizures following the shots
Increasing numbers of people are becoming compelled to speak out and share their stories of how COVID-19 shots altered their lives
Despite assurances of safety from health officials, it’s what the long-term effects of COVID-19 shots will be. Spike proteins from the shots can circulate in your body after injection, causing damage to cells, tissues and organs. “Spike protein is a deadly protein,” Dr. Peter McCullough, an internist, cardiologist and trained epidemiologist, said.1
Experimental and observational evidence show that the human immune response to COVID-19 shots is very different than the response induced by exposure to SARS-CoV-2, and people who’ve received COVID-19 shots may have damage to their innate immune system that’s leading to a form of vaccine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (VAIDS), due to the impairment in interferon signaling.2
Further, likely due to monocyte activation by the spike protein from the vaccine, some people who have received COVID-19 shots experience a range of debilitating symptoms similar to those found in long haul COVID-19 syndrome, such as headaches, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, joint pain and chest pain.3
For some, however, the shot’s adverse effects occur quickly, resulting in life-changing debilitation. You can see 10 powerful examples below, ranging from deaths to lives upended due to illogical quarantine rules that illustrate the absurdity of COVID-19 tyranny.
These are real people with real stories to share, and the more people who see them, the more awareness can grow to provide those who survived with the help and medical care they deserve — while warning others of the potentially deadly consequences of COVID-19 injections.
If you find these stories helpful and motivating then I would encourage you to visit our breaking news blog on our site as this is where the stories below were initially posted. The blog posts stay up continuously and are not removed after 48 hours.
10 People Whose Lives Changed After COVID-19 Shots
Jim Ashby — Learning to Walk Again
Ashby was forced to get a COVID-19 shot by December 3, 2021, or his employer would consider him “voluntarily resigned.” Eight days after receiving the Pfizer jab, he had a major hemorrhagic stroke.
He’s been in rehab since October 2021, suffering from complete paralysis on the left side of his body. He still has a long way to go in recovery, and still can’t feel or use his left arm or walk without assistance. His rehab is excruciatingly painful, he says, and he spends up to six hours a day learning how to walk again.
What’s worse, his employer isn’t covering the medical bills for the costs of this stroke. “My life has been totally changed, all because of the vaccine mandate … my old life is dead,” he says, “and I have started my new life as a paraplegic.”
Athletes Collapsing and Dying
Healthy athletes around the world are dying of heart attacks and strokes. The numbers are exploding, with athletes suffering neurological problems, too. What’s happened in the last six months to a year that’s different? Is there anything in common that’s changed that hooks all these athletes together? They all have had COVID-19 shots. Among them:
Abou Ali, 22-year-old football (soccer) player, who suffered from cardiac arrest in Denmark on September 11, 2021
Caddy Alberto Olguin collapsed and died from a heart attack on the golf course on October 9, 2021
30-year-old Venezuelan marathon champion Alexaida Guedez, 30, died of a heart attack during a 5,000-meter race on August 22, 2021
Andrea Astolfi, 45, sports director of Calcio Orsago in Italy, died of a heart attack on September 11, 2021 after returning from training
Ava Azzopardi, 14, collapsed on a soccer field in the U.S. on October 15, 2021, suffering from cardiac arrest; she had to be put in a medically induced coma to survive
Dr. Neil Singh Dhalla, Died From Myocarditis
Dr. Neil Singh Dhalla fell asleep four days after he got a COVID-19 booster shot — and died from a heart attack. The autopsy stated myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle that’s a recognized adverse effect of mRNA COVID-19 shots.4 A CEO of a major health clinic, he was only 48 years old and had never had heart problems in his life.
Faith Ranson, 16-Year-Old Plagued by Convulsions and Tics
A happy, healthy 16-year-old girl in Australia who got the Pfizer COVID-19 shot is now crippled with convulsions, persistent nausea and visible tics. The problems began three days after her second shot and have been ongoing for months. Health officials actually admitted “there is no question Faith has had a delayed reaction to the second Pfizer vaccination” and is suffering adverse reactions from the shot. Her story even made it to mainstream news.
Nurse With COVID Told to Go Back to Work
In this video, a “triple vaxxed” nurse from New York explains how she tested positive for COVID-19, and her employer told her to come back to work even though she hadn’t been in quarantine for five days — against CDC recommendations.
Since she was asymptomatic, she was cleared to go to back to work in a health care setting, but told she still had to quarantine in all other aspects of her life. In short, she can go to work to care for patients while actively positive for COVID-19, but she can’t go to a grocery store or a gas station. Not to mention, her kids were quarantined for 10 days, but she was expected to go back to work in less than five.
Stroke-Like Symptoms in a Healthy Woman
Complaints of neurological problems and stroke-like reactions continue to pile up. Immediately after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot, this previously healthy woman experienced headaches and dizziness and blacked out “a few times.”
Within days, she started experiencing numbness to the point that she couldn’t stand up. Eight days later, she’s in the hospital with loss of feeling in her left arm, left leg and face. She states that 19 women were brought in to her hospital ward with the same symptoms over the span of one weekend.
Two Teenage Boys Die From Myocarditis in Their Sleep
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Epidemiologists have confirmed that two teenage boys from different U.S. states died in their sleep of myocarditis days after getting the Pfizer shot. Both had received second doses of the shot, and McCullough said that in his view, the shots led to the deaths of the teenagers. In a study that examined the autopsy findings, it’s reported that the “myocarditis” described in the boys’ deaths is “not typical myocarditis pathology”:5
“The myocardial injury seen in these post-vaccine hearts is different from typical myocarditis and has an appearance most closely resembling a catecholamine-mediated stress (toxic) cardiomyopathy. Understanding that these instances are different from typical myocarditis and that cytokine storm has a known feedback loop with catecholamines may help guide screening and therapy.”
59-Year-Old Woman Dies Hours After Shot
A 59-year-old front line health care worker in the U.K. took the COVID-19 shot and died a few hours later. In the video, her acquaintance states, “Now I know it’s a given the vaccine’s going to have some casualties — but people are threatened they are going to lose their jobs if they don’t take it … You have the right to take that risk, but you should have the right to refuse it as well — without jeopardizing your job or your freedom of entry or freedom from discrimination.”
Vaccine Advocate Nearly Goes Blind
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The man in this video describes himself as a believer in “science” and a “vaccine advocate,” but this didn’t spare him from the shot’s adverse effects. Five days after his first Pfizer COVID-19 shot, he started having blurry vision in his left eye. Within three days, he had lost 60% of his vision in that eye.
After several medical examinations, doctors, optometrists and retina specialists diagnosed him with central serous retinopathy (CSR), in which a small vein ruptured, leading fluid to accumulate under the retina, causing retinal detachment and partial blindness.
Other cases of CSR have also been reported following COVID-19 shots, he says, and in a case report published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology it’s stated, “Acute CSR may be temporally associated with mRNA Covid-19 immunization.”6 The man’s doctor told him that the risk of getting additional COVID-19 shots outweighs the potential benefit for him and tried to help him get an official exemption from further shots, but it was denied. He states:
“I have been deprived of my human rights as a citizen … I try to gather all my strength so many times during the past few months to just go and receive my second dose in order to follow the laws.
But the fact that the science says there is an above-average chance that I may lose more of my sight has driven me to anxiety attacks, night terrors and disabling depression … This is a direct violation of my constitutional rights as a citizen and a human being.”
Young Woman Suffers From Seizures, Nearly Dies
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Beginning her story by stressing she is NOT anti-vaccine or pro-conspiracy theory, this young woman describes what happened to her after she received a Moderna COVID-19 shot, which she decided to get so she and her husband could join some friends on a cruise.
The day after the shot she started feeling “weird,” delirious and “disassociated from herself,” she says. Soon after, she blacked out in the bathroom, and when her husband tried to revive her, she began seizing. She had three seizures between the time her husband called 911 and when the ambulance got her to the hospital.
She was intubated and suffered other severe effects, she says. She spent days in the hospital and is now taking anti-seizure medication, while living with ongoing anxiety about her near-death experience, which she believes was caused by the shot. “Go out there and do your research so you can make an informed decision,” she says. “Because you don’t want to put something in your body that could potentially harm you.”
Let Your Voice Be Heard
If you or a loved one has been injured by a COVID-19 shot, I will help you share your testimony. Vaccine mandates have led to injuries, devastation and deaths — while the brainwashing “get your vaccine now” campaign is being used to divide and conquer. One spark is all that is required to start a fire. There is a revolution building — a revolution for freedom to live your life without medical mandates or dictators calling the shots.
Please share your story with us, and encourage others you know who have a story to share theirs. It’s never been more important than now, for you and your family, to take control of your health.
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Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse with Biden and his nominees, it does. Watch as Senator Marsha Blackburn, a woman, asks Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, a woman, to define the word “woman”:
SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"
Talk about gender confused. How can a woman, any woman, let alone a judge not define what a woman is? What would this judge do if a case came before her about two women marrying? Oh wait, that’s already happened in 2015 when Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a woman, who married two gay men just before she ruled, along with the majority, to legalize gay marriages in Obergefell v. Hodges.
But don’t worry we found a young biologist and will be sending him to visit with Jackson.
WARNING: Biden, the Democrats, the LGBTQs are all grooming your children and grandchildren to embrace sodomy and gay marriage. How do we know?
Days after the New York Post surprising report on emails retrieved from Hunter Biden’s laptop revealing exchange of emails between Joe Biden’s son and an official from the Ukrainian Burisma company, the internet is focused on another “scandalous” report related to files found on Hunter’s laptop, that include child pornography videos and pictures.
Watch as Senator Ron Johnson on Fox News suggesting that there’s child pornography on the computer that belongs to Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden.
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And guess what? It gets worse, if that’s possible. Jackson is soft on sex offenders, particularly child predators/pedophiles/pederasts.
I’ve been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews & speeches. I’ve noticed an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children
They’re all teaching and indoctrinating your children and grandchildren to become gender confused. They want to eliminate the biological fact that there are only 2 genders, male (XX) and female (XY).
But don’t worry there’s one man who isn’t gender confused. His name is Ron DeSantis and he’s the Governor of the State of Floirda. Read his letter to the NCAA on men competing in women’s sports.
“I knew there was a variety of treatments that we could use [yet] we were using nothing. Doctors were even told to not use anticoagulants, even though blood clotting was ‘through the roof’ in many patients. You could draw blood and actually see the blood clotting very quickly in the tubes.” – Dr. Pierre Kory
“We didn’t have a single academic institution come up with a single protocol,” said Dr. McCullough. “They didn’t even try. Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Duke, you name it. Not a single medical center set up even a tent to try to treat patients and prevent hospitalization and death. There wasn’t an ounce of original research coming out of America available to fight COVID—other than vaccines.” – Dr. Peter McCullough
“Even with corrupt data collection, it became harder and harder to find enough dead people to fuel the ongoing fear pandemic, so the media pivoted and replaced daily death and hospitalization trackers with a new statistical category: ‘Case Numbers’.” – Mark McDonald, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis
“It is no longer controversial to acknowledge that drug makers rigorously control medical publishing and that The Lancet, NEJM, and JAMA are utterly corrupted instruments of Pharma.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The body pushing The Great Reset happens to be the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its charismatic lizard-like German leader Klaus Schwab who is calling for a return to Marxist principles, claiming that capitalism has empirically failed. Schwab claims that, “The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century.”
The Marxist principles Schwab endorses are stained with blood. Yet WEF says that capitalism as we know it needs to be reformed. Or did Schwab mean destroyed? We already have a good start…forty-six percent of middleclass businesses died when $3.8 trillion dollars were shifted from small businesses to the very rich via lockdowns. And Schwab spews his Marxist propaganda on YouTube, where truth is censored.
Not only does Marxism demand a slave mentality of the unwashed masses ruled by the elite, but the bourgeoisie desire a smaller number of proletariats to dominate and rule. Mass annihilation of the elderly occurred in our hospitals and nursing homes with the hellish protocols for C-19. Oxygen, expensive Remdesivir, ventilators and ultimately death, but never any repurposed drugs which would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
What does the WEF have to do with COVID care and vaccines? Everything! And now we’re being distracted by the Ukrainian money-laundering hub of the New World Order and the drums of war, with fools like Lindsey Graham calling for the insane and unconstitutional assassination of another country’s leader.
In March, 2022, Ukraine’s Zelensky silently implemented the WEF’s ‘Great Reset’ by setting up a social credit application combining universal basic income (UBI), a digital identity and a vaccine passport all within their Diia app. And journalist Daniel Greenfield exposed Zelensky’s Holocaust denial and abuse of Israel, which should be a warning for our Jewish brethren. Neo-Nazis are now joining the fight with Ukraine as an opportunity to kill Jews. And it should be of no surprise that before Schwab’s family migrated from Germany to become neutral Swiss, young Klaus was a member of the Nazi youth. Birds of a feather…
Puppet Joseph Biden and his administration are moving toward the same Great Reset goals, but our medical industry must first be fully government controlled.
America’s Medical System
By 1906, the American Medical Association (AMA) was inspecting medical schools and classifying them as acceptable, doubtful, or unacceptable, based on conformity to the AMA’s beliefs and teachings. In 1910, a report funded by the Carnegie Foundation (a progressive and abhorrent demonic mutation) and supported by the AMA, outlined new uniform standards for medical schools, thus giving the medical industry the same familiar “one size fits all” feature common to everything else being “standardized” by industrialists in the U.S.
The stated goals of the Socialists and Communists as recorded in the minutes of some of their meetings held in and around New York City during the early 1900s have included abolishing all U.S. conspiracy laws that stand in the way of their desired monopolies, destroying the Constitution, creating an unconstitutional and historically illegal income tax on Americans’ labor, gaining control of the government and media from the inside and establishing a compulsory public school system through which children will be indoctrinated to communist propaganda. They even established barbaric eugenics programs in the U.S., the likes of which the rest of the world has yet to duplicate, although Hitler tried.
Today we are forced to turn our hard-earned wages over to gigantic insurance companies who will decide (without medical experience) just what you are allowed to have and how much the physician/surgeon shall receive. We’ve paid into Social Security and Medicare all the years of employment, but we are not allowed to receive Social Security benefits unless we also take government healthcare via Medicare.
That, my friends, is communism.
Although the price for “healthcare” has skyrocketed, the actual “health” of Americans has continued to plummet as a result of the entire nation being first seated at the table of Big Pharma, and then sent to Big Pharma to be treated for the anticipated resulting symptoms. Link
In a December 2021 article, I urged everyone to read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci. Kennedy stated, “When Dr. Fauci took office in 1984, America was still ranked among the world’s healthiest populations. An August 2021 study by the Commonwealth Fund ranked America’s health care system dead last among industrialized nations, with the highest infant mortality and the lowest life expectancy. ‘If health care were an Olympic sport, the US might not qualify in a competition with other high-income nations,’ laments the study’s lead author, Eric Schneider, who serves as Senior Vice President for Policy and Research at the Commonwealth Fund.”
The commies and fascists are winning.
Yes, we’re now dead last, our hospitals are not trustworthy, and Big Pharma is shooting DNA changing vaxes into the arms of our dumbed down and propagandized American citizens. Former Blackrock portfolio manager and Pfizer and Moderna whistleblower, Edward Dowd, tells us that per CDC data, “The Millennial age group, 25-44, experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality. It’s the worst-ever excess mortality, I think, in history.” Dowd believes Pfizer and Moderna are the new Enron.
Communist Infiltration
Although some folks still don’t believe it, there is documented evidence that European communists immigrated to the U.S. in 1848; they’re called the 48ers. Thirteen of them were high ranking officers in the Union Army during the Northern War of Aggression and the Southern War for Secession. By the 1950s they were heavily ensconced in every faction of federal and state governments. Hollywood and America’s higher education was also infiltrated. Today, communism is in every facet of our society.
In 1963, 45 of the communist goals were read into the Congressional Record, and most have been accomplished.
In a previous article about our medical system, I mentioned Dr. Richard Day, Professor of Pediatrics at Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York who in March 1969 gave a chilling lecture about the “New World System.” Previously he had served as Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He told of future plans, whether as a forewarning or to unburden himself. He spoke as though he had colluded with the blueprint designers.
His warnings for the future were uncannily accurate. He lectured on over 50 topics, but here are the eight medical topics, most already accomplished.
Euthanasia and the “Demise Pill”
Limiting Access to Affordable Medical
Planning the Control over Medicine
Elimination of Private Doctors
New Difficult to Diagnose and Untreatable Diseases
Suppressing Cancer Cures as a Means of Population Control
Tax Funded Abortion as Population Control
What did Marx say about healthcare? The Health System ensures a healthy workforce which in turn ensures more profit for the ruling classes as workers don’t take time off sick! Marxists believe that doctors hide the real social causes of illness (poverty, class inequality etc.) by focusing on the individual and their physical symptoms albeit personal individual care is becoming a thing of the past. But physicians are no longer taught to think of the individual patient or “outside of the box.”
There you have it…a healthy workforce must ensure a healthy proletariat to serve the bourgeoisie. Unhealthy humanity is eliminated as they don’t support the elite.
Planned and Executed
The COVID crisis was planned, executed, propagandized and utilized to kill, not only with deadly hospital protocols and antiviral medications like Remdesivir that destroyed the kidneys, but with money making COVID jabs, now on their fourth booster. Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla, claims the fourth Covid jab is “necessary.”
The elderly, referred to by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and others as “useless eaters,” were the main targets; for them, our hospitals became homicidal medical centers.
The slow-motion collapse of the American healthcare system is a complexity that is killing thousands on a daily basis for The Great Reset, or as George H.W. Bush called it numerous times, the New World Order.
All of this was accelerated with the improper FDA, CDC and NIH protocols given to hospitals and physician groups for COVID-19 and daily spewed via our propaganda media by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Millions died needlessly and alone. VP Pence and the people he hired…Fauci, Birx and Redfield, ran the Deep State show. Had Trump listened to Dr. Scott Atlas and Peter Navarro, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” inoculations have put far too many in their graves, more probably than COVID, but it was the unelected councils of these government organizations, who never treated COVID patients and intentionally disallowed any repurposed drugs to be used.
Repurposed Drugs
Repurposed drugs were demolished by three once highly respected journals, Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of American Medical Association. Despite Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin being decades old and on the World Health Organizations’ list of safest drugs, the journals claimed the drugs were dangerous.
Even Pfizer documented in their clinical trials that Ivermectin was listed as a current COVID therapy and an excellent prophylactic, but there was no money to be made there. Repurposed drugs saved lives, but Pfizer was more interested in their bottom line and cared nothing about the needless loss of life.
There’s even more… Dr. Andrew Hill was called on to perform an evaluation of Ivermectin and no one would call his competence into question. But, as we have seen throughout the COVID pandemic, competence is no substitute for character. Or for courage.
Hill seemed eminently qualified for his assigned task. A senior visiting Research Fellow in the Pharmacology Department at Liverpool University, he had been researching viruses and their treatments for 30 years. He was also, not incidentally, an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Clinton Foundation. That alone should give a big “uh-oh” to everyone…who could guess the outcome.
As Hill assembled his data, he was more and more impressed by what he found. He made a presentation to the NIH with other advocates of Ivermectin and spoke in favor of its use. On December 29, 2020, he wrote on Twitter that “Ivermectin is showing effects on viral clearance, hospitalization and survival across a wide range of randomized trials in different countries.” He even admitted that if his 58-year-old brother got COVID, he would give him Ivermectin. He told NIH and America’s Frontline Doctors and then he dropped the ball and backed off.
Hill knew as everyone else did that Ivermectin was the drug for COVID, but he punted and said it needed randomized trials. There had to be a threat or a payoff.
Ivermectin is even being studied in cancer treatments and with reported success, but the drug is cheap and Big Pharma and their buddies wouldn’t make a dime.
The Jabs
The COVID jabs have been proven to alter DNA. Dr. Peter McCullough has discussed this numerous times via interviews. In a process called reverse transcription, a hepatic (related to the liver) cell line calls for the DNA code of at least part of the spike protein found inside the human nucleus and changes it in as fast as six hours after the “vaccine” injection.
We all know the numerous COVID jabs made beaucoup bucks for Big Pharma and the NIH, CDC and FDA, whereas the repurposed drugs that would have saved countless lives are inexpensive, were purposely discarded and saving lives be damned.
American lives mean nothing to Big Pharma and government entities.
Conclusion
Ukraine has replaced COVID. It is a country of corruption.
Vladimir Putin is no Zelensky. Before Alexandre Solzhenitsyn died, Putin met with him and Solzhenitsyn told Putin what needed to be changed. The Russian leader listened. Solzhenitsyn died on August 3, 2008; a few months short of his 90th birthday. Only two weeks later, it was announced that Moscow’s Great Communist Street (ulitsa Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya) was to be re-named “Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street,” an honour bestowed by a personal decree from President Putin.
In October 2010, it was announced that The Gulag Archipelago would become required reading for all Russian high school students. In a meeting with Solzhenitsyn’s widow, Putin described The Gulag Archipelago as “essential reading.” “Without the knowledge of that book, we would lack a full understanding of our country and it would be difficult for us to think about the future.”
What more need be said? In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the greatest classic of anti-communist literature is now compulsory reading in all the high schools of the nation. If the same could be said of the high schools of the United States, we would not have the endemic historical and political ignorance that has led to the widespread sympathy for communism among young Americans. In the light of this, and in the light of Putin’s evident admiration for Solzhenitsyn, let’s not try to pretend that Russia is a communist nation. We don’t need to like Vladimir Putin. We don’t need to admire him. But we do need to acknowledge that Russia has moved on from the evils of socialism, even as we are in danger of embracing those very same evils.
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“Health equity has to be part of everything we do,” Becerra said. “You will see health equity pervades everything we do.”
You will recall that “equity” is not the same as “equality.” Equality is by definition anti-discrimination. Equity is discrimination — present discrimination against the white power structure in retaliation for past discrimination. Health equity operates under the assumption that the medical profession has been historically racist, and that health care needs to be “relearned” in order to “center on” black lives.
The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a 54-page manifesto called “Advancing Health Equity” which teaches medical professionals how to agitate toward critical race theory-centric policies and practices.
“A rich tradition of work in health equity and related fields, including critical race theory (defined in the glossary), gender studies, disability studies, as well as scholarship from social medicine, gives us a foundation for an alternative narrative,” it says, citing a Guide to Counter-Narrating the Attacks on Critical Race Theory, “one that challenges the status quo, one that moves health care towards justice.”
Prioritizing the radical aims of Progressive “social justice” in what should be the science-based, non-discriminatory field of medicine is going to lead to a whole new level of death and misery for countless patients. Yet that is the “top priority” of our Health and Human Services chief.
In October 2002 Becerra supported the Chicano Coalition for Peace and Social Justice, a group that had been infiltrated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In 2005 he joined Raul Grijalva and Luis Gutierrez in backing the efforts of Latinos for Peace, an anti-Iraq War front group for the CPUSA.[1] That same year, Becerra co-sponsored Rep. John Conyers‘s HR 676, a bill calling for the creation of a government-run, “single-payer” healthcare system.
Becerra was one of 15 congressional co-sponsors of the America Votes Act of 2012, which sought—on the twin premises that Voter ID laws are racist and voter fraud is exceedingly rare—to allow voters to sign an affidavit attesting to their identity if they lacked the identification documents required at their polling place.
In early 2013, Becerra was one of a number of prominent leftists who urged President Obama to award, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Fred Ross Sr., a Saul Alinsky-trained radical who mentored both Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
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Delta Air Lines charges a $200 monthly surcharge to employees on the company health plan who do not get a COVID-19 shot
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) announced that public employees in Nevada, along with their adult dependents, would be charged a surcharge on their state health insurance plan if they don’t get a COVID-19 shot by July 2022
Mercyhealth, which runs hospitals and health clinics in Wisconsin and Illinois, deducts $60 per month from employees’ wages if they choose not to get the shot
By making COVID-19 injections a requirement of a wellness program, companies may be able to skirt legal issues, as they’re “rewarding” members who participate in the program by letting them avoid the premium surcharge hoisted on the unvaccinated
While health insurance companies have long charged higher premiums based on factors like smoking, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires that penalties not be so large as to be coercive
Those who choose not to get a COVID-19 shot may face higher costs for health care related to COVID-19. For the first 1.5 years of the pandemic, health insurance companies routinely paid for all costs related to COVID-19, waiving deductibles and copays across the board.1 Policies have since changed, with many private insurers no longer picking up the tab for hospitalizations and other costs related to COVID-19.
However, those who haven’t received COVID-19 shots could end up paying the most. While health insurance companies cannot deny health insurance to someone because they don’t get a COVID-19 shot, it’s possible that they could face increased costs — similar to smokers, who also pay a premium for health insurance coverage.
Delta Airlines Paved the Way for Increased Costs
August 25, 2021, Delta Air Lines announced that employees who are on the company health plan who do not get a COVID-19 shot will have a $200 monthly surcharge added. In the two weeks after Delta made the announcement, 20% of Delta’s unvaccinated employees got the injection, raising the company’s injection rate from 74% to 78%.2
The surcharge took effect on November 1, 2021, and by October 29, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian stated that more than 90% of employees had received the shot.3 In an employee memo, Bastian defended the significant premium hike for unvaccinated employees, stating, “The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person. This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company.”4
Other companies have since followed suit. In January 2022, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) announced that public employees in Nevada, along with their adult dependents, would be assessed a surcharge on their state health insurance plan if they don’t get a COVID-19 shot by July 2022.5
A September 2021 survey by SHRM found that close to 20% of corporations were considering raising health insurance premiums for employees who don’t get the injection. Among organizations, 13% were considering such a move while less than 1% had actually raised premiums for unvaccinated employees at that time.6
In another example, Mercyhealth, which runs hospitals and health clinics in Wisconsin and Illinois, started deducting $60 per month from employees’ wages if they choose not to get the shot. While Alen Brcic, Mercyhealth vice president of people and culture, called the so-called “risk pool fee” a nominal amount, it drove the health system’s vaccination rate among employees up to 91%, from its previous 70%.7
“A ‘couple of handfuls’ of people quit over the policy and roughly 9% of employees are now contributing to the risk pool. Mercyhealth did provide a very small number of medical exemptions, but no religious exemptions,” NPR reported.8
Wellness Program Loophole Allows Increased Costs for Some
A number of federal statutes — including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) — prohibit group health plans and insurers from discriminating against individuals based on health factors.
While short-term health plans, which aren’t subject to ACA regulations, can deny coverage to someone because they didn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine, private health insurers cannot. Further, insurers that are part of the individual marketplace cannot charge penalties to those who are not vaccinated.9
However, wellness programs provide a work-around. By making COVID-19 injections a requirement of the company’s wellness program,10 Delta, for instance, may be able to skirt legal issues,11 as they’re “rewarding” members who participate in the wellness program by letting them avoid the premium surcharge hoisted on the unvaccinated.
JPMorgan Chase and Harmons have also used wellness program guidelines as a tool to raise health care premiums for workers who don’t get a COVID-19 shot. “According to federal law, companies are allowed to charge employees different amounts for health care as long as they do it through a program designed to promote healthy behaviors and prevent disease,” NPR reported.12
A wellness program can include virtually anything, from reaching a set number of steps daily to quitting smoking or staying within a certain BMI range. Sabrina Corlette, founder and co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University, told NPR, “Your wellness program could simply be: I’m going to encourage all of my employees to get vaccinated, full stop.
Most employers are doing this to try to have a healthier and more productive workforce … and to spend less on overall health care costs.”13
There are a few caveats. For instance, ACA regulations state that surcharges in employer wellness programs for things such as COVID-19 vaccination status are allowed, as long as they don’t discriminate against people with disabilities.14 NPR broke down wellness program waivers this way:15
“Under federal law, the wellness program must be ‘reasonably designed,’ meaning there’s a reasonable chance the program will improve the health of or prevent disease in the participants. To ensure that wellness programs do not violate discrimination laws, companies must provide waivers for individuals who have medical reasons for not meeting the stated targets or alternative ways for them to satisfy the requirements.
As part of its policy, the Utah grocer Harmons says its insurance premium surcharge of up to $200 per month applies to ‘unvaccinated associates who don’t qualify for an exemption or who chose not to complete a vaccine education series.’”
Rewards and penalties of wellness programs may not exceed 30% of the cost of employees’ health care plans, “calculated as the amount paid by the employee and the employer combined,” except in cases that involve tobacco use — then the penalty may reach 50% of costs.16
Fines for Vaccination Status a Slippery Slope
Governments around the globe have also rolled out fines for refusal of COVID-19 shots. Greece announced it would fine anyone aged 60 years and over who doesn’t get the injection, at a rate of approximately $114 a month.17 The Canadian province of Quebec also announced plans to fine the unvaccinated a “significant” amount.18
“There comes a point where these incentives [are getting] higher and higher and higher until people just can’t afford to not get the vaccine,” Julie Downs, Ph.D., a social psychologist and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, told AAMC. “It does work, but it comes at a cost … [and it’s] very hard in this political environment.”19
Dr. Mark Fendrick, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, described penalties for not getting vaccinated “legally murky,”20 while others have described it as coercion. While health insurance companies have long charged higher premiums based on factors like smoking, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires that penalties not be so large as to be coercive.21
One of the principles of the Nuremberg Code is that humans must give voluntary consent when participating in medical experiments, and that consent must be given, among other things, “without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion.”22
Give the emergency use authorization, not approval, the mass jab administration constituted a research trial. While the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 jab received FDA approval August 23, 2021, the injection’s approval represents the fastest approval in history,23 granted less than four months after Pfizer filed for licensing May 7, 2021.24 So for all intents and purposes, it’s still in the research phase.
Daniel Polsky, Ph.D., economist with the Johns Hopkins Blomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School, further noted that penalties based on vaccination status should not dictate health care coverage, which also should not impose fines that suggest a person is at fault for getting sick. He told AAMC:25
“[For example,] we have this obesity crisis and some people would say, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t pay for care, it’s the person’s fault for being obese or for being an addict. If someone got sick from COVID — we should withhold paying for care.’… That is a slippery slope and not somewhere we should go.”
Natural Immunity Is Ignored
If you’ve had COVID-19, the research is strong that you’re well protected against reinfection. New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even show that prior COVID-19 infection, i.e., natural immunity, is more protective than COVID-19 injections.26
Despite this, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently upheld a vaccine mandate at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mandate affects 10.4 million health care workers employed at 76,000 medical facilities,27 making no exceptions for those who have natural immunity to COVID-19 due to prior infection.
“You can think about a mandate as the strongest form of incentive,” Dr. Kevin Volpp, director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, told AAMC. “What we’ve seen so far in employer settings where there is a mandate related to keeping your job is that very few employees have not complied.”28
Yet, when researchers reviewed studies published in PubMed, they found that the risk of reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 decreased by 80.5% to 100% among people who had previously had COVID-19.29 Additional research cited in their review found:30
Among 9,119 people who had previously had COVID-19, only 0.7% became reinfected.
At Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, the incidence rate of COVID-19 among those who had not previously been infected was 4.3 per 100 people; the COVID-19 incidence rate among those who had previously been infected was zero per 100 people.
The frequency of hospitalization due to a repeated COVID-19 infection was five per 14,840 people, or .03%, according to an Austrian study; the frequency of death due to a repeated infection was one per 14,840 people, or .01%.
In short, if you’ve had COVID-19, you’re largely protected from reinfection, and a COVID-19 shot is not only unnecessary but, according to some experts, especially dangerous.31 Penalizing people who refuse a COVID-19 shot they don’t want or need becomes particularly atrocious in such cases. Unvaccinated individuals must have the freedom to remain so, if that’s what they choose, and not be forced into this medical decision by financial threats and coercion.
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The Fauci fraud must continue, despite his catastrophic polices, in order for the Democrats to maintain totalitarian control. Not one legacy media institution told the truth and reported the facts.
By: Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, March 19, 2022:
Forbes has cut off its association with a prolific contributor after he wrote a number of articles about Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Forbes recently removed Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, as a contributor.
Prior to the action, Andrzejewski had multiple stories on information that he and his group obtained regarding Fauci’s financial situation.
Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is the highest-compensated federal employee, one article revealed. Another detailed how difficult it was to obtain certain details on Fauci’s job and finances. A third outlined aspects of disclosures released to Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.).
Shortly after the last article, Caroline Howard, an executive editor at Forbes, wrote to Andrzejewski about his choice of topics.
“I see this is your third article on Fauci in 3 weeks. Huh,” Howard wrote, according to a copy of the email published by Andrzejewski.
Howard said one or more articles contained errors and warned the contributor against “straying into advocacy” and to “steer clear of opinion, distortion, speculation, exaggeration, bias, carelessness, half-truths, and deceit.”
Andrzejewski describes himself as a transparency advocate who has solely written about government transparency since starting as a columnist at Forbes in 2014.
The following day, a spokeswoman for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the parent agency of the one Fauci heads, informed Andrzejewski and an editor about “incorrect information” in one of the reports, alleging it was not correct to say Fauci and his wife, a bioethicist at NIH, “‘collected’ $8,100 to attend three galas.”
“Rather, Dr. Fauci accepted invitations for himself and his wife to attend three virtual events during 2020. He never ‘collected’ any money for these events,” she wrote.
The NIH also contested the description of Fauci receiving “travel perks” from McGraw-Hill, writing that Fauci was merely reimbursed for travel to editorial board meetings.
Andrzejewski responded to the first requested edit as “a difference without a distinction” and said he replaced the word “collecting” with “reported,” in addition to adding more details about Fauci’s position with McGraw-Hill and the reimbursements.
Within 24 hours of the NIH email, Randall Lane, a Forbes editor who often worked with Andrzejewski, allegedly called the columnist and told him to stop writing about Fauci. He also said that all topics going forward would have to be pre-approved.
About 10 days later, on Jan. 28, the column was terminated—the same day Forbes published a piece about how Fauci’s portrait will hang in the Smithsonian.
“National Institutes of Health came down hard on Forbes. Forbes came down on me. I told the truth. They pulled the plug,” Andrzejewski told The Epoch Times in an email.
“The size, scope, and power of the government at all levels has grown so substantially over the last 20 years that government bureaus feel empowered to pressure national media organizations. Unfortunately, Forbes folded quickly, which only fuels more government pressure on media,” he added.
Fauci did not respond to a request for comment.
Before the column ended, Andrzejewski had published over 200 articles on the oversight probes he and his group carried out, garnering nearly 17 million views.
A Forbes spokesman confirmed that Andrzejewski is no longer a contributor.
“Forbes regularly removes contributors (note: he wasn’t an employee so he wasn’t fired) who don’t meet our high editorial standards,” the spokesman told The Epoch Times in an email.
Andrzejewski’s “numerous articles on Dr. Fauci’s finances” are still available on the Forbes website, he noted.
Andrzejewski said he plans to keep reporting on Fauci in the future.
“Subject to our federal lawsuit, NIH owes us 1,200 pages of Fauci financial documents, and each page is a potential national news story,” he said. “The agency also owes us 3,000 pages of line-by-line royalty payments. Just think about the treasure-trove of stories coming down the pike soon.”
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“You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.” – Morpheus to Neo, The Matrix
I have written about how technology can be used for both good and evil. Technology has become ubiquitous, it is everywhere. Our children and grandchildren are becoming more addicted to technology, as they do so the evil side may rear its ugly head.
Will your grandchild become a microchip’s pet? Is it immoral to have a human become the “pet” of a microchip? Is the subcutaneous microchip the new “mark of the beast”?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first drug in the U.S. with a digital ingestion tracking system. Abilify MyCite (aripiprazole tablets with sensor) has an ingestible sensor embedded in the pill that records that the medication was taken. The product is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia, acute treatment of manic and mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder and for use as an add-on treatment for depression in adults.
The system works by sending a message from the pill’s sensor to a wearable patch. The patch transmits the information to a mobile application so that patients can track the ingestion of the medication on their smart phone. Patients can also permit their caregivers and physician to access the information through a web-based portal.
“Being able to track ingestion of medications prescribed for mental illness may be useful for some patients,” said Mitchell Mathis, M.D., director of the Division of Psychiatry Products in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “The FDA supports the development and use of new technology in prescription drugs and is committed to working with companies to understand how technology might benefit patients and prescribers.”
It is important to note that Abilify MyCite’s prescribing information (labeling) notes that the ability of the product to improve patient compliance with their treatment regimen has not been shown. Abilify MyCite should not be used to track drug ingestion in “real-time” or during an emergency because detection may be delayed or may not occur.
Smart Pills
Smart pills, also known as digital pills, are medications prescribed to patients that are equipped with edible electronic sensors that send wireless message to devices like patches, tablets or smartphones outside the body when they are ingested.
Watch this World Economic Forum discussion on smart pills:
EtectRx is one of a few companies helping track medication adherence. But some patients find the tech hard to swallow.
As Proteus Digital Health struggles to sell investors on its “smart pills”, a new competitor has entered the space. Florida-based startup etectRx secured approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its sensor technology on Monday.
EtectRx creates tiny wireless sensors that are embedded in medications, which are activated once they reach a patient’s stomach. Patients wear a lanyard-based reader while they’re taking their medicine, which sends that data to a secure smartphone application. It also pushes out a notification to the patient’s physician.
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The market for medication adherence is clear. Patients don’t take their medication up to 50% of the time, according to a 2005 study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pharmaceutical companies also have a stake in adherence; they lose billions each year when patients don’t refill their prescriptions.
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Like many of its peers, the company will also face challenges in securing patients’ trust and keeping costs low. Competitor Proteus faced obstacles with the cost of Abilify MyCite, which rings in at $1,650 per month, well over the cost of the generic equivalent. Some patients also had privacy qualms over the solution, which involved wearing a patch that would detect when the medication was taken.
Abilify’s Digital Tracker: Did Big Brother just enter your body through your medicine?
The manufacturers of Abilify introduced a “smart pill” version called Abilify MyCite (digital aripiprazol) which tracks if a patient has taken the pill– it’s a digital ingestion tracking system.
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The sensor (which was approved separately from Abilify) that is embedded in Abilify its own set of side effect risks. The manufacturing company notes that more than 12% of those in the clinical trial suffered from skin rashes in reaction to the patch used to receive the transmission from the pill. I couldn’t find any information on how the body expels the sensor and the effect of wireless transmission from inside a body.
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The base drug, Abilify (aripiprazole) has significant side effects, the most serious are an increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents and young adults taking antidepressants, but there are many others, too. See the interviews with Candida Fink, MD below. Dr. Fink is a member of MedShadow’s Medical Advisory Board.
“Looking into this, it seems like there was almost no quality research at all done on the ‘digital’ Abilify – comparing risks or outcomes – with standard Abilify. None of my colleagues have used it,” Dr Fink told MedShadow. “Personally, I would not see a reason to use it without more data.”
WATCH:
Overall, 18.0% of children aged 0–11 years, 27.0% of adolescents aged 12–19, 46.7% of adults aged 20–59, and 85.0% of adults aged 60 and over used prescription drugs in the past 30 days.
Prescription drug use among males at 41.5% but is less than females who are at 50.0%, although the pattern differs by age.
As we are prescribed medication can the government mandate, for our own health, we take smart pills?
Is this the next step in big brother is watching you?
To take a smart pill or not to take a smart pill, that is the question.
How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go?
Sick to my stomach. Imagine, this is the party in charge. We’ve played nice for too long.
Horrific:
A new bill in Maryland (SB669) legalizes INFANTICIDE.
It would open the door for babies to be killed up to 28 days after birth, as well as strip all protections from preborn children up until the moment of birth.
Senate Bill 669 could be interpreted to allow for infanticide through the first month after the baby is born, a legal analyst says.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) – Legislation proposed in the Maryland Senate would allow babies to be left to die for as long as the first 28 days after birth, according to analysis from a pro-life attorney.
Senate Bill 669 is also known as the Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022, but the problems go beyond the use of “person” in place of accurate references to women having babies. Senator William Smith, a Democrat, sponsored the legislation, which will have a hearing on March 15.
“[T]he bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion,” American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) attorney Olivia Summers wrote in her analysis.
This is because the legislation prohibits investigations and criminal prosecutions for women and medical professionals for a “failure to act” in relation to a “perinatal death.”
“In other words, a baby born alive and well could be abandoned and left to starve or freeze to death,” Summers wrote, “and nothing could be done to punish those who participated in that cruel death.”
She said that the language used is unclear, so the law could be interpreted to “prevent investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth, and may extend to infants as old as four weeks!”
The Maryland Code does not define “perinatal,” Summers said. A 2020 law does define “perinatal care” as the “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods.”
A definition on MedicineNet, a website owned by WebMD, defines it as “the 20th to 28th week of gestation” to “1 to
Summers, with the ACLJ, noted in her analysis that the state already has a safe haven law that allows parents to leave a newborn baby with a responsible adult without fear of prosecution.
“Under the Safe Haven law, a distressed parent who is unable or unwilling to care for their infant can safely give up custody of their baby, no questions asked,” the Maryland Department of Human Services explains. “Newborns can be left at hospitals or law enforcement stations.”
“There is absolutely no reason for Maryland Senate Bill 669’s attempt to prevent someone who lets their baby die from being investigated,” Summers said. ”This bill just further exposes the complete lack of regard abortion advocates have for innocent human life.”
“If they truly want to protect life and women, then legislators could simply extend the length of the safe harbor provision already in place,” she said.
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In part 1 of this bombshell exclusive, Candace sits down with Dr. Robert Malone to discuss the effects of the vaccine on women’s fertility, the corruption of Big Pharma and the truth about how medical data is manipulated. This is the interview that Big Tech doesn’t want you to see.
Part 2 Candace Owens With Dr. Robert Malone | Interview Begins @ 26 Minute Mark
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Dr. Robert Malone discusses COVID-19 shots’ effects on fertility and targeting children with social pressure and coercion to get jabbed
In this nearly four-hour discussion with Candace Owens, Malone touches on the global narrative that’s intent on hunting down physicians and taking away their licenses for providing early COVID-19 treatment and how Bill Gates and Big Tech have succeeded in creating monopolies and gained control of information
Malone describes three Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers who datamined the DOD health database, revealing disturbing increases in rates of miscarriage, cancer, neurological disease and stillbirths since COVID-19 jabs rolled out
Malone is dedicated to speaking out because he wants to protect future generations; he’s concerned about the pandemic response’s effects on children, stating that public policies have had a particularly strong adverse effect on the young
If people reconnect and come together once again for a real greater good, Malone believes we can avoid a Great Reset and instead experience a Great Awakening
I hope you enjoy this two-part interview of two intellectual giants by Candace Owens with Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology.1 They discuss some of the most important issues facing humanity today. In their nearly four-hour discussion, they touch on everything from COVID-19 shots’ effects on fertility to the “red line” that’s been crossed — referring to targeting children with social pressure and coercion to get jabbed.
Malone has been thrust into the spotlight for speaking out about the risks of COVID-19 shots, with his words going viral before quickly being erased from YouTube and Twitter. It doesn’t matter if what he’s saying is true; if it creates “vaccine hesitancy,” it will be censored. Toward that end, Malone has been targeted by the media and labeled an “anti-vaxxer,” which is ironic since he’s received COVID-19 shots.
That fact should make it all the more apparent that he’s speaking out not due to a predetermined agenda or because he’s getting rich — to the contrary, his reputation is constantly under attack — but because he believes it’s the right thing to do, and he feels morally obliged to help anyone he can.
COVID-19 Shots Are Affecting Fertility
Anecdotal reports of alterations in women’s menstrual cycles following COVID-19 shots have poured in around the globe. Changes include heavier and more painful periods2 and changes in menses length, as well as unexpected breakthrough bleeding or spotting among women on long-acting contraception or those who are postmenopausal and haven’t had a period in years or even decades.3
Health officials have tried to brush off the reports, and doctors have told women that it’s just a result of stress — something dubbed “hysteria” in earlier times. Upon hearing that so many women’s concerns were brushed off as hysteria, Malone said:4
“Is this the 1950s? Have I just gone back a century? This whole thing that women are being histrionic is so mid-century. But that’s how they rolled it out. And it’s not just younger women. It’s post-menopausal women that start having menstruation. That’s another big one, which is, for pathologists, which is part of my background, that’s a red flag for cancer.”
Sure enough, a study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology in January 2022 — funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health — confirmed an association between menstrual cycle length and COVID-19 shots.5
Pfizer’s biodistribution study, which was used to determine where the injected substances go in the body, also showed the COVID spike protein from the shots accumulated in “quite high concentrations” in the ovaries.6
A Japanese biodistribution study for Pfizer’s jab also found that vaccine particles move from the injection site to the blood, after which circulating spike proteins are free to travel throughout the body, including to the ovaries, liver, neurological tissues and other organs.7 Malone explained:8
“The thing that drives menstruation is the ovary. We know that the lipids — the synthetic, positively charged fats that wrap the RNA to get it to slip into cells — have never been administered to humans before. We know from the Pfizer data package that came out of Japan that these lipids go to the ovary … your children, your girls are born with all the eggs that they will ever have in their entire lives.
And we don’t know yet what the reproductive harm is going to be, but we do know that in young women, reproductive age women, we are seeing this phenotype, this characteristic.
And not only am I very worried about it, I did testimony — as did many others — with the Orthodox Jewish community … they made the determination and sent out a formal statement to their community that these vaccines should not be used in children and strongly discourage their use in adults.
And one of the reasons is they are very focused on reproductive health. What we’re talking about is a deep issue that is not treatable at all … I think we can say this with confidence that if we’re having menstrual irregularities, we are having alterations in fertility.”
DOD Whistleblowers Warn of Spike in Adverse Events
Thomas Renz, a lawyer that Malone knows personally, had three Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers come forward. They had datamined the DOD health database, which Malone states is one of the best in the U.S.9
They looked through data from 2015 to 2020, establishing a baseline of the number of cases of miscarriage, cancer, neurological disease and stillbirths. Then, they compared it to 2021, after the COVID-19 shots rolled out. Renz showed Malone some of the disturbing data:10
“I just skimmed the data. Thomas had his laptop open and showed me some of the things that are popping up. They pulled a massive amount of data out of the DOD databases and then did a whistleblower complaint. Ron Johnson has now extended Senate protection to them formally as whistleblowers.
So they came to Thomas Renz with this information, and from what I saw — now this is preliminary, we haven’t dissected it yet — but at the top level, I thought it was mind-blowing. The information about miscarriages, the information about cancers, which is validating what Ryan Cole has been concerned about, neurologic disease and the stillbirths is there.
And apparently, according to Thomas, these brave whistleblowers have captured examples and information, with the cardiac events, for instance, of the Department of Defense — whoever is doing this, the data management — is actually going in and deleting cases, manipulating the database.”
Owens also saw the data and said the lowest category increase was 248%, while others increased by 1,000%. “It’s not subtle,” Malone said.11
Experts Raise Cancer Concerns
Dr. Ryan Cole, the Mayo Clinic-trained, triple-boarded pathologist who Malone referred to, has stated that he’s seeing potential cancer-causing changes, including decreases in receptors that keep cancer in check, and other adverse events post-shot:12
“I’m seeing countless adverse reactions … it’s really post-vaccine immunodeficiency syndrome … I’m seeing a marked increase in herpetic family viruses, human papilloma viruses in the post vaccinated. I’m seeing a marked uptick in a laboratory setting from what I see year over year of an increase of usually quiescent diseases.
In addition to that — and correlation is not causation — but in the last six months I have seen — you know, I read a fair amount of women’s health biopsies —about a 10- to 20-fold increase of uterine cancer compared to what I see on an annual basis.
Now we know that the CD8 cells are one of our T-cells to keep our cancers in check. I am seeing early signals … what I’m seeing is an early signal in the laboratory setting that post vaccinated patients are having diseases that we normally don’t see at rates that are already early considerably alarming.”
In addition to the effects on the ovaries, the Japanese study found vaccine deposits were found in bone marrow, raising additional cancer concerns, Malone says:13
“Bone marrow is really sensitive to local environments … and produces a whole lot of different types of cells that are involved in bone metabolism. This is something that matters a lot to women, particularly as they move through menopause — bone density. I
So there are cells that regulate bone remodeling and bone density that come from your bone marrow. Much of your blood elements come from stem cells that sit in your bone marrow. Red cells and white cells.
There are many types of cancer that can occur when those stem cell populations that live in your bone marrow get changed so that they lose their normal controls on growth. So that’s really what cancer is. So lymphoma, leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, all these things, are all bone marrow cancer diseases.”
The Silencing of Mass Formation Psychosis
If you’ve heard the term “mass formation psychosis” recently, it’s likely because Malone mentioned it on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” December 31, 2021, which was viewed by more than 50 million people.14 January 2, 2022, mass formation psychosis reached a value of 100 on Google Trends,15 which means it had reached peak popularity, after previously being practically unheard of.
The technocrats quickly took action, manipulating search results and populating Google with propaganda to discredit Malone and the mass formation psychosis theory — even though Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium, who has 126 publications to his name,16 has been studying it for many years, and the phenomenon actually dates back over 100 years.
Those under the spell of mass formation psychosis obsessively focus on a failure of the normal world or a particular event or person, who becomes the focus of the attention and can effectively control the masses.
Mass formation can occur in a society with feelings of social isolation and free-floating anxiety among a large number of people, and provides a coherent explanation of why so many people have fallen victim to the unbelievable lies and propaganda of the mainstream COVID-19 narrative. The phenomenon leads to totalitarian thinking and, eventually, to totalitarian states, but as Malone told Owens, fortunately about one-third of people are resistant to it.
Speaking Out to Save Children
Malone is dedicated to speaking out because he wants to protect future generations. He’s concerned about the pandemic response’s effects on children, stating that public policies have had a particularly strong adverse effect on the young.
He called COVID-19 injection mandates “completely unjustified” for children17 and recommends that youths who have received COVID-19 injections have their hearts checked for damage,18 given the real risk of myocarditis and heart damage. Mask mandates in schools have also interfered with children’s psychological health, and Malone believes they’re causing developmental delays in children.
Further, a bill has now been introduced in California that would allow 12-year-olds to consent to COVID-19 shots, which Malone presents as another way the government is enforcing control where it doesn’t belong:19
“In terms of kids, moms and dads have to take ownership … it’s your job, it’s my job to protect the kids, and don’t let the government get in the middle of your family. That’s another thing that has been so wrong here, how we’ve allowed the government to insert itself into the family, and that has got to stop …
What we’ve learned is that children are being subjected to intense social pressure and pressure by their school teachers. So technically in the clinical research world, we call this coercion. Just like giving out ice cream to take jabs is enticement …
They’re seeking to create a situation in which children are going to be subjected to coercion by their school teachers and their peers to take an unlicensed medical product that they don’t need to take because they are not at risk from the disease, and which has real risks of causing them harm. That’s, to be blunt, where we’re at. What do I say to parents? I say get informed.”
Will There Be a Great Reset or a Great Awakening?
We’re at the point now where all media is being manipulated and information is being controlled. “There’s a school of thought,” Malone said, “that this happened long ago with the rise of the Rockefellers, and the perversion of the entire medical enterprise and medical schools.”20
In the immediacy, people who have been harmed by COVID-19 shots are being called crazy by their friends and family. Those who have banded together with other victims on social media, forming groups to share their experiences that even many doctors continue to deny, have also been shut down, their pages deleted. “It’s the ultimate gaslighting,” Malone said.21
He and Owens touch on much more in the interview, from the global narrative that’s intent on hunting down physicians and taking away their licenses for providing early COVID-19 treatment to how Bill Gates and Big Tech have succeeded in creating monopolies and gained control of information.
Malone, however, wants to empower people with information and tools to think so they can make their own decisions about the world around them. If that occurs, and people reconnect and come together once again for a real greater good, he believes we can avoid a Great Reset and instead experience a Great Awakening:22
“There’s the Great Reset, which is often tied to this language of ‘build back better,’ because that’s the approved language from the World Economic Forum. So there’s this Great Reset toward a world where we own nothing and we’re happy … and we’re told what to do and we do it.
And there’s the Great Awakening, where it could be a renaissance. If we use the metaphor of Europe in the 1400s, 1500s and 1600s, moving from a dark age into a renaissance … there was a period of intense explosion when people got intellectually engaged …
If we allow ourselves to start thinking again and engaging with the world and engaging with each other, could we get to a point where we have a Great Awakening instead of a Great Reset? Where we become committed to each other and to a life of the mind and the body? I think that is a possibility. I don’t think that we’re too far gone.”
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March 7, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a roundtable discussion about COVID treatment, early treatment suppression, vaccine risks, the collateral damage from school closures and lockdowns and more
March 8, 2022, the Florida Department of Health updated its guidance, formally recommending against COVID vaccination for healthy children, 5 to 17. Florida is the first state to go against CDC vaccine recommendations
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo stressed that, as we move forward, we must insist on holding decision makers accountable for their harmful public health decisions. “Their choices, that they made for everyone, were the wrong choices that led to, basically, no appreciable benefit,” Ladapo said
According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the most egregious mistakes made was to ignore the fact that there’s a thousand-fold difference in risk between the lowest and highest risk groups. Children are at virtually no risk of dying from COVID, yet children have been forced to bear the burden of disease prevention. “Almost from the very beginning of the pandemic, we adopted policies that seem like they were tailor-made to harm children,” he said
According to Dr. Sunetra Gupta, what we’ve seen over the past two years is an “inversion of the schedule of uncertainty.” Doubt was cast on things that were certain, while certainty was claimed for things we had no clue about. Decision makers chose to do the very things we knew, for certain, would cause harm. They inverted the precautionary principle to minimize harm, and chose to maximize harm instead
March 7, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a roundtable discussion1 about COVID treatment, early treatment suppression, vaccine risks, the collateral damage from school closures and lockdowns, and how to end the COVID theatre once and for all. Panelists included physicians, scientists and academics from around the U.S., including:
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a former National Institutes of Health-funded researcher
Dr. Robert Malone, a molecular virologist, bioethicist, vaccine researcher and co-developer of the mRNA vaccine platform
Dr. Tracy Hoeg, Ph.D., an epidemiologist
Dr. Jill Ackerman, a family physician
Dr. Christopher D’Adamo, Ph.D., an epidemiologist and integrative medicine specialist
Dr. Shveta Raju, an internist
Dr. Harvey Risch, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology trained in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Ph.D., professor of health policy at Stanford, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for focused protection of the most vulnerable2
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., former professor of medicine at Harvard University, now senior scientific director of the Brownstone Institute, a biostatistician and epidemiologist with expertise in vaccine safety evaluation, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration
Dr. Joseph Fraiman, a rural emergency physician and clinical scientist, specializing in harm-benefit analysis
Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Ph.D., Oxford University professor, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development and mathematical modeling of infectious disease, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration
We Must Hold Decision Makers to Account
As noted by Ladapo, one of the things we must remember and remain intent upon as we move forward is to hold people accountable for their public health decisions. Two years after the “two weeks to slow the spread,” we have ample evidence proving the decision makers “didn’t know what they were talking about,” Ladapo says.
They abused their power, they manipulated data, they lied, and they now want us all to forget what they said and did. We cannot let them get away with it. Many errors were made, and those responsible must be held to account.
“Their choices, that they made for everyone, were the wrong choices that led to, basically, no appreciable benefit,” Ladapo says. “We cannot let them forget. We have to hold them accountable. We have to let the country, the world, know what the truth is — because it’s the right thing to do, and because it can happen again if we don’t.”
Thousand-Fold Difference in Risk Was Ignored
Bhattacharya was one of the first to investigate the prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020, and he found that by April, the infection was already too prevalent for lockdowns to have any possibility of stopping the spread.
He points out that one of the most egregious mistakes made was to ignore the fact that there’s a thousand-fold difference in risk between the lowest and highest risk groups. Children and teens are at virtually no risk of dying from COVID. Overall, the risk of COVID is primarily relegated to the very old and those with multiple comorbidities.
Bhattacharya has called the COVID-19 lockdowns the “biggest public health mistake ever made,”3 stressing that the harms caused have been “absolutely catastrophically devastating,” especially for children and the working class, worldwide.4
In some areas of the world, children have not been in school for two years, and the ramifications of that will likely reverberate for decades. Public health has also been negatively impacted by lockdowns and other measures — measures which Bhattacharya states were based in fear, not fact.
Stunning Denials of Science
Kulldorff, in his opening remarks, points out what he believes is one of the most stunning parts of this pandemic, and that is the denial of the basic science of natural immunity. Even doctors and hospitals that “should know better have demanded vaccine mandates for people who have already had COVID,” he says.
Perhaps even worse, hospitals have fired staff who have had COVID and have natural immunity, simply because they did not want to get the experimental jab. Those with natural immunity are not just less likely to get COVID again, they’re also far less likely to spread it to others. This makes them among the most valuable staff members a hospital can have, yet they were routinely discarded.
“That goes against basic principles of public health,” Kulldorff says. “And to have a director of the CDC who questions natural immunity, which we have now, is sort of like having a director of NASA who questions whether the earth is flat or round. It’s just mindboggling that we’ve come into a situation like that.”
Fraiman, whose clinical research expertise includes risk-benefit analysis, also expresses disbelief and frustration over the scientific censorship we’ve seen in the last two years. He points out that many of his colleagues are simply too afraid of getting fired to speak the truth.
DeSantis, similarly, highlights how incredibly difficult it has been to publish and find research that contradicted the official narrative, and even when available, the mainstream media would refuse to acknowledge it, whereas they would endlessly publicize speculation and statements of opinion that had no basis in fact or science, but supported — however flimsily — the official narrative.
I would add that so-called fact checkers have even gone so far as to “fact check” scientific peer-reviewed publications,5,6,7 labeling them as “misinformation” or outright “false,” resulting in their being censored on social media!
That’s an astounding development. It does not bode well for science when noncredentialed individuals with zero experience in the topic at hand are given the authority to decide the “truthfulness” or accuracy of scientists’ work.
The Inversion of the Precautionary Principle
Gupta, who has some 30 years of expertise in mathematical modeling of infectious disease, points out that what we’ve seen over the past two years is an “inversion of the schedule of uncertainty.” In short, doubt was cast on things that were rather certain — so-called “unknowns were not unknown,” Gupta says — while certainty was claimed for things we had no clue about.
“The powers that be told us the measures and restrictions would work, but we didn’t know they would work,” she says. Moreover, we didn’t know what their purpose actually was. “It was a rather incoherent set of goals,” she says. One thing we knew for certain was that lockdowns and other restrictions “would have enormous cost,” she says.
“That was the one thing we were certain about, yet that’s what we went ahead and did. We inverted the precautionary principle of trying to minimize harm, by doing the one thing we knew would cause harm.”
I would add that the scale of that harm was never calculated or addressed at any point along the way. It’s as though it didn’t matter how great the harm was, as long as there was the appearance that we were doing everything in our power to prevent COVID.
Plausibility Versus Science
Risch brings up a similar point, saying we’ve seen a lot of misdirection. What’s been conveyed to the public have been things that are plausible, but not scientific. “There’s a big difference between things that seem plausible and things that are scientific,” he says.
For example, lockdowns are a plausible countermeasure, but they’re not based in science. In fact, all the science we have, show them to be harmful, with little or no benefit whatsoever. “The same has been true for medications,” Rish says.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration put out warnings saying that hydroxychloroquine should not be used in outpatients, even though they had no data on outpatient use of the drug. They only had data on in-hospital use, and the two situations are not comparable.
Early COVID symptoms are completely different from symptoms of later-stage, severe infection and the two stages require completely different treatments. Hydroxychloroquine only works well when used very early. It’s not useful in the later stages, and frontline doctors were well aware of this.
No Justification for Mandating Vaccines for Children
Malone — speaking on behalf of the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists,8 which currently has some 17,000 members — stressed that, in terms of COVID policies, the Alliance has “made a series of very clear, unambiguous statements.”
“There is no justification for mandating vaccines for children. Full stop,” he says. “We’re of the strong opinion that if there is risk there must be choice. This is fundamental bioethics 101.”
As noted in the second Physicians Declaration9 by dated October 29, 2021, children’s clinical risk from SARS-CoV-2 infection is negligible and long term safety of the shots cannot be determined prior to the enactment of mandatory vaccination policies. Not only are children at high risk for severe adverse events, but having healthy, unvaccinated children in the population is crucial to achieving herd immunity. Malone continues:
“No. 2, as far as we’re concerned, there is no medical emergency now, and there is therefore no justification for the declaration of medical emergency and the suspension of rights …”
The Alliance also condemns “the hunting of physicians and the restriction of physicians’ ability to prescribe and treat with early treatment.” With regard to vaccines, Malone also highlights the fact that while a Pfizer/BioNTech COVID injection has been approved by the FDA, that product is not available.
So, there is NO FDA approved COVID “vaccine” on the market in the U.S. The only products available in the U.S., for children and adults alike, are emergency use authorization (EUA) products, for which liability is waived.
Now, in order for the COVID injections to qualify for EUA, there could not be any other treatments available, which appears to have been the driving factor behind the suppression of early treatment with repurposed drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
Mask Mandates Have Not Had Any Benefit
Speaking to the issue of mask mandates, Hoeg has published several studies, looking at the effects of universal mask wearing. One of them assessed compliance and outcomes in the Wisconsin school system. On average, 92% of children complied with the mask wearing, and only seven students out of 7,000 caught COVID during the 2021 school year.
This was used by media to proclaim that masks work. The problem is, there was no control group, and the low infection rate could have been due to anything. Hoeg points out we have studies from Scandinavia, where masks were not worn, and they too had extremely low infection rates among children.
Again and again, we’ve seen that children just aren’t susceptible to COVID, especially not severe infection. So, low incidence really says nothing about the effectiveness of masks.
DeSantis also notes that neighboring schools — one that had a mask mandate and another that did not — had no discernible difference in infection rates, which he believes is rather compelling evidence that mask mandates have no benefit. What’s more, of the two largest randomized controlled trials, both showed that masks do not prevent the spread of infection.
According to Hoeg, we’ve inverted the precautionary principle with respect to mask wearing as well. Without any high-quality evidence of benefit, we’ve chosen to mask children even though we know there are harms. They interfere with communication, impede learning, hinder breathing, promote bacterial infections and more.
The Collateral Damage Has Been Immense
As noted by Fraiman, any time you consider a public health measure, you have to conduct a thorough risk-benefit analysis. Who may benefit and to what degree? What are the harms, who will be harmed the most, what’s the extent of the collateral damage? Do the benefits outweigh all of the risks?
In the case of school closures, “the collateral damage has been immense,” Fraiman says. Physical and mental health has been impacted. According to Fraiman, there’s been a doubling of obesity and diabetes, for example, during the pandemic. There’s been a dramatic increase in anxiety, depression and stress.
Recent statistics show a shocking spike in fentanyl overdose deaths among high school-aged adolescents in the U.S. during 2020 and 2021. This graph, from a December 24, 2021, preprint article10 posted on medRxiv and tweeted11 out by Dr. John B., a scientist, illustrates the situation better than words.
According to the authors:12
“Adolescent overdose mortality saw a sharp increase between 2019 and 2020, from 2.35 per 100,000 to 4.58 per 100,000, representing a 94.3% increase, the largest percent increase of any 5-year age group …
Trends were driven by fatalities involving IMFs [illicitly-manufactured-fentanyls], which nearly tripled from 2019 to 2020, and represented 76.6% of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021 … Our results should also be understood in the context of rising rates of adolescent mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“I think it’s quite clear that the collateral damage outweighed any benefit that was there,” Fraiman says. “So, I think we need to take a more systems-level approach before embarking on this kind of policy the next time.”
Was Harming Children Intentional?
Bhattacharya adds, “Almost from the very beginning of the pandemic, we adopted policies that seem like they were tailor-made to harm children.” Lower-income children were disproportionally harmed by lockdowns and school closures. “The effect on these kids has been catastrophic,” he says.
He cites a study that calculated that, as a result of the school closures during the spring of 2020, children in the U.S. will lose 5.5 million life years. Lost learning literally ripples through the child’s entire lifetime. They lead less healthy and shorter lives and are more likely to be steeped in poverty.
In some areas of the world, schools have been closed for nearly two years. As noted by Bhattacharya, we’ve “robbed an entire generation of their birthright.” Mask mandates have made the impact on children even worse.
He points out that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the only public health agency in the world that still recommends masking toddlers, “with literally not a single study showing it has any consequence on the spread of the disease.”
“The only reason they continue to mask [toddlers] is because [the toddlers] are powerless,” he says. “We’ve adopted this idea that children are the central problem; children are the ones who should bear all the burden of infection control.
In fact, that’s not true. It has revealed the values we have as a society, and it’s not a pretty picture. None of this has actually worked to protect the vulnerable. Still, 80% of the deaths are in people over 65. What have these restrictions on children bought? Not very much, if at all. And it’s caused tremendous harm that we’re going to have to address for years to come.”
Florida Recommends Against COVID Shots for Healthy Children
In late February 2022, Ladapo and DeSantis also updated the state’s policy on masks, formally discouraging mask wearing.13 Toward the end of the roundtable, Ladapo announced the Florida Department of Health would also formally recommend against COVID shots for healthy children, aged 5 to 17,14 as they “may not benefit from receiving the currently available COVID-19 vaccines.”
During the roundtable, risks such ass myocarditis were also discussed. Florida is the first state to go against the CDC’s vaccine recommendations. In a statement published with the new guideline, March 8, 2022,15 Ladapo said:
“Based on currently available data, the risks of administering COVID-19 vaccination among healthy children may outweigh the benefits. These decisions should be made on an individual basis, and never mandated.”
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In the latest of several steps he has taken to set himself apart from the majority of the Republican Party, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) voted against lifting a mask mandate for children as young as two who take part in the nation’s Head Start program.
The Biden administration requires “universal masking for all individuals two years of age and older” participating in the government-run preschool program. It also requires all employees, contractors, and volunteers who come into contact with children receive the COVID-19 vaccine. An amendment offered by Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) to the PREVENT Pandemics Act would “prevent HHS from implementing or enforcing their regulations regarding mask or vaccination protections in the Head Start program again.”
Video footage of the vote shows Romney became the only Republican member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to vote against the measure — including Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who frequently deviate from the Republican mainstream. The former Republican standard bearer joined all HELP committee Democrats in striking down Braun’s amendment by a 12-10 vote.
“Shame on @MittRomney and every senator in this room who just voted to keep toddlers in masks,” wrote Kelsey Bolar of the Independent Women’s Forum. “I am happy to bring my 2-year-old to meet with any one of you to show you how insane it is to ask parents to cover their 2-year-olds faces with a worthless piece of cloth.”
Mitt Romney is the only Senate HELP Committee Republican to join Democrats in voting to allow federal mask mandates for toddlers. See 1:24. pic.twitter.com/tm7eEUtuDY
Romney’s vote helped cement the United States’ status as a global outlier on mask policy. The World Health Organization has stated: “Children aged 5 years and under do not need to wear a mask.” (Emphasis in original.) The European Centre for Disease Control states mask-wearing is “not recommended for students” in primary school, exempting all children under the age of 12.
Numerous studies have revealed the dearth of science behind mask mandates for children, especially toddlers. Even if masking were the best option, it would be impossible to find a respirator that fits children that young. Public health experts have admitted that “cloth masks are not appropriate for this pandemic,” and while researchers believe that N95 respirators offer the greatest protection against the transmission of COVID-19, the FDA notes that “N95 respirators are not designed for children … a proper fit cannot be achieved on children.”
“It’s time to get our lives back especially based upon science and not the political science,” said Braun on Tuesday.
Romney’s lone vote became his latest deviation into Democratic ranks. On Tuesday, Romney also voted against a measure introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to abolish mask mandates on public transportation. “The resolution garnered bipartisan support, resulting in a 57-40 vote with eight Democrats voting in favor of the resolution,” The Daily Wire reported. “Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was the only Republican to vote against the resolution.”
Since his election to the U.S. Senate from his newly adopted home state of Utah, Mitt Romney has continually acted as a gadfly. He has marched with Black Lives Matter, voted twice to impeach former President Donald Trump, and called his fellow Republicans “morons.”
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I want to hear you abortion advocates out there defend chopping up babies into little pieces and selling their parts for money. I’ve heard some of the most ridiculous justifications possible.
The University of Pittsburgh buys baby parts to graft baby scalps onto rats. I can’t think of more important research, can you? The University justifies buying baby parts by saying it is “fully compliant” with federal law. Just because it might be legal doesn’t mean it’s moral, does it? The Nazis sticking 6 million Jews into ovens were just following the law, weren’t they? Documents suggest the university knows some aborted babies’ hearts may still be beating when their organs are harvested for the University’s scientific research. Why stop with babies? The Chinese kill adults for their organs; maybe we should, too. The documents also show the University has racial quotas for baby parts purchases. I wonder what Malcolm X would have thought about that. It all sounds “ethical” to me. Hey, but it’s all perfectly legal, right?
Nice try. Want to try again How about this one: Former NIH Director Francis Collins claims baby parts research is “moral and beneficial” and U.S. taxpayers should fund it. He starts off by saying abortion is legal – not the strongest start, as we have seen. Actually, he admits to being “troubled” by abortion, but plows straight ahead: The material is discarded, another weak proffer. Actually, pro-lifers correctly call the discarded material “human remains” and want them given a dignified burial, just like everybody else gets. Collins winds up by saying fetal tissue research “can be extremely valuable in understanding how life works, how development happens, and how to treat certain diseases like Parkinson’s disease, for instance.” There you have it – lifeboat ethics when we’re not even in a lifeboat. Just look at all the great things we can get from these people if we can just kill them, like creating “humanized mice”. Again, I go back to the Chinese: they kill adults for their organs because it finances and benefits the Chinese Communist Party. Benefitting from the death of others is hardly a justification for killing them, is it?
Benefits – nice try. Want to try again? Collins and others cite consent of the mother to donate baby parts to science. What would you think of a mother who found her 5-year-old ‘inconvenient’ and gave you permission to kill her child and use the body parts for science? You might see a difference, but I don’t.
Nice try. Want to try again? The plucky New York Times gets around the moral question of using hearts in baby parts research by denying it’s really a heart and it’s not really beating. That’s just “embryonic pulsing”, got it? Get with the lingo, here. Actually, scientists have already established a baby’s heart starts beating after just 21 days in the womb, sometimes before. So, as you can see, the New York Times doesn’t really have a heart, either. That’s just ‘idiotic pulsing’ from ideologues who don’t want to follow the science.
Nice try. Want to try again? The NIH did not, when recently asked about the grotesque experiments on baby parts at the University of Pittsburgh. The NIH refused to answer questions. What’s up with that? If baby parts research is so great and has so many benefits, wouldn’t you want to tell the world? The NIH also refused to investigate, saying the University’s conclusion it is “fully compliant” with the law is good enough for the feds – see no evil. Lawmakers posing the questions said the NIH’s position is deficient because the research is “unethical and completely repulsive, [and] contrary to federal law. We need answers.” Well, they won’t get any answers from the feds. Baby parts research apologists have retreated to the only argument they have left – stonewalling.
After all, there’s money to be made. The Biden administration will spend $88 million on baby parts research this year. That’s a lot of chopped liver and chardonnay, and you’re paying for it. The administration disbanded an ethical review board that had previously rejected the more outrageous projects, so now anything goes in this research. Want to put human fingers onto mice just to see what happens? Go right ahead, there’s nothing stopping you, but spare me your phony justifications, please.
A firm called Rosemont Seneca invested in the firm that’s tied to bio-labs in Ukraine.
Why is this important?
Rosemont Seneca is Crackhead and whoremonger Hunter Bidens firm! (Plus don’t forget the Big Guy gets his share of the dividends!)
By the way worthless traitor John Kerry and his step son have involvement too! Hmmm!
From a Chinese government spokesman comes the following. ( I understand it’s from China. I understand about Wuhan. I understand propaganda. )
The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.
I think it is accurate and I think the Biden administration is in up to its neck in bio weapons and warfare. I believe Fauci and the CDC are both in this with evil intent.
If you check out my previous blogs on Ukraine and bio labs you can tie all of it together.
Money. Control. Power!
All this despite Biden denying any and all involvement in any bio labs, calling it Russian propaganda and “a bunch of malarkey.” As more and more evidence comes out his lies will become obvious. However the MSM will keep putting out his misinformation. This from a pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday:- “The Russian accusations are absurd, they are laughable, and, you know, in the words of my Irish Catholic grandfather, a bunch of malarkey. There’s nothing to it. It’s classic Russian propaganda. We are not developing biological or chemical weapons inside Ukraine. It’s not happening.”
Biden and co will blame the Russians and Putin just as he is blaming them for our gas prices and our inflation. I guess it gives President Trump a break as he would normally be the fall-guy!
The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification. pic.twitter.com/vEiytBRKuo
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) was one of the main financial backers for a company called Metabiota, which partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Potty-mouthed Hunter Biden was one of RSTP’s co-founders and managing directors. He co-founded it with John Kerry’s stepson Christopher Heinz. Hunter’s company gathered $30 million for Metabiota in 2015. Both of their influential daddies have been linked to shady deals involving RSTP.
Metabiota had previously partnered with a firm called EcoHealth Alliance under an umbrella bringing several similar companies together in 2014, which eventually led to a study on bat infectious diseases in China.
According to the National Pulse, a document describing the projects that were under the umbrella states specifically that “Sensitive and broadly reactive RT-PCR assays were performed at Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.”
The National Pulse also reports that “researchers from EcoHealth Alliance and Metabiota have collaborated on presentations regarding how to “live safely with bats” and studies linking emerging infectious disease outbreaks to wildlife trade facilities including ‘wet markets.’” Section 2 of “Ways to Live Safely with Bats: The Basics” declares:
While bats have been connected to rabies and other diseases, killing or disturbing the natural homes of bats can actually make rabies spread to more people. Because of this, it’s best not to kill, hunt, sell, cook, or eat bats.
A February 2020 statement by well-respected medical officials rejected the theory that the CCP virus originated in a lab. Then-President Trump disagreed with that statement and he turned out to be right. Vanity Fairreported uncovering “warnings” to officials not to look into the origins of the Wuhan virus.
A Chinese defector claims the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab and the bats were a cover-up.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Save America Foundationhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngSave America Foundation2022-03-16 06:29:462022-03-16 06:32:03Hunter Biden and Bio-Labs!
