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Judge Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Federal Contractors Nationwide (JTN)
South Africa Healthcare Chief Says Omicron May Signal the End of COVID-19 (SN)
Green Pass and COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots in Israel (SSRN)
Beyond Omicron: What’s Next For Covid’s Viral Evolution (Nature)
SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infections In Vaccinated Individuals (Nature)
WHO Europe Says Covid Vaccine Mandates Should Be ‘Last Resort’ (Y!)
Vaccine-Resistant Mutations Correlate Strongly With Vaccination Rates (NIH)
Study Shows Omicron Variant Partially Evades Vaccine’s Protection (GR)
FDA Wants Until at Least 2096 to Fully Release Pfizer’s Vaccine Data (Siri)
New NIH Records Reveal Information About Research Into Coronavirus (JW)
Controversial Biden Banking Nominee Omarova Bows Out (JTN)
Apple Signed Secret $275 Billion Deal With Chinese Government (ZH)
Putin To Biden: ‘Finlandize’ Ukraine, Or We Will (Pat Buchanan)

 

 

 

 

EU ministers conference: After February 1, free travel in all of EU for every citizen who’s had a booster shot within 9 months of their second shot.

BUT: people already know the Omicron shot is supposed to come in 100 days.

 

 

Yeah, the unvaxxed occupy all hospital beds… Just not in Wales?!

 

 

 

The judge ruled that federal contractors nationwide are no longer subject to Biden’s vaccine mandate.

This prevents a lot of misery.

Judge Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Federal Contractors Nationwide (JTN)

A U.S. district court judge blocked the Biden administration on Tuesday from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on employees of government contractors across the nation. This conservative win adds to a string of losses for President Joe Biden in federal courts. Southern District of Georgia Judge R. Stan Baker ruled in favor of multiple contractors across seven states – Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. A district judge in Kentucky last week issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Biden administration from enforcing their vaccine mandate on contractors, but it only applied to three states – Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. Because one of the plaintiffs in the Georgia decision, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., is a trade group with members across the United States, Baker’s decision applies nationwide.


Baker, a Trump appointee, wrote that the plaintiffs “will likely succeed in their claim that the President exceeded the authorization given to him by Congress” when Biden issued an executive order on Sept. 9 mandating federal contractors to receive COVID-19 vaccines. The White House announced last month that it was delaying federal contractors’ vaccine mandate deadline until January, not December as previously planned. Last week the Biden administration also pushed back its deadline requiring federal workers to be vaccinated. Federal workers now have until January to be vaccinated. A federal judge in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction earlier this month to stop “Biden’s national vaccine mandate for healthcare workers,” Just the News reported.

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“There have been zero deaths from Omicron worldwide and in countries like the UK it hasn’t even caused anyone to be hospitalized.”

South Africa Healthcare Chief Says Omicron May Signal the End of COVID-19 (SN)

The CEO of South Africa’s largest private healthcare network says that the Omicron variant is “so mild” that it “may signal the end of COVID-19.” According to Richard Friedland, chief executive officer of Netcare Ltd., the early days of the variant suggest there is absolutely no need to panic and that it might actually be a good thing. “If in the second and third wave we’d seen these levels of positivity to tests conducted, we would have seen very significant increases in hospital admissions and we’re not seeing that. In our primary care clinics it is mainly people under 30-years-old,” he said. “So I actually think there is a silver lining here and this may signal the end of Covid-19, with it attenuating itself to such an extent that it’s highly contagious, but doesn’t cause severe disease. That’s what happened with Spanish flu.”

“We are seeing breakthrough infections of people who have been vaccinated, but the infections we’re seeing are very mild to moderate. So for health care workers who have had boosters, it’s mostly mild. I think this whole thing has been so poorly communicated and so much panic generated.” Friedland’s comments won’t be welcomed by Big Pharma, which continues to make vast profits from endless booster vaccines. Not will his remarks be amplified by the corporate media, which has enjoyed a huge boost in ratings from endless COVID fearmongering. However, the CEO’s statement correlates with what other health experts on the ground in South Africa have said about Omicron.

The doctor who first discovered the variant says the it is “mild” and hasn’t caused an uptick in hospitalizations. Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, echoed Dr. Barry Schoub’s sentiments, noting that the patients infected with omicron had “symptoms (that) were so different and so mild from those I had treated before.” There have been zero deaths from Omicron worldwide and in countries like the UK it hasn’t even caused anyone to be hospitalized.

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Twitter comments: “Notably, the new Israel booster study finds highly negative VE for the first month after booster administered and only afterwards turns positive which makes overall VE low (35% for first 3 months).”

“This says vaccines not very effective for first three months, but boosters are being recommended at 3 months intervals for some. So right when they become most effective, get another one? Maybe I’m not understanding.”

Green Pass and COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots in Israel (SSRN)

The paper describes an analysis based on data published on November 1, 2021, by the Israeli Ministry of Health (MOH) on its control dashboard about returning Israelis through the national airport. The data include the respective numbers of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated individuals and the number of positive COVID-19 cases identified in each group. These reflect the modified definitions of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated status after the Pfizer booster vaccination campaign in Israel (August-October). In particular, to maintain a Vaccinated status and specifically the “Green Pass”, individuals who received the initial 2 doses more than 6 months ago were required to receive the booster vaccine.

Israel national airport is a unique setting, where the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated individuals all have to test, which allows a more objective assessment of both the booster and Green Pass efficacy in preventing infections. The analysis suggests that the positivity rate (number of cases divided by number of tests) among the Vaccinated cohort throughout August-October is only 1.54-fold smaller than the one among the Unvaccinated cohort (about 35% relative protection). More specifically, compared to the Unvaccinated group, the Vaccinated group has a significantly higher positivity rate during the month of August, then in September it shows a 3.45-fold smaller positivity rate (71% relative protection), and this protection decreases to 2.66-fold (62% protection) during October.

The analysis suggests that the relative protection of the booster shot against infection is likely to be significantly smaller than the initial estimates of 10-11-fold (over 90%) reported by the MOH, probably around 60% at best. This also implies that the absolute number of infected individuals in the Vaccinated group is likely to be at least as high as in the Unvaccinated, raising serious concerns that the new Green Pass is inefficient in preventing infection spread, and could expose high risk individuals to risk.

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Two long and detailed articles from Nature. Which leave me with the impression that they’re more sophisticated sales jobs for the vaccines.

Beyond Omicron: What’s Next For Covid’s Viral Evolution (Nature)

Delta and its descendants now account for the vast majority of COVID-19 cases worldwide. Most researchers expected these Delta lineages to eventually outcompete the last holdouts. But Omicron has undermined those predictions. “A lot of us were expecting the next weird variant to be a child of Delta, and this is a bit of a wild card,” says Aris Katzourakis, a specialist in viral evolution at the University of Oxford, UK. Teams in Botswana and South Africa identified the variant in late November — although researchers say it is unlikely to have originated in either country — and health officials have linked it to a rapidly growing outbreak centred in South Africa’s Gauteng province. The variant harbours around 30 changes to spike, many shared with the other variants of concern, and scientists worldwide are working to gauge the threat it poses.

The swift rise in cases of Omicron in South Africa suggests that the new variant has a fitness advantage over Delta, says Tom Wenseleers, an evolutionary biologist and biostatistician at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Omicron carries some of the mutations associated with Delta’s sky-high infectivity. But if increased infectivity were the sole reason for its rapid growth, it would translate to an R0 in the 30s, Wenseleers says. “That’s very implausible.” Instead, he and other researchers suspect that Omicron’s rise may be largely due to its ability to infect people who are immune to Delta through vaccination or previous infection.

Scientists’ portrait of Omicron is still blurry and it will take weeks before they can fully assess its properties. But if the variant is spreading, in part, because of its ability to evade immunity, it fits in with theoretical predictions about how SARS-CoV-2 is likely to evolve, says Sarah Cobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. As gains in SARS-CoV-2’s infectivity start to slow, the virus will have to maintain its fitness through overcoming immune responses, says Cobey. For instance, if a mutation or set of mutations halved a vaccine’s ability to block transmission, this could vastly increase the number of available hosts in a population. Cobey says it’s hard to imagine that any future gains in infectivity could provide the same boost.

That evolutionary path, towards immune evasion and away from gains in infectivity, is common among established respiratory viruses such as influenza says Adam Kucharski, a mathematical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “The easiest way for the virus to cause new epidemics is to evade immunity over time. That’s similar to what we see with the seasonal coronaviruses.”

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Oh yeah, boosters!

SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infections In Vaccinated Individuals (Nature)

Vaccines against viruses work by generating immune responses that inhibit the infection process (mainly serum antibodies that bind and/or neutralize virus particles and, for mucosally applied vaccines, also mucosal secretory IgA) and by creating immune memory in the form of antigen-specific memory B cells and T cells that are primed to produce a rapid anamnestic response when the infection reintroduces the vaccine antigen into the body. These mechanisms can prevent initial proliferation of the virus or, failing that, rapidly control it, reducing the amount of virus to which the host is ultimately exposed and the duration of the exposure. While the amount of circulating antibody present following vaccination (or any antigenic stimulus) increases rapidly, on a timescale of days to weeks, it also declines rapidly from its peak on a timescale of weeks to months, and then more slowly over a time scale of decades.

The first phase reflects antibody secreted by short-lived plasmablast populations, which expand right after antigen exposure as a first line of defense. They typically die within 1–2 weeks after antigen exposure and the antibody they secreted declines based on the specific antibody half-life (approximately 21 days for IgG). The second, usually very slow, phase of decline likely reflects the kinetics of long-lived plasma cells, which migrate to the bone marrow and from there secrete antibody into the blood, often maintaining stable titres for many years. Importantly, although peripherally injected vaccines can induce low levels of IgG and monomeric IgA antibodies at the mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract (which are the main entry portal for respiratory viruses) they do not induce secretory IgA efficientl2. The small proportions of IgG and IgA that land on the mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract after intramuscular vaccination disappear relatively quickly as serum antibodies wane.

Whether a breakthrough infection occurs when a vaccinated host is exposed to an infectious person depends on whether the immune response present in that person at the moment of exposure is sufficient to abort or rapidly control the infection (Fig. 1). Given the kinetics of immune responses, it is not surprising that the amount of protection offered by a vaccine against infection might decline over time, allowing more breakthrough infections as the immune response wanes over months (as observed for influenza virus vaccines) and/or as immune memory wanes over years (as observed for mumps vaccines). Likewise, protection might increase after a breakthrough infection or after a subsequent vaccine dose, which enhances the person’s immune response. It is also unsurprising that older individuals, whose neutralizing antibody responses to COVID-19 vaccines are typically lower, appear to be at greater risk of breakthrough infections at any given time following vaccination.

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Covid has exposed the WHO as a failed entity.

WHO Europe Says Covid Vaccine Mandates Should Be ‘Last Resort’ (Y!)

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe on Tuesday cautioned against making Covid vaccines mandatory, while urging better protection of children among whom cases are high. Europe is battling a fierce surge in the pandemic, with the WHO registering 120,000 Covid-related deaths on the continent since November 23 when it warned of up to 500,000 more deaths by March 2022. Regional director Hans Kluge said compulsory vaccines should be “an absolute last resort and only applicable when all other feasible options to improve vaccination uptake have been exhausted”. Noting that mandates have increased vaccine uptake in some cases, Kluge said these were “context specific”, and added that the effect mandates may have on “public confidence and public trust” must also be considered.

The regional health bloc also noted that the number of cases had increased “across all age groups, with the highest rates currently observed in the five to 14 years age group.” “It is not unusual today to see two to three times higher incidence among young children than in the average population,” Kluge told a press conference. “The health risks extend beyond the children themselves,” Kluge added, noting that children risk passing the infection to parents and grandparents in the home. Improved ventilation and the use of masks should be a standard at all primary schools as part of a safe learning environment, while avoiding school closures and remote learning, the regional director said. “Vaccinating children should be discussed and considered nationally,” Kluge added.

The WHO’s European region comprises 53 countries and territories, and includes several in Central Asia. The organisation also expressed concern about rising cases of the recently discovered Omicron variant of the virus, but stressed that the fight should still be focused on the currently dominant Delta variant. “The problem now is Delta and however we succeed against Delta today is a win over Omicron tomorrow, before it eventually surges,” Kluge said. Meanwhile in Norway, where 29 cases of the Omicron variant have been confirmed, health authorities warned that the new variant would likely add to the stress on health services to a “significant degree”.

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Is anybody tracking this on a broad scale?

Vaccine-Resistant Mutations Correlate Strongly With Vaccination Rates (NIH)

The importance of understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution cannot be overlooked. Recent studies confirm that natural selection is the dominating mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 evolution, which favors mutations that strengthen viral infectivity. Here, we demonstrate that vaccine-breakthrough or antibody-resistant mutations provide a new mechanism of viral evolution. Specifically, vaccine-resistant mutation Y449S in the spike (S) protein receptor-binding domain, which occurred in co-mutations Y449S and N501Y, has reduced infectivity compared to that of the original SARS-CoV-2 but can disrupt existing antibodies that neutralize the virus.


By tracking the evolutionary trajectories of vaccine-resistant mutations in more than 2.2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we reveal that the occurrence and frequency of vaccine-resistant mutations correlate strongly with the vaccination rates in Europe and America. We anticipate that as a complementary transmission pathway, vaccine-breakthrough or antibody-resistant mutations, like those in Omicron, will become a dominating mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 evolution when most of the world’s population is either vaccinated or infected. Our study sheds light on SARS-CoV-2 evolution and transmission and enables the design of the next-generation mutation-proof vaccines and antibody drugs.

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Trying to confuse natural immunity and vaccine “protection”.

Study Shows Omicron Variant Partially Evades Vaccine’s Protection (GR)

Researchers studying the effects of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on the Omicron variant announced on Tuesday that the variant is partially capable of evading the vaccine’s protection. The team, which has been working in South Africa since the discovery of the new variant, said that those who have recovered from Covid and are fully vaccinated, as well as those who have received a booster shot, are well protected against the variant. The team conducted tests in lab dishes with samples from a dozen people who were fully vaccinated with Pfizer’s vaccine. The results indicated that Omicron is capable of escaping the vaccine’s protection– but only partially.

“There is a very large drop in neutralization of Omicron by BNT162b2 [Pfizer/BioNTech] immunity relative to ancestral virus,” said Alex Sigal, the study’s lead author, on Twitter. Sigal works for the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban. “Omicron escape from BNT162b2 neutralization is incomplete. Previous infection + vaccination still neutralizes,” Sigal said. Sigal told CNN that these results were much better than what he and his team had expected: “I thought this news was very positive. I expected worse,” Sigal said in an interview. Many experts were expecting Omicron to almost completely bypass the protection of vaccines. “This is not a variant that has completely escaped. It certainly escapes. It is certainly bad. But it looks to me like there are ways of dealing with it.”

The study analyzed human lung cells and blood to find their results. It has yet to be peer-reviewed. “Previous infection, followed by vaccination or booster, is likely to increase the neutralization level and likely confer protection from severe disease in Omicron infection,” the study read. Some of the samples had a 41-fold reduction in neutralizing antibodies deployed against the Omicron compared to the levels of antibodies present in earlier Covid-19 variants. But Sigal said that that number is fluid and subject to change with further tests and variables, including if the person had been previously infected. The news comes as evidence is mounting that Omicron may be producing less severe infections than previous Covid-19 variants, like Delta.

On Saturday, the South African Medical Research Council published a report about an Omicron-driven outbreak in the Tshwane district in South Africa’s northern Gauteng Province, one of the first areas in the world where Omicron has overtaken Delta as the dominant strain. The researchers wrote that in the last two weeks there has been an “exponential” rise in caseloads, but significantly, the surge has not corresponded to a significant uptick in hospitalizations and deaths. “The relatively low number of COVID-19 pneumonia hospitalizations in the general, high care, and ICU wards constitutes a very different picture compared to the beginning of previous waves,” the report said, examining data from the Steve Biko and Tshwane District Hospital complex.

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How does “never” sound to you? Just dump Pfizer, it’s the only way out of the pandemic.

FDA Wants Until at Least 2096 to Fully Release Pfizer’s Vaccine Data (Siri)

A prior post explained that the FDA has asked a federal judge to make the public wait until the year 2076 to disclose all of the data and information it relied upon to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Literally, a 55-year delay. My firm, on behalf of PHMPT, asked that this information be disclosed in 108 days – the same amount of time it took for the FDA to review and license Pfizer’s vaccine. The Court ordered the parties to submit briefs in support of their respective positions by December 6, 2021. The FDA’s brief, incredibly, doubles down. It now effectively asks to have until at least 2096 to produce the Pfizer documents. Not a typo. A total of at least 75 years. Other than producing an initial ~12,000 pages in around two months, the FDA thereafter only wants to commit to producing 500 pages per month. The FDA also disclosed that it actually has approximately at least 451,000 pages to produce.*


Each side gets to file response briefs on December 13, 2021, and then there is oral argument on December 14, 2021 before the Judge. If you want to read the response to the FDA’s position, a copy of the introduction in the brief my firm filed is below. And below that, a downloadable copy of each side’s full briefing is available. Enjoy. And if you find what you are reading difficult to believe – that is because it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure. The lesson yet again is that civil and individual rights should never be contingent upon a medical procedure.

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Why is all this stuff heavily redacted? Who has the right to be kept secret, and what is that based on?

New NIH Records Reveal Information About Research Into Coronavirus (JW)

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 221 pages of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which include a grant application for research involving the coronavirus that was submitted in 2018. The grant application appears to describe “gain of function” research involving RNA extractions from bats, experiments on viruses, attempts to develop a chimeric virus and efforts to genetically manipulate the full-length bat SARSr-CoV WIV1 strain molecular clone. The documents were obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The lawsuit specifically requests records about National Institute of Health (NIH) grants that benefitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

On January 27, 2020, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) official David Morens emailed Chief of Staff Greg Folkers in a heavily redacted thread, writing: “[S]ome background on our support of the Ecohealth group (Peter Daszak et al), which has for years been among the biggest players in coronavirus work, also in collaboration with Ralph Baric, Ian Lipkin and others. [Redacted]”. NIAID has been funding Peter’s group for coronavirus work in China for the past 5 years through [grant] R011R01A|110964: “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” That’s now been renewed, with a specific focus to identify cohorts of people highly exposed to bats in China, and work out if they’re getting sick from CoVs.… Collaborators include Wuhan Institute of Virology (currently working on the nCoV) and Ralph Baric.

The results of the work to date include: • [Redacted] • Discovered Swine Acute Diarrheal Syndrome Virus (SADS-CoV) killing >25,000 pigs in Guangdong Province (Published in Nature) • Found SARS-related CoVs that can bind to human cells (Published in Nature), and that cause SARS-like disease in humanized mouse models. • [Redacted] Also, prior to the above R01, Peter’s folks worked under an R01 with Eun-Park as Program Officer on viral discovery in bats, and originally identified SARS-CoV as having a likely origin in bats (published in Science). Folkers forwards the message to Anthony Fauci and others.

In a “Notice of Award” dated July 13, 2020, the NIH increased the amount of NIH money going to Peter Daszak’s firm, EcoHealth Alliance, by $369,819 with a project period that runs from June 1, 2014, through June 30, 2025, for Daszak’s project “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” EcoHealth was to receive $637,980 in each of the years 2019 through 2024 under the grant.

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Did they really think they could push through Marx in the US?

Controversial Biden Banking Nominee Omarova Bows Out (JTN)

Cornell Law Professor Saule Omarova withdrew her nomination for comptroller of the currency following Senate Republicans voicing concerns about her Marxist ties. In Omarova’s withdrawal letter posted Tuesday by the White House, she wrote that while it was an honor to be nominated by President Joe Biden, “it is no longer tenable” for her to continue as a nominee and ultimately lead the agency in charge of regulating American banks. Biden responded that he accepts Omarova’s withdrawal, and says she “was subjected to inappropriate personal attacks that were far beyond the pale.” Biden described his former nominee as “a strong advocate for consumers and a staunch defender of the safety and soundness of our financial system” who would have “brought invaluable insight and perspective to our important work on behalf of the American people.”

Republicans, moderate Democrats and banking industry officials disagreed with Biden’s nomination. Omarova, a Kazakh native educated in the USSR, was under scrutiny for a history of leftist statements, as previously reported by Just the News. In 2019, she tweeted, “Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best.'” A video surfaced earlier this year of the Moscow State University alumna cheering for oil and gas companies to go bankrupt. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) responded by calling on Biden to withdrawal Omarova’s nomination. As recently as October of this year, a paper by Omarova was published titled, “The People’s Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy.”

The professor called for “replacing commercial bank reserve accounts with universally available deposit accounts” so “all U.S. citizens and law-abiding citizens and lawful residents, local governments, nonbanking firms and nonbusiness entities” can bank at the Federal Reserve. Her proposed plan would have the Federal Reserve take money from these accounts when “it is necessary to expand the money supply in order to stimulate economic activity.” Her thesis at Moscow State University was “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital,” but she declined to provide it to the Senate Banking Committee to review.

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No word on what is in the deal. Over a quarter of a trillion dollars.

Apple Signed Secret $275 Billion Deal With Chinese Government (ZH)

Investors and journalists have been openly questioning whether Apple CEO Tim Cook, once praised for his deep-rooted connections within the CCP, has allowed his relationships in China to sour as the US has stepped up criticisms over human rights – treatment of the Uyghers in Xinjiang and elsewhere – and Taiwan. These ties have grown intensely controversial, eliciting criticism from lawmakers, rivals and even the company’s own employees. And just as the SEC prepares to boot dozens of Chinese companies off of US stock exchanges for refusing to comply with US audit standards (something the CCP has expressly forbidden under the auspices of data privacy), reporters with the Information have just published a bombshell: At some point in the not-too-distant past, Cook struck a $275 billion deal with the Chinese government while facing pressure from the CCP.

The deal emerged after a series of meetings between Cook and Chinese officials back in 2016. China is Apple’s second-biggest market after the US, and has long been targeted as a critical market for growth. Apple’s iPhones have seen growing popularity despite rising tensions with the US. This year, Apple became the second-biggest smartphone maker in China. The deal, which was forged over the span of years, represents a five-year plan, according to documents from inside Apple that have been seen by the Information. Whether talks on another five-year plan are in the works isn’t yet clear.

The fact that Apple never disclosed this deal to the US – it’s only just now being publicied – will likely trigger an angry response from lawmakers, who are bound to question Apple’s loyalty to the US, along with whether it prioritized profits and growth over respecting human rights (so much for all that climate virtue signaling). Before the deal was struck, documents show, Apple executives were scrambling to salvage their relationship with Chinese officials, who had accused Apple of not contributing enough to the local economy. Amid the government crackdown and the bad publicity that accompanied it, iPhone sales plummeted, though they have since bounced back.

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Yesh, just try and put US missiles on Ukraine soil. Buchanan’s view is from the Cold War.

Putin To Biden: ‘Finlandize’ Ukraine, Or We Will (Pat Buchanan)

Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia — or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves. This is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending, backed by the 100,000 troops Russia has amassed on Ukraine’s borders. At the Kremlin last week, Putin drew his red line: “The threat on our western borders is … rising, as we have said multiple times. … In our dialogue with the United States and its allies, we will insist on developing concrete agreements prohibiting any further eastward expansion of NATO and the placement there of weapons systems in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory.” That comes close to an ultimatum. And NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg backhanded the President of Russia for issuing it:

“It’s only Ukraine and 30 NATO allies that decide when Ukraine is ready to join NATO. … Russia has no veto, Russia has no say, and Russia has no right to establish a sphere of influence trying to control their neighbors.” Yet, great powers have always established spheres of influence. Chinese President Xi Jinping claims virtually the entire South China Sea that is bordered by half a dozen nations. For 200 years, the United States has declared a Monroe Doctrine that puts our hemisphere off-limits to new colonizations. Moreover, Putin wants to speak to the real decider of the question as to whether Ukraine joins NATO or receives weapons that can threaten Russia. And the decider is not Jens Stoltenberg but President Joe Biden.

In the missile crisis of 60 years ago, the U.S., with its “quarantine” of Cuba and strategic and tactical superiority in the Caribbean, forced Nikita Khrushchev to pull his intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which could reach Washington, off of Fidel Castro’s island. If it did not do so, Moscow was led to understand, we would use our air and naval supremacy to destroy his missiles and send in the Marines to finish the job. Accepting a counteroffer for the U.S. withdrawal of Jupiter missiles from Turkey, Khrushchev complied with President John F. Kennedy’s demand. Russia’s missiles came out. And Kennedy was seen as having won a Cold War victory. Now it is we who are being told to comply with Russia’s demands in Ukraine, or Russia will go in to Ukraine and neutralize the threat itself.

When the Warsaw Pact collapsed and the USSR came apart three decades ago, Russia withdrew all of its military forces from Central and Eastern Europe. Moscow believed it had an agreed-upon understanding with the Americans. Under the deal, the two Germanys would be reunited. Russian troops would be removed from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. And there would be no NATO expansion into Eastern Europe. If America made that commitment, it was a promise broken. For, within 20 years, NATO had brought every Warsaw Pact nation into the alliance along with the former Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Neocons and Republican hawks such as the late John McCain sought to bring Ukraine and two other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia and Moldova, into NATO.

Putin, who served in the KGB in the late Soviet era and calls the breakup of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century, is now saying: Enough is enough. Translation: “Thus far and no further! Ukraine is not going to be a member of NATO or a military ally and partner of the United States, nor a base for weapons that can strike Russia in minutes. For us, that crosses a red line. And if NATO proceeds with arming Ukraine for conflict with Russia, we reserve the right to act first. Finlandize Ukraine, or we will!”

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    ctbarnum
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    “Unvaccinated Traveler” automatically disqualifies the Belgium case, as unvaccinated people in Europe can’t travel without the vaccine. So, one case. Maybe.

    Dutch newspaper reports traveler from Egypt was “not vaccinated”. Which begs the question, “How did they get to Egypt in the first place (if not from Egypt) or how were they able to fly to Belgium (if originally from Egypt)? Doesn’t say.

    Needs translation.

    https://www.hln.be/binnenland/een-geval-van-zuid-afrikaanse-variant-in-ons-land-bevestigd-voorzichtigheid-is-nodig-paniek-niet~a34621a6/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fhealthfeedback.org%2F

    #94696
    TheTrivium4TW
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    Susmarie108, I’m interested in learning more about your RPC story. I suggest your look into broccoli sprouts as a method to turbocharge what you are already doing. Youtube “Rhonda Patrick broccoli sprouts” and stand impressed about the incredible results associated with sulforaphane ingestion (and its complement nutrients in the plant). I figured there was no way to achieve those results without positively impacting iron metabolism, so I went looking and found that it cleans toxic iron from the liver, and apparently relatively safely. I suspect it likely cleans the gut out on its way to the liver, and may not stop at toxic iron. The stuff is horrible, but I’m going to figure out how to make it work.

    1. Sulforaphane attenuates liver damage and heme overload in a sickle cell disease murine model

    2. Nrf2 inhibits hepatic iron accumulation and counteracts oxidative stress-induced liver injury in nutritional steatohepatitis

    3. STUDY: Increasing sulforaphane bioavailability from broccoli through exogenous myrosinase

    #94697
    John Day
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    @Figmund Sreud: National Geographic wants me to sign up to read that story about COVID and the heart. I won’t.
    COVID is bad for the heart, sometimes vey bad. Most times it does not get past the nose. That’s ideal. COVID seems to infect heart muscle cells and the support cells around them sometimes. Spike protein hits the support cells. mRNA vaccines, if blood born (oops IV vaccination), can pseudo-infect heart muscle cells, which then produce spike protein, which is very bad in multiple ways.
    Both COVID and spike protein inflame the arterioles that feed the heart muscle cells, and cause micro clots to shut that blood & oxygen supply to the heart muscle cells, which is what heart attacks do, so heart attacks happen, too.

    #94698
    TheTrivium4TW
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    This is OMINOUS… Search Youtube for video… De Blasio declares the courts are 100% BEHIND 100% VACCINE REQUIREMENTS FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES.

    New York City To Require Covid Vaccine For All Private Sector Workers – YouTube

    He argues the courts only take issue with discriminatory vaccination, NOT WITH UNIVERSAL VACCINATION.

    If you don’t receive the mark of the beast, or its vaccination proxy, you will not be able to buy or sell.

    The Money Power Monopolists have Bibles, they read them, and they implement their prophecies as best as they can.

    “… for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
    Rev. 18:23

    The original word for “sorceries” is farmakiah — the word used to create pharmacy… pharmaceuticals…

    Strongs Concordance #G5331
    Hebrew Strongs Concordance #H3785

    1) the use or the administering of drugs
    2) poisoning
    3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
    4) metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

    Go ahead an ignore the Money Power and their agenda like it doesn’t exist… prove just how blinding whatever form of selfishness is that is compels you to ignore the stunningly obvious — that the people who control the societal money system have the ability to control all the money seekers within society.

    Are YOU a money seeker? Did mammon win out? Can you admit money has been corrupted through debt-based instantiation fraud? Most can’t. They value their idol too much… they’ve dedicated their life to it!

    Even if you don’t think my interpretations OF THEIR SOURCE DOCUMENTS AND TANGIBLE ACTIONS IS CORRECT, you ought to be investing some effort into trying to DISCERN THE MONEY POWER MONOPOLIST AGENDA YOURSELF, RIGHT?

    The best case scenario for me is that your discern something I haven’t that is real, and I can learn from it — BUT YOU HAVE TO BE ON THE RIGHT PLAYING FIELD AND PLAYING THE RIGHT GAME FIRST.

    #94699
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #94700
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    @Saul, You can have a biopsy of your liver, but I’m not sure anyone will do it just to check for iron levels. Plus, it hurts. However, I believe that biopsies of deceased family members would yield very valuable information. It could be that Empire, Inc. does this, or at least samples it, to see just how well Operation Daniel 2:43 is progressing.
    They do take blood from all the babies they can at birth. They are almost certainly testing for iron/bio-copper status to see how well their program is working, and how toxic and inflamed we are becoming.

    Note that the penalty the Money Power Monopolists are trying to exact from people who have “the mark of the beast” is fire and sulfur. That sounds a lot like really bad inflammation, to me.
    The mark of the beast is almost certainly Empire, Inc. programming. Empire parrots, and there are a lot of them, are so afflicted. So are people who mindlessly eat the SAD. This vaccine agenda is really acting like a proxy for the mark of the beast — don’t get it and you can’t buy or sell, and if you get it, your cellular “fire and sulfur” is being titrated up.

    Off to eat a grass fed, grass finished liver steak this morning!

    Bio-copper FTW!

    PS — ask 100 people what nutrient is high in liver, and I bet almost all say “iron.” I bet NONE say copper. A healthy liver has 2x more copper than iron. Muscle meat has 60x more iron than copper. And it has zinc, which when overloaded can stimulate metallothionein, which binds up copper.

    #94701
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    I Timothy 6:10 — For the love of money is a root of all evil.

    Luke 16:13 — No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

    Luke 16:10-12 — 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
    11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
    12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

    Your net monetary position, if you had one (pay that $40 trillion in debt when it is called in after the collapse), is someone else’s INEXTINGUISHABLE DEBT!

    Does ANYONE CARE?

    ANYONE?

    It is EXACTLY this lack of care that keeps the masses ASLEEP, AND IS LEVERAGED BY THE MONEY POWER DO WHAT THEY DO TO US.

    “The only way WE go down, is if you WAKE UP…and that isn’t EVER going to happen.”
    ~Rothschild

    “I suppose another way to put it that you might understand better, is that the world is run by men who truly understand the dark nature of the human spirit. So, YOU provide the evil and these men create scenarios where they know how you will react. It is scary how accurately refined these rule-based systems have become. Ironically, THESE men of “knowledge” must keep their “hands” clean! Must! Or the MAGIC goes!
    Oh! Sweet Irony!!”
    ~Rothschild

    “Some of the banksters will become crushingly poor and others, well, they will not be in our midst! Sadly! Because their egos are or will become so closely intertwined with the paper gods death will be a preferable state for them! Sad, sad little sacks of excrement!
    Of course, you little sheep will bleat with pleasure as they get their “comeuppance” and take the blame although they were tiny little cogs in a very elaborate system! Oh that carefully laid plan again!
    Look to the poor of the past for your cues! Look at the class system of England or the castes of India. There are the stations of privilege, royalty, which you will not hold. Likely.
    Under are the nobility, lords, men of titles. Again out of your reach.
    Into the serf class it is! Grunt workers.
    Farmers, laborers, pawns of war!
    Teach your young the ways of labor! Within that group, there are knowledge based professions which hold some “status”. Tool and die makers in Germany have some measure of value and respect! A blacksmith is another area your children can enter without crowding out, and it will again be handy when the current mercantile system devolves.
    What kind of serf would your children be happiest as!
    Can you teach them deference and groveling? The current educational system already handles rote quite well! Teach them the ways of the sycophant! The boot-licker! The feigned laugh!
    It is likely easier to learn early than later!
    Of course, there are serfs, landed”
    ~Rothschild

    #94702
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    Re: https://degraw.substack.com/p/covid-is-a-cia-led-operation-in-partnership

    All financed by the Money Power Monopolists that own/control the global money systems.

    We are talking Royals, their Banking Family (ies?), and, perhaps, others… or not.

    Funny how their employees get all the heat… NOT THE OWNERS.

    The mind control that envelopes the masses is incredible… the stunningly obvious is beyond admission. Unreal!

    The selfishness of the masses is every bit as responsible for what is going down as the agenda of the Money Power Monopolists. They act selfishly acting out against us, AND THE MASSES ACT SELFISHLY BY NOT EVEN ADMITTING WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, LET ALONE HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE.

    How can these pathological bloodline narcissists respect us?

    #94703
    Mr. House
    Participant

    I don’t care if they respect us, i respect myself. I think that makes all the difference and shows during “event covid”

    #94705
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    @Mr. House, I don’t care if they respect us, either, but I do care if humanity is “respectable” in the principled sense.

    Humanity as a WHOLE is NOT. This ought to concern any person who CARES.

    #94706
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Agreed but that horse left the barn decades ago.

    #94707
    chris_gee
    Participant

    How blessed we are that we have the enlightened to enlighten us.

    #94708
    Mr. House
    Participant

    I remember when passion of the christ came out, i went with my grandmother. Must have been the early 2000’s. The movie wasn’t bad, and i don’t consider myself overly religious. They had a discussion afterwards and listening to the “left” and “right” argue made me sick to my stomach. Kinda like the scene in terminator 2 when John Conner watches the two children play with guns and says to the terminator “we’re not going to make it, are we?”

    #94709
    WES
    Participant

    Ctbarnum:

    Everybody and his brother knows you can’t travel unless you are double or triple vaxxed. So the media saying “unvaxxed traveller” is a lie. It is a vaxxed traveller. You are not supposed to point this obvious point out!

    We know the hospital ERs are not filled up with the unvaxxed, despite the MSM repeatedly saying they are. The majority of covid cases in hospitals are the fully vaxxed.

    We know the unvaxxed are not the super spreaders of covid, despite the media saying they are. The fully vaxxed are the super spreaders because many of them don’t know they have covid and only spread a covid mutant that 100% evades the vaccines.

    So the media saying it is an unvaxxed traveller is just more of the same dam lies.

    You can be quite confident that the media are lying to you! That is what they are paid to do! They will always lie to you.

    So stop doubting yourself! So congratulations! You definately smelled something rottened in Demark!

    #94710
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @susmarie: since we’re discussing the Root Cause Protocol today … I checked into it after Trivium brought it up so many times. The scientific side of it is complex and I’m not interested in spending my free time earning an advanced degree so I didn’t read much of it.

    However, the basic premise of the protocol makes sense. Quit eating processed garbage that passes for food these days, quit ingesting toxins as best possible in today’s world, start eating real food, stop taking synthetic vitamins, start getting vitamins and minerals from food and natural sourced supplements. I’ve never done well on synthetic vitamins so, as much as others may find that part of the protocol odd, it made sense to me.

    Yes, I’ve begun personally rolling out the RCP. I’d already stopped *most* of the stops anyhow, and am adding the starts. I now eat beef liver (local, grass fed). I’m actually enjoying it. It makes me feel better.

    @Trivium: no kidding, a month or so ago I started sprouting broccoli seeds here at home (organic).

    #94711
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>How blessed we are that we have the enlightened to enlighten us.<<

    Ad hominem? Is that ALL you have? What ISSUE due you take issue with?

    Or are you just emoting your feelings with nothing behind it?

    #94712
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @ Dr. Day Thank you, Doc. I really appreciate you response.

    For some reason, here in Canada, we don’t have sign in into National Geographic to read it. Strange, …

    Anyway, … since I have an open access to the article, here it is, a copy of the text:


    How COVID-19 harms the heart
    Many patients are experiencing heart palpitations, chest pain, and shortness of breath even after recovering from COVID-19. But new studies offer reason for hope.
    Danielle Huff was on her treadmill when she first noticed the pain in her chest. She had just recovered from a terrible case of COVID-19 about two or three weeks earlier, during which she’d had just about every symptom imaginable: sore throat, headache, congestion, coughing, loss of smell, body aches, a mild case of pinkeye, and a constant heaviness in her chest like there was a bowling ball weighing it down.
    But this feeling in her chest was different—it was a sharper pain that came on suddenly. Huff, an Illinois school administrator in her 30s, has a family history of heart issues, and she worried that it might signal something serious. Although she’d always tried to live a healthy lifestyle—doing yoga or walking every day—she soon found herself too frightened to exercise.
    “It got to the point where I just couldn’t,” she says. “I was scared of the chest pain because I didn’t know what it was.” Ultimately, her doctor referred her to a cardiologist who specializes in treating patients who have recovered from COVID-19 but still experience cardiac symptoms.
    From the earliest months of the pandemic, scientists have suspected that COVID-19 is not just a disease of the lungs, but also a disease of the heart and blood vessels. “We realized very, very early that clotting was playing a major role,” says Jeffrey Berger, director of New York University Langone’s Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Even in March 2020, physicians were seeing unexpectedly high rates of blood clots in their patients, leading to a rise in heart attacks and strokes. Autopsies also revealed masses of tiny blood clots in places where doctors don’t normally see them, such as the liver and the kidneys.
    (Coronavirus in the U.S.: Where cases are growing and declining.)
    Now it has become clear that COVID-19’s cardiovascular damage doesn’t resolve as soon as a patient recovers from the initial infection. For some patients, MRI scans show signs of inflammation months after clearing the virus. Others continue to have elevated levels of troponin, a chemical that’s released into the blood whenever there’s damage to the heart muscle.
    Oddly, Huff took a battery of heart-related tests and the results came back normal. Still, she found herself so short of breath she had to step out of a yoga class and couldn’t walk across her school building without needing to sit down. And about a month after she recovered from COVID-19, she began feeling random heart palpitations.
    Adding to the mystery, some people who had only mild or even asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 also report long-lasting symptoms such as heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, and extreme fatigue. Scientists are still baffled about what’s causing them.
    “To me there’s no question these individuals are suffering real symptoms,” says James de Lemos, a cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a co-chair of the American Heart Association’s COVID-19 CVD registry steering committee. “The question is, is there some injury to the heart that’s leading to symptoms that we’re not seeing?”
    There is reason for hope. Researchers have made strides toward understanding how to prevent COVID-19 from attacking the heart and blood vessels. Meanwhile, physicians are learning more every day about how to treat long COVID symptoms—and rigorous investigations are underway to help shed light on why they occur.
    HOW COVID-19 ATTACKS THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
    Physicians quickly learned in early 2020 that the use of blood thinners, which help keep blood from clotting, improved the chances of survival for moderately ill COVID-19 patients. But Berger says it also became clear that there was more to the deadly blood clotting than what they could treat with these anticoagulant therapies alone.
    “One in four patients were still dying or requiring organ support,” he says.
    In the last five to 10 years, scientists have begun to understand that platelets play a role in promoting unwanted clotting and inflammation in other diseases such as HIV, psoriasis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. These tiny round blood cells serve one major purpose: to stop bleeding by binding to a damaged blood vessel and forming a clot. With that in mind, Berger and a team of researchers set out to investigate what role the platelets might play in COVID-19.
    “We found it was nothing like we would have expected,” Berger says. “It was like somebody changed the genetic architecture of these platelets.”
    In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers showed that the virus can enter megakaryocytes, the bone marrow cells that make platelets. The infected cell then alters the genetic material in the platelets so that they become more active and give off protein signals that make the lining of the blood vessels sticky and inflamed. This makes the vessels prone to developing clots that can spread throughout the body.
    Scientists also learned that the virus weakens connections in the tissue that lines blood vessels, making them leaky instead of sealing them up, as you might expect when clots are present.
    “It’s like a double-edged sword,” says Ben Maoz, a biomedical engineer at Tel Aviv University and lead author of a recent study that identified the SARS-CoV-2 proteins that cause the most damage to the blood vessel lining. Somehow, he says, COVID-19 affects the blood vessels “in a dual and opposite way.”
    Leaky vessels allow blood and other chemicals in the body to spill into places they’re not supposed to go—including the air sacs of the lungs and the tissues of other organs. That can have a cascade of downstream effects, from the flooded lungs seen in many severe COVID-19 cases to complications of the liver, kidneys, and, of course, the heart.
    “Things we’re supposed to be protected from are suddenly coming in,” Maoz says. He likens the harm this causes to a garbage bag with holes in it: Those holes will allow some waste to seep back into your home. Some of the subsequent damage, like the smell and the foul liquid, will be noticeable right away. But others—like, say, a resulting rat infestation—may not be evident for months. The extent of that harm will depend on how bad the leak was and how long it lasted.
    POST-COVID SYMPTOMS
    But it’s not clear exactly how this blood vessel damage is connected to the lingering cardiovascular symptoms in patients who have recovered from COVID-19. Maoz points out that the virus causes harm in many complex ways that are difficult to disentangle. Yet physicians have continued to see signs of damaged heart tissue such as myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, or high levels of troponin months after hospitalization from COVID-19.
    Berger says it’s not unusual for a virus that causes such severe inflammation to have residual consequences post-recovery—particularly among patients who had moderate or severe disease and needed to be hospitalized. Worryingly, some patients who had asymptomatic, mild, or moderate disease—including children—also have similar evidence of heart damage. (The real risk of heart inflammation to kids is from COVID-19—not the vaccine.)
    Yet mounting evidence suggests that myocarditis due to COVID-19 is more rare than initially believed, de Lemos says. In September a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed that the risk of myocarditis is nearly 16 times higher in patients with COVID-19 than those without. However, the study concluded that the condition is uncommon for both populations—and the risk of myocarditis from COVID-19 is just 0.146 percent. De Lemos says the condition also does heal within months.
    “Most of those hearts look fairly normal when reevaluated during follow-up,” he says.
    Then there are patients like Huff. Amanda Verma, a cardiologist who treated Huff at the Washington University School of Medicine’s post-COVID clinic in St. Louis, says that some patients come in with chest pain but their stress tests are normal. Others complain of palpitations, yet when equipped with heart rate monitors, their heart rhythms appear normal. Still, Verma says those tests aren’t telling the whole story.
    “If you dig a little deeper, you’ll notice that the heart rate pattern isn’t quite normal,” she says. Although it’s expected for a person’s heart rate to rise while walking, it’s not normal for the heart rates of younger and athletic patients to jump from 60 to 120 just from walking across a room or while they’re asleep—which is what was happening to Huff.
    This abnormal increase suggests COVID-19 triggered dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system, the pathways of nerve cells that automatically control vital functions such as breathing and the heartbeat, Verma says. It’s part of the evolutionary “fight or flight” response that allows your body to function without having to be consciously instructed. For COVID-19 long-haulers, that system appears to be out of whack.
    “People often tell me they’re exhausted by the end of the day—and, yeah, who wouldn’t be if your heart rate was up that high all day?” Verma says. “It’s like you’ve been running all day.”
    Scientists have yet to understand how COVID-19 might be causing this type of dysfunction. Some hypotheses suggest it could be a result of the body’s excessive inflammatory response to the virus, or perhaps it could even be related to sex hormones, since women are more likely than men to become COVID-19 long-haulers. Either way, the inability to name the syndrome makes it challenging to get insurance companies to cover treatments—and is maddening for patients who feel their symptoms are not being taken seriously.
    “It’s unbelievably frustrating for patients who suffer from this because they don’t get answers,” de Lemos says. “To some extent validating that this is real is the first step. This is real illness, and we just don’t understand it yet.”
    REASONS FOR HOPE
    Researchers are making progress on finding treatments that could reduce the severity of COVID-19—and ultimately improve cardiovascular outcomes. Berger and his team are studying drugs that target the platelets to prevent them from activating and causing clotting.
    Meanwhile, Maoz and his team have identified the five virus proteins that cause the most harm to the blood vessel lining. They are testing a model that will allow researchers to identity the proteins that inflict damage on other parts of the body. This molecular understanding will help to develop drugs that can block the specific proteins from attacking the blood vessels and causing critical illness.
    “It’s amazing to see how fast we’ve been able to adapt and answer fundamental questions,” Berger says. “The speed of science has dramatically improved.”
    However, he acknowledges that none of these potential drugs that would prevent the platelets from clotting or block the virus proteins from attacking the blood vessels will help people who are already suffering from long COVID. To do that, scientists ultimately need to figure out what’s behind their strange constellation of symptoms.
    Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health launched a collaborative research initiative that will support large-scale studies of long COVID-19 in children and adults. And Verma says that physicians who specialize in long COVID-19 are starting to find ways to treat it, from prescribing anti-inflammatories for chest pain to beta blockers for reducing a patient’s blood pressure when their heart rate is out of control. Even exercise—when carefully monitored and structured so that it doesn’t exacerbate fatigue—can help.
    There’s also anecdotal evidence that long COVID can resolve over time—even if that may take a year to 18 months. Verma says she’s been able to take some of her patients off their medication, and many of those who haven’t recovered completely do eventually feel better after treatment
    “The big question though is, is this going to impact their health in 10 or 15 years down the road?” she says. “Did it do something we just can’t see?”
    For Huff, things have gotten better. After taking medications for her high blood pressure and elevated heart rate, the palpitations and shortness of breath have dissipated. Intriguingly enough, so did the frequent migraines that she’s had since she was 13. She’s still too afraid of the chest pain to go back to exercising, but she’s hopeful for the answers that ongoing research and open communication between doctors and their patients may yield as they learn together about the long-term implications of COVID-19.
    “There’s a lot to learn, and I can understand the frustration with not knowing what’s going on,” she says. “But I’m at a point of acceptance that I’m just not going to have all the answers right now.”

    Again, … very much appreciate your input to this forum. Thank you!

    Best,

    F.S.
    _

    #94713
    Mr. House
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-says-it-now-needs-75-years-fully-release-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-data

    Is this the next JFK file that will never be released? Instead of killing the prez they’ll have killed a good portion of the population 😉

    #94714
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    UpstateNYer, I’d appreciate an update as you progress in the RPC. One doesn’t really need to know the language, just the general concepts, and you have them down pretty good. Do you also donate blood, which is the real way to detox the excess iron (by forcing the body to pull it from storage to make new blood given the availability of bio-copper to best manage it)?
    Heart is actually pretty good — like chewy muscle meat, but way more bio-copper. I found a Middle Easter grocer/butcher and I buy grass fed/finished goat organs there.
    I think the combo of the RPC and the sulforaphane ingestion should yield some pretty powerful results over time. Of course, stress should be managed… try to avoid chronically stressful environments, which is getting pretty challenging as Project Narcissism is being ramped up to unreal levels. We do the best we can, we try to improve when we can, we forgive as best we can, and that’s enough — no stress… it’s an ideal to shoot for.
    Good luck!
    PS — Morley is talking about methylene blue as being a “copper polisher” that increases the availability of bio-copper. He most recent interviews on Youtube tend to cover the subject.

    #94715
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @trivium: I can’t donate blood right now. I usually weigh around 110 lbs but haven’t been feeling well for about 9 months and currently weigh about 85 lbs so … don’t weigh enough to donate.

    I’ll let you know how things progress. Life tends to get in the way of consistently following the protocol (I need to get better at that), but I appreciate that Morley emphasizes to do the best you can. Hate getting beat up by gurus that think we’re machines who don’t have real lives that intrude on being perfect.

    It’s really hard to avoid stress right now, although at least I finally have a paycheck from remote work. That helps.

    #94716
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    @upstateNYer: YES, I donate blood every 8+ weeks without fail.You are correct that the RCP science is complex; it can be best understood on terms that intuitively make sense; your recap is accurate. The RCP is an updated “food as medicine” approach with a bonus. The bonus is about re-energizing at a cellular level, and eliminating inflammation – which is identified as the source/root cause of illness/dis-ease.

    Activating the Starts/Stops is an excellent way to get into it. I just can’t say enough about the impact of the Jigsaw Adrenal Cocktail + Native Path’s Native Nutrients (1 scoop each in shaker with spring water run thru my Berkey filter). Mastering the magnesium angle is also essential; the RCP has excellent guidance on that front.

    @TT4TW: Yes, I eat lots of cruciferous veggies, raw or very GENTLY steamed 3 minutes or less. Have not gone the sprouts route. The Native Nutrients mentioned above seal the deal (as it contains broccoli and kale plus many other goodies).

    NOTE: Sulforaphane is activated when glucoraphanin comes into contact with myrosinase, a family of enzymes that play a role in the defense response of plants.Myrosinase enzymes are only released and activated when a plant is damaged. Therefore, cruciferous vegetables must be cut, chopped, or chewed to release myrosinase and activate sulforaphane.

    #94717
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Happy Chewing!

    #94718
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>Sulforaphane is activated when glucoraphanin comes into contact with myrosinase, a family of enzymes that play a role in the defense response of plants.Myrosinase enzymes are only released and activated when a plant is damaged. Therefore, cruciferous vegetables must be cut, chopped, or chewed to release myrosinase and activate sulforaphane.<<

    In view of this, Dr. Patrick recommends ingesting mustard seeds when ingesting sulfuraphane
    YT search “How to 4x Your Sulforaphane Intake with Mustard Seeds Rhonda Patrick”

    In the past I would heat up the sprouts before juicing them… but that juice is incredibly hard to ingest.

    Freezing them is another approach.

    Right now, I’m just trying to make the growing and ingesting a habit… so palatability is prime right now. I will optimize later. It is sprouts and mustard seed powder for now.

    #94719
    zerosum
    Participant

    FDA Says It Now Needs 75 Years To Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data
    Am I suppose to believe that the FDA read all that data before giving the okay, its safe

    #94720
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @Arnold
    This is at least third time that Caillebotte is greeting us at the top of the daily Rattle.
    You, as I recall, had commented the painting before.

    Yes, my memory finally kicked in and you are correct…

    #94721
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    @upstateNYer: Sister! From 110 to 85 pounds is a gigantic loss for you. I know stress can impact the weight in either direction. Have you stabilized?

    #94722
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Well, I heard about the Covid Saliva Rapid Test back in August, assumed it would be available now as my mother is starting hospice, but not in Mer’Ka!

    No, this is made by a french pharma coop & the medical community + pharmacies haven’t even heard of it:

    https://www.france24.com/en/20201008-covid-19-french-saliva-test-proves-effective-in-real-world-conditions

    I’ve only been able to see my Mom randomly, since I’m not vaxxed & won’t stick a cotton tip stick up into my sinuses to the brain barrier 😐 , was told the nursing home would accept it (has to be done in-house though) but NO EASYCOV TEST for you Mr. Deplorable!

    I wish there was an sure fire method to get the avg. NPC dolt to realize that it is corp./gov TPTB piracy attacking OUR country, family, lives, economy et al., but I know better, having given it my VERY best shot from 1994 – 2008 (when the idiots hit event horizon)…

    Now ALL non-connected peoples in western civ will find out what it’s like having CULT doctrine wielded like a sword against Us, just like the The Papal Bull of 1493 authorized rape, pillage, plunder & murder:

    What did the Papal Bull of 1493 dictate?

    Pope Alexander VI issues a papal bull or decree, “Inter Caetera,” in which he authorizes Spain and Portugal to colonize the Americas and its Native peoples as subjects.

    The decree asserts the rights of Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert, and enslave.

    We had the Keys of the Kingdom within our reach, but chose a chicken-in-every-pot instead…

    #94723
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    They just can’t stop doubling down on the idiocy.

    “The Democrat lawmaker told the Chicago Sun-Times:

    I think it’s time that we say ‘You choose not to get vaccinated, then you’re also going to assume the risk that if you do catch COVID, and you get sick, the responsibility is on you,’”

    The potential corruption and abuse of such a rule should be obvious to anyone familiar with just how mendacious insurance companies can be.

    In all likelihood insurance companies will simply demand a negative Covid test before paying anything, and if you test positive, no matter what you were treated for, you will be called a “covid case” and forced to pay out of pocket.

    The bill could, essentially, wipe all health insurance off the books for unvaccinated people.

    The vaccinated should take no comfort from this, because their vaccinated status is entirely temporary, and subject to rules that could change on a whim. “

    Illinois bill proposes to strip unvaxxed of their health insurance

    #94724
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    The Democrat lawmaker told the Chicago Sun-Times ~ Illinois bill proposes to strip unvaxxed of their health insurance

    Boy, the red fascists are no joy but those blue metro whack-a-doodles are clinically insane!

    Gotta love how the GOPhers/demoRATs seem to only advance the sickest of candidates, many of whom would have been tarred & feathered for even showing to run for dog catchers 100 years ago 😐

    Clown world is getting more twisted by the day…

    Sort of like POTUS 2008 sElection:

    A mentally deranged violent misfit vs. An Ivy League con artist with a penchant for mayhem.

    And as usual, the sheeple saw “no less evil choice” ~ The most “likable” psychopathic liar won, thanks to oodles of morons that voted for pocket change, instead or their Natural Rights.

    (What are they going “save us all” from?!?

    Old age? 😐

    #94725
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @susmarie: thanks for the concern. 🙂 I kinda look like a kid living in a struggling African country. Glad I live in a cold climate and can wear layers now so people can’t see it. I think it’s stabilized, but I don’t own a scale and only occasionally step on the scale at my daughter’s house. Been having serious problems with digestion. It is *slowly* improving in the past few weeks. Oh so slowly. I have faith, though. Let food be thy medicine and all that. (note: I have lyme, but I consider that immune disregulation at this point, not infection. Lots of inflammation I suppose).

    #94726
    chooch
    Participant

    Trivium,

    Is the stated agenda to cull the population with a killer jab or a killer virus?

    #94727
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    @chooch

    To be fair, I thought it was to cull with killer “laws” supposedly in response to a killer virus spread by a killer jab.

    #94728
    John Day
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud: This is the part of that article that is interesting. the rest is mostly blather, I’m sorry to say, a lot of unconnected details and opinions…

    “If you dig a little deeper, you’ll notice that the heart rate pattern isn’t quite normal,” she says. Although it’s expected for a person’s heart rate to rise while walking, it’s not normal for the heart rates of younger and athletic patients to jump from 60 to 120 just from walking across a room or while they’re asleep—which is what was happening to Huff.

    #94729
    John Day
    Participant

    @Upstate NYer: I’m sorry to hear about your guts, sister. Have you had stool assessment for parasites and “sometimes parasites” like Blastocystis hominis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocystis

    @TT4TW: I read what you write. Not ignoring, but each of us has a path to which we should “cleave”. As you know, I am living homegrown vegetables and low iron, spirituality, and have been careful in the teaching and upbringing of my adult children, my “bloodline”. I’m not sure how to respond to the bombast of the quotes you post, which are inflammatory and demeaning. They seem written by somebody to be provocations.
    My boyhood doctor until the age of 6.5 years was Francis Pottinger MD, my Grandmother Day’s choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Pottenger_Jr.
    My maternal grandfather, Robert H. Williams was the author of a book about “knowing your enemy”, which is somehow available online as a download these days…

    @VP Gary: It might be less worser than it looks to your eyes, Brother.
    “Ask not what the universe can do for you, but rather ask what You can do for The Universe”, to paraphrase a guy who died trying… It might be less frustrating.
    Bike rides help me , too, when gardening alone won’t do it.

    I had another meeting which seems to show that I am finding some more karass, which is good. I showed up at the same time as some serendipity and synchronicity today. This will take time. The house will go faster.

    #94730
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    I just realized how dark & jaded I have become over the last year 😐

    Before 2020 I had grown over a decade or so into a sincere, compassionate, tolerant, kind & mostly loving person that spent my spare time & resources volunteering to help others, in some cases reaching people that had no one else would or could…

    Other than helping lost, innocent furbabies I really have very little good will towards others, now.

    Where I had once accepted our “fallen” nature, trying to spiritually rise above it, I have become genuinely disturbed at the levels of self-obsessed blindness, narcissistic hatred, lazy indifference to everyone & everything, not too mention a burning awareness of CULT behavior, group think…

    I seldom thought about TPTB & their malignant CULT, just trying to stay out of THEIR way, focusing instead to be available for the peripheral souls falling off the map of civilization, that still had a chance to abandon their personal catastrophes & rejoin life as a productive father, son, friend et al.

    That’s all changed now, most of the time I feel there’s no hope for the majority I know/encounter, who volunteered for the koolaid injection…

    I have been this far gone since my wife & I loved through 911, I believe I have PTSD still from that disaster, but this is much worse ~ I literally don’t care anymore.

    My momentary awareness was followed by an intuition concerning the rest of the Infinite’s children, who also are living through this war on humanity…

    My God, is there really only a handful that see what’s happening, that want it to end?

    Awhile back I propounded the need to define Us vs. Them, to separate out those that suborned this multitudinous evil to befall the planet ~ Now I feel there exists the scantest sliver of “Us perhaps in recorded history, that just finding & uniting Us would be an impossibility.

    When in Rome…

    #94731
    John Day
    Participant

    @VP Gary: I think there is more than you see, but if you make yourself as visible as you can in your actions, then you will see more doing the same.
    Maybe I’m wrong, though…
    🙂

    #94732
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    You’re right John.

    I no sooner entered that post than realized the thousands, perhaps millions, who are volunteering to uncover & get the truth out regarding all things corrupt, dishonest, debased, especially all those that have brought Us critical information to counter the COVID mainstream narrative ~ Many putting their careers and/or lives on the line…

    Without Us I would truly feel on the outside looking in, as I both experientially + instinctively would see through THEIR psyop of murderous lies & propaganda.

    Then I read something like this, painfully reminded of the ascendancy of psychopaths in leadership:

    A member of the board of directors of the National Education Association (NEA) posted a message to Facebook that denounced unvaccinated individuals who claim religious exemptions and asserted they deserved to die, according to the Libs of Tik Tok social media account, which shared a screenshot of the post on Tuesday.

    https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/12/07/nea-board-member-suggests-unvaccinated-religious-exemption-deserve-die/

    When is enough, enough?

    #94733
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @ Dr. Day: Hmm, … “it’s not normal for the heart rates of younger and athletic patients to jump from 60 to 120 just from walking across a room or while they’re asleep”? Yes, … this suggests to me of an outlandish possibility that – just perhaps – this virus did specifically evolved ( … or was devised? ) to impede a physical performance of a younger and fit person. Or a large batch of, … of a very specific traits.

    F.S.

    #94735
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    And after these things I saw another variant come down from heaven, having benign symptoms; and the earth was lightened with its glory.
    And one cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Covid the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the disease of administrations, and the contagion of every foul agency, and a malady of every unclean and hateful bureaucrat.
    For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of their lockdowns and distancings and mandates, and the kings of the earth have become dictators through her, and the pharma corporations of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of their therapies.
    And I heard another voice saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her jabs, and that ye receive not of their side effects.
    For the adverse reactions have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered their lack of testing.
    And the kings of the earth, who enjoyed emergency powers and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the lack of symptoms,
    Standing afar off for the fear of her harmlessness, saying, Alas, alas, that great disease Covid, that mighty virus! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
    And the pharma companies of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their medicines any more:
    Their merchandise of vaccines, and of gene therapies, and patented medicines, and all manner of opioids, and all manner of PCR tests,
    And painkillers, and anti-depressants, and anti-histamines, and monitors, and sensors, and ventilators.
    The sellers of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her demise, weeping and wailing,
    And saying, Alas, alas, that great virus, that was clothed in masks and gowns, and face shields and gloves and personal protective equipment!
    For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every wholesaler, and all the distributors and pharmacists stood afar off,
    And cried when they saw the end of her virulence, saying, What virus is like unto this great virus!
    And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great virus, wherein were made rich all that sold vaccines by reason of their costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

    #94736
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    Veracious Poet,

    It sounds like you are suffering greatly from the burden of the red pill. But do you really want to go back?

    You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist.

    I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious.

    After nine years, you know what I realize?

    Ignorance is bliss.

    -Cypher

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