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Edward Hopper New York movie 1939

 

‘It’s Anti-science, And It’s Anti-me’ – Fauci (RT)
Mass Vaccination Drives A Rapid Evolutionary Response Of SARS-CoV-2 (VDBossche)
Ivermectin: The Forbidden Treatment (APL)
Oxford University Explores Ivermectin As Covid-19 Treatment (R.)
Nearly 4,000 Fully Vaccinated People in MA Positive for COVID-19 (ET)
3rd COVID Wave Will Kill Or Hospitalize 60 To 70% of Fully Vaccinated (GGI)
Daszak Leaves UN-backed COVID Origins Probe (NYP)
Media Allowed Itself To Be Duped By One Man On Covid-19 (Bloom)
Gabon Paid For Protecting Forests, In African First (Y!)
A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She Doesn’t Offer Facts (Greenwald)
EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Google’s Online Ad Tech Business (F.)
Millions Become Millionaires During Covid Pandemic (BBC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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All America has had to say for a year and a half. Poor. Can’t disagree with Tony, because that makes you far-right.

‘It’s Anti-science, And It’s Anti-me’ – Fauci (RT)

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, has dismissed controversy surrounding numerous past emails being published as “anti-science” nonsense from the “far-right.” Fauci has found himself facing new waves of criticism since thousands of his emails were released via Freedom of Information Act requests through Buzzfeed and the Washington Post. Critics have timed what Fauci has said in some of the emails during the pandemic to what he was saying publicly and accused the infectious disease expert of hypocrisy on issues such as masking and theories about the origin of Covid-19. In an interview with the New York Times published on Monday, Fauci dismissed his “far-right” critics as being “politically motivated” and pushing “nonsense” to discredit him.


“It’s clear. It’s anti-science, and it’s anti-me,” Fauci declared. He went on to say that every piece of correspondence is “perfectly normal, perfectly innocent, and completely above board.” Fauci has long been accused of flip-flopping on key guidances in short periods of time during the pandemic, something he has denied, explaining that his opinion has changed as the “science” has, an argument he doubled-down on in his most recent defense. “So the people who are giving the ad hominems are saying, ‘Fauci misled us,'” he said. “‘First, he said no masks, then he said masks.’ Well, let me give you a flash. That’s the way science works. You work with the data you have at the time. It is essential as a scientist that you evolve your opinion and your recommendations based on the data as it evolves.”

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Spike proteins all the way.

Mass Vaccination Drives A Rapid Evolutionary Response Of SARS-CoV-2 (VDBossche)

We do know about the outcome of a natural pandemic but don’t know at all about the outcome of the ongoing pandemic, as the latter has now become a ‘pandemic of variants’. From what follows below (and which is basically a summary of findings made by molecular/ genomic epidemiologists that I put into a broader context), there is however, one certainty, which is that Sars-CoV-2 variants are rapidly evolving in response to the natural immune selection pressure they are experiencing. Phylogenetics-based natural selection analysis indicates that a substantial amount of the immune selection pressure exerted during this pandemic is directed at the Sars-CoV-2 spike (S) protein, which is targeted by the vaccines.

On their journey to adapting to the host(ile) environment of neutralizing antibodies (nAbs), variants further exploit their evolutionary capacity to overcome this S-directed, population-level immune pressure. Hence, in a given vaccination setting and stage of the ongoing pandemic, the success of mass vaccination campaigns will to a large extent depend on the evolving prevalence of increasingly problematic variants. Alternatively, S-directed immune interventions that seem effective in one vaccination setting and stage of this pandemic may not work as well when applied to another vaccination setting or when implemented at another stage of the ongoing pandemic.

The observation that the effectiveness of mass vaccination campaigns, as assessed during a pandemic of immune escape variants, oftentimes evolves very differently between countries or regions is, therefore, not surprising. It is only when the population-level selective immune pressure will culminate that variants and, therefore, the effects of these campaigns will start to globally converge to the same endpoint, which is ‘resistance’ to the vaccines. It is only at that very endpoint that all assessments of the alleged ‘effectiveness’ of this experiment will be unanimous and consistent. [..] as the immune selection pressure in the global population is now ‘massively’ rising and the set of naturally selected, S-directed mutations together with the plasticity thereof dramatically expanding, one can reasonably expect that the edition of a super variant capable of resisting S-specific Abs will be precipitated such as to emerge within the next few months.

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“Please may we start saving lives now.” She heard nothing back.”

Ivermectin: The Forbidden Treatment (APL)

On Dec. 8 2020, FLCCC member Dr. Pierre Kory gave nine minutes of testimony to the U.S. Homeland Security Committee Meeting on the potent anti-viral, anti-inflammatory benefits of ivermectin. Nine million people viewed the video on YouTube before it was taken down by YouTube’s owner, Google. Capuzzo said mainstream and social media have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep people in the dark about ivermectin. Three days after Kory’s testimony, an Associated Press “fact-check reporter” interviewed Kory. Then she wrote: “AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There’s no evidence Ivermectin has been proven a safe or effective treatment against COVID-19.” Like many critics, she didn’t explore the Ivermectin data or evidence in any detail, but merely dismissed its “insufficient evidence,” quoting instead the lack of a recommendation by the NIH or WHO.

On Jan. 12, 2021, the Brazilian Ministry of Health tweeted to its 1.2 million followers not to wait with COVID-19 until it’s too late but “go to a Health Unit and request early treatment,” (Ivermectin) only to have Twitter take down the official public health tweet for “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information.” On Jan. 31, the Slovak Ministry of Health announced its decision on Facebook to allow use of Ivermectin. Facebook took down the post and removed the entire page it was on, the Ivermectin for MDs Team, with 10,200 members from more than 100 countries. In Argentina, Professor and doctor Hector Carvallo, whose prophylactic studies are renowned by other researchers, says all his scientific documentation for Ivermectin is quickly scrubbed from the Internet. “I am afraid,” he wrote to Marik and his colleagues, “we have affected the most sensitive organ on humans: the wallet…”

As Kory’s testimony was climbing toward nine million views, YouTube, owned by Google, erased his official Senate testimony, saying it endangered the community. Undeterred, many front-line doctors have tried to persuade their health regulators of the efficacy and safety of ivermectin as a covid treatment. They include Dr. Tess Lawrie, a prominent independent medical researcher who, as Capuzzo reports, evaluates the safety and efficacy of drugs for the WHO and the National Health Service to set international clinical practice guidelines: “She read all 27 of the Ivermectin studies Kory cited. The resulting evidence is consistent and unequivocal, she said, and sent a rapid meta-analysis, an epidemiolocal statistical multi-study review considered the highest form of medical evidence, to the director of the NHS, members of parliament, and a video to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with “the good news… that we now have solid evidence of an effective treatment for COVID-19…” and Ivermectin should immediately “be adopted globally and systematically for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.”

Ignored by British leaders and media, Lawrie convened the day-long streaming BIRD conference—British Ivermectin Recommendation Development—with more than 60 researchers and doctors from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Ireland, Belgium, Argentina, South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Australia, and Japan. They evaluated the drug using the full “evidence-to-decision framework” that is “the gold standard tool for developing clinical practice guidelines” used by the WHO, and reached the conclusion that Ivermectin should blanket the world. “Most of all you can trust me because I am also a medical doctor, first and foremost,” Lawrie told the prime minster, “with a moral duty to help people, to do no harm, and to save lives. Please may we start saving lives now.” She heard nothing back.

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Oxford is AstraZeneca. They should never lead a study like this. And they know it.

Oxford University Explores Ivermectin As Covid-19 Treatment (R.)

The University of Oxford said on Wednesday it was testing anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19, as part of a British government-backed study that aims to aid recoveries in non-hospital settings. Ivermectin resulted in a reduction of virus replication in laboratory studies, the university said, adding that a small pilot showed giving the drug early could reduce viral load and the duration of symptoms in some patients with mild COVID-19. Dubbed PRINCIPLE, the British study in January showed that antibiotics azithromycin and doxycycline were generally ineffective against early-stage COVID-19.


While the World Health Organization, and European and U.S. regulators have recommended against using ivermectin in COVID-19 patients, it is being used to treat the illness in some countries, including India. “By including ivermectin in a large-scale trial like PRINCIPLE, we hope to generate robust evidence to determine how effective the treatment is against COVID-19, and whether there are benefits or harms associated with its use,” co-lead investigator of the trial Chris Butler said. People with severe liver conditions, who are on blood-thinning medication warfarin, or taking other treatments known to interact with ivermectin, will be excluded from the trial, the university added. Ivermectin is the seventh treatment to be investigated in the trial, and is currently being evaluated alongside antiviral drug favipiravir, the university said.

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How it started and how it’s going is the same. No progress:

“The health agency added, “There is some evidence that vaccination may make illness less severe.”

Nearly 4,000 Fully Vaccinated People in MA Positive for COVID-19 (ET)

Nearly 4,000 people in Massachusetts who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have contracted the virus, adding to the growing number of breakthrough cases nationwide. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, as of June 12, there were 3,791 people who tested positive for COVID-19 among the 3.7 million fully vaccinated people in the state, accounting for roughly one in 1,000 vaccinated individuals. “We’re learning that many of the breakthrough infections are asymptomatic or they’re very mild and brief in duration,” said Boston University infectious diseases specialist Davidson Hamer, the Boston Herald reported. “The viral load is not very high.”

“Breakthroughs are expected, and we need to better understand who’s at risk and whether people who have a breakthrough can transmit the virus to others,” Hamer added. “In some cases, they’ll be shedding such low levels of the virus and won’t be transmitting to others.” So-called breakthrough cases refer to cases appearing two or more weeks after a person’s final shot. That’s primarily the second Pfizer or Moderna dose, but can be the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states on its website. “COVID-19 vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the pandemic under control. However, no vaccines are 100 percent effective at preventing illness. There will be a small percentage of people who are fully vaccinated who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19.”

The health agency added, “There is some evidence that vaccination may make illness less severe.”

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From April, but a keeper.

3rd COVID Wave Will Kill Or Hospitalize 60 To 70% of Fully Vaccinated (GGI)

According to projections by UK’s top modelling agency the third wave of COVID-19 spike will hospitalize and kill 60 to 70% of those people who took both the vaccine doses. The paper suggests that the resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths will dominated by those who have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively. The modelling (read below in full) was presented to the UK’s top scientific advisory body Sage by one of its sub groups, the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational (SPI-M-O). This committee of academics has done modelling work throughout the pandemic and has looked at the impact vaccination will have on hospital admissions, infections and deaths.

Its findings suggest that a third wave is inevitable but that the size of the spike in cases depends on the effectiveness of vaccines, the speed at which restrictions are eased and the impact new variants have on transmission and illness. It suggests that the resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths will be “dominated by those that have received two doses of the vaccine”. “Maintaining a large reduction in transmission from such measures after Step 4 [England’s plans to remove all restrictions from June 21] is taken is almost certain to reduce the size of the subsequent resurgence. This latest modelling reinforces this finding, as lower adherence to baseline measures and the resulting increased transmission could lead to a peak close in scale to that seen in January 2021.” The paper looks at a range of possibilities what we can expect from Covid as we ease restrictions going into the summer. It takes into account a range of difference sources including modelling from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

“Scenarios with little transmission reduction after step 4 [full lifting of restrictions planned for June in England] or with pessimistic but plausible vaccine efficacy assumptions can result in resurgences in hospitalisations of a similar scale to January 2021.” The paper suggests that the resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths will dominated by those who have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively. “The resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths is dominated by those that have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively. This can be attributed to the high levels of uptake in the most at-risk age groups, such that immunisation failures account for more serious illness than unvaccinated individuals.”

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Where there’s Daszak, there’s Fauci.

Daszak Leaves UN-backed COVID Origins Probe (NYP)

The head of a New York City-based nonprofit that directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grant money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is no longer part of a UN-backed commission examining the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak’s profile on the website of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission has been updated to include the parenthetical quote “recused from Commission work on the origins of the pandemic.” Earlier this month, Vanity Fair reported that Dazsak helped organize a statement signed by 27 leading scientists that appeared in The Lancet — a prestigious British medical journal — in February 2020. The statement condemned what it called “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” and proclaimed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China.”

“Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours [sic], and prejudice that jeopardise [sic] our global collaboration in the fight against this virus,” the statement added. Though the statement initially claimed that the signatories had “no competing interests,” The Lancet issued a statement Monday saying it had invited all 27 signatories (at least one of whom has walked back his support of the natural, or zoonotic, theory) to “re-evaluate their competing interests.” The statement included an updated disclosure from Daszak attached to the February 2020 statement and two other pieces he co-authored or contributed to. In his expanded disclosure, Daszak stated that EcoHealth’s work in China — including at the Wuhan lab — was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Daszak also denied that he or EcoHealth received money directly from the Chinese government.

“EcoHealth Alliance’s work in China … includes the production of a small number of recombinant bat coronaviruses to analyse [sic] cell entry and other characteristics of bat coronaviruses for which only the genetic sequences are available,” he wrote. “NIH reviewed the planned recombinant virus work and deemed it does not meet the criteria that would warrant further specific review by its Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) committee.” The belated disclosure from The Lancet comes months after the nonprofit group US Right to Know reported that four of the statement’s co-authors had direct ties to EcoHealth Alliance. The Vanity Fair report stated that six signatories had either worked at EcoHealth Alliance or received funding from it.

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“What does it say about the state of our media and social media that one man can so wrongly shape a narrative?”

Media Allowed Itself To Be Duped By One Man On Covid-19 (Bloom)

The more we learn about Peter Daszak, one of the main villains of the COVID epidemic, the worse it gets. Daszak is president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nongovernmental organization mostly funded by the US government. EcoHealth passed some of that money on to the lab in Wuhan, China. It was Daszak who organized the letter in The Lancet from February 2020 dismissing as “misinformation” claims that the virus may have originated from the Wuhan Virology Lab. The letter created the illusion of consensus, which Internet companies proceeded to enforce through censorship, and the media reinforced by constantly interviewing Daszak himself. There might be journalistic value in hearing from the Chernobyl plant director about all those clouds floating over Ukraine.

But if he suggests the rash of mysterious sores and cancers were due to a faulty shipment of microwaves recently arrived in Pripyat, you’d probably think he was engaged in a bit of “motivated reasoning.” Apparently not the World Health Organization, which invited Daszak to join their microwave hunt in Wuhan. In the last two days, Daszak has been removed from The Lancet’s own UN-backed commission investigating COVID’s origins, though whether he removed himself or was fired remains unclear. It appears Daszak collaborated with Anthony Fauci as well, based on a recently released e-mail in which he thanks the NIAID director for “publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release.”

To top it all off, the Trump administration canceled the EcoHealth grant in early 2020, a move that was characterized by “60 Minutes” and NPR as jeopardizing a possible COVID-19 cure. Both stories featured — guess who — Daszak. Now we learn that Google’s charitable arm may have also funded EcoHealth. Steve Hilton suggested Monday on Fox that the Google funding might have something to do with why information about COVID was so ruthlessly policed on social media platforms and search engines. We’ll be sorting through the many failures of the COVID pandemic for years, failures by the most important institutions of society, from big tech to scientific research to public health to the media, but whatever blame rests on them, we can say Daszak helped break them all. What does it say about the state of our media and social media that one man can so wrongly shape a narrative?

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Wonder where the loot ends up.

Gabon Paid For Protecting Forests, In African First (Y!)

Gabon has become the first African nation to receive a financial reward for protecting its forests as part of international efforts to fight climate change, the government announced Tuesday. Gabon has received $17 million in recompense for successfully cutting its carbon emissions by reducing deforestation and forest degradation, the environment ministry said in a statement. The payment came “after independent experts verified Gabon’s results” showing that the country’s carbon emissions in 2016-17 had dropped compared with the annual figures for 2006-15.

The funds were delivered by the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), an organisation launched in 2015 by the United Nations and backed by international donors. The scheme provides financial incentives to Central African governments to pursue economic growth without harming the vast forests that cover much of the region. The world’s rainforests are seen as a vital weapon in the fight against climate change by sucking out carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Gabon, where forests cover 90 percent of the territory, is home to some 18 percent of the Congo Basin forest, known as “the second lung of the planet” after the Amazon.

Under a 10-year deal signed with CAFI in 2019, Gabon is set to receive a total of $150 million if it meets its carbon-cutting targets. The small tropical country has pledged to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2025 from 2005 levels. The forests in Gabon alone “absorb a total of 140 million tonnes of CO2 each year, which is equivalent to removing 30 million cars from circulation throughout the world,” the environment ministry said. Gabon has been a leader in Central Africa in preserving its rainforests, creating 13 national parks since 2000 that cover around 11 percent of the country.

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For entertainment purposes only. Such an odd defense that Tucker can use it too.

A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She Doesn’t Offer Facts (Greenwald)

In sum, ruled the court, Rachel Maddow is among those “speakers whose statements cannot reasonably be interpreted as allegations of fact.” Despite Maddow’s use of the word “literally” to accuse OAN of being a “paid Russian propaganda” outlet, the court dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that, given Maddow’s conduct and her audience’s awareness of who she is and what she does, “the Court finds that the contested statement is an opinion that cannot serve as the basis for a defamation claim.” What makes this particularly notable and ironic is that a similar argument was made a year later by lawyers for Fox News when defending a segment that appeared on the program of its highest-rated program, Tucker Carlson Tonight.

That was part of a lawsuit brought by the former model Karen McDougal, who claimed Carlson slandered her by saying she “extorted” former President Trump by demanding payments in exchange for her silence about an extramarital affair she claimed to have with him. McDougal’s lawsuit was dismissed in September, 2020, by Trump-appointed judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, based on arguments made by Fox’s lawyers that were virtually identical to those made by MSNBC’s lawyers when defending Maddow. In particular, the court accepted Fox’s arguments that when Carlson used the word “extortion,” he meant it in a colloquial and dramatic sense, and that his viewers would have understood that he was not literally accusing her of a crime but rather offering his own subjective characterizations and opinions, particularly since viewers understand that Carlson offers political commentary:

“Fox News first argues that, viewed in context, Mr. Carlson cannot be understood to have been stating facts, but instead that he was delivering an opinion using hyperbole for effect. See Def. Br. at 12-15. Fox News cites to a litany of cases which hold that accusing a person of “extortion” or “blackmail” simply is “rhetorical hyperbole,” incapable of being defamatory. . . .

In particular, accusations of “extortion,” “blackmail,” and related crimes, such as the statements Mr. Carlson made here, are often construed as merely rhetorical hyperbole when they are not accompanied by additional specifics of the actions purportedly constituting the crime. . . . Such accusations of crimes also are unlikely to be defamatory when, as here, they are made in connection with debates on a matter of public or political importance. . . . The context in which the offending statements were made here make it abundantly clear that Mr. Carlson was not accusing Ms. McDougal of actually committing a crime. As a result, his statements are not actionable.”

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Google’s monopoly is glaringly obvious. No probe needed.

EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Google’s Online Ad Tech Business (F.)

The European Union on Tuesday opened a formal antitrust probe into Google to inspect whether the company violated the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own online advertising technology over competing providers, in a move that follows a similar probe against Facebook earlier this month. The investigation will examine whether Google is distorting competition by restricting third parties from accessing user data for advertising purposes while using such data for its own service, according to a statement released by the European Commission. European Commission’s executive vice-president in charge of competition policy, Margrethe Vestager, said regulators are concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online ad services to compete.

Vestager also noted that the investigation will look into Google’s policies on user tracking to make sure they are in line with fair competition. The investigation will also look into the obligation to use Google’s ad manager when serving ads on YouTube, its plan to block third party cookies on Chrome and its plans to restrict access of advertising identifier information to third parties on Android devices where a user has chosen to opt-out of personalized advertising. The commission says it will take into account the need to protect user privacy under the EU’s data protection law but noted that it must ensure that all advertising market participants operate on a level playing field when it comes to protecting user privacy.

In a statement shared with Forbes, Google said their services are used by thousands of European businesses “because they’re competitive and effective” and it plans to answer the European Commission’s questions and demonstrate the benefits of its products. “Online advertising services are at the heart of how Google and publishers monetise their online services,” Vestager said. “Google is present at almost all levels of the supply chain for online display advertising. We are concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete in the so-called ad tech stack.”

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“..if asset price increases, such as house price rises, were removed from the analysis, “then global household wealth may well have fallen..”

Millions Become Millionaires During Covid Pandemic (BBC)

More than five million people became millionaires across the world in 2020 despite economic damage from the Covid-19 pandemic. While many poor people became poorer, the number of millionaires increased by 5.2 million to 56.1 million globally, Credit Suisse research found. In 2020 more than 1% of adults worldwide were millionaires for the first time. Recovering stock markets and soaring house prices helped boost their wealth. Wealth creation appeared to be “completely detached” from the economic woes of the pandemic, the researchers said. Anthony Shorrocks, economist and author of the Global Wealth Report, said the pandemic had an “acute short term impact on global markets”, but added this was “largely reversed by the end of June 2020”.


“Global wealth not only held steady in the face of such turmoil but in fact rapidly increased in the second half of the year,” he said. However, wealth differences between adults widened in 2020, and Mr Shorrocks said if asset price increases, such as house price rises, were removed from the analysis, “then global household wealth may well have fallen”. “In the lower wealth bands where financial assets are less prevalent, wealth has tended to stand still, or, in many cases, regressed,” he said. “Some of the underlying factors may self correct over time. For example, interest rates will begin to rise again at some point, and this will dampen asset prices.” Total global wealth grew by 7.4%, the report said. Since the start of the 21st century, the number of people with wealth between $10,000 and $100,000 had more than tripled in size from 507 million in 2000 to 1.7 billion in mid-2020.

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    Edward Hopper New York movie 1939   • ‘It’s Anti-science, And It’s Anti-me’ – Fauci (RT) • Mass Vaccination Drives A Rapid Evolutionary Response
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 23 2021]

    #78042

    #78043
    V. Arnold
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    Vietnam – 1962 …lies
    Grenada – 25 October 1983 ..lies
    Serbia – 1999…lies
    …and the list goes on…as is its wont…smack up into today, this very day…
    My point is; that we have to stop blaming “other” for our own failures….
    The fault is wholly ours; lock, stock, and barrel…
    “They” will always play us because we love to be played…

    My abiding question has always been…when will we learn…actually, factually learn????

    #78044
    brandnewguy
    Participant

    “3rd COVID Wave Will Kill Or Hospitalize 60 To 70% of Fully Vaccinated (GGI)”
    Not what the article says: “The resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths is dominated by those that have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively.” So not 60 to 70% of the fully vaccinated then….
    It’s this sort of basic mathematical error in the media that makes me despair. One major lesson of our COVID era is surely how utterly innumerate nearly all the population is – including our esteemed media.

    #78045
    Germ
    Participant

    Yup – you heard it here first!

    “Covid: Ivermectin to be studied as possible treatment in UK”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57570377

    #78046
    absolute galore
    Participant

    brandnewguy beat me to it.
    According to projections by UK’s top modelling agency the third wave of COVID-19 spike will hospitalize and kill 60 to 70% of those people who took both the vaccine doses. The paper suggests that the resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths will dominated by those who have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively.

    The underlined sentence states that a third wave (which they know is coming?) will hospitalize AND kill 60 to 70% of the entire vaccinated population. In other words, if 50% of the population is vaccinated, something like 30% of the Entire Population will be hospitalized AND die. It’s in the headline, too. It’s even more silly and outrageous than the claim that 2xast more people in Australia have died from the vaccine than have died from Covid. Only later in the article are we able to figure out that what it really means is, since most of the population is vaccinated, a good portion of deaths will be in potential breakthrough cases affecting those with high co-morbidity levels. In other words, the whole thing is utter nonsense that tells us nothing. We also know zero about this “modeling agency” responsible for generating these projections. It simply generates a fear headline.

    Kind of what I was talking about yesterday regarding hyping the dangers of vaccination. Who knows, maybe, as has been speculated here, everyone who took the vaccine will spontaneously combust in 2-10 years. But lets see some credible basis for proposing that possibility please.

    #78047
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Yes, Germ. But as Raul points out in his linking to the same info in today’s post, the study is being done by Oxford, the same people vested in the AZ vaccine. Conflict of interest. Still zero from the MSM on Ivermectin. They are probably trying to figure out how to rework the narrative, who to throw under the bus. Maybe the AP fact checker who helped squash the Senate testimony story will lose her job. Or be promoted out of the way to headliine writer.

    #78048
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Both articles have a strong anti-Ivermectin slant to them. Very scientific, no? From Raul’s link:
    Ivermectin resulted in a reduction of virus replication in laboratory studies, the university said, adding that a small pilot showed giving the drug early could reduce viral load and the duration of symptoms in some patients with mild COVID-19.
    And to add an edge of How safe is it?
    People with severe liver conditions, who are on blood-thinning medication warfarin, or taking other treatments known to interact with ivermectin, will be excluded from the trial, the university added.

    From the BBC article:

    Dr Aurora Baluja, an anaesthesiologist and critical care doctor, said Ivermectin was often being given in parts of the world where there are high incidences of parasitic infections.

    Covid patients who are also fighting a parasitic disease at the same time would be likely to fare worse and that might explains some of its seemingly positive effect.

    Though there have been some early “promising” results from small and observational studies, Principle joint chief investigator Prof Richard Hobbs said it would be “premature” to recommend Ivermectin for Covid.

    Observational studies look at people already taking the drug, rather than giving it to a group representative of the population.

    So they fail to account for differences in the types of people who might choose that treatment, and other factors that might have been influencing the spread of the virus at the time.

    Not even damning with faint praise. They couldn’t include all the other studies, or a quote from a proponent like Dr. Kory? Nope.

    #78049
    Germ
    Participant

    @ Absolute

    Oxford are running the IVM study in order to show that it doesn’t work – just like they did with HCQ in their ‘Recovery’ trial.
    In that instance, they used a dose SIX TIMES the recommended amount – i.e. 2400mg over 24 hrs – which killed a few of the trial participants, who were late stage Covid cases. They knowingly mordered them.
    And guess what – they then declared that HCQ doesn’t work!

    I bet the same will happen to IVM – just look at the detrimental language used in the BBC article.

    #78050
    Germ
    Participant

    “Magnetofection™ is a novel, simple and highly efficient method to transfect cells in culture. It exploits magnetic force exerted upon gene vectors associated with magnetic particles to draw the vectors towards, possibly even into, the target cells”

    http://www.chemicell.com/products/Magnetofection/Magnetofection_separation.html

    #78051
    Germ
    Participant

    Injections use lipid nanoparticles
    We have known this since 2012:

    “Accumulation of nanocarriers in the ovary: A neglected toxicity risk?”

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168365912000892

    These bastards know exactly what they’re doing.

    #78052
    Germ
    Participant

    “Nowadays magnetic nanomedicine has performed to manage viral infection at various reservoirs even in the brain because nanomedicine is capable to cross any barriers in the body

    Manipulative magnetic nanomedicine: the future of COVID-19 pandemic/endemic therapy
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17425247.2021.1860938

    #78053
    Germ
    Participant

    1. Wuhan University deleted SARS2 data relating to early cases.
    2. Jessse Bloom’s lab recovered the data.
    3. Identified virus sequences that could precede the official “first” SARS2 sequence from China.
    4. Analysis suggests SARS2 was circulating in Wuhan before Huanan seafood market.

    Why would scientists ask international databases to delete key data that informs us about how Covid-19 began in Wuhan?

    That’s the question you can answer for yourselves.

    “Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic”
    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1

    #78054
    Germ
    Participant

    “Eight chest pain cases detected in San Diego adolescent boys after vaccination”

    https://www.kusi.com/eight-chest-pain-cases-detected-in-san-diego-adolescent-boys-after-vaccination/

    Myocardial tissue, once damaged, does not repair or regenerate itself.
    Dead/damaged heart muscle remains dead/damaged.
    Those poor kids.

    #78055
    Germ
    Participant

    “Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?
    There are concerning trends on blood clots and low platelets, not that the authorities will tell you.”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-covid-vaccines-riskier-than-advertised-11624381749

    #78056
    Germ
    Participant

    “Burgeoning Evidence of Myopericarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination in Young People: A Call For Acknowledgment, Pause, and Serious Study”

    Burgeoning Evidence of Myopericarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination in Young People: A Call For Acknowledgment, Pause, and Serious Study

    #78057
    Germ
    Participant

    “Myopericarditis in a Previously Healthy Adolescent Male Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case Report”

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34133825/

    #78058

    As for the GGI piece on the UK third wave, leave some leeway for semantics please.

    ..the resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths will [be] dominated by those who have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively.

    So 60% of hospitalizations and 70% of deaths. Bad enough.

    #78059
    Germ
    Participant

    “Flu and pneumonia deaths now 10 times higher than Covid
    New ONS data reveal that coronavirus deaths now make up just 0.8 per cent of all fatalities, down from 1.3 per cent”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/22/flu-pneumonia-deaths-now-ten-times-higher-covid/

    #78060
    Germ
    Participant

    Per the VAERS (https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html):

    In <3mos, (at least) 5 healthy Rhode Island 14-20 yo males have been hospitalized (1 ICU hospitalized) with myopericarditis 1 to 3 days after their 2nd Pfizer mRNA vax.

    Look:

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4gNS3vWUAIGpn5?format=png&name=medium

    #78061
    Germ
    Participant

    JUST IN – Warren Buffett resigns trustee post at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

    https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/buffett-resigns-as-trustee-of-gates-foundation

    #78062
    Dr. D
    Participant

    As I pointed out before, Hopper was deaf. You can really see that in this painting, a moment of silence in what should be a loud running movie.

    ” China-Backed Media Highly Critical of Texas’ New Permitless Carry Law
    Could return the Lone Star State to its “Wild West past, or even worse.”

    Hahahahahahahaaha!!! China clearly has never done anything with Texas. That’s the highest praise and most earnest desire of both Texas and half the country, the highest honor, the very goal of being.
    Heck, even if there weren’t free carry – you know, according to the “Constitution”, the second law ever written – they’d still sign on. But you get the Wild West AND free guns with no rules??? By God they’d walk a thousand miles for that, and fight everyone in the way. And did exactly that. 200 years ago.
    China, China, China, what are we going to do with you? And that’s aside from the OTHER fantastic thing in this article. CHINA is going to tell Texas what to do? Hahahahahahahaha! If China told Texas not to wear pink dresses and high heels, they might do it just to piss China off. (While wielding an AR in both hands) Just for sheer contrary cussedness. Even the CHEEK to TRY to tell Texas what to do make you our specific, aggressive enemy. And the whole U.S., or at least 90% of counties that still have balls.

    But it’s not all bad. Since they can’t read, no one will know they said it, so China can keep buying up State Congressmen, ring airports and military bases with Chinese holdings, and buy every farm and house through holding companies while importing enough fentanyl to kill 200,000 Texans, and do, but only 30,000 at a time. Then like the old opium wars, it’s perfectly fine to kill all the Americans you can.

    YouTube Bans Vladimir Putin. Okay, that’s not unexpected, or news. But why? For criticizing Comrade Lenin.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/press/youtube-censoring-putin-for-disagreeing-with-the-lenin/

    I don’t know, is there any way I can possibly make it clearer for you? These “corporations” all promote direct Socialism. Huh. Gosh, that’s funny, under Socialism, wouldn’t that destroy themselves? Or is it that Billionaires and Corporations get STRONGER because Socialism is also a merger of Corporation and State just like Fascism, but the international, not “national” kind? And what does Authoritarian Police state get when the Fat Cats of business and the violent overlords of Government merge? Why THE DEATH OF THE PEOPLE, of course. At the people’s weakness, sickness, misery, disempowerment, and eternal oppression and hopelessness, of course. There ain’t no other place those palatial Dachas are paid from, brother.

    The difference is that in that system, the palatial estates are paid from misery-shared-widely, while in Capitalism they’re paid from rising prosperity. Your choice. We haven’t found a system that actually erases wealth yet. As one smart guy said, “The poor will always be with us.” And unless you’re smarter than him there ain’t nothing you and I can do about it. AOC and Yale think they are smarter, if only you “Do What You’re Told!”

    YouTube: open Political Action Group, a political party. YouTube = Google, which is essentially the CIA. Hey, wasn’t Google caught with Facebook (U.S. Army “LifeLog”) funding bioweapons research for the CCP yesterday? Tell me again why tech companies fund weapons of Mass destruction for Communist, totalitarian governments, then release them on the world population, and it’s not open treason?

    Oh, they’ll tell you alright. Google and Facebook have been spinning like a dervish attempting to tell you how it’s not true and all fine. You actually WANT that death, you see, silly-Billy. It’s a GOOD death. So Green. As Xi said (after they said they won the biowar) “When all this is over you [China] will be far more prosperous.” Yes, because we took the assets of 10 people and gave them to the 7 who survived. He’s not kidding, and he’s not wrong. That’s just logic. Sociopathic logic.

    Defending Comrade Lenin, openly, for no reason, to the death? That’s their weirdo religion that kills a couple ten millions every time it appears. This time is no different.

    Men have a built-in mechanism for God. If God isn’t there, they fill it with anything handy, so their religion is the State, and their God is Fearless Leader, as they become death-dealing, seven-nation bombing zealots for any maniac who gets elected. Lookin’ at you Obama, brown-drone-striker in-chief.

    “CoV-2 variants are rapidly evolving in response to the natural immune selection pressure they are experiencing.”

    This is why it will be the fault of the non-mask wearers and we should round them up and kill them. Or at least force-innoculate them with experimental drugs against all Nazi Nuremberg laws. ‘Cause we’re the GOOD guys! Not because, just like lockdowns — OMG so obvious! – there’s no planet on which their “practically perfect plans in every way” will ever-ever happen. Ain’t nobody going to listen. Ain’t nobody going to obey. Ain’t nobody going to care. You can’t even stop heroin and child prostitution, and you think you’re going to get compliance from Jimmy-Bob in Laramie county for an invisible threat that 99.97% safe?

    Only “Experts” could be that stoooooooopid. Totally out of touch, removed from society and reality.
    But that’s what they’ll say. Because there was ONE guy – Jimmy – who didn’t get vaccinated, THAT’S WHY THE VACCINES DON’T WORK. Not my fault, although vaccines never worked according to them and the third drooling french fry guy from Bojangles could have predicted everything. And did. Harvard can’t. Can’t figure out lockdowns don’t work: every non-lockdown place was safer than every lockdown. Congo and Bangalore are safer than NY and NJ. Better medical outcomes in Goha than Harvard medical. No one notices. They’re all experts, immune to facts per ego. As is the American population, it seems.

    Anyway: Delta variant: now our fault. Anyone who didn’t vaccine. NOT that the vaccine CAUSES the immune weakness to all variants, exactly as 10 years of diligent research showed. 50% of UK cases were vaccinated.

    “Please may we start saving lives now.” No never. It’s against everything Harvard stands for. Vaccines kill 30x more people than all 70 vaccines combined. Conclusion? We need more vaccines. You’d think I was lying.

    3rd COVID Wave Will Kill Or Hospitalize 60 To 70% of Fully Vaccinated (GGI)”

    I guess we’ll find out. And it’ll be our fault. Hahahaha, they laugh on the hill as the zombies attack each other, thanks to a few well-placed lies. That’s so fun I’d do it even if I DIDN’T make multi-billions, double my net worth from it, like Bezos has.

    Since I guess even Germ missed this:
    KillinDaPoor
    https://fee.org/media/39854/screen-shot-2021-06-17-at-125449-pm.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=900&format=webp&rnd=132684081170000000

    “The data are damning. They offer yet another reminder that government lockdowns hurt most those who could least afford it.

    Some critics argue that the pandemic, not government lockdowns, are the true source of this economic duress. While there’s no doubt the virus itself played some role, government lockdowns were undoubtedly the single biggest factor. It’s pretty intuitive that ordering people not to patronize businesses and criminalizing peoples’ livelihoods would hurt the economy. This intuition is confirmed by data and studies showing as much. And don’t forget the fact that heavy lockdown states have consistently had much higher unemployment rates than states that took a more laissez-faire approach.

    Others might insist that the mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 accomplished by lockdowns justifies this economic fallout. But this argument fails to account for the many peer-reviewed studies showing lockdown orders did not effectively slow the pandemic’s spread, or the painfully inconvenient fact that most COVID-19 spread occurred not in workplaces, restaurants, or gyms but at home. (Making “stay-at-home orders” seem like an astonishing mistake in hindsight.)

    So, all lockdowns really seem to have accomplished is at best a mild delay in the pandemic’s trajectory in exchange for a host of lethal unintended consequences such as a mental health crisis and skyrocketing drug overdoses. And, as we now know, a highly regressive economic fallout for the working class.

    Of course, Ivy League researchers almost certainly did not intend to expose the failings of big government pandemic policies when they set out to catalog employment data. But, as Adams said, facts are stubborn things. “

    https://fee.org/articles/new-harvard-data-accidentally-reveal-how-lockdowns-crushed-the-working-class-while-leaving-elites-unscathed/

    #78063
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Sadly, we still have a ways to go before reaching a lot of people out there. A user on far-left Twitter melodramatically posits the question: Who are people going to blame when the Delta variant takes hold in the US & destroys the economy, forces lockdowns & takes the lives of our young? I simply replied “I don’t think that’s going to happen”, and left it at that. I don’t even think the lockdowns would happen, as there is too much resistance to that now among both the people and the political class in the USA.

    #78064
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Raul, the headline and the first sentence both declare that 60-70% of vaccinated people will die in the third wave. Maybe its due to unfamiliarity with English grammar. Nevertheless, the percentages are completely meaningless numbers, no matter how you look at it. It’s rubbish.Speculation upon speculation dependent upon a speculated third wave. Headline large numbers of vaccinated will die. (I believe the U.S. top modelling agency is Eileen Ford.)

    According to projections by UK’s top modelling agency the third wave of COVID-19 spike will hospitalize and kill 60 to 70% of those people who took both the vaccine doses.

    #78066
    Dimitri
    Participant

    Anyone who still believes the WHO is a moron

    #78067
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Dr D: Even the CHEEK to TRY to tell Texas what to do make you our specific, aggressive enemy. And the whole U.S., or at least 90% of counties that still have balls.

    Not sure if you are being facetious here, but I’m assuming not–sometimes hard to follow your occasionally serpentine constructions;^). While I admire the States that are not blindly following stupid Fed directives where they can, I don’t equate carrying around guns with having “balls.” Any moron can shoot someone. The romantic idea of the wild west is B.S. Just read the sordid accounts of the real shootout at the O.K. Corral. Guns more often than not end up in the hands of bullies, many with official cover from the State. Bullies are ultimately scared or somehow damaged people, not people with true courage,or “balls.” Assange, Ghandi, King, Ali–all deeply flawed human beings like the rest of us, but all had balls. It’s not a common trait, and more and more we have “heroes” that have qualities that are antithetical to the idea of big kahones (in the sense of that term meaning courageous, not afraid to stick up for what they believe, no matter how unpopular.)

    In any case, China is just giving what it gets. The U.S. is the most sanctimonious,blowhard, hypocritical, chastising. lying,cheating empire that ever existed. Our main export these days is telling other countries all the bad things they are doing,and “punishing” them for it.

    #78068
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #78069
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #78070

    #78071

    #78072

    “I’m going to wait for COVID21 — there’s too many bugs in COVID19.”

    #78074
    sumac.carol
    Participant

    Toooo funnyyyy!! Made my day 🙂 Off to work.

    #78075
    Bam_Man
    Participant

    If there ever was any doubt that we are ruled by a group of corrupt imbeciles and psychopaths, it has now been completely removed.

    #78076
    zerosum
    Participant

    “I’m going to wait for COVID21 — there’s too many bugs in COVID19.”
    hahaahaha

    Worth saying again.

    Let’s Save Some More Lives


    Let’s Save Some More Lives

    Yes! YES!
    You really had no idea? We did at the Automatic Earth,

    where have all these people, the writers and their readers, been in the past year?

    Michael Yeadon, former Chief Scientific Officer of Pfizer,

    Matt Taibbi, Michael Capuzzo

    the American Journal of Therapeutics recently published:

    The Journal of Antibiotics

    after restriction to 29 peer-reviewed studies: 82% and 88%

    100% of the 17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

    Those numbers are clear enough, I bet you if you get an honest report on the vaccines none can compete, but for these science journals the same question must be asked: where were you over the past year? You really had no idea? We did at the Automatic Earth, but our reach is limited; we’re lucky if we convinced a few thousand people to obtain ivermectin, if they could get it in the first place. Which is great, don’t get me wrong.

    Who are these people listening to, who controls the narratives?

    Closing the barn door. Covering their ass.
    Ivermectin is the seventh treatment to be investigated in the PRINCIPLE trial, and is currently being evaluated alongside the influenza antiviral favipiravir.

    ———–
    Looking back

    Debt Rattle January 24 2020


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    The Coronavirus

    Didn’t you hear it?
    FLAP – FLAP -flap – flap
    Was it a butterfly or a black swan or a diversion or an excuse/exaggeration to do a drill/test of the response system
    Say bye-bye to Yesterday.
    Say hello to a different tomorrow.
    ——

    #78077
    Germ
    Participant

    “153 workers resign or get fired from Houston hospital after refusing COVID-19 vaccine”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/559715-153-workers-resign-or-get-fired-from-houston-hospital-after-refusing

    #78078
    Germ
    Participant

    “DOCTORS, scientists, politicians, pharmaceutical companies and media promoting the experimental Covid vaccines as being safe and effective are rapidly being confronted with a stark choice: to save face or save lives.

    As fresh evidence mounts supporting long-standing claims that the entire system of counting Covid ‘cases’ is bogus, grounds for repeatedly telling the public that the vaccines are safe are also collapsing.”

    ‘Safe vaccine’ pledges are on ever shakier ground

    #78079
    Germ
    Participant

    June 22nd – Rogan interviews Kory and Weinstein.
    Word is getting out.

    Even though we all know the story, this is a mind-blowing interview:

    “it’s entirely possible that Joe Rogan gets 100,000,000 listeners a week.”
    https://jackheald.com/does-joe-rogan-really-have/

    #78081
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “their website was changed, as they have been doing over the last year “

    Thought that when they posted: the WHO said what??. What this tells us is that there are many good people and real doctors in the WHO, trying to do obvious good things, but lost in the story, innocent as doves in a snare. The problem is if any Authority ever shows up, any time, any where, completely discredited with a gold star from a gumball machine, they immediately obey that lying, discredited authority. …And so this time too.

    But it’s nice that there ARE good people. But “good men” need to do more than “nothing.”

    Not to revise the gun debate, but the Wild West was safer for 100 years than the top 20 cities in America today. There’s a dozen OK Corrals every weekend in Chicago and Baltimore. But so long as gun crime happens in blue areas where there are already draconian gun laws, and against people of color BY people of color, it didn’t happen and they don’t exist. They didn’t actually die. It’s really Laramie’s fault, and those red hats in Cumberland. Lightfoot encourages them to keep it up forever, doing nothing for 100 years in a row. I mean, clearly the Mayors and cities like it; if it made anyone mad, they’d do something.

    There most certainly are bullies, and we need to deal with them because they’re as common as shoes. One problem: bullies don’t give a rip about you or anything. So they have guns. Even in England and France and Germany, with the grenade capital of the world, meanwhile in Sweden. No problem in California, NYC, Chicago, New Jersey, even in Mexico where every gun is illegal for every man for 50 years. The bad guys have guns AND they’re going to use them as often as works for their ends. There is only one thing we CAN choose:

    Do the GOOD men have guns too? Or is every bad man armed and every good man disarmed? ‘Coz that don’t sound so good.

    Do we arrest anyone who defends himself, while releasing anyone who attacks others by race and burns whole cities as last summer?

    If you live in a dangerous, high crime area, can you defend yourself? Or does every criminal know you’re completely disarmed and the police will make sure of it on behalf of every criminal?

    Those are your two choices. The bad men are coming. They’re everywhere in your town this very minute. They already have every illegal thing going: meth, girls, fireworks, machetes, stolen cars, guns. Guess what? Already illegal. Just like killing people and stealing things. Been illegal for 10,000 years and they still don’t care.

    Do you have any way of stopping them? Or is the plan merely to ask nicely that they leave you alone? Ask nicely that they stop getting rich, stop doing things they like, stop expressing power over others like Khan and Attila and King George did? Maybe you’ll have the defunded police hose up your body when they arrive 25 minutes too late?

    If you don’t run into these guys all the time like I do, you live a very protected life indeed. If violent crime isn’t all around you, please be most cheerful at your enduring good fortune. But rich and careless and inactive, those things don’t last together long at all. The only solution is for good men to ALSO act, together, with force, for the justice of upholding good ends. They don’t do that with silly putty and saying “Pretty please I beg you sir don’t hurt me.”

    Bad men always act. In fact, they’re tireless. If good men don’t, the bad men do as they please. Ask Wall Street.

    #78082
    Germ
    Participant
    #78083
    Germ
    Participant

    “Moderna Plans to Expand Production to Make Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters, Supply More Countries
    The company is adding production lines outside Boston, betting on shots to prolong immunity and target new variants”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-plans-to-expand-production-to-make-covid-19-vaccine-boosters-supply-more-countries-11624273200

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