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Collected Poetry
VOLUME EIGHTEEN 
Original materials - Copyright © 2021 by Gary Bachlund All international rights reserved
"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity." Charles MacKay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Office of the National Illustrated Library, London, 1852.
"...irrespective of clinical signs and symptoms."
The healthy now are sick,
An ingenious little trick
Is daily laid on thick,
The masses' fear to prick.
The normal now is not?
Abnormal is what we've got.
Come on. Take your shot.
That's the trick's main plot.
Fear in frenzied form
Is now the newest norm.
It's the perfect storm.
See the fearful swarm.
Fiction now is fact,
All in it must act.
Odds are too well stacked,
Though much is inexact.
Irrespective of the signs?
A definition misdefines.
No symptom realigns
That illness brighter shines.
The healthy now are sick,
A clever, cheater's trick
Played out double quick
By an elitists' elitist clique.
Addendum of a Definition: Hypochondriac (n.) Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, plural, upper abdomen (formerly regarded as the seat of hypochondria), from Greek, literally, the parts under the cartilage (of the breastbone), from hypo- + chondros cartilage, 1668 : extreme depression of mind or spirits often centered on imaginary physical ailments; specifically : HYPOCHONDRIASIS.
Addendum of Those Without Symptoms: "What did we learn (see the table for the analysis) - That between 5% and 80% of people testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 may be asymptomatic. That symptom-based screening will miss cases, perhaps a lot of them. That some asymptomatic cases will become symptomatic over the next week (sometimes known as “pre-symptomatics”). That children and young adults can be asymptomatic. We also learnt that there is not a single reliable study to determine the number of asymptotics. It is likely we will only learn the true extent once population based antibody testing is undertaken." In "COVID-19: What proportion are asymptomatic?" by Carl Heneghan, Jon Brassey and Tom Jefferson, The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, 6 April 2020.
Addendum of the Unproven Asserted: "It is concerning that the CDC may have willfully failed to collect, analyze, and publish accurate data used by elected officials to develop public health policy for a nation in crisis. Further federal investigation is justified by the magnitude of the crisis and the collateral damage generated by policies based upon projection data that was unproven and never peer reviewed. If the data being reported was indeed compromised by the CDC’s perplexing decision to abandon proven data collection and reporting practices in favor of untested methods, then all public health policies based upon these inaccurate data must be reexamined." In "COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective," by Henry Ealy, Michael McEvoy, Daniel Chong, John Nowicki, Monica Sava, Sandeep Gupta, David White, James Jordan, Daniel Simon, and Paul Anderson, Science, Public Health Policy, and The Law, Volume 2:4-22, 12 October 2020. [ 1 ]
Addendum of a Definition Morphing into Marketing: "The WHO definition prior to the change stated: Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. This means that even people who haven't been infected, or in whom an infection hasn't triggered an immune response, they are protected because people around them who are immune can act as buffers between them and an infected person [emphasis added]. The WHO's new definition is largely drawn from a speech delivered in October by the organization's Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It suppresses the fact that herd immunity is achieved by natural means and narrows the concept as to apply only to the process of vaccination, suggesting that protection from COVID-19 can’t happen without mass vaccination." In "WHO changes its definition of ‘herd immunity,’ making widespread vaccination essential," by Patrick Delaney, Life Site, 23 December 2020.
Addendum of Censorship and Destructive Controlling Policy: "...Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (one of The Great Barrington Declaration initiators) , professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician and epidemiologist gave an interview a few months ago expressing just that. Stating in an interview with Just The News, “when people say follow the science, what I’ve seen is they often mean censor scientists who don’t agree with some scientists…the people who are sort of controlling policy.” He’s one of four from Stanford’s medical school who published a paper showing that lockdowns, stay at home orders and business closures are not an effective tool for stopping the spread of COVID, not only that they are causing a lot of harm in many different areas. There are dozens of studies showing the same thing." In "Stanford Medical Prof: Scientists Are Being Censored For Sharing “Alternative” Info About COVID," by Arjun Walia, Collective Evolution, 9 February 2021.
Addendum of 'Political" Science: 'Politicisation of science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history’s worst autocrats and dictators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democracies. The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power. And, as the powerful become more successful, richer, and further intoxicated with power, the inconvenient truths of science are suppressed. When good science is suppressed, people die." In "Covid-19: politicisation, 'corruption,' and suppression of science," editorial by Kamran Abbasi, executive editor, BMJ 2020; 371.
Addendum of Manipulation By and Of a Test: " 'You have to have a whopping amount of any organism to cause symptoms. Huge amounts of it,' Dr. David Rasnick, bio-chemist, protease developer, and former founder of an EM lab called Viral Forensics told me. 'You don't start with testing; you start with listening to the lungs. I'm skeptical that a PRC test is ever true. It's a great scientific research tool. It's a horrible tool for clinical medicine. 30% of your infected cells have been killed before you show symptoms. By the time you show symptoms…the dead cells are generating the symptoms.' I asked Dr. Rasnick what advice he has for people who want to be tested for COVID-19. 'Don’t do it, I say, when people ask me, he replies. No healthy person should be tested. It means nothing but it can destroy your life, make you absolutely miserable. One of the countless head-spinning mysteries of this whole Corona Situation has been the advent of famous people, from Tom Hanks and his wife, to Sophie Trudeau, to Prince Charles announcing they had 'tested positive' for COVID-19 and were self-quarantining. In all these famous-powerful people cases, the symptoms were either non-existent or mild. Why, one wondered, did they make such hay about it?' " In "‘ 'Labs can manipulate how many 'cases' of Covid-19 the country has…' " by Allan Weisbecker, blog post, 16 August 2020.
Addendum of an Oddity: "If Fauci lied about masks, what else would he lie about? Turns out he lied about herd immunity, too. In December, Fauci admitted to the New York Times that he had 'slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts' on the percentage of the population that needed to be vaccinated before 'herd immunity' against COVID-19 was reached. 'When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent. Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85,' he said. Fauci is not precise with numbers, which is odd for a scientist who professes to care about facts." In "Dr. Fauci needs to be held responsible for COVID-19 mistakes," by Miranda Devine, NY Post, 24 January 2021.
Addendum of Taxonomic Questions: "A funeral director in the North West told the Mail: 'The way Covid has been recorded and reported is a national scandal and a thorough enquiry should be opened immediately.' Medical experts have cited pressure on doctors to include Covid-19 as a cause of death because it was last year ruled a 'notifiable disease', meaning any case needs to be reported officially. Professor Clare Gerada, former chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: 'When this all comes out in the wash, we will find out we have over-recorded Covid-19 as a cause of death.' Richard Vautrey, who chairs the British Medical Association's GP committee, said the toll may have been overstated at the beginning of the pandemic when testing was not widely available and 'cause of death would have been based on best judgement of clinical symptoms'." In "What IS the truth about Covid deaths? Grieving relatives along with MPs and top medics demand inquiry as families reveal MORE loved ones they believe were wrongly certified as virus victims," by Glen Keogh, Arthur Martin and Claire Ellicott, Daily Mail, 27 February 2021.
Addendum of Taxonomic Questions Amplified: "‘I have arranged funerals for quite a lot of people whose families have disputed Covid-19 being put down as the main cause of death when they don’t think it should have been,’ he said. ‘In a number of cases, the deceased has gone into hospital already seriously ill from life-threatening conditions, such as COPD, heart disease, kidney disease, liver failure and cancer, having had three or four negative Covid tests. While in hospital, they have had another test, which is positive, and then passed away and the death is recorded as Covid." Ibid.
Addendum of Only Presumptive Evidence: " [Sin Hang] Lee said current guidelines on COVID-19 testing allow for the 'presumptive detection of SARS-CoV-2,' while his proposed method would stipulate 'definitive' detection. 'We are running the country on presumptive evidence,' he said. 'That is the problem'." In " 'We are flying blind': Fauci was warned in March 2020 of potential false positives in COVID-19 tests," by Daniel Payne, Just The News, 5 March 2021.
Addendum of Marginal Statistical Difference: "During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease (p = 0.02) in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all) (Table 1) (Figure). Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period." In "Association of State-Issued Mask Mandates and Allowing On-Premises Restaurant Dining with County-Level COVID-19 Case and Death Growth Rates — United States, March 1–December 31, 2020," by Gery P. Guy Jr., Florence C. Lee, Gregory Sunshine, Russell McCord, Mara Howard-Williams, Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Christopher Dunphy, Maxim Gakh, Regen Weber; Erin Sauber-Schatz, John D. Omura, Greta M. Massetti, CDC, Early Release Paper, 5 March 2021.
Addendum of Absolute Risk Reduction: "Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR). It uses the relative risk (RR)—ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR. Ranking by reported efficacy gives relative risk reductions of 95% for the Pfizer–BioNTech, 94% for the Moderna–NIH, 90% for the Gamaleya, 67% for the J&J, and 67% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford vaccines. However, RRR should be seen against the background risk of being infected and becoming ill with COVID-19, which varies between populations and over time. Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which is the difference between attack rates with and without a vaccine, considers the whole population. ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRRs: 1·3% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford, 1·2% for the Moderna–NIH, 1·2% for the J&J, 0·93% for the Gamaleya, and 0·84% for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines." In "COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness-the elephant (not) in the room<" by Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele and Michel Vaillant, The Lancet. Microbe, 20 Apr 2021. [ 2 ]
Addendum of Looking Back as Statistics Gather: "The survival rate of 'Covid' is over 99%. Government medical experts went out of their way to underline, from the beginning of the pandemic, that the vast majority of the population are not in any danger from Covid. Almost all studies on the infection-fatality ratio (IFR) of Covid have returned results between 0.04% and 0.5%. Meaning Covid’s survival rate is at least 99.5%." In "30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet," by Kit Knightly, Off-Guardian, 22 September 2021. [ 3 ]
Consider how some players play: Lockdown Tony, like Lockdown Neil
NOTE
[ 1 ] As to classifications, one learns such "scientific" monikers, definitions and standards change rapidly in this time ol a declared, defined pandemic. One reads: "For the last eighteen months, voices all over the alternate media have been saying the Covid numbers are unrealistic, specifically because they include people who were never actually sick. We have been called 'deniers' and 'conspiracy theorists' for our trouble. But now an NHS source has actually said, going forward, the Covid data will be 'more realistic' as it will discount all the patients where Covid was only 'an incidental finding'. This is a bigger story than the media coverage suggests – only the Indy and Telegraph are covering it right now, and neither with the focus it deserves. NHS England is, essentially, tucking away a covert admission that a lot of their fear-mongering statistics were never 'realistic'." In "The NHS just changed how they count Covid 'cases'…here's why," by Kit Knightly, Off Guardian, 11 June 2021.
Fiddling and an Inversion
The notion that a PCR test should be done -- the WHO first stated 'test, test, test,' and at how many cycles -- many at first, with numbers of cycles being recommended at ever-dropping levels -- indicates that there has been no consistent method for collecting, parsing and understanding data. Rather it sully seems to have been politicized.
Knightly notes: "We've already reported that WHO changed their Covid diagnosis guidelines, and their PCR test guidelines, in late 2020 and early 2021, right in line with the first vaccination programs being launched. The US CDC has likewise been repeatedly fiddling their definition of 'breakthrough infection' in order to make the vaccines appear more effective. This NHS change is just more of the same – altering the experimental conditions to achieve the desired outcome. A total, complete inversion of the scientific method, by the same people who zealously scream about 'following the science'."
[ 2 ] Then, as to the "total, complete inversion of the scientific method," one finds hints that treatments for SARS CoV2 are being suppressed using political means.
Division -- the Trusting and the Untrusting
One reads of one of several proposed treatments and prophylaxis for the healthy as well as the sick: "The drug has become a test case for a controversy that’s long been building in health care, about how much input patients should have in their own treatment. Well before Covid-19, the medical profession was thrust into a revolution in patient information, inspired by a combination of Google and new patients’ rights laws. Should people on their deathbeds be allowed to try anything to save themselves? That seems like an easy question to answer. Should the entire world be allowed to practice self-care on a grand scale? That’s a different issue. Some would say absolutely not, while others would say the corruption of pharmaceutical companies and the medical system unfortunately make it a necessity. The world is increasingly divided along this trust/untrust axis." In "Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be "Right-Wing"? A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists," by Matt Taibbi, TK News, 25 June 2021.
What is a noticeable phenomenon in this maelstrom of pandemic claims and counterclaims is this. Along the way Dissent
has been itself attacked by both sides of the political spectrum from time to time.
In its place has arisen lockdowns and lockdowns and mandates and mandates, all of which reek of one political fact, which evidences the Totalitarian
[ 3 ] As data and potential causalities and statistical understandings gather over time, the beginning hysteria seems ever more media-driven, Specifically, for this wee rhyme and its sourced addenda and footnotes, one might well conclude that the "asymptomatic" as some kind of a synonym for "sick" and "ill" is unwarranted exceptin in the word games of politics. And of course marketing.
The article also notes this: "The majority of Covid infections are 'asymptomatic'. From as early as March 2020, studies done in Italy were suggesting 50-75% of positive Covid tests had no symptoms. Another UK study from August 2020 found as much as 86% of 'Covid patients' experienced no viral symptoms at all. It is literally impossible to tell the difference between an 'asymptomatic case' and a false-positive test result."
The difference is the wild urgings to get "tested," by means now becoming ever more discredited. Thus the variant rhyme below and its additional addenda.
Not sick is sick - a rhymer's sort of shtick
Not sick is sick, a nifty trick, and symptom of the con.
Being well now will tell this game was a black swan.
Symptom-less? Let's profess illness thereupon.
Who'd do that? Some technocrat? Health becomes a pawn.
Not sick is sick, a dirty trick, a symptom of the con,
Lockdowns work as signs and fascistic lines are drawn.
"...sowing authoritarian values."
Addendum of Appealing to Fear: "...fear appeal is a persuasive message that attempts to arouse fear in order to divert behavior through the threat of impending danger or harm. It presents a risk, presents the vulnerability to the risk, and then may, or may not suggest a form of protective action. It is assumed that through a fear appeal the perception of threatening stimuli creates fear arousal. The state of fear is believed to be an unpleasant emotional state that involves physiological arousal that motivates cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses directed towards alleviating the threat or reducing fear. There are many different theoretical models of fear appeal messages. They include: the extended parallel process model, the drive theory, the subjective expected utility theory, the protection motivation theory, the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action, and the transtheoretical model. These models are widely used in substance abuse campaigns, sexual health programs, and many other general health contexts. The persuasive effect of fear appeals is thought to be influenced by several factors such as individual characteristics, self-efficacy, perception of norms, fear strength, perceived threat, perception of treatment efficacy, and defense mechanisms. Mixed results have been produced from studies that attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness of fear appeals for behavior modification, and a recent meta-analysis recommended extreme caution in the use of fear appeals." In "Fear appeal," Wikipedia article, n. d.
"Sick until proven healthy"
Addendum of a Captive Market and Zero-Liability Money: "Gates is arguably the world’s biggest vaccine maker. As its largest contributor, Gates controls the World Health Organization which, according to Foreign Affairs, makes no significant decision without consulting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He similarly exercises dictatorial authority over an army of quasi-governmental agencies that he largely created or funds: Path, GAVI CEPI, Unicef etc. These agencies have demonstrated their power to turn the globe into a captive market for Gates’ vaccine enterprise. Meanwhile, Gates’ Big Pharma partners use their $9.6 billion in advertising expenditures to dictate round-the-clock pandemic panic and drum up blind support for highly subsidized, shoddily tested, zero-liability vaccines that prevent neither transmission nor death. The mainstream network news shows, including CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have put COVID Terror, Vaccines Salvation and the obligatory shaming of dissidents on a 24-hour loop with each segment (and I use this term in every sense of the word) with pharmaceutical advertisements." In "Critics Must Be Silenced for Billionaires to Keep Profiting From Pandemic," by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Children's Health Alliance, 16 February 2021.
Addendum of Plummeting: "Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted? In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity." In "We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April, Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news," by Marty Makary, Wall Street Journal, 18 February 2021.
Addendum of Non-liability of Pharmaceutical Companies and the Regulatory Vacuum: "Considered in light of the Vaccine Act as a whole, §22(b)(1)'s exemption from liability for unavoidably unsafe vaccines is just one part of a broader statutory scheme that reflects Congress' careful balance between providing adequate compensation for vaccine-injured children and conferring substantial benefits on vaccine manufacturers to ensure a stable and predictable childhood vaccine supply. The majority's decision today disturbs that careful balance based on a bare policy preference that it is better 'to leave complex epidemiological judgments about vaccine design to the FDA and the National Vaccine Program rather than juries.' Ante, at 15.24 To be sure, reasonable minds can disagree about the wisdom of having juries weigh the relative costs and benefits of a particular vaccine design. But whatever the merits of the majority's policy preference, the decision to bar all design defect claims against vaccine manufacturers is one that Congress must make, not this Court. By construing §22(b)(1) to pre-empt all design defect claims against vaccine manufacturers for covered vaccines, the majority's decision leaves a regulatory vacuum in which no one—neither the FDA nor any other federal agency, nor state and federal juries—ensures that vaccine manufacturers adequately take account of scientific and technological advancements. This concern is especially acute with respect to vaccines that have already been released and marketed to the public. Manufacturers, given the lack of robust competition in the vaccine market, will often have little or no incentive to improve the designs of vaccines that are already generating significant profit margins." "SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting" in "BRUESEWITZ ET AL. v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT," No. 09–152. Argued October 12, 2010—Decided February 22, 2011.
Addendum of Asymptomatic Healthy People and Their Un-diagnosis: "Up to 16 million people in the United States may have had undiagnosed, asymptomatic COVID-19 as of September 2020 -- twice as many as previously estimated -- an analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open reported. Just under 7% of about 62,000 people in the United States with no symptoms of infection tested in the study had antibodies against the virus, the data showed." In "Study: U.S. COVID-19 cases underestimated by half, antibody testing suggests," by Brian P. Dunleavy, UPI, 16 March 2021.
Addendum of Health Fascism in Australia: "In a frightening development, New South Wales has called in the troops to keep innocent, healthy citizens locked in their homes in what can only be called martial law. Recent freedom marches showed what happens to citizens who exercise their democratic right to protest. People are demonised, hunted down; the media vilifies them to discourage others from questioning the control state. If the government can decide who is free and who is not, then that is not freedom and no-one is free. A crisis will always be found to justify measures designed to protect the government, not the public—a crisis that is as is easy to create as turning up the PCR test from 24 cycles to 42, where a false positive is the most likely outcome, as has occurred. Actions such as these have created a crisis of confidence in government, and that, fellow citizens, is on the Senate. We are the house of review. We’re tasked with a duty to ensure honesty, transparency and accountability in the government of the day. We have failed in that solemn duty, our duty to our constituents. We have failed those who are yet to vote, our children, who are now being injected with a substance that has not undergone meaningful safety testing. The Liberal, National and Labor parties have colluded to waive these measures through this place, reducing the Senate to the status of a dystopian echo chamber." In "One Freedom," Malcolm Roberts, Senator for Queensland, 4 August 2021.
Addendum from Once Free Canada: "The caring arms of the pharmaceutical industry and public health are now reaching out to protect kids from nonexistent risk. The purpose of vaccine passports, authorities have acknowledged, is not to control spread of the virus, which vaccinated and unvaccinated both can do, but to pressure people to get jabbed." In "COVID has cost Canadians their freedom. It must be restored - Lawyers launch the Free North Declaration — a call to defend civil liberties in this country," by Bruce Pardy, National Post, Canada, 20 November 2021.
Addendum of Symptomless Yet More Infectious. It Is Said: "Scientists are investigating a newly detected strain of Covid-19, which is being being described as being more infectious than the Delta variant of the virus. The name of the new variant is called AY.4.2, and officials have subsequently classified it is a 'variant under investigation'. People who become infected with the new Covid-19 strain are less likely to display symptoms in comparison to other variants such as Delta, scientists have said." In "New symptomless Covid strain 'more infectious than Delta' being investigated - Scientists have classified the new AY.4.2 strain of Covid-19, which is significantly less likely to display common symptoms such as coughing and a loss of smell and taste, a 'variant under investigation'," by Kieran Isgin, Manchester Life, and Alexander Smail, Glasgow Live, 19 November 2021.
With Justice Sotomayor's dissent as above, consider the happy tune with unhappy lyrics -- A Concoction Song
" 'The throats of all coal miners have been slit, after their hands were tied behind their backs and (they were) blind folded,' a security official told Reuters, requesting anonymity as he is not allowed to speak to media." In "Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Pakistan's Shi'ite Hazara minority that kills 11," by Gul Yousafzai, Reuters, 3 January 2020.
Islamic Islamophobia
Is a phrase to catch a phase.
Islamic Islamophobia
Is centuries of replays.
Islamic Islamophobia
Is just murder, all ablaze.Islamic Islamophobia
Is a phrase deserving praise.
Addendum of Muslim on Muslim Violence: "At least 15 children were killed when a motorbike laden with explosives blew up near a religious gathering in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said. The children had gathered at a home in Ghazni province to recite Quran verses, a regular activity on the Islamic holy day of Friday, when the blast happened. Mr Wahedullah Jumazada, spokesman for the province's governor, said: 'Unfortunately, as a result of this incident, 15 people - all children - were martyred'." In "At least 15 children killed in Afghanistan bomb blast," The Straits Times/ Agence France Presse, 19 December 2020.
Consider the many examples of Islamic Islamophobia in the rhyme about, and addenda and footnotes to Islamophobia
"...freedom of opinion is a fundamental right of 'elementary significance.' 'This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,' he told reporters in Berlin. 'Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.' Facebook on Thursday suspended Trump’s account through Jan. 20, the day of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, and possibly indefinitely. Merkel herself does not have a Twitter account...." In "German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Twitter ban on President Trump ‘problematic’," Associated Press, 11 January 2021.
Dearie me, the problem attic is bulging, piled with junk,
The rafters creak, the cobwebs grow, the floorboards all have sunk.
The problem attic is that place where festering problems lie,
And never, ever go away, but gather as we try
Thinking things that all are there just aren't, like hope and change,
As what lies then all mounts up, and we merely rearrange.
Thus the problem attic is stuffed with the more and even more,
For such are problems never solved, which lurk in the problem store.
Dearie us, the problem attic is fattening full with ills,
Dust mountains once were in the main molehills.
The problem attic is that place where decaying problems lie,
And never seem solve themselves, no matter how we try.
Addendum of an Undeniable Double Standard: "...it is clear that there is an artificial standard that many now want to apply. The staggering size of Twitter and Facebook alone, have made real change or accountability almost impossible, as the political interests and objectives of their own executives end up creating an undeniable double standard for both policing and enforcement. Over the last year, the effects of this were felt by millions of people, already kept in fear, as our nation was met by unprecedented waves of violence on life and property. In an apparent attempt to preserve voter continuity and confidence by their respective constituencies, thousands of leaders, executives, and elected officials refused to condemn it. Now suddenly our nation has the audacity to believe the actions of January 6th are any different from those that we have all witnessed over the past seven months. Though the media may persist to indicate otherwise, the lives of our public servants are no more precious than those who elected them into office." In "Official Epik Statement on Parler, Epik Statement on Deplatform Actions and Calls for Higher Discernment" by Robert Davis, SVP Communications - Epik, 11 January 2021.
Addendum of Clarity for those Unclear: "Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech." Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
Addendum of One of Merkel's Double Standards: "...German arms exports are far removed from these cautious dictates in European legislation, which is confirmed by the analysis done by the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt that demonstrated that German weapons have repeatedly ended up in the hands of political forces that can hardly be called peaceful and democratic in the Western sense. One example that could illustrate this is the crackdown by the Mexican government in September 2014 on student demonstrations using German G-36 assault rifles, following which students were injured and killed. German weapons are also actively used by Saudi Arabian troops in Yemen, where violent clashes have been going on since 2015, causing a humanitarian crisis and the death of civilians despite international restrictions on the sale of weapons to Riyadh because of this war, and in the wake of the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. German media outlets are also drawing attention to the duplicity of the German authorities, stating that the German government first bans the sales of weapons to Yemen and Libya, and then goes ahead and calmly sells them to those directly participating in conflicts in these countries. For example, last year the German government allowed the delivery of weapons worth more than one billion Euro to the countries involved in the conflicts in Yemen and Libya. Exports to Egypt alone amounted to 752 million EUR.The Bundestag also authorized the supply of weapons to Qatar (305.1 million), Kuwait (€23.4 million), Jordan (1.7 million), Bahrain (1.5 million), the United Arab Emirates (51.3 million) and Turkey for a total of 1.16 billion EUR. On top of that, all these countries are involved in the Yemeni and Libyan conflicts, and Germany even plays the role of mediator in the Libyan conflict, officially advocating that weapons deliveries to the country should be terminated by hook or by crook." In "Two-faced Germany is Selling Weapons to Regions where there is Armed Conflict," by Vladimir Danilov, New Eastern Outlook, 11 January 2021.
Addendum of a Little Problematic Bureaucrat: "Had Fauci listened to people with AIDS and the clinicians treating them, and responded accordingly, he would have saved thousands of lives. In the two years between 1987, when Callen met with Fauci and 1989, when the guidelines were ultimately issued, nearly 17,000 people with AIDS suffocated from PCP. Most of these people might have lived had Fauci responded appropriately. When Callen and others, including Dr. Barry Gingell, a medical advisor to Gay Men’s Health Crisis, met with Fauci to plead for his support, they didn’t just say there was “this preliminary activity and some small trials,” as Fauci claims. They explained that many frontline AIDS physicians, following the lead of Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, were already using Bactrim effectively to prevent the recurrence of PCP. The science was clear. A decade before, clinical trials by Dr. Walter Hughes had proven its efficacy in preventing PCP in other immune-compromised populations, like children with leukemia. ... Fauci refused to acknowledge the evidence and, according to one account, even encouraged people with AIDS to stop taking treatments, like Bactrim, that weren’t specifically approved for use in people with AIDS. Longtime treatment activist Richard Jefferys wrote in 2001 that Fauci “went as far as telling activists attending a 1987 meeting that there was no data to suggest PCP prophylaxis was beneficial and that it may, in fact be dangerous.” Fauci’s close colleague, Dr. Samuel Broder, who was head of the National Cancer Institute, even suggested — in the absence of any evidence at all — that the newly introduced antiretroviral, AZT, would make prophylaxis against PCP redundant!" In "Whitewashing AIDS History," by Sean Strub, Founder, POZ magazine; Executive Director, Sero Project, HuffPost, 21 February 2014.
Addendum of Scrapping a Problematic Pay Raise: "City College of San Francisco trustees said Monday they will no longer consider paying their interim chancellor a $20,000 bonus on top of his regular $340,000 salary, a move that students and faculty strongly opposed. Students and faculty expressed anger Friday when the college posted the proposed 23.5% monthly bonus, three days after the faculty union agreed to take pay cuts of up to 14% to avoid hundreds of layoffs and class cuts." In "CCSF withdraws 23.5% pay raise for executive amid outrage at the financially troubled college," by Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021.
Addendum of Twice Targeted by Problematic Double Standards: "She says she is being hounded with abuse by radical left extremist groups and although she has complained to Twitter, the social media giant is yet to take action. Ella said: 'On Twitter I get a lot of abuse from far-left extremists, and radical feminist academics. There is one group who go online and they try to resist anyone they consider to be a Nazi, racist, fascist or white supremacist. They don’t care about anti-white racism, because they appear to believe that it doesn’t exist. They have tried to floor me and criticise me continually and this has been going on for a couple of months. They tried to shut me down, shut me up and drive me off Twitter. I’ve never experienced such hate online in my life. They accuse me of 'advocating for white paedophiles' and being a 'sinister demonic entity'." In " 'I was raped by Rotherham grooming gang - now I still face racist abuse online', She says she is being targeted by far left extremists - but nothing is being done about it," by Alex Grove, Examiner Live, UK, 29 April 2020.
"The Microsoft boss's company Cascade Investment entered the bidding war for Signature Aviation Friday, teaming up with Blackstone Group to make a $4.3 billion play for the British private jet servicing company. Cascade and Blackstone are now going head-to-head with private equity firm Carlyle, which had already made an initial takeover approach. Gates' Cascade already owns a 19 percent stake in Signature making it the firm favorite to win the bid. But news of Gates' pursuit of the private jet firm has raised eyebrows given the company's actions are at direct odds with his very vocal stance on climate change." In "Bill Gates is accused of hypocrisy after joining bidding war to buy the world's largest private jet operator - one month before he releases his book preaching about climate change," by Rachel Sharp, Dailymail.com, 8 January 2021.
For me, but not for thee?
Done deal, conditionally,
Until the rubes awake to see
Their betters critically.
Follow the rules that they break?
That's for rubes to undertake.
Flummox rubes to complicate
Reality, when wide awake.
For me, but not for thee?
Yea, conspiratorially,
Until the rubes awake to see
Their betters critically.
Bullshit, wide and thick and deep,
Keeps the rubes fast asleep.
Crises left and right and steep
Shepherd herds of willing sheep.
Addendum of Human Rights Advocates Silencing a Human Right: "The one human right no activist will grant is the right of those they claim to be protecting to have different views and wants. When states intervene to guarantee human rights, it is only the rights of those who want to tear down the values of their own state which they are protecting, to get them out of the way. Reform, democracy and human rights are real. People really want them. But when people are talking about something else, but then told they are asking for these things, alarm bells should start ringing. That doesn’t happen because those in power have silenced the bells. Why? So if their scams are found out, they will be replaced by the only option their behaviour has left available – another generation of reformers, democracy promoters and selective human rights activists." In "The Great Power Democracy Con: Promising the Moon to Destroy Humanity," by Seth Farris, New Eastern Outlook, 7 April 2021.
"What is not obvious to most is that China is actually run by about 50 very rich families who own and control most of the choice properties and businesses in China. The 91 million CCP members are effectively a total-control Mafia ruling approximately a billion and a half Chinese people. Yes, most of the very rich are members of the CCP or are officially communists, but they more truly function like the criminal Mafia with worldwide ambitions." In "The CCP: An international thieving mafia," by Uldis Sprogis, American Thinker, 28 January 2021.
Capital for Communists
is a phrase which testifies
to Commie bosses' riches,
and, by rhyming, versifies
in a wee scrawl about those few
who lord it over many,
a cadre and their switcheroo
where Communism's penny
is billions for the fat cats who
pretend to lead the masses,
while billions in capital accrue
to these capitalist Commie asses.
Addendum of Capital and the People's Liberation Army: "The review, of more than 40 publicly available documents and research papers in Chinese and English, shows BGI’s links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) include research with China’s top military supercomputing experts. The extent of those links has not previously been reported. BGI has sold millions of COVID-19 test kits outside China since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic, including to Europe, Australia and the United States. Shares of BGI Genomics Co, the company’s subsidiary listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, have doubled in price over the past 12 months, giving it a market value of about $9 billion." In "China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese military," by Kirsty Needham, Reuters, 30 January 2021.
Addendum of the American Enablers of the People's Liberation Army: "...the elite that Friedman described saw enlightened Chinese autocracy as a friend and even as a model—which was not surprising, given that the Chinese Communist Party became their source of power, wealth, and prestige. Why did they trade with an authoritarian regime and by sending millions of American manufacturing jobs off to China thereby impoverish working Americans? Because it made them rich. They salved their consciences by telling themselves they had no choice but to deal with China: It was big, productive, and efficient and its rise was inevitable. And besides, the American workers hurt by the deal deserved to be punished—who could defend a class of reactionary and racist ideological naysayers standing in the way of what was best for progress?" In "The Thirty Tyrants. The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta," by Lee Smith, Tablet, 3 February 2021.
Addendum of Communist Corruption and Properties: "A recent corruption case that has taken mainland China by surprise involves a senior CCP official from northeastern China's Liaoning province, whose family was found to own 2,714 properties in the name of operating family businesses. Xu Changyuan, a former high-ranking CCP official, was involved in mafia-linked assets worth more than 10 billion yuan (about $1.52 billion). Xu leveraged his authority to aggressively harvest money for his family businesses, based on China's state media reports." In "Corrupt CCP Mayor’s Family Found to Possess More Than 2,700 Real Estate Properties," by Frank Yue, Epoch Times, 2 April 2021.
Addendum of "Marxism Matters": "A secluded mini-compound tucked into L.A.'s rustic and semi-remote Topanga Canyon was recently sold for a tad more than $1.4 million to a corporate entity that public records show is controlled by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37-year-old social justice visionary and co-founder of the galvanizing and, for some, controversial Black Lives Matter movement." In "Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors Lands Topanga Canyon Compound," by Mark David, Dirt, 7 April 2021. [ 1 ]
Addendum of a Super-rich British Communist: "The super-rich Communist Susan Michie is so militant that her fellow Marxists once searched her baby's pram for subversive literature. They lifted the tiny infant out of the way, to check that the future Professor of Psychology was not smuggling ultra-hardline propaganda into a crucial conference. No wonder that fellow students at Oxford a few years before had called her 'Stalin's nanny'." In "Is TV's favourite Sage member Professor Susan Michie such a big fan of lockdowns because she's a Communist once known as Stalin's nanny?" by Ian Gallagher, Mail on Sunday, 24 April 2021.
Addendum of Seattle Socialist One-percenters: "Socialists on the Seattle City Council have taken advantage of our capitalist system, getting wealthy off the low-income voters they claim to fight for. In fact, Socialists Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales are collectively worth over $3.5 million. In Washington state, they're both one-percenters: the very people they regularly demonize." In "Seattle's socialist councilmembers collectively worth over $3.5 million," by Jason Rantz, 770KTTH, 27 April 2021.
Addendum of Counting Billionaires: "Beijing has overtaken New York for the first time to become the city with the most billionaires in the world. According to Forbes’ 2021 list of the world's richest people, released in early April, Beijing has 100 billionaires, more than New York, which has 99." In "Beijing Has More Billionaires Than New York, Forbes Reveals True Identities of Beijing's Richest People," by Jessica Mao, Epoch Times, 6 May 2021.
NOTE
[ 1 ] One reads: "But in insisting she did not take a salary from the organization's non-profit foundation, Khan-Cullors left unsaid whether she was paid through BLM's network of similarly named for-profit entities. What that pay might be is cloaked in secrecy, as BLM's for-profit branches do not reveal spending and executive pay. Khan-Cullor is in hot water since The Post first revealed on Sunday that she snapped up four high-end homes as donations poured into the movement...." In " 'Marxist' BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors defends real estate holdings," by Laura Italiano, NY Post, 15 April 2021.
One reads further: "A Los Angeles-based jail reform group led by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent nearly $26,000 for 'meetings' at a luxury Malibu beach resort in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Reform LA Jails dropped $10,179 for 'meetings and appearances' at the Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club in Malibu, California, and another $15,593 at the Malibu Conference Center, a corporate conference facility owned by the resort, according to the records, which covered the time period between July and September 2019. Guests at the 200-acre resort, where rooms start at $600 a night, have exclusive access to a private five-acre strip of the Malibu coast." In "BLM Co-Founder’s Jail Reform Group Dropped $26,000 At Luxury Malibu Beach Resort," by Andrew Kerr, Daily Caller, 26 April 2021.
And: "...her departure comes after it was revealed last month that she has amassed a $3 million property portfolio, despite describing herself as a 'trained Marxist''. Cullors faced fierce backlash over revelations about her personal spending - including the recent purchase of a $1.4 million home in a ritzy L.A. neighborhood." In "BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors RESIGNS as executive director over 'right wing attacks' - after her $3 million housing portfolio was revealed," by Andrew Court, Daily Mail, and Associated Press, 27 May 2021.
This is apparently what a "trained Marxist" is capable of accomplishing -- acquiring capital wealth by stealth. It is, one supposes, now racist and right-wing to take note of a "trained Marxist" gathering capital to ascend to the top economic ranks of the nation. It is as it has been all just a matter of Power and money
But this is merely a small example of the perversion of complaints about Income Inequality
For review Capital for Communists
"As Andrew Sullivan trenchantly observes, 'to achieve 'equity' you have to first take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are equal.' This is exactly contrary to the central thrust of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It could easily be judged, in particular cases, to violate the 14th Amendment. Individuals discriminated against might have standing to go to court." In "Biden's 'racial justice' agenda: Judge everyone by the color of their skin," by Michael Barone, NY Post, 29 January 2021. [ 1 ]
Color me skeptical,
To contrast with bland.Color me cynical
About what's planned.
Color me questioning,
As flames are fanned.
Color me doubtful
And please understand
Color, so dubious,
Colors the racist's brand.
Color's colored suspiciously
By the racists' hand.
Addendum of a Surprise: "In a surprise move, Biden last month named Rice – a former ambassador to the United Nations and then as his national security adviser under President Barack Obama – to lead domestic policy efforts." In "Biden names White House team to work on racial equity, immigration and other domestic policy priorities," by Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 January 2021.
Addendum of a Wealthy Career Politician in Biden's Equity Administration: " '...about a third of Rice's personal net worth is tied up in oil producers, pipeline operators, and related energy industries north of the 49th parallel — including companies with poor environmental and safety records on both U.S. and Canadian soil. Rice and her husband own at least $1.25 million worth of stock in four of Canada's eight leading oil producers, as ranked by Forbes magazine. That includes Enbridge, which spilled more than a million gallons of toxic bitumen into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010 — the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history.' The Washington Post notes that there is 'nothing inappropriate about the investments, and Rice's connections to Canada go back 20 years, when she was working in the Toronto office of the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm and her husband, Ian Cameron, was a television producer there for the Canadian Broadcasting Co. Cameron, who like Rice graduated from Stanford University, is from Canada'." In "Ambassador Susan Rice Is Financially Tied To Keystone Pipeline Company," by Eyder Peralta, National Public Radio, 29 November 2012. [ 2 ]
Addendum of Other Wealthy Career Politicians in Biden's Equity Administration: "Yellen, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, brought in nearly $1 million giving nine speeches to Citi alone. She earned more than $800,000 speaking to Citadel, a hedge fund founded by the Republican megadonor Ken Griffin. She also spoke to the law and lobbying firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. In addition to Yellen, Antony Blinken, Biden’s nominee to be secretary of State, disclosed the clients he advised through WestExec Advisors, the consulting firm he co-founded with other Obama administration alumni. Those clients included the investment giant Blackstone, Bank of America, Facebook, Uber, McKinsey & Company, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, the pharmaceutical company Gilead, the investment bank Lazard, Boeing, AT&T, the Royal Bank of Canada, LinkedIn and the venerable Sotheby’s auction house." In "Janet Yellen made millions in Wall Street, corporate speeches," by Alex Thompson and Theordoric Meyer, Politico, 1 January 2021. [ 3 ]
Addendum of a Truth of Which Government Lies: "...equality of dignity, equality of standing, equality of honor, of security in one’s position in society, equality of being able to command the respect of others—this is not something that can be simply handed over. Rather, it is something that one has to wrest from a cruel and indifferent world with hard work, with our bare hands, inspired by the example of our enslaved and newly freed ancestors. We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us." In "Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America." by Glenn Lowry, Quillette, 10 February 2021.
Addendum of a Comment Posted to the Above: "I can attribute my awakening to the fact that I had Kenyan parents who were immigrants. They did not raise me on any of the values that native-born black Americans are raised on, it was actually quite the opposite. They insisted that your life is your own and nobody can live it for you, if you make a mistake, own it and take responsibility, stay faithful to your wife and raise your children. When all the chips were down and I had nowhere to turn, these are the values that I fell back on. I was lucky enough to have this and many others do not. I know many black men and women that I speak to who know there is something wrong with the culture they have been brought up on but have no alternative. And not to mention the complete ostracization that comes along with that. I think it goes without saying that I have alienated most of my black friends but speaking like this. I know this type of change happens conversation by conversation and that’s what I am trying to do. But it is a long and arduous road and I get tired. I get tired of being called an Uncle Tom, I get tired of being told I am not really black, I get tired of hearing that I hate myself. But yet, I move forward. It is reading articles like this that give me the strength and motivation to keep beating this drum." In a comment by 'RayRay' to Glenn Lowry's article, ibid.
Addendum of the Neo-racist Proselytizing Saviors: "I write this viscerally driven by the fact that all of this supposed wisdom is founded in an ideology under which white people calling themselves our saviors make black people look like the dumbest, weakest, most self-indulgent human beings in the history of our species, and teach black people to revel in that status and cherish it as making us special." In "The Neoracists - A new religion is preached across America. It's nonsense posing as wisdom," by John McWhorter, Persuasion, 8 February 2021.
Addendum of Skin Color and Genitalia: "The diversity demanded by identity politics, though, is a strangely limited one. It is built on crude biological criteria like skin color or sexual practice. There is no tolerance for philosophical diversity, alternative principles, or heterodox beliefs. The stark categorization of people into 'the privileged' and 'the subjugated' must not be questioned. Resist a remaking of society that elevates certain identities and pulls down others, and you will be attacked as a bigot. Identity politics is thus an aggressive marshaling of human divisions. It’s not interested in things we all share. It has no place for universal experiences, national harmony, or gratitude. Nor does it care for the wondrous idiosyncrasies and distinct variations of individuals. It draws its energy from factional resentments and fractures." In "The Compound Fractures of Identity Politics," by Karl Zinsmeister, City Journal, Winter 2021.
Addendum of the Color Left: "According to Swain, white liberal academics are using their platform to indoctrinate students into becoming advocates for critical race theory and similar initiatives. 'So systemic racism is not the problem in America. Racism is a problem, but it's coming from the political left, and it's been turned upside down,' she declared. Many observers who oppose critical race theory have claimed that you can’t solve racism with racism of another variety. Collective guilty or guilt by association has, moreover, never been part of the American tradition." In "Fmr Vanderbilt professor rips 'diversity, equity, inclusion industry' as the 'greatest threat' to America," by Robert Jonathan, BizPacReview, 17 February 2021.
Addendum of Professing White Guilt: " 'Give me an old-fashioned bigot, because I think at least they have a level of respect that some of these guilty white people who are...professing white guilt. I find them disgusting. To me, it's liberal racism, because you're treating people as impotent children. I can confront malice with violence. I can't confront folly,' Woodson said." In "Civil Rights icon calls white wokeness 'insulting' to black Americans," by Natalia Mittelstadt, Just the News, 2 March 2021.
Addendum of Real White Guilt, Johnson Style: "Before he became vice-president, Johnson commented to his fellow Democratic Senator from Georgia: 'These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.' As president (by way of the Kennedy assassination), he spearheaded the Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed mostly by Republicans, and opposed generally by Democrats." In "The Increasingly Secret History Of The Racist Democrats, And How Senile, Boomer Biden Heralds The End," by Thomas J. Farnan, National Pulse, 28 February 2021.
Addendum of Seeing a Hateful, Divisive, Manipulative Fraud: "Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive, discriminatory ideology that judges people on the basis of their skin color. It has penetrated our society—it's in federal agencies' and federal contractors' 'bias training,' in school curricula and many corporations' 'diversity training.' Few are willing to speak out against it for fear of being labeled racists or white supremacists. Asian Americans, however, have emerged as a powerful voice against this pernicious ideology. The Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York (CACAGNY) delivered the most vigorous rejection of CRT yet, calling it 'a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud'." In "Asian Americans Emerging as a Strong Voice Against Critical Race Theory," by Helen Raleigh, Newsweek, 9 March 2021.
Addendum of Re-ignition: "Although the US is considered a 'country of immigrants,' xenophobia and racism are historically inherent in American society. One clear indication of this is that, until recently, only white Anglo-Saxon and Protestant residents, who were the majority of the US population, considered themselves '100 percent Americans'. Therefore, it is not surprising that racism against black people has been and remains a very significant factor in the domestic political environment in the United States. The recent race riots sweeping across America clearly show that because of US government policies, racial hatred remains a major tool of Washington’s influence on American society. And this is recognized both by the Americans themselves, and even by The Guardian, a British newspaper 'friendly' to the current authorities in Washington." In "White House Reignites Racism Against People of Asian Descent," by Vladimir Odintsov, New Eastern Outlook, 27 March 2021.
Addendum of Becoming Wealthy Through the Race Problem: "Contained within this wordy example of academic prose is this message: Poor whites, despite their lesser degree of 'insulation,' are complicit in maintaining an order that legitimizes white supremacy. Additionally, they benefit from this regime. (The fact that DiAngelo has become very wealthy as a result of her work on white fragility may explain why she is reluctant to treat social class inequalities as a serious subject.)" In "The Post-Marxist Left’s Race Problem," by Grant Havers, Chronicles Magazine. March 2021.
Addendum of the Aim of the Political Race Card - Money and Power: " 'Man, I think most white people and Black people are great people,' Barkley said. 'I really believe that in my heart, but I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power'." In "Charles Barkley Says Politicians 'Divide' Black, White and Rich, Poor America," by Darragh Roche, Newsweek, 4 April 2021.
Addendum of Racist Activism Camouflaged as Theory: "Critical Race Theorists describe Critical Race Theory as a movement (which is strange for a theory of society) designed to reinvent the relationships between race, racism, and power in society. To do this, they begin with the assumption that race is socially constructed and racism is systemic. This means that they view racial categories as social and political fictions that have been imposed by white people on people of color, especially blacks, and that the 'system' upon which all of society operates on every level unjustly produces 'racist' outcomes that favor whites (and minority races that adhere to 'whiteness') at the expense of people of color, especially Latinos and, even more especially, blacks. Because racism is a property of the system, which includes everything from policy to behavioral norms to manners of speech to what we consider true, racism persists even if no individual or institution acts in a racist way or holds any racist beliefs. It is the way society operates that is racist, as can be determined by the fact that there are statistical differences in average outcomes by racial category." In "Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview," by James Lindsay, New Discourses, 29 April 2021.
Addendum of Racist Attacks and Slurs: "Robinson told the Examiner that portraying members of the GOP, 'which is the party that is responsible for ending slavery and for ending Jim Crow,' as the KKK 'is blatantly, historically inaccurate.' 'The Republican Party ... was formed partly to stand up against the evils of slavery,' he said. 'To depict us, GOP members of the state school board, as racist because we are diametrically opposed to these standards, it is historically inaccurate. What's more, it's just wrong. It's wrong in every way that you can think of'." In "Black Republicans who don't believe racism is systemic subject to vicious attacks, slurs," by Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 1 May 2021.
Addendum of Dividing by Race: "No one is taught accurate history anymore, and those on the left who know are as desperate as the liars to keep it hidden for their own advantage; to keep people divided and to keep dividing people further. Divide to conquer. That’s the true face of systemic racism. The damage to lives be damned, same with the country. Individuals have always been disposable to the left, the last century proved that. Agenda über alles." In "The True Face Of Racism," by Derek Hunter, Townhall, 2 May 2021.
Addendum of Industry-caused Fatigue: " 'Get out of the way, stop telling us that, on the one hand, America is a racist society. And then those same races are the agents that's going to deliver you from yourself. What kind of message is that?' Woodson was an iconic leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, including with the NAACP and the Urban League. But as many of his peers in the movement moved to Democratic politics, Woodson said he became disillusioned that government wasn't helping solve poverty so he began to espouse new tactics based on economic development, self-empowerment and personal responsibility, eventually embraced by conservatives." In "Civil rights icon accuses left of treating blacks 'like an exotic pet,' predicts backlash, Robert Woodson says African-Americans fatigued by manufactured anger of 'race grievance industry',' by John Solomon, Just the News, 17 May 2021. [ 4 ]
Addendum of a Lot of Young, White Affluent Progressive People: "In a contest that centered on crime and public safety, Eric Adams, who emerged as the leading Democrat, focused much of his message on denouncing progressive slogans and policies that he said threatened the lives of 'Black and brown babies' and were being pushed by 'a lot of young, white, affluent people.' A retired police captain and Brooklyn’s borough president, he rejected calls to defund the Police Department and pledged to expand its reach in the city." In "Progressives' Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color," by Lisa Lerer, NY Times, 26 June 2021.
Of fatigue, one hears the Neo-racists' charge of White Noise
Of class/race/identity/grievance war, one is reminded of the Marxist categorization: A Working Class Classified
Addendum of 'Color Others Skeptical': "..just one in five Americans identify going directly to a news site or news app as their main way of getting news online, underlining the weak connection news media have with much of the public. As we have shown elsewhere, trust is often in part about familiarity. It's hard to see how news media can win people's trust if they often have only a few, fleeting points of contact with them, frequently mediated by social media, an environment people generally do not associate with trustworthy news.:" In "US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media, Reuters Institute report finds, Just 29% of people surveyed in the U.S. said they trust the news, compared to 45% in Canada and 54% in Brazil," by Rick Edmonds, Poynter, 25 June 2021. [ 5 ]
Addendum of Arguing that People of Color Are Stupid: "...give me a freaking break, you morons. All these dumbasses are arguing that people of color are not an intelligent as your average Mexican. Mexico requires a federally issued ID to vote. Pretty much the rest of the civilized world does as well. I loved the way in which Vernon Jones ripped apart the CNN reporter for not admitting that 'drop boxes' were not in voting regulations in Georgia. This is all, for lack of a better word, bullsh*t. Even that NY Times dipstick David Brooks admits that none of this voter integrity effort means much but even he thinks that minorities aren’t very bright: 'But the research suggests the impact of all these kinds of voting changes is pretty minimal. … So, it doesn’t strike me as catastrophic. But the final thing to be said is, even though the impact is incremental, it’s disparate. African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, they are more likely to be hurt." In "Why do democrats continue to argue that people of color are stupid?" Posted by DrJohn, Flopping Aces, 3 July 2021.
Addendum of Liberal White Saviors: "I write this viscerally driven by the fact that all of this supposed wisdom is founded in an ideology under which white people calling themselves our saviors make black people look like the dumbest, weakest, most self-indulgent human beings in the history of our species, and teach black people to revel in that status and cherish it as making us special." In "The Neoracists: Nonsense Posing as Wisdom," by John McWhorter, Persuasion/Real Clear Politics, February 8, 2021
Consider the Whitest Privilege of So-called Liberals: Black and White, part deux
NOTES
[ 1 ] The notion that equity between all people can be somehow defined, managed and achieved suggests a step towards some form of Marxist idealism. The NY Post article observes: "That suggests the Biden and corporate elite project to create a United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences is in conflict with a strong underlying current of American opinion that favors equal rights under law."
A Massively Wealthy Political Left?
The notion of equity will become a snare, as one simply adds adjectives to define what that asserted equity would is and how it would be measured. If a question of general net worth, as an example, then all the richest donors to the political Left would have to be stripped in large part of their wealth to bring them in line with the lowest economic classes' net worth. The basic problem with this, as a political stance, is one of definition as of words.
But to be "fair," another word with little legal definition, I Shall Believe the Socialist
The rudimentary challenge for the "equity" politicians is to reduce their own remuneration and net worth, as well as "nationalizing" the wealth of the richest one per cent, so many of whom are donors to the political class. For this alone, one may predict that the "equity" politics being played out will quickly crash into reality.
Once one defines "systemic racism" in a "system," one may then examine more closely those who lead such systems, in order to determine whether they have culpability in extending the life of Systemic racism
[ 2 ] When the partisan "right" are made wealthy, the partisan "left" complains. But when the partisan "left" are made wealthy, the partisan "right" complains.
One reads: "Her career only gives her a little over eight percent of her total worth. So how did she get the rest of her money? Back in 2012, the Washington Post ran an article about Rice, who was being considered as the replacement Secretary of State due to Hillary Clinton stepping down. They made a note back then that her net worth was over $20 million. However, the Post says that the money came from inheritances from Rice and her husband, as well as her own personal investments. Except that was five years ago, and the total has since doubled. So again, how in the world has her wealth more than doubled in five years? Part of those investments were in concepts that the Obama administration spent the latter part of their time in office opposing: Oil." In "Susan Rice Net Worth Revealed: How Did She Make $50M Working In Obama's Government?" by Matthew Bernstein, Conservative Daily Post, 17 July 2017.
Massive Wealth via Government Service
One reads as well: "As several Obama-era officials return to the White House under President Joe Biden, their reunion comes with fuller pockets and deeper ties to corporate interests, new financial disclosure reports show. According to ABC News' analysis of the most recent disclosure reports, many of Biden's top White House officials, including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients, have substantially multiplied their wealth over the past few years." In "Obama-era officials return to White House worth millions White House financial disclosures show several officials gained massive wealth," by Soo Rin Kim and Libby Cathey, ABC News, 21 March 2021.
The political left and the political right both complain about the other, when in a minority position in government, and yet when in a majority position, the game merely inverts. Therefore, the latest "game" about equity will predictably not make fully equitable all in the wealthiest class -- especially those in government -- bringing them down to a fiscal 'equity' with the lower classes.
Rather one may predict this is merely another in the many tricks played on the masses, to keep them both malleable and yet in an uproar over false flags. "Equity' and the laughable moniker of Income Inequality
It is all a matter of venal Politics
[ 3 ] An amusing quote about the national debt from another of the wealthy one-percenters in the federal government, multi-millionaire Christina Romer, a 'Distinguished' professor of economics who served as the Chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers., may be remembered, as she explained years ago that the United States of America is Pretty darn fucked
[ 4 ] One might consider the many entrenched "saviors" atop various levels of government, all leading "systemic racist" entities which they 1) govern and 2) explain that they are unable as yet to stop the "system" of race.
Among these many exemplary modern saviors, one finds White Eric and white Gavin
But in this supposedly enlightened time -- for some -- segregation in the South rises yet again, as one reads: "...the elementary school would be putting Black students in two different classrooms with two different teachers and white students into six classrooms with six different teachers. Posey protested the policy when it was allegedly put into place by Principal Sharyn Briscoe last year. 'First, it was just disbelief that I was having this conversation in 2020 with a person that looks just like me — a Black woman,' Posey said. 'It’s segregating classrooms. You cannot segregate classrooms. You can’t do it'.” In " ‘It Was Just Disbelief’: Parent Files Complaint Against Atlanta Elementary School After Learning the Principal Segregated Students Based on Race," by Niara Savage, Atlanta Black Star, 10 August 2021.
The system.... systematically.
[ 5 ] The article points out: "The annual digital news report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford also found some improvement in trust in nearly all the countries surveyed — probably thanks to COVID-19 coverage — but not in the U.S. where the low rating was flat year to year. One explanation, though not necessarily the only one, is the extreme political polarization in the U.S."
This amuses, for the notion that news reporting withers as activist journalism takes the fore, whether on one political pole or its opposite, tells a tale. Media demands, "Look at me! Not them! Me!"
As the new Windows 11 is being readied one learns that ""In May, Microsoft updated the taskbar with a feature called news and interests, which lets you see a feed of content including news, weather, stocks and traffic." In "In Windows 11, Microsoft moved the Start menu, its first significant revamp in 6 years," by Erin Carson, CNET, 24 June 2021.
An operating systems hoping its users will follow the OS' direction to read certain news and content, and by design therefore not others. News -- one sort versus another, and politicized -- is about selling narratives, or discount narratives, or dismissing them.
Consider The colors of man
New lies swapped out for the old
New lies swapped out for the old
Are bargains flawed and oversold.
New lies for old, plied layer on layer,
Shill ignorant bliss as the losing player.
New lies replacing those agéd now
Are lies nonetheless, to disallow.
New lies for old, crisply sharp,
Conceal themselves beneath a tarp
Which, when the covers are stripped away,
Show themselves in the light of day.
New lies are quite like the oldest of lies
And are lies nonetheless, though one tries
To allege the new are unlike the old,
Teaching anew that liars are bold.
Addendum of the Operation of Trust: "The one Western historian who had limited access to the Trust files, John Costello, reported that they comprised thirty-seven volumes and were such a bewildering welter of double-agents, changed code names, and interlocking deception operations with 'the complexity of a symphonic score', that Russian historians from the Intelligence Service had difficulty separating fact from fantasy." In "Operation Trust," Wikipedia article, n. d.
Addendum of Promising Perfection: "Every modern totalitarian tyranny has emerged by promising human progress and social improvement, if not human and social perfection, by means of scientific-government management and control over all areas of human life. That’s precisely how increased government power came to be associated with the ideas of progress and improvement and even perfection. The promised goals of every totalitarian tyranny, in other words, are high. And highly desirable. That’s why modern totalitarian tyrannies begin as popular governments, supported by the will of the majority, and often super-majorities, which governments claim to channel and serve. Who, after all, does not want human progress and social improvement, or perhaps even human and social perfection? The problem is that governments never produce the promised results. Because they cannot." In "Tyranny: Ancient versus Modern," by Thomas Krannawitter, SpeakEasy, 20 December 2016.
Addendum of Less Desire to Take on Real Power Centers: "...Greenwald points to New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz, who falsely accused a tech investor of using the word 'retarded' during an online chat she was monitoring. Greenwald also namechecks CNN's Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, NBC's Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny and the Times' Mike Isaac, Kevin Roose and Sheera Frenkel, calling them 'hall-monitor reporters'. He writes: 'A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. 'They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers...so settle on this penny-ante, trivial bulls*** — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing'." In "The media Stasi: Glenn Greenwald slams culture of 'junior high hall-monitor tattling' among prominent 'woke' journalists that is like East German 'citizen surveillance'," by Lauren Fruen, Daily Mail, 8 February 2021.
Addendum of the Ratchet: "Google's YouTube has ratcheted up censorship to a new level by removing two videos from a U.S. Senate committee. They were from a Dec. 8 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on early treatment of Covid-19. One was a 30-minute summary; the other was the opening statement of critical-care specialist Pierre Kory. Dr. Kory is part of a world-renowned group of physicians who developed a groundbreaking use of corticosteroids to treat hospitalized Covid patients. His testimony at a May Senate hearing helped doctors rethink treatment protocols and saved lives." In "YouTube Cancels the U.S. Senate, It censors testimony from physicians on early treatments for Covid-19 patients," by Ron Johnson, Wall Street Journal, 2 February 2021.
I. You shall not read
a dissenting voice's word.
VI. You shall not go down
paths we deem wrong.II. You shall not hear
testimony deemed absurd.
VII. You shall not in searching
find another slant.III. You shall not find
disagreements' noisy fuss.VIII. You shall not discover
what we say you shan't.IV. You shall not learn
to disagree with us.IX. You shall not decide
for we decide for you.V. You shall not heed
other arguments' siren song.X. You shall not explore
our censored point of view.
Continuing Addendum of the Ratchet: " ...some doctors have the courage to ignore these compassionless guidelines and are using their expertise to develop protocols utilizing a variety of cheap, available and safe FDA-approved drugs to treat patients early and avoid hospitalization. Instead of being rewarded, they are being censored, ostracized, vilified in the press, even fired. This closed-minded approach represents a dark chapter in the history of medicine and journalism. The censors at YouTube have decided for all of us that the American public shouldn’t be able to hear what senators heard. Apparently they are smarter than medical doctors who have devoted their lives to science and use their skills to save lives. They have decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed, and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies. Government-sanctioned censorship of ideas and speech should frighten us all."
Addendum of Another Ratchet: " 'At first I thought it was a joke,' said Mickey Huff of Diablo Valley College, California. 'My initial reaction was 'that's absurd;' there must have been a mistake or an accident or it must have got swept under somehow. There is no violation, there was no reasoning, there was no warning, there was not an explanation, there was no nothing. The entire channel was just gone,' he told MintPress. Huff is also the director of Project Censored, an organization that sponsored the event. Higdon suspected that it was the content critical of big tech monopolies like Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter that was the reason why the channel was deleted." "Not The Onion: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored By YouTube," by Alan MacLeod, Washington Standard, 1 February 2021.
Addendum of Earlier Ratchets and a Faustian Bargain: "All content producers are forced to enter a Faustian bargain with Google. A few years ago, Google began placing selected information from search results on its search page, claiming that is what users want, i.e., fewer clicks with essential information appearing directly on top of the Google page. As a result, users not need click through to any website on which Google shares revenue with the site's content producer (or God forbid, where ads are presented by a different ad network—which these days, rarely happens). The content owner never complains, because appearing first in Google search results, dramatically increases traffic to any article. Overall, the number of people who click on links found via search results has decreased dramatically, since many people suffice with Google's excerpt. Therefore, Google never has to share the revenue." In "YouTube Wants to Fight Hate Speech. So it Censored My Educational Video About the Holocaust," by Marc Schulman, Newsweek, 14 June 2019,
Addendum of Censoring Scientists and a Nobel Prize Winner: "YouTube's decision with regard to Weinstein and Heying seems part of an overall butterfly effect, as numerous other figures either connected to the topic or to DarkHorse have been censured by various platforms. Weinstein guest Dr. Robert Malone, a former Salk Institute researcher often credited with helping develop mRNA vaccine technology, has been suspended from LinkedIn, and Weinstein guest Dr. Pierre Kory of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) has had his appearances removed by YouTube. Even Satoshi Ōmura, who won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on ivermectin, reportedly had a video removed by YouTube this week." In "A Case of 'Intellectual Capture?' On YouTube's Demonetization of Bret Weinstein," by Matt Taibbi, TK News, 2 July 2021.
Addendum of the Tube's Censorship of Science: "YouTube has in their community guidelines, a provision that actually forbids the discussion of ivermectin if the discussion involves the claim that it works. And the problem is that there is substantial evidence that it works. And works doesn’t mean one thing, it actually means two distinct things. There is strong evidence that ivermectin works for the treatment of COVID, especially if it is given early in the course of disease. It is also apparently highly effective as a prophylactic. And these things are clearly visible in the recent meta-analysis that have been released that show a clear pattern. So somehow on YouTube, the discussion of evidence that has been peer-reviewed and delivered within the scientific literature is forbidden because it contradicts the CDC’s view, which is that ivermectin does not work or that there is no evidence that it works." In "Dr. Bret Weinstein: 'Perverse Incentives' in the Vaccine Rollout and the Censorship of Science," an interview of Bret Weinstein by Jan Jekielek, Epoch Times, 3 July 2021.
Consider that it was once liberal to dissent and to allow for Dissent
Have you just a singular view, politically for all?
"Denouncing what he called 'the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality' that led him to be 'censored' by his own media outlet, Greenwald railed that 'these are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom'." In "Glenn Greenwald on Biden, Free Speech, and Leaving The Intercept," by Nick Gillespie, Reason, 27 November 2020.
Have you just a singular view, politically for all?
This alone is proof that you've a fascist sort of gall.
In this wide and varied world one view can't rule alone,
For there are those who'd disagree with the one to which you're prone.
Have you just a singular bent, to which all other views must bow?
This alone is evidence you others' views would disallow.
Think this just? Think this wise? You must win the day?
Others without your controlling view are likely to disobey.
Have you just a singular view, politically for all?
Foresee that others over time will work to see you fall.
Addendum of Returning to the Collective: "...from the 19th-century defenders of slavery to 20th-century Progressivism, to Communism and fascism, and ultimately to 21st-century identity politics. What these seemingly diverse movements have in common, even while spanning nearly two centuries, is that they all assail the notion of individual rights, which are at the heart of the American Founding, and argue instead for group rights. Not only is this commonality instructive in understanding the enemy we face today, but it also makes clear the persecution, suffering, even mass murder that inevitably occur when the rights of the individual are subordinated to the interests of the group. ...The dirty little secret of group rights is that the elites get to decide who is in which group, and who is granted which rights. The world imagined by the purveyors of identity politics would drive us straight back into the tyranny and subjugation our Founders and subsequent generations of immigrants fought so hard to escape." In "How Identity Politics Revives Slaveholders’ Argument For Group Rights," by Katherine Gorka, Federalist, 15 February 2021.
Addendum of How It Happened and Continues to Happen: "...totalitarian revolutions on the part of the left are not really consistent with equality of opportunity or helping the poor. They are means to obtain power, and therefore they are full of contradictions. What happens is that people who question them along the way, or feel that the purity of the revolution is endangered get extinguished as counter-revolutionaries. So today on a campus, if you are a wishy-washy liberal, and you say, 'Wait a minute, the 60s were about the Free Speech Movement, and Mario Savio. It wasn’t about calling somebody a hate speaker.' That person will be destroyed, and destroyed more often and more severely even than a conservative. We saw Barry Weiss at the New York Times, or editors fired at the Washington Post, or Hollywood actors who used to be liberal who are deplatformed. You have to weed out all counter revolutionaries, as they call them." In "Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on Impeachment and the 'Cancer' of Woke Ideology," by Jan Jekielek, Epoch Times, 9 February 2021.
Addendum of the Problematic German Phenomenon: "Germany's domestic intelligence agency is investigating the far-right Alternative for Germany — the largest opposition party in parliament — according to national media. The move comes ahead of national elections. Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) have placed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) under surveillance, according to local media. That designation gives state agents more powers for surveillance in certain circumstances, including potentially tapping the party's communications." In "Germany places entire far-right AfD under surveillance — reports," by rc/msh (AFP, dpa, AP), Deutsche Welle, 3 March 2021.
Consider Everything within
A, D, E, oh, C, D, C,
N, I, H, dot g, o, v.
1 in 3, yeah, you or me,
m, R, N, A, you can't see,
has a crack at A, D, E.
Some few pricks prick mystery.
V, A, H abbreviates
hypersensitivity.
Errors adverse, oh yes siree,
F, D, A emergency
warp speed trumps each injury.
Some few pricks prick mystery.
On the Tune: "The ABC Song is one of the most popular English alphabet songs in the USA. The song was first published and copyrighted by Charles Bradlee in 1835 named 'The ABC- a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte'. Similar with Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star the ABC song has its origins in the French song 'Ah, vous dirai-je, maman' by Louis Le Maire from 1761." In "Alphabet Song," All Nursery Rhymes, n. d.
Addendum on ADE: "An adverse drug event (ADE) is an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug. This includes medication errors, adverse drug reactions, allergic reactions, and overdoses. ADEs can happen anywhere: in hospitals, long-term care settings, and outpatient settings. In inpatient settings, ADEs: Account for an estimated 1 in 3 of all hospital adverse events; Affect about 2 million hospital stays each year; Prolong hospital stays by 1.7 to 4.6 days. Each year, ADEs in outpatient settings account for: Over 3.5 million physician office visits; An estimated 1 million emergency department visits; Approximately 125,000 hospital admissions." In "Adverse Drug Events," Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, health.gov, n. d. accessed 15 February 2021.
Addendum of ADE II: "Might COVID-19 vaccines sensitize humans to antibody-dependent enhanced (ADE) breakthrough infections? This is unlikely because coronavirus diseases in humans lack the clinical, epidemiological, biological, or pathological attributes of ADE disease exemplified by dengue viruses (DENV). In contrast to DENV, SARS and MERS CoVs predominantly infect respiratory epithelium, not macrophages. Severe disease centers on older persons with preexisting conditions and not infants or individuals with previous coronavirus infections. Live virus challenge of animals given SARS or MERS vaccines resulted in vaccine hypersensitivity reactions (VAH), similar to those in humans given inactivated measles or respiratory syncytial virus vaccines. Safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines must avoid VAH." In "COVID-19 Vaccines: Should We Fear ADE?" by Scott B Halstead and Leah Katzelnick, National Center for Biotechnology Information, PMID: 32785649 PMCID: PMC7454712 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa518.
Addendum of What's Crucial Yet Seemingly Ignored: "Going forwards, it will be crucial to evaluate animal and clinical datasets for signs of ADE, and to balance ADE-related safety risks against intervention efficacy if clinical ADE is observed. Ongoing animal and human clinical studies will provide important insights into the mechanisms of ADE in COVID-19. Such evidence is sorely needed to ensure product safety in the large-scale medical interventions that are likely required to reduce the global burden of COVID-19." In "Antibody-dependent enhancement and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and therapies," by Wen Shi Lee, Adam K. Wheatley, Stephen J. Kent and Brandon J. DeKosky, Nature Microbiology, Vol. 5, October 2020, 1185–1191.
Addendum on ADE and VAH: "VAH is a postvaccination outcome that may be associated with nonprotective antibodies. VAH is a complex and poorly defined immunopathology. Several different SARS and MERS vaccines have been shown to elicit a postchallenge VAH in laboratory animals. Ominously, when SARS-CoV-1–immune monkeys were challenged with homologous virus most animals had evidence of lung inflammation. It is important to note that inactivated measles vaccine and Dengvaxia exhibited short-term protection. A central challenge to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development will be differentiating early from sustained protection and will be greatly aided by a SARS-CoV-2 model of VAH in laboratory animal models. Recognition of vaccine constructs that achieve solid protection in humans might be accelerated by challenge of vaccinated human volunteers with live SARS-CoV-2. Better understanding of the clinical and immunological behavior of SARS-CoV-2 itself might be achieved through direct infections of human volunteers. Given the magnitude of the repertoire of COVID-19 problems and the need for an effective vaccine, the full force of worldwide investigative resources should be directed at unraveling the pathogenesis of VAH." In ""COVID-19 Vaccines: Should We Fear ADE?" by Scott B Halstead and Leah Katzelnick, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Oxford Academics, Volume 222, Issue 12, 15 December 2020.
Addendum of Slow Reporting of Adverse Reactions: "Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported. Low reporting rates preclude or slow the identification of 'problem” drugs and vaccines that endanger public health. New surveillance methods for drug and vaccine adverse effects are needed." In "Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS)," by Lazarus, Ross, with Michael Klompas, Submitted to: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), inclusive dates: Grant ID: R18 HS 017045, 12/01/07 - 09/30/10.
Addendum of Human Testing and Ethical Questions: "...even if a challenge trial for coronavirus gets approved, there's no guarantee that it will lead to a faster vaccine development. The U.S. government's initiative to develop a coronavirus vaccine may be called 'Operation Warp Speed,' but Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, says that a lot of time and thought have to be put into properly designing a trial. 'Whether or not doing a challenge trial would even speed up the trial is a question that is not exactly clear,' says Grady, who is married to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Paul Offit agrees. 'You have to have the right dose. And to get the right dose, you have to have these mini-challenge trials,' he says. 'I don't think it’s going to happen.' Karen Lebacqz, one of the original Belmont Report authors, also has concerns about the accelerated Covid-19 vaccine protocols. 'Whenever people are desperate,' she says, 'they always want to relax ethical standards'." In "The Hideous Truths of Testing Vaccines on Humans," by Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 12 June 2020.
Addendum of Human Testing and Ethical Questions II: " 'While most children are relatively unaffected by coronavirus and are unlikely to become unwell with the infection, it is important to establish the safety and immune response to the vaccine in children and young people as some children may benefit from vaccination,' chief investigator of the trial Andrew Pollard said. 'These new trials will extend our understanding of control of Sars-CoV2 to younger age groups'." In "Britain to test AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in children," by Sommer Brokaw, UPI, 13 February 2021.
Addendum of Sufficiently Obscuring Risks of Worsening Disease: "Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials. The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent." In "Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease," by Timothy Cardozo and Ronald Veazey, International Journal of Clinical Practice, Wiley, March 2021.
Addendum of a Harmless Piece of Spike Protein: "COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the 'spike protein.' The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19." In "Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines," Center for Disease Control and Prevention, updated 4 March 2021.
Addendum of More on a Harmless Piece of Spike Protein: "The spike protein of SARS CoV-2 contains an RGD motif that is missing in other coronaviruses and could underlie the molecular processes contributing to the observed coagulopathy and pathological angiogenesis. This motif has solvent accessibility similar to that of known integrin-binding ligands and a conformation consistent with the possibility of binding to integrins. Should this be the case, binding of intact virions to integrins could enhance viral entry into alveolar cells. Binding of virions to endothelial cells in the vasculature could lead to their activation and initiate blood clotting, contributing to the frequently observed widespread clotting and thrombosis in multiple organs. Furthermore, if virions bind to integrins on platelets, they could cause platelets to aggregate and bind to the endothelium. These processes would lead to the production of micro- and macro-thrombi in the vasculature, where they could pose a serious threat of pulmonary thrombosis and embolism, strokes and other thrombotic consequences." In "Biological and Clinical Consequences of Integrin Binding via a Rogue RGD Motif in the SARS CoV-2 Spike Protein," by Lee Makowski, William Olson-Sidford and John W. Weisel, Viruses 2021, 13(2), 146.
Addendum of Human Testing and Ethical Questions III: "In a revealing comment, a CDC virologist involved with WHO and Gates Foundation in the Africa mass polio vaccination campaign, part of something called the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, admits the vaccine is creating significantly more cases of polio paralysis than the deceptively named 'wild polio' disease. 'We have now created more new emergences of the virus than we have stopped,' virologist Mark Pallansch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is a combined effort of the WHO, UNICEF, the U.S. CDC, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International. Bill Gates was reportedly responsible for driving the campaign to develop the liquid oral polio vaccine and massively administer it to the populations of Africa and Asia despite the near absence of any cases of 'wild polio.' According to one of the partners in the Gates polio initiative, from Rotary International, 'Gates personally drove the development of a new polio vaccine that is now in the final stages of testing. When the idea was put forward, about the time of the last case of polio to happen in India, many were thinking the vaccine would play no important role in eradication, but Gates insisted'." In "Gates Vaccine Spreads Polio Across Africa," by F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook, 28 September 2020.
Addendum of Obscuring the Risk: "COVID‐19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID‐19 disease via antibody‐dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID‐19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials." In "Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID‐19 vaccines worsening clinical disease," by Timothy Cardozo and Ronald Veazey, International Journal of Clinical Practice, 28 October 2020.
Addendum of Human Testing and Ethical Questions IV: "The Independent Monitoring Board, a group set up by WHO to assess polio eradication, warned in a report this month that vaccine-derived polio virus is 'spreading uncontrolled in West Africa, bursting geographical boundaries and raising fundamental questions and challenges for the whole eradication process.' The group said officials were already 'failing badly' to meet a recently approved polio goal of stopping all vaccine-derived outbreaks within 120 days of detection. It described the initial attitude of WHO and its partners to stopping such vaccine-linked polio cases as 'relaxed' and said 'new thinking' on how to tackle the problem was needed." In "More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus," Associated Press, 25 November 2019.
Addendum of a Rushed Prescription: "...people's mistrust of the system makes the idea that the FDA would rush this process before late stage clinical trials are complete 'colossally stupid.' 'This is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard this administration say,' Markel said. 'All it takes is one bad side effect to basically botch a vaccine program that we desperately need against this virus. It's a prescription for disaster.' FDA Commissioner Hahn said that the vaccine decision will be based on data, not politics, but Kinch shares Markel's concern." In "Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid'," by Jen Christensen, CNN, 1 September 2020.
Addendum of Being "Colossally Stupid" and No Criteria Spelled Out:" "Design defects, in contrast, do not merit a single mention in the NCVIA or the FDA's regulations. Indeed, the FDA has never even spelled out in regulations the criteria it uses to decide whether a vaccine is safe and effective for its intended use. And the decision is surely not an easy one. Drug manufacturers often could trade a little less efficacy for a little more safety, but the safest design is not always the best one. Striking the right balance between safety and efficacy is especially difficult with respect to vaccines, which affect public as well as individual health. Yet the Act, which in every other respect micromanages manufacturers, is silent on how to evaluate competing designs. Are manufacturers liable only for failing to employ an alternative design that the FDA has approved for distribution (an approval it takes years to obtain? Or does it suffice that a vaccine design has been approved in other countries? Or could there be liability for failure to use a design that exists only in a lab? Neither the Act nor the FDA regulations provide an answer, leaving the universe of alternative designs to be limited only by an expert’s imagination. Jurors, of course, often decide similar questions with little guidance, and we do not suggest that the absence of guidance alone suggests preemption. But the lack of guidance for design defects combined with the extensive guidance for the two grounds of liability specifically mentioned in the Act strongly suggests that design defects were not mentioned because they are not a basis for liability." In "Opinion of the Court," from BRUESEWITZ ET AL. v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT No. 09–152. Argued October 12, 2010—Decided February 22, 2011.
Addendum of Suspended Rights and Standards: "...biomedical ethicists are calling the shortcut into question, according to Stat News. 'Outbreaks and national emergencies often create pressure to suspend rights, standards and/or normal rules of ethical conduct,' Jonathan Kimmelman, director of McGill University's biomedical ethics unit, wrote in an email to Stat News. 'Often our decision to do so seems unwise in retrospect.' Typically, vaccine development can take 15 to 20 years, start to finish, Mark Feinberg, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, told Stat News. The lengthy process requires that scientists first give the vaccine to animals to determine whether it's safe and effective at preventing the disease in question. Only after passing through iterative tests in animal models, and being adjusted along the way, can a formulation be tested in human trials." In "Researchers fast-track coronavirus vaccine by skipping key animal testing first," by Nicoletta Lanese , Live Science, 13 March 2020.
Addendum of Infecting Intentionally: "The aim of this initial work was 'to understand how the virus infects people and how it passes so successfully between us,' Chiu said. Further trials using the challenge models could then be conducted in the months and years ahead to establish which vaccines and treatments work best, he said." In "In first for the world, Britain to expose volunteers to coronavirus," by Reuters, 17 February 2021.
Addendum of Gathering Information on Adverse Effects: "Upon investigating the Israeli Health Ministry's own data on the nation's vaccine rollout, Dr. Hervé Seligmann, a member of the faculty of Medicine at Aix-Marseille University, and engineer Haim Yativ revealed that Pfizer's mRNA experimental vaccine killed 'about 40 times more [elderly] people than the disease itself would have killed' during a recent five-week vaccination period. Among the younger class, the researchers discovered that these numbers are compounded to death rates at 260 times what the COVID-19 virus would have claimed in the given time frame." In "UK: 35 people deaf and 25 blind after taking mRNA vaccine shots, The Yellow Card scheme tracking potential vaccine injuries has flagged a combined 191,832 individual adverse events, or side effects, related to COVID vaccines," by David McLoone, LifeSite, 5 March 2021.
Addendum of Vaccination-induced ADE: "Before continuing the massive vaccination project, these adverse effects must be examined and carefully evaluated vs positive effects. The results on increased vaccination-induced infection rates (3-fold) and death rates (around 20 times the COVID-death rate of the unvaccinated) presented above are serious reasons to suspect that a balanced cost-benefit would not be in favour of vaccination for any risk group." In "Expert evaluation on adverse effects of the Pfizer-COVID-19 vaccination," by Hervé Seligmann, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 8 May 2021.
Addendum of OSHA and Liability Lawsuits on the Horizon: "If I require my employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their employment, are adverse reactions to the vaccine recordable? -- If you require your employees to be vaccinated as a condition of employment (i.e., for work-related reasons), then any adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is work-related. The adverse reaction is recordable if it is a new case under 29 CFR 1904.6 and meets one or more of the general recording criteria in 29 CFR 1904.7." In "COVID-19 / Frequently Asked Questions, OSHA, United States Department of Labor, n. d.
Addendum of the Constant Messaging: "The constant messaging that the vaccines are safe and with zero acknowledgement of these adverse neurological reactions has made it impossible for us to obtain medical treatment. We are 'collateral damage' in the effort to stop the pandemic. We are all honest, hard-working Americans who genuinely believed we were doing our part by getting this vaccine. We are suffering, we are alone, we have been silenced and brushed aside by our medical providers, many of whom are our own colleagues in the medical fields. Time and time again, we are being sent home from ERs and hospital stays with no answers or guidance whatsoever. We are the blind leading the blind. We deserve and strongly request transparency and acknowledgment of these vaccine reactions so that there can be a beginning to the discoveries and developments in the care that we desperately need. Until acknowledgement of these adverse reactions exists, it will be impossible for people to receive care. We are pleading that you make the medical community aware of these reactions so we can get the medical care that we need and hopefully recover and return to our previously healthy lives." In "Letter," written to FDA: Janet Woodcock, Peter Marks; CDC: Rochelle Walensky, Jay Butler, Daniel Jernigan; and The White House, posted to Vaccine Adverse Reaction Correspondence, C19 Vax Reactions, 24 May 2021.
Addendum of Being Grossly Underrepresented: "The VAERS system is known to grossly underrepresent the actual incidence of events and should be of great concern to the FDA and CDC. Our group represents thousands of individuals severely injured and disabled by all three of these products, the vast majority being from the mRNA vaccines. The injuries are largely neuro-inflammatory in nature and include demyelination/CIDP, small fiber neuropathy, non-length dependent neuropathy, dysautonomia/postural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS), short term memory loss, and brain fog. Many continue to experience life-altering symptoms months after the vaccine such as internal tremors, muscle twitching, paresthesias, muscle weakness, difficulty walking, tinnitus, and a host of other issues. They remain without a formal diagnosis due to a lack of awareness and research in the medical community about these reactions. It is time for the FDA and CDC to take action. We implore the FDA to finally recognize the suffering of thousands and issue a warning about the neurological events associated with the mRNA vaccines. The CDC must also recognize and investigate these events. Failure to take such action will breed distrust in the process of science and continue to harm the individuals who are suffering in the background." In "STATEMENT ON THE FDA WARNING OF A LINK BETWEEN THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON COVID-19 VACCINE AND GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME (GBS)," C19 Vax Reactions, 12 July 2021.
Addendum of Increase in Risk: "Data point to an increased incidence also in connection with vaccination against COVID-19, mainly in adolescents and young adults and mainly in boys and men. New preliminary Nordic analyzes indicate that the connection is especially clear when it comes to Moderna’s vaccine, especially after the second dose, the agency said. 'The increase in risk is seen within four weeks after the vaccination, mainly within the first two weeks,' it said." In "Sweden suspends Moderna vaccine for those 30 and under," by Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press, 6 October 2021.
"Climate deniers are using a spell of unusually cold weather in Europe to incorrectly argue that CO2 emissions are not warming the planet." In "How global warming can cause Europe's harsh winter weather," by Jeannette Cwienk, Deutsche Welle, 11 February 2021.
Who denies there's climate?
And yet the accusation's flung
one must assume there's someone
How else can a writer write the phrase
to arbitrate of truth of things
Who denies there's climate?
Names could help identify
Adjectives and nouns
alleging as word experts
Climate changes, yes indeed,
yet measly little men aren't up
Climate deniers don't deny
which makes the phrase just bullshit
No one that I know.
at such deniers, so
saying climate is not real.
except with an zealot's zeal
and miss information when
it fails to submit itself
to that writer's dripping pen?
Climate deniers? Oh?
deniers who say 'no.'
can say most anything,
that slogans can take wing.
and blows both hot and cold,
to control it as they've sold.
that climate goes through changes,
as it around the wide world ranges.
Addendum of Combating the Widespread Problem: "Facebook has introduced these information hubs and relied on them as a key part of its tactic to combat the widespread problem of misinformation on its services. It's a stark turnaround from CEO Mark Zuckerberg's statement last May, when he defended unfettered speech from politicians on the platform, and said he did not think 'Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth'." In "Facebook will debunk myths about climate change, stepping further into 'arbiter of truth' role," by Salvador Rodriguez, 18 February 2021.
Addendum of the Lockdowns: "UK radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer called the WEF's messaging 'genuinely scary' and said it suggested that 'human beings are the problem.' She added, 'The WEF are absolutely stark staring insane if they think lockdowns are 'quietly improving' our cities.' Historian Roger Moorhouse chalked the post up to 'anthropophobia' – fear of humans." In "World Economic Forum shouted down on Twitter for suggesting Covid-19 lockdowns 'improved cities all over the world'," RT, 27 February 2021.
Addendum of a Constant Thread: " 'It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: 'America's right to know.' It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, 'America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?' None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." In "A Cult of Ignorance," Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, 21 January 1980.
One finds so many Chilling comments hot
Fear - a litany for today
"Roosevelt proceeded to deliver his 1,883-word, 20 minute-long inaugural address, best known for his famously pointed reference to 'fear itself' (paraphrasing Thoreau in one of its first lines: 'So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days'." In "First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt," Wikipedia article, n. d.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself,
For fear is a fearful thing.
It's daily peddled in the press,
As stinging headlines sing.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself,
Politics remind us much,
For fear does well to manipulate;
Such is politics' crutch.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself,
This infection of mind and heart,
Accusation, weapon, virus wielded
With the fear makers' fearful art.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself,
Invisible, though easily seen;
Fear works its fearsome sickness,
Diabolically serpentine.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself,
As it stalks both hearts and minds,
For fear will nest within one's thoughts,
Rending a love that binds.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself;
Great words have spoken thus.
Cast off its lure and seductive call,
Its worry and its fuss.
We've nothing to fear but fear itself.
Addendum of Not Fearing I: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?" From Psalm 27.
Addendum of Not Fearing Over the Centuries: "In the sixteenth century, the great French writer Michel de Montaigne... the man who pretty much invented a whole new genre, the essay – wrote: 'the thing of which I have most fear is fear'. Although it depends on which translation you read. In another, the wording is slightly different: 'The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.' Then, in the seventeenth century, the English writer who brought Montaigne's new invention of the essay form to England and made it his own, Francis Bacon, wrote in his 1623 book De Augmentis Scientiarum: 'Nil terribile nisi ipse timor', or 'Nothing is terrible except fear itself.' Then, in the nineteenth century and in yet another country, the United States, Henry David Thoreau offered in his journal entry for 7 September 1851: 'Nothing is so much to be feared as fear' ." In "Who Said, 'We Have Nothing to Fear Except Fear Itself'?" by Oliver Tearle, Dispatches from The Secret Library, April 2020.
Addendum of Not Fearing II: "The Lord is on my side, and I am not afraid of what others can do to me." From Psalm 118.
Addendum of Fear-generating Taxonomy: "There are other countries that if you had a preexisting condition and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem some countries are recording as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now we are still recording it and we will I mean the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to market as COVID-19 infection the intent is right now that those if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death." In "Dr. Birx: Unlike Some Countries, 'If Someone Dies With COVID-19 We Are Counting That As A COVID-19 Death', by Tim Hains, RealClearPolitics, 8 April 2020.
Addendum of Classification and Misclassification: " The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths. Even patients dying from other underlying diseases but are infected with COVID-19 count as COVID-19 deaths. This is likely the main explanation as to why COVID-19 deaths drastically increased while deaths by all other diseases experienced a significant decrease. 'All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,' Briand concluded. In an interview with The News-Letter, Briand addressed the question of whether COVID-19 deaths can be called misleading since the infection might have exacerbated and even led to deaths by other underlying diseases. 'If [the COVID-19 death toll] was not misleading at all, what we should have observed is an increased number of heart attacks and increased COVID-19 numbers. But a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn't give us a choice but to point to some misclassification,' Briand replied." In "A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19," by Yanni Gu, Johns Hopkins Newsletter, Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins, 26 November 2020.
How Divine the panic
A Modern Observation on The Anti-War Movement, We Bomb Back Better - "the establishment's back"
Bomb, back, better.
That's the racket named war.
Build bombs, debtor,
And bomb a little more.
Cruise your way to penury,
Trillions at a time.
Blow it all and build back arms;
The bomb's their paradigm.
Bomb, back, better,
There's just no "anti-war."
Munitions must be blown
So we can order more.
Bomb, back, better.
That's the racket named war.
Revolving doors for bombers
Let fat cats fatten more.
Addendum of the "New" Same Old Belligerency: "It has taken only 36 days in office for the Biden administration to show the world, through a bombing attack on Syria, that it is belligerent, aggressive and hell-bent on war. There was only a short respite from Trump’s vile words and actions. Now we have to face Biden’s vile deeds and resist them. Even the excuse U.S. imperialism gave for bombing Syria was feeble. A rocket attack some weeks ago killed a mercenary in Iraq. Excuses like that open the door to new U.S. wars and interventions all over countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America where Washington has replaced official U.S. troops with soldiers of fortune." In "Tell Biden: Stop bombing Syria!" by Workers World Party, 25 February 2021.
Addendum of the Odd Politics of It: "US President Donald Trump said in a farewell address Tuesday, his last full day in office, that he was the first president in many years to have left office without starting a war." In "Trump touts record of 'no new wars', standing up to China in farewell address," by France 24, 19 January 2021.
Addendum of Better Military Violence: "The Global Times suggested Biden had undermined his promises to the American people in its coverage of the strikes, in an article it titled with Biden’s words, 'America Is Back.' the Communist Party-approved experts quoted in the piece made the case that, under President Donald Trump, the White House preferred to use economic incentives and punishments like sanctions to confront national security threats by starving them of funding. Under Biden, military violence superseded the sanctions policy, they claimed. 'During the Trump era, the US tended to use economic sanctions against Iran and did not politically engage with Iran. Nonetheless, the pro-establishment Democratic government wants to resume the Iran nuclear deal, but it is telling Iran not to take action in Syria, as they are two different issues,' one of the experts said. The Global Times added that its experts expected Biden to attempt to 'push European countries to get involved in Middle Eastern affairs' rather than attempt to unilaterally handle threats to America." In "China Mocks Biden Syria Bombing: 'America Is Back'," by Frances Martel, Breitbart, 26 February 2021.
Addendum of a Most Liberal Revolving Door: "Austin has more hurdles than usual to being confirmed for the post. He needs both the approval of the Senate for the job as well as a separate congressional waiver since he retired from the military less than seven years ago. Austin would be the second Pentagon chief in four years to need such a waiver, after Trump picked retired Marine general James Mattis to be his first defense secretary. Some lawmakers are wary of granting such waivers, citing a need to maintain civilian control of the military. Austin's role with businesses that seek contracts with the defense department also could give pause to some liberals among Democrats. Austin headed the U.S. Central Command under President Barack Obama and would be the first Black defense secretary." In "Biden's Defense Nominee Could Get $1.7 Million as He Leaves Raytheon," by Trevor Hunnicutt, Reuters, 10 January 2021.
Addendum of The Worldwide Left and Right Seeing the Many Democrat Wars: "It is worth recalling how right when Barack Obama was about to leave office The American Conservative gave an objective assessment for this president (with whom Joe Biden had worked on the same team) who had undeservedly won the Nobel Peace Prize, emphasizing his particular love for the use of brute military force abroad: 'Obama [is] … the only president to spend his entire tenure presiding over foreign wars… [T]he US has bombed at least half a dozen countries on his watch, and his administration has assisted other governments in laying waste to one of the poorest countries on earth.' According to Airwars data for that period, during 2014-2016 alone the United States carried out more than 9,600 air raids in Iraq, and about 5,000 in Syria, with dozens of thousands of civilians killed. And in the United States itself, many people died because of Obama's policies, and therefore it was with good reason that WorldNetDaily back then emphasized that 'Obama has been blithely watching coffins float by his entire presidency'." In "Biden Digs Up the Hatchet," by Vladimir Danilov, New Eastern Outlook, 2 March 2021.:
Addendum of Biden's Verbal Hatchet: "President Vladimir Putin retorted on Thursday that it takes one to know one after U.S. President Joe Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and already poor relations between Moscow and Washington sank to a new post-Cold War low. Putin was speaking on television after Biden, in an ABC News interview that prompted Russia to recall its Washington ambassador for consultations a day earlier, said 'I do' when asked if he believed Putin was a killer. Biden also described Putin as having no soul, and said he would pay a price for alleged Russian meddling in the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, something the Kremlin denies." In "'It takes one to know one' Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer'," by Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth, Reuters, 18 March 2021.
Addendum of a Continuing Arms Race: "Now get this. The President of the United States kicks off his administration attacking Syria first. Then, in a masterstroke of diplomacy, he threatens the president of the second most powerful nuclear nation on Earth 'they tried to influence public opinion', referring to a report from the Director of National Intelligence that said there was no election tampering. You read that correctly. America is being prepared for all-out nuclear war, based on bobble-headed speculation and doublespeak, from the same people who tore up the US Constitution by spying on Americans." In "Get Ready for That Epic Arms Race: Sleepy Joe Woke Up," by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook, 18 March 2021.
Addendum of Growing Involvement: "The agreement between the Mozambican and US governments is for American soldiers to train local forces fighting the al-Shabaab militia - believed to have links to the wider Islamic state group (IS). 'US special operations forces... will support Mozambique's efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism,' the US embassy in Mozambique said on 15 March." In "Mozambique conflict: Why are US forces there?" by Christopher Giles and Peter Mwai, BBC Reality Check, 20 March 2021.
Addendum of Seven Presidents' Wars: "Members of US Congress harshly criticized the new President's decision to order the air strike without seeking approval from lawmakers first. 'This makes President Biden the seventh consecutive US President to order strikes in the Middle East,' said Representative Ro Khanna (D-California), according to Politico. 'We need to extricate from the Middle East, not escalate. The President should not be taking these actions without seeking explicit authorization instead of relying on broad, outdated AUMFs (Authorizations for Use of Military Force),' he added. In such a climate, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance would 'expand its training mission in Iraq from 500 to around 4,000 personnel.' Joe Biden's approach towards Afghanistan also seems to lack a diplomatic touch. According to the deal struck by the United States and the Afghan Taliban in Doha (Qatar) under the previous administration, the US is supposed to withdraw its remaining forces stationed in Afghanistan by May 2021. However, the new US President said it would be tough for the United States to do so. Failure to remove the troops as previously agreed is likely to prompt the Taliban to take up arms once again." In "Plans for Middle East and Joe Biden’s Actions," by Viktor Mikhin, New Eastern Outlook, 23 March 2021.
Addendum of Suffering at the Hands of Washington: "From the very beginning of the armed aggression against Libya until today, many American politicians have boasted of their dubious Libyan achievements. Among them were Democrat Barack Obama, his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other members of the Obama administration, who even boasted of their role in overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi. However, this US-led adventure turned into outspoken support for local militants, whom the West could not keep under control. Ultimately, the security vacuum in Libya was quickly filled by armed groups, Islamist extremists and human traffickers. As a result, Libya has become the largest regional exporter of instability and chaos, but the US, which recently campaigned for the security of Libyans, today hypocritically ignores this North African country. It should be emphasized that Washington officials do not like to remember Libya at all, because the armed invasion of it for many Americans has become 'a symbol of the limited US power and the recklessness of military intervention' and this factor darkens the lives of many former and current American officials. Since then, Libya as a state actually exists only on the map. In fact, the population of Libya, historically heterogeneous and actually consisting of tribes, which Gaddafi kept with his delicate, although not impeccable policy as a whole, is now still not only broke, but also without any guarantees of security." In "10 Years of Libyan Suffering at the Hands of Washington," by Vladimir Platov, New Eastern Outlook, 29 March 2021.
Addendum of the Fat, Fat Military's Losing Wars: "The war in Afghanistan is the second conflict that the United States has lost. However, USA's military budget is still the world's largest in comparison to those of other powerful countries. On average, the military spending of US government exceeds that of Russia by around 10 times and of China 4 times. It is true that the United States was unable to reach many of its goals or complete its projects during various wars and conflicts in the past. It is also true that the Russian Federation and PRC are tirelessly working on creating a more multipolar world order via fruitful negotiations. In fact, many other countries support Russian and Chinese efforts. But are the US actions consistent with the norms of a multipolar world? Or has the US leadership, at least, acknowledged these transformations are taking place world-wide? For now, this does not seem to be the case. And Joe Biden’s offensive actions and statements on the world stage are indicative of this." In "Washington’s Dilemma in Afghanistan," by Viktor Mikhin, New Eastern Outlook, 1 April 2021.
Addendum of the Peaceful Biden Administration: "This negative perception of the United States in the world has a number of explanations, one of which is Washington’s recent emphasis on armament and the use of military force, since it is no longer able to ensure its hegemony by economic, financial, informational and diplomatic means. This is evidenced by the detailed draft budget for the coming fiscal year 2022, recently submitted to Congress by US President Joe Biden, in which he asks for nearly $753 billion for 'defense needs' (+12.5 billion compared to the previous year’s figures). The draft shows that overall government spending would be roughly quadrupled from $1.52 trillion to six trillion dollars, which would be the largest expenditure for the US government since the end of World War II." In "The US is a Greater Threat than Either Russia or China," by Vladimir Platov, New Eastern Outlook,7 June 2021.
Addendum of Sufficient Intensity: "The post-WW2 military posture of the U.S. has been endless war. To enable that, there must always be an existential threat, a new and fresh enemy that can scare a large enough portion of the population with sufficient intensity to make them accept, even plead for, greater military spending, surveillance powers, and continuation of permanent war footing. Starring in that war-justifying role of villain have been the Communists, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Russia, and an assortment of other fleeting foreign threats. According to the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence community, and President Joe Biden, none of those is the greatest national security threat to the United States any longer. Instead, they all say explicitly and in unison, the gravest menace to American national security is now domestic in nature." In "What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror," by Glenn Greenwald, Substack, 25 June 2021.
Addendum of Again: "In a statement, the Pentagon said the strike took place near Galkayo, Somalia. While the United States has frequently carried out air strikes in Somalia against al Shaabab, this was the first since Jan. 20 when Biden took office." In "U.S. Military Carries Out First Air Strike in Somalia Under Biden;" by Idrees Ali, Reuters, 20 July 2021.
Addendum of AFRICOM Continuing: "Ah, yes. The Biden administration just refused to reverse President Trump’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara. That was it. For those unfamiliar, Western Sahara is a disputed territory the United States used to uphold until Chevron and British oil and gas interests, and Israel wants Morocco in the fold. As usual, Washington, London, and energy-dependent allies point fingers to the east, about the time another significant fossil fuel discovery takes place. And Morocco, which sits a few kilometers from the southwestern tip of super-consumer Europe, is a big chip in the next game. Western powers are supposedly engaged in fighting terrorism in Africa. The fact that big energy holds oil and gas leases that could mean trillions of cubic meters of natural gas shipments across Gibraltar to Spain and beyond is only ANOTHER coincidence. We’ve known for a long time American troops at the 29 bases from one end of Africa to the other are not just playing around shooting blanks at one another. But, a 2018 story at POLITICO blew the whistle on the US has secret programs and American troops carrying out direct combat in Somalia, Kenya, Niger, and other African nations. And this once-secret map from AFRICOM marked a network of 29 US military bases stretching across the old continent. So, it should come as no surprise that the reason for the current focus and the bigger American-led militarism. Chevron Corp, and a variety of investors, of course. While it may seem a coincidence that the Biden administration let Chevron be the last US oil company operating in Venezuela, it’s not. The second-largest oil and gas producer in the United States is part of a big play in Morocco alongside the UK’s SDX Energy, Chariot Ltd...." In "Morocco Gas Flows are Now Protected by the US Army," by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook, 30 July 2021.
Addendum of the Drill: "The drill marks a return to similar Cold War exercises that were seen during the 1980s." In "WAR ZONES Biggest US Navy war games in 40 years to prepare for WW3 across 17 times zones amid tensions with Russia, China and Iran," by Chris Bradford, Sun US, 4 August 2021.
Addendum of Continuing War in Other Ways: "In order to avoid allegations against the US Air Force of killing civilians, the Pentagon plans to train SDF militants in independent operations with the use of military aircraft. For this, training in aviating and using T-6 Texan aircraft and MD-500 helicopters was organized at the Al-Kafr base. For this purpose, according to the available data, three such aircraft and two helicopters have already been delivered to the American base. Furthermore, as El Mundo and many other Western media have already reported, US militants who have undergone 'special training' are actively deployed in Syria, along with mercenaries from the American private military company Academi, to guard and transport convoys with stolen Syrian oil to Iraq. Meanwhile, it should be recalled that US military personnel are in Syria illegally, violating the norms of the UN Security Council. Washington funds the militants through a program of assistance to the 'Syrian opposition' and is using them to retain its positions in the Syrian oil fields." In "Washington’s Assembly Line for Retraining Soldiers in Syria Isn’t Stopping," by Valery Kulikov, New Eastrern Outlook, 25 September 2021.
Addendum Looking Back: "President Barack Obama is widely known as being the pioneer of US air wars. Following the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the number of American military casualties between 2003 till 2011 (nearly 4,500 troops killed, some 900 contractors killed, and 32,000 soldiers injured [not including mental injuries]). The public backlash against the Iraq war casualties was immense, with calls to bring the troops home growing louder by the day. In 2016, the former American President said, “with our extraordinary technology.. we’re conducting the most precise air campaign in history.” But now it is become increasingly apparent and clear that president Obama fed the Americans and the international community with lies. The “extraordinary technology” is conducting the most imprecise air campaign in history. In the more than 50-thousand US airstrikes between 2014 and 2019, which killed thousands and possibly tens of thousands of civilians meant Obama’s initiative made America the judge of those civilians, their jury, and executioner." In "The United States as the Primary Source of Terrorism," by Viktor Mikhin, New Eastern Outlook, 1 January 2022.
Addendum of Replenishment and Profits: "One group of special interests profiting massively on the war is the US military-industrial complex. Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes recently told a meeting of shareholders that, 'Everything that's being shipped into Ukraine today, of course, is coming out of stockpiles, either at DOD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all great news. Eventually we’ll have to replenish it and we will see a benefit to the business'." In "The Ukraine War is a Racket," posted by Curt, Flopping Aces, 27 April 2022.
Addendum of Warmongers: "Video Transcript: 'The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad's $40b War Vote Just Killed It.' Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened?" In "The Bizarre, Unanimous Dem Support for the $40b War Package to Raytheon and CIA: 'For Ukraine', by Glenn Greenwald, Substack, 13 May 2022.
Addendum of "Bomb Back" Biden: "The US-provoked war against Russia in Ukraine has already killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions. The war against China Biden is threatening would turn the entire Asia-Pacific region, the world’s most populous area, into a war zone, with devastating and incalculable consequences." In "As it escalates war against Russia, Biden administration threatens war against China," by Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site, 23 May 2022
"The new bigotry of Wokeism can be seen in ritualized guilt surrounding 'whiteness,' which now includes bizarre ceremonies such as sending whites to the back of the room or sending white children to the back of the bus. Many businesses and institutions now single out certain individuals, solely on the basis of skin color, and require them to acknowledge and own their participation in systemic racism. Failure to participate in these shaming rituals is itself considered an act of racism. Of course, these Woke liturgies are only possible to the degree that liberal institutions renounce classic liberal values such as tolerance and non-discrimination." In "Race Neutrality is the New Racism," by Robin Phillips, Salvo Mag, 5 March 2021
It's sure that I'm a racist;
Some racist told me so.
With race the daily theme,
One simply can't say no.
The race to race into the race
Is sport to those who know
Race is a hot potato,
Trotted out to show...
...one race is always racist;
Now white's the colorless foe,
But other colors get a pass,
That racism they may sow.
It's sure each is a racist,
When race is what they know.
So many better attributes
Drown in that undertow.
Race, race, race and race, race, race
Is peddled. Tally ho!
Nothing new develops,
When race is all you know.
Race divides, so what unites
As racists always crow?
Describe by race, igniting fights
Builds to a fortissimo.
Who's the racist? Ask a racist.
The racist's the one to know.
Race, race, race and race, race, race
Is marketed. Tally ho!
Addendum of a Lemon Smear: "What's really funny is that Lemon had just claimed his book was about 'unity rather than division,' so just admit you're a racist. Stop being divisive by objecting to my smear. Of course, that wasn't the only comical statement. He also claimed he wasn't a political person! LEMON: 'I could have written, Lulu, a number of books during the Trump administration because every time the president would tweet about me, or say something offhanded about me, or some backhanded way, someone would reach out and say, why don't you write a book? I didn't want to do that because I'm not a political person, and I didn't want to write a political book. And this book is about being human. It's about unity rather than division. And that's a book that I wanted to write'." In "Ibram X. Lemon? CNN Anchor Tells White People 'Stop Saying You Aren't Racist'," by Tim Graham, MRC-Newsbusters, 14 March 2021.
Addendum of the Newest Racist Grifters: "Simmons is the founder of a group known as 'LiberatED,' which describes itself as '[a] social and emotional learning approach to racial justice and healing. A movement. A collective. A path towards liberation.' News of Simmons' fee came amid a broader controversy over how public institutions – schools, in particular – were promoting ideas such as critical race theory. Anti-racist speaker and author Ibram Kendi reportedly received at least $44,000 from Fairfax County Schools, including $20,000 for a one-hour lecture. In neighboring Loudoun County, the school system reportedly spent at least $500,000 on race programs." In "Illinois school district agreed to pay anti-racism speaker $10,500 for 1-hour talk: report 'Make America Great Again,' 'denial of white privilege' reportedly described as covert forms of White supremacy," by Sam Dorman, Fox News, 22 May 2021.
Addendum of a Common Faux Pas: "Firstly, it should clearly be understood that race does not exist, it is a scientifically debunked and obsolete term in the same manner the definitions “Mongoloid, Negro or Caucasian” are now obsolete. Historically speaking ethnic hatred of which racism is a part has also not been the monopoly of any single group, but to a certain extent has been practiced in some form, at some time in history, by almost every ethnic group on the planet. The common faux pas in the Western world is that racism and the concept race are both seen as recent historical developments. This is only true for places where different races have not interacted until recent history. " In "Blackness, Whiteness and other Mythological Creatures," by Alaric Naudé, The Professor's Blog, 23 February 2021.
Addendum of Seeing Erosion: "Marxism was focused on the destruction of the individual, and advancing the idea of collectivism. Critical Race Theory does exactly that. It redefines us based upon race rather than our individuality. It declares that America is, always has been, and always will be a racist country. It erodes the fundamental premise of America, namely, equality of opportunity, and replaces it with equity, to be achieved by equality of outcomes." In "Chairman Allen West’s Statement on Critical Race Theory,: Texas GOP, 30 March 2021.
Addendum of the Critical Race to Anti-Capitalism: "In the name of equity, UCLA law professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth, and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others deemed insufficiently 'antiracist.' One practical result of the creation of such a department would be the overthrow of capitalism, since, according to Kendi, 'In order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist.”' In other words, identity is the means; Marxism is the end." In "The Courage of Our Convictions, How to fight critical race theory," by Christopher F. Rufo, City Journal, 22 April 2021.
Addendum of Democrat Supremacy and Democrat Systemic Racism: "Americans are armed with debate techniques and focused repartes, the emotional appeals of leftism will continue to hold sway over most good-but-ignorant folks. In terms of systemic racism, an obvious rebuttal comes by looking at who exactly runs the show. If the systems are bad, why not look at the leaders of such a system? Democrats are in charge of all of the most murderous cities in the United States. In terms of total population, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Houston are the biggest black cities in America. It is in these cities – not rural white cities home to white Supremacist Trump supporters – that blacks are exposed to the highest rate of murder and sheer number of murders. According to the FBI, over 90% of these murders come at the hands of another black. In other words, white supremacy is a fraud and total boogeyman." In "2021’s Stratospheric Murder Rates In America’s Five Blackest Cities," by Parker Beauregard, Blue State Conservative, 8 June 2021.
Addendum of Being Called a Racist: " '...the Biden family is the Klan family. It’s the Klan. And Joe is the Imperial Wizard. That is outright — the terms that he used – Hunter – was the most derogatory, prejudicial way of using the n-word – regarding wine, regarding body parts,' Terrell added. 'That is a person who's comfortable using the n-word. And you will hear crickets from the Democrats. Biden and his family has had a history of demonizing blacks, and the number one reason why I left the Democratic Party, because Joe Biden went on national radio and said, 'If you don't vote for me, you ain't black.' This guy is a racist. He needs to look into the mirror and acknowledge that him and his family are racists! It is insulting,' he added." In "Leo Terrell Goes OFF: Biden Family Is a 'Klan Family' and Joe Is the 'Imperial Wizard'," by Martin Walsh, Trending Politics, 9 June 2021.
Addendum on Not Covering Racist Speech: "The president's son joked in a January 2019 text to corporate attorney George Mesires about a 'big penis', and said to the lawyer: 'I only love you because you're black' and 'true dat n***a'. In another text a month earlier he wrote to the Chicago lawyer saying: 'how much money do I owe you. Becaause (sic) n***a you better not be charging me Hennessy rates.' Mesires replied: 'That made me snarf my coffee.' Hunter added: 'That's what im saying ni…', cutting off the racial slur mid-word, then texted a picture to Mesires. " In "How the liberal media have completely IGNORED Hunter Biden's N-word scandal: Not ONE left-leaning outlet covered the president's son using racist language in texts first revealed by DailyMail.com," by Emily Crane, Daily Mail, 10 June 2021.
Addendum of Controlling Negroes: "...see here's, here's CNN. Cause see CNN is about controlling negroes. That’s what it stands [for] controlling negroes. That's what CNN is about. They don't want people of color to have certain thoughts. He's here to keep me running and to keep me from being the governor of the state. Why? Because liberals, they do not want blacks to think for themselves. They're here for Stacey Abrams. You know and I know that the drop off boxes were not in the state statutes. You know and I know that the eNet signature verification was not in the state statute. …You don't want me on your show no more because you know Joe Biden is a bigot and you don't want me calling Joe Biden a bigot…. CNN is bigot… they're race based. They use you to carry out their racist agenda and it's sad'. " Quote of Vernon Jones, in " 'CNN's About Controlling Negroes, That’s What It Stands [For], Controlling Negroes' – Vernon Jones DESTROYS CNN Reporter," by Joe Hoft, Gateway Pundit, 1 July 2021. [ 1 ]
Addendum of Growing Racism Narrative: "...why is there such a misunderstanding between the American public and the reality of US race relations? The answer, I suspect, reflects a media-driven moral panic — one that is rooted in the racialization of identity-obsessed progressive politics." In "A look at the facts tells you the left is propagating a false racist narrative," by Eric Kaufmann, NY Post, 27 July 2021.
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[ 1 ] As to racism as theory and as fact, one reads: "A father in Colorado Springs who is the descendant of slaves slammed critical race theory during a public school district’s board meeting, saying racism in America would 'by and large be dead' if not for institutions such as the education system 'keeping it on life support.' 'I am a direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black. All four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great grandparents, and all 16 of my great greats. On my mother's side, my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father's side, we were enslaved in Texas,' father Derrick Wilburn said during a board meeting last week. 'I am not oppressed. I'm not oppressed and I'm not a victim'." In "Black father tells board CRT keeps racism on 'life support', moments later they vote to ban it," by Emma Colton, Fox News, 20 August 2021.
Consider the Supremacy of Systemic Racism of Democrats like White Eric and white Gavin
Consider the Unity of the Divisive Palette: Black and white
Consider also some information about proponents of anti-capitalism: Auntie Capital
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Oh, beautiful the razor wire
stretched round the Congress hall;
with troops to guard -- ready, aim, fire --
its debt makers and all.
America? America?
Odd how this came to be --
the Congress' own neighborhood
fears free democracy.
Oh, beautiful for metal fence
topped round with spiky points,
and guarded by a stiff defense
that politics anoints.
America? America?
Odd how this came to be --
the capitol's elites now morph
to aristocracy.
Oh, beautiful conspiracy
which props its props up right,
declaring massive debt makes sense
while itching for a fight.
America? America?
Odd how this came to pass,
as Washington's sharp razor wire
Is now what's come to pass.
Addendum of a Ghastly Overreaction: "An inner perimeter will be moved closer to the Capitol building this week, providing reopened access to nearby streets and some sidewalks. Strings of razor wire atop the fence will also be removed. The political pressure to remove the security fencing has been building. The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has compared it to a combat zone in Afghanistan, saying that 'we are way overreacting.' The No. 2 Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, called it 'ghastly'." In "Security officials to scale back fencing around US Capitol," Associated Press, 17 March 2021.
Addendum of a Great Big Theater: "What matters is the narrative. It’s all a great big theater, and all of us here in D.C. — the Capitol Police officers, the Guardsmen, the staff, the neighbors — are living in it." In "The Capitol Police Chief And Her Democratic Bosses Are Lying To You All To Hold Our Capital Hostage," by Christopher Bedford, The Federalist, 5 March 2021.
Addendum of Shrinking the Stage: "The National Guard is drawing down troops from around 5,000 to 2,280, which is the number currently authorized through May 23. Blodgett said the National Guard 'will continue to maintain a presence to support our increased security posture although their presence has been modified to support a reduced perimeter.' He also said that the Capitol Police will 'continue to monitor the threat posture, [and] should a change occur, plans will be reevaluated.' Members of Congress have been clamoring for the fence to come down for some time." In "Outer fence surrounding Capitol complex to be removed this weekend," by Chris Marquette, Roll Call, 19 March 2021.
Addendum of Perma-Nancy: "The metal fencing that is currently up around the Capitol complex, the security review, ordered by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), recommended a permanent barrier to be constructed, along with hiring more Capitol police officers and establishing a Quick Reaction Force (QRF)." In "Defense Secretary Approves the National Guard to Stay in DC Until at Least May," by Julio Rosas, Townhall, 10 March 2021.
Addendum of Removing: "A layer of inner fencing around the Capitol building itself remains in place." In "Fencing around outer perimeter of U.S. Capitol complex removed," by Grace Segers, CBS News, 24 March 2021.
Addendum of Saluting the New Dear Leader: "Farewell, you unwise, unkind, unthinking, and unthinkable brute of a world leader. All hail Sleepy Joe Biden, the arms dealer’s best friend." In "Farewell Incredulous Trump: All Hail Belligerent Biden," by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook, 7 December 2020.
Addendum of a June Biden Boom: " 'As demonstrated by this evening's strikes, President Biden has been clear that he will act to protect U.S. personnel. Given the ongoing series of attacks by Iran-backed groups targeting U.S. interests in Iraq, the President directed further military action to disrupt and deter such attacks,' Kirby added. 'The United States took necessary, appropriate, and deliberate action designed to limit the risk of escalation - but also to send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message'." In "US military launches airstrikes against three facilities on Iraq-Syria border.," by Lucas Y. Tomlinson and Lucas Manfredi, Fox News, 28 June 2021.
Addendum of a Fence -- Building Back Better: "U.S. Capitol Police are bracing for a potential "Freedom Convoy" truck protest to Washington D.C. for the March 1 speech." In "Capitol fence to be reinstalled ahead of Biden’s State of the Union address," by Jessica Chasmar and Chad Pergram, Fox News, 20 February 2022.
Indeed as to arms manufactures, one may consider A Modern Observation on The Anti-War Movement, We Bomb Back Better
"As several Obama-era officials return to the White House under President Joe Biden, their reunion comes with fuller pockets and deeper ties to corporate interests, new financial disclosure reports show. According to ABC News' analysis of the most recent disclosure reports, many of Biden's top White House officials, including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients, have substantially multiplied their wealth over the past few years." In "Obama-era officials return to White House worth millions, White House financial disclosures show several officials gained massive wealth," by Soo Rin Kim and Libby Cathey, ABC News, 21 March 2021.
The average Joe's a different Joe
From the Joe that runs the game.
The average Joe who's just some schmo
Gathers hardly any acclaim.
The average Joe's a different Joe
From the Joe atop the pile.
The average Joe must undergo
What fancy folk revile.
The average Joe's just not the Joe
Whose cadre wealth rakes in.
Apologists Joe-political
Say gathering wealth's no sin.
But average Joes gain little wealth
While the politicians reap
So much more than an average Joe
Who's supposed to be beneath.
The average Joe's a lesser Joe
Than the Joe that harvests cash,
And markets it to precious few
Through politics' Joe-balderdash.
Addendum of See, BS: "The incident took place outside the Palm Room doors in front of the Diplomatic Room, the report said. 'There was dog poo on the floor. It’s unclear which dog was responsible for it,' quoted CBS White House reporter Kathryn Watson." In "One Of Biden's Dogs Poops On Floor Outside WH Diplomatic Room: Pool," by Jon Brown, Daily Wire, 31 March 2021.
...above average
Addendum of $2.7 Million in Equity: "Although Biden has broadly taken action against oil pipelines, most notably canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline, his administration has continued to allow the Line 3 project, which would bring Canadian oil through Minnesota to Wisconsin. Environmental activists oppose the Line 3 project, but the cause has received far less national attention than other pipelines." In "Susan Rice ordered to sell $2.7M stake in oil pipeline company after project moves forward," by Steven Nelson, NY Post, 16 July 2021.
Addendum of Clarity of an Average Joe: "Look, that's like askin' my deceased son Beau, who spent six months in Kosovo and a year in Iraq as a Navy captain and then major-- I mean, as an Army major. And, you know, I'm sure h-- he had regrets comin' out of Afganista-- I mean, out of Iraq. He had regrets to what's-- how-- how it's going. But the idea-- what's the alternative? The alternative is why are we staying in Afghanistan? Why are we there? Don't you think that the one-- you know who's most disappointed in us getting out? Russia and China. They'd love us to continue to have to--" Joe Biden, in "Full transcript of ABC News' George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Joe Biden, Stephanopoulos spoke to Biden in an exclusive interview Wednesday," ABC News, 19 August 2021.
Addendum of Never Being Told: "...in an interview released on Thursday morning, President Biden claimed that he was never told that such a rapid collapse was possible. And a day earlier, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he never saw any intelligence warning that the Afghan government could fall so quickly." In "Biden administration was warned LAST MONTH by US diplomats in Kabul of an impending Taliban 'catastrophe' if troops withdrew and was urged to evacuate ALL Americans starting on August 1," by Geoff Earle, Daily Mail, 19 August 2021.
Hey, it's just Politics
Having eaten and digested
the approved idea log,
we vomit up our answers
as a regurgitated fog...
...of ideas we rarely criticize,
for in the orthodoxy's bog
we're sunk up to our eyes.
Dialogue is at best a monologue.
By degrees, to a degree
as academics pettifog,
has eaten and digested
their approved idea log.
Each is of the collective
but a tenured, well-trained dog;
muzzle and a leash quite tight
are a bookend epilogue...
...as each bows a knee to grovel
before a grand idea log.
Nary a single narrative
not within the catalog...
...may ever be considered,
says the approving ideologue.
We vomit up our answers
and slop each fellow hog.
Addendum of Similarities Across Time: "...the Nazi Party was fixated on censorship and eliminating any cultural institution, publication or speech that did not fully support them. In other words, their version of today’s “cancel culture.” The Nazis were notorious for book-burning rituals in order to intimidate and send the message that they would shut down anyone and anything that did not align with their ideology. Once in control of the national levers of powers, they did so with impunity. The American left is figuratively burning books as it uses social media mobs as the vehicle to send the message that they will shut down anyone or anything that does not align with their ideology." In "The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored," by Steve McCann, American Thinker, 29 March 2021.
Debt and more debt - governments are the threat
"The world is standing on the edge of a very real debt pit: according to calculations of the Institute of International Finance (USA), the total world debt is approaching $275 trillion, or 365% of world GDP. Because of the high level of debt of governments, businesses, and the population, the world economy is on the brink of a massive crisis. The problems of the banking sectors of individual countries pose risks to the international financial system as a whole. Whether the worldwide habit of living on credit will cause a new Great Depression is a concern that currently occupies the minds not only of economists and financiers, but also of politicians and ordinary citizens around the world, especially in the face of serious financial problems in the United States." In "Life in Debt in the Former Soviet Space," by Valery Kulikov, New Eastern Outlook, 24 February 2021.
You make a little here and there but owe a lot and more,
Asking rarely to whom you owe, and what's the growing score,
And how those damn collectors got the loans of money for
The debt now that you carry for borrowing from their store.
From where does all that money come? It's made out of thinnest air,
And handed all around for your collateral's their share.
And so the game is further played, you thinking it is fair,
Until the debts are called and then your interest's in being aware.
You made a little here and there, but borrowed triple that,
And somehow think the payback is a mouse toying with a cat.
The tale is old and still it's new, for politicians' grown fat
Have collateralized their nations to some faceless bureaucrat.
Addendum of Bailing Out State Debt With Federal Debt: "These were not just high-level employees like agency commissioners or deputy mayors. NYC employees included thermostat repairmen making up to $198,630; regular laborers hauling away $213,169; electricians taking home $253,132; and plumbers pocketing up to $286,245. The cost of benefits would be additional and is not included in these figures. These large paychecks are only sustainable because Congress bailed out New York City for $4.3 billion in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The federal bailout more than covered the overstated deficits of the city." In "New York City Paid 114,000 Highly-Compensated Public Employees Earning $100,000+," by Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Policy, 1 June 2021.
It's all about Fat, fat government
I likes a nekked lady.
She likes a nekked man.
Sometimes kids pop out
Playing with that plan.
She likes some nekked lady.
He likes some nekked man.
Jez not quite the optimum
For a Mum, a Dad, a clan.
XY for the double X
Is how most clans began.
Mix things up to all the same
Might be jez what you can...
...but still it's less than optimum
For generations span
When he likes his nekked lady
And she likes her nekked man.
Seven figure numbers
worth 'bout fifty cents?
That's how inflation's hyper'd,
and politics' math is bent.
A million here, a million there,
that's how the game spent.
That's when inflation's hyped to fail,
and money theory's rent.
Addendum of the Old Mistake Anew: "The country’s central bank posted a statement on its website Friday saying it would begin circulating the new 200,000, 500,000 and 1,000,000 bills to 'fulfill the current economy’s requirements' without providing further details. The 1,000,000 note -- the largest in the nation’s history -- is worth only $0.53 cents. As Venezuela's economy shrank for a seventh straight year in 2020, the government turned a blind eye to a growing number of dollar transactions, kick-started by rolling power outages that prevented credit and debit card purchases and fostered the use of cash. About 66% of transactions across the country are estimated to be made in foreign currency, according to Ecoanalitica." In "Hyperinflation Pushes Venezuela to Print 1,000,000-Bolivar Bills," by Patricia Laya and Nicolle Yapur, Bloomberg, 5 March 2021.
Addendum of the Old Mistake Anew: II "Zimbabwe stopped printing real money long ago, when its inflation rate was still at a manageable level. Today these bearer checks are the only currency remaining. Last week in Zimbabwe 10 million dollars could buy exactly two rolls of toilet paper. By now it probably won't get quite that much." In "Zimbabwe's $10 Million Bread," by Scott C. Johnson, Newsweek, 24 March 2008.
Addendum of the Old Mistake Anew Again: "The new 100 bolivar bill will be the highest denomination. It is equivalent to 100,000,000 of the current bolivar. This is the third adjustment since socialist leaders began governing Venezuela. The bolivar lost three zeros in 2008 under now-deceased President Hugo Chávez, while his successor, Nicolás Maduro, eliminated five zeros in 2018. Venezuela is in its sixth year of recession. Millions live in poverty, with high food prices that are commonly set in U.S. dollars and low wages. The 1 million bolivar bill is currently the highest denomination, but it is scarce. More than seven of those bills are needed to buy a 1.3-gallon (5-liter) bottle of water, which cost 7.4 million bolivars or $1.84 dollars on Thursday." In "A million to 1: Venezuela’s currency losing 6 zeros," Associated Press, 5 August 2021.
Power and money --
Control and wealth --
Are often acquired
By hideous stealth.
Money births power --
Wealth births control --
The two then function
As a singular whole.
Beware of both
As they aggregate.
They come like thieves
Through the powerful state.
Power and wealth --
Money and control --
Will steal from most
By tax, fee and toll.
Addendum of Power and Wealth: "Windows software, his flagship creation, was a buggy mess that frustrated millions of consumers, and Steve Jobs groused that Gates and his team showed 'no shame' and 'no taste' in ripping off Apple’s products. Even the judge who oversaw Microsoft’s crippling turn-of-the-century monopoly trial said Gates had 'a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success'. By the 2000s, though, the world’s richest man seemed to have realised he had to change this Redmond-robber-baron narrative — and that his wealth could help." In "Bill Gates’s carefully curated dad-geek image unravels," Agency staff, Tech Central, 21 May 2021.
Addendum of Enormous Sums and Central Bank Leadership: "US financial journalists Pam and Russ Martens in critiquing that murky 2019 Fed bailout of Wall Street remarked, 'for the first time in history, the Fed has hired BlackRock to 'go direct' and buy up $750 billion in both primary and secondary corporate bonds and bond ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), a product of which BlackRock is one of the largest purveyors in the world.' They went on, 'Adding further outrage, the BlackRock-run program will get $75 billion of the $454 billion in taxpayers' money to eat the losses on its corporate bond purchases, which will include its own ETFs, which the Fed is allowing it to buy…' Fed head Jerome Powell and Larry Fink know each other well, apparently. Even after Powell gave BlackRock the hugely lucrative no-bid 'go direct' deal, Powell continued to have the same BlackRock manage an estimated $25 million of Powell’s private securities investments. Public records show that in this time Powell held direct confidential phone calls with BlackRock CEO Fink. According to required financial disclosure, BlackRock managed to double the value of Powell's investments from the year before! No conflict of interest, or?" In "There is More to BlackRock Than You Might Imagine," by F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook, 18 June 2021.
Addendum of Something Fishy: "...something fishy really is going on in the realm of global governance. If you value your right to public health, to privacy, to access healthy food or to democratic representation, be wary of the words 'stakeholder capitalism’ when they pop up at the next Davos summit." In "Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset," by Ivan Wecke, Open Democracy, 16 August 2021. [ 1 ]
NOTE
[ 1 ] "The world won’t be able to fully resume economic activity until the virus is controlled everywhere, he said. The Fed chair urged people to get vaccinated and continue social distancing as further outbreaks would slow down the recovery, even if they might have less economic impact than at the start of the pandemic. 'This year, next year, vaccine policy is economic policy,' IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on the panel. 'And it is even a higher priority than the traditional tools of fiscal and monetary policy'." In "Fed’s Powell says uneven global vaccine rollout is recovery risk," Bloomberg via Economic Times, 9 April 2021.
"If you value your right to public health, to privacy, to access healthy food or to democratic representation, be wary...." Something fishy is going on, and it has to do with power and wealth, not with the powerless and the poor.
Consider how Power and Money attempt their ballyhooed Reset
Would Doctor Mengele have been so proud - hyperbole, for the hyperbolic crowd
"Given the high frequency of adverse reactions from Covid vaccines, why are we vaccinating people on hospice who are near the end of their life? Hospice and comfort care are for people who are in the final stages of an incurable illness. The aim is to ensure they are comfortable. When someone enters hospice care they generally have fewer than six months to live and have decided to stop treatments to prolong their life. For some reason, this advice does not seem to be standard of care in the United States of America. According to reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) many people on hospice have been given a Covid vaccine, only to die very soon thereafter. What follows is a compilation of VAERS reports in which terminally ill patients received a Covid vaccine, and then died within seven days of vaccination." In "Why are we vaccinating people on the brink of death?" by Luke Yamaguchi, Life Site News, 26 April 2021.
An example among many
Would Doctor Mengele have been so proud
To find / fund trials clinically allowed
On an elderly, frail and failing crowd?
The narrative wraps this trial's shroud.
Would Doctor Mengele have been so proud?
Would Doctor Ishii have thought it great
To follow such protocols as this phase three spate
Of trial vaccines as they terminate?
The narrative fails to so stipulate.
Would Doctor Ishii have thought it great?
Would that seedy sea which washes the shore
Urge a populace all the more
To prick the elderly by the score?
The narrative nudges such deaths to ignore
While the seedy sea roils with deafening roar.
Addendum of a Historical Murder as Medicine: "Romzha and his companions were taken to Uzhhorod, where they were hospitalized. Romzha was making good progress when, late on the night of 31 October, the nuns who were nursing him were suddenly dismissed and a new nurse was assigned to him by the regime. A little after midnight Moscow Time, Romzha was found dead. The nurse had poisoned Romzha with an injection of curare provided by the head of NKVD Laboratory 12, Dr Grigory Mairanovsky. According to research in Soviet archives by Yevgenia Albats, the Bishop's murder was personally ordered by Nikita Khrushchev." In "Theodore Romzha." Wikipedia article, n. d.
Addendum of Pandora's Open Box and a Media Lack of Curiosity: "To my knowledge, no major newspaper or television network has yet provided readers with an in-depth news story of the lab escape scenario, such as the one you have just read, although some have run brief editorials or opinion pieces. One might think that any plausible origin of a virus that has killed three million people would merit a serious investigation. Or that the wisdom of continuing gain-of-function research, regardless of the virus’s origin, would be worth some probing. Or that the funding of gain-of-function research by the NIH and NIAID during a moratorium on such funding would bear investigation. What accounts for the media’s apparent lack of curiosity? The virologists’ omertà is one reason. Science reporters, unlike political reporters, have little innate skepticism of their sources’ motives; most see their role largely as purveying the wisdom of scientists to the unwashed masses." In "Origin of Covid — Following the Clues, Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?" by Nicholas Wade, Medium, 2 May 2021.
Addendum of Arguing for Risky Business: "Fauci didn’t immediately return a request for comment." In "Fauci once argued for risky viral experiments — even if they can lead to pandemic," by Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, 28 May 2021.
Addendum of Ignoring the Absolute Risk Reduction: "Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR). It uses the relative risk (RR)—ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR. Ranking by reported efficacy gives relative risk reductions of 95% for the Pfizer–BioNTech, 94% for the Moderna–NIH, 90% for the Gamaleya, 67% for the J&J, and 67% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford vaccines. However, RRR should be seen against the background risk of being infected and becoming ill with COVID-19, which varies between populations and over time. Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which is the difference between attack rates with and without a vaccine, considers the whole population. ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRRs: 1.3% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford, 1.2% for the Moderna–NIH, 1.2% for the J&J, 0.93% for the Gamaleya, and 0.84% for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines." In "COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness—the elephant (not) in the room," Comment, The Lancet (www.thelancet.com/microbe), Published Online 20 April 2021.
Addendum of Being Not Particularly Concerned: " 'I'm not particularly concerned,' Fauci said. 'But I don’t want a lack of severe concern to get in the way that we are keeping an open mind to look for any possible deleterious effects as we get into and through the phase-three trial'." In "Dr. Anthony Fauci isn’t ‘particularly concerned’ about the safety of Moderna coronavirus vaccine," by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., CNBC, 27 July 2020.
Addendum of Humanized Mice and Humanized Rats: "Although humanized mice have provided in vivo platforms for modeling human diseases, the short-life span and small tissue size/volume of mice are a major limitation for long-termed and preclinical studies, respectively. We hypothesized that a larger immunodeficient rodent model, with a longer life span, namely rat, would support the development of an in vivo model for long-term studies (> 6 months) and provide large tissue volume/size. We further hypothesized that the co-transplantation of human full-thickness fetal skin, autologous fetal thymus tissues, autologous fetal liver tissues, and autologous fetal-liver derived hematopoietic stem cells into SRG rat would enable the development of a model containing human skin, autologous thymus, and autologous human immune cells, termed hSIS-humanized SRG rat." In "Development of humanized mouse and rat models with full-thickness human skin and autologous immune cells," by Yash Agarwal, Cole Beatty, Sara Ho, Lance Thurlow, Antu Das, Samantha Kelly, Isabella Castronova, Rajeev Salunke, Shivkumar Biradar, Tseten Yeshi, Anthony Richardsonand Moses Bility, Scientific Reports, 3 September 2020.
Addendum of Potentially Horrid Results: "Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials. Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent." In "Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease," by Timothy Cardozo and Ronald Veazey, International Journal of Clinical Practice, March 2021.
Addendum from a Lab Rat's Perspective: "It's coming down to this. Whose side will you be on when the coronavirus pandemic finally destroys nations, businesses, and innocent families unable to protect themselves? Will you side with the greedy politicians and corporate elites manipulating the situation? Or, will the stacked bodies and boarded-up shops finally make you realize what this situation is about? Democracy as a system is being put to the final test. We are test rats, in a deadly maze where the mad scientists of detente and economics roll dice and bet on which way we will run." In "The Great Coronavirus Lesson: Many Leaders Have Failed the People," by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook, 6 April 2021.
Addendum of Reacting to Humanized Rodents: "In one study published last year, Pitt scientists described scalping 5-month-old aborted babies to stitch onto the backs of lab rats. They wrote about how they cut the scalps from the heads and backs of the babies, scraping off the 'excess fat' under the baby skin before stitching it onto the rats. They even included photos of the babies' hair growing out of the scalps. Each scalp belonged to a little Pennsylvania baby whose head would grow those same hairs if he or she were not aborted for experiments with lab rats. Pitt's explanation? 'Lab mice, not lab rats," the university's witness told the committee indignantly. In fact, the published study used both rats and mice to grow the babies' scalps. How was this paid for? With a $430,000 grant from Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID office at the NIH. Pitt's witness implied that government NIH grants somehow did not concern taxpayers in Pennsylvania." In "University of Pittsburgh Won't Explain its Planned Parenthood Ties," by David Daleiden, Newsweek, 26 May 2021.
Addendum of an Earlier Time in the Fauci Era: " 'I'm ashamed of my colleagues,' Sonnabend laments. 'I'm embarrassed. This is such shoddy science it's hard to believe nobody is protesting. Damned cowards. The name of the game is to protect your grant, don't open your mouth. It's all about money… it's grounds for just following the party line and not being critical, when there are obviously financial and political forces driving this.' When Duesberg heard the latest announcement, he was partially stunned over the reaction of Gay Men's Health Crisis President Richard Dunne, who said that GMHC now urged 'everybody to get tested,' and of course those who test positive to go on to AZT. 'These people are running into the gas chambers,' says Duesberg. 'Himmler would have been so happy if only the Jews were this cooperative'." In "AIDS and the AZT Scandal: SPIN's 1989 Feature, 'Sins of Omission', The story of AZT, one of the most toxic, expensive, and controversial drugs in the history of medicine," by Celia Farber, SPIN, 5 October 2015 (originally published in the November 1989 issue of SPIN).
Addendum of COVID Prophylaxis and Early Therapy: "Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally." In "Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection, A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines," by Andrew Bryant, Theresa Lawrie, Therese Dowswell, Edmund J. Fordham, Scott Mitchell, Sarah R. Hill, Tony C. Tham, American Journal of Therapeutics, 17 June 2021.
Addendum of The Same Thing Happening Again: " 'People are being conditioned to submit passively to government dictates,' while 'children who are deprived of an education are being conditioned to distrust people,' Sharav continued. The Holocaust survivor condemned the state of the medical establishment, drawing comparisons between contemporary medical policies and those employed by the Nazis. 'Today, debate is forbidden. A doctor is not allowed to say that the virus is being exploited to maintain a state of fear.' 'Doctors and scientists who express views that challenge official dictates are treated as heretics. They are threatened with loss of livelihood,' and 'muzzled and vilified by the media' for speaking out about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, she said. 'Fear and propaganda were the psychological weapons the Nazis used to impose a genocidal regime, and today some are beginning to understand why the German people didn't rise up: fear kept them from doing the right thing,' Sharav said." In "Holocaust survivor warns against COVID mandates, new 'fascist dictatorship', 'I never thought that I would be alive to be again afraid of the same elements,' Vera Sharav said," by Raymond Wolfe, Life Site, 17 June 2021.
Addendum of Looking Back at an Antecedent: "Aktion T4 was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings. The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, which recruited and paid personnel associated with T4. Certain German physicians were authorised to select patients 'deemed incurably sick, after most critical medical examination' and then administer to them a 'mercy death' (Gnadentod). In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a 'euthanasia note', backdated to 1 September 1939, which authorised his physician Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler to begin the killing." In "Aktion T4," Wikipedia article, n. d.
Addendum of the India Bar Association Charges: "...Advocate Dipali Ojha clarified the nature of the planned action, 'The Indian Bar Association has warned action under section 302 etc. of the Indian Penal Code against Dr. Soumya Swaminathan and others, for murder of each person dying due to obstruction in treatment of COVID-19 patient effectively by Ivermectin. Punishment under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code is death penalty or life imprisonment.' He further wrote, 'After receiving the said notice, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan went on the back foot and deleted her tweet. This has proved the hollowness of the WHO's recommendation against Ivermectin for COVID-19. The dishonesty of WHO and the act of Dr. Soumya Swaminathan in deleting her contentious tweet was witnessed by citizens across the world, as the news got a wide coverage on social media. By deleting the tweet, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan has proved her mala fide intentions'." In "Indian Bar Association Sues WHO Scientist for the Murder of Indian Citizens by Misleading them about Ivermectin," by Brian Shilhavy, Vaccine Impact, 30 June 2021.
Addendum of the Other Side of the Coin: "The saddest part of the story is that the media has apparently chosen to look only at one side of the coin. What other explanation is there for the shrill publicity given to expensive drugs like Remdesivir and several newer drugs while the success, safety and ease of use of Ivermectin is treated with deafening silence? If patients can recover quickly with a tablet that can be taken at home, we can undo lockdowns, open up business and tourism, and run colleges and schools without waiting until the whole world is vaccinated. None of this is to say that vaccinations are not necessary. What we are trying to reinforce is that we should use the simpler, safer, quicker method of mass prophylaxis with Ivermectin as soon as possible. If properly planned, it can be done in a matter of days." In "How to prevent a third wave of Covid-19," by Kavery Nambisan and Darrell Demello, New Indian Express, 30 June 2021.
Addendum of Being Told to Stop Asking Questions: "I have personally diagnosed 2 patients with radiating unilateral paralysis of the subungulate tertial colliculum within 2 days of their second Astra Zeneca dose. When I spoke out about this to the medical director at my hospital, noting how rare RUPSTC is, I was told to stop asking questions if I knew what was good for me. Just terrifying." by Doctor, Anonymous, "Real Medical Observations," C19 Vax Reactions, accessed 19 July 2021.
Addendum of Unethical Human Experimentation in the United States: "Many of these experiments violated US law. Some others were sponsored by government agencies or rogue elements thereof, including the Centers for Disease Control, the United States military, and the Central Intelligence Agency, or they were sponsored by private corporations which were involved in military activities. ....As of 2007, not a single U.S. government researcher had been prosecuted for human experimentation. The preponderance of the victims of U.S. government experiments have not received compensation or, in many cases, acknowledgment of what was done to them." In "Unethical human experimentation in the United States," Wikipedia, n. d.
Addendum of the Same Old Defense: "Defense lawyers explained that Nazi doctors were ordered by the state to conduct such experiments as the high-altitude, hypothermia, and seawater experiments on inmates at the Dachau concentration camp to determine how best to protect and treat German fliers and soldiers. They contended that these experiments were necessary and that the 'good of the state' takes precedence over that of the individual." In "Fifty Years Later: the Significance of the Nuremberg Code," by Evelyne Schuster, New England Journal of Medicine, 13 November 1997. [ 1 ]
Addendum of the Same Old Oops: "Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans. An investigation is underway to find out whether the patient, who worked at a lab run by the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), contracted the disease on the job. If so, it would be the second such case in France in the past few years. In June 2019, an INRAE lab worker named Émilie Jaumain died at age 33, 10 years after pricking her thumb during an experiment with prion-infected mice. Her family is now suing INRAE for manslaughter and endangering life; her illness had already led to tightened safety measures at French prion labs." In "France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers," by Barbara Casassus, Science Magazine, 28 July 2021.
Addendum of Not Appearing to Meet the Standard: "Given the strong evidence that ADE is a non-theoretical and compelling risk for COVID-19 vaccines and the 'laundry list' nature of informed consents, disclosure of the specific risk of worsened COVID19 disease from vaccination calls for a specific, separate, informed consent form and demonstration of patient comprehension in order to meet medical ethics standards. The informed consent process for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials does not appear to meet this standard. While the COVID-19 global health emergency justifies accelerated vaccine trials of candidates with known liabilities, such an acceleration is not inconsistent with additional attention paid to heightened informed consent procedures specific to COVID-19 vaccine risks." In "Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease," by Timothy Cardozo and Ronald Veazey, International Journal for Clinical Practice, 2021;75:e13795.
Consider Little Miss Information
NOTE
[ 1 ] It is important to consider the "leader" as well as "followers" in almost every human activity. Of the German doctors of under the National Socialist regime, there were those who opposed and those who went along with the horrid Zeitgeist.
Doctors from all strata of the profession
One reads of complicity at many levels, from government to universities to biomedical research as to individual physicians: "Almost seven decades after the end of World War II, the German Medical Association has made a long overdue apology for its participation in human rights violations and atrocities under the Nazi regime. In a stunning admission the Declaration states that German doctors from all strata of the profession enthusiastically supported Nazi ideology and were not coerced to support Hitler. The Declaration of May 12, 2012, which was unanimously adopted by the delegates of the Physician’s Congress declared: 'In contrast to still widely accepted view, the initiative for the most serious human rights violations did not originate from the political authorities at the time, but rather from the physicians themselves… German doctors “were guilty of scores of human rights violations'… 'The crimes were simply not the acts of individual doctors, but rather took place with the substantial involvement of leading representatives of the medical association and medical specialist bodies as well as considerable representatives of university medicine and renowned biomedical research facilities.' 2012 also marked the 65th anniversary of the Nuremburg Doctors’ Trial." In "'A Milestone in Medical History - German Medical Association Finally Apologizes For Atrocities Committed by German Physicians Under the Nazis," by Arthur Gale, Missouri Medicine, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, 2013 Nov-Dec, 110(6).
Supported by universities and medical schools
In similar fashion, the architecture of this phenomenon is clarified further: "For 40 years, the horrific activities of 'Unit 731' remained one the most closely guarded secrets of World War II. It was not until 1984 that Japan acknowledged what it had long denied – vile experiments on humans conducted by the unit in preparation for germ warfare. Deliberately infected with plague, anthrax, cholera and other pathogens, an estimated 3,000 of enemy soldiers and civilians were used as guinea pigs. Some of the more horrific experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out. Unit 731 was set up in 1938 in Japanese-occupied China with the aim of developing biological weapons. It also operated a secret research and experimental school in Shinjuku, central Tokyo. Its head was Lieutenant Shiro Ishii. The unit was supported by Japanese universities and medical schools which supplied doctors and research staff." In "Unit 731," unit731.org, 2021.
The assumption that "it can't happen here" is betrayed by the many instances in many lands and across a century and beyond, wherein some governments, their bureaucrats and academics and physicians, all participated in the same "medical" experimentation for all their own, self-defined "best of reasons," so often couched in the vocabulary of "the greater good."
"Greenwald began by blasting the CIA's infamous recruitment ad, saying that it is indicative of how powerful institutions, such as the intelligence community, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley are using the 'left-wing cultural ideology' that permeates the Democratic Party to further their own interests. 'Wokeness, this ideology, is not about subverting power centers. They never talk about power centers, the CIA, big tech, monopolies, hedge fund managers, it is about turning citizens against one another,' Greenwald said. 'That person is evil. That individual is bad. It empowers these ruling class centers. That is why they not just embrace it and cynically exploit it, they actually finance it and want to spread it because it strengthens and entrenches their power.' In closing, Greenwald blasted the hypocrisy of liberals who he says have a 'complete confusion about where power lies'." In " 'Easier To Go Fight A Boogaloo Boy Than The CIA': Glenn Greenwald Says Wokeness Is The 'Ideology Of Power'," by Greg Price, Daily Caller, 4 May 2021.
Let's speak truth to power,
except when we're in charge.
When we're in charge the truth is
we would our power enlarge.
Let's speak truth to power,
except when the boss is us.
When we're the boss and whistles blow,
truth becomes quite treasonous.
Let's speak truth to power,
but only to amass our strength,
And then our strength can well preserve
our power, its breadth and length.
Let's speak truth to power,
as among our tools to win,
And then suppress that very truth
as a politically potent sin.
Addendum of the Premise Agreed To: "Professional journalists have, at least in theory, devoted their lives to the noble art of speaking truth to power, of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, of saving democracy from certain death in darkness. In practice, however, this devotion tends to waver depending on which political party controls the White House. When Democrats are in charge, for example, our noble journalists can't help but be consumed by 'The Awkward Feeling of Rooting for the White House Press Secretary.' So reads the headline of a Jen Psaki profile published in Washingtonian magazine." In "Speaking Truth to Power: Magazine Reveals How Journos Are 'Rooting' for WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki," by Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon, 5 May 2021.
Addendum of Liberals Mocking Who Once Cheered: " 'It’s interesting,' Mr. Greenwald said. 'When I did the reporting with Edward Snowden in 2013 and 2014, liberals loved that reporting so much that they gave us every award that they have to offer. The Pulitzer. The Polk. The film that was done about my work with Edward Snowden was given an Oscar. I went up on the Oscar stage. They couldn't lavish enough prizes and praise on us. And now here we are, after the Trump years, and we know that the Democratic Party and journalism, in general, has aligned with the CIA, the NSA and the FBI, and has aligned and merged with the security state'." In "Glenn Greenwald calls out liberals who 'loved' his NSA reporting but are now mocking Tucker Carlson." by Douglas Ernst, Washington Times, 1 July 2021.
"Do not trust in princes, in the son of man, who has no salvation." Psalm 146 : 3
Consider Government and its Conservative-Liberal champion -- Sir Veiled Lance
"...state-sponsored murder is and was the primary fact of the twentieth century. Not the rise of democracy or the liberation of peoples as I was taught in high school, college, and graduate school, but the devastating horrors of the gulag, the holocaust, and the killing fields. Further, it gave truth to the proposition that no matter how bad war is, it’s not the greatest killer. Indeed, the bloody statistics of the twentieth century clearly bear this out. While war’s toll—of soldier killing soldier—is horrific, war only accounted for about twenty percent of the unnatural deaths of the previous century. Four times the number of persons were murdered by their governments than killed in warfare between 1914 and 1991. Of course, Rummel notes, it is not the actual 'regime' that kills, but those making up the regime: 'Saying that a state or regime is a murderer is a convenient personification of an abstraction'." In "Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century," by Bradley J. Birzer, Intellectual Takeout," 20 May 2021.
In the abstract it wasn't me,
Though I cheered the whole thing on.
In the abstract it wasn't you,
Not you, you paragon.
In the abstract it wasn't us,
Though we voted for those weapons drawn.
In the abstract it wasn't them,
For they were played, from king to pawn.
In the abstract, abstractions fail
To shield the many at death's dark dawn.
Addendum of Conceptualizing: "How then do we conceptualize the purposeful government killing of protesters and dissidents, the reprisal shooting of innocent villagers, the beating to death of peasants for hiding rice, or the indiscriminate bombing of civilians? How do we conceptualize torturing people to death In prison, working them to death in concentration camps, or letting them starve to death, when such killing is done out of revenge, for an ideology, or for reasons of state having nothing to do with the social groups to which these people belong?" In "Death by Government," R.J. Rummel, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.), 1994.
"After nearly 18 months of punishing anyone who suggested that COVID-19 might have originated in a Wuhan lab, Facebook has decided to stop removing posts which claim the virus was man-made or manufactured, a company spokesperson told Politico on Wednesday." In "Facebook Stops Removing Posts Claiming COVID-19 Man-Made After Lab-Leak Hypothesis Finally Goes Mainstream," by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, 26 May 2021.
Little Miss Information met
A Factchequer on its way,
Who cudgeled Miss Information
For what she'd shared that day.
A flight of Factchequers, rather
Like a gaggle of gurgling geese,
Swarmed to form battalions
Of community standards police.
Alas, those bold Factchequers
Are a this until they're a that,
And facts they check are changeable,
So one might smell each rat.
Little Miss Information met
Factchequers in a fact-less way,
Who cudgeled Miss Information
For what she'd shared that day.
The Sugar Mountain hive,
From which some Factchequers swarm,
Is built on ever shifting sands,
Yet to them must all conform.
Alas for twit and twittering,
Alas for books for faces, that
The cat's let out of their bag:
For out of their bag springs that cat.
Little Miss Information finds
Other media beyond their hive's reach,
That those who cudgeled Miss Information
Will soon starve as they, raging, screech.
Addendum of New Ways Factchequers: "Today, we're launching new ways to inform people if they're interacting with content that's been rated by a fact-checker as well as taking stronger action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on Facebook. Whether it's false or misleading content about COVID-19 and vaccines, climate change, elections or other topics, we're making sure fewer people see misinformation on our apps." In "Taking Action Against People Who Repeatedly Share Misinformation," Facebook, 26 May 2021.
Addendum from Years Before: "..there are matters that can’t truly be fact-checked—often in the realm of strongly held political opinions. Such disputes are what political debates are about. In some cases, it’s what lawsuits are about. Not everything is settled—at least not yet. Even something as highly regarded as the Congressional Budget Office’s 10-year revenue and spending projections can’t be fact-checked per se, because of unforeseen wars or natural disasters that might occur, or plain old irresponsible spending. What liberal journalist Ben Smith wrote five years ago of fact checkers is even more true today: 'At their worst, they’re doing opinion journalism under pseudo-scientific banners, something that’s really corrosive to actual journalism, which if it’s any good is about reported fact in the first place' (Politico, Aug. 17, 2011)." In "Dishonest Fact-Checkers," by Barbara Joanna Lucas, Capital Research, 10 March 2017.
Addendum of True and Ugly Colors: "Facebook was today accused of 'showing its true and ugly colours' and smothering free speech to cosy up to China as it scrapped its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made - but only after Joe Biden ordered the CIA to probe if the virus came from a Wuhan lab. Mark Zuckerberg's global policy chief Nick Clegg, the former British MP and Liberal Democrat leader, has also been branded 'feeble' for allowing months of censorship on the social network. Critics branded Facebook's behaviour had been 'contemptible' and begged them to respect free speech rather than 'ingratiating' themselves with states such as China, which has banned the website but remains a $5billion-a-year ad market." In "Facebook's censorship of Wuhan lab story shows 'its true ugly colours': Tech giant is condemned for 'ingratiating itself to China' and smothering free speech with ban - that's only been dropped after Biden opened probe," by Martin Robinson and James Tapsfield, Mail Online, 27 May 2021.
Addendum of Scurrilous Fact Checks: "The fact-checkers, those infallible arbiters of truth, accused the New York Post, the Daily Wire, and others media outlets of trafficking in 'unfounded speculation' that the virus originated in a lab. (While PJ Media did not get slapped with a fact check on the Wuhan lab story—there have been plenty others in the same vein—our sister site RedState got caught up in one when they reported on the exiled Chinese virologist who claimed the virus escaped from a lab, as did Townhall.) 'These rumors and conspiracy theories have real consequences, including threats of violence that have occurred to our colleagues in China,' declared Science Feedback’s source, Peter Daszak, an epidemiologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance. Did we mention that Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance partners with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)? It’s true: EcoHealth Alliance and Daszak have been working with Shi Zhengli, a virologist at the WIV, for more than 15 years. Since 2014, an NIH grant has funded EcoHealth’s research in China, which involves collecting faeces and other samples from bats, and blood samples from people at risk of infection from bat-origin viruses. The question must be asked: Who is fact-checking the fact-checkers? For the last two years, we've tried to work behind the scenes with Facebook and Science Feedback to resolve scurrilous fact checks on everything from COVID-19 to climate change. Facebook and Science Feedback have not been honest brokers in our discussions. It's bad enough that they've throttled our Facebook traffic and reduced our revenue, but they've also harmed our reputation and credibility by repeatedly calling us liars when we report something they don't agree with, often on topics where the scientific community is deeply divided." In "PJ Media Demands an Apology for the Damage Facebook's Dishonest Partisan Fact-Checkers Have Done to Our Reputation," by Paula Bolyard, PJ Media, 27 May 2021.
Addendum of Losing Hold on a Narrative: "When the theory first began to surface in early 2020, fact-checkers far and wide decried it as a conspiracy theory. In September 2020, PolitiFact labeled the lab leak theory as a 'pants-on-fire' lie that was 'inaccurate and ridiculous.' The premature fact-check has now been retracted in May.... 'All evidence available today was available twelve months ago, and most evidence available today was available fifteen months ago,' Rutgers University chemical biology professor Richard Ebright told the Daily Caller. 'All that has changed is that the small group that seized control of the narrative in February 2020 and deceived the public and policy-makers for fifteen months now has lost control of the narrative'." In " How Fact-Checkers 'Deceived The Public' About Possible Virus Outbreak From Wuhan Lab," by Dylan Housman, Daily Caller, 28 May 2021.
Addendum of Scrambled Egg - On Their Faces: "...the lab leak theory has not changed and 'suddenly become credible.' 'The theory has always been the same,' Rogin wrote. 'The people who got it wrong changed their minds. They are writing about themselves, with zero self awareness. 'All these reporters scrambling to defend their own records on the lab leak theory are exposing their own hypocrisy and ignoring their basic error,' he continued. 'Just report the facts. Don't act like its your job to tell us what's OK to think or talk about. Own up to it when you fail your readers,' he wrote." In "Liberal media FINALLY admit they made a mistake dismissing Wuhan Lab leak theory just because Trump backed it: Washington Post, New York Times and ABC pundits say some 'have egg on their face'," by Melissa Koenig, Daily Mail, 30 May 2021.
Addendum of Evidence of No Evidence: "Science Feedback, one of Facebook's chief fact-checking platforms, in a February 2020 'fact check' cited Peter Daszak as an expert source in its ruling that there was 'no evidence' to support the theory that the COVID-19 virus leaked from the lab. Daszak has become well known as a major bankroller of coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan lab in the years leading up to the pandemic. At least one major virologist has claimed that Daszak's nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, helped fund lab experiments that were then used in risky 'gain-of-function' virology research." In "Facebook fact-checker for COVID-19 content cited major Wuhan lab funder," by Daniel Payne, Just The News, 2 June 2021.
Addendum of FOIA Evudence: "New email disclosures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have shown how National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci colluded with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to implement Orwellian thought control from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. During one exchange in Feb. 2020, Zuckerberg asked Fauci about the best ways he could help with the synthesizing and mass distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine, offering to throw money and resources to the project through his foundation. 'I was glad to hear your statement that the covid-19 vaccine will be ready for human trials in six weeks. Are there any resources our foundation can help provide to potentially accelerate this or at least make sure it stays on track?' Zuckerberg asked Fauci." In "REVEALED: Dr. Fauci Plotted with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Push COVID-19 Fear Porn Before 2020 Election," Staff, Big League Politics, 2 June 2021.
Addendum of Amateur Sleuths: "The reason for the sudden shift in attitudes is clear: over the weeks and months of the pandemic, the pileup of circumstantial evidence pointing to the Wuhan lab kept growing—until it became too substantial to ignore. The people responsible for uncovering this evidence are not journalists or spies or scientists. They are a group of amateur sleuths, with few resources except curiosity and a willingness to spend days combing the internet for clues. Throughout the pandemic, about two dozen or so correspondents, many anonymous, working independently from many different countries, have uncovered obscure documents, pieced together the information, and explained it all in long threads on Twitter—in a kind of open-source, collective brainstorming session that was part forensic science, part citizen journalism, and entirely new." In "Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media," by Rowan Jacobsen, Newsweek, 2 June 2021.
Addendum of Debunking the Debunking: "Facebook relies on third-party fact-checkers to 'debunk' false claims, and in the case of the lab leak theory, a February article from Facebook partner Science Feedback played a key role in the social media site's censorship. The article, which purported to 'debunk' a New York Post opinion column questioning China's denials of a lab leak scenario, prominently cited a letter to The Lancet, a leading medical journal, signed by '27 eminent public health experts'. It has now emerged that the Lancet letter, which played a key role in suppressing early debate on the pandemic's origins, was not only signed but organized by Peter Daszak, whose group funneled U.S. taxpayer dollars to controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)." In "How Facebook's 'independent fact checkers' cited letter secretly organized by Wuhan lab funder Peter Daszak to 'debunk' leak theory and punish news outlets that explored it," by Keith Griffith, Daily Mail, 5 June 2021.
Addendum in the So-called Information Age: "I hope you will forgive the sarcasm. But the reality of the west-east divide is just too simple to figure out. And this is why I wake up every morning praying the media bubble suffocating my countrymen will burst. No, Russia’s state media cannot even hold a flickering candle to the enormous propaganda beast waging information war on our minds. Let me remind everyone that 13 corporations control nearly every scrap of information distributed in the world. And Putin does not run any of these companies. Lists suck, but to understand the level of mind control we are talking about, naming these companies is essential. Bertelsmann, National Amusements (ViacomCBS), Sony Corporation, News Corp, Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T Inc., Fox Corporation, Hearst Communications, MGM Holdings Inc., Grupo Globo (South America), and Lagardère Group are the multinational controllers of information worldwide. Now let’s take a closer look at who controls these conglomerates." In "Does Putin, Bertelsmann, BBC, or Mickey Mouse Control Your Hearts and Minds?," by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook, 8 June 2021.
Addendum of Miss-ing Information: " 'To start, of the 27 signatories, 7 were affiliated with EcoHealth Alliance: Peter Daszak (President), Rita Colwell & James Hughes (BoD members), William Karesh (EVP for Health and Policy), Hume Field, Juan Lubroth, John MacKenzie (Science and Policy Advisors),' he points out. 'The fact that a quarter of the signatories were affiliated with EHA was hidden,' he noted..... Marinos continued by noting: '3 signatories worked directly for the Wellcome Trust: Sir Jeremy Farrar (Director, also instrumental in the Feb 1 meeting between Kristian Andersen, Eddie Holmes, Anthony Fauci, and others), Josie Golding (Epidemics Lead), Mike Turner (Director of Science). In addition Larry Madoff is the editor of ProMED, which receives 'ongoing operational support' from Wellcome, Gerald Keusch reports having served in multiple committees for the Wellcome Trust. Leo Poon is in a leadership position in Hong Kong University, and given the situation on the ground, we wouldn’t expect him to be able to share any thoughts. Finally, Dennis Carroll and Jonna Mazet are in Leadership of the Global Virome Project, alongside Peter Daszak.' 'So far we’ve shown how 15 of the 27 signatories had major conflicts, considering how involved EcoHealth was with funding WIV, as was the Wellcome Trust,' Marinos notes. 'To dare write 'We declare no competing interests’ in the letter, was a mockery of science and taxpayers everywhere'." In "Scientists That Backed Influential Wuhan Lab 'Conspiracy Theory' Letter Change Their Positions," by Kyle Becker, Trending Politics, 9 June 2021.
Addendum of Miss Information Recruited and Trafficked: "In 2020 in the U.S., 59% of online recruitment of identified victims in active cases took place on Facebook alone. The report also states that 65% of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited through Facebook." In "Over half of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases last year occurred on Facebook, report says," by Elizabeth Elkind, CBS News, 10 June 2021. [ 1 ]
Addendum of the Gods of Science: "Ivermectin may never be proven effective as a Covid-19 treatment, but its story has already appeared as a powerful metaphor of the Internet’s transformation. Once envisioned as a vast democratizing tool, which would massively raise global knowledge levels by allowing instant cross-global communication between all people, it's morphed instead into a giant unaccountable bureaucracy for suppressing dialogue, run by people with an authoritarian vision for information flow. Many ivermectin advocates believe discussion of the the drug is being suppressed because of its status as a threat to a billion-dollar vaccine business, but it's just as likely that its reputation worldwide as a 'populist' treatment, a medicine taken by people not waiting for official validation, has made it a target of censors and pundits alike. 'I think what happened is that at the outset of the pandemic, it was decided that all information must go in one direction, from the Gods of Science down,' says Kory. 'But that’s not the way it works. Science happens on the ground. That’s where the little discoveries are made. They don’t happen at the top of the mountain'." In "Why Has "Ivermectin" Become a Dirty Word? At the worst moment, Internet censorship has driven scientific debate itself underground," by Matt Taibbi. TK News, 18 June 2021. [ 2 ]
Found on Facebook - August 2021
Addendum o One Miss Information Among Many: "She says that after her first day of taking Ivermectin her 'fever and headache stopped and didn’t return,' and by the fifth day she 'felt back to 100%.' Abby said she continued to take the same vitamins listed above but increased the amount of each. She added that not only did she and her son have COVID, but 'all eight of my children contracted Covid. All 10 of us followed the medication and supplement suggestions made by the Frontline Doctors and every single one of us is back to peak health. Our ages range from 2-43 and I myself am an asthmatic'." In " Pro-life hero Abby Johnson describes protocol her family used to combat COVID," by Kennedy Hall, LifeSiteNews, 24 August 2021.
Addendum of Facebook's Mistaken Racism: "Facial recognition software has been blasted by civil rights advocates who point out problems with accuracy, particularly it comes to people who are not white." In "Facebook mistakenly labels black men 'primates'," by France 24, 4 September 2021.
Addendum of Facing a Name Change: "The re-branding also comes after the company has dealt with a barrage of news reports over the past month. Those have stemmed from Frances Haugen, a former employee turned whistleblower who has released a trove of internal company documents to news outlets, lawmakers and regulators. The reports show that the company is aware of many of the harms its apps and services cause but either doesn’t rectify the issues or struggles to address them. More documents are expected to be shared daily over the coming weeks." In "Facebook changes company name to Meta," by Salvador Rodriguez, CNBC, 28 October 2021.
Addendum of Facebook's Admission: "...in a court of law, in a legal filing, Facebook admits that its ‘fact checks’ are not really 'fact' checks at all, but merely 'opinion assertions.' This strikes me as public relations disaster, and possibly a looming legal disaster for Facebook, PolitiFact, Climate Feedback and other left-leaning entities that engage in biased 'fact checking.' Such 'fact checks' are now shown to be simply an agenda to suppress free speech and the open discussion of science by disguising liberal media activism as something supposedly factual, noble, neutral, trustworthy, and based on science." In "BOMBSHELL: In court filing, Facebook admits 'fact checks' are nothing more than opinion," by Anthony Watts, WattsUpWithThat.com, 9 December 2021.
Consider that Allegations of Misinformation Have Been Linked to Sheer Ignorance
NOTES
[ 1 ] The game's afoot. " 'Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that section 230 does not allow it,' the majority of the court said, per the Chronicle. 'Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing. This is particularly the case for human trafficking'." In "Facebook failed to protect against teen sex trafficking, court rules, paving the way for tech companies to be held liable when they're used for criminal activity," by Katie Canales, Business Insider, 25 June 2021.
It seems the "Gods of Science," as Dr. Kory nicknamed the Facebook "gods" are going to be appearing in criminal and civil suits aplenty, following the judgment that "Facebook failed to protect against teen sex trafficking." Accomplice, perhaps? Enabler? Tick tock. Miss Information might well be filing a law suit or many.
[ 2 ] Let's be clear about Facebook itself. One reads: "In the 2010s, Facebook breached ethical guidelines by conducting a research experiment to manipulate 700,000 users' emotions without their consent." In "Unethical human experimentation in the United States," Wikipedia, n. d.
Lockdown Tony and a Chinese Communist
"Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is looked at as the pre-eminent authority figure on the COVID-19 pandemic, recently appeared on a virtual panel with his counterpart, and longtime Chinese Communist Party member, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, which was hosted by the University of Edinburgh. Although the video was posted by the University of Edinburgh in early March, it has received relatively little attention, despite the public health experts' advocacy for 'strict' lockdowns extending 2-3 years and global mass vaccinations." In "Dr. Fauci & Chinese Communist Caught Colluding on Mass Vaccinations, Extended Lockdowns," by Kyle Becker, Becker News, 24 March 2021.
At least one's a Communist Party member....
Lockdown Tony like a Chinese Communist
Counseled locking the healthy down;
That which followed in his wake
Turned upside trends upside-down.
Lockdown Zhong, like Tony's N. I. H.,
Could lock down for years and years,
That globally the little folk, would be
Needled with deadly fears.
Lockdown Tony, like Neil and like Zhang?
Lockdown guys with their locking teams
Counseled lockdowns worldwide,
Crushing economies, for so it seems.
Addendum of Another Chinese Communist: "Zhou Yusen, a decorated military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who worked alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology as well as US scientists, filed a patent on Feb. 24 2020, according to documents obtained by The Australian. The patent — lodged by the 'Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA' — was filed just five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus, and months before Zhou died under mysterious circumstances, the report noted. 'This is something we have never seen achieved before, raising the question of whether this work may have started much earlier,' Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky from Flinders University told the paper." In "US-linked Chinese military scientist filed patent for COVID vaccine just after contagion emerged: report," by Lee Brown, NY Post, 4 June 2021.
Addendum of Mounting Evidence: " 'The public is behaving as if this epidemic is the next Spanish flu, which is frankly understandable given that initial reports have staked COVID-19 mortality at about 2–3 percent, quite similar to the 1918 pandemic that killed tens of millions of people,' Jeremy Samuel Faust an emergency medicine physician and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, wrote in Slate. 'Allow me to be the bearer of good news. These frightening numbers are unlikely to hold.' Similarly, on March 5 vaccine expert Paul A. Offit, who holds the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania, told Factcheck.org that he believed that the World Health Organization's 3.4 percent fatality rate figure was too high, suggesting it was well below 1 percent. 'We're more the victim of fear than the virus,' Offit said, adding that the world was witnessing a 'wild overreaction' to the disease. Voices like those of Faust and Offit were quickly drowned out, however. The 24-hour news cycle fanned collective fear and outrage that more was not being done. Runs on toilet paper and masks ensued. Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, predicted millions would die in the 'best-case scenario'." In "NPR: 'Mounting Evidence' Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again? The 'experts' may have subjected us to a blunder greater than any since the Iraq War," by Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Freedom, 12 June 2020.
Addendum of Scientific Crap: "In simple English, the entire edifice of the Gates foundation, the Merkel government, the WHO and WEF as well as the case for de facto forced untested vaccines, rests on results of a PCR test for coronavirus that is not worth a hill of beans. The test of Drosten and WHO is more or less, scientific crap. If the stakes were not so deadly for mankind it would all be material for a comedy of the absurd. The world health Czar, WHO chief Tedros is no medical doctor whose WHO is financed massively by a college dropout billionaire computer manager, Gates, who also advises the Merkel government on COVID-19 measures. The Merkel government uses the Drosten PCR test and Drosten as an 'all-wise' expert to impose the most draconian economic consequences outside wartime. Her Health Minister, Jens Spahn, is a former banker who has no medical degree, only a stint as a lobbyist for Big Pharma. The head of the German CDC, called the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, is not a virologist but an animal doctor, Tierarzt. With this crew, Germans are seeing their lives destroyed by lockdowns and social measures never before imagined. There is science and then there is science. Not all 'science' is valid however." In "Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test," by F. William Engdahl, Australian National Review, 21 December 2020.
Addendum of the Lockdowns' Consequences: "The lockdowns in most Western countries have thrown the world into the most severe recession since World War II and the most rapidly developing recession ever seen in mature market economies. They have also caused an erosion of fundamental rights and the separation of powers in large part of the world as both democratic and autocratic regimes have misused their emergency powers and ignored constitutional limits to policy making (Bjørnskov and Voigt 2020). It is therefore important to evaluate whether and to which extent the lockdowns have worked as officially intended: to suppress the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 virus and prevent deaths associated with it. Comparing weekly mortality in 24 European countries, the findings in this paper suggest that more severe lockdown policies have not been associated with lower mortality. In other words, the lockdowns have not worked as intended. Further tests also show that early interventions offered no additional benefits or effectiveness and even indicate that the lockdowns of the spring of 2020 were associated with significantly more deaths in the particular age group between 60 and 79 years. These general findings are consistent with the results of previous papers using a variety of simpler methods to test the effects of lockdowns." In "Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison," by Christian Bjørnskov, CESifo Economic Studies, ifab003, Oxford Academic, 9 March 2021.
Addendum of Reuters' Resistance: "Multiple variants can 'escape' vaccines. Antibodies induced by the Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccines are dramatically less effective at neutralizing some of the most worrying coronavirus variants, a new study suggests. Researchers obtained blood samples from 99 individuals who had received one or two doses of either vaccine and tested their vaccine-induced antibodies against virus replicas engineered to mimic 10 globally circulating variants. Five of the 10 variants were 'highly resistant to neutralization,' even when volunteers had received both doses of the vaccines, the researchers reported on Friday." In "Virus variants found to be deadlier, more contagious; some may thwart vaccines," by Nancy Lapid, Reuters, 17 March 2021.
Addendum of Chinese Resistance: "Discontent from locked-up students simmered until it reached a critical point. At noon on Mar. 17, at least 300 Guangzhou university students launched a surprise charge on the guarded school gate and stormed off campus. Student Lin Fang (alias), told the Chinese-language Epoch Times it looked like a prison escape scene from a movie. 'It happened during break time. As guards were allowing a vehicle to exit, the crowds saw an opportunity and flooded out'." In "Angry College Students Break Free From Prolonged COVID-19 Lockdown in China," by Frank Yue, Epoch Times, 24 March 2021.
Addendum of More Consequences: "The European database of suspected drug reaction reports, EudraVigilance, is now tracking reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID-19 'vaccines.' Their report through March 13, 2021 lists 3,964 deaths and 162,610 injuries following injections of three experimental COVID-19 shots: COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414), COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH (TOZINAMERAN), and COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)." In "3,964 DEAD 162,610 Injuries: European Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 'Vaccines,'" by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News, 24 March 2021.
Addendum of Gross Exaggeration and Destroyed Livelihoods: "A medRxiv study by several other professors concluded bluntly that 'Claimed benefits of lockdown appear grossly exaggerated.' And a peer-reviewed study by European epidemiologists in the journal Frontiers in Public Health found that 'Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate.' As the saying goes, 'follow the science.' There have been several vital non-medical and medical interventions that saved lives from COVID — rapid vaccine development first among them. Yet, there is simply no strong evidence that strict, lengthy lockdowns saved lives, while there is strong evidence that they destroyed livelihoods." In "States with strictest lockdowns ruined livelihoods — without saving lives," by Ryan Fazio, NY Post, 1 May 2021.
Addendum of Eroded Freedom: "There were also protests in connection with the pandemic, for example by people calling for more financial assistance and less corruption. 'But in response to this, the governments in many countries didn't fight the causes of the protests, but the protesters,' Pruin said. The picture for 2020 is bleak. According to the report, 88% of the world's population lives in restricted, oppressed or closed societies. The remaining are classified as impaired or open societies." In "COVID leads to erosion of fundamental rights and freedom," by Lisa Hänel, Deutsche Welle, 5 May 2021.
Addendum of the Pentagon and an EcoHealth Alliance Part in the Tale: "EHA also received $64.7 million from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), $13 million from Health and Human Services, which includes the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control, $2.3 million from the Department of Homeland Security, and $2.6 million from the National Science Foundation. A government funding figure of $3.4 million was widely reported, after White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci was questioned in a Senate hearing on how much money the National Institutes of Health sent to the Wuhan lab via its grants to EcoHealth Alliance in 2019. But the total grant figures including Pentagon funding dwarf that number." In "The Pentagon gave $39 MILLION to Dr. Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance - the charity that funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab accused of being the source of the outbreak, federal data reveals," by Josh Boswell and Martin Gould, Daily Mail, 4 June 2021.
Addendum of Erosion of Trust: "One of the remarkable things about the collapse of the Soviet Union is that it just melted away without a struggle. It was as if everyone could not think of a reason to keep it going. The reason for that is the trust in the key institutions had drained away. There was no reason to defend them or participate in them. The people running the institutions had used up all of the social trust to maintain their positions. When it was gone, the institutions collapsed. Something similar is happening in America. To those white civic nationalists, the people running the system now look like gangsters. They steal everything that is not nailed down, and they corrupt everything they touch. A narrow group of insiders got rich on creating the Covid crisis and they got rich in the crisis itself. In the process, they have cratered the trust in key institutions. Like the Soviet system after the Afghan war, the American empire is now running on fumes. The end is inevitable." In "Institutional Collapse," by The Z Man, Taki Magazine, 6 June 2021.
Consider that in time People walk away
Addendum of "In the First Five Weeks": "...only five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus. The holder of the patent is striking. 'Zhou is listed as the lead inventor on the patent application lodged by the 'Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA',' the report states. The Australian contacted a viral expert who corroborates that the vaccine timeline is virtually impossible." In "Chinagate: Wuhan Lab’s ‘Secret Military Activity’ Led to Feb 2020 COVID Vaccine Patent, Report Finds," by Kyle Becker, Becker News, 7 June 2021.
Addendum of When the History is Written: " 'But that guy [Fauci] is corrupt. He's an idiot and corrupt. He has his fingers in the pie in various patents and so on. And he is trying to dodge the bullet which is getting closer and closer to him. There was one interview that he gave in which he looked straight at the camera and said in very precise lawyered words: 'We did not pay for Gain of Function research in the Wuhan lab'. He is wriggling off the hook in prime time television. 'But they're going to get him. He's the walking dead right now. He should be jailed. Head in the sand. These lockdowns are killing people. Quite apart from the quality adjusted life years lost, with all the depression and near suicides and bankruptcies and all the tragedies of people not attending funerals and weddings cancelled and school closures and so on and so on, this is the kind of stuff that you go to jail for in civil society'." In "Dr Roger Hodkinson – 'When the history of this madness is written, reputations will be slaughtered and there will be blood in the gutter'," by Stefan Schultz, Freedom of Speech - FOS-SA, 24 May 2021.
Addendum of the Obama Administration's Hand: "On Dec 19, 2017, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they would resume funding gain-of-function experiments involving influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. A moratorium had been in place since October, 2014. At the time, the NIH had stated that the moratorium “will be effective until a robust and broad deliberative process is completed that results in the adoption of a new US Government gain-of-function research policy”. This process has now concluded. It was spearheaded by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) and led to the development of a new framework for assessing funding decisions for research involving pathogens with enhanced pandemic potential. The release of the framework by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which NIH is part, signalled the end of the funding pause." In "Ban on gain-of-function studies ends," by Talha Burki, The Lancet, February, 2018.
Addendum of Lockdowns as a Symptom of Mass Psychosis: "...in reaction to past pandemics such as the Asian flu of 1957–1958, there were no lockdowns [135], and research before 2020 had opposed lockdowns [136]. From this perspective, the lockdowns have been a policy error. We have shown that these policy errors may well have been produced by a collective hysteria. To which extent there has been a mass hysteria during the COVID-19 crisis is open for future research. In order to prevent the repetition of policy errors similar to those during the COVID-19 crisis, one should be aware of the political economy of mass hysteria developed in this article and the role of the state in fostering mass hysteria. Public health is likely to be affected negatively by state interventions during a mass hysteria due to policy errors." In "COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria," by Philipp Bagus, José Antonio Peña-Ramos, and Antonio Sánchez-Bayón, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 3 February 2021, 18, 1376.
Addendum of the Biden Administration's Hand: "This comes as mounting evidence shows Chinese scientists manipulated bat coronaviruses while increasing their ability to infect humans. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a Pentagon sub-agency were recently found to be giving money for those risky experiments. This is something Dr. Fauci had previously denied he was aware of regarding the lab in Wuhan. 'And the funds made available by the agency which Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to the tune of $600,000 went to this Wuhan Institute of Virology,' stated Alan Jones, host of Sky News Australia. 'This is a lab involved in gain of function research that is creating more dangerous pathogens'." In "Biden’s Budget Chief Won’t Commit To Ending Wuhan Lab Funding," News Room, OANN, 10 June 2021.
Addendum of Perverse Incentives: "The two appear to be the same story viewed from two different sides. And I think what people need to track is the fact that in order for the vaccines to be administered, they had to get an Emergency Use Authorization. And one of the requirements for the Emergency Use Authorization is that there’d be no safe and effective treatments available. So if the repurposed drugs are as good as some people believe they are, then the vaccines would not be available at all. They would still be in testing. Add to that the fact that the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these vaccines have been granted immunity from liability. And these two things in combination, I believe, have created a headlong rush to administering the vaccines to everyone irrespective of medical or epidemiological need." In "Dr. Bret Weinstein: 'Perverse Incentives' in the Vaccine Rollout and the Censorship of Science," an interview of Bret Weinstein by Jan Jekielek, Epoch Times, 3 July 2021.
Addendum of Overdose Deaths in a Pandemic Year: "While prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, they were supplanted first by heroin and then by fentanyl, a dangerously powerful opioid, in recent years. Fentanyl was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasing been sold illicitly and mixed with other drugs." In "US overdose deaths hit record 93K in pandemic last year, a 29% increase," by Associated Press, 14 July 2021.
Addendum of Spain's Constitutional Court Ruling: "According to TVE, the court majority ruled that the limitations on movement violated citizens’ basic rights and the state of emergency was a constitutionally insufficient mechanism to do that. The six magistrates said a state of exception, which does allow the government to suspend basic rights, would have been necessary." In "Spain's Top Court Rules Pandemic Lockdown Unconstitutional, Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled a strict stay-at-home lockdown the Spanish government ordered under a coronavirus state of emergency last year was unconstitutional," by Associated Press, 14 July 2021.
Addendum of a Symptom of the Fauci-Ferguson-Zhou Lockdown: "Onshore as the pandemic lockdowns in especially California kept thousands of workers from the major US-Asia ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, it was not possible to clear the very large backlog of containers before more started arriving, a bit like the plague of the Sorcerer’s apprentice. North America currently faces a 60% imbalance; which means that for every 100 containers that arrive only 40 are exported. Sixty out of every 100 containers continue to accumulate. Drewry estimates that these negative factors will also lead to a decade-high shortfall of officers to crew in the world merchant fleet in the next several years. All this underlines how extremely fragile and brittle the delivery system of the globalized world supply chains are today. The global COVID lockdowns are having far more serious long-term impacts than most are aware. The world economy is a dynamic, highly complex interconnected web that is not able to turn off and on like a flick of a light switch." In "Global Shipping Crisis Far Worse Than Imagined," by F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook, 21 July 2021.
Addendum of Unpublished, Therefore Hidden Data "People who have had their shots and become infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus can harbor large amounts of virus just like unvaccinated people. That means they could become spreaders of the disease and should return to wearing masks indoors in certain situations, including when vulnerable people are present. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not publish the new research. In the text of the updated masking guidance, the agency merely cited 'CDC COVID-19 Response Team, unpublished data, 2021'. Some outside scientists have their own message: Show us the data." In "Experts ask to see data behind new policy," by Joel Achenbach, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ben Guarino and Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 28 July 2021.
Addendum of No Difference: "...the data gathered in this study during the surge of the Delta variant strongly support the notion that neither vaccine status nor the presence or absence of symptoms should influence the recommendation and implementation of good public health practices, including mask wearing, testing, social distancing, and other measures, designed to mitigate the spread of SARSCoV-2." In "No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups When Infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant," by Charlotte B. Acharya, John Schrom, Anthea M. Mitchell, David A. Coil, Carina Marquez, Susana Rojas, Chung Yu Wang, Jamin Liu, Genay Pilarowski, Leslie Solis, Elizabeth Georgian, Maya Petersen, Joseph DeRisi, Richard Michelmore, and Diane Havlir, MedRXiv, preprint, 5 October 2021.
Addendum of Looking Back: "In other words, it is an industrial racket, very much akin to interwar-style fascism, a corporatist combination of big business and big government. Throw pharma into the mix and you see exactly what came to pass in 2020, which amounted to the largest transfer of wealth from small and medium-sized business plus the middle class to wealthy industrialists in the history of humanity." In "The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup," by Jeffrey A. Tucker, Brownstone, 11 July 2024.
Of the above, consider that Any claim can be made
"Just a week ago, Fauci made what to some was a stunning admission: 'We've done worse than most any country' in managing the outbreak, he said. We say 'stunning' because Fauci, as head of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is the official most responsible for the U.S. response. His 2019 pay of $417,608 makes him the nation's highest paid federal official. As a scientist, he's held in very high esteem by many, particularly those on the left, who see his sweeping powers – lockdowns, masking, social distancing – as a nifty means of social control. It's control of 330 million people via social isolation and nonstop browbeating of those who dare to diverge from the oppressive 'new normal' we all now experience on a daily basis. The big problem has been Fauci's pronunciamentos are often nonsensical, not supported by science or contradictory. 'These are my principles,' Groucho Marx once said. 'If you don’t like these, I have others.' That’s Fauci." In "Fauci’s Failures Are Firing Offenses," by I & I Editorial Board, Issues and Insights, 2 March 2021.
Doctor Larger-Problems is in, to see you now;
He's open seven days a week
in all the worldly media, with messages quite bleak.
Doctor Larger-Problems will treat you now
globally, he opines, with changing redesigns,
his goalposts he refines.
Doctor Larger-Problems, who's worst of many nations?
His is quite a diagnosis, folks,
with prescriptions on which one chokes.
Envoi: "Covid-19 has laid bare the systemic social inequities. Addressing these larger problems must become our priority. " Anthony Fauci, in a World Economic Forum video, n. d.
Addendum of Experiments of Children: "Earlier this May, the Associated Press reported that National Institutes of Health researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children in the late 1980s and '90s. In many instances, the drugs were given without independent advocates who monitor the safety of these children." In "NIH Tested AIDS Drugs on Foster Children," by Ed Gordon, NPR, 27 May 2005.
Addendum of a Tacit OK: " 'If you ’re willing to take a risk — and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure out if you want to meet somebody, he explained. 'And it depends on the level of the interaction that you want to have. If you’re looking for a friend, sit in a room and put a mask on, and you know, chat a bit. If you want to go a little bit more intimate, well, then that's your choice regarding a risk ." In "Anthony Fauci gives tacit OK to hook ups during the pandemic," by Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, 17 April 2020.
Addendum of a Diagnosis of a Doctor: "...the epitome of corruption in Dr. Anthony Fauci who will say anything to keep the COVID crisis going. He now says that because he is vaccinated, he can at last hug his daughter because she too is vaccinated. He has been unable to hug his daughter in a year, he claims. Now if you get the Gates' vaccine, you will not have to socially distance from others who are vaccinated. This guy belongs in prison. He has lied so much and is in Schwab’s promotional videos touting the need for the Great Reset economically when he has no qualification on the subject." In "The COVID Fraud Will Not Stay Hidden Forever," by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics, 2 March 2021.
Addendum of the Seedy Sea: "All of this money being brought into the CDC via the 'CDC Foundation' is tax-free. The agency’s 2019 IRS Form 990 says the CDC Foundation received $252 million that year alone from this endeavor. That’s on top of the tax dollars the CDC receives. The CDC’s operating budget has averaged about $7.2 billion per year since 2016. It’s budget was $10 billion in 2008 before Congressional investigations found that the agency wastes millions and spend lavishly. For example, the CDC spent $106 million on a visitor center, $5.1 million on audio-video integrations, $18 million on a video production studio, and $1.7 million to 'fact-check' television shows like 'ER,' 'Grey’s Anatomy,' and 'House.' The CDC spent its AIDS and HIV Prevention fund in 2007 on erotic writing, a drag queen contest, and a San Francisco workshop called 'how to flirt with greater finesse.' In "CDC Foundation is not a government entity, has many conflicts of interest," TheCovidBlog, 23 March 2021.
Addendum of Larger Problems for Fauci and the FDA: "Fauci made sure to control the treatment guidelines for COVID that came out of the NIAID, advising against both chloroquine drugs and ivermectin. Fauci’s NIAID also cancelled the first large-scale trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment in early disease, after only 20 of the expected 2,000 subjects were enrolled." In "Fauci Emails: How Top Public Health Officials Spun Tangled Web of Lies Around COVID Origin, Treatments," by Meryl Nass, Children's Health Defense, 4 June 2021. [ 1 ]
Addendum Looking Back at Locking Up Possible Treatment: "...the FDA revoked its emergency use authorization to use the drug to treat Covid-19, saying there was 'no reason to believe' the drug was effective against the virus, and that it increased the risk of side effects, including heart problems. That leaves the Strategic National Stockpile with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine, plus another 2 million doses of chloroquine, a related drug donated by Bayer, according to Carol Danko, a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services." In "US stockpile stuck with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine," by Elizabeth Cohen and Wesley Bruer, CNN, 17 June 2020.
Addendum of Funding Risky Research: "...the practice of funding risky research via cutouts like EcoHealth Alliance enmeshed leading virologists in conflicts of interest at the exact moment their expertise was most desperately needed." In "The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins," by Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, 3 June 2021.
Addendum of a Black Opinion of Whitewash: "...Dr. Fauci conducted a personality cult scarcely seen since the days of Rudolph Valentino, and unfortunately not remotely as silent. Dr. Fauci appeared everywhere and shouldered the president aside as the most familiar figure in the American press with his whitewash of the Chinese and the WHO, and his assertions that we would never shake hands again, and his ricocheting between not bothering with masks and wearing two of them, even outside." In "Pandemic Will Alter China’s Relationship With the World," by Conrad Black, NY Sun, 9 June 2021.
Addendum of Dr. Science-and-Truth: " “So if you are trying to get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science,' he added. 'And anybody that looks at what's going on clearly sees that. You have to be asleep not to see that. That is what's going on. Science and the truth are being attacked'." In " Fauci: ‘Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science’," by Jessica Chasmar, Washington Times, 10 June 2021.
Addendum of a Comic's Attack on Science and Truth: " 'Not since the days of the former Soviet Union and their propaganda machines Pravda & TASS has 'news' outlets [ sic ] like MSNBC (among most others) been such blatant Pro Government Mouthpieces'." Rob Schneider, Twitter, 9 June 2021.
Addendum of an Odd Diagnosis: "Indeed, nature itself is the most dangerous bioterrorist." Quote of Anthony Fauci, CSPAN, 26 April 2012.
Addendum from a Stanford Medical School Professor's Diagnosis: "In an email sent to Newsweek, Bhattacharya wrote: I stand behind my comment that the lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years. We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation. At the same time, they have not served to control the epidemic in the places where they have been most vigorously imposed. In the US, they have – at best – protected the 'non-essential' class from COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease. The lockdowns are trickle down epidemiology." In "Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford Doctor, Calls Lockdowns the 'Biggest Public Health Mistake We've Ever Made'," by Matthew Impellion, 8 March 2021.
Addendum of Sitting on Data: "While discussing the effects of COVID-19 on youth, Makary said, 'The headlines that were not broadcast by the CDC, and the media did not cover, was that no child in that entire study died of COVID, number one. And number two, the hospitalization rate was lower for COVID than it was of influenza. The CDC sits on a lot of data,' he continued. 'And by the way, why are we getting this data from February now in June, again, with the heart-swelling complications of over 300 kids? They had that data now for three weeks; they announced it last Wednesday. They're having their emergency meeting about a week and half later'." In "Johns Hopkins Doctor Marty Makary Accuses CDC of 'Sitting on Data' to Suit Their Narrative," by Jon Jackson, Newsweek / MSN, 15 June 2021.
Addendum of Causation: "It was only in 2004 that a prominent virologist, Peter Palese, wrote that Chi-Ming Chu, a respected virologist and a former member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told him that 'the introduction of this 1977 H1N1 virus' was indeed thought to be due to vaccine trials involving 'the challenge of several thousand military recruits with live H1N1 virus.' For the first time, science itself seemed to have caused a pandemic while trying to prepare for it. Now, for the second time in 50 years, there are questions about whether we are dealing with a pandemic caused by scientific research." In "Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling," by Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times, 25 June 2021. [ 2 ]
A Washington Post Reporter's Tweet - Fauci Was Wrong
Addendum of Doctor Gain-of-Function's Future Surprise, Revisited: " 'There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases,' he said in a speech titled 'Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration' at Georgetown University Medical Center. He delivered it just days before Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017. Fauci, who has overseen the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, warned that looming health challenges would involve both chronic diseases ― ones already ongoing ― as well as 'a surprise outbreak'." In "Dr. Fauci Warned In 2017 Of ‘Surprise Outbreak’ During Trump Administration, 'There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases,' he said," by Nina Golgowski, HuffPost, 5 April 2020.
Addendum of a Recommendation: "...Fauci has lost too much credibility in the eyes of the American people. The fact that he continues in his role, in spite of the unfortunate reality of his lost credibility, is damaging to public health." In "To Keep Americans Healthy, Dr. Fauci Should Step Aside," by Rita Numerof, Forbes, 12 October 2021.
Addendum of Public Adulation: "Fauci’s IMDb score puts it lower than the site’s lowest ranked title, Disaster Movie, which has a rating of 1.9. For reasons that are unclear, Fauci doesn’t appear on IMDb’s list of its lowest-ranked movies. The reaction on YouTube isn’t much better. The official trailer for the documentary has received 102,000 thumbs-down votes, versus just 7,700 thumbs-up." In "Rotten Tomatoes Not Showing Audience Score for ‘Fauci’ as Documentary Gets Trashed on IMDb, YouTube," by David Ng, Breitbart, 11 October 2021.
Addendum of Correcting Untruthful Assertions: "Molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright on Wednesday posted a letter from the National Institute of Health (NIH) showing that an NIH grant did fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, contrary to what Dr. Anthony Fauci had testified to the Senate. '...laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV1 bat coronavirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat coronavirus.' According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 'gain-of-function' research is research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease. Ebright tweeted that in the letter, the NIH 'corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan'." In "NIH Contradicts Fauci, Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab," by Kristina Wong, Breitbart, 20 October 2021.
Addendum of Science Eating Puppies Alive: "White Coat Waste claims that 44 beagle puppies were used in a Tunisia, North Africa, laboratory, and some of the dogs had their vocal cords removed, allegedly so scientists could work without incessant barking. Leading the effort is Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), writing a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) saying the cordectomies are “cruel” and a 'reprehensible misuse of taxpayer funds.' 'Our investigators show that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive,' White Coat Waste told Changing America. 'They also locked beagles alone in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sand flies'." In "Bipartisan legislators demand answers from Fauci on 'cruel' puppy experiments," by Christian Spencer, The Hill, 22 October 2021. [ 3 ]
Addendum of Being 100% Sure of a Massive Cover-up: "The claims of a lab origin, made without evidence in April 2020 by President Donald Trump, have turned into a legitimate, long-haul hunt for the truth that even U.S. intelligence agencies cannot seem to determine. This summer an intelligence review ordered by President Joe Biden drew no definitive conclusions but left open the possibility that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The NIH’s letter to Congress stated that the agency is giving EcoHealth five days to submit any unpublished data from the experiments it funded. Republican leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, who in June asked the NIH to demand such data, said in a statement Wednesday that 'it's unacceptable that the NIH delayed asking EcoHealth Alliance to submit unpublished data about risky research that they were required to under the terms of their grant.' Meanwhile, members of the DRASTIC coalition have continued their research. As one member, Gilles Demaneuf, a data scientist in New Zealand, told Vanity Fair, 'I cannot be sure that [COVID-19 originated from] a research-related accident or infection from a sampling trip. But I am 100% sure there was a massive cover-up'." In "In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan," by Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, 22 October 2021.
Addendum of Larger Problems on Monkey Island: "Though NIAID has recently attempted to publicly distance themselves from cruel animal testing by stealth editing their funding efforts out of research documents, the paper plainly states (as of November 16, 2021), 'We thank the staff of the Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) for assistance with animal care and clinical and pathological veterinary services, and Atsushi Okumura for veterinary expertise throughout the study. We would also like to thank the members of the Visual and Medical Arts (DIR, NIAID, NIH) for aid in figure development. This work was funded by the Intramural Research Programme of the NIAID, NIH.' (Emphasis added). An analysis conducted by White Coat Waste Project found that Fauci’s NIAID has funded several other extensive maximum pain (USDA Pain Column E) experiments on primates from FY13-20." In "EXCLUSIVE: Fauci's NIAID Funding Island of Monkeys in South Carolina Used for Horrific 'Maximum Pain' Experiments," by Cassandra Fairbanks, Timcast, 17 November 2021.
Addendum of Evasion and Secret Back Channels: "NIH senior adviser Dr. David Morens improperly conducted official government business from his private email account and solicited help from the NIH’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office to dodge records requests, according to emails revealed in a memo by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which The Post obtained Wednesday. '[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d [sic] but before the search starts,' Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. 'Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic]'.” In "Explosive emails show top NIH adviser deleted records, used ‘secret’ back channels to help Fauci evade COVID transparency," by Josh Christenson, NY Post, 22 May 2024.
NOTES
[ 1 ] That Fanci is at the center of things regarding the pandemic in the United States is an understatement. Present and visible from press conferences to media interviews, his various and changing stances have been noted. Nowhere among them has there been concern for the damage being caused by the mRNA gene therapies, and as reported to the VAERS system, with deaths over 10,000 as of July. And yet one finds recorded concern elsewhere from practicing physicians.
Failing to Appreciate Unintended Effects?
One reads from eight months earlier, "While there are pieces to this puzzle that have yet to be worked out, it appears that the viral spike protein that is the target of the major SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is also one of the key agents causing the damage to distant organs that may include the brain, heart, lung, and kidney. Before any of these vaccines are approved for widespread use in humans, it is important to assess in vaccinated subjects the effects of vaccination on the heart (perhaps using cardiac MRI, as Puntmann et al. did). Vaccinated patients could also be tested for distant tissue damage in deltoid area skin biopsies, as employed by Magro et al. As important as it is to quickly arrest the spread of the virus by immunizing the population, it would be vastly worse if hundreds of millions of people were to suffer long-lasting or even permanent damage to their brain or heart microvasculature as a result of failing to appreciate in the short-term an unintended effect of full-length spike protein-based vaccines on these other organs." In "RE: Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Comments related to consideration of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2," letter to US FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, by Patrick Whelan MD PhD, UCLA Pediatric Rheumatology, 8 December 2020.
But FDA Approval Is Good As Done?
One reads in contradistinction to Dr. Whelan's concern: "Fauci said he believed one reason some had been reluctant to mandate coronavirus vaccines was that they had not been fully authorized in the US. The vaccines there so far have received only emergency-use authorization, which can be used by the Food and Drug Administration during public-health emergencies. But Fauci said the data behind the vaccines was robust. 'The amount of data right now that shows a high degree of effectiveness and a high degree of safety is more than we've ever seen with emergency-use authorization,' he said. 'These vaccines are as good as officially approved, with all the I's dotted and the T's crossed.' Fauci said that the vaccines hadn't received full approval because of processes that needed to take place at the FDA but that 'it's as good as done'." In "Fauci says vaccines should be mandated at the local level but the federal government will not mandate them," by Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider via Yahoo, 11 July 2021.
Thousands of Deaths and Hundreds of Thousands of Adverse Reactions
As to VAERS reporting, mid-July, one reads: "Of the 10,991 deaths reported as of July 9, 22% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 24 hours and 37% occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated." In "Nearly 11,000 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to CDC, as FDA Adds New Warning to J&J Vaccine, VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 463,457 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 10,991 deaths and 48,385 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 9, 2021," by Megan Redshaw, Children's Health Defense, 16 July 2021.
Denying There Is a Link
Counterpoint to this is an assertion: "The CDC denies there is a link between death and COVID-19 vaccines, except a potential causal relationship between the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) that involves blood clots and low platelets that can cause death." In "More Deaths Reported to VAERS Following COVID-19 Vaccinations Than for Any Other Vaccine," by Barbara Loe Fisher, Vaccine Reaction, 11 July 2021.
But, the article title above AND the VAERS system both report "more deaths." "It's as good as done."
[ 2 ] The news suggests there is a "rare" side effect. One reads: "Researchers found that both inflammation of the heart muscle, known as myocarditis, and inflammation of the heart's fluid-filled sac, known as pericarditis, have occurred particularly in men under 40 following their second dose." In "People warned not to exercise after getting Pfizer Covid jab following rare heart inflammation side effects, The side-effect is more common in men under 40 who have just had their second dose of Pfizer and Moderna," by Mark Smith, Wales Online, 15 July 2021.
A Confluence of Vaccine and Debilitating Symptoms
One finds: "A certain percentage of people – in the thousands – who had the covid vaccine are suffering with debilitating symptoms. Our lives, in many cases, have been ruined with terrifying symptoms, leaving many of us with the inability to work. The widespread general denial – even bullying – of those facing symptoms is making matters worse. We continuously find doctors who do not know how to help, as this is not yet a recognized issue by the CDC and FDA. Many doctors even refuse to see us, if the vaccine is mentioned as a possible cause." In "We Want To Be Heard," VAX Longhaulers, n. d., accessed July 2021.
Certainly one may then conclude for the "rare" side effects and deaths that "scientific research" indeed was part of the cause.
Monthly Vaccinations Proposed in a Time of Unfinished Clinical Trials
And so, "more of the same" is being proposed by pharmaceuticals which have no legal liability at all, but can only profit from continuing vaccinations. "Thousands of long Covid sufferers are set to be offered monthly vaccine doses in an effort to beat the debilitating illness – after reports that patients can make a dramatic recovery after a jab. More than one million Britons are said to be suffering from long Covid, with studies suggesting 400,000 have been hit by symptoms for more than a year. This will be the first drug trial of a long Covid treatment." In "Monthly vaccine doses will be offered to long Covid sufferers to help more than 1million Britons beat the illness," by staff, Mail Online, 10 July 2021.
"Reports" are claimed, and yet reports that vaccines have killed and injured are discounted. Such seems the current state of affairs in a world of destructive government lockdowns and censorship of competing opinions, research and experiences of real people and their human tragedies.
A Larger Problem for Doctor Larger-Problems
Given the ongoing pandemic and testimonies and data being accumulated, "safe and effective" seems an unsubstantiated claim, given that the inoculations with mRNA are in fact still a Phase 3 clinical trial, now the largest in the history of medicine. Indeed there are "larger problems" suggested.
A Harmless Piece -- the Spike Protein
Among the larger problems are the spike protein with its proposed solution -- more spike protein. One read months back of a theoretical assertion: "Upon injection into muscle cells, the mRNA genetic code enters the cell and gets translated into spike proteins. These spike proteins then train the immune system to mount proper immune responses and form immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2. 'COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the 'spike protein,' the CDC stated. It’s harmless because the coronavirus can’t hijack the cell’s replication machinery without its genome." In "Spike Proteins Used in Covid-19 Vaccines: Are They Safe?" by Shin Jie Yong, Medium, 27 December 2020.
Inducing Hypercoaguability
Only months later: "When whole blood was exposed to spike protein even at low concentrations, the erythrocytes showed agglutination, hyperactivated platelets were seen, with membrane spreading and the formation of platelet-derived microparticles. In all samples, spontaneous amyloid deposits formed after exposure to the spike protein without the need for thrombin exposure." In "SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 subunit induces hypercoagulability," by Liji Thomas, News-Medical, 10 March 2021.
Meaning Harmful Effects of the 'Harmless' Piece of Protein
The article noted, "Thus, the free S1 subunit has harmful effects on the host even without direct infection of the cells themselves. This strengthens the case for targeting the spike protein via antibodies and vaccines."
A Key Point for the Pathologist
After another month: "The key point for the diagnostic anatomic pathologist is to focus their studies in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection on degeneration of ACE2+ endothelia using routine H&E stains in conjunction with immunohistochemistry for ACE2, caspase 3 and, when possible, the spike protein." In "Endothelial cell damage is the central part of COVID-19 and a mouse model induced by injection of the S1 subunit of the spike protein," by Gerard J. Nuovo, Cynthia Magro, Toni Shaffer, Hamdy Awad, David Suster, Sheridan Mikhail, Bing He, Jean-Jacques Michaille, Benjamin Liechty, and Esmerina Tili, Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, Volume 51, April 2021.
We Never Knew It Was a Toxin Itself
A month thereafter: "COVID vaccine researchers had previously assumed mRNA COVID vaccines would behave like traditional vaccines. The vaccine’s spike protein — responsible for infection and its most severe symptoms — would remain mostly in the injection site at the shoulder muscle or local lymph nodes. But new research obtained by a group of scientists contradicts that theory, a Canadian cancer vaccine researcher said last week. 'We made a big mistake. We didn’t realize it until now,' said Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist and associate professor at University of Guelph, Ontario. 'We thought the spike protein was a great target antigen, we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So by vaccinating people we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin'." In "We Made a Big Mistake’ — COVID Vaccine Spike Protein Travels From Injection Site, Can Cause Organ Damage," by Magan Redshaw, Children's Health Defender, 3 June 2021.
With so much remaining to been proven through detailed and replicable research, one thing begins to clarify. The egotistical Fauci's often changing claims were often bogus.
Of the efficacy of the "warp speed" gene therapy experimental injections addressing COVID-19, one reads the following: "Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good. Importantly, other non-pharmacological prevention efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or handwashing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus." In "Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States," by S. V. Subramanian and Akhil Kumar, European Journal of Epidemiology, 30 September 2021.
But interestingly, "In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people."
The populations with higher "fully vaccinated" also have "higher COVID-19 cases." Efficacy?
[ 3 ] Details emerge: "The dogs were all between six and eight months old. The commissioned tests involved injecting and force-feeding the puppies an experimental drug for several weeks, before killing and dissecting them. Of particular concern is the fact that the invoice to NIAID included a line item for 'cordectomy.' As you are likely aware, a cordectomy, also known as 'devocalization,' involves slitting a dog's vocal cords in order to prevent them from barking, howling, or crying," the letter went on. 'This cruel procedure - which is opposed with rare exceptions by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, and others - seems to have been performed so that experimenters would not have to listen to the pained cries of the beagle puppies'." In "Anthony Fauci Facing Quiz Over NIH Funding for 'De-barking' Beagle Puppies," by Darragh Roche, Newsweek, 23 October 2021.
Follow the science, it's been said. How far and to where?
Consider Doctor Larger-Problems' A Concoction Song
"Every human being has a unique virome with a unique balance of species. Lifestyle, age, geographic location, and even the season of the year can affect an individual's exposure to viruses, and one's susceptibility to any disease that might be caused by those viruses is also affected by pre-existing immunity and both viral and human genetics. The human virome is far from being completely explored and new viruses are discovered frequently. Unlike the roughly 40 trillion bacteria in a typical human microbiome, an estimate of the number of viral particles in a healthy adult human is not yet available, although virions generally outnumber individual bacteria 10:1 in nature. Studying the virome is thought to provide an understanding of microbes in general and how they affect human health and disease." In "Human virome," Wikipedia, n. d. accessed 2/2/2021.
I've trillions of friends to help me out
Though to me they're not well known.
All sorts live with and live in me
So I'm not really all alone.
I've trillions of friends, most never foe,
Who do many things I'll never know.
Symbiosis with all such as these
Surely sometimes lends me ease.
I've trillions of friends once and for all,
Unique in many ways.
Thanks are due trillions of times
Across my live-long days.
Addendum of Being Contrary: "Contrary to common belief, harmful viruses may be in the minority, compared to benign viruses in the human body. It is much harder to identify viruses than it is to identify bacteria, therefore our understanding of benign viruses in the human body is very rudimentary." Ibid.
"...the irate man continues to yell racial abuse. Moments later, a man passing by on a bicycle overhears the slurs and calls out the abuser. 'Why you calling people ch**k, man? F*** you!' the cyclist yells at the man in the white t-shirt. The man immediately turns on the biker, repeatedly yelling at him to 'suck my d***.' When a bystander accuses the enraged man of being racist, he shoots back: 'black people can't be racist, you piece of s***.' The man continues peppering the Asian-American officer with racial slurs as he and his colleagues walk toward the iconic Washington Square Park Arch." In "'You're not even from this country, you ch**k!' Shocking moment man hurls slurs at Asian NYPD officer before yelling 'black people can't be racist'," by Snejana Faberov, Daily Mail, 8 June 2021.
The man, a reporter writes, yells out racist abuse,
But he cannot be a racist, so does the man deduce.
Color alone defines his game as to skin all must reduce.
The man, that reporter wrote, yelled out racist abuse,
Stupidly, raw and loud, it's the racists' race excuse.
"In an emailed statement, former University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote that he believes academia is naturally more 'progressive' because professors are choosing to forego more lucrative job opportunities. 'People who don't like capitalism tend to gravitate to academia because they don't like working for companies, whereas people who like capitalism have many more choices,' Summers wrote." In " 'An Endangered Species': The Scarcity of Harvard's Conservative Faculty," by Natalie L. Kahn, The Crimson (Harvard), 9 April 2021.
That's rich and true and ironic too.
Foregoing lucre? Is that really true?
Don't like capital? It seems you do.
What's rich then? It's your point-of-view.
Once President and Professor Veritas
Addendum of Summers Past: "In addition to receiving $5.2 million in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw and $2.7 million in speaking fees, former Harvard President and professor Lawrence H. Summers also received nearly $600,000 in salary from the University this past year—only slightly less than what he was earning prior to his 2006 resignation as Harvard’s head. According to White House public financial disclosure reports—available because Summers now serves as director for President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council—Summers received $586,996 in salary as the Charles W. Eliot University professor in 2008 and 2009. According to the report, he held the position at Harvard from 2001 until January of this year." In "Summers Salary Data Released, Summers earned nearly as much from Harvard last year as he did while president," by Peter F. Zhu, Crimson Staff Writer, 6 April 2009.
Addendum of Progressive Money: "University provost Alan M. Garber earned $926,217 in total compensation in 2018, up from $880,900 the previous year, and Michael D. Smith, the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who stepped down in August 2018, earned $761,770, up from $730,382 the previous year. Other reported University administrators making more than $500,000 in total salary and benefits in 2018 include President Lawrence S. Bacow, who began his term on July 1, 2018, and earned $570,072; vice president and chief financial officer Thomas J. Hollister; senior vice president and general counsel Robert W. Iuliano; executive vice president Katie Lapp; former vice president for alumni affairs and development Tamara Elliott Rogers; vice president and chief information officer Anne H. Margulies; Harvard Medical School dean George Daley; and dean of Harvard Business School Nitin Nohria. The University’s two highest-paid faculty members, Baker Foundation professor Michael L. Tushman and White professor of business administration Carliss Y. Baldwin, taught at Harvard Business School and earned more than $1.5 million, which included for each of them a teaching salary, early retirement package, and insurance benefits." In "Harvard Discloses Top Earners," by Jonathan Shaw, Harvard Magazine, 10 July 2020.
Addendum of More Progressive Money: "N.P. 'Narv' Narvekar, head of Harvard Management Co., scored a pay package of $9.25 million in his first full year spearheading an overhaul of the university’s ailing $39 billion endowment. The compensation for 2017 included $2.75 million that the school agreed to give Narvekar to reimburse him for pay he forfeited when he left his job overseeing Columbia University’s investment office in 2016, Harvard Management said in a release Friday." In "Harvard Endowment CEO Reaps $9.3 Million Payday in Overhaul," by Michael McDonald, Bloomberg, 10 May 2019.
Addendum of Alleged Jim Crow at Harvard: "West has called the US a 'racist patriarchal' nation where white supremacy rules all aspects of everyday life. 'White America,' he once wrote, 'has been historically weak-willed in ensuring racial justice and has continued to resist fully accepting the humanity of blacks.' In "Professor Cornel West dramatically resigns from Harvard after being denied tenure and says the 'shadow of Jim Crow' in the form of 'superficial diversity' persists at the Ivy League school," by Keith Griffith, Daily Mail, 13 July 2021. [ 1 ]
NOTE
[ 1 ] There is delightful irony at play. Professor West crossed swords with them-President, as the article reports: "In 2002, he got into a a widely publicized dispute with Harvard's then-President Larry Summers, who reportedly rebuked West for missing too many classes, contributing to grade inflation, and neglecting serious scholarship in favor of economically profitable projects."
The pot calls the kettle black, so says the adage. Vertias, anyone?
"Kreuper used her position to funnel $835,339 of the school’s funds 'to pay for expenses that the order would not have approved, much less paid for, including large gambling expenses incurred at casinos and certain credit card charges,' according to the plea agreement. The nun was in charge of overseeing tuition money, fees the school received and charitable donations, prosecutors said." In "California nun to plead guilty for stealing over $800K to help pay for gambling trips," by Kenneth Garger, New York Post, 9 June 2021.
Holy moly! Take a chance.
What are the odds of such finance?
Pass the hat! Pocket change?
Cook the books and rearrange
Numbers, none should seem askance.
This habit should not attract a glance.
Pass the plate. Believe you me,
Such cons as this end in a guilty plea.
And consider that Naturally no one steals anything
" 'Nanoform graphene' refers to the carbon coating on the masks. It's made of graphene, a type of carbon, in its nano form, meaning extremely miniscule particles in a single tight layer. In a statement, Metallifer said its company does not manufacture the masks, and that when it imported the products from China, they 'were fully qualified at the time.' 'Since the beginning of the pandemic, Metallifer has used its vast network of suppliers in China to offer its customers quality protective masks that meet current standards,' said Metallifer president Michel Filion." In " 'I just now feel a bit betrayed': Quebec teachers and parents respond after potentially toxic masks pulled," by Selena Ross, Montreal CTV News, 26 March 2021.
Made in China, a Communist state,
is a phrase so often read of late.
Made in China, a one-party slate,
is a fact to testify and validate
That Made in China will reverberate
as betrayal, so to demonstrate
Made in China is a Communist state.
Addendum of Masks Labeled Biomass Graphene: " 'In an informational message from 25 May and published 31 May, Santé Publique France says 'stop using FFP2 masks labelled 'Biomass Graphene.' 'Reason: possible risk linked to the presence of graphene in these masks.' Biomass graphene is a material widely used in electronics, due to its resistance and conductivity. The recalled masks are FFP2s forming part of the state stock, supplied by the Chinese manufacturer Shandong Shengquan New Materials (SNN 200647 model)...."
Addendum of the Original Article: "Dans une note d'information publiée le 25 mai, et mise à jour lundi 31 mai, l'agence Santé publique France demande 'de ne plus utiliser' les masques FFP2 labellisés 'Biomass Graphène'. En cause : un 'éventuel risque lié à la présence de graphène dans ces masques', un matériau très utilisé dans l'électronique pour sa résistance et sa conductivité. Les masques rappelés sont des FFP2 faisant partie du stock d'Etat, fourni par le fabricant chinois Shandong Shengquan New Materials (modèle SNN 200647)...." In "Covid-19 : Santé publique France demande de ne plus utiliser les masques FFP2 'Biomass Graphène'," by franceinfo, France Télévisions, 7 June 2021.
Addendum of Defective Chinese Products I: "The purchase of Chinese products to combat the new coronavirus has become a headache for several countries in Europe. As the pandemic spread throughout the old continent, some governments have turned to China for basic health products that later have had to discard or return between complaints of reliability issues. Spain, Turkey and Czech Republic received tens of thousands of rapid diagnostic kits that they rejected as useless, while Holland had to quickly withdraw thousands of face masks that it distributed among health personnel because they did not protect against the virus." In "The scandal of defective Chinese coronavirus products bought by Europe," Web24 News, 2 April 2020.
Addendum of Defective Chinese Products II: "Allegations of defective equipment come after critics warned China could be using the coronavirus outbreak to further its influence. In a blog post last week, EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell warned that there is 'a geo-political component including a struggle for influence through spinning and the 'politics of generosity'.' 'China is aggressively pushing the message that, unlike the US, it is a responsible and reliable partner,' he wrote. 'Armed with facts, we need to defend Europe against its detractors'." In "Coronavirus: Countries reject Chinese-made equipment," BBC, 30 March 2020
Addendum of Defective Chinese Products III: "Chinese products account for 60 percent of all recalls in the United States, with the number of those products being recalled doubling over the last five years. Of perhaps the greatest recent concern were hazardous toys – Mattel alone recalled some 19 million – and 450,000 defective radial tires made for light trucks." In "Defective Chinese Products," Kline & Specter, accessed June 2021.
Addendum of Defective Chinese Products IV and American Executives' Bait-and-Swithch: "The front page of today's New York Times provides a glimpse into how corruption and lying have become endemic among the Chinese professional class. It documents 'dishonest practices that permeate society, including students who cheat on college entrance exams, scholars who promote fake or unoriginal research, and dairy companies that sell poisoned milk to infants.' It's become part of the culture and it's reflected in the product quality of goods manufactured there. Don't get me wrong. I don't blame the Chinese. They're the ones that will suffer in the long term for letting corruption fester. When it comes to the stuff that's sold in the U.S., I blame the U.S. executives who were so stupid that they thought they'd be getting a bargain by outsourcing. By sticking U.S. brand names on Chinese-made products, these executives have played bait-and-switch on the American public." In "Made in China = Piece of Junk," by Geoffrey James, CBS News, 7 October 2010.
Addendum of Defective Chinese Communist Policy: "China's one-child policy was launched in 1979 and limited urban couples to having only one child. In many rural areas, a second child was allowed if the first child was a girl. The strong culture of son preference (particularly in rural areas), along with the availability of ultrasound technology and female infanticide and abandonment, has resulted in a profoundly skewed sex ratio. Much has been written about the impacts of the policy—including on fertility and sex-ratios, marriage, aging of the population, the labor market, savings, and anti-social behavior, such as selfishness. Several authors draw attention to the potential for crime and social conflict—and a 2013 study finds that crime is higher in provinces with higher ratios of men to women." In "China’s One-Child Policy: Effects on the Sex Ratio and Crime," by Lisa Cameron, Xin Meng and Zhang Dan-dan, Institute for Family Studies, 19 December 2018.
Addendum of High-Speed Debt: "Zhao also noted that the railway system is in huge debt following the construction of high-speed rails, ballooning from 476.8 billion yuan in 2005 to 4.72 trillion yuan ($701 billion) in 2016. 'Even without considering the operation costs, the total revenue from ticket sales is not enough to pay interest on the loans,' Zhao wrote. 'By the end of September 2018, the total debt of China Railway had reached 5.28 trillion yuan ($784.2 billion). To maintain its operations, China Railway has to apply for new loans [from Chinese banks] to pay its old debts, and rely on financial subsidies [from the central government]'." In "China's Much Touted High-Speed Rail System Has a Huge Fiscal Problem," by Nicole Hao, Epoch Times, 13 June 2021.
Addendum of Communist China's Trading Trust: "Much of this merchandise was of low quality and created a false sense of security that exacerbated regional outbreaks. European nations were among the most severely hurt by the choice to purchase Chinese PPE. The U.K., Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic all discovered critical errors in the manufacturing of PPE made in China – mostly masks and gloves of low quality – that left health workers and others vulnerable to contagion. India, Tanzania, Turkey, Czech Republic, and Israel have accused China of selling them test kits that do not offer accurate testing results, meaning individuals carrying the virus could test negative and go on to infect others. In Tanzania's case, the tests resulted in false positives on several absurd examples, such as goat's blood and the pulp from a pawpaw, a fruit similar to papaya. China's coronavirus vaccines also appear to be failing to prevent outbreaks in countries that trust them, particularly the low-quality product from Sinovac Biotech known as 'Coronavac.' The government of Chile, where the overwhelming number of vaccinated people have received Coronavac, locked down the Santiago metropolitan area starting on Saturday due to a dramatic rise in cases that has corresponded to a dramatic rise in vaccinations with Chinese products. Seychelles documented a similar experience with Chinese products, as has Mongolia, which relied largely on a different Chinese product by the firm Sinopharm." In "9 Ways China Created a Pandemic that Have Nothing to Do with the Wuhan Lab," by Frances Martel, Breitbart, 11 June 2021.
Addendum of a Chinese Communist Admission: "Chinese vaccines haven't been approved for use in the United States or the European Union. The Chinese vaccines are also excluded from the EU's digital vaccination pass program. The Chinese regime has announced retaliatory measures, denying entry for travelers who haven't been inoculated with Chinese vaccines and not recognizing vaccination with non-Chinese vaccines. The measures have prevented many overseas Chinese citizens from returning to the country. Despite their low efficacy and lack of transparency in trial data, the World Health Organization recently approved both the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines for emergency use. That decision comes as more countries around the world are casting doubt on the Chinese vaccines." In "Italy Rejects Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines as China Admits They’re Less Effective Against Delta Variant," by Alex Wu, Epoch Times, 7 June 2021.
Addendum of Chinese Communist Billionaires and the Poor: "China now has the second highest number of billionaires in the world. But it's also home to some 600 million people whose monthly income is barely 1,000 yuan ($154). The huge disparity has led to an increasing resentment from the young against their employers. And there's a growing sense amongst the young that their struggles aren't understood by those at the top." In "The buzzwords reflecting the frustration of China's young generation," by Fan Wang and Yitsing Wang, BBC World Service, 14 June 2021.
Consider that Chinese Communist Phenomenon, Billionaires Made in China -- Capital for Communists
Addendum of Luo's "Lying Flat": He titled his post 'Lying Flat Is Justice,' attaching a photo of himself lying on his bed in a dark room with the curtains drawn. Before long, the post was being celebrated by Chinese millennials as an anti-consumerist manifesto. 'Lying flat' went viral and has since become a broader statement about Chinese society. A generation ago, the route to success in China was to work hard, get married and have children. The country's authoritarianism was seen as a fair trade-off as millions were lifted out of poverty. But with employees working longer hours and housing prices rising faster than incomes, many young Chinese fear they will be the first generation not to do better than their parents. They are now defying the country's long-held prosperity narrative by refusing to participate in it. Mr. Luo's blog post was removed by censors, who saw it as affront to Beijing's economic ambitions. Mentions of 'lying flat' — tangping, as it's known in Mandarin — are heavily restricted on the Chinese internet." In "Chinese Millennials Are 'Chilling,' and Beijing Isn’t Happy About It," by Elsie Chen, NY Times, 3 July 2021.
Addendum of Communist Snubbing Communist: "The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) has doubled down on its efforts to distance itself from its erstwhile ideological ally in Beijing, refusing to congratulate the Chinese Communist Party on the centenary of its founding on July 1. Instead, JCP chairman Kazuo Shii used the anniversary to lambast China's government in a series of tweets. He cited Beijing's 'aggressive' territorial claims and described its treatment of Hong Kong and the Uygur Muslim minority in its westernmost province of Xinjiang as 'human rights violations'." In "Japanese Communist Party snubs China's Communist Party on centenary, saying it is 'not worthy' of name," by Julian Ryall, South China Morning Post, 5 July 2021.
Addendum of Bad Loans Made in China: "Outstanding non-performing loans in the banking sector stood at 3.5 trillion yuan ($540.79 billion) by end of June, an increase of 108.3 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, while the bad loan ratio declined to 1.86%, Liu Zhongrui, an official at the statistics department of China Banking and Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), told reporters in Beijing." In "China's bank regulator warns of rising bad loans due to uneven recovery," by Tina Qiao and Ryan Woo, Reuters, 14 July 2021.
Addendum of Chinese Communist Schemes: "Wooed by the glitzy sales pitch, many cannot afford to keep up with the return payments when China comes knocking like an international loan shark. And then the building projects end up being abandoned or unfinished until the debt is settled - with the Communist Party more than happy to take their pound of flesh." In "COWBOY BUILDERS Roads to nowhere, abandoned railways and half-built bridges – China’s ‘debt traps’ schemes which cost nations BILLIONS," by Imogen Braddick, Sun UK, 14 Jul 2021.
Addendum of Chinese Communist Credit Downgrades and Defaults: "According to a Unigroup filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the creditor who requested the court proceedings was Huishang Bank Corporation Limited, a Hong Kong-listed bank based in Anhui, China. On Nov. 16, 2020, Tsinghua Unigroup defaulted on $198 million in bonds, resulting in a credit downgrade. And at least six more of its bonds had defaulted by June of this year, the group disclosed. Tsinghua Unigroup is a semiconductor conglomerate under Tsinghua Holdings Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tsinghua University. It was founded in 1988. Tsinghua Holdings owns 51 percent of Tsinghua Unigroup, and its Chairman Zhao Weiguo’s management firm holds the remaining 49 percent." In "China’s Chip Ambitions Fade as State-Backed Chip Giant Faces Bankruptcy," by Anne Zhang, Epoch Times, 22 July 2021.
Addendum of Signs Made in China: "China has also used its vaccine as a political tool. Several Latin American countries were encouraged to cut their trade ties to Taiwan in exchange for Chinese vaccines. In Peru, the political elite has been accused of accepting bribes from Chinese businessmen. Yet, in the end, ‘vaccine diplomacy’ may well work against China’s interests. Beijing has often been the first to offer medical equipment, but its vaccines have proven far less effective than those developed in the US, Britain or Germany. There has been a surge of post-vaccination infections in countries using the Chinese vaccine, including Mongolia, the Seychelles and Bahrain. And there are now signs that Latin American countries are reconsidering their initial embrace of the Chinese vaccines." In "The coming collapse of the developing world," by Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger, Spiked-Online, 23 July 2021.
Addendum of Losses Made in China: "American investors are asking whether China Inc. is still worth the risk following a widening series of regulatory crackdowns that have wiped some $400 billion off the value of U.S.-listed Chinese companies. Investors ranging from pension fund Orange County Employees Retirement System in California to money manager William Blair & Co. are rethinking their portfolios following Beijing’s decision last week to curtail the operations of China’s for-profit tutoring industry along with its ongoing campaign to rein in tech companies. The moves fueled large declines across sectors of China’s stock markets and hammered Asia-focused funds stateside." In "Investors Lost Hundreds of Billions on China in July," by Juliet Chung , Justin Baer and Dawn Lim, Wall Street Journal, 30 July 2021.
Addendum of Forecasting More Losses Made in China: "Aside from Covid-19 fallout – and signs that China’s Sinovac vaccine isn’t up to the Delta variant challenge – rapid population aging and weak social safety nets for health care and retirement income risk turning mainlanders into Japanese-style savers-not-spenders sooner than feared. Put it all together, Roach says, and you have this: Expect less and less discretionary spending on everything from motor vehicles to appliances to furniture to travel to entertainment and other sectors that were expected to flourish as China zoomed toward high-middle-income status." In "Xi’s tech clampdown signals end of a capitalist era - With over $1 trillion in stock market losses tied to recent regulatory lurches, control is the new name of the game in China," by William Pesek, Asia Times, 3 August 2021.
Run for the hills! We're all gonna die!
"...guidelines, together with the tendency of the political and media class to groupthink, have created a culture in which too many journalists accept the Government's assertions as fact. It has led to lazy assumptions about the efficacy of lockdown as a policy, evident recently, for instance, in the belief of a member of the Telegraph's Global Health Security team that the new lockdown in the Czech Republic is responsible for a fall in cases that began a week before it was actually announced. More significantly, the media's magnification of the Government's messaging, together with dramatically morbid footage and the selective use of exceptional cases of Covid among the young – not to mention death data presented with misleading historical comparisons – has amounted to an additional offensive in the campaign of fear that has had profound and troubling implications." In "The Government’s Shameful Use of Psychological Techniques to Terrify People," by James Moreton Wakeley, Lockdown Skeptics, 23-4 March 2021.
Run for the hills! We're all gonna die!
We're all gonna die, I say!
Then Bob, he ran, yes, ran for the hills,
And a heart attack took him away!
Walk for the hills! We're all gonna die!
We're all gonna a die, straightway!
Then Betty walked, yes, walked for the hills,
But was stricken down that day!
Stroll for the hills! We're all gonna die!
We're all gonna die, like prey!
Then Fred he strolled, he strolled towards those hills,
As death traveled with Fred's holiday!
Don't go near those hills today!
We're all gonna die on the way!
So Mary, she sought to stay away,
Thinking there was some sort of hideaway!
Scream and wail for yesterday!
We're all gonna die, they say!
What then does all the worry do
For those now well underway?
Rage and weep for what's in play!
Life ends with death's display.
Don't or do! Do or don't!
We're all gonna die someday.
Addendum of the Australian Overreaction: "...countries can't keep everybody out forever. The lockdowns have become another political black eye for conservative PM Scott Morrison. As we reported yesterday, many Australians are growing increasingly frustrated with what they see as an overreaction. Unfortunately, when everybody looks back at this a year from now, will they be even more furious when the realize how badly public health authorities overreacted?" In "Half Of Australia's Population Locked Down As Delta Hysteria Worsens" by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, 30 June 2021.
Consider a little tale of The very ants
Me - a pronoun's tale
Me has a pocket mirror
for emergencies unplanned,
When mirrors upon surrounding walls
don't satisfy demand.
Me is the mantra,
a meditation and
Me erects that pronoun
atop all shifting sand.
Me has a pocket mirror,
reassuring as it's needed,
When reflections seem too pale,
As if too far receded.
Me is that cushion,
a comfort ne'er impeded,
On which to lounge, to bask, and lie
with certainty ne'er exceeded.
"In July 2019, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Biden was paid $911,643 by Penn. The student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, counted just nine on-campus appearances by the then-former senator and vice president between February 2017 and February 2019. Five of those events featured cameos by Gutmann." In "Biden’s pick for German ambassador is president of university that paid him nearly $1M," by Samuel Chamberlain, NY Post, 2 July 2021.
How it works,
These little quirks,
In a system rich and rare,
Is that some perks,
In connected cirques,
Are paid to some millionaire.
How it works,
Behind bulwarks,
Is how these elite folks share.
Little guy,Little gal,
With no such connected pal,
Cannot play,
Not today,
In the richly upper classes.
It's all just Politics
Trust us, so often was it said, with an authoritative air
'The promise of eugenics at the very earliest is: 'We could do away with all the state institutions — prisons, hospitals, asylums, orphanages', Lombardo said. 'People who were in them just wouldn't be born after awhile if you sterilized all of their parents'," In "California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations," by Adam Beam, Associated Press, 7 July 2021. [ 1 ]
Trust us, so often was it said, with an authoritative air;
We know what's best that lies ahead, and what is ever fair.
Trust us for we know what's best then obscured the waiting snare.
We know how very right we are, for the greater good we care.
Trust us, as was so often said, and again is said. Beware.
Addendum of a Campaign Appearing Politically Motivated: "With President Ford’s reelection campaign looming on the horizon, the campaign increasingly appeared politically motivated. The rationale for mass vaccination seemed to stem from only the barest of biological reasoning — it turned out that the flu wasn’t even related to the virus that caused the grisly 1918 epidemic and, indeed, those who were infected with the flu only suffered from a mild illness while the vaccine, for the reasons stated above, resulted in over four-hundred and fifty people developing the paralyzing Guillain-Barré syndrome. Meanwhile, outside the United States’ borders, the flu never mushroomed into the anticipated public health disaster. It was the pandemic that never was. The New York Times went so far as to dub the whole affair a “fiasco,” damning one of the largest and probably one of the most well-intentioned public health initiatives by the US government." In "The Public Health Legacy of the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak," by Rebecca Kreston, Discover, 30 September 2013.
Addendum of 'Following the Science": "...it eventually came to light that the doctors let 622 men believe they were getting free healthcare and treatment — but actually gave them no treatment at all. Instead, the purpose of the Tuskegee experiment (a.k.a. the Tuskegee syphilis study) was to observe untreated black patients as syphilis ravaged their bodies. The United States Public Health Service ran the Tuskegee experiment from 1932 to 1972. It was the brainchild of senior official Taliaferro Clark, but he hardly worked alone. Several high-ranking members of the Public Health Service were involved and the study’s progress was regularly reported to the government and given repeated stamps of approval." In "‘You Don't Treat Dogs That Way': The Horrifying Story Of The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment," by Mark Oliver, All That's Interesting, 16 April 2019. [ 2 ]
Addendum of Having Followed the Science and the Law: "Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, 'for the protection and health of the state' did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Despite the changing attitudes in the coming decades regarding sterilization, the Supreme Court has never expressly overturned Buck v. Bell. It was widely believed to have been slightly weakened by Skinner v. Oklahoma 316 U.S. 535 (1942), which involved compulsory sterilization of male habitual criminals (and came to a contrary result). The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has also made guaranteed protections from the federal government to people with disabilities, including the intellectually disabled. The case is often cited as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions." In Buck v. Bell," Wikipedia article, n. d.
Addendum of a Mandatory Vaccine Scandal: "...there are questions about BioPort's role as the nation's only anthrax-vaccine maker. How did Fuad El-Hibri, 43, a German-born entrepreneur and former director of British vaccine-maker Porton Products, come to have so much control over the West's supply of anthrax vaccine? Why didn't the Pentagon turn to a larger, more established drug maker for the crucial anti-biowarfare weapon? And how could it let BioPort remain the sole maker of the vaccine after it failed repeatedly to gain FDA approval for its renovated facility? 'It speaks to DoD culture more than anything else,' says a congressional staff aide who asked not to be named. 'The Pentagon just does not have a corporate culture. Once they decided to go with this program (BioPort), they stuck with it, even though oversight indicated they had built their biodefense program on a foundation of sand, and they had an unreliable producer. The DoD is simply incapable of admitting a mistake. They genetically just can't back out'." In "The anthrax vaccine scandal, Why did the Pentagon allow BioPort Corp. to remain the sole U.S. supplier of a crucial weapon against bioterror, despite years of failure to deliver the vaccine?" by Laura Rosen, Salon, 15 October 2001. [ 3 ]
Addendum of a Drug's Cancer Risk: "A new study shows that daughters of women who took the anti-miscarriage drug DES, a synthetic estrogen, have a higher risk of developing breast cancer after age 50. ...we compared the incidents of breast cancer in the exposed to the incidents in the unexposed and found that the DES-exposed women had approximately 1.9 times the risk of breast cancer as the unexposed women." In "DES Daughters and Their Cancer Risk," National Public Radio, 8 August 2006.
Addendum of Exacerbation via Vaccine: "In November 2017, Sanofi Pasteur announced that the vaccine could indeed exacerbate cases of dengue in children never previously infected, and the Philippines halted the campaign immediately." In "Dengue vaccine fiasco leads to criminal charges for researcher in the Philippines," by Fatima Arkin, Science Magazine, 24 April 2019.
Addendum of Deadly Prevention: "All unintentional injury deaths - Number of deaths: 173,040; Deaths per 100,000 population: 52.7; Cause of death rank: 3." In "Accidents or Unintentional Injuries," National Center for Health Statistics / CDC, Page last reviewed: 9 April 2021. [ 4 ]
Addendum of the Greater Effectiveness: "Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at John Hopkins School of Medicine, during an appearance on The Vince Coglianese Show, said individuals formerly infected with COVID-19 are seven times more likely then vaccinated people to fight off the virus. 'It appears that natural immunity is better against the Delta variant. When you get infected with COVID, your body’s immune system develops antibodies to the entire surface of the virus,' Makary said. 'Not just the slight protein that the vaccines gives you, but the entire surface. And so you get a more diverse antibody portfolio in your system'." In "Dr. Makary Says Natural Immunity Is More Effective Then Vaccine Immunity," by Nicole Silverio, MSN/DC, 5 August 2021.
Addendum of Contamination: "About 1.6 million doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine have been taken out of use in Japan because of contamination, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says. Several vaccination centers have reported that vaccine vials contained foreign matter, according to an announcement Thursday from the ministry, which says it will seek to minimize the impact of the withdrawal on the country's inoculation program." In "Coronavirus latest: 1.6m Moderna doses withdrawn in Japan over contamination," Staff, Nikkei Asia, 23 August 2021.
Addendum of Fully Vaccinated Super Spreaders: "The data showed that fully vaccinated workers — about two months after injection with the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (AZD1222) — acquired, carried and presumably transmitted the Delta variant to their vaccinated colleagues. They almost certainly also passed the Delta infection to susceptible unvaccinated people, including their patients. Sequencing of strains confirmed the workers transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to one another. This is consistent with the observations in the U.S. from Farinholt and colleagues, and congruent with comments by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conceding COVID-19 vaccines have failed to stop transmission of SARS-CoV-2." In "Study: Fully Vaccinated Healthcare Workers Carry 251 Times Viral Load, Pose Threat to Unvaccinated Patients, Co-Workers, A preprint paper by the prestigious Oxford University Clinical Research Group, published Aug. 10 in The Lancet, found vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated." By Peter A. McCullough, Children's Health Defense via Rockwell, 25 August 2021. [ 5 ]
Addendum of an Obituary of One Who Trusted: "Mike was adamant that people know what happened to him that caused his early and unexpected death. Message from Mike: “Many nurses and non-nursing staff begged me and my wife to get the truth out to the public about the Covid-19 vaccines because the truth of deaths from the vaccine was being hidden within the medical profession. I promised I would get the message out. So, here is my message: I was afraid of getting the vaccine for fear that I might die. At the insistence of my doctor, I gave in to pressure to get vaccinated. On August 17th I received the Moderna vaccine and starting feeling ill three days later. I never recovered but continued to get worse. I developed multisystem inflammation and multisystem failure that medical professionals could not stop. My muscles disappeared as if to disintegrate. I was in ICU for several weeks and stabbed with needles up to 24 times a day for those several weeks, while also receiving 6 or 7 IVs at the same time (continuously). It was constant torture that I cannot describe. I was no longer treated as a human with feelings and a life. I was nothing more than a covid vaccine human guinea pig and the doctors excited to participate in my fascinating progression unto death. If you want to know more, please ask my wife. I wished I would have never gotten vaccinated. If you are not vaccinated, don’t do it unless you are ready to suffer and die.” In "Michael 'Mike' Anthony Granata of Gilroy, California | 1965 - 2021 | Obituary," Habing Family Funeral Home, November 2021.
And so one considers the tragic humor -- Trust us, said each Lucy
NOTES
[ 1 ] "While the allegations against ICE are undoubtedly horrific and must be investigated, they are not at all unprecedented or un-American — in fact, they are very American. The United States has a long, egregious, and largely unknown history of eugenics and forced sterilization, primarily directed towards poor women, disabled women, and women of color. The American eugenics movement originated in the late 1800s and has always been undeniably based in racism and nativism. The word 'eugenics' originally referred to the biological improvement of human genes, but was used as a pseudoscience to justify discriminatory and destructive acts against supposedly undesirable people, such as extremely restrictive immigration laws, anti-miscegenation laws, and forced sterilization. The ultimate goal of the eugenics movement was to 'breed out' undesirable traits in order to create a society with a 'superior' genetic makeup, which essentially meant reducing the population of the non-white and the mentally ill. The eugenics movement was widely accepted in American society well into the 20th century, and was not at all relegated to the fringes of society like one might expect. In fact, most states had federally funded eugenics boards, and state-ordered sterilization was a common occurrence. Sterilization was seen as one of the most effective ways to stem the growth of an 'undesirable' population, since ending a woman’s reproductive capabilities meant that she would no longer be able to contribute to the population." In "America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization," by Sanjana Menjeshwar, Berkeley Political Review, 4 November 2020.
Sterilization by Government
That the "eugenics movement was widely accepted in American society" and still continues is obvious and yet still somehow clothed in new slogans to dress up the same activities. Consider a story -- and challenge -- in rhyme, How to kill a negro
[ 2 ] Of this decades long experiment by government, one learns: "On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton issued a formal Presidential Apology for the study." In "The Tuskegee Timeline," The U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee, CDC, 22 April 2021. What this demonstrates is that the federal government was wrong, and criminally so ,over a period of forty years, and it required another twenty-five years for a formal apology. Such is the nature of government in America, so one may argue with cause.
"...they could not trust the government with their health."
The notion that a citizen must trust in government under any political party is ludicrous, given the simple and ongoing testimony of government and its rampant Corruption
Justice Perverted and Lovers of Money
From the Jewish tradition, one reads of this: "If you see the poor oppressed, rights violated and justice perverted in the province, don’t be surprised; for a high official has one higher watching him, and there are others above them. But the greatest advantage to the country is when the king makes himself a servant to the land. The lover of money never has enough money; the lover of luxury never has enough income." Ecclesiastes 5:7-19, Complete Jewish Bible.
Avoid Such People
From the Christian tradition, one finds a similar skepticism: "But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
Believe Every Word of Both Sides' Accusations
Advice is found as regards believing in what government says. "Washington's sudden fixation on campaign finance won't bring about honesty in government, and it won't increase anyone's liberty. But it does give the public a real-world civics lesson. For it shows that government is no neutral arbiter of justice, but a corrupt scheme by which the politically powerful enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. As each political party accuses the other of corruption, here's the rule of thumb: believe every word." In "Corruption in Government?" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., The Free Market 15, no. 4, April 1997.
[ 3 ] Judging this government-caused scandal by follow-on reports, one finds: "In federal court, two lawsuits are pending against BioPort, a third against the Food and Drug Administration, the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services. The lawsuits challenge whether the vaccine is safe, effective, even necessary. On Dec. 22, 2003, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C., blocked the Pentagon from forcing soldiers to get vaccinated. He ruled that the FDA had never approved the vaccine for use against inhaled anthrax. The military, he said, could not make troops 'serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs'. Eight days later, the FDA approved the vaccine against inhaled anthrax." In "Are U.S. Soldiers Victims of Experimental Anthax Vaccine? Victims of Experimental Anthrax Vaccine? N.C. troops say military program is unsafe," by Team VCS, Charlotte Observer (North Carolina), 26 September 2004.
A Month Later
A month later: "Justice Sullivan rebuked the government, stating: 'Congress has prohibited the administration of investigational drugs to service members without their consent. This Court will not permit the government to circumvent this requirement. The men and women of our armed forces deserve the assurance that the vaccines our government compels them to take into their bodies have been tested by the greatest scrutiny of all - public scrutiny. This is the process the FDA in its expert judgment has outlined, and this is the course this Court shall compel FDA to follow.' This decision is a major victory affirming the universal right of informed consent to medical experimentation—including members of the armed forces. The decision is a bitter sweet victory exonerating soldiers who were subjected to disciplinary measures for asserting their right to refuse an experimental vaccine that in their judgment posed unacceptable heath hazards. The anthrax vaccine decision underscores the need for civilian oversight over the military and the immense importance of trial lawyers who often provide the only means for stopping government officials from abusing their authority. Once again, the FDA has been shown to put its seal of approval to illegal practices that adversely affect the health and safety of citizens - in this instance, military personnel." In "US Court: Forced Anthrax Vaccination Illegal - FDA's Approval Invalid," by Vera Hassner Sharav, New Media Explorer, 28 October 2004.
And Another Month Later
And yet a month later: "Vaccine accidents do happen, they do get covered up, and they deserve close scrutiny. One of the most famous vaccine accidents is the contamination of the first polio vaccines with a monkey virus, and a new book on the accident by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher, The Virus and the Vaccine, has many parallels with Vaccine A. But the research in this book is meticulous, and Bookchin and Schumacher’s tone is so measured and thoughtful that my mind opens to their controversial thesis (that the monkey virus accidentally injected into people through polio vaccines causes human cancers). I’m not convinced that the monkey virus does, in fact, cause harm, but I am convinced that the question merits serious attention. Matsumoto, in contrast, with his sloppy errors, remote possibilities trumped up as facts, and outright dismissal of evidence that doesn’t support his thesis, leaves me groaning." In "Anthrax Scare, Did the military secretly doctor its anthrax vaccine?" by Jon Cohen, Slate, 16 November 2004.
Yes, no, maybe. Follow the science? Follow the politics.
[ 4 ] Health care can be lethal, one learns when one "follows the science."
One finds "...about 12% of preventable patient harm results in 'prolonged, permanent disability' or even death. Lead study author Maria Panagioti and her co-authors conducted a meta-analysis of international data from 70 studies involving 337,025 patients, finding the same results across the U.S. and Europe. The largest share of this preventable harm, they found, was related to medication and other treatments." In "In a review of 337,000 patient cases, this was the No. 1 most common preventable medical error," By Meera Jagannathn, Market Watch, 18 October 2019.
Trust us, it is said.
[ 5 ] Trust us about the vaccine and vaccinated, said the experts. The Trump-era "warp speed" vaccination development will work. The two-shot mRNA "investigational" vaccines will work. The now-advised booster will work. As of this writing, the second advised booster in Israel will work. And yet onhe reads a little further.
"23 complete-genome sequences were obtained. They all belonged to the Delta variant, and were phylogenetically distinct from the contemporary Delta variant sequences obtained from community transmission cases, suggestive of ongoing transmission between the workers. Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020. Time from diagnosis to PCR negative was 8–33 days (median: 21). Neutralizing antibody levels after vaccination and at diagnosis of the cases were lower than those in the matched uninfected controls. There was no correlation between vaccine-induced neutralizing antibody levels and viral loads or the development of symptoms. Interpretation: Breakthrough Delta variant infections are associated with high viral loads, prolonged PCR positivity, and low levels of vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies, explaining the transmission between the vaccinated people. Physical distancing measures remain critical to reduce SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant transmission." In "Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam," by Nguyen Van Vinh Chau and Nghiem My Ngoc, preprint from The Lancet, 10 August 2021.
A highlight worth repeating, as experts are "explaining the transmission between the vaccinated people." Rationales are replacing explanations. "Could have been worse without the vaccine" is offered as the next rationale. Could have been. Trust us.
Trust us, said each Lucy
on that day,
Trust us, trusting Charlie,come what may.
Trust us, the mediasay today,
Trust should wither,many say.
Yet the joke holds
firm and fast,
Though trust is broken,cannot last.
Trust us, still, likecartoons passed;
Play the game with someother cast.
Trust us, said each Lucy
earnestly,
Trust us, Charlie,wait and see.
Trust us, authority,yessiree.
Trust with Charlie's trustwillingly.
Addendum of Rushing Out a Coronavirus Vaccine: "Vaccine experts are warning the federal government against rushing out a coronavirus vaccine before testing has shown it's both safe and effective. Decades of history show why they're right. ... An EUA is much quicker. Only once before has the FDA given a vaccine this lesser standard approval of an EUA, but it was in an unusual circumstance. Soldiers had sued, claiming a mandatory anthrax vaccine made them sick, and a judge put a hold on the program. The Department of Defense asked for an EUA that then overrode the court ruling in 2005, so it could continue vaccinating military personnel -- this time on a voluntary basis. Otherwise, vaccines have had to go through the entire clinical trial process and FDA approval process, which can take months or years. When the vaccine making process has been rushed, there have been bad outcomes." In "Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid'," by Jen Christensen, CNN, 1 September 2020. [ 1 ]
Addendum of a Dangerous Game: "Once it is revealed that any individual has presented information selectively to get the listener to change their behavior -- that person will forever be viewed through that lens: a calculating person. Is Fauci telling me this because the science supports it, because he believes it, or because he thinks hearing it might motivate a behavioral change on my part? Personally, I don't see a way back from this situation. The moment the public believes that you might be withholding, selectively presenting, or distorting information to get them to behave a certain way, they will immediately put your comments through a translator. He might be saying this because it's what he believes, but what if he is saying it to change my behavior. What might that look like? What does he want my behavior to be, and what would it be if he told me something else? If that's the case, what might his real feelings be ... and on and on. The moment you enter this state in a relationship, there is no path back, it is over. Trust is irrevocably broken." In "Op-Ed: Why Did Fauci Move the Herd Immunity Goal Posts? -- Scientists play a dangerous game when they tailor factual statements to promote policy goals," by Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, MedPageToday, 29 December 2020.
Addendum of Flying Blind at the CDC: "The Delta variant was first identified in the United States in April and by May it was well onto its exponential growth curve, doubling every 10-12 days, as the basis for Covid infections, now reaching over 96% prevalence. Ironically, on 1 May, the CDC announced it would stop monitoring post-vaccination breakthrough infections unless they led to hospitalizations or deaths. This decision can be seen as exceptionally ill-advised and has led to a country flying blind in its attempt to confront its fourth wave of infections – one that has rapidly led to well over 100,000 new cases per day and more than 60,000 hospitalizations, both higher than the US first and second pandemic waves. It is unfathomable that we do not know how many of these are occurring in people who were vaccinated." In "America is flying blind when it comes to the Delta variant," Eric Topol. Guardian UK, 9 August 2021. [ 2 ]
Addendum of Gaslighting: "It is beyond clear at this point that vaccines will not just not end Covid, they so far seem to have made at best - at best - a marginal difference in the course of the epidemic. In fact, to look at Israel’s experience against that of Lebanon and other neighboring countries with much lower vaccination rates is to wonder if they have done any good at all. (I hope to come back to that question, too, in another Stack.) It's okay to be wrong - as public health advocates have been, over and over and over. It's not okay to lie about being wrong. But they can’t help themselves." In "Gaslighting, a Covid love story - If at first you don't succeed, lie about what you promised," by Alex Berenson, Substack, 14 August 2021.
Addendum of Their Super Bowl: " 'It's definitely an economic attack on the United States,' said FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jay Greenberg, who is investigating cases as part of the Justice Department's Covid fraud task force. 'Tens of billions of dollars will be missing. ... It's a significant amount of money that's gone overseas.' Under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program for gig workers and contractors, people could apply for retroactive relief, claiming months of joblessness with no employer verification possible. In some cases, that meant checks or debit cards worth $20,000, Hall said. 'Organized crime has never had an opportunity where any American's identity could be converted into $20,000, and it became their Super Bowl,' he said. 'And these states were not equipped to do identity verification, certainly not remote identity verification. And in the first few months and still today, organized crime has just made these states a target'." In " 'Easy money': How international scam artists pulled off an epic theft of Covid benefits - Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers and Nigerian scammers have used stolen identities to plunder tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid, officials say," by Ken Dilanian, Kit Ramgopal and Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 15 August 2021.
Addendum of Strategic Deception and False Flags: "Several crises in the U.S. within the last several years have appeared to be at least partly falsified. This has led reasonable people to question whether staged events or 'false flag' operations and strategies have been used on Americans to achieve policies that would not be achieved without being prompted by an apparently falsified (or 'strategically deceptive') crisis. If, for example, U.S. federal government officials decided that 'vaccine hesitancy,' pandemics, and 'emerging infectious diseases' like coronaviruses were 'wicked problems,' then, according to the cited U.S. document, 'strategic deception' may be a method used to solve such problems. This official U.S. document is significant proof for those who question whether the U.S. federal government national security officials or other federal bureaus and departments may be using deception in such a manner. Some of the most influential U.S. national security officials recommended the possibility of using strategic deception – which would likely include hoaxes and 'false flag' operations – on Americans to solve problems. One cannot be labeled a crazy conspiracy theorist for mentioning the use of deception as a possibility when it is considered that some of the most powerful and influential U.S. national security and intelligence community government officials recommended it to solve problems in the United States." In "Obama-era report recommended ‘strategic deception’ of Americans during national crises," by Robert L. Kinney III, LifeSite News, 24 August 2021.
Addendum of Trust II: "Whistleblowers said management punished employees who didn’t complete the assessments within 90 days, which scientists say is too short a timeframe. 'Managers seem to think their job is to get as many new chemicals on the market as fast as possible,' Bennett said. Those who pushed back against management were often berated, threatened and insulted, one former scientist who declined to use their name for fear of retaliation told the Guardian. In one instance, a manager allegedly threw a memo at a chemist. Emails show that management asked a scientist to make bogus harassment charges against another chemist who wouldn’t make changes to a risk assessment that managers had demanded." In "EPA is falsifying risk assessments for dangerous chemicals, say whistleblowers," by Tom Perkins, Guardian UK, 27 August 2021.
Addendum of Attempts to Delete Evidence: "Daszak’s deletion of the tweet follows The National Pulse unearthing the scientist's extensive conflicts of interest with the Chinese Communist Party and its Wuhan Institute of Virology. These ties ultimately led to his recusal from the Lancet COVID-19 commission, where he used his position to discredit the 'lab leak' theory and spread disinformation about the origins of the virus. The unearthed post also follows Fauci, whose NIAID sponsored the event, denying affiliation with the Wuhan lab." In "EcoHealth's Peter Daszak Deletes Tweet Revealing Wuhan Lab Researchers At Fauci-Funded Conference," by Natalie Winters, National Pulse, 28 August 2021.
Addendum of FDA Resignations: "..the two were frustrated over pressure to clear the use of COVID booster shots, Endpoints News reported, citing a former senior FDA official. 'FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service,' former FDA acting chief scientist Luciana Borio tweeted. 'These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,' Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news. 'Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.' The departures come after the Biden administration announced that booster shots could be available as early as the week of September 20th, despite the FDA not having yet completed its review of the use of COVID boosters." In "Report: Top FDA vaccine regulators quit over COVID booster shot approval," by staff, Arutz Sheva, 1 September 2021.
Addendum of Having Trusted Purdue Pharma: "OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma was dissolved Wednesday as part of a $4.5 billion bankruptcy settlement regarding its involvement in the opioid crisis. The company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, will be forced to hand over billions of dollars to help address the ongoing battle with opioids in America. However, as part of the bankruptcy agreement that dissolves their company, the Sacklers are absolved of future liability that could stem from Purdue and the opioid epidemic. The settlement, provisionally approved by White Plains, New York, Judge Robert Drain, will end thousands of lawsuits against Purdue by state, local and tribal governments, as well as hospitals and individual plaintiffs. The suits were in response to the opioid crisis which has claimed more than 500,000 American lives, according to The New York Times." In "Pharma Giant Purdue Dissolved In $4.5 Billion Opioid Settlement," by Dylan Housman, Daily Caller, 1 September 2021.
Addendum of Trusting the False: "The Food and Drug Administration said it's 'working closely with Ellume to assess the company's additional manufacturing checks and other corrective steps to help ensure that the issue is resolved.' 'At Ellume, we understand that trust is central to fulfilling our purpose as a company, and we recognize that this incident may have shaken the confidence of some of those who trusted Ellume to help them manage their health and to take back a bit of control of their lives during this pandemic,' Sean Parsons, the company's founder and CEO, said in a statement. Ellume was the first company authorized by the FDA to sell COVID-19 testing kits in stores. The rapid test kits provide results within 15 minutes and do not require a prescription. In clinical studies, Ellume tests were 96% accurate, according to data from the company." In "An at-home, rapid COVID test sold through Amazon, CVS, Target, and Walmart was recalled after a large number of false positives," by Emily Walsh, Business Insider via Yahoo News, 6 October 2021. [ 3 ]
NOTE
[ 1 ] The "colossally stupid" is here. The article from September, only a year ago, is recalled as Trump's "warp speed" program was "rushed" to the political cries of dismay from the Democrat candidates in an upcoming election. The "investigational vaccine" was being clinically tested in a phase 3 trial, the phase 2 trial having been radically foreshortened.
CNN's Christensen detailed: "From 1955 to 1963, between 10% and 30% of polio vaccines were contaminated with simian virus 40 (SV40). 'The way they would grow the virus was on monkey tissues. These rhesus macaques were imported from India, tens of thousands of them,' medical anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain said. 'They were gang caged and in those conditions, the ones that didn't die on the journey, many got sick, and the viruses spread quickly,' added Jain, who taught a history of vaccines course at Stanford and is working on a publication about the incident. Scientists wrongly thought the formaldehyde they used would kill the virus. 'It was being transferred to millions of Americans,' Jain said."
Imagine that. Scientists "wrongly thought...." Noting the time frame above -- 1955 to 1963 -- this was a period of about nine years. The current mRNA EUAs and "approval" for a brand name mRNA not actually available as of writing by the FDA are scientists who may have forgotten or never known the simple history which CNN's Christensen documented, as she chose the title for her report, "Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid'."
[ 2 ] Dr. Topol adds: "...systematic collection of data would be the foundation for understanding who is at risk for breakthrough infections, determining the current level of effectiveness of vaccines and whether, when, and in whom, booster shots should be recommended. It is remarkable that none of this is getting done for hospitalized patients, who represent an undetermined fraction of the people who are getting quite ill, some requiring monoclonal antibody infusions to pre-empt getting admitted. This is not by any means the first breakdown of the CDC in managing and communicating about the pandemic. But with billions of dollars allocated to CDC earlier this year for improved Covid-19 surveillance, this represents a blatant failure that is putting millions of vaccinated Americans at unnecessary risk for breakthrough infections and leaving us without a navigational system for the US Delta wave."
How odd that the "center" for "disease control" changes its own data collection at seemingly inopportune times.
[ 3 ] One notes that the company was the first that the FDA "trusted," and now that "trust" based on the company's own data given to the FDA is suspect. How is an assertion of "trust the science" stand when, after the fact that the accuracy was to some degree false and the product consumers hoped to trust was recalled?
The lab rat and the guinea pig
Protest against mandates in California, August 2021
The lab rat and the guinea pig
Never have a choice;
Caught and caged, they can't renege
And haven't got a voice.
Clinical that science is
Which inoculates in droves
The rats and pigs in needled quiz
To gather data's troves.
Each lab rat and each guinea pig
Is sacrificed to prove
Something this and something that.
Perhaps they'd disapprove?
Shall we ask the pig and rat,
Penned, corralled, and stuck?
Shall we think of where they're at?
Ponder on their luck?
Caught and caged both come before
Experiments are forced;
Such is the order evermore,
Till a rebellion is endorsed.
The lab rat and the guinea pig?
Think we're not them, my friend?
Look around at tides so big
Which draw men to their end.
Did you hear the one about the two rats? One asks the other, ”Hey, did you get the jab yet?” "Nah, I’m waiting for the human test results.”
Addendum of American Science and Studies: "Many of these experiments violated US law. Some others were sponsored by government agencies or rogue elements thereof, including the Centers for Disease Control, the United States military, and the Central Intelligence Agency, or they were sponsored by private corporations which were involved in military activities. The human research programs were usually highly secretive and performed without the knowledge or authorization of Congress, and in many cases information about them was not released until many years after the studies had been performed." In "Unethical human experimentation in the United States," Wikipedia article, n. d.
DDT for children - circa 1950
Addendum of Lacking Acknowledgement: "As of 2007, not a single U.S. government researcher had been prosecuted for human experimentation. The preponderance of the victims of U.S. government experiments have not received compensation or, in many cases, acknowledgment of what was done to them." Ibid.
1970s and forward
Addendum of Decades of Use: "We now recognize, decades too late, that mefloquine is neurotoxic and can cause lasting injury to the brainstem and emotional centers in the limbic system. As a result of its toxic effects, the drug is quickly becoming the 'Agent Orange' of this generation, linked to a growing list of lasting neurological and psychiatric problems including suicide. .... As frightening as its intoxicating effects can be, mefloquine's dangers may not go away even when the drug is discontinued. Today's mefloquine product information warns of 'serious, long-lasting mental illness' and psychiatric symptoms that can 'continue for months or years after mefloquine has been stopped.' Unfortunately, until recently, prominent authorities denied this was even possible. Clear the drug from your system, they insisted, and behavior would return to normal." In "Mefloquine: The Military's Suicide Pill -- We owe it this generation of veterans to recognize the neurological and psychiatric effects of mefloquine neurotoxicity alongside PTSD and TBI for what they are: the third signature injury of modern war," by Remington Nevin, Huff Post, November 25, 2013.
1976
Swine Flu Vaccine
Addendum of a Fiasco I: " 'With President Ford’s reelection campaign looming on the horizon, the campaign increasingly appeared politically motivated,' Kreston writes. In the end, one journalist at The New York Times went so far as to call the whole thing a 'fiasco.' Epidemiology takes time, politics is often about looking like you’re doing something and logistics between branches of government are extremely complicated. These factors all contributed to the pandemic that never was." In "The Long Shadow of the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine 'Fiasco' - Some, but not all, of the hesitance to embrace vaccines can be traced back to this event more than 40 years ago," by Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 February 2017.
Addendum of a Fiasco II: "In March, President Ford announced a $137m (£67.5m in 1976) effort to produce a vaccine by the autumn. 'Its goal was to immunise every man, woman and child in the US, and thus was the largest and most ambitious immunisation program ever undertaken in the United States,' wrote Imperato in a 2015 paper reflecting on the events. With hindsight, it’s easy to see that the fears of the time were unfounded. The swine flu strain spotted at Fort Dix was not dangerous, and there would be no pandemic." In "The fiasco of the 1976 ‘swine flu affair," by Richard Fisher, BBC, 21 September 2020.
1980s
Addendum of a Whitewash: "Whether Fauci personally had this authority or not isn't the point. His excuse would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic; he was constantly traveling and speaking to the media and opining about everything related to AIDS research and treatment. In Arthur Kahn's book, Winter Wars, Larry Kramer pointed out that to get an appointment with Fauci, one didn't call his secretary but his press officers, 'who book [his] talks and interviews... like movie stars.' He could easily have advocated awareness of the preventive treatment, as the de facto federal AIDS Czar, his influence was and is enormous. Had Fauci listened to people with AIDS and the clinicians treating them, and responded accordingly, he would have saved thousands of lives. In the two years between 1987, when Callen met with Fauci and 1989, when the guidelines were ultimately issued, nearly 17,000 people with AIDS suffocated from PCP. Most of these people might have lived had Fauci responded appropriately." In "Whitewashing AIDS History," by Sean Strub, Huff Post, 21 February 2014.
1996
Protest in Africa Against Vaccine Mandates
Addendum of Dead African Children: "The company was Pfizer, the country was Nigeria, and the context was the long-simmering, still-bitter aftermath of the drug giant's quick-and-dirty 1996 trials of an experimental antibiotic for children during a devastating meningitis outbreak. A truly chilling cautionary tale of industry-funded clinical trials in the developing world, this event is recalled in the West mainly as the inspiration for John le Carré's evil-pharma thriller The Constant Gardener. The cables suggest that the world's largest drugmaker may have blackmailed the head of Nigeria's Ministry of Justice into dropping a $6 billion criminal lawsuit." In "Did Pfizer Bribe Its Way Out of Criminal Charges in Nigeria? - WikiLeaks cables shed new light into one of Big Pharma's darkest hours," by Walter Armstrong, Atlantic, 27 December 2010.
2000
Addendum of Downplaying a Killer Drug with Assurances: "A reconstruction of Rezulin’s rise and fall shows that senior government officials repeatedly played down the drug’s propensity to cause liver failure and death. Before it was withdrawn on March 21, the FDA assured doctors and patients that Rezulin’s potential benefits in lowering blood-sugar levels outweighed its grave risks." In "The Rise and Fall of the Killer Drug Rezulin," by David Willman, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2000.
2002
Addendum of Safe But Withdrawn: "Despite the lack of evidence that the complaints were caused by the vaccine, sales plummeted and LYMErix was withdrawn from the U.S. market by GlaxoSmithKline in February 2002, in the setting of negative media coverage and fears of vaccine side effects. The fate of LYMErix was described in the medical literature as a 'cautionary tale'; an editorial in Nature cited the withdrawal of LYMErix as an instance in which 'unfounded public fears place pressures on vaccine developers that go beyond reasonable safety considerations.' The original developer of the OspA vaccine at the Max Planck Institute told Nature: 'This just shows how irrational the world can be ... There was no scientific justification for the first OspA vaccine LYMErix being pulled'. Vaccines have been formulated and approved for the prevention of Lyme disease in dogs. Currently, three Lyme disease vaccines are available. LymeVax, formulated by Fort Dodge Laboratories, contains intact dead spirochetes which expose the host to the organism. Galaxy Lyme, Intervet-Schering-Plough's vaccine, targets proteins OspC and OspA. The OspC antibodies kill any of the bacteria that have not been killed by the OspA antibodies. Canine Recombinant Lyme, formulated by Merial, generates antibodies against the OspA protein so a tick feeding on a vaccinated dog draws in blood full of anti-OspA antibodies, which kill the spirochetes in the tick's gut before they are transmitted to the dog." In "Lyme disease," Wikipedia article, n. d.
2004
Addendum of Tests on AIDS Orphans: "Among the drugs tested in foster care children, is Nevirapine, a drug whose safety has been the center of controversy. [AP] Because Nevirapine confers resistance following even a single (low) dose, its manufacturer cautions that its use should be restricted to “previously untreated women with HIV infection who present at labor” for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Yet, 4 to 17 year old children in foster care were exposed to Nevirapine. A Phase I trial of a Glaxo Wellcome drug, Valacyclovir hydrochloride was terminated in 1997 – Why? Typically, trials terminated at such an early stage show unacceptable levels of toxicity." In "Testimony by The Alliance for Human Research Protection, Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials, 18 May 2005.
Addendum of Deleting Negative Information: "The government's chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a U.S.-funded drug study to change its conclusions and delete negative information. Later, he ordered the research resumed over the objections of his staff, documents show. Dr. Edmund Tramont, chief of the National Institutes of Health's AIDS Division, took responsibility for both decisions. He cited his four decades of medical experience and argued that Africans in the midst of an AIDS crisis deserved some leniency in meeting U.S. safety standards, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press." In "Gov't MD Doctored AIDS Drug Study," CBS/AP, 13 December 2004.
Addendum of Looking Back at AIDS Drug Experiments: "On March 10, 2004, The ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) filed a complaint with both the Food and Drug Administration and the federal Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) when we learned that 36 Phase I and Phase II AIDS drug and vaccine experiments had been conducted on infants and children who were under the guardianship of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). We had reason to believe that the experiments were unethical, illegal, and coercive–and that federal regulations have been violated. The children were living at Incarnation Children’s Center, a foster care facility under contract with ACS and the Catholic Archdiocese. ...The Associated Press confirms that for more than two decades, government officials colluded with hospitals and researchers to facilitate the enrollment of children who were in the care of the state for experimental drug trials. Nationwide, an estimated 698 to 1,388 foster children were used to test experimental AIDS drugs – at least 465 of those children were in the care of NYC’s ACS – almost all were children of color." In "2005: A National Scandal: AIDS Drug Experiments on Children in Foster Care," Alliance for Human Research Protection, 1 August 2015.
2005
Addendum of Money: "More than 900 current and former scientists at the National Institutes of Health legally collected $8.9 million in such royalties last year for drugs and inventions they discovered while working for the government, according to information obtained by The Associated Press. But until last week, none was required to tell patients about their royalties despite the government's promise in May 2000 that all scientists' financial stakes would be disclosed to patients. That's because NIH didn't get around to enacting a policy requiring the disclosure until after AP requested the royalty payments and disclosure policies under the Freedom of Information Act in December." In "Profit Motive Hidden From Patients," CBS / AP, 11 January 2005.
Addendum of a Pfizer Fraud Settlement: "American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together 'Pfizer') have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, the Justice Department announced today. Pharmacia & Upjohn Company has agreed to plead guilty to a felony violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for misbranding Bextra with the intent to defraud or mislead. Bextra is an anti-inflammatory drug that Pfizer pulled from the market in 2005." In "Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History - Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing," Department pf Justice, 2 September 2009.
2006
Addendum of Pharmaceutical News from 2006: "Charging $4,200 a does for a new version of an old cancer drug has helped make Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong a billionaire. The drug, Abraxane, does not help patients live longer than the older treatment, though it does shrink tumors in more patients, according to clinical trials. And the old and the news medicines have similar side effects. An independent review of Abraxane published in December in a cancer research journal concluded that the drug was 'old wine in a new bottle'." In "Hope, at $4,200 a Dose," by Alex Berenson, NY Times, 1 October 2006.
2009
Addendum of Another Cautionary Tale: "Clinical trials of H1N1 vaccines began in July of 2009, with federal officials planning to have 120 million doses for a rollout. But since the flu virus is heavily seasonal, cases faded in the northern hemisphere with summer, and with it, public concern over the virus faded as well. By August, a poll found that only 40% of parents planned to get the H1N1 shot for their children. Meanwhile, right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh and comedian Bill Maher were among those bad-mouthing the risks of the rapidly developed vaccine, raising popular fears. " In "The H1N1 Vaccine Is A Cautionary Tale For The Coronavirus - The first lesson of any vaccination program? “You have to get people on board with getting the vaccine,” by Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed News, 27 August 2020.
Addendum of Pfizer: "Authorities called Pfizer a repeat offender, noting it is the company’s fourth such settlement of government charges in the last decade. The allegations surround the marketing of 13 different drugs, including big sellers such as Viagra, Zoloft, and Lipitor. As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their expenses and providing perks, prosecutors said. 'They were entertained with golf, massages, and other activities,' said Mike Loucks, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts." In "Pfizer to pay record $2.3 billion penalty," Associated Press, 2 September 2009.
2012
Addendum of Another Pfizer Settlement fo Bribery: "Today, the New York headquarters of the pharmaceutical giant has agreed to pay a total of $60.2 million in penalties to settle the documented charges of bribery. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says that Pfizer Italy employees went out of their way to 'falsely' book the expenses under 'misleading' labels like 'Professional Training,' and 'Advertising in Scientific Journals.' The penalty is roughly half a percent of the company annual profits that exceed $10 billion a year on global sales of $67.4 billion in 2011." In "Pfizer Admits Bribery in Eight Countries," by Pratap Chatterjee, Corpwatch, 8 August 2012.
2013
Addendum of Using Indians as Guinea Pigs: "The three-dose HPV series costs approximately $150 in India. The fact that Merck, which makes Gardasil, and GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Cervarix, donated almost $6 million worth of their vaccines to the PATH trial 'was not philanthropy,' asserts Chandra M. Gulhati, editor of the Monthly Index of Medical Specialities, an influential journal in India. 'It is shocking to see how an American organization used surreptitious methods to establish itself in India,' he charges. 'This is an obvious case where Indians were being used as guinea pigs,' contends Samiran Nundy, a gastrointestinal expert at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi and editor emeritus of the National Medical Journal of India." In "Indian Parliament Comes Down Hard on Cervical Cancer Trial," by Pallava Bagla, Science Mag, 9 September 2013.
2015
Addendum of Neither Safe Nor Effective: "Compared to all other vaccines in the U.S. schedule, Gardasil alone is associated with 61 percent of all serious adverse events, including 63.8 percent of all deaths and 81.2 percent of all permanent disabilities in females under 30 years of age. In fact, Japan, India and France have removed HPV vaccines from their recommended list due to safety and efficacy concerns. Unethical practices and serious post HPV vaccination injuries and deaths prompted the Supreme Court of India to initiate an ongoing investigation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." In "HPV vaccine is neither safe nor effective," by William Reichel and Emily Tarsell, Baltimore Sun, 12 August 2015.
2015 Again
Addendum of a Toxic, Expensive and Controversial Drug: " 'That study was so sloppily done that it really didn't mean much,' says Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, a leading New York City AIDS doctor. Dr. Harvey Bialy, scientific editor of the journal Biotechnology, is stunned by the low quality of science surrounding AIDS research. When asked if he had seen any evidence of the claims made for AZT, that it 'prolongs life' in AIDS patients, Bialy said, 'No, I have not seen a published study that is rigorously done, analyzed, and objectively reported.' Bialy, who is also a molecular biologist, is horrified by the widespread use of AZT, not just because it is toxic, but because, he insists, the claims its widespread use are based upon are false. 'I can't see how this drug could be doing anything other than making people very sick,' he says. The scientific facts about AZT and AIDS are indeed astonishing. Most ironically, the drug has been found to accelerate the very process it was said to prevent: the loss of T-4 cells. 'Undeniably, AZT kills T-4 cells [white blood cells vital to the immune system],” says Bialy. 'No one can argue with that. AZT is a chain-terminating nucleotide, which means that it stops DNA replication. It seeks out any cell that is engaged in DNA replication and kills it. The place where most of this replication is taking place is in the bone marrow. That's why the most common and severe side effect of the drug is bone marrow toxicity. That is why they [patients] need blood transfusions.' AZT has been aggressively and repeatedly marketed as a drug that prolongs survival in AIDS patients because it stops the HIV virus from replicating and spreading to healthy cells. But, says Bialy: 'There is no good evidence that HIV actively replicates in a person with AIDS, and if there isn’t much HIV replication to stop, it's mostly killing healthy cells'." In "AIDS and the AZT Scandal: SPIN's 1989 Feature, 'Sins of Omission' -- The story of AZT, one of the most toxic, expensive, and controversial drugs in the history of medicine," by Celia Farber, Spin, 5 October 2015. [ 1 ]
2017
Addendum of the Swine Flu's Lifelong Narcolepsy: "Around 1,700 adults and children across Europe are now registered in the EU database of adverse drug reactions as suffering from the lifelong neurological condition narcolepsy following their vaccination. Mr Andriukaitis said he was upset about hearing from some of the children and their families at a recent meeting in Brussels where they called on him to launch a pan-EU wide inquiry into the cases that were triggered by use of the Pandemrix vaccine to treat the 2009/10 swine flu outbreak. Almost 1,700 adults and children in total across Europe are registered in the EU database of adverse drug reactions who now suffer from the lifelong neurological condition as a result." In "EU health chief: children suffered ‘terrifying experiences’ from swine flu vaccine side effects," by Paul Gallagher, I News / Associated Newspapers, 22 February 2017.
1999 through 2004
Addendum of Merck's Vioxx: "It's looking more and more likely that the Merck painkiller Vioxx, the blockbuster drug suspected of having caused more than 55,000 deaths from stroke and heart attack before being withdrawn from the market in 2004, actually killed many more people than we previously thought. While conducting research on America's media coverage of the Vioxx scandal, publisher of The American Conservative Ron Unz noticed some figures that seem to have escaped almost everyone else’s attention. The year Vioxx was introduced, 1999, showed the largest recent rise in American death rates. The year after Vioxx was pulled from the market, American death rates underwent a substantial and completely unexpected decline." In "Vioxx Killed Half a Million? The Facts Are Grim," by Mike Ferrara, Legal Examiner, 1 May 2012.
1999 through into 2018
Addendum of a Consumer's Worst Nightmare: " 'We’re bitterly disappointed,' said Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the nonprofit National Vaccine Information Center. 'In my view, this has been turned into stockholder’s dream and a consumer’s worst nightmare.' Fisher noted that two-thirds of petitioners who apply for compensation are turned away, which she said departs from the original mandate to assume an injury was caused by a vaccine unless there is a more plausible explanation. The Government Accountability Office echoed some of Fisher’s concerns in a 2014 review of the VICP, which emphasized that most of the claims filed since 1999 were taking years to adjudicate. More than 1,000 claims were pending as of 2014, with some petitioners stuck in limbo for over a decade, the watchdog agency said." In "Federal vaccine court quietly pays out billions - Medical experts say the vaccine court has played a crucial role in safeguarding public health," by Eli Wolfe, Salon, 23 December 2018.
2005
Addendum of UNESCO and "Free and Informed" Consent against Mandated Participation in Experiments: "In 2005, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), adopted the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UNESCO Declaration). Article 6 of the Declaration provides that: (...) Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice...." : In "VACCINES, INFORMED CONSENT, EFFECTIVE REMEDY AND INTEGRAL REPARATION: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE," by Juana I. Acosta, Vniversitas, no. 131, Bogotá July/Dec. 2015.
2001 through 2010
Addendum from the Journal of the AMA: "There were 3 withdrawals. Valdecoxib, an anti-inflammatory, and tegaserod, a drug used for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, were withdrawn in 2005 and 2007, respectively, because of concerns about adverse cardiovascular events. Efalizumab, a drug used to treat psoriasis, was withdrawn in 2009 because of the risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, 1 month after a boxed warning citing this risk was added to the drug label. There were 61 incremental boxed warnings affecting 43 novel therapeutics, including classwide warnings for antipsychotics (ziprasidone, aripiprazole) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (duloxetine, atomoxetine) in 2005 and 2006, and monoclonal antibodies acting against tumor necrosis factor α (adalimumab, certolizumab, golimumab) in 2009. Eight boxed warnings were preceded by safety communications; however, only 4 of these safety communications described the safety risk that triggered the subsequent boxed warning. There were 59 safety communications affecting 44 novel therapeutics. Several of these safety communications affected entire drug classes: warnings were issued about triptans (almotriptan, frovatriptan, eletriptan) in 2006, phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors (vardenafil, tadalafil) in 2007, bisphosphonates (zolendronic acid, ibandronate) in 2008, and dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (saxagliptin, sitagliptin) in 2015." In "Postmarket Safety Events Among Novel Therapeutics Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration Between 2001 and 2010," by Nicholas S. Downing, Nilay D. Shah, Jenerius A. Aminawung, Alison M. Pease, Jean-David Zeitoun, Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, and Joseph S. Ross, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2017;317(18):1854-1863.
2019
Addendum of Vaccine-derived Polio: " The Independent Monitoring Board, a group set up by WHO to assess polio eradication, warned in a report this month that vaccine-derived polio virus is 'spreading uncontrolled in West Africa, bursting geographical boundaries and raising fundamental questions and challenges for the whole eradication process'." In "More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus - More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus as 4 African countries report them," by Associated Press, 25 November 2019. [ 2 ]
2019 Again
Addendum of a Coding Error: "In 2019, more than seven times more methadone was administered or dispensed for OUD treatment than was prescribed for pain, yet all methadone-involved deaths are coded by the CDC as involving the prescribed form of the drug. The authors conclude that the CDC was at fault for failing to recognize and correct this problem before 2016. Public policy consequences of this failure are briefly mentioned." In "CDC’s Efforts to Quantify Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths Fall Short," by John F. Peppin and John J. Coleman, Pain Therapy, 24 March 2021.
2020
Addendum of Government Buying a Taxpayer-Funded Drug: "Senior Sussex University lecturer, Ohid Yaqub, said: 'It so clearly signals an unwillingness to co-operate with other countries and the chilling effect this has on international agreements about intellectual property rights.' Some in the US have criticised the purchase price, as taxpayer money had helped fund remdesivir's development." In "Coronavirus: US buys nearly all of Gilead's Covid-19 drug remdesivir," BBC, 1 July 2020.
2020 Again
Addendum of Misleading Regulators, Felonies and Civil Liability: "The company will pay $225 million as part of a larger $2 billion criminal forfeiture, according to a Justice Department news release. In addition to that forfeiture, Purdue faces a $3.54 billion criminal fine -- though because of bankruptcy proceedings, that money probably will not be fully collected -- and has agreed to a civil settlement of $2.8 billion, the release said. Sackler family members separately agreed to pay $225 million to resolve the family's civil liability. The company admitted to three felony counts for defrauding the federal government by misleading regulators about its efforts to restrict overprescribing of the drug and to violating anti-kickback laws by paying doctors to write more OxyContin prescriptions. The flood of opioids resulted in massive costs in health care to cope with addictions and deaths." In "OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to federal criminal charges," by Pete Williams, NBC News, 21 October 2020.
2020 Again, Again
Protection For Corporations and Against Citizens
Addendum of Government Caring for Pharmaceutical Companies More Than Citizens: "In February, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act. The 2005 law empowers the HHS secretary to provide legal protection to companies making or distributing critical medical supplies, such as vaccines and treatments, unless there’s 'willful misconduct' by the company. The protection lasts until 2024. That means that for the next four years, these companies 'cannot be sued for money damages in court' over injuries related to the administration or use of products to treat or protect against Covid. HHS declined CNBC’s request for an interview." In "You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects. The government likely won’t compensate you for damages either," by MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 17 December 2020.
2021
Addendum of Asking the Question: "Operation Warp Speed brought to market in the United States two mRNA vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Interim data suggested high efficacy for both of these vaccines, which helped legitimize Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA. However, the exceptionally rapid movement of these vaccines through controlled trials and into mass deployment raises multiple safety concerns. In this review we first describe the technology underlying these vaccines in detail. We then review both components of and the intended biological response to these vaccines, including production of the spike protein itself, and their potential relationship to a wide range of both acute and long-term induced pathologies, such as blood disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and autoimmune diseases. Among these potential induced pathologies, we discuss the relevance of prion-protein-related amino acid sequences within the spike protein. We also present a brief review of studies supporting the potential for spike protein “shedding”, transmission of the protein from a vaccinated to an unvaccinated person, resulting in symptoms induced in the latter. We finish by addressing a common point of debate, namely, whether or not these vaccines could modify the DNA of those receiving the vaccination. While there are no studies demonstrating definitively that this is happening, we provide a plausible scenario, supported by previously established pathways for transformation and transport of genetic material, whereby injected mRNA could ultimately be incorporated into germ cell DNA for transgenerational transmission. We conclude with our recommendations regarding surveillance that will help to clarify the long-term effects of these experimental drugs and allow us to better assess the true risk/benefit ratio of these novel technologies." In "Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19," by Stephanie Seneff and Greg Nigh, International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research, May 2021.
Addendum of ADE Concerns: "Antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) of infection is a safety concern for vaccine strategies. In a recent publication, Li et al. (Cell 184 :1-17, 2021) have reported that infection-enhancing antibodies directed against the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein facilitate virus infection in vitro, but not in vivo. However, this study was performed with the original Wuhan/D614G strain. Since the Covid-19 pandemic is now dominated with Delta variants, we analyzed the interaction of facilitating antibodies with the NTD of these variants. Using molecular modelling approaches, we show that enhancing antibodies have a higher affinity for Delta variants than for Wuhan/D614G NTDs. We show that enhancing antibodies reinforce the binding of the spike trimer to the host cell membrane by clamping the NTD to lipid raft microdomains. This stabilizing mechanism may facilitate the conformational change that induces the demasking of the receptor binding domain. As the NTD is also targeted by neutralizing antibodies, our data suggest that the balance between neutralizing and facilitating antibodies in vaccinated individuals is in favor of neutralization for the original Wuhan/D614G strain. However, in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity. Thus, ADE may be a concern for people receiving vaccines based on the original Wuhan strain spike sequence (either mRNA or viral vectors). Under these circumstances, second generation vaccines with spike protein formulations lacking structurally-conserved ADE-related epitopes should be considered." In "Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk for mass vaccination?" by Nouara Yahi, Henri Chahinian, Jacques Fantini, Journal of Infection, NIH, 9 August 2021.
Addendum of a Trilogy of Infamy: "The effort to segregate unvaccinated from vaccinated people by public edict is a dangerous place that we haven’t crossed in this country since segregation, World War II internment, and eugenics, according to civil rights attorney Robert Barnes. He’s fighting back against what he calls 'the trilogy of infamy.' Democrats are back to preaching segregation. They’re back to cheering masks. They’re back to pushing segregation. I thought the 1870s Ku Klux Klan was dead, but they’re back today in the liberal Democratic Party. These are atrocities. Somebody has to stand up, and by golly, some of us will." In "Fight Back: Here's How People Are Legally Resisting Dystopian Diktats to Get a Covid Shot or Be Fired," by Victoria Sweet, PJ Media, 10 August 2021.
Addendum of Increasing the Toll: "By enhancing viral infectiousness, both MASSIVE crowding and MASSIVE vaccination will only contribute to promoting dominant circulation of more infectious viral variants and hence, compromise the natural immune defense system in a relatively higher fraction of the young and healthy population (i.e., as compared to the fraction affected by previous natural pandemics). This will sooner or later lead to full viral resistance to virus-neutralizing Abs and a dramatic increase in morbidity and mortality rates. There is no way the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic could be controlled by the current, imperfect C-19 vaccines. Using imperfect vaccines to control a pandemic (of a highly mutable virus causing acute, self-limiting viral infection) will only increase the toll Nature will take on human health and lives in return for regranting a license to rebuild HI." In "C-19 Pandemia: Quo vadis, homo sapiens?" by Geert Vanden Bossche, website, 12 August 2021.
Addendum of a Suppressed Alternative: " 'We BEG health agencies and mainstream media in other countries,' the Indian doctor wrote, 'NOT to give BAD PROPAGANDA of Ivermectin. Ivermectin is saving India and Africa.' As he reported the news that night, Kory expressed disgust with 'the physician-scientists in the ivory towers and public health agencies' who are 'just not getting it.' It was up to doctors now to save lives as the scientists are 'completely disconnected to how to treat this disease and what to do.' His mentor takes the longer view. 'The saddest thing for us is we know this can make a difference and save lives,' Marik says, 'and it seems like nobody really cares and wants to listen to us.' But 'we feel we can't be silenced, we just can't be, because you know the truth will ultimately prevail.' ' This is how science always progresses,' says Dr. Berkowitz, who takes hope from the recovery of Judy Smentkiewicz. “ This is what being a doctor is,' he said. 'It says in the Talmud, if you save one life, you save the entire world'." In "The Drug That Cracked COVID, From a Buffalo Hospital Room, a Grandmother Led the Global Fight for the Drug at Would Save Her Life and End the Pandemic," by Michael Capuzzo, Mountain Home, 1 May 2021. [ 3 ]
Addendum of Security Mishaps, a Ban and the Lifting of a Ban: "...concern over the potential danger of creating a new virus that could be highly contagious to humans led to the administration of President Barack Obama putting a moratorium on new gain-of-function research in 2014. However, this ban only applied to gain-of-function research that was being conducted on the SARS, MERS and influenza viruses. The ban had its origins in a 2011 study involving H5N1 influenza viruses that had been modified in a lab to make airborne transmission possible between ferrets, The Lancet reported. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity asked researchers not to publish their methodology for modifying the H5N1 virus over concerns that bad actors could use it to cause an outbreak in humans. (Those studies, however, were eventually released in full.) Then in 2014, a series of security mishaps at Centers for Disease Control labs caused a re-examination of lab security across the nation, and built momentum to limiting gain-of-function research. The ban was lifted in 2017." In " 'Gain-of-function' research: What it is and who is doing it in North Carolina," Zachery Eanes, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) 22 July 2021.
Addendum of What's Remarkable: "In the case of the false information being published in Science, it was flagged by a reader on Twitter. The journal then deleted the false information and posted a clarification. Clearly, there is an organized attempt to use fabricated scientific claims to convince people who have had Covid-19 to get vaccinated despite the fact that a growing body of studies show no benefit to them. The idea that these claims are generated by or repeated by top scientific authorities, such as CDC, is remarkable." In "Scientists continue to push false info about benefits of Covid-19 vaccine in people who had Covid," by Sharryl Attkinson, sharylattkinson.com, 30 August 2021.
Addendum of a Press Release Against Ivermectin: "The American Pharmacists Association, the American Medical Association and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists today released the following joint statement: The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association, and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists strongly oppose the ordering, prescribing, or dispensing of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial." In "AMA, APhA, ASHP Call for Immediate End to Prescribing, Dispensing, and Use of Ivermectin to Prevent or Treat COVID-19 Outside Clinical Trials," AP, 1 September 2021. [ 4 ]
Addendum of "Untruth" : "Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, told Newsweek these documents show 'unequivocally' that NIH grants were used to fund controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Insitute of Virology in China—something U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied. Ebright said: 'The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement in Wuhan are untruthful. Multiple sections of the grant proposals and grant progress reports make it clear that the grants funded gain-of-function research of concern in Wuhan,' he said'." In "Fauci Was 'Untruthful' to Congress About Wuhan Lab Research, New Documents Appear To Show," by Ed Browne, Newsweek, 9 September 2021.
Sacramento California Protest - October 2021
Late 2021
Addendum of Withdrawal After FDA Accelerated Approval: "Melflufen received accelerated approval in late February as fifth-line treatment for relapsed/refractory myeloma, including failure of three classes of myeloma drugs (immunomodulator, proteasome inhibitor, and anti-CD38 antibody). The single-arm HORIZON trial involved 157 patients with relapsed/refractory disease, who received melflufen until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. The therapy produced objective responses in about a fourth of a subgroup of 97 patients with triple-refractory disease and four prior regimens." In "Myeloma Drug Pulled From Market Just Months After Approval," by Charles Bankhead, Medpage Today, 22 October 2021. [ 5 ]
Addendum of Health-sponsored Cruelty: "NIH is mired in bad science that’s demanded by animal experimenters themselves. These puppies’ torment is a just sliver of the full scope of NIH’s cruelty—which PETA has been exposing for years. In 2019, while appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight, PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo discussed how NIH wastes billions in tax dollars on cruel, useless animal experiments. Referring to the agency’s squandering of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on painful and deadly experiments on animals that do nothing to advance our understanding of human health, Guillermo said that 'it's a scam of the highest order'." In "Experimenters Fed Puppies’ Heads to Infected Flies, but That’s Not All Fauci’s NIH Funded," by Katherine Sullivan, PETA, 25 October 2021.
Addendum of Being Overwhelmed and Pfizer's Vaccine Trial: "...speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails." In "Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial," by Paul D Thacker, BMJ 2021; 375 doi: 2 November 2021.
Addendum of Refusing to be a Lab Rat: "Jenna Viani-Pascale is a now-former NICU nurse from New York state. She is one of approximately 34,000 health care workers fired or forced to quit in recent weeks when their state government ordered medical workers to get the COVID-19 shot or get fired." In "Fired nurse sums up feelings of many: I'm not an experiment," by Chris Woodward and Billy Davis, AFN, 8 November 2021.
Addendum of a Denying FDA: "Molnupiravir is the latest example of the FDA denying patients their most important health care right — the right to make their own health decisions — by prohibiting them from getting drugs that have received approval in other advanced countries. In the 1980s, an HIV-AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. Patients were dying by the tens of thousands. Yet the FDA infamously denied AIDS patients access to treatments that were available in China, Israel, Japan, Mexico and Sweden." In "Again and again, the FDA fails American patients," by Michael F. Cannon, New York Daily News, 9 November 2021.
Addendum from the BMJ: "The 16 signatories also noted the 'gigantic' scale 'of the number of reported suspected adverse reactions to the COVID' injections as a cause for concern. In Sweden alone, '83,744 suspected adverse reactions have been reported' since injections commenced 10 months ago. Such a figure 'is more than 10 times more than all the adverse reactions reported per year in the preceding years for all medicines and vaccines, totaling some 25,000 substances,' they stated. Meanwhile, 'some 20 studies have shown that the vaccine’s efficacy is very weak,' added the signatories, further attacking the need for vaccination campaigns. Their argument was supported recently by Dr. Peter Doshi, an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and associate editor of the BMJ, who testified against COVID vaccine efficacy." In "Doctors call for Pfizer jabs to be halted in Sweden after 'extensive research fraud' found in trials," by Michael Haynes, Life Site News, 10 November 2021.
Addendum of How Future Liabilities Will Be Pursued in an Age of FDA EUAs: "The counties were able to convince the jury the pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication into their communities. Attorneys for the chains maintained they had policies to stem the flow of pills when pharmacists had concerns and would notify authorities about suspicious orders from doctors. They also said it was the doctors who controlled how many pills were being prescribed for legitimate medical needs. Two other chains – Rite Aid and Giant Eagle – have settled lawsuits with the two Ohio counties." In "CVS, Walmart and Walgreens fueled opioid crisis, US jury finds," Associated Press, 23 November 2021.
2022
Addendum of Finalizing a Landmark: "Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized nationwide settlements over their role in the opioid addiction crisis Friday, an announcement that clears the way for $26 billion to flow to nearly every state and local government in the U.S." In "J&J, Distributors Finalize $26B Landmark Opioid Settlement," Associated Press, 25 February 2022.
Addendum of Cancer-Causing Impurity: "Pfizer stated that the tablets, which were distributed nationwide to wholesalers and distributors in the United States and Puerto Rico from November 2019 to March, have been found to contain the presence of nitrosamines." In "Pfizer Recalling Some Blood Pressure Drug Products With ‘Above Acceptable’ Levels of Cancer-Causing Impurity," by Katabella Roberts, Epoch Times, 22 March 2022.
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[ 1 ] This article quotes with ferocity: " 'I wouldn't take AZT if you paid me,' says Michael Callen, cofounder of New York City's PWA coalition, Community Research Initiative, and editor of several AIDS journals. Callen has survived AIDS for over seven years without the help of AZT. 'I've gotten the s–t kicked out of me for saying this, but I think using AZT is like aiming a thermonuclear warhead at a mosquito. The overwhelming majority of long-term survivors I’ve known have chosen not to take AZT.' The last surviving patient from the original AZT trial, according Burroughs Wellcome, died recently. When he died, he had been on AZT for three and one-half years. He was the longest surviving AZT recipient. The longest surviving AIDS patient overall, not on AZT, has lived for eight and one-half years."
With's 3 1/2 years < Without's 8 1/2 years
The summation of this picture of government -- for that is what the article is actually about -- is daming and continually so.
"The news that AZT will soon be prescribed to asymptomatic people has left many leading AIDS doctors dumbfounded and furious. Every doctor and scientist I asked felt that it was highly unprofessional and reckless to announce a study with no data to look at, making recommendations with such drastic public health implications. 'This simply does not happen,' says Bialy. 'The government is reporting scientific facts before they’ve been reviewed? It's unheard of.' 'I'm ashamed of my colleagues,' Sonnabend laments. 'I'm embarrassed. This is such shoddy science it's hard to believe nobody is protesting. Damned cowards. The name of the game is to protect your grant, don't open your mouth. It's all about money… it's grounds for just following the party line and not being critical, when there are obviously financial and political forces driving this.' When Duesberg heard the latest announcement, he was partially stunned over the reaction of Gay Men's Health Crisis President Richard Dunne, who said that GMHC now urged 'everybody to get tested,' and of course those who test positive to go on to AZT. 'These people are running into the gas chambers,' says Duesberg. 'Himmler would have been so happy if only the Jews were this cooperative'."
Historic Imagery
For this imagery in the context of "it's all about money," the rhyme above with its title seem at the minimum justified in asking Would Doctor Mengele have been so proud
One notes similar features to this story about "government" dictated health care, as the mRNA gene therapy inoculations are being driven by "money" and "the party line" when "not being critical" is the sought-after goal of the government as it tends to the interests of the legally no-longer-liable-for-damages pharmaceutical industry.
And of course, now the powers that be urge "everybody to get tested." See the similarities? The many similarities?
"Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened..."
Similarities are indeed being seen through the lens of hindsight. One reads: " 'Follow the science,' we’ve been told throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. But if we had paid attention to history, we would have known that once a disease becomes newsworthy, science gets distorted by researchers, journalists, activists and politicians eager for attention and power—and determined to silence those who challenge their fear-mongering. When AIDS spread among gay men and intravenous drug users four decades ago, it became conventional wisdom that the plague would soon devastate the rest of the American population. In 1987, Oprah Winfrey opened her show by announcing, 'Research studies now project that 1 in 5 — listen to me, hard to believe — 1 in 5 heterosexuals could be dead of AIDS in the next three years.' The prediction was outlandishly wrong, but she wasn’t wrong in attributing the scare to scientists." In "Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid - In the 1980s, Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened," by John Tierney, Wall Street Journal, 3 October 2021.
[ 2 ] More on the vaccine-derived resurgence: "The WHO warned on Monday that the risk of further spread of vaccine-derived polio across central Africa and the Horn of Africa was high, noting the large-scale population movements in the region. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many major vaccination campaigns needed to stamp out polio have been disrupted across Africa and elsewhere, leaving millions of children vulnerable to infection. In April, the WHO and its partners reluctantly recommended a temporary halt to mass polio immunisation campaigns, recognising the move could lead to a resurgence of the disease." In "Vaccine-derived polio spreads in Africa after defeat of wild virus," by Peter Beaumont, Guardian UK, 2 September 2020.
"More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus...." Yes, indeed. Unintended consequences are also evidence.
[ 3 ] One finds an official position in the CDC's Treatment Guidelines: "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19." In "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines," NIH, accessed 30 August 2021.
Don't Do It, He Said
And so "insufficient evidence" becomes advice, as one reads: " 'I want to be really clear, there is no data supporting that ivermectin prevents or cures COVID-19,' she said. “Unfortunately, the promotion for this drug has spread like wildfire among conspiracy theorists and people who are out to make a profit and we're seeing people buy it from vets and take it themselves with really serious consequences. Another example of the very real harm of misinformation'." In " 'Don't do it': Dr. Fauci warns against using ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19," by Julia Taliesin, Boston.com, 29 August 2021.
Given the billions in profits mounting up for an "investigational vaccine," as the EUA termed it, the argument that "here are "people who are out to make a profit" seems an odd argument, especially in the light of billions in profits for vaccine manufacturers without product liability, and what follows.
Insufficient Evidence?
As to evidence, one reads: " "There were no severe adverse drug events recorded in the study. A 5-day course of ivermectin was found to be safe and effective in treating adult patients with mild COVID-19. Larger trials will be needed to confirm these preliminary findings." In "A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness," by Sabeena Ahmed, Mohammad Mahbubul Karim, Allen G Ross, Mohammad Sharif Hossain, John D Clemens, Mariya Kibtiya Sumiya, Ching Swe Phru, Mustafizur Rahman, Khalequ Zaman, Jyoti Somani, Rubina Yasmin, Mohammad Abul Hasnat, Ahmedul Kabir, Asma Binte Aziz, and Wasif Ali Khan, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, February 2021, 103:214-216.
Evidence Identified?
Somewhat earlier and apparently also "insufficient" for the CDC is this: "Meta-analyses based on 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of ivermectin in COVID-19 have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance. Furthermore, results from numerous controlled prophylaxis trials report significantly reduced risks of contracting COVID-19 with the regular use of ivermectin. Finally, the many examples of ivermectin distribution campaigns leading to rapid population-wide decreases in morbidity and mortality indicate that an oral agent effective in all phases of COVID-19 has been identified." In "Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19," by Pierre Kory, Gianfranco Umberto Meduri, Joseph Varon, Jose Iglesias, and Paul E. Marik, "American Journal of Therapeutics, NIH US National Library of Medicine, May-June 2021.
A Japanese Stance on COVID-19 and ivermectin
One reads: "Another prominent Japanese physician, Dr. Kazuhiro Nagao, appeared on Japanese television proposing that COVID-19 should be treated as a Class 5 illness as opposed to its current classification as a Class 2. In Japan, illnesses are categorized by a classification system; approaching COVID as a Class 5 illness would mean that it could be treated like a seasonal flu. Dr. Nagao said he has used Ivermectin as an early treatment for over 500 COVID patients with practically a 100% success rate, and that it should be used nationwide." In "Japanese medical association chairman told doctors last Feb. to prescribe Ivermectin for COVID ' - 'While the list of crimes committed by authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic is a long one, perhaps the biggest crime of all is the purposeful suppression of safe and effective treatments'." by Kennedy Hall, LifeSiteNews, 27 August 2021.
An Indian Stance on COVID-19 and ivermectin
One reads from India: "The state health minister of Goa, Vishwajit Rane, said Monday that people will be given 12 mg of Ivermectin for a period of five days as prophylaxis to protect against Covid-19. Rane claimed that the state government’s decision was based on studies by expert panels from the UK, Italy, Spain and Japan which found a statistically significant reduction in mortality and recovery time in patients with Covid-19, without offering any specifics." In "Indian State Will Offer Ivermectin To Entire Adult Population — Even As WHO Warns Against Its Use As Covid-19 Treatment," by Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 11 May 2021.
From a month later: "Advocate Dipali Ojha, lead attorney for the Indian Bar Association, threatened criminal prosecution against Dr. Swaminathan 'for each death' caused by her acts of commission and omission. The brief accused Swaminathan of misconduct by using her position as a health authority to further the agenda of special interests to maintain an EUA for the lucrative vaccine industry. Ivermectin is a cheap drug that is prescribed as an anti-parasitic. It has been gaining in popularity for preventing COVID-19. The WHO and FDA are not approving Ivermectin but many doctors and scientists believe Ivermectin is effective. There is the claim that the Indian States that used Ivermectin had far better outcomes and far fewer COVID deaths than the Indian states that did not use Ivermectin. Among the most prominent examples include the Ivermectin areas of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Goa where cases dropped 98%, 97%, 94%, and 86%, respectively. By contrast, Tamil Nadu opted out of Ivermectin. As a result, their cases skyrocketed and rose to the highest in India. Tamil Nadu deaths increased ten-fold." In "India Could Sentence WHO Chief Scientist to Death for Misleading Over Ivermectin and Killing Indians," by Brian Wang, NextBigFuture, 24 June 2021.
Evidence of Woe in Japan?
Then the question of government determining what is "sufficient" and what is "insufficient" might be applied to an FDA-authorized product.
One reads: "Moderna Inc's (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine contamination woes in Japan have widened with another million doses being temporarily suspended, after foreign substances were found in more batches and two people died following shots from affected lots. The suspension of Moderna supplies, affecting more than 2.6 million does in total, comes as Japan battles its worst wave of COVID-19 yet, driven by the contagious Delta variant, with new daily infections exceeding 25,000 this month for the first time amid a slow vaccine rollout." In "Japan's Moderna vaccine contamination woes widen as 1 mln more shots suspended," by Rocky Swift, Reuters, 30 August 2021.
Further: "Kanagawa prefecture said the vaccine's domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (4502.T), had collected the vial with the suspected contaminant and that about 3,790 people had already received shots from the same lot. More Moderna shots were temporarily halted in two other regions this week. In some cases, foreign substances have been found in unused vials, whereas others appear to be caused when bits of the vials' rubber stopper break off when needles are incorrectly inserted." In "Japan finds another Moderna vial suspected to contain foreign substance," Reuters, 1 September 2021.
"We Are Being Asked to be Human Guinea Pigs"
Australian Protest Against Coercion
One reads an opinion: "As official government data is emerging in Europe and the USA on the alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines, it is becoming clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse. While mainstream media ignores alarming data including death of countless healthy young victims, the politics of the corona vaccine is being advanced by Washington and Brussels along with WHO and the Vaccine Cartel with all the compassion of a mafia 'offer you can’t refuse'." In "Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action," by F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook, 19 May 2021.
An earlier example should have informed: "Perhaps the best example of governmental overreaction to influenza came in 1976, when an outbreak of swine flu struck Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. After a 19-year-old private died, President Gerald Ford ordered a nationwide vaccination program that eventually reached 40 million people, or about 24 percent of the United States population at the time. Without the vaccine, Health Secretary F. David Matthews solemnly predicted at the time: 'We will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of the flu. In 1918 a half million Americans died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976.' The vaccination program turned out to be a deadly mistake. Reports soon surfaced about the vaccine causing a neuromuscular disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome, and vaccinations were halted about two months after they began. No swine flu epidemic ever erupted. The outbreak was limited to Fort Dix, and about 500 Americans likely died as a result of the vaccine." In "Swine Flu Is Bad, But Panic Is Dangerous," CBS, 30 April 2009.
CBS' "60 minutes referred then to "the government's publicity machine." How apt is that description for today's pandemic?
Evidence of Woe, Part II?
Engdahl, who is among the political Left in the often-useless model of left-right politics, paints his picture of the American government-pharmaceutical complex in his article.
"Even the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) a notoriously political and corrupt agency with for-profit ties to vaccine makers, in its official Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), shows a total of 193,000 “adverse events” including 4,057 deaths, 2,475 permanent disabilities, 25,603 emergency room visits, and 11,572 hospitalizations following COVID-19 injections between December 14, 2020 and May 14, 2021. That included the two mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, and the far less prevalent J&J Janssen vaccine. Of the reported deaths, 38% occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated. The official US vaccine-related death toll is greater in just 5 months than all the vaccine-related deaths from the past 20 years combined. Yet the major media worldwide and the US Government virtually bury the alarming facts.
Fatal Results Not Evidence?
"Some 96% of the fatal results were from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the two variants funded and promoted by the Gates Foundation and Tony Fauci’s NIAID with the experimental mRNA genetic technology. Moreover, Dr. Tony Fauci, the US Biden Administration vaccine czar and his NIAID Vaccine Research Center co-designed the Moderna mRNA vaccine and gave Moderna and Pfizer each $6 billion to produce it. That’s also a blatant conflict of interest as Fauci and his NIAID are allowed to financially benefit from their patent earnings in the vaccine under a curious US law. The NIAID developed the coronavirus spike proteins for the development of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines using taxpayer money. They licensed it to Moderna and Pfizer."What is certain is that such evidence as gathered above is deemed "insufficient" or "sufficient" based on something other than medical science and the tenets of caution and "do no harm."
A visual depiction of increasing lethality over decades in vaccine development
As to Engdahl's characterization of the CDC as "a notoriously political and corrupt agency with for-profit ties to vaccine makers," and in light of Fauci's continual complaint about no evidence for the effectiveness of ivermectin in combating COVID-19 made in August, one reads additional evidence from months before.
Evidence for Ivermectin?
"In conclusion, in the countries where ivermectin is distributed to and used by the entire areas, it suggests to lead a reduction in mortality, to accelerate patient recovery and, to avoid death. And this analytical study will suggest that early treatment with ivermectin may accelerate recovery and prevent worsening of symptoms in patients with mild disease. These findings can be efficiently translated into therapies for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)." In "Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect it?" by Hisaya Tanioka, Sayaka Tanioka and Kimitaka Kaga, medrxiv.org as accessed via Johns Hopkins CSSE, 26 March 2021.
That above cited study prompted a succinctly worded opinion, reporting on it: "Since overall mortality rates per capita are significantly lower in Ivermectin nations but case fatality rates are the same, Ivermectin is clearly effective as an early treatment and perhaps even as a preventative measure." In "Shocking Conclusions from Africa Study Expose Why Big Pharma’s Puppets are Suppressing Ivermectin Data," by J. D. Ruker, NOQ Report, 3 September 2021.
One reads also: "Two doses of oral ivermectin (300 μg/kg/dose given 72 hours apart) as chemoprophylaxis among HCWs reduced the risk of COVID-19 infection by 83% in the following month. Safe, effective, and low-cost chemoprophylaxis has relevance in the containment of pandemic alongside vaccine." In "Prophylactic Role of Ivermectin in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Healthcare Workers," by Priyamadhaba Behera, Binod K. Patro, Biswa M. Padhy, Prasanta R. Mohapatra, Shakti K. Bal, Pradnya D. Chandanshive, Rashmi R. Mohanty, SR Ravikumar, Arvind Singh, Sudipta R. Singh, Siva Santosh Kumar Pentapati, Jyolsna Nair, and Gitanjali Batmanbane, Cureus 13(8): e16897, 5 August 2021.
Evidence Against mRNA Vaccine Safety Assertions?
"Risk of dying from COVID vaccine is 116.5 times greater than Flu Vaccine," in "VAERS Summary for COVID-19 Vaccines through 8/13/2021," VAERS Analysis, 20 August 2021.
One finds a political divide between the various fact check media, now, and the most alarming on the opposing side. What seems obvious is that data collection now has become a matter of political advocacy.
As to definitions in August of 2021, one reads: "Persons were considered fully vaccinated ≥14 days after receipt of the second dose in a 2-dose series (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines) or after 1 dose of the single dose Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine¶; partially vaccinated ≥14 days after receipt of the first dose and <14 days after the second dose in a 2-dose series; and unvaccinated <14 days after receipt of the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine or if no CAIR2 vaccination data were available. COVID-19–associated hospitalizations were defined as hospital admissions occurring ≤14 days after a first SARS-CoV-2 infection." In "SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Hospitalizations Among Persons Aged ≥16 Years, by Vaccination Status — Los Angeles County, California, May 1–July 25, 2021," by Jennifer B. Griffin, Meredith Haddix, Phoebe Danza, Rebecca Fisher, Tae Hee Koo, Elizabeth Traub, Prabhu Gounder, Claire Jarashow and Sharon Balter, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 27 August 2021.
Depends on How and by Who the Data is Defined
Thus any adverse reaction to one of the injections occurring after injection but BEFORE a 14 day period after injection is defined as "unvaccinated." Thus adverse reactions observed after injection but before 14 days has passed is declared by fiat as not having been vaccinated. This is data manipulated, it seems.
In the same week as the CDC defines post-injection non-vaccination, as it may be described, one reads: "Many fields of medicine, oncology for example, have abandoned the use of disease specific endpoints for the primary endpoint of pivotal clinical trials (cancer deaths for example) and have adopted 'all cause mortality or morbidity' as the proper scientific endpoint of a clinical trial. Pivotal clinical trial data from the 3 marketed COVID-19 vaccines was reanalyzed using “all cause severe morbidity", a scientific measure of health, as the primary endpoint. 'All cause severe morbidity' in the treatment group and control group was calculated by adding all severe events reported in the clinical trials. Severe events included both severe infections with COVID-19 and all other severe adverse events in the treatment arm and control arm respectively. This analysis gives reduction in severe COVID-19 infections the same weight as adverse events of equivalent severity. Results prove that none of the vaccines provide a health benefit and all pivotal trials show a statically significant increase in 'all cause severe morbidity' in the vaccinated group compared to the placebo group." In "US COVID-19 Vaccines Proven to Cause More Harm than Good Based on Pivotal Clinical Trial Data Analyzed Using the Proper Scientific Endpoint, 'All Cause Severe Morbidity'." Trends in Internal Medicine, 24 August 2021; 1(1): 1-6.
Depends on How and by Who the Term is Defined
Changing what a word means and how it is defined reveals intent in the change itself. One reads: "From 2015 to Aug. 31, 2021, a vaccine was defined as 'a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease' and vaccination was 'the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.' Earlier versions of a vaccine definition also included 'immunity' in its definition. The new definition for the vaccine now reads, 'A preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases,' while vaccination is 'the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease'." In "CDC Changes Definition of Vaccine So It Can’t Be 'Interpreted to Mean That Vaccines Are 100% Effective'," by Meiling Lee, Epoch Times, 9 September 2021.
Now you see it. Now you don't. Now you mean it. Now you don't. Now you say it, and it means something else.
Depends on Herd Immunity Defined as What?
Depends on.... "Experts previously cited 70 to 80 percent protection as a goal for herd immunity, but now many say we need more vaccinations and boosters to protect against the super-contagious Indian 'Delta' variant." In "Is the US FINALLY on the verge of herd immunity? CDC study estimates over 80% of Americans are now protected from COVID-19 through vaccination or recovery from the virus," by Betsy Ladyzehts, Daily Mail, 2 September 2021.
Similarly: "More than 80% of Americans 16 and older have some level of immunity against the coronavirus, mostly through vaccination, a survey of blood donations indicates. The survey, led by the CDC, also indicates that about twice as many people have been infected with the virus as have been officially counted. More than 39 million Americans have been diagnosed with coronavirus infection since the pandemic started in 2020." In "US states that had some of the worst Covid-19 case rates in past week also reported the highest rates of new vaccinations," by Travis Caldwell and Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 3 September 2021.
One may observe that the panic numbers were at first deaths, then illnesses, then test results reported as cases, and now as percentage of those who are vaccinated with the current crop of vaccines.
Once Upon a Time
But as is the current Zeitgeist as promoted by government and pharmaceuticals, one looks back to the caution once applied and now avoided by both government and the now-liability-free vaccine manufacturers: "Swine flu vaccination programs in nine states and in Pittsburgh and its suburbs were suspended today, two weeks after they began nationally, after the deaths of three elderly persons who received the vaccine yesterday at a clinic in Pittsburgh. Federal and Pennsylvania health on cials said there was no evidence that the deaths had resulted from the vaccinations. But they also said that the highly unusual circumstances of three fatalities among the patients of one clinic in such a short time required investigation." In "SWINE FLU PROGRAM IS HALTED IN 9 STATES AS 3 DIE AFTER SHOTS," by Harold M. Schmeck Jr. Special to The New York Times 13 October 1976.
That was then. This is now.
And therefore....
And so: "Malone clarified that he was not discouraging the use of the vaccine but was providing people with as much fair information as he could about their risks. 'This is a fundamental right having to do with clinical research ethics,' he said. 'And so, my concern is that I know that there are risks. But we don't have access to the data, and the data haven't been captured rigorously enough so that we can accurately assess those risks — and therefore … we don't really have the information that we need to make a reasonable decision'. 'That's one of my other objections, is that we toss about these words, risk-benefit analysis, casually as if it's a very deep science. It's not. Normally, at this stage, the CDC [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] would have performed those risk-benefit analyses. They would be data-based and science-based. They're not right now,' Malone said. Malone also said he has 'a bias that the benefits probably don't outweigh the risks' for younger people who are being encouraged or required to take the vaccine." In " 'Single most qualified' mRNA expert speaks about vaccine risks after he says YouTube banned his video," by Lawrence Richard, Washington Examiner, 24 June 2021.
Worries for the Young in South Korea?
Concerns arise in South Korea: "As concerns are growing among young people, experts say the government should clarify the exact cause of death and present the medical examination method for each side effect cases. 'For people in their 20s, side effects from vaccines mostly don't lead to death,' said Dr. Chun Eun-mi, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital. 'But the cause of deaths must be examined and announced to allay the public anxiety.' 'In a situation where the government is asking people to get vaccinated,' said Dr. Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious diseases at Korea University Guro Hospital, 'individuals cannot check the safety of each vaccine. The government must inform the medical staff and the public of the safety information and how to receive treatment for any symptoms'." In "Young people’s deaths after Pfizer vaccines are new worry," by Seo Ji-Eun, Korea JoongAng Daily, 24 August 2021.
Worries in the Millions in Europe?
Concerns rise in Europe: "Overall, the recently FDA-approved Pfizer jab, now marketed under the name Comirnaty, was correlated with 833,498 injuries and 10,616 deaths. The system showed that Pfizer’s jab preceded 22,844 blood disorders, 148,477 nervous system disorders, and 910 adverse events related to 'pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions,' resulting in 29 deaths. It is unknown if the pregnancy-related deaths were miscarriages. An additional 10,909 reports were for reproductive system disorders. Moderna’s jab, granted 'conditional marketing authorization' for use within the EU on January 6, has been flagged for 229,430 injuries and 5,600 deaths on the drug reaction database. Johnson & Johnson, marketed in Europe under the name Janssen, has had 63,807 injuries reported against its jab, with 810 deaths occurring after using the single-dose shot." In "COVID shots linked to 2 million injuries, 21,766 deaths in Europe, EU reports," by David McLoone, LifeSiteNews, 26 August 2021.
[ 4 ] The press release is interesting, because the Associated Press page carried the following: "Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation."
A Global Media Intelligence Company Press Release
PR Newswire is an interesting source for "news," as the Covid-19 vaccines are shown to have deaths and long-term illnesses connected to them in numbers well beyond previous vaccine rollouts. What has a "global media intelligence company" to do with this?
One learns: "On December 15, 2015, PR Newswire was sold to global media intelligence company, Cision, for $841 million. The transaction, which required approval by the shareholders of UBM plc as well as regulatory approvals, was expected to close late in the first quarter of 2016. As of June 2016 (closing date of the deal) it became a subsidiary of Cision. As of 2013, the PR newswire database included 10,700 syndicated websites and had 800,000 journalists and influencers in its network." In "PR Newswire," Wikipedia, n .d.
Immediately! Seriously! Stop it!
The call is for an "Immediate End to Prescribing, Dispensing, and Use of Ivermectin to Prevent or Treat COVID-19 Outside Clinical Trials." Given that the Associated Press has merely reprinted a press release, the call seems alarmist.
Scientific advice from government scientists
One reads: "On August 21, the U.S. FDA stooped to the level of tweeting this message with a photograph of a horse: 'You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.' There are many problems with this message: It is unprofessional for a public health authority to issue guidance in the form of a tweet. Slang terms are even more unprofessional. The message is misleading and unclear and amounts to one giant gaslight. It does not mean that a person should not take a validly prescribed physician's prescription for the drug. It is meant to scare and confuse people, to distort their reality. It is gaslighting at its worst. The truth is that Ivermectin is safer than Vitamin C and most over-the-counter pain relievers like Tylenol or aspirin. However, it's primary danger is to the $100 billion-a-year vaccine industry and the royalties to the various players." In "Gaslighting Ivermectin, vaccines and the pandemic for profit," by Justus R. Hope, Desert Review, 25 August 2021
An article written under a pen name can nevertheless carry information and reasonable suppositions. One reads of waste in this pro-mRNA, anti-ivermectin program as well.
A Chinese-Compromised FDA?
There is another side to the theater of political science being played as if science. One reads of the U. S. FDA: "Important questions need be asked, including the following: Why is the FDA funded by the companies it regulates? According to C. Michael White, the chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, the FDA, once 'an entirely taxpayer-funded entity,' finds itself reliant on 'user fees paid by manufacturers that are being regulated.' So many words come to mind, and not one of them is appropriate for this piece. Let's just say that the FDA is compromised. After all, roughly 45 percent of its budget comes from the aforementioned user fees. For a medical device or drug to be approved, a fee must be paid. The FDA has become a vehicle for Big Pharma. But, one wonders, who controls Big Pharma? Most of the pharmaceuticals used in the United States come from China." In "How China Fuels America’s Drug Problem," by John Mac Ghlion, Epoch Times, 26 October 2021.
You are not a bat. You are not a mink, Seriously, y'all...
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Amusingly, one finds this counterpoint to the FDA's silliness. Of COVID-19 as all-purpose virus for more than humans and bats, "The vaccine approval applies only to Finland, where so far no cases of the novel coronavirus have been identified among minks, and where transmission rates among humans have remained some of the lowest in the European Union. The breeders' association believes its vaccine is the first to receive such approval in the EU. Neighbouring Russia said in March it had registered what it called the world's first animal vaccine against Covid-19, previously tested on dogs, cats, mink and foxes." In "Finland To Start Vaccinating Minks Against COVID-19," Agence France Presse, 1 October 2021.
Demand Slows
"New information from the CDC obtained by NBC News reveals the U.S. has wasted more than 15 million doses of the COVID vaccine since March. The NBC News investigation found the U.S. has wasted more doses than several countries have given out." In "Millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine thrown out as demand slows," by Casey Nolen and Greg Miller, KSDK / NBC News, 2 September 2021.
Given government at several levels has been purchasing "doses," this could be seen simply as another in the many instances of government waste.
Again, Follow the Money
The observation was made a small "news" blog: "The EUA emergency use authority can only operate when there is no viable alternative. Any alternative would immediately take all current vaccines off the market and that would stop the billions of dollars profits the big pharma are currently reaping. Hence I revert to my first assumption: Follow the money. If you support the vaccines or not it is irrelevant, the point is there is a concerted and very well managed effort, world wide, to dupe the public where people who should be looking out for us are either stupid or on the take." In "Why the AMA and governments refuse to treat Covid with Ivermectin," by editor, Cairns News, 14 August 2021.
Calling for an "immediate end" with the exception of clinical trials is odd, given that the FDA has given some for of approval before the end of clinical trials for the mRNA gene therapy products.
The massive profiteering is noticed: "Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans' protection against the virus. How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be. Exactly who should get a booster was a contentious decision as advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent two days this week poring over the evidence. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed most of their choices: People 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have chronic health problems such as diabetes should be offered one once they’re six months past their last Pfizer dose. Those 18 and older with health problems can decide for themselves if they want a booster." In "COVID-19 vaccine boosters could mean billions for drugmakers," Associated Press, 25 September 2021.
Ivermectin: An Attractive Hypothesis, But Without the Promise of Massive Profits
As to gathering evidence of the efficacy of ivermectin as related to the current declared pandemic, one reads from only months ago: "The incidence in mortality rates and number of cases is significantly lower among the APOC countries compared to non-APOC countries. That a mass public health preventive campaign against COVID-19 may have taken place, inadvertently, in some African countries with massive community ivermectin use is an attractive hypothesis. Additional studies are needed to confirm it." In "COVID-19: The Ivermectin African Enigma," by Rodrigo Guerrero, Luis Eduardo Bravo, Edgar Muñoz, Elvia Karina Grillo Ardila and Esteban Guerrero, Colombia Medica (Cali), December 2020, 51(4):e2014613.
Additionally: "Prophylactic use of ivermectin against parasitic infections is most common in Africa and we hence show that the reported correlation is highly significant both when compared among African nations as well as in a worldwide context. We surmise that this may be connected to ivermectin's ability to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication, which likely leads to lower infection rates. However, other pathways must exist to explain the persistence of such an inhibitory effect after serum levels of ivermectin have declined. It is suggested that ivermectin be evaluated for potential off-label prophylactic use in certain cases to help bridge the time until a safe and effective vaccine becomes available." In "A COVID-19 prophylaxis? Lower incidence associated with prophylactic administration of ivermectin," by Martin D Hellwig and Anabela Maia, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, January 2021, 57(1):106248.
There will remain an argument about "safe and effective," which seems more a phrase for a marketing campaign than science.
A Wonder Drug in the Public Domain?
One looks back further to 2013: "As a further indication of the increasing attention being paid to ivermectin, in 2013, Chinese scientists applied for an international patent 'Use of ivermectin and derivatives thereof' (Publication No.: WO/2014/059797) for new uses in the 'development and manufacture of medicaments for human use in treating metabolic related diseases, such as hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, obesity and so on, and Famesoid X receptor-mediated diseases, such as cholestasia, gallstones, non-alcohol fatty liver disease, atherosclerosis, inflammation and cancer’. Essentially, a unique, multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug of the past and present may yet become an even more exceptional drug of the future." In "Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations," by Andy Crump, The Journal of Antibiotics (2017) 70, 495–505.
A Wonder Drug Versus Inoculations Still Undergoing Clinical Trials?
As to the FDA and CDC marketing of that which they deem "safe and effective," one reads: "While there are pieces to this puzzle that have yet to be worked out, it appears that the viral spike protein that is the target of the major SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is also one of the key agents causing the damage to distant organs that may include the brain, heart, lung, and kidney. Before any of these vaccines are approved for widespread use in humans, it is important to assess in vaccinated subjects the effects of vaccination on the heart (perhaps using cardiac MRI, as Puntmann et al. did). Vaccinated patients could also be tested for distant tissue damage in deltoid area skin biopsies, as employed by Magro et al. As important as it is to quickly arrest the spread of the virus by immunizing the population, it would be vastly worse if hundreds of millions of people were to suffer long-lasting or even permanent damage to their brain or heart microvasculature as a result of failing to appreciate in the short-term an unintended effect of full-length spike protein-based vaccines on these other organs." In "RE: Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Comments related to consideration of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2," letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, by Patrick Whelan, UCLA Pediatric Rheumatology, 8 December 2020.
The debate is not a matter of science any longer, as lockdowns and mandates have raised the stakes legally, and additionally patients wishing treatment "off-label" are suing to overturn the government's "protocol."
Are Cases a Pandemic? What Kind of Cases?
"Hospitals reeling from surging Covid-19 cases are facing a new pandemic battle: lawsuits from guardians of patients on ventilators demanding treatment with ivermectin. The string of suits, brought by New York attorney Ralph Lorigo, relies on a national network of internal medicine doctors called the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, which advocates for using the anti-parasitic ivermectin as one part of a treatment protocol for Covid-19 ICU patients. Lorigo has scored a handful of victories, including in Buffalo, where his firm is located, and in Cincinnati, where a judge last week ordered West Chester Hospital to give the drug prescribed by an outside physician to a 51-year-old man on a ventilator." In "String of Suits Force Covid-19 Ivermectin Treatment in Hospitals," by Alex Ebeert, Bloomberg, 1 September 2021.
Dangerous Ivermectin?
Before the hysteria over not only the SARS CoV2 virus and "assumed" and "presumed" cases and oddly inept data collection on the part of such as Johns Hopkins University and the CDC, one finds ivermectin have been continually researched.
One reads from 2018: "The recognition that drug repositioning is a clever opportunity to accelerate the development of cancer drugs is increasing. So far, at least 235 clinically-approved, non-cancer drugs have proven antitumor activity either in vitro, in vivo, or even clinically. Among these, ivermectin, an antiparasitic compound of wide use in veterinary and human medicine, is clearly a strong candidate for repositioning, based on the fact that i) it is very safe, causing almost no side-effects other than those caused by the immune and inflammatory responses against the parasite in infected patients, and ii) it has proven antitumor activity in preclinical studies. On the other hand, it is now evident that the use of very selective “unitargeted” drugs is commonly associated to early development of resistance by cancer cells, hence the use of “dirty” or “multitargeted” drugs is important to explore. In this sense, ivermectin has this potential as it modulates several targets such as the multidrug resistance protein (MDR), the Akt/mTOR and WNT-TCF pathways, the purinergic receptors, the PAK-1 protein, certain cancer-related epigenetic deregulators such as SIN3A and SIN3B, RNA helicase activity, while stimulates chloride channel receptors leading to cell hyperpolarization, and down-regulates stemness genes to preferentially target cancer stem-cell like population, at least in breast cancer. Importantly, the in vitro and in vivo antitumor activities of ivermectin are achieved at concentrations that can be clinically reachable based on the human pharmacokinetic studies done in healthy and parasited patients. Thus, existing information on ivermectin could allow its rapid move into clinical trials for cancer patients." In "The multitargeted drug ivermectin: from an antiparasitic agent to a repositioned cancer drug," by Mandy Juarez, Alejandro Schcolnik-Cabrera, and Alfonso Dueñas-Gonzalez, American Journal of Cancer Research, Volume 8, No 2, 2018.
Ivermectin - "a Promising FDA-approved Drug" Until it Isn't
One reads from 2021: "Developing an effective therapeutic against COVID-19 is currently the utmost interest to the scientific communities. The present study depicts comparative binding efficacy of a promising FDA-approved drug, ivermectin, against major pathogenic proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and their human counterparts involved in host–pathogen interaction. Herein, our in silico data have indicated that ivermectin efficiently utilizes viral spike protein, main protease, replicase and human TMPRSS2 receptors as the most possible targets for executing its antiviral efficiency. Therefore, ivermectin exploits protein targets from both virus and human, which could be the reason behind its excellent in vitro efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 as reported by Caly et al. [13]. Ivermectin B1b isomers have been found to be the more efficacious molecule out of the two homologs. Intriguingly, comparison of the in silico efficiency of ivermectin with currently used anticorona drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir, indicated toward the potential of ivermectin to target the major pathogenic proteins of SARS-CoV-2. Ivermectin is a popular antiparasitic drug and is also safe in children, younger adults, pregnant and lactating ladies. Development of pulmonary delivery of ivermectin through synthesis of better ivermectin formulation has been reported recently and this is expected to shorten the treatment duration and lead to better outcomes [33]. It is noteworthy to mention that many antiSARS-CoV-2s are now being tested for their efficacy in shaping the immune response of humans, through targeting the cell surface as well as intracellular toll-like receptors [34,35]. In this context, ivermectin could be an effective option as well. Considering all these facts, the present study explores the therapeutic targets of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2 and enlightens the possibility of using this drug in COVID-19 clinical trials shortly." In "Exploring the binding efficacy of ivermectin against the key proteins of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis: an in silico approach," by Abhigyan Choudhury, Nabarun C Das, Ritwik Patra, Manojit Bhattacharya2, Pratik Ghosh, Bidhan C Patra and Suprabhat Mukherjee, Future Virology, 10.2217/fvl-2020-0342 C 2021 Future Medicine Ltd.
One contrasts these and many other studies with the utter inanity of an FDA's tweet, as above. "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it."
"A government that hides cures so they can buy 'vaccines' for huge £ is criminal --"
at a UK public protest
Apparently the FDA is NOT interested in seeing ivermectin as potential "safe and effective" prophylaxis or early treatment in the "pandemic" and as "a clever opportunity to accelerate the development of cancer drugs" by its clinical trials and inclusion in the battle against cancer. Disinterested because ivermectin is out-of-patent?
Rather the FDA seems to have publicly proven itself to be a shill in the daily marketing of "gene therapy" products for billion dollar companies which have no legal liability for their products.
Dangerous Inaccuracies?
What is interesting in this context is to return to a censured text. First the censure: "Editor’s Note: After The News-Letter published this article on Nov. 22, it was brought to our attention that our coverage of Genevieve Briand’s presentation 'COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data' has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic. We decided on Nov. 26 to retract this article to stop the spread of misinformation, as we noted on social media. However, it is our responsibility as journalists to provide a historical record." In "A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19," by Yanni Gu, Johns Hopkins News-Letter, 27 November 2020.
What were deemed "dangerous inaccuracies" so quickly by student journalists? This when an examination of the Johns Hopkins "resource" for Corona virus infections still reports only less than five thousand deaths in China, with its 1.4 billion people.
One reads further: "This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19. This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19. The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths. Even patients dying from other underlying diseases but are infected with COVID-19 count as COVID-19 deaths. This is likely the main explanation as to why COVID-19 deaths drastically increased while deaths by all other diseases experienced a significant decrease. 'All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,' Briand concluded." In "A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19," by Yanni Gu, Johns Hopkins News-Letter, 27 November 2020.
Yanni Gu as a student journalist could consider in recent history, Trust us, so often was it said, with an authoritative air
Dangerous Inaccuracies Part II
As to an authoritative air, another student finds a COVID-10 angle for her article: "Incidents of hate crimes, assaults, and harassment are increasing, especially against Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants in the United States, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which fights antisemitism and discrimination. This uptick, the ADL reports, is linked to misinformation and fear surrounding the spread of COVID-19, which was first detected in China." In "Johns Hopkins students develop campaign to combat coronavirus-related racism," by Shani McPherson, JHU Hub, 20 May 2020.
"...first detected in China," McPherson writes for Johns Hopkins University, though that contention is disputed even by some in the US government and its related research partners. So as to accuracy in data reporting, a check of the Johns Hopkins University "dashboard" as of September 2021 shows data for China. Believable in a nation of 1.4 billion people since the outbreak of the pandemic? McPherson says "first detected in China." Eighteen months later, the "official" data of COVID-19 deaths is 4,848. So says JHU, should one look deeper into their data.
JHU corona virus data reported as of 3 September 2021
As with data collection and assignment of causation in some instances -- "from" and "with" COVID both define a cause of death -- and denial of causation in others -- not "vaccinated" until two weeks after being vaccinated, as above in classifying what "vaccinated" even means -- one finds who and the WHO defines what, beginning even with the pandemic itself.
Dangerous Accuracies?
"In conclusion, in the countries where ivermectin is distributed to and used by the entire areas, it suggests to lead a reduction in mortality, to accelerate patient recovery and, to avoid death. And this analytical study will suggest that early treatment with ivermectin may accelerate recovery and prevent worsening of symptoms in patients with mild disease. These findings can be efficiently translated into therapies for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)." In "Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect it?" by Hisaya Tanioka, Sayaka Tanioka, Kimitaka Kaga, Tanioka Clinic, Bunkyo-Ku Tokyo, Japan, National Institute of Sensory Organs, Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, 152-8902, 26 March 2021.
"The identification of chemical compounds able to bind specific sites of the human/viral proteins involved in the SARS-CoV-2 infection cycle is a prerequisite to design effective antiviral drugs. Here we conduct a molecular dynamics study with the aim to assess the interactions of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug with broad-spectrum antiviral activity, with the human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2), the viral 3CLpro and PLpro proteases, and the viral SARS Unique Domain (SUD)." In "Microscopic interactions between ivermectin and key human and viral proteins involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection," by Antonio Francés-Monerris, Cristina García-Iriepa, Isabel Iriepa, Cécilia Hognon, Tom Miclot, Giampaolo Barone, Antonio Monari and Marco Marazzi, PCCP - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 40, 2021.
It seems hard science is proving ivermectin, disapproved by the Fauci protocol, is more effective than remdesivir, approved by that same "official" protocol. One must then distrust the "official/" It seems so.
Yes, No and Maybe But Definitely "Trust Us"
Data and definitions are to be questioned. Data and definitions are not to be questioned. Assertions are to be believed. Assertions are not to be believed. Advice is to be followed. Advice is suspect. Be fearful. Be not afraid. For such "follow the science" clarity, one is supposed to believe "two weeks to flatten the curve." "Safe and effective." A booster shot needed every eight months. Every five months. Packaged with a flu shot. And still the pandemic rages on. Or doesn't.
No Firm Answer?
"Dr. Anthony Fauci said he does not have a 'firm answer' about a study implying that naturally acquired immunity is more effective than vaccines at preventing you from reacquiring COVID-19. CNN's Sanjay Gupta asked if people who have already recovered from COVID-19 should still be required to get the vaccine. 'I don't have a really firm answer for you on that,' he said Thursday on CNN. 'I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously'." In "Fauci: Natural Immunity vs. Vaccine For COVID-19 Needs To Be Discussed Seriously," by Tim Hains, Real Clear Politics, 10 September 2021.
"No firm answer" after a year and a half of an official pandemic?
Consider just how one might act in order to Divine the panic
A Firm Answer for Some Pharmaceutical Firms
And yet an answer for the firms manufacturing the mRNA gene therapy, experimental drugs? One reads with clarity: "No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, solely due to the manufacturer’s failure to provide direct warnings to the injured party (or the injured party’s legal representative) of the potential dangers resulting from the administration of the vaccine manufactured by the manufacturer." 42 U.S. Code § 300aa–22.
It seems there are some firm answers already. Follow the money.
Huge Money for Big Pharma and Its Investors
"Pfizer's stock price shot up from $30.99 on March 8, 2020 - days before the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a global pandemic - to $43.94 today. Johnson & Johnson's stock rose from $134.29 each to $164.59 today. The biggest winner has been Massachusetts-based Moderna, which was founded in 2010 and has no other products on the market. The company's stock has risen 519 percent over the past year, according to MarketWatch. It went from $21.3 each on March 8, 2020 to $430 today." In "Pfizer stands to make $26 BILLION from COVID-19 vaccine boosters as the US approves third dose for all adults over 65 as well as those with pre-existing conditions and high-risk jobs," by Adam Manno, Daily Mail and Associated Press, 25 September 2021.
A comment on the above article observes: "As luck would have it, they manufacture Eliquis for treating those blood clots sales are already up 13% and Vyndaqel to treat cardiomyopathy sales rocketing up by 77%!"
Of these Pfizer drugs, one reads: "Apixaban (Eliquis) is an expensive drug used to lower the chance of stroke in people with a medical condition called atrial fibrillation. It is also used to treat or prevent clots in the lungs or in the veins. This drug is slightly less popular than comparable drugs. There are currently no generic alternatives for Eliquis." In "Eliquis," GoodRx, n. d. How expensive? Good Rx quotes: "Prices as low as $493.19."
Additionally one learns: "What is Vyndaqel? Vyndaqel discount prices start at just $18,458.40!" Good Rx, n. d.
The money followed as above, it would seem that the public is behind the pricing eight ball.
And so opinion builds: "Campbell told viewers: 'So as far as we’ve been told, the new Pfizer drug is only working against one particular biochemical pathway to stop COVID, and with ivermectin, it’s working against that same biochemical pathway to stop COVID but also several others.' 'Why don’t you know this?' Dore asked. 'Because ivermectin is cheap, and we live in a world that is made up of corporate propaganda'." In "Why Ivermectin is superior to Pfizer’s antiviral pill," by Jeremy Loffredo, LifeSite, 19 November 2021.
Advance Planning for Massive Profits through the US Government
One finds a scholar at Harvard presenting her findings on pricing planning for major pharmaceutical companies planning their strategies.
One reads: "The proprietor pharmaceutical company, Merck, announced on 27 April 2021 that they had entered into non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreements for molnupiravir with five Indian generics manufacturers (Cipla Limited, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited, Hetero Labs Limited, and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited). The US government has already ordered 1.7 million treatment courses, at about $700/patient. This price is equal to about 35 times the estimated sustainable generic price using current market prices for the active ingredient (API) observed in our analysis. Assuming optimization of molnupiravir synthesis, and a resulting drop in API cost, the US price would be equal to about 161 times the estimated sustainable generic price. Scenario Cost (USD):
"1.7 million treatment courses at $700, $1,190,000,000,
"1.7 million treatment courses at estimated sustainable generic price, current market API cost $33,978,763,
"1.7 million treatment courses at estimated sustainable generic price, API cost with optimised synthesis $7,394,454." In "Estimated cost-based generic prices for molnupiravir for the treatment of COVID-19 infection," by Melissa J Barber and Dzintars Gotham, Harvard School of Public Health, 1 October 2021.The comparative numbers speak volumes.
$1,190,000,000 > $33,978,763 > $7,394,454
$700.00 per individual treatment > $20.00 > $4.34
That the government contracts in advance for a product as yet not officially approved by the FDA, a part of government, itself, suggests that some form of advocacy for the massive profits of a pharmaceutical company above the concern for taxpayers and consumers. In whose service is government at this point?
An editorial in humor
One should recall that Merck had recalled a once "blockbuster" drug for the deaths it caused. One reads: "...despite Merck's knowledge that rofecoxib might increase thrombus formation, none of the intervention studies that constituted its new drug application to the Food and Drug Administration in 1998 were designed to evaluate cardiovascular risk. The nine studies were generally small, had short treatment periods, enrolled patients at low risk of cardiovascular disease, and did not have a standardised procedure to collect and adjudicate cardiovascular outcomes. Moreover, Merck seemingly pooled data from these studies and others for analysis of cardiovascular risks, despite FDA concern, and disseminated the results to promote the drug's cardiovascular safety to doctors in its “cardiovascular card,” a marketing device cited by US Congressman Henry Waxman for falsely minimising cardiovascular risks and never approved by the FDA." In "Feature - What have we learnt from Vioxx?" by Harlan M. Krumholz, Harold H. Hines, Joseph S. Ross, Amos H. Presler, David S. Egilman, BMJ 2007; 334.
Given unintended consequences over time and the history of both governments' deadly errors and pharmaceutical deadly errors (or more), one considers the rush to "market" in a liability-free legal climate generated by fear.
Immense Profits from "Government Funding" and Mandates
One reads further of safety risk being watched for: "It’s perfectly understandable why Merck might choose to play down this safety risk: assuming it’s approved, the drug is widely expected to be one of 'the most lucrative drugs ever' – which is one reason why Merck’s shares soared into double-digit territory after the announcement. As we reported earlier this week, Merck and its 'partner' Ridgeback Biotherapeutics will profit immensely by charging customers up to 40x what it costs to make the drug, which Ridgeback originally licensed from Emory University for an 'undisclosed sum'. The drug was developed with funding from the federal government." Zero Hedge, 8 October 2021.
Let us be clear. Government funding generating commercial products marketed without legal liability is basically public money privatized into profits for large companies.
"Hard Line to Push for Profits"
Nineteen months into the "two weeks to flatten the curve," one reads more: "The Manhattan-based pharmaceutical giant has maintained tight levels of secrecy about negotiations with governments over contracts that can determine the fate of populations. The 'contracts consistently place Pfizer's interests before public health imperatives,' said Zain Rizvi, the researcher who wrote the report. Public Citizen found common themes across contracts, including not only secrecy but also language to block donations of Pfizer doses. Disputes are settled in secret arbitration courts, with Pfizer able to change the terms of key decisions, including delivery dates, and demand public assets as collateral." In "In secret vaccine contracts with governments, Pfizer took hard line in push for profit, report says," by Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 19 October 2021.
Ordinary Aspirin as a Possible Answer?
Yet. as to inexpensive drugs with some efficacy in the treatment which at this juncture is not found in the Fauci protocol is ordinary aspirin.
One reads: " 'As we learned about the connection between blood clots and COVID-19, we knew that aspirin – used to prevent stroke and heart attack – could be important for COVID-19 patients,' said Dr. Jonathan Chow of the study team. 'Our research found an association between low-dose aspirin and decreased severity of COVID-19 and death.' ... 'Aspirin is low cost, easily accessible and millions are already using it to treat their health conditions,' said Chow. 'Finding this association is a huge win for those looking to reduce risk from some of the most devastating effects of COVID-19'." In "Aspirin lowers risk of COVID: New findings support preliminary Israeli trial - The treatment reduced the risk of reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%. ICU admissions were lower by 43%, and an overall in-hospital mortality saw a 47% decrease," by staff, Jerusalem Post, 6 October 2021.
A Firm Answer for Canadian Physicians
"...the doctor shared what happened when he tried to treat three patients in a small rural hospital with Ivermectin during the weekend of September 11. He blasted doctors and surgeons 'who are standing in the way of life-saving medicine.' Nagase said that he gave his elderly patients one dose of Ivermectin, along with antibiotics, vitamins, and inhalers—which set two out of the three on a quick road to recovery. But when health authorities caught wind of what he was doing, all the medications, including the inhalers were taken away, and Nagase was relieved of his duties." In "Canadian Doctor Says ‘Something Malicious is Going On’ After He’s Punished For Treating COVID Patients with Ivermectin," by Debra Heine, AmGreatness, 4 October 2021.
Similarly or another Canadian physician, "She said that throughout the entire time that the pandemic has been declared, she has only admitted two patients to the ICU that tested positive for COVID. She then clarified that this did not mean they were in the ICU due to COVID, but only that they had tested positive. She stated that her emergency department was 'dead' throughout all of the declared waves of COVID, and that she took pictures of the official numbers to prove that they 'had nothing to do' with lack of patients. Dr. Kilian added that since the rollout of COVID jabs, she has seen a striking uptick in patients who have been admitted with heart issues and do not fit risk categories. She stated that as more and more people have received the jab, she has seen a host of strange events in her patients. She spoke of 'people coming with newly diagnosed high blood-pressure, diabetics that was controlled that are no longer controlled – their sugars are either through the roof or they're down in the ground … The only factor…constant that changed in their life was the injection of an experimental biologic'." In "Ontario doctor resigns over forced vaccines, says 80% of ER patients with mysterious issues had both shots," by Kennedy Hall, LifeSiteNews, 4 October 2021.
A "quick road to recovery" seems so threatening to the future....
A Firm Answer for an American ICU Physician
One reads: " 'I had two patient successes at the hospital that was offering it and they pulled it off the shelf a week later,' James said. 'I was told it wasn't approved by the COVID committee so doctors who were not involved in the patient's care, my patient's care, were making decisions about what I could use.' Dr. Clay Dunagan, the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, looked into James' claims but said there are better treatment options available. 'It's conceivable that Ivermectin has some impact early in the disease but it's not really something we should be using. We have other drugs that are more effective,' he said." In "Local ICU doctor let go over vaccine mandate pushes for early outpatient treatment," by Caroline Hecker, KMOV4 / CBS, 20 October 2021.
Among Dunagan's "better treatment options is remdesivir, part of the "protocol." But, though puished by Fauci and his team, one reads: "A large-scale analysis by the World Health Organization’s Solidarity trial consortium has cleared-up the confusion. Based on interim results from studying more than 5000 participants, the international study concluded that remdesivir “had little or no effect on hospitalized patients with Covid-19, as indicated by overall mortality, initiation of ventilation, and duration of hospital stay.” In "The Strange Story Of Remdesivir, A Covid Drug That Doesn’t Work," by J V Chamary, Forbes, 31 January 2021.
Dangerous Accuracies, Part Two?
Moreover, the World Health Organization in the same announcement said: "A conditional recommendation is issued when the evidence around the benefits and risks of an intervention are less certain. In this case, there is a conditional recommendation against the use of remdesivir. This means that there isn’t enough evidence to support its use." In "WHO recommends against the use of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients," World Health Organization, 20 November 2020.
The Forbes article noted: "What's weird about remdesivir is that it hasn't been held to the same standards as other drug candidates."
One reads: "Initial compassionate use of remdesivir has shown a fairly good result, but difficult to quantify, in the absence of control arm. While the very first double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial conducted in Wuhan, did not find any significant benefit compared to the control, the preliminary result of another similar multi-country trial has shown a significant faster time to recovery but without any difference in mortality. Conclusions - Remdesivir has shown a mixed result in patients with COVID-19 with an acceptable side effect. However, jury is still out while awaiting the results from the forthcoming trials." In "Remdesivir in COVID-19: A critical review of pharmacology, pre-clinical and clinical studies," by Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Akriti Singh, Ritu Singh, and Anoop Misrad, Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2020 July-August; 14(4): 641–648.
The Fast Track and Warp Speed?
As to the "quick road" and the federal government's "warp speed" development of the mRNA injections during the Trump administration and attempts to mandate inoculations during the Biden administration, one looks back at a tale of an earlier :fast track."
One reads: "...not only had a pandemic yet to appear, but no swine flu cases outside of the Fort Dix cluster had even been reported. Even if there was no connection between the vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome, the risk was no longer acceptable. After the vaccination of 45 million Americans—nearly a quarter of the country’s population—the government halted the program on December 16." In "When the US Government Tried to Fast-Track a Flu Vaccine," by Christopher Klein, History.com, 2 September 2020.
Note the term: "Postmarketing"
As to the FDA's and Pfizer's awareness of risks, one reads as part of their testimony: "Postmarketing data demonstrate increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly within 7 days following the second dose. The observed risk is higher among males under 40 years of age than among females and older males. The observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age. Although some cases required intensive care support, available data from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of symptoms with conservative management. Information is not yet available about potential long-term sequelae." In "FACT SHEET FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ADMINISTERING VACCINE (VACCINATION PROVIDERS) - EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION (EUA) OF THE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE TO PREVENT CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)," revised 20 October 2021.
Information is Not Available, But "Safe and Effective?"
Note in that admission: "Information is not yet available about potential long-term sequelae." That's a very fast track to know nothing about potential long-term dangers. "Safe and efective" without information about long-term events?
Substantiated Risks and Toxicity?
From July 2021, some of these dangers are foreseen, away from the marketing of the product: "Pfizer’s animal data clearly presaged the following risks and dangers: blood clotting shortly after vaccination, potentially leading to heart attacks, stroke, and venous thrombosis; grave harm to female fertility; grave harm to breastfed infants; cumulative toxicity after multiple injections. With the exception of female fertility, which can simply not be evaluated within the short period of time for which the vaccines have been in use, all of the above risks have been substantiated since the vaccines have been rolled out—all are manifest in the reports to the various adverse event registries." In "The Pfizer mRNA vaccine: pharmacokinetics and toxicity,' by Michael Palmer and Sucharit Bhakdi, 23 July 2021.
Putting the two together, a drug manufacturer and its marketing admit they have no longer term data, and mid-year some data is being seen by physicians around the world while being scrupulously ignored by the drug manufacturers. This is no longer a matter of "we didn't know," pr "we weren't informed," and as a result, at the minimum, the understandings of the Nuremberg Code come into play. Or should.
[ 5 ] That the FDA approved a drug in February of 2021 and thence withdrawn about ten months later suggests that the FDA approval process is faulty. Thus, even the loud assertion of an "emergency use authorization" much less a full approval can be faulty.
A Recent Fast Track Failure
The drug manufacturer's own statement broadens the issue into money and investment issues. One reads: "...Oncopeptides will immediately refocus the company and return to being a Sweden based R&D company, dedicated to further develop our proprietary Peptide Drug Conjugate (PDC) platform including the next generation of drug candidates including OPD5 and OPDC3. The organization will be scaled down to increase our cash runway and focus on building a platform for longer term development and growth. The commercial business units in the US and Europe will be closed down and the Stockholm based organization will be significantly reduced." In "Oncopeptides withdraws Pepaxto® in US, scale down organization and focus on R&D," press release, Oncopeptides, 22 October 2021.
This response by the drug manufacturer after significantly fewer reported deaths than VAERS and it European counterpart report for the coronavirus mRNA drugs suggests that "FDA" approval -- and the more tenuous "emergency use authorization" which is NOT approval -- can themselves be faulty.
What remains is to examine the massive public relations and political push for "use" and "approval" when approval shows itself to have failed.
If the tale told above is not one of clear, sourced and documented scientific information, it is most assuredly a tale of Power and money
"When caterpillars of a beautiful butterfly were introduced on to the tiny island of Sottunga in the Åland archipelago, scientists hoped to study how the emerging butterflies would disperse across the landscape. But researchers did not realise that their introduction of the Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) led to the emergence of three other species on to the Baltic Sea island, which sprang out of the butterfly like Russian dolls. Some of the caterpillars contained a parasitic wasp, Hyposoter horticola, which bursts from the caterpillar before it can pupate and become a butterfly. Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a 'hyperparasitoid' wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass." In "Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps – with more wasps inside," by Patrick Barkham, Guardian UK, 4 September 2021.
Researchers did not realize
and scientists got it wrong;
That's the similar theme
for a similar sort of song.
Unintended consequences
are consequences nonetheless,
As their lack of realization
and errors coalesce.
Addendum of Surprise Side Effects Years Later: "Almost one-third of new drugs approved by U.S. regulators over a decade ended up years later with warnings about unexpected, sometimes life-threatening side effects or complications, a new analysis found. The results covered all 222 prescription drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2001 through 2010. The researchers looked at potential problems that cropped up during routine monitoring that's done once a medicine is on the market. The 71 flagged drugs included top-sellers for treating depression, arthritis, infections and blood clots. Safety issues included risks for serious skin reactions, liver damage, cancer and even death. 'The large percentage of problems was a surprise,' and they included side effects not seen during the review process, said Dr. Joseph Ross, the study's lead author and an associate professor of medicine and public health at Yale University." In "New Drugs Found to Cause Side Effects Years After Approval," by Associated Press, 10 May 2017.
Addendum of Safety Events after Accelerated Approval: "Among 222 novel therapeutics approved by the FDA from 2001 through 2010, 71 (32.0%) were affected by a postmarket safety event. Postmarket safety events were more frequent among biologics, therapeutics indicated for the treatment of psychiatric disease, those receiving accelerated approval, and those with near–regulatory deadline approval." In "Postmarket Safety Events Among Novel Therapeutics Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration Between 2001 and 2010," by Nicholas S. Downing, Nilay D. Shah, Jenerius A. Aminawung, MD, et al., JAMA. 2017;317(18):1854-1863, 9 May 2017.
"Negative information which is spread through mass media repetitively can affect public health negatively in the form of nocebo effects and mass hysteria. We argue that mass and digital media in connection with the state may have had adverse consequences during the COVID-19 crisis. The resulting collective hysteria may have contributed to policy errors by governments not in line with health recommendations. While mass hysteria can occur in societies with a minimal state, we show that there exist certain self-corrective mechanisms and limits to the harm inflicted, such as sacrosanct private property rights. However, mass hysteria can be exacerbated and self-reinforcing when the negative information comes from an authoritative source, when the media are politicized, and social networks make the negative information omnipresent. We conclude that the negative long-term effects of mass hysteria are exacerbated by the size of the state." In "COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria," by Philipp Bagus, José Antonio Peña-Ramos, and Antonio Sánchez-Bayón, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 3 February 2021, 18, 1376.
The louder the jackass brays,
The clearer his jackass ways.
That hee-haw's noise
The ass employs
Is the part he best displays.The louder the old crow caws,
The less hurrahs she draws.
That old crow's screech
Is annoying speech
That earns her no applause.
"Chinese state media reported Sunday an online petition is circulating in China, 'demanding' an investigation into a lab at Fort Detrick. The petition asking for a probe of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has collected half a million signatures, the Global Times said." In "China shifts focus to Fort Detrick in rebuff to WHO proposal," by Elizabeth Shim, United Press International, 19 July 2021.
A damn fine idea --
let's investigate them all.
Lots of those in power
might likely take a fall.
Let's us peer behind
each layered-over layer
of word-stuffed propaganda
for a breath of freshest air.
A damn fine idea --
let's strip away all veils,
which very well could well show
where corruption so prevails.
Fort Detrick - U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Addendum of Denying United States Wrongdoing: "In 2001, five people were killed in an anthrax attack in the United States, and the suspect was a former employee of USAMRIID. In 2009, U.S. officials found during inspections that multiple pathogens studied in the institute were not listed in the lab database, and suspended some of the lab's research. In May 2014, Waverley View Investors LLC sued the U.S. Army for loopholes in Fort Detrick's disposal of toxic waste, which caused the levels of trichloroethylene in the area to be 42 times as high as the federal standard. In February 2015, 106 families and individuals from Frederic County of Maryland filed a class action lawsuit against Fort Detrick for harm and death caused by exposure to hazardous materials from Fort Detrick and asked for 750 million US dollars in compensation. However, the U.S. Government and Army have consistently denied wrongdoing." In "Doubtful Points about Fort Detrick (USAMRIID)," by Wang Bowen, Xinhua News Agency via MSN, 25 August 2021. [ 1 ]
Peter Dazak (EcoHealth) and Anthony Fauci )NIH/CDC)
Addendum I of Intersecting Players: "The grant application proposal was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak on behalf of a group, which included Daszak EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the University of North Carolina and Duke NUS in Singapore, The Telegraph reported. The grant application proposal was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak on behalf of a group, which included Daszak EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the University of North Carolina and Duke NUS in Singapore, The Telegraph reported. Experts told the paper that creating an 'ideal' average virus could have been part of work to create a vaccine that works across coronaviruses. Last month, it emerged that the US had funded similar research to that outlined in the 2018 grant proposal." In "Wuhan scientists and US researchers planned to create a new coronavirus in 2018: Consortium led by Brit Peter Daszak asked DARPA to fund research at lab in city where Covid pandemic began," by Charlotte Mitchell, Mail Online, 5 October 2021.
Ralph Baric (University of North Carolina)
Addendum II of Intersecting Players: "Scientists from Wuhan and the US were planning to create new coronaviruses that did not exist in nature by combining the genetic codes of other viruses, proposals show. Documents of a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), leaked last month, reveal that the international team of scientists planned to mix genetic data of closely related strains and grow completely new viruses. A genetics expert working with the World Health Organisation (WHO), who uncovered the plan after studying the proposals in detail, said that if Sars-CoV-2 had been produced in this way, it would explain why a close match has never been found in nature." In "Revealed: Wuhan and US scientists planned to create new coronaviruses -- Before Covid pandemic erupted, group submitted proposals to mix genetic data of related strains and grow completely new sequences," by Sarah Knapton, Telegraph UK, 5 October 2021.
Shi Zhengli (Wuhan Virology)
Addendum III of Intersecting Players: "Revelations about US scientific links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology feature in an upcoming investigative book on the origins of Covid-19, What Really Happened In Wuhan, to be published by HarperCollins. They include the extent of the scientific community’s ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which, according to declassified intelligence released by the US, was conducting secret projects for the Chinese military. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci has come under pressure for providing $US13m in funding to a not-for-profit organisation, EcoHealth, with $US598,500 funnelled through to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The institute also had strong ties to Australia’s level-four laboratory in Geelong." In "US scientists caught in Wuhan intrigue," Undercurrents blog, 8 August 2021.
Addendum of "We Will" : "The grant application was made in 2018 and leaked to Drastic, the pandemic origins analysis group. 'We will compile sequence/RNAseq data from a panel of closely related strains and compare full length genomes, scanning for unique SNPs representing sequencing errors. 'Consensus candidate genomes will be synthesised commercially using established techniques and genome-length RNA and electroporation to recover recombinant viruses,' the application states." In "Wuhan scientists and US researchers planned to create a new coronavirus in 2018: Consortium led by Brit Peter Daszak asked DARPA to fund research at lab in city where Covid pandemic began," by Charlotte Mitchell, Mail Online, 5 October 2021. [ 2 ]
Addendum of "We Won't" : "Estimates of as many as 5,000+ attended the protest on the State Capitol grounds, but spilled over onto Capitol Mall, L Street, N Street and 10th Street. The crowd was pumped up, determined but respectful. And diverse. When asked why they were there, every parent interviewed said “no mandates.” Many moms said they were not okay with the government telling them how to parent." In "California School Walkout: Thousands of Parents, Students, Teachers Protest Newsom’s School Mandates - Huge State Capitol protest surprises many," by Katy Grimes, California Globe, 18 October 2021.
Malik Peiris
Addendum of "They Didn't" a Million: "Peiris, a Sri Lankan virologist working in Hong Kong, was one of 12 scientists leading the now-defunct Lancet probe into the origins of COVID-19. While the task force is no longer listed on the medical journal’s website, as it was forced to disband due to extensive conflicts of interests with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, archived web pages reveal Peiris’s participation in the effort. Following Peiris’s stint on the task force, the Chinese Communist Party awarded him with the prize in life sciences in the 2021 Future Science Prize – dubbed China’s 'Nobel Prize.' China’s top scientific honor is accompanied by a $1 million prize, which is funded by several Chinese Communist Party-linked companies such as Baidu, Hillhouse Capital, and Sequoia Capital China." In "Lancet COVID Origins Investigator Wins $1 Million Chinese Prize For Claiming Virus Developed Naturally," by Natalie Winters, National Pulse, 20 October 2021. [ 3 ]
United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,776,521 B1
Rota et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 17, 2010 [ 4 ]
Addendum of a Classic Example: "...the U.S. government and the EU made multibillion-dollar contracts that protect pharmaceutical companies from liability, patent ownership, and leeway on delivery dates and pricing. The terms of most of these contracts are not open for public view, seemingly at the insistence of private sector drug makers, but perhaps also political leaders who may not want to deal with the debate they would generate. Thus far, drug makers are also not sharing information on the actual cost of manufacturing vaccine doses. However, there is some indicators that the Pfizer deals with the U.S. and other countries is among the most lucrative. 'Pfizer expects to sell $15 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines in 2021,' notes an industry newsletter. 'That would make it the second-highest revenue-generating drug anytime, anywhere, according to industry reports'. Public Citizen Litigation Group, a public interest law firm co-founded by Ralph Nader, claims that the federal government should have at least partial rights to Moderna and other coronavirus vaccine patents: 'It's a classic example of taxpayers paying twice for medicines'." In "Who Owns Covid Vaccine Intellectual Property?" by John Aubrey Douglass, LA Progressive Newsletter, 1 March 2021.
Addendum of Fine Advice: "Natural pandemics may be inevitable. Synthetic ones, constructed with full knowledge of society’s vulnerabilities, are not. Let’s not learn to make pandemics until we can reliably defend against them." In "Opinion: Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It’s time to stop," by Kevin M. Esvelt, Washington Post, 6 October 2021.
Addendum of Lying to Congress: "Richard Ebright, lab director at Rutgers University's Waskman Institute of Microbiology, had a different reaction to Tabak's letter at the time. 'The NIH received the relevant documents in 2018 and reviewed the documents in 2020 and again in 2021,' and Collins, Fauci and Tabak 'lied to Congress,' he tweeted." In "NIH knew Wuhan lab enhanced bat coronavirus years earlier than officials testified, grantee says, EcoHealth Alliance documentation of 2018 submission casts doubt on agency's representation to Congress," by Greg Piper, Just the News, 10 November 2021.
Addendum of It All Adding Up: "U.S. government officials have reached an agreement with Pfizer that secures 10 million courses of the drugmaker’s COVID-19 pill. The government is paying $5.3 billion, or $529 a course for the pill. The price is due to the 'high committed volume of treatment courses being purchased through 2022,' with similar agreements reached with several other countries, Pfizer said." In "Pfizer Secures $5 Billion From US Government for 10 Million Courses of COVID-19 Pill," by Zachary Stieber, NTD, 18 November 2021.
Addendum of US Involvement in Military Biolaboratories: "An explanatory note from Kazakh Minister Beibut Atamkulov states that Deputy Prime Minister Yeraly Tugzhanov gave the relevant instruction on October 25. Section 3 of the project document hints that no funds from the budget would be required to build such a hazardous facility, suggesting the involvement of the US Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which has already been allocated funds for this 'project'. Thus, this 'laboratory' may become the seventh Pentagon facility in Kazakhstan to be involved in the DTRA network of military biolaboratories disguised as alleged local disease outbreaks, becoming an integral part of the US military biological infrastructure in Eurasia and the post-Soviet space. It could be an obvious complement to the existing Central Reference Laboratory (CRL) built in Almaty in 2016. However, the said 'Laboratory' will have nothing to do with local disease outbreaks, as it is already known that it will hold various strains of Africa’s most dangerous diseases, such as the Ebola virus, as well as Marburg virus, smallpox and many others. And there are simply no real countermeasures against many of these pathogens. It turns out that DTRA will bring all these pathogens not only for storage, but also to study, upgrade and test on humans and local fauna." In "The US is Preparing a Biological Time Bomb in Kazakhstan," by Vladimir Platov, New Eastern Outlook, 22 November 2021.
Addendum of the 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction: "The US is the only country in the world that still aggressively blocks the creation of a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of the 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction at official and unofficial levels. According to a recent statement by the International Coalition to Continue the Fight and Launch the New International Movement, to Ban the Development and Proliferation of Biological Weapons, the Pentagon was forced to admit back in 2000 that secret Project 112 programs had tested biological weapons in Egypt, Liberia, South Korea, and Japan. Puerto Rico and Hawaii were also test sites. Subsequently, the US military expanded work on the modification, production, and testing of new types of deadly diseases, establishing more than 1,500 secret biological laboratories worldwide under the control of the Pentagon. Dangerous diseases modified in these laboratories are already being used to undermine agriculture and against the populations of states hostile to Washington’s policies and, in particular, against Russia, China, and Iran. And now against Syria, as evidenced by the latest incident with the sending of bio harmful seeds of Turkish wheat through the USAID, whose connection with the CIA has been repeatedly confirmed by the Western media." In "Washington Unleashes Biological Warfare in Syria," by Vladimir Danilov, New Eastern Outlook, 26 November 2021.
Addendum of Tallying the Costs: " 'The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a staggering toll on the United States, both in human lives and in economic terms. The total estimated cost of $18.007 trillion is a stark reminder of the profound impact this global health crisis has had on the nation,' the commission wrote. 'By understanding and acknowledging these costs, we can lay the groundwork for holding accountable those whose negligence or overt actions exacerbated the pandemic's severity'." In "Commission finds COVID pandemic caused $18 trillion in economic damage to US," by Eroc Revell, Fox News, 8 July 2024.
NOTES
[ 1 ] Rather specific things are alleged and, of course, denied. Among these, from the article above:
"In July 2019, a mysterious pneumonia outbreak associated with e-cigarette use was reported in Wisconsin. Symptoms included shortness of breath, fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and chest pain. Starting from then, an unprecedented outbreak of lung disease spread across the nation. As of 17 December 2019, more than 2,500 hospitalized cases were reported across 50 states. Experts believe this type of disease might represent one or more new clinical syndromes, and more researches are needed to determine the cause.
"The 2019 influenza in the United States might have overlapped with COVID-19. According to U.S. CDC statistics, there were about 39 to 56 million influenza cases between October 2019 and April 2020, resulting in 24,000 to 62,000 deaths. Given the similar symptoms, COVID-19 patients could have been misdiagnosed as influenza patients. To determine whether such cases exist, in particular in and prior to October 2019, a nation-wide retrospective investigation and research should be done in the United States."In March 2020, a petition was filed on the White House petition website, asking the U.S. government to disclose information related to Fort Detrick, especially the reason why the USAMRIID lab was shut down in 2019 and whether it had anything to do with COVID-19. The U.S. government has made no response, and the petition website has been taken offline altogether."
Dear citizens, it's none of your damn business. Or something.
[ 2 ] The article notes the seeming complicity between the United States, British and Chinese in these ventures. One reads further: "EcoHealth Alliance, in its proposal to the NIH, acknowledged the risks involved were 'the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs' among staff, who could then carry it out of the lab. The NIH gave them the money anyway - something Dr Anthony Fauci was previously forced to admit when testifying before Congress in May this year. EcoHealth Alliance then gave $599,000 of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. At the time and repeatedly since, Fauci has denied that the research constituted what's known as 'gain-of-function' research."
Thus one sees that, indeed, these players very easily could Divine the panic
[ 3 ] Of the Communist Chinese and its relationship to the Lancet, one reads: "The Lancet has agreed to publish an alternative commentary which discusses the possibility that laboratory research might have played a role in the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It also directly confronts the efforts of science journals to stifle debate by labelling such theories as 'misinformation'. In the article, the authors argue that 'there is no direct support for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2, and a laboratory-related accident is plausible'. They add that the February 2020 statement 'imparted a silencing effect on the wider scientific debate'. And they say scientists, 'need to evaluate all hypotheses on a rational basis, and to weigh their likelihood based on facts and evidence, devoid of speculation concerning possible political impacts'." In "Now the Lancet U-turns over Covid lab leak theory and publishes 'alternative view' calling for a 'transparent debate' on the origins of the virus," by Glen Owen and Stephen Adams, Daily Mail, 18 September 2021.
Here's a possibility beyond those ballyhooed in the media. Possibly many nations together and jointly through their technocrats intentionally caused or blundered by error into the worldwide mess. Together. Partners?
[ 4 ] "CORONAVIRUS ISOLATED FROM HUMANS - References Cited, U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (75) Inventors: Paul A. Rota, Decatur, et al. It is United States Patent No. US 7,776,521 B1.
And "Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, DC (US) ." This patent was filed 14 May 2007, according to the patent itself, and granted 17 August 2010.
The pandemic, as it is consistently spoken of for years now, began circa the beginning of 2019, nine years after the patent issued to a raft of CDC employees so named as "inventors."
Additionally one observes that this emphasis on "vaccines" over therapeutics has been a long-simmering issue. One reads: "...Fauci had been criticized for his approach to addressing the spread of HIV in the United States. His speculation about close contact being infectious, as well as his stubborn focus on producing a vaccine rather than therapeutics, were of particular frustration to activists and other scientists." In "Video Resurfaces of Fauci Warning ‘Household Contact’ with AIDS Patients Could Put Kids at Risk," by Isaac Schorr, National Review via Yahoo News, 9 November 2021.
'It's a classic example of taxpayers paying twice for medicines'.
Divination, in the human experience and across human history, is supposedly about telling something in the future. This seems a story element in the larger tale of how to Divine the panic
It is interesting to revisit all the addenda and footnotes about this large, complex tale of misery and media and money. And inventors and patents, politicians and newly minted billionaires, and an utter lack of legal liability. At least, so far.
The Kool-Aid doesn't really work till all are forced to drink
" 'We are finished,' one longtime Manhattan business operator told The Post, while lamenting both mandates and the 'army of morons' enforcing the city’s vaccine protocols. 'They just want to crush the hell out of small businesses. These are sick people.' The city's well-publicized vaccine mandate, which went into effect Monday, has deputized 'thousands' of public employees to roam the city as COVID cops and issue fines of up to $5,000. The less-heralded HERO Act, quietly enacted by Gov. Hochul last week, places page after page of onerous new demands on businesses statewide — while exempting government agencies." In "New city, state COVID mandates threaten small businesses," by Kerry J. Byrne and Rich Calder, NY Post, 18 September 2021.
The Kool-Aid doesn't really work till all are forced to drink;
The lunacy seems so smart till individuals start to think.
Uniformity's only reached when no one's out of synch.
The incorruptible seems so real, ignoring the rot and stink.
From all approved groupthink thought, one's not allowed to shrink;
And the Kool-Aid doesn't really work till all are forced to drink.
Holy Moly
Addendum "from God" through Psalm 96: "...all the gods of the peoples are things of naught.../"
Addendum from the US Code of Federal Regulations: "Sec. 50.25 Elements of informed consent. (a) (8) A statement that participation is voluntary, that refusal to participate will involve no penalty or loss of benefits to which the subject is otherwise entitled, and that the subject may discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which the subject is otherwise entitled." In "Subpart B - Informed Consent of Human Subjects," Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Volume 1, chapter 1, part 50 "Protection of Human Subjects," Revised as of April 1, 2020.
Addendum of Increased Risks with Pfizer Inoculation: "The Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was found to be associated with a threefold increased risk of myocarditis, according to a real-world case-control study from Israel. Vaccination had a strong association with an increased risk of myocarditis (risk ratio [RR] 3.24, 95% CI 1.55-12.44, risk difference 2.7 events per 100,000 persons), as well as increased risks of lymphadenopathy (RR 2.43, 95% CI 2.05-2.78, 78.4 per 100,000), appendicitis (RR 1.40, 95% CI 1.02-2.01, 5.0 per 100,000), and herpes zoster infection (RR 1.43, 95% CI 1.20-1.73, 15.8 per 100,000), reported Ran Balicer, MD, of Clalit Health Services in Tel Aviv, and colleagues." In "Real-World Study Captures Risk of Myocarditis With Pfizer Vax — And separate cohort found high risk with COVID infection," by Molly Walker, MedPage Today, 25 August 2021.
Four days before death
Addendum of Cerebral Blood Clots: "A new study conducted in one county in Minnesota has found an increased likelihood that citizens who received the Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to develop blood clots. The study by the Mayo Clinic found that recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, officially designated 'Janssen,' in Olmsted County, Minnesota, were about 3.7 times more likely to develop a certain variety of cerebral blood clots. Case numbers taken from February 28 to May 7, 2021, were compared to pre-pandemic levels of the blood clots from January 1, 2001, through December 31, 2015." In "Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine Recipients Almost 4X as Likely to Get Blood Clots: Study," by Thomas Kika, Newsweek, 2 November 2021.
Addendum of a Record of Failure: "Indeed, here is the ugly truth: Hospital protocols for late stage COVID patients have nearly a one hundred percent record of failure. Their patients suffer and then die." In "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ivermectin," by Joel S. Hirschhorn, Pandemic Blunder Newsletter, 2 January 2022.
One can then ask: Would Doctor Mengele have been so proud
For a Historical Review of the Meme based on a commercial product, Kool-Aid, see: I'm gonna guide you to the promised land
Someone who disagrees with me
Is a threat to my democracy,
For they refuse my view, you see,
Which shows their greatest villainy.
Someone who votes against my goals
Attacks democracy, I'm told.
But what then is democracy
When others will not be controlled.
Someone with a divergent view
Nags me at my very core.
All of you must think like me,
And all reject what I abhor.
Someone who disagrees with me
Eats away at democracy.
This is wisdom, in my book,
Speaking quite fascistically.
"The I Hate Republicans Reader: Why the GOP Is Totally Wrong About Everything"
by Clint Willis (Editor), Da Capo Press, published 27 October 2003.
Addendum of Republicans as Threat: "Whether it is the filibuster, funding the government, impeachment, or judicial nominations, our system of checks and balances works best when politicians on both sides of the aisle deploy their institutional prerogatives with restraint. In other words, when they avoid applying the letter of the law in ways contrary to the spirit of the law—what’s sometimes called constitutional hardball. When contemporary democracies die, they usually do so via constitutional hardball. Democracy’s primary assailants today are not generals or armed revolutionaries, but rather politicians—Hugo Chávez, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—who eviscerate democracy’s substance behind a carefully crafted veneer of legality and constitutionality." In "The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election." by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Atlantic, 9 July 2021.
"Why I Hate the Democrats," by Randy Howe, The Lyons Press, published 1 May 2004.
Addendum of Democrats as Threat: "The most hallowed institution in the country — its electoral system — is flagrantly being violated by leftist partisans who simply fail to accept that they have lost the 2018 midterms in both Florida and Arizona. So, which is the party that fundamentally hates the United States again? Because it sounds like it’s the Democrats who really hate America (and you)." In "The Democrats Are the Threat to Democracy," by Brandon J. Weichert, American Spectator, 13 November 2018.
Addendum of Republicans as Threat: "Republicans are constructing a defense-in-depth for their power, if they can achieve power." In "There’s no doubt — Republicans are a grave threat to our democracy," in a letter to the editor, Chicago Sun-Times, 22 July 2021.
Addendum of Democrats as Threat: "At base, the problem is that the Democrat Party does not trust the demos, the voters. On the contrary, the Democrat Party believes that for too many American voters are 'deplorables,' bigots, violators of all that is politically correct and dear to the hearts of the woke Democrats." In "Do Democrats Hate Democracy?" by Philip Carol Salzman, PJ Media, 12 February 2020.
Addendum of Republicans as Threat: "It is not hyperbolic to say Republicans want to destroy the rule of law, abolish the separation of powers and undercut free and fair elections. It is not hyperbolic to say they are a danger to our democracy." In "Republicans are a Threat to Democracy," in letter to the editor, Art Voice, 17 June 2021.
Addendum of News Media as Threat: "...in the modern era, much of the media are political ideologues who aren’t concerned with holding the government accountable. Instead, they partner with the Democratic Party to extend its influence and persuade America to one point of view. In his dissent, Judge Silberman labeled the New York Times, The Washington Post, and every other large paper, network, and radio station, as 'Democratic Party broadsheets” and 'trumpets'." In "Federal Judge Calls the News Media a 'Threat to Democracy' in Ruling," by Don Purdum, United Voice, circa 2021.
Addendum of Voters as Threat: "Evidence continues to mount that our system of primary elections is pushing the Democratic Party into a corner, away from the center of the ring. This occurs because the 'disinterested middle' that acts as a flywheel on the basic direction of the country tends not to participate in our primary elections. This leaves the field — and the selection of candidates — to the more engaged, partisan, and passionate voters who show up to vote in the primaries." In "The Biggest Threat to the Democratic Party? Democratic Voters," by Robert A. Hahn, Red State, 6 August 2020.
Addendum of the Supreme Court as Threat: "The truth is, the biggest threat to American democracy isn’t a military coup, as Milley’s laudable behavior tends to show. The more probable danger is much less dramatic and much more terrifying: a horrible decision from the final arbiter of our constitutional system — the Supreme Court of the United States." In "Why the Supreme Court is one of the biggest threats to American democracy," by Harry Litman, LA Times, 24 August 2021.
Addendum of Serious Threat versus Serious Threat: "That tribalism is reflected in surveys. A 2020 AEI poll found that 64 percent of Democrats see the Republican Party as so misguided that it poses a serious threat to the country, while 75 percent of Republicans say the same thing about the Democrat Party." In "Biden's critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts," by Ashley Parker and Carissa Wolf, Washington Post, 23 October 2021.
Addendum of the Republican Party as Seen by a Charles: "The Republican Party — populated with cranks, crooks, clowns, bigots and deranged conspiracy theorists — has spent five years alienating women, minorities and young voters. The party — and its entire leadership from the grassroots to Congress — remains in thrall to a disgraced, defeated, one-term president, who is reduced to issuing increasingly crazed screeds from his exile in Mar-a-Lago." In "Terry McAuliffe Bet on Voters Hating Trump. Turns Out They Dislike Democrats More," by Charles Sykes, Politico, 3 November 2021.
Addendum of the Democrat Party as Seen by a Steve: "The primary reason the United States finds itself in its current predicament is the vast number of credulous and mis-educated Americans who, over the past two decades, have blindly pledged their undying allegiance to the current iteration of Democrat party. They do so because they have been willingly duped into believing that the political opposition, conservatives and Republicans, are the personification of evil who are hellbent on transforming the nation into a dystopian nightmare." In "Democrat Voters are Among the Most Gullible People on Earth," by Steve McCann, American Thinker, 3 November 2021.
Addendum of the Republican Party as Seen by a Cher: "...pop star Cher posted an unhinged, all-caps tweet on Tuesday night warning that if Republicans 'take power' 'IT’LL:bee: '’TOTAL POWER'.ITS 'WHITE'S' ONLY CLUB, & BLM, LGBT, JEWS, ASIANS, MINORITIES, R IN:de:STYLE PERIL. HELD MY TONGUE,LONG ENOUGH,BUT FK IT:bangbang:DO DEMS NEED A:house:2 FALL ON THER SISTERS,:bee:4 THEY C WHATS COMING'," In "Cher Freaks After Youngkin Election: ‘GOP Are Nazis,’ will Make America a ‘Whites Only Club’," by Jerome Hudson, Breitbart, 2 November 2021.
Addendum of the Democrat Party as Seen by another Steve: "Democrats have gone from being merely ridiculous to being extremely dangerous to the people of our country." In "Why Democrats Are Most Dangerous and Despicable People on the Planet," by Steve Straub, Federalist Papers, 21 September 2018.
Addendum of Bubble-ism: "...higher education does not improve a person’s perceptions – and sometimes even hurts it. In their survey answers, highly educated Republicans were no more accurate in their ideas about Democratic opinion than poorly educated Republicans. For Democrats, the education effect was even worse: the more educated a Democrat is, according to the study, the less he or she understands the Republican worldview. 'This effect,' the report says, 'is so strong that Democrats without a high school diploma are three times more accurate than those with a postgraduate degree.' And the more politically engaged a person is, the greater the distortion. What could be going on? Bubble-ism, the report suggests. Even more than their Republican counterparts, highly educated Democrats tend to live in exclusively Democratic enclaves. The more they report 'almost all my friends hold the same political views', the worse their guesses on what Republicans think." In "Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals," by Arlie Hochschild, Spectator UK, 21 July 2019.
Addendum of a Nugget Among the Dross: "It's easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it's obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society. But what happens when Republicans aren't standing in the way? In many states — including California, New York and Illinois — Democrats control all the levers of power. They run the government. They write the laws. And as we explore in the video above, they often aren't living up to their values. In key respects, many blue states are actually doing worse than red states." In "Blue States, You're the Problem. Why do states with Democratic majorities fail to live up to their values?" by Johnny Harris and Binyamin Appelbaum, NY Times, 10 November 2021.
Addendum of Ripping Off Both Sides: "Federal prosecutors allege that the men, Matthew Tunstall, 34 of Los Angeles; Kyle Davies, 29 of Austin, Texas, and Robert Reyes, 38 of Hollister, Calif.; solicited contributions to two PACs — one progressive called Progressive Priorities PAC and one conservative called Liberty Action Group — by using robocalls and written solicitations meant to imply they were supporting 2016 presidential candidates. The PACs’ operators then used the funds to enrich themselves and pay for more robocalls and advertisements, according to the Department of Justice." In "LA man, 2 others charged with running bogus political groups that raised millions from unwitting contributors," by CNN Wire Service, 13 November 2021.
Consider the Systemic Racism Led by Systemic Democrats: White Eric and white Gavin
Consider when Politics demands Everything within
Whether or not it's actually happened
Whether or not it's actually happened,
One should be outraged all the same.
Whether or not it's a hoax or real.,
Someone should bear some blame.
Whether and not are all the same
As one plays the outrage game.
Whether or not it's truly true,
It's true enough to shame.
Whether or not reality's real,
One has outrage to declaim.
Whether or not the stress is real,
There's still a people to enflame.
Whether or not, the pot must be stirred;
Outrage is its own aim.
Addendum Stressing the Stress of the Press: "Some media organizations have enlisted the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism training and research organization based in Florida, to instruct their employees in the art of self-care. On Monday, journalists from KATU News, an ABC affiliate in the Pacific Northwest, took the day off to attend 'a seminar to help deal with on-the-job stress and trauma'." In " 'Take Time To Be Sexual With Yourself' and Other Self-Care Lessons for Professional Journalists," by Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon, 28 September 2021.
" 'Even talking about gender, you know, I think it was last week my daughter came home and said she wanted to be a boy,' Kendi said in a video that includes his name on the screen. 'You know, which was horrifying for my wife to hear, myself to hear.' 'And so of course, you know, we’re like, okay, what affirmative messages about girlhood, you know, can we be teaching her to protect her from whatever she’s hearing in our home or even outside of our home that would make her want to be a boy,' he continued." In "Ibram X. Kendi: ‘Horrifying’ His Daughter Said She Wants to Be a Boy," by Penny Star, Breitbart, 31 October 2021.
The Rachel Man is not a gal
And Rachel White's not black.
If one well spots their rationale,
There's little left to unpack.Rachel Clipped's no longer whole,
While Rachel No says yes.
Topsy Turvy they extol;
Tipsy is most anyone's guess.Rachels' words stands on their head,
Feet planted firm on air.
In all of this they've made their bed
To lie in, as seems fair.Rachel, Rachel, I've been thinking
What a strange world this would be
If all those words man has been inking
Washed into the seedy sea.Man into woman is avowed;
White turns black, for a while.
Words lie as they are allowed
Until one spots the lying guile.Rachel, Rachel by any name,
Tells little and too much.
Must one play their wordy game?
Mustn't say and mustn't touch.
Once upon a time and then not
Addendum of a Once Upon a Time: "As one who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, identified and lived as a woman for eight years, and now devotes my time to helping others who want to leave that life, I couldn’t understand the driving factor behind promoting 'transgender identities' — especially among children — and harshly silencing and canceling all who disagree, by any means available. After many years of helping people with 'sex change' regret recover from a failed diagnosis of gender dysphoria, I finally see what drives the obsessive advocacy for gender-neutral language and transgender identities. As Bruce explained, it’s 'obscenely Marxist' because it 'deconstructs what it means to be female'." In "It's Not Just ‘Gender Dysphoria.' It's Now ‘Rapid Onset Marxism',: by Walt Heyer, Daily Signal, 26 January 2021.
Addendum to the Old Historical Marxist Propaganda: "Commenting on the various agendas pushed by the promoters of woke culture and so-called culture warriors, Putin pointed out that the tactics used, and the ideas put forward, are not new; he tied them to historical Marxist propaganda. 'It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already,' he said. 'After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs, and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society,' he explained. According to Putin, the same conservative values that were attacked by the communists in Russia at the time are now the ones being attacked by the woke mobs in the West. 'The destruction of age-old values, religion, and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that too), encouragement to inform on loved ones, all this was proclaimed ‘progress’ and was widely supported around the world back then, same as today,' he said." In "Putin compares woke culture to Bolshevik propaganda, calls gender ideology ‘crime against humanity’," by Pierre Boralevi, LifeSiteNews, 25 October 2021.
Addendum of a Skirt-wearing Boy Rapist: "Furious parents and conservatives have told Barack Obama to apologize to a Loudoun County, Virginia, couple and their daughter who was raped by a skirt-wearing boy in a school bathroom in May, after the former President called the row encircling it 'fake outrage' and a 'phony trumped-up culture wars'. On Monday, juvenile court judge Pamela Brooks ruled that the boy - who has not been named - did force himself on the 15-year-old girl on May 28 in the bathroom at Stone Ridge High School in Leesburg, Virginia. The case drew national attention because the boy was wearing a skirt at the time and the girls' parents - Scott and Jessica Smith - said it was what they feared might happen more if Loudoun County Schools starts allowing boys into girls' bathrooms frequently as part of a progressive transgender policy." In "'Serious enough for you now, Barack?' Furious parents tell Obama to apologize to vindicated couple and their daughter, who judge finds WAS raped by a boy in a skirt in school bathroom, after he called it 'fake outrage'," by Jennifer Smith, Daily Mail, 26 October 2021.
Addendum of a Mistake: "Rachel Diamond looks like most of the moms at the Park Slope café where we meet. She’s wearing a green T-shirt under a black corduroy jumper, sensible shoes and carries a smart, leather bag. She sips a four dollar iced chai. Except the 31-year-old isn’t a mom. And she never will be. 'You know,' Diamond says cheerily, 'I never expected to be the poster child of sterilization'." In" 'Humans are a mistake': Why more young women are getting sterilized," by Suzy Weiss, NY Post, 27 October 2021.
Addendum of Arresting a "Perv dressed as a woman:" "The culprit was donning a blond wig as he was seen entering a bathroom stall next to a group of women and girls who were around 12 to 15 years old, according to police. An initial investigation revealed the suspect appeared to have a pen camera attached to his sneakers, making it easier for him to secretly record unsuspecting victims and later watch the footage on a computer or smartphone, authorities said." In "Perv dressed as woman, hid camera on sneakers to record naked girls in ladies’ bathroom: police," by Nelson Oliveira, NY Daily News, 19 October 2021. [ 1 ]
Addendum of an Indigenous White Canadian: "Dr Bourassa has been suspended as the scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, according to a statement released by the institute’s president Michael Strong on Monday. 'Today I spoke with Dr Carrie Bourassa ... and we agreed that she will step away from all of her duties as Scientific Director of the Institute. As such, Dr Bourassa will be on an indefinite leave without pay effective immediately,' he said. She has also been placed on leave and is relieved of all her duties as professor in the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, the institute said in a separate statement on the same day." In "Canadian Indigenous health guru ousted from government roles after she’s revealed to be white," by Arpan Rai, Independent, 3 November 2021. [ 2 ]
Consider Trance-gender-ism's Oddity -- Dick, you're supposed to have gone off somewhere
Consider Trans-racial-ism's Oddity: White Noise
Consider the remarkable socio-political word game of Fluidity
NOTES
[ 1 ] Vocabulary found in news reporting is most interesting. When is a male wearing a female's clothing a "perv" and when is a male wearing a female's clothes a contemporary political icon?
Consider the penalty for holding an opinion based on the definition of a word. One reads: "Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current and a journalist who has written for New Statesman, Vice News, CBC News, and the Globe and Mail, was permanently suspended from Twitter last week after the social network implemented a ban on 'misgendering' transgender people. The posts which reportedly led to Murphy’s ban were, 'Women aren't men,' and 'How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?' After Twitter made her delete the posts, Murphy made another post declaring, 'This is f***ing bullshit, @twitter. I’m not allowed to say that men aren’t women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore? That a multi-billion dollar company is censoring basic facts and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is insane'. Murphy was then permanently suspended." In "Twitter Silences Prominent Feminist for Saying Men Aren’t Women," by Charlie Nash, Breitbart, 26 November 2021.
Perhaps the "perv" reported in the NY Daily News article isn't a "perv" but best described as some other word? Which? Any?
What then of the trans-racial? Or the trans-species, as some assert? After all, one reads: "Neither concept, transspecies nor postspecies, involves the idea of sexual relations or intercourse between species, only the idea that self-identification as another species or with specific attributes of another species is possible and should be sustained within supporting, corresponding communities." In "Transspecies," Transhumanism Fandon, n. d.
[ 2 ] One must conclude that race is fluid until it's not. Or it's not until it is. Gender is fluid, until it isn't. Or it isn't until it is. Self-identity is valid, or it's not. Or invalid until it is asserted. Navigating the game can be difficult when the rules continue to change. One's "perv" is another's exemplary icon. One's cultural appropriation is another's tribute to some other culture. It all depends on something. Or not.
"It's a gigantic hoax. I was just looking at a picture here which says, 'For the first time in history, a medicine's ineffectivessness is now being blamed on those who have not taken it.' So bizarre." Reiner Fuellmich, in an interview with Whitney Webb, Corona Committee, 29 October 2021.
It wanes and so it needs a boost.
Because it wanes, some have deduced
Each waning then comes home to roost.
It wanes and so you'll needs a boost.
Two, three, four and then unloosed
When yearly becomes what's boost produced.
It wanes, so all will need a boost.
Repeatedly and reproduced,
Boosts need boosting, boost induced.
Addendum of Breaking Through the Vaccinated: "Fully vaccinated people who get a COVID-19 'breakthrough' infection can spread the virus to others even if they are not symptomatic, Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky told CNN on Thursday. ... 'Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,' she said. 'They continue to work well with delta with regard to severe illness and death, but what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission'." In "CDC Director: Vaccines No Longer Prevent You From Spreading COVID," by Tim Hains, RealClearPolitics, 6 August 2021.
Addendum of Being Double Vaccinated: "... federal regulators approved the third dose for many Americans." In "Double vaccinated WH press secretary Jen Psaki reveals she's tested positive for COVID - the highest ranking White House official to catch the virus," by Rob Crilly, Daily Mail, 31 October 2021.
Addendum of Being Triple and Quadruple Vaccinated: "Anyone eligible for the booster should wait at least six months between their third and fourth shot, the CDC added." In "Immunocompromised may need a 4th COVID-19 vaccine booster, CDC says," by Emerald Bensadoun, Global News, 27 October 2021.
Addendum of Every Six Months: "Anyone eligible for the booster should wait at least six months between their third and fourth shot, the CDC added." In "Immunocompromised may need a 4th COVID-19 vaccine booster, CDC says," by Emerald Bensadoun, Global News, 27 October 2021.
Addendum of Continuous Boosting: " 'I think if we end up there, there will be a continuous need for boosting,' he added." In "Moderna chairman says booster could be yearly," by Monique Beals, The Hill, 26 October 2021.
Addendum of Halving the Interval: "Minimum dose interval for booster jabs to be halved from 6 months to 3 months and all adults to be offered booster Covid vaccine, Health Secretary Sajid Javid confirms," BBC Politics, Twitter Media Studio, 29 November 2021.
Addendum of Spotting the Con: "A fundamental public health principle is that health is multidimensional; the control of a single infectious disease is not synonymous with health. As an immunologist, Dr. Fauci failed to properly consider and weigh the disastrous effects lockdowns would have on cancer detection and treatment, cardiovascular disease outcomes, diabetes care, childhood vaccination rates, mental health and opioid overdoses, to name a few. Americans will live with—and die from—this collateral damage for many years to come. In private conversations, most of our scientific colleagues agree with us on these points. While a few have spoken up, why are not more doing so? Well, some tried but failed. Others kept silent when they saw colleagues slandered and smeared in the media or censored by Big Tech. Some are government employees who are barred from contradicting official policy. Many are afraid of losing positions or research grants, aware that Dr. Fauci sits on top of the largest pile of infectious disease research money in the world. Most scientists are not experts on infectious disease outbreaks. Were we, say, oncologists, physicists or botanists, we would probably also have trusted Dr. Fauci." In "How Fauci Fooled America," by Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, Newsweek, 1 November 2021.
Addendum of Malfeasance and the FDA: "The record of the FDA, the major drug oversight agency in the US Government, regarding safety and risks of the experimental gene-altered mRNA vaccines of Pfizer, is one of criminal malfeasance, defined as willful violation of a public trust or obligation that causes harm or death. Their latest ruling is even more egregious for blatant conflicts of interest and scientific fraud. Both Pfizer, who conducted the tests on the efficacy of their own vaccine on the 5-11 year age group, and the FDA experts, admitted that they had no idea if the vaccine was safe for such a young population. Dr. Eric Rubin, professor of immunology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health voted to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, noting, 'The data show that the vaccine works and is pretty safe … and yet we’re worried about a side effect that we can’t measure yet, but it’s probably real.' That is hardly confidence-building. He then stated, 'we're never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes.' This cold-blooded nonchalance is even more astonishing in light of the fact that the incidence of serious side effects in the 5-11 age group who allegedly have tested positive for the corona virus is essentially zero." In "Malfeasance Behind the FDA Vax OK for Children," by F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook, 1 November 2021. [ 1 ]
Addendum of Susceptibility Increasing in 2-3 Months: "...these findings indicate continued risk of infection in household contacts despite vaccination. Our estimate of SAR is higher than that reported in fully vaccinated household contacts exposed before the emergence of the delta variant.1,20,21 The time interval between vaccination and study recruitment was significantly higher in fully vaccinated PCR-positive contacts than fully vaccinated PCR-negative contacts, suggesting that susceptibility to infection increases with time as soon as 2–3 months after vaccination—consistent with waning protective immunity." In "Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study," by Anika Singanayagam, Seran Hakki, Jake Dunning, Kieran J. Madon, Michael A. Crone, Aleksandra Koycheva, Nieves Derqui-Fernandez, Jack L. Barnett, Michael G. Whitfield, Robert Varro, Andre Charlett, Rhia Kundu, Joe Fenn, Jessica Cutajar, Valerie Quinn, Emily Conibear, Wendy Barclay, Paul S. Freemont, Graham P. Taylor, Shazaad Ahmad, Maria Zambon, Neil M. Ferguson†, Ajit Lalvani†, on behalf of the ATACCC Study Investigators, The Lancet, 28 October 2021. [ 2 ]
Addendum of Waning Progressively: "Vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic Covid-19 infection wanes progressively over time across all subgroups, but at different rate according to type of vaccine, and faster for men and older frail individuals. The effectiveness against severe illness seems to remain high through 9 months, although not for men, older frail individuals, and individuals with comorbidities. This strengthens the evidence-based rationale for administration of a third booster dose." "Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination Against Risk of Symptomatic Infection, Hospitalization, and Death Up to 9 Months: A Swedish Total-Population Cohort Study," by Peter Nordström, Marcel Ballin and Anna Nordström, research paper, University of Umea, Lancet, 25 October 2021. [ 3 ]
Addendum of an Odd Correlation's Explanation: " The results are alarming. The summary of the analysis states: Excess mortality can be found in all 16 countries. The number of Covid deaths reported by the RKI in the period under review consistently only represents a relatively small part of the excess mortality and above all cannot explain the critical issue: The higher the vaccination rate, the higher the excess mortality. The most direct explanation is: Complete vaccination increases the likelihood of death." In "New study from Germany confirms higher vax coverage --> higher excess mortality," Steve Kirsch, Substack, 20 November 2021.
Addendum of Plans to Boost Profits: "Officials did not reveal how much the Pfizer jabs cost, but EU contracts show the bloc is spending about £16.50 per dose of Pfizer and £19.50 on Moderna's. They will arrive in 2022 and 2023, with plans already being drawn up to boost the nation's immunity for at least the next two years." In "Get ready for boosters every year: Pfizer boss says annual jabs needed to maintain 'very high protection' as he denies profiteering from £16.50 jab claiming it 'costs the same as a takeaway meal'," by Luke Andrews and Shaun Wooller, Daily Mail, 2 December 2021.
Consider how one would -- and did -- Divine the panic
NOTES
[ 1 ] Engdahl, from the perspective of the political Left, observes: "The separate company, BioNTech of Mainz, Germany, has a similar but 'legally different' vaccine, trade-named Comirnaty, that is not available in the USA. The distinction is essential as it was the basis in August for the corrupt FDA to give Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine an extension of Emergency Use Authorization but to misleadingly declare its full approval for Comirnaty vaccine of BioNTech. This is deliberate fraud and allowed the Biden Administration to mandate vaccination of US government workers (curiously except for White House and Congress), military, and any company with more than 100 employees. Conflicts of Interest? The corruption of the FDA extends to the members of the Vaccine Advisory Committee. Many of the members of the current 18 person committee have direct ties to Pfizer or to the pro-Pfizer Gates Foundation."
That's just the way it goes
Carve outs in a gaslit mandate in which the White House and Congress are exempt? Boosters for a pharmaceutical product which purported to be a vaccine, through the governmental re-definition of the term, and one in which repeated injections of this product are required to "protect" what an initial injection was supposed to confer. Gaslighting is now in the extreme range. So does it seem.
Because "we're never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes."
From two doses to three, to four, to yearly doses to "continuous." What wanes? Public trust.
Public Trust Wanes with the Waning "Warp Speed" Pseudo-vaccines
Various polls in this time show public trust in mainstream media and also in government "waning" as the news of "waning" immunity is the experimental vaccines being mandated by government. Being coerced into taking part in an EUA-excused experiment is not building trust/
One reads an interesting editorial: "Since 2015, as I embarked on a journey into the science of public health, I have been disappointed to find that corporations who develop vaccines and have a vested interests in the profitability of vaccines, and regulatory agency members who, it turns out, also have financial vested interests in vaccines, routinely partake in science-like activities. In doing so, they eschew the products of the Enlightenment: science and reason, and they are causing a steady decay in the public’s trust in Science as a process. The public should not confuse their mistrust of corrupted and captured institutions with a mistrust of Science. The offending individuals in these institutions can hardly be said to be doing science: They repeatedly bias interpretations to minimize the public’s perception of risk; they cherry-pick results to include and exclude in vaccine studies; and they have not been forthright with key information, including the risk of fetal death from vaccination during pregnancy, the risk of infection following influenza vaccination, the risk of autoimmunity following vaccination, and the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders following vaccination." In "If Vaccine Adverse Events Tracking Systems Do Not Support Causal Inference, then 'Pharmacovigilance' Does Not Exist," by James Lyons-Weile, IPAK PHPU, Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law," Volume 3:81–86, August, 2021.
The article's title offers an either-or. The likely conclusion is that "Pharmacovigilance" does not exist in this time of "pandemic" and experimental "emergency" in which participation in an enormous, worldwide experiment is being mandated.
A Call to Break Up "Intolerable" Profit-Incentivized Health Monopolies
Lyons-Weile adds: "...we learned that the US FDA has approved the marketed version of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for people over 16 years of age. These individuals did this without the required advisory committee meeting — a month after they were skewered in the media for approval of a drug for Alzheimer’s disease that has limited, if any, efficacy. The stunning move by FDA decision on approval of the Pfizer vaccine was made by ignoring the massive number of post-market safety events reported to VAERS. Many physicians see this as FDA acting on <1% of the safety information available, and they note that Americans are being injured and killed by the vaccines.'
He continues without mincing words: "This is intolerable — and the entire HHS should undergo Congressional review. We need a viable public health system that does not engage in profit incentive but instead uses science, logic and reason in the studies of what is causing poor health and killing people. A decentralized plan exists to replace the CDC (Plan B); perhaps now we need a similar plan to replace the FDA."
[ 2 ] "...consistent with waning immunity" is a striking phrase. As the various public health agencies have redefined the term "vaccine" to make room for the experimental gen therapy inoculations as "vaccines," and therefore covered under "emergency use authorizations" which shield manufacturers from something as basic as product liability, the fact becomes that a "vaccine" can now "wane" in "as soon as 2-3 months after vaccination."
Fully vaccinated Similar to Unvaccinated?
Highlighting from the article: "...fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts. Host–virus interactions early in infection may shape the entire viral trajectory."
Waning
One then may reflect on which vaccines across the history of vaccination have "waned" in such a short period of time as these. The Lancet article's "2-3 months?" The CDC's and FDA's "booster" recommendation in only a six month period? The Moderna chairman's own "yearly" estimation spoken in public?
Perhaps the redefinition of the term, vaccine, should be reset to its original usage? But then, what would be the financial implications? The implications of increasingly shattering public trust? The implications' of "experts" pronouncements? The politics of the whole shebang? What's waning?
[ 3 ] The waning as documented by multiple "evidence based" research papers and even by drug manufacturers begins to paint a picture that this group of "vaccines" -- using the recently revised definition to fit these gene therapies -- are essentially effective until they are not effective. Arguing that repeated doses must be used suggests validation of a joke going round.
Evidenced based Waning? Trust the Science?
"The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected."
When viewed from the perspective of marketing, this all make perfect sense to those marketing highly profitable products. More doses equals more profits, currently liability free courtesy of politics.
Question: what other vaccines require boosters within a year, and are suggested to be repeated every year by their manufacturers?
Miss Gender so misgenders
if a Gender says she's male,
Which tells us quite a lot abouthow wordy words will fail.
Misgendering once wasno tangible, real thing,
But now misgenderingdemands you feel its sting.
Miss Gender just misgendersif a Gender vows he's a gal,,
And social constructs saypie-in-the-sky's not 'naturale.'
You must use my pronouns
means you must kiss my ass,
Especially when the pronouns say
some laddie is a lass.
Some will bend the knee to this,
and some will stand to fight.
All can haggle back and forth,
and never get it right.
Consider the game -- Pronouns at play
Consider additionally that Any claim can be made
They said so, so they say,
And say such every day.
They to them, each to theirs.
Tomorrow turns to yesterday.
He said it, it was said,
And look where that has led.
He to him, to one and all,
Knuckles for the knucklehead.
She said and some believed,
And some seemed so relieved.
Others were more skeptical
And so some disagreed.
I not sure, it's sure I'm not
But navigate the sweetest spot
Between the this and the that,
With just a bit of idling thought.
