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Salvador Dali Galatea of the Spheres 1952

 

The Purges Have Begun (Tucker)
Clinical Outcomes of Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Prophylaxis and Treatment (Sage)
A New Covid Variant (B.1.1.523) Capable Of Escaping Immune Protections (Bose)
Guam’s Vaccination Success Story Turns Grim With Covid Surge (G.)
Victoria Australia: 95% of Those Hospitalized are Vaccinated (CTH)
How Close Is A Coronavirus Vaccine? (FT)
Network Of Right-wing Health Care Providers Makes Millions Off HCQ, IVM (IC)
United Airlines To Lay Off 600 Workers Who Refused To Get Vaccinated (Hill)
Liberal COVID Discourse is Devoid of Science (Greenwald)
Pandemic A Unique Opportunity To Test Propaganda On Canadians (NP)
British Gov’t Trying to Bypass Parliament to Implement Vaccine Passports (SN)
You Can’t Be Fat And Fit (DM)
Florida AG Files Lawsuit Against Biden Admin for Not Protecting Border (TC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“My wife is a triple board certified doctor in the Bronx. She worked at the hospital that had the highest Covid death rate in all of NYC. She went down hard w/Covid in April 2020 and missed two months of work. She recovered and went back. For 15 years she served the poor – underprivileged patients on welfare in the Bronx – none of them had private insurance. She resigned on Friday and I could not be more proud of her.”

The Purges Have Begun (Tucker)

The biggest impact will most immediately be felt in the state of New York. The governor – a new person named Kathleen Courtney Hochul to replace the previous bad guy – is all behind the Biden order. In particular, she is imposing this on health-care workers. As many as 70,000 people will lose their jobs as health-care workers even as hospitals are complaining about staffing shortages. She has issued an executive order that contemplates forcing people who are enlisted in the National Guard to be deployed as scabs to replace the people who will be fired from their jobs. It’s hard to imagine how all of this will work. It comes very close to being a form of conscription in the health sector, replacing a voluntary system with a compulsory system. It’s not going to work out well for the patient.

The most shocking aspect of this is that it targets the very workers who put themselves on the line in the early days of the panic. The world cheered in the spring of 2020. New Yorkers stood outside their windows and sang songs as the staffing shifts took place. They banged pans in appreciation. Here were all kinds of nurses, technicians, and doctors who put themselves in harm’s way at a time when people were unsure of the risk profile of the disease itself. And they gained natural immunity through exposure. They know what that means because they are all trained in virology. They know that nothing beats acquired immunity via exposure. Especially with a coronavirus with a changing profile, a vaccine cannot compare. That is precisely what 100% of the studies have shown since that time. And yet here we have governments imposing the shot on people who took the risk, gained the immunities, and now refuse to take another and potentially more deadly risk from the vaccine that operates not like vaccines of old.

A correspondent writes as follows: “My wife is a triple board certified doctor in the Bronx. She worked at the hospital that had the highest Covid death rate in all of NYC. She went down hard w/Covid in April 2020 and missed two months of work. She recovered and went back. For 15 years she served the poor – underprivileged patients on welfare in the Bronx – none of them had private insurance. She resigned on Friday and I could not be more proud of her. She is not bowing to this tyranny. She tested her antibodies several times and they remain high. Please keep up this fight. Many many nurses took the vax against their will because they could not afford to miss a paycheck. These mandates must fail.”

[..] This is no longer about scientific confusion. This is starting to look like an old-fashioned political purge, whether justified by fake science or theology. It is happening at many levels of society. In Massachusetts, dozens of state troopers are resigning. Health care workers in North Carolina are resigning. It’s happening in Nebraska, California, and many other areas of the country, and hospitals and many other industries are worried. Even Navy Seals are being told that they won’t be deployed if they don’t get the jab. It is not lost on the Biden administration – this tactic seems to have been hatched in the summer – that this is harming their political enemies, not exclusively but predominantly. Apparently, no one really cares.

In academia, the problems are heating up. Todd Zywicki of George Mason University School of Law sued over the mandate – he proved that he had natural immunity – and won an individual concession from the school but the policy remained unchanged. He is just one person but there are thousands of others, most of whom are quiet about their plight. They don’t have lawyers. They are considering just giving in. They wonder what the point of resistance really is.

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Good. Simple. Read.

Clinical Outcomes of Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Prophylaxis and Treatment (Sage)

There is a pressing need for formulations and methods for COVID-19 alleviation that can be easily accessed and utilized by the public. That the alleviation should encompass prophylaxis and early-stage treatment is underscored by studies confirming spread of COVID-19 by asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic carriers; by widespread upsurges of new confirmed COVID-19 cases amid second-wave concerns; and by identification of ongoing mutations of the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with diverse infectivity rates. We present a 20-week study of our clinical experience with a multi-component over-the-counter (OTC) “core formulation” regimen used in a multiply exposed, high risk population.


The OTC core supplementation formulations used include zinc and zinc ionophores; vitamins C, D3 and E; and l-lysine. Analysis of clinical outcome data from our sample of 113 subjects – comprised of roughly equal sized regimen-compliant (test) and non-compliant (control) groups meeting equivalent inclusion criteria of age and overall health, including prevalence of COVID-19 comorbidities – demonstrates a strong statistical significance in favor of use of the core formulations. The statistical analysis exhibits significance even with an assumption of a sub-15%, even as low as a sub-5%, post-exposure symptom-presentation rate.

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“..many variants have been detected that are more infectious and virulent than the original strain first reported in Wuhan..”

Really?

A New Covid Variant (B.1.1.523) Capable Of Escaping Immune Protections (Bose)

A new study published on bioRxiv* preprint server describes a new variant that possesses a novel combination of various concerning mutations at the spike region. These mutations have been reported to be shared among VoCs. The researchers of this study also revealed that the prevalence of this new variant has already been reported in many countries across the world. Scientists defined the pangolin lineage of this variant to be B.1.1.523 and it was originally recognized as a variant under monitoring on July 14, 2021. According to GISAID, a total of 533 cases of B.1.1.523 have been reported as of August 19, 2021. A number of cases of this variant have been reported in Russia and Germany. The prevalence of this variant has also been reported in the U.S. and Australia.

According to sequence-based surveillance data, the first cases concerning this variant were reported in February 2021. The frequency of this variant increased in May 2021 and its prevalence decreased by June 2021. Scientists have observed that this variant does not infect any specific age group. In the current study. The researchers explain that it has not been easy to identify the origin of this variant by knowing the pangolin lineage and some spike mutations. Using the genomic sequences, they constructed a phylogenetic tree which revealed that all the cases were similar, as they were in the same branch. This result indicated that the origin of this virus was likely in Russia and the first strain was reported in Moscow.

Two of the main reasons why scientists are concerned about this variant are the three amino acid deletions in the NTD antigenic supersite and the presence of the E484K mutation of the spike protein. The E484K mutation is also present in B.1.351 and P.1 variants, both of which are strongly associated with the reduced efficacy of vaccines. Researchers conducted multiple sequence alignment (MSA) with the amino acid sequence of VoC and the original SARS-CoV-2 strain. They found that three VoCs (Alpha, Beta, and Delta) have deletions in one of the regions of the NTD antigenic supersite. The deletion of B.1.1.523 was found to be similar to B.1.617.2 and also comprises the E484K mutation that is present in many VOC. The results of this study are in line with previous studies that reported the effect of spike mutations on the efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma treatment.

The authors of this study have reported that the B.1.1.523 variant harbors a new combination of concerning spike mutations that are present in many currently circulating VoCs. Many of these mutations are concerning and are associated with the evasion of immune protection. This is critical, as these developments could challenge the effectiveness of available vaccines. More research is required to determine the transmissibility of this variant, which would assist in the development of preventive strategies to stop the further spread of this strain.

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Not one single word to suggest maybe the vaccines are the culprit. Not one. Blinders all around.

Guam’s Vaccination Success Story Turns Grim With Covid Surge (G.)

Outside Guam Memorial hospital, blue medical tents have sprung up to accomodate an overflow of Covid patients. The sight is bewildering for Guam residents. The island ran an incredibly successful vaccination campaign, with almost 90% of eligible people having received two doses, and even began offering jabs to tourists in an “Air VnV” – vacation and vaccination – scheme. But the tents have been installed to accommodate an overflow of Covid patients at the hospital as the territory grapples with a third wave of the virus, with daily deaths reaching the highest rates since March 2020. “We just have no space – we have Covid patients waiting outside,” Pauline Perez, a nurse at the hospital, said in a government-released video that appeals to the remaining vaccine stragglers to get their shots.

“We use the blue med tents for Covid-19 patients who are stable. They need to be checked up by doctors but they don’t need treatment.” Even before the onset of the pandemic, Guam’s healthcare system was fragile, but the surge in Covid cases triggered by the Delta variant has pushed it to the verge of collapsing. Last week, the government hospital paused its services for all elective surgeries in order to realign its limited resources. Guam has been seeing close to 300 cases some days in the last few weeks, reversing months of steady decline. It has recorded 14,705 cases – nine percent of Guam’s population of 160,000 – and 195 deaths. Covid test results in the past two months have shown an alarming rate of breakthrough cases of people who had been vaccinated, including 554 of the 1,765 positive cases in August.

Overall, breakthrough cases represent 31% of infections – the highest rate in the US, where most states have less than 1%. Breakthrough patients in Guam account for about 40% of hospital admissions. The Covid surge is perplexing for a territory with a vaccination rate close to 90%, ranking sixth in the US. To date, a total of 118,756 people – or 87.13% – of Guam’s eligible population (residents 12 years and older) are fully vaccinated. That includes 10,318 residents aged 12 to 17. The high rate of breakthrough cases has led to fear in the community. “One of my officemates received her results of swab test and she turned out positive,” said Dori Leomo, a resident of Tamuning. “I cried after I heard the news. It’s my first time to feel anxiety. The following day, all of us at work went to get our swab tests. Thank God I tested negative.”

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“The vaccine could be making people suffer more severe outcomes.”

Victoria Australia: 95% of Those Hospitalized are Vaccinated (CTH)

Pay close attention to what Victoria, Australia, Health Minister Martin Foley says at the 2:45 minute mark of his comments. Health Minister Foley announced 867 new COVID cases recorded yesterday. During the statistical outline Foley identifies 375 people as hospitalized, 81 people in intensive care and 61 people on a ventilator. Then comes the statistic everyone in government and media ignore. Amid the recorded cases “78% of the hospital cases are fully vaccinated, and 17% are partially vaccinated (1 dose)”…. That means 95% of the COVID patients in Victoria hospitals are vaccinated. 356 people out of 375 patients are vaccinated, yet 81 people are still in intensive care with 61 on a ventilator.

What good are the vaccinations if 78% of those occupying the hospital are fully vaccinated? Keep in mind, this tracks with what we have been saying about sample populations around the world in general. The percentage of people sick and hospitalized is directly equivalent to the percentage of people vaccinated in the population. If 50% of the population is vaccinated, 50% of the hospitalized patients will be vaccinated. The vaccine makes no difference. Victoria is reflecting this same issue, perhaps worse. 78% of the hospital patients are fully vaccinated, that’s actually a higher percentage than the population vaccinated as a whole. Meaning vaccinated people are arriving at the hospital in greater percentage than they represent in the population. The vaccine could be making people suffer more severe outcomes.

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Don’t think the FT realized how hilarious their headline is. You mean we have no vaccine? Don’t tell the FDA!

At least the article is free. Someone was wondering if there’s a link between vaccine test sites and outbreaks on that map.

How Close Is A Coronavirus Vaccine? (FT)

All the possible inoculations broadly follow the same logic. They deliver a protein into the body that imitates or contains a part of the coronavirus called the spike, and triggers the immune system to produce antibodies and virus-fighting cells to fend off the infection. There are dozens of possible ways to transmit immunising proteins into the body, and researchers around the world are trying different approaches. Three of the Chinese phase 3 candidates use an inactivated virus as their vector. In other words, Sars-Cov-2, which has been killed by heat or chemicals. In theory, it will elicit the correct immune response but without any of the severe health impacts of the live virus.

AstraZeneca, J&J, China’s CanSino and Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute all use an adenovirus — a common virus that causes coughs and fever — that acts like a cloaked horseman, carrying the immunising protein into battle. Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech are both developing RNA-based vaccines, which use specific parts of the Sars-Cov-2 virus’ genetic code to trigger the immune response. All of the phase 3 vaccine trials are what is called “event-based”, meaning the trial only ends when a certain number of people across the vaccinated group and the control group — which receives a placebo — have contracted the virus and shown symptoms. Moderna, for example, has set the number of these “positive events” at 151. It also means that the more prevalent the disease is in the population at the time of trial, the quicker it is to gather results.

[..] Given the growing chorus of experts warning it is likely the vaccine will confer only temporary immunity, the capacity to “boost” the immune response at a later date with another shot is important. “The assumption at the moment is that we’ll be shooting to get to a year’s immunity,” said Kate Bingham, chair of the UK government’s Vaccine Taskforce. Seven of the vaccine candidates in phase 3 are designed to be taken in two doses, to increase the chance they will trigger an effective immune response. Only J&J and CanSino are trialing single dose shots. “Even if you have a vaccine with a second dose, you may need to boost every year,” Ms Bingham said.

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The Intercept does Horse Paste 2.0. They should be sued out of existence. This is vile.

Network Of Right-wing Health Care Providers Makes Millions Off HCQ, IVM (IC)

A network of health care providers pocketed millions of dollars selling hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and online consultations, according to hacked data provided to The Intercept. The data show that vast sums of money are being extracted from people concerned about or suffering from Covid-19 but resistant to vaccinations or other recommendations of public health authorities. America’s Frontline Doctors, a right-wing group founded last year to promote pro-Trump doctors during the coronavirus pandemic, is working in tandem with a small network of health care companies to sow distrust in the Covid-19 vaccine, dupe tens of thousands of people into seeking ineffective treatments for the disease, and then sell consultations and millions of dollars’ worth of those medications. The data indicate patients spent at least $15 million — and potentially much more — on consultations and medications combined.

The Intercept has obtained hundreds of thousands of records from two companies, CadenceHealth.us and Ravkoo, revealing just how the lucrative operation works. America’s Frontline Doctors, or AFLDS, has been spreading highly politicized misinformation about Covid-19 since the summer of 2020 and refers its many followers to its telemedicine partner SpeakWithAnMD.com, which uses Cadence Health as a platform. People who sign up then pay $90 for a phone consultation with “AFLDS-trained physicians” who prescribe treatments such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid-19. The drugs are delivered by Ravkoo, a service that works with local pharmacies to ship drugs to patients’ doors. Of course, that’s if patients ever get the consultation; many customers told Time they never received the call after paying.

The data from the Cadence Health and Ravkoo sites was provided to The Intercept by an anonymous hacker who said the sites were “hilariously easy” to hack, despite promises of patient privacy. It was corroborated by comparing it to publicly available information. The Intercept is not publishing any individual patient data and has taken steps to secure the data. After The Intercept reached out, Cadence Health’s Roque Espinal-Valdez said he shut the platform down, not wanting any part in profiting off of Covid-19 “quackery.” America’s Frontline Doctors, which debuted in the summer of 2020, has close ties to a network of right-wing efforts to undermine public health during the pandemic, including the Tea Party Patriots. AFLDS’s founder, physician Simone Gold, was arrested and charged after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

She and other doctors have appeared in widely shared videos arguing that the drugs hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin — which are primarily used to treat malaria in humans and parasitic worms in livestock, respectively — are effective treatments for Covid-19, despite warnings from the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention against using them. The extremely partisan group also misleads people about Covid-19 vaccines, which they refer to as “experimental biological agents,” and against public health measures like vaccine mandates, masking, social distancing, and restrictions on businesses. In a video titled “The Truth About Covid-19 Vaccines,” which has received over 1.3 million views, Gold falsely argues that Covid-19 is not very deadly and that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus itself. Over 690,000 Americans so far have died from the virus, and unvaccinated people now make up 99 percent of recent Covid-19 deaths.

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“United is the only one of the top four U.S. airlines to fire employees who do not comply with a vaccine requirement.”

United Airlines To Lay Off 600 Workers Who Refused To Get Vaccinated (Hill)

United Airlines will begin the process of laying off roughly 600 employees — less than 1 percent of its workforce — who refused to comply with the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, it announced Tuesday. The Chicago-based airline said that 99 percent of its workforce provided proof of vaccination prior to a Monday deadline. United will move to fire those who did not seek an exemption or provide proof of vaccination, but the carrier will give them one more chance to comply with the mandate during the separation process. “This was an incredibly difficult decision but keeping our team safe has always been our first priority,” United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart wrote in a memo to employees Tuesday.

The percentage of vaccinated United employees excludes the less than 3 percent of the company’s 67,000 employees who sought a religious or medical exemption. Six United employees filed a lawsuit against the airline last week over its policy to put exempt employees on unpaid leave. United told reporters Tuesday that the company has seen an uptick in applicants after announcing the vaccine requirement from individuals who want to work in a safe environment. “Our rationale for requiring the vaccine for all United’s U.S.-based employees was simple — to keep our people safe — and the truth is this: everyone is safer when everyone is vaccinated, and vaccine requirements work,” the United executives wrote to employees Tuesday.

United is the only one of the top four U.S. airlines to fire employees who do not comply with a vaccine requirement. Delta Air Lines will enact a $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated employees, while American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are only encouraging employees to get the shot.

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Second eloquent NBA player in a week. The other one below.

Liberal COVID Discourse is Devoid of Science (Greenwald)

The attempt to equate being unvaccinated with stupidity and ignorance suffered a massive blow on Wednesday night when NBA star Jonathan Isaac was asked why he was hesitant to take the vaccine. Like many unions, the NBA’s player union has refused a vaccine mandate, and Isaac, the 23-year-old player with the Orlando Magic who previously had and recovered from COVID, gave a stunningly compelling, informed, well-reasoned and thoughtful exposition on his rationale for not wanting the vaccine. Isaac also defended the right of individuals to make their own choice. One need not agree with his ultimate conclusion on the vaccine to see how groundless (and obnoxious) it is to claim that anyone who chooses not to take the vaccine — like him — is stupid, ignorant and primitive. I really encourage everyone to watch his two-minute master class in demonstrating why such a choice can, depending on one’s circumstances, be perfectly rational:

Is there anyone who can argue with a straight face that Isaac sounds stupid, ignorant or evil? One can cogently dispute the wisdom of his conclusion: while it is true that most people who recover from COVID (as he did) enjoy “natural immunity” in the form of antibodies — indeed, one major study found that “the natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine” — some studies conclude that immunity is stronger still with the vaccine.


Nonetheless, Issac is indisputably right that the risk of dying or becoming seriously ill from COVID is extremely low for someone like him: early 20s, healthy and with natural immunity. In fact, during the entire course of the pandemic, the total number of people aged 15-24 (Isaac’s age group) who have died of COVID — in a country of 330 million people — is 1,372: fewer than the number in that age group who have died of non-COVID pneumonia. Add onto that Isaac’s physical fitness and the fact that he already had COVID once, and it is clear that his risk from contracting the virus is vanishingly small.

Bradley Beal
https://twitter.com/i/status/1442930151352725504

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Forget about winning a war with these guys.

Pandemic A Unique Opportunity To Test Propaganda On Canadians (NP)

Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes. The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau. But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.

The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that “information operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept.” A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by this newspaper using the Access to Information law. The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for “shaping” and “exploiting” information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.

A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario. Data was also compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings and BLM leaders. Senior military officers claimed that information was needed to ensure the success of Operation Laser, the Canadian Forces mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID-19 and to aid in the distribution of vaccines in some northern communities. BLM organizers have questioned why military officials gathered information on their initiative, pointing out they followed pandemic rules and did not hold any gatherings outside LTC homes.

Then chief of the defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance shut down the CJOC propaganda initiative after a number of his advisers questioned the legality and ethics behind the plan. Vance then brought in Gosselin to examine how CJOC was able to develop and launch the propaganda operation without approval. Gosselin’s investigation discovered the plan wasn’t simply the idea of “passionate” military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was “clearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.” Those in the command saw the pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test out such techniques on Canadians.

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Replace Parliament with “public consultation” if that gets you better odds.

British Gov’t Trying to Bypass Parliament to Implement Vaccine Passports (SN)

The British government has been accused of trying to bypass Parliament in an effort to implement vaccine passports via the backdoor, with the scheme under review AGAIN despite assurances it wasn’t being considered. As we highlighted earlier this month, just a day after health secretary Sajid Javid asserted that the system had been scrapped, the government announced that vaccine passports would form an ‘integral’ part of its winter response to COVID if cases and hospitalizations rose. Under the government’s ‘Plan B’, vaccine passports will form a “first-line defence” against a winter wave of COVID, despite their widespread use in Israel having proven to have zero impact on minimizing COVID cases.

Aware that it may struggle to get a vaccine passport system through a Parliamentary vote, the government is now launching a ‘public consultation’ in an attempt to enlist support for the scheme. “The plans seemed to have been put on the backburner but on Monday night the Government launched a consultation, asking the public for views on the use of vaccine passports this autumn and winter if Covid-19 cases threaten to overwhelm the NHS,” reports the Telegraph. “The Plan B proposals also open the door to the number of venues being widened beyond nightclubs, music venues, outdoor festivals, concerts and sports events.”

With the government refusing to commit to a vote, many respondents saw the move as the start of an effort to sidestep Parliament. The utter stupidity of the scheme is proven by the fact that it will eliminate the option to provide a negative test to enter any of the venues. In other words, proving that you don’t have the virus won’t be good enough to gain entry, but proving you’ve complied and taken a vaccine with dodgy efficacy that means you could still be carrying the virus anyway will be good enough to gain entry.

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Confusing piece.

You Can’t Be Fat And Fit (DM)

It is not possible to be fat and fit at the same time, French experts have concluded. A study of 3million people found even volunteers who were obese but ‘metabolically healthy’ still had a much higher chance of suffering heart problems. Obese people with normal blood pressure and who were not diabetic were still at a 34 per cent increased risk of heart failure and a similar risk of an irregular heart beat. Lead author Dr Laurent Fauchier, a cardiologist at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Trousseau, said the idea that people can be ‘fat but fit’ was ‘simply untrue’. Last week, an American study found that people simply need to focus on exercise rather than dieting to live longer. The latest French research was presented to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. It looked at the medical records of around 2.9 million adults, of whom about one in 10 were obese.

All participants had been admitted to French hospitals in 2013 and had not had any major cardiovascular issues in the past, including a heart attack or stroke. They were monitored for five years. Dr Fauchier said: ‘This new and best available evidence tells us that on a population level, the idea that large numbers of people can be obese but metabolically healthy is simply untrue.’ The cardiologist refutes the controversial claim made by Arizona and Virginia researchers last week that people can be fat and fit. American researchers who reviewed existing studies said that when it came to trying to get healthy and cutting the risk of dying early, increasing exercise and improving fitness was more effective than shedding flab. Numerous studies have shown how people around the world have been trying to lose weight over the past 40 years, and yet obesity has continued to rise.

The researchers said that adopting what they called a ‘weight-neutral approach’ did not mean weight loss should be ‘categorically discouraged’. They added: ‘But shifting the focus away from weight loss as the primary goal and instead focusing on increasing physical activity to improve cardio-respiratory fitness may be prudent for treating obesity-related health conditions.’ Their claims appear to contradict a study published this summer by Glasgow University researchers who tracked 381,263 adults over 11 years. They concluded it was not possible to be fat but fit – a misleading phrase that doctors should stop using. Those who were ‘metabolically healthy’ but obese were 22 per cent more likely to die than those of a normal weight. They were also 18 per cent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke, 76 per cent more likely to develop heart failure and four times more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes.

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“I’m signing an executive order to prohibit state agencies that report to me, from aiding or abetting in any way what the federal government is doing right now. We’re not gonna be a party to this lawlessness.”

Florida AG Files Lawsuit Against Biden Admin for Not Protecting Border (TC)

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Tuesday for not adequately protecting the southern border. The suit alleges that the administration’s catch-and-release policy is a violation of federal immigration law. Moody argues in the suit that the immigration policy hurts Florida because the illegal migrants travel to the state and cost taxpayers millions of dollars. “I don’t care if it is extreme incompetence, if it is radical liberal policy agenda, no one, let me repeat that, no one is above the law,” Moody argued. “We are seeing dramatic effects at our border. It is an unmitigated crisis based on this president’s refusal to follow federal law.”


In addition to filing the lawsuit, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the “Biden Border Crisis Executive Order” prohibiting state agencies from working with the Biden administration at the border until his policies change. “I’m signing an executive order to prohibit state agencies that report to me, from aiding or abetting in any way what the federal government is doing right now. We’re not gonna be a party to this lawlessness. We haven’t, to my knowledge, but we’re letting the marker down, know this is an absolute red line. We’re not gonna do it,” said DeSantis during a press conference about the lawsuit and the order. Moody also spoke at the press conference, saying that “criminal cartels are having a field day. I can assure you, their profits are skyrocketing.” “Had the government, the federal government, just done its job this would not have happened. They would not have been in that situation,” DeSantis added.

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  • #88782
    Polder Dweller
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    Many of us thought of this already and now @parsifaler aka Walter Chesnut would appear to have found the mechanism by which the spike protein accelerates ageing.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1443218331138498564.html

    #88783
    those darned kids
    Participant

    whose very soul, blasphemy
    whose thoughts, warped and foul
    whose emptiness, complete
    whose corruption, festering and venal
    whose heart, absent
    whose very soul, blasphemy

    #88784
    Germ
    Participant
      Coronavirus propaganda – in search of the BBC’s public service mandate

    ” What is interesting then is the BBC’s clear knowing refusal to endorse little other than the official line and to proactively champion stories that further it. Here are some examples of important questions around Coronavirus that the BBC – as the country’s premier PSB – ought to be asking: ….. ”

    Read on:

    https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/03/expert-blog-coronavirus-propaganda-in-search-of-the-bbcs-public-service-mandate

    #88785
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    Go, citizenx, go!!!!

    “Nyet, nein nein nein, no fucking way …”

    ” … we will kick their fucking asses yippe ki yay mofos.”

    “Buck up, take your dignity back- and shove it down their f’n throats with a vaccine rinse.”

    Though not your neighbor, unfortunately, I’m with you in spirit! 🙂

    Hang in, hang on, resist. No one said WWIII was going to be easy.

    #88786
    Germ
    Participant

    We are NOT alone!

    Save/Bookmark:

    https://t.me/s/FREEDOMDIRECTORY

    #88787
    Archie
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    #88788
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    I’ve evolved from merely reading Dr D’s words to actually *feeling* them. Meaning: FDA, CDC, OSHA, POTUS, and all political parasites at all gov’t levels cannot arbitrarily make “rules” that override our constitutional rights. Not how it works in the United States. Period.

    They can make recommendations (CDC asshats). They can make mandates (most asshats these days), which it appears are permissible in an emergency. We are not in an emergency. None of this is legal, consequently it isn’t lawful. So ‘f them.

    They work for US. We elect them to carry out OUR interests. As Dr D says, we ARE the government.

    Jesus, it’s time we all stood up and defended our rights. We don’t need to take our rights BACK because they never WENT anywhere. And it’s long past time to stop stewing in negative news about which asshat is implementing which asswipe mandate.

    I say, bring it, you f’ing jerks. We are arrogant Americans. We will not go down without a fight.

    As for you other countries (looking at you Australia, New Zealand, Lithuania, etc.) Knock off the sh*t and GET UP

    #88789
    Germ
    Participant
    #88790
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    V. Arnold:

    My my, such hyperbole…

    Au contraire mon petit mouton, show me where, how & when TPTB pyschos have experienced one serious setback?

    In the USofA ALL citizens should be secure in there HEALTH, LIFE, LIBERTY & PURSUIT OF POSSESSIONS (ie not slaves)…

    Do you see that happening?

    Are We able to use weapons against all that would threaten Us, specifically all the criminal insane violent trash that the “system” fails to protect us from?

    What about generations EVIL scientists that have been flooding the USofA with toxic $hit for at least 50 years?

    No, all I see is masses of sheeple going along to get along, worshiping their masters, lining up for magic “fixes” that poison them by the 100s of millions, without fear of retribution for the psychos that make trillions off the sheeples’ DIS-ease…

    Add to that the bloodlust thuggery of non-stop .MIL rape, pillage, plunder & murder that extracts trillions of ill-gotten gains from a country supposedly established under “Natural rights”…

    Oh, don’t forget all those banking losers that get money for nuthin’, chicks for free under charters passed by the “Peoples’ House”, who I watched over 21 years get caught in crimes against humanity that should have ended with hanging the criminals, who only had to pay small fines (not personally) while signing agreements with no -0- admission of guilt or wrongdoing by the perps, period.

    Oh, sure the DOJ occasionally throws out a scapegoat to maintain the appearance of “legitimacy”, but never the politically connected or the primary dealers ~ NEVER EVER, NOT ONCE in my direct personal experience…

    My BIL just signed a juicy contract to apply his 20+ years of ICU RN lead experience, 9K+ a week, which of course requires him to get da booster ~ No problemo amigo, poco trabajo mucho dinero!

    Only 3 more chambers empty to spin in the cylinder 😐

    I see this slowly, gaining traction as more and more information gets out to “us” the masses…

    Can’t wait to see the “masses” response by electing another Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden et al. to “fix it” for them (I would laugh, but it’s too nauseating)…

    We’re not out/done until we’re dead!

    You don’t say!

    #88791
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #88792
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    #88793
    Germ
    Participant

    “No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups Infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant”

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v1

    #88794
    zerosum
    Participant

    Paraphrasing CNN Doc G.

    Its good that a pregnant women take the vaccine because that way the baby gets protection as well as the mother.

    Why are there two interpretation of the data.
    1. Good and 1. Evil.

    #88795
    chooch
    Participant

    Loved the responses from the NBA players to the press, especially Bradley Beal. I faintly heard the reporters amygdala short circuiting.

    #88796
    Bill7
    Participant

    >The Purges Have Begun ⋆ Brownstone Institute
    Jeffrey A. Tucker

    How this began: The virus was here (the US) already for months from 2019 and life went on normally.
    Once the consciousness seeped in and the politicians panicked.. <

    That’s just more limited-hangout bunk: the politicians didn’t “panic”. They’re just functionaries, doing as they’re told for
    as long as it’s mutually beneficial to handler and handled. Bad theater

    The Digital domain is a one-way mirror; a sucker’s game; that’s at least part of why it was inflicted on us.

    “resist!”

    heh, my little garden has more to say.

    #88797
    Germ
    Participant

    Your WHAT hurts?

    “Case report of restless anal syndrome as restless legs syndrome variant after COVID-19″

    https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-021-06683-7

    #88798
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Dr. D:

    Or us, if they keep helping. But nevertheless, we’ll survive and they won’t. Or rather we both will, to some extent and proportion. But decentralizing is our win and their disbandment, their loss, and we’re going there.

    Sounds great, but you’d have to have at least a sprinkling of AMERICANS to believe in the IDEA, to the point of death.

    We don’t have AMERICANS, we have demoRATs & GOPhers ~ Sorry I don’t see that changing, due to the dumbed-down-to-succumb edumakacion successes over the last 50+ years…

    I remember the first time I heard “dumbed-down-to-succumb” about 27 years ago, from a friend of mine that used to be a Christian Patriot broadcaster, I was offended. But how true it was!

    I’ve asked thousands if they knew from where the AMERICAN IDEA sprung. Less than 1% had anything close to a clue about the legal foundation (usually mercenary lawyers that already sold their souls)…

    I repost it here, one last time, to see if anyone can comprehend the extent of deviation from the “IDEA”:

    The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions ~ Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. ~ John Locke 1690

    You’d be surprised how many liberal progressives were threatened by just uttering these words, as I expect quite a few on TAE are ~ They need the EMPIRE to enforce their ideas on the rest of humanity!

    TPTB is engaging in a scorched earth policy, in case anyone isn’t aware, unless a miracle happens, it’s over.

    If they lose, they still win, they’ll nuke everything & everyone before they allow the “IDEA” to return…

    Nothing more to say, the people are too self-obsessed, too #ANTI-SPIRIT, tooo DUMB ~ They chose poorly 😐

    #88799
    Bill7
    Participant

    that youski ?

    #88800
    DarkMatter
    Participant
    #88801
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @veracious: very sorry you have to live your life feeling the way you do. Those of us who don’t feel like you do will get on with the act of living.

    #88802
    Bill7
    Participant

    My impression is that quite a few just want to be on the side that’s currently “winning”. I’ve had that thought for five or six years, now.

    What does “winning” look like? I want to live et c in the unmediated, natural world. The plants come up out of the soil like miracles, already. That’s my idea of winning.

    For those who like Ivan Illich (too abstract now, in my near-dotage), I’ll mention Christopher Lasch’s work, esp ‘The True and Only Heaven’.

    #88803
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Bill7: “What does “winning” look like? I want to live et c in the unmediated, natural world. The plants come up out of the soil like miracles, already. That’s my idea of winning.”

    Works for me. A lot of us feel that way. The rest who feel winning is a different thing altogether, can wallow about in the muck of their own making. As it was and ever shall be.

    Speaking of that, this is an essay that’s worthy of contemplation:

    https://brownstone.org/articles/are-you-ready-and-willing-to-be-free-again/

    #88804
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    “In the USofA ALL citizens should be secure in there HEALTH, LIFE, LIBERTY & PURSUIT OF POSSESSIONS (ie not slaves)…”

    That’s actually ridiculously over-the-top and unachievable in any real life situation throughout history, but ok, it’s a laudable goal. (And the “pursuit of possessions” thing … that was in the constitution? I missed it. Need to read more closely.)

    #88805
    Germ
    Participant

    #88806
    Germ
    Participant

    Must watch.
    Unbelievable.

    “A non-vaxxed nurse describes the horrific treatment of unvaxxed patients by pro-vaxx nurses. One nurse said that the unvaxxed should just go home and die.

    Sedated people can be given the vaxx without consent. A non-vaxxed person will have something in their record that flashes “non-vaxxed” every time that file is opened by a doctor or nurse.

    At some point they can order the vaxx form the pharmacy and the patient will be vaxxed, whether they want it or not.”

    https://rumble.com/vn2ulr-nurse-whistleblower-breaks-down-cries-in-live-tell-all-interview.html

    #88807
    chooch
    Participant

    Doc Robinson: “Intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine can induce acute myopericarditis in mouse model“, then what is a more likely (and better supported) cause of the damage?”

    I think I will go for the “more likely” in the human model as we are meant to be the true guinea pigs. I have a few gaps in my theory. I either need to be shot down and put out of this quantum entanglement obsession I have with TAE or a bit of help filling in the final gaps.

    Keep in mind my wheel house is aero/thermodynamics and nothing to do with this. I have been involved in more than my fair share of root/probable cause analyses so I am drawn to puzzles no matter what the subject matter. I think I have a grip on how to cast this. First I will state my theory and then back fill it with the supporting information as I get time to do so.

    Basically this is the core of what I believe to be happening. Once the cells with surface spike glycoproteins enter the bloodstream, whether infection or injection, they will bind to the red and white blood cells. They will go thru the process of attaching and detaching depending on where they are in the vascular system. Clumps or clots can build up anywhere, precipitating any number of undesirable outcomes. The immune system does not particularly see them as invaders and they will eventually cycle out of our system as new cells are made to replace them. The measured immune response from the jab has little to do with preventing infection and also wanes as the life cycle of the impacted red and white blood cells is completed. The injections are worthless and they down regulate the immune system while the cells they produce are circulating.

    #88808
    Bill7
    Participant

    Someone here said awhile back that there might be unintended, positive side effects from the new authoritarianism being inflicted
    via “vaccine” mandates and such- a life-affirming selecting of those choosing self-reliance and *small-scale* interdependence that would be beneficial to the many over the longer term. I think that’s true, and will do what I can in that direction.

    Adding: the author of ‘Small is Beautiful’ (can’t remember his name now) wrote one in that vein I liked even better called IIRC ‘A Guide for the Perplexed’. Might be worth a look.

    #88809
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    Even CNN is starting to acknowledge reality. “’System collapse’: Workers who keep global supply chains moving issue a dire warning”.

    Global exploitation of the under-classes doesn’t work when people, goods, services and capital can’t move. The only “for-profit” method of fighting the pandemic is with patentable mRNA gene treatment. The “vaccines” may or may not reduce the severity of COVID-19 but it does not matter. The 20% to 50% of fully vaccinated who are getting infected are transmitting the illness to others and the severely ill are overwhelming the limited number of for-profit hospital beds. Yet the globalists and their bought politicians are so addicted to money that they are firing healthcare workers making the catastrophe magnitudes worse. They are desperately mad.

    It is documented here that that the immunity from gained from recovering from COVID is better than the jabs themselves. Yet, this is ignored because it will reduce the number of vials purchased. Also, it requires a functional government agency to identify those who have natural immunity. I know I would never give my medical information to Google or Apple to go to a football game. They will sell it for profit. I’d reluctantly let the Veterans Administration tell whomever my vaccine or COVID immunity status to stay alive because they would not sell to corporations the information about all of my other comorbidities.

    Like winning wars; the only way to end pandemics is with a functional government that works for the public good.

    #88810
    zerosum
    Participant

    I would feel so much better if the democrat were to, please, use my zerosum bank account.
    I’ll charge less than the banks for the service. I’ll charge a democratic zerosum fee.

    #88811
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    upstateNYer:

    That’s actually ridiculously over-the-top and unachievable in any real life situation throughout history, but ok, it’s a laudable goal. (And the “pursuit of possessions” thing … that was in the constitution? I missed it. Need to read more closely.)

    Oh my, you really have no idea what you’re talking about…

    James Otis in 1765, a founding member of The Sons of Liberty, declared in the Mass. House of Commons that King George & Parliament had violated the colonists Natural Rights to Life, Liberty & Property ~ This was the spark that lit the fuse of the American Revolution.

    He, like other Age of Reason progenitors, believed that Locke’s treatise on Natural Law had the power of law, so did the American patriots that fought against insurmountable odds to defeat the most powerful nation on the planet, establishing the United States of America.

    The Declaration of Independence, written by Jefferson under the supervision of Adams & Franklin, is the charter document that established the “ridiculously over-the-top and unachievable in any real life situation” nation that arose from Locke’s legal foundation…

    If you want to “read more closely” how the “laudable goal” came to fruition, here’s a place to start:

    End of lesson.

    #88812
    chooch
    Participant

    Kind of looking forward to the future. The last time oligarchical control was replaced following a pandemic with an emphasis on freedom of the human spirit was the Black Death.

    #88813
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    After four months (though there is an argument to be made that it’s really two months or less due to the statistical insignificance of the 2-4 month category) jab efficacy is statistically zero. Therefore, the jab crow laws are inexcusable.

    Defeats Jab Crow

    #88814
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    Image didn’t post. You can find it here:

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243729

    #88815

    E. F. Schumacher “Small is Beautifull” 1973

    #88816

    Thanks, spellchecker.

    #88817

    This “sprite” image from APOD today is unbelievable!!! Seriously, check this “lightening” phenomenon out!

    #88818
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    The last time oligarchical control was replaced following a pandemic with an emphasis on freedom of the human spirit was the Black Death.

    Two problems with that: 1) I am dubious about the idea that Covid is even remotely comparable to the Black Death. 2) The difference between then and the up and coming future is that we will be living in a regime of declining available energy.

    #88819
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups Infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant
    (link posted by Germ, above)

    That paper, published online today, has strong evidence for why “vaccine passports” are worse than useless.

    A substantial proportion of asymptomatic, fully vaccinated individuals in our study had low Ct-values, indicative of high viral loads. Given that low Ct-values are indicative of high levels of virus, culture positivity, and increased transmission [11], our detection of low Ct-values in asymptomatic, fully vaccinated individuals is consistent with the potential for transmission from breakthrough infections prior to any emergence of symptoms

    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 SARS-CoV-2.

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v1

    #88820
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Veracious Poet:

    “TPTB is engaging in a scorched earth policy, in case anyone isn’t aware, unless a miracle happens, it’s over.”

    This is the way I see it as well. Life changes and the lives most of us are living are changing dramatically perhaps leading to depopulation. Who knows what comes next. Ideally an ecologically sound way of living. Freedom? Very questionable. Perhaps we learn how to live off the land again doing the real work of surviving in nature. Our civilization has peaked and is now in decline.

    #88821
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @ Michael Reid
    This is the way I see it as well. Life changes and the lives most of us are living are changing dramatically perhaps leading to depopulation. Who knows what comes next. Ideally an ecologically sound way of living. Freedom? Very questionable. Perhaps we learn how to live off the land again doing the real work of surviving in nature. Our civilization has peaked and is now in decline.

    Good one; well spoken…

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