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US Daily COVID Cases Drop By 47% And Deaths Fall By 38% Week-on-week (DM)
‘Much Brighter Than Before’: COVID-19 Cases Plunge Across US (ET)
The Narrative Is Falling Apart, Piece By Piece (Kirsch)
US Faces Wave Of Omicron Deaths In Coming Weeks, Models Say (AP)
New Research: Covid Less Deadly Than Thought In 1st Year Of Pandemic (JTN)
The Last Days of the Covidian Cult (CJ Hopkins)
Calls Grow To Ditch Compulsory Covid Jabs Law For NHS Staff (DM)
Observations From An Experienced Nurse About The Covid Vaccines (Kirsch)
Think About What Denying Health Care To The Unvaccinated Means (Vezina)
Nicola Sturgeon Announces Lifting Of Omicron Restrictions In Scotland (G.)
New Zealand Closes Borders To New Arrivals Over Omicron Risk (G.)
Grocery Stores Could Close If Labour, Product Shortages Worsen (CP)
Ghislaine Maxwell Ends Fight To Keep Eight ‘John Does’ Secret (CTV)
Western Governments Drop Plans To Cut Russia Off From SWIFT – Media (RT)
5G Network Deployment In The US Spawns A Cluster Of Disruption (TAC)
Multiple Flights to US Suspended Over 5G Fears (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“The virus is better at immunising than the vaccine”.
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US Daily COVID Cases Drop By 47% And Deaths Fall By 38% Week-on-week (DM)

Covid infections are falling in the U.S. for the first time since the Omicron variant erupted at the end of 2021. The nation recorded 721,651 new cases on Monday, a steep fall from the 1.364 million cases reported last Monday. America’s new daily case average has also dropped 10 percent over the past seven days, from 766,939 to 684,457. A DailyMail.com analysis of Johns Hopkins University data found there were 717,874 new cases recorded between midnight Monday and midnight Tuesday. Monday is often the day when reported case counts are highest as lagging figures from the weekend are finally reported. Last week’s 1.364 million cases recorded on Monday was the highest single day case total the nation ever recorded.

This week’s total was affected by the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, where many local governments and municipalities were closed and did not fully report cases. It is likely that some cases shift to Tuesday this week instead. But Covid cases have been plunging for days in those states hardest hit by Omicron when it first arrived in the US in early December, suggesting the latest phase pandemic could really be drawing to a close. Two-week case averages are generally the most stable figures and can smooth out single day outliers. Over the past 14 days, overall cases in the U.S. are up 40 percent, though that figure is expected to decline further in the coming days as many previous Covid hotspots in the U.S. are now seeing case counts trend in the right direction.

As of Tuesday morning, Johns Hopkins University reports that the U.S. has logged 66,456,516 cases and 851,730 deaths since the pandemic first began. That means there has been one reported Covid case for every five Americans so far – with the figure likely being even higher due to the mass underreporting of cases and test shortages that have been a problem during different waves of the pandemic.Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, put a fly in the ointment after warning that yet another new variant could emerge – and that it could resist existing immunity in those infected or vaccinated.

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As predicted.

‘Much Brighter Than Before’: COVID-19 Cases Plunge Across US (ET)

COVID-19 case counts have dropped across the United States in recent days, stoking optimism that the Omicron-fueled wave is subsiding. 34 states have recorded a decrease in cases in recent days, not including states that reported a single-day drop, according to an Epoch Times analysis. That includes some of the states that saw huge Omicron-fueled increases, including New York, California, and Florida. Other states that have seen fewer cases recently include Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. States in every region of the country have reported fewer cases, and a smaller number have also seen a lower number of people being admitted to hospitals with or for COVID-19.

Omicron is more transmissible than the Delta variant, which dominated the United States for months last year. However, it causes a smaller percentage of cases that require hospital care or lead to death. States saw a significant increase in positive tests with the emergence of Omicron late last year, in part because the COVID-19 vaccines provide little protection against infection from the strain. Cases in New York shot above 90,000 on Jan. 7, but have since dropped sharply, hitting 26,772 on Monday. Hospitalizations attributed to COVID-19 have also gone down in the northeastern state in recent days. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, worries that hospital admissions may go back up in the near future, “but overall, the prognosis, the forecast, for COVID is much brighter than it had been before.” “The COVID clouds are parting,” she told reporters in Latham last week.

[..] Overall, the number of new cases nationwide dropped from 1.3 million on Jan. 10 to the mid-800,000s in the following days, according to data reported by states to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. health officials have said the drop in cases could come quickly, similar to the plunges seen in South Africa and other countries that dealt with earlier Omicron waves.

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“I’m now hearing a lot from prominent formerly pro-vax docs that they are turning on the vaccine. This is great news. Nobody is going public yet, but they are all pissed and realize they have been misled.”

The Narrative Is Falling Apart, Piece By Piece (Kirsch)

Here are some narrative pieces that have been falling apart that were recently brought to my attention. Here are the four new truths:

1/ The vaccines make you more likely to get COVID: It was supposed to make things better, but we’re basically mandating you get a shot that makes you more likely to get infected. That is totally insane, but that’s what we are doing. Check out the graphs here. No age confounding this time: UK Government Data proves the Covid-19 Vaccines DOUBLE your chances of catching Covid-19.

2/ The vaccines aren’t safe: I’m now hearing a lot from prominent formerly pro-vax docs that they are turning on the vaccine. This is great news. Nobody is going public yet, but they are all pissed and realize they have been misled. It will not be pretty. This is of course great news.

3/ Cloth masks don’t work: The CDC finally admits that cloth masks that they said worked before and that everyone wore (including Rochelle Walensky) don’t actually work. The other mask types don’t work either, but it will take them longer to figure out the obvious. P100 respirators do work but only a small percentage of people know that. I can’t wait to see Rochelle Walensky wear a P100 respirator; after all, she should be modelling best practices.

4/ Kids shouldn’t have boosters shots: Top WHO scientist finally admits that kids shouldn’t get boosted!!!! Yet the US colleges and universities aren’t going to back off. Someone is very wrong here and for once it isn’t the WHO.

Here are some older truths that should have been realized by now, but are still going on:

1/ Remdesivir is killing patients, not saving them: RDV is standard operating procedure in the US, but everyone I talk to says it doesn’t work and is much more likely to kill patients than save them. Doctors are forced to give it by hospital policy.

2/ Social distancing doesn’t work: The MIT study came out in April, 2021 that showed social distancing makes no difference. 6 feet or 60 feet made no difference. People still haven’t figured this out.


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There we go again. Omicron deaths, in waves.

US Faces Wave Of Omicron Deaths In Coming Weeks, Models Say (AP)

The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been trending upward since mid-November, reaching nearly 1,700 on Jan. 17 — still below the peak of 3,300 in January 2021. COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents started rising slightly two weeks ago, although still at a rate 10 times less than last year before most residents were vaccinated. Despite signs omicron causes milder disease on average, the unprecedented level of infection spreading through the country, with cases still soaring in many states, means many vulnerable people will become severely sick. If the higher end of projections comes to pass, that would push total U.S. deaths from COVID-19 over 1 million by early spring.


“A lot of people are still going to die because of how transmissible omicron has been,” said University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi. “It unfortunately is going to get worse before it gets better.” Morgues are starting to run out of space in Johnson County, Kansas, said Dr. Sanmi Areola, director of the health department. More than 30 residents have died in the county this year, the vast majority of them unvaccinated. But the notion that a generally less severe variant could still take the lives of thousands of people has been difficult for health experts to convey. The math of it — that a small percentage of a very high number of infections can yield a very high number of deaths — is difficult to visualize. “Overall, you’re going to see more sick people even if you as an individual have a lower chance of being sick,” said Katriona Shea of Pennsylvania State University, who co-leads a team that pulls together several pandemic models and shares the combined projections with the White House.

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Ioannidis.

New Research: Covid Less Deadly Than Thought In 1st Year Of Pandemic (JTN)

COVID-19 was less lethal across nearly every age group in its first full year than previously thought, according to an updated review of global research from Stanford University’s Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRIC). Between summer and Christmas 2021, METRIC’s estimates of deaths from infection fell by half in multiple age groups, including young people, and less sharply in others. The international estimates, which have not been peer-reviewed, are not substantially different from the CDC’s own “best estimate” of COVID mortality in the U.S., last updated in March. They use different age ranges, making exact comparisons difficult. The findings raise questions about ongoing COVID restrictions and mandates, particularly for schoolchildren and college students, who remain at the lowest overall risk from infection.

The risk-benefit ratio of vaccine boosters is also under scrutiny, with international authorities souring on their wide deployment and a new Israeli study finding that a fourth dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines doesn’t stop the Omicron variant. METRIC codirector John Ioannidis, credited by one medical publisher as having “practically invented” the field of meta-research, warned early in the pandemic that available infection data were “utterly unreliable.” His ongoing tracking of “seroprevalence,” which measures COVID infection rates using the presence of antibodies in blood samples, has made him controversial in scientific circles. Ioannidis led a study in Stanford’s backyard that estimated a much higher infection rate than local authorities were reporting in spring 2020, leading to criticism of his methods. The revised paper was published last spring in an Oxford medical journal.

He has also consistently emphasized that mortality risks for the non-elderly were “very small” even in COVID “hotbeds.” A June 2020 review of seroprevalence studies determined a median “infection fatality rate” (IFR) of 0.26% overall and 0.04% for everyone under 70. [..] The Greece-born Ioannidis told the Greek Reporter this week that he believes the earlier Delta variant is responsible for a substantial portion of recent COVID deaths in the U.S. and Europe, with infections predating the Omicron wave. “Omicron has the characteristics of an endemic wave,” he said, echoing South African research on Omicron infection providing some protection against Delta infection.

The milder variant has a “seasonal appearance, high rates of transmission, [and] disproportionately low death burden in a setting where there is very high background immunity due to prior infection and/or vaccination,” Ioannidis said. The chief epidemiologist at Denmark’s State Serum Institute made the same claim earlier this month, telling Danish TV 2 that “we will have our normal lives back in two months.” Tyra Grove Krause said her organization found the hospitalization risk from Omicron was half that of Delta. It welcomed the spike in cases in recent weeks, saying the “massive spread” of a mild variant will put the country “in a better place than we were before.’

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“And now the clock is running down, and the resistance isn’t crushed … on the contrary, it is growing..”

The Last Days of the Covidian Cult (CJ Hopkins)

This isn’t going to be pretty, folks. The downfall of a death cult rarely is. There is going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth, incoherent fanatical jabbering, mass deleting of embarrassing tweets. There’s going to be a veritable tsunami of desperate rationalizing, strenuous denying, shameless blame-shifting, and other forms of ass-covering, as suddenly former Covidian Cult members make a last-minute break for the jungle before the fully-vaxxed-and-boosted “Safe and Effective Kool-Aid” servers get to them. Yes, that’s right, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, the official Covid narrative is finally falling apart, or is being hastily disassembled, or historically revised, right before our eyes.

The “experts” and “authorities” are finally acknowledging that the “Covid deaths” and “hospitalization” statistics are artificially inflated and totally unreliable (which they have been from the very beginning), and they are admitting that their miracle “vaccines” don’t work (unless you change the definition of the word “vaccine”), and that they have killed a few people, or maybe more than a few people, and that lockdowns were probably “a serious mistake.” I am not going to bother with further citations. You can surf the Internet as well as I can. The point is, the “Apocalyptic Pandemic” PSYOP has reached its expiration date. After almost two years of mass hysteria over a virus that causes mild-to-moderate common-cold or flu-like symptoms (or absolutely no symptoms whatsoever) in about 95% of the infected and the overall infection fatality rate of which is approximately 0.1% to 0.5%, people’s nerves are shot.

We are all exhausted. Even the Covidian cultists are exhausted. And they are starting to abandon the cult en masse. It was always mostly just a matter of time. As Klaus Schwab said, “the pandemic represent[ed] a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.” It isn’t over, but that window is closing, and our world has not been “reimagined” and “reset,” not irrevocably, not just yet. Clearly, GloboCap underestimated the potential resistance to the Great Reset, and the time it would take to crush that resistance. And now the clock is running down, and the resistance isn’t crushed … on the contrary, it is growing.

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“..more than 80,000 – 6 per cent of the workforce – remain unvaccinated..”

Calls Grow To Ditch Compulsory Covid Jabs Law For NHS Staff (DM)

Ministers are under pressure from Tory MPs to scrap a law requiring all NHS staff to have a Covid jab as bosses prepare to start sacking 80,000 in a fortnight. All frontline workers must have had two doses of the vaccine by April 1, meaning the first must have been administered by February 3. But more than 80,000 – 6 per cent of the workforce – remain unvaccinated despite repeated efforts to boost take-up. New NHS guidance to employers says staff who have not been jabbed should start being called into formal meetings from February 4 and warned they face dismissal with the notice period ending on March 31. But the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives have urged ministers to delay the rules, saying they could have a ‘catastrophic’ impact on the delivery of services.


And Mark Harper, the chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Conservative MPs, yesterday urged No 10 to reconsider its approach. He said: ‘The Government is still ploughing on, regardless of the consequences on staffing levels. It’s nonsense. Ministers must change course.’ He posted a link to the Government’s own impact assessment, which says 73,000 NHS staff in England could be lost because of the rules. He added: ‘Here are the stark numbers – which let’s not forget are real people with real families – behind this policy.’ Health Secretary Sajid Javid last week told the Commons the Government remained committed to the plans.

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“It’s time for us to admit that we’ve been completely deceived.”

Observations From An Experienced Nurse About The Covid Vaccines (Kirsch)

One of my nurse friends forwarded this note to me. It was originally written by a nurse, but the source is unknown, probably out of fear of retribution. Among all the vaccines I have known in my life (diphtheria, tetanus, measles, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis, meningitis, flu, and pneumonia, and tuberculosis) I have never seen a vaccine that forced me to wear a mask and maintain my social distance, even when you are fully vaccinated. I had never heard of a vaccine that spreads the virus even after vaccination. I had never heard of rewards, discounts, incentives to get vaccinated. I never saw discrimination for those who didn’t. If you haven’t been vaccinated no one has tried to make you feel like a bad person. I have never seen a vaccine that threatens the relationship between family, colleagues and friends.

I have never seen a vaccine used to threaten livelihoods, work or school. I have never seen a vaccine that would allow a 12-year-old to override parental consent. After all the vaccines I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one, which discriminates, divides and judges society as it is. And as the social fabric tightens… It’s a powerful vaccine! It does all these things except IMMUNIZATION. If we still need a booster dose after we are fully vaccinated, and we still need to get a negative test after we are fully vaccinated, and we still need to wear a mask after we are fully vaccinated, and still be hospitalized after we have been fully vaccinated, it will likely come to “It’s time for us to admit that we’ve been completely deceived.”

I think she forgot to mention that she’s probably also never seen: • a vaccine which makes it more likely you’ll be infected by the virus they are trying to protect you from (after a brief efficacy period). See Incriminating evidence for all the studies showing this. • a vaccine which helps other latent viruses or cancers to re-emerge with a vengeance. • a vaccine which has killed at least 150,000 previously healthy Americans • a vaccine with over 20,000 deaths reported into VAERS and the CDC can’t find a single death that was due to the vaccine • lockdowns for the unvaccinated that can last for years to come

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“..be careful about deciding what medical ethics we are prepared to amend or abandon in order to “get life back to normal.”

Think About What Denying Health Care To The Unvaccinated Means (Vezina)

Once again, the calls to systemically deny or restrict health care to the unvaccinated are surging, opening the Pandora’s box of changing modern biomedical ethics. Many people are saying it is time for our leaders to have, as they phrase it, the difficult conversation. There are two assumptions made in this. The first is that we have decided a medical system which — overtly and in full view — places certain people’s lives above others is tolerable. It’s true we already have other systems which do this indirectly and subtly. There is no rule, for example, that explicitly states the rich are treated better than the poor, but in practice they are, for numerous reasons. The second assumption is that it is permissible to trade not just the quality of life, but lives themselves, especially in the short term, for securing critical infrastructure.

This is also already the case in our society although, again, it is done indirectly. For example, safeguarding economic infrastructure takes priority over extending people’s lives. Greater priority is given to safeguarding Canadian banks than to affordable housing. The poor are given limited public assistance so that the cost of living does not increase even faster for everyone else. Whether any of this is good or bad is irrelevant. It is simply what happens. But going beyond that, with the Pandora’s box of changing medical ethics having been opened, the following strategies can be considered, all doable and each with its own risks and benefits.

1. Deny health care to the unvaccinated. Benefits: Opens up significant ICU and hospital space; removes people who disagree with modern medical science from the population; perhaps gets us through the COVID-19 pandemic faster. Risks: Potential for widespread civil unrest; long-term effects on medical ethics with a precedent having been set; disproportionate impact on workers and industries required to keep critical infrastructures operational. External control measures, such as business closures and public gatherings would need to be maintained, or vaccinated patients might fill ICUs with uncontrolled Omicron spread.

2. Deny ICU health care to all COVID-only patients, regardless of vaccine status. Benefits: Can restart surgeries rapidly; difficult but easier to ethically justify than the first option; perhaps get through COVID-19 faster. Risks: Easy to abuse in terms of preferential treatment on an individual basis; difficult to implement in terms of practicality; potential staffing shortages, with some frontline health-care workers viewing this as the “last straw” ethically and quitting. With this strategy, external control measures are separated from hospital ICU capacity. Once everyone (of all ages) has an available vaccine to control their personal level of risk, removing control measures and allowing people to decide their risks for themselves becomes more attractive.

3. Reach endemic status rapidly, to decrease hospital load over the long term. By delaying the onset of COVID-19 infections and having hospitals at or exceeding capacity for long periods of time, cancer and many other life-saving surgeries are being further delayed. If the assumption is that everyone will get the virus eventually anyway, then a rapid endemic strategy would be to encourage people to become infected as quickly as possible, through the immediate removal of all external control measures to contain the pandemic. This includes allowing all businesses to reopen at full capacity and removing all limits on the number of people allowed to attend public and private events, as well as in people’s homes. Benefits: Reaches COVID endgame much more quickly, the load on hospital infrastructure recedes much faster, cancer and other life-saving surgeries can be resumed much earlier. Risks: Over the short term, a scenario from hell with increased deaths, the hospital system strained beyond maximum capacity during this period; increased chances of a new Canadian variant developing; it will appear to the public as if governments are abandoning frontline health care. In all of these strategies, the ability or inability of society to recover ethically from what has been done, once the immediate pandemic crisis is over, would be on the table. So be careful about deciding what medical ethics we are prepared to amend or abandon in order to “get life back to normal.”

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People who know more than they tell.

Nicola Sturgeon Announces Lifting Of Omicron Restrictions In Scotland (G.)

Restrictions brought in before Christmas to stem the Omicron surge across Scotland are to be lifted from next Monday, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said. Nightclubs will reopen, there will be an end to social distancing and to a three-household limit indoors, Sturgeon said, adding that the country had “turned the corner on the Omicron wave”. But Sturgeon urged the public to remain “cautious” about socialising in larger groups, while government guidance remains to work from home wherever possible and use face coverings, with vaccine passports still in place for large-scale events. Sturgeon said in her regular statement at Holyrood that the data suggested Omicron peaked in Scotland in the first week of January and that “we are now on the downward slope of this wave of cases” as hospital and intensive care admissions were falling.


Cases were down from 36,526 new cases on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of last week to 20,268 cases reported this Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. She said that, after discussion with her cabinet, the remaining statutory measures introduced in response to Omicron – limits on indoor public events; the requirement for one-metre physical distancing between different groups in indoor public places; the requirement for table service in hospitality premises serving alcohol on the premises; and the closure of nightclubs – would be lifted from next Monday, 24 January. From that day, the guidance asking people to stick to a three-household limit on indoor gatherings will also be lifted.

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Locking people out of their own country, and home, should be a no-go.

New Zealand Closes Borders To New Arrivals Over Omicron Risk (G.)

New Zealand has temporarily cut off the only pathway home for overseas citizens and visa holders, citing the risk of the Omicron variant. Officials announced on Tuesday evening that new spaces in the country’s managed isolation and quarantine system (MIQ) would not be released. The Covid-19 response minister, Chris Hipkins, said on Wednesday that while the pause was “temporary” there was no date for when spaces would again be available – meaning New Zealand’s border would be closed for an indeterminate time to citizens without an existing booking. “Pausing the next MIQ lobby is a temporary position while MIQ is under extreme pressure from New Zealanders returning with Omicron,” he said.

“No decisions have been made on the date, sequence and conditions for the border reopening and cabinet will consider options within the next couple of weeks based on the most up to date advice. Until then, we are not in a position to release more MIQ rooms.” The MIQ head, Chris Bunny, said there had been an “unprecedented number of Omicron cases coming into New Zealand and MIQ”, with a tenfold increase in cases at the border compared with December, and a seven day rolling average of 33. On Wednesday, New Zealand recorded 24 new cases in the community. One of those cases has been confirmed as Omicron, a household contact of an MIQ worker. Separately, an airport worker tested positive on Wednesday.

New Zealand’s tough border restrictions have been crucial to its avoiding an Omicron outbreak and keeping Covid cases extremely low – but they are also a source of increasing heartache and rage for those who have found themselves locked out, often in extremely difficult personal circumstances. Other than the risky path of chartering a boat across the Tasman sea, securing a spot in MIQ is the only way into New Zealand. Competition for the rooms, which are released via a lottery system, is fierce. At the last release in early January, a queue of 16,000 people were vying to book one of 1,250 available rooms.

For those stranded overseas, the cancellation of future releases was distressing. Maxine Strydom, a member of Grounded Kiwis, which advocates for stranded New Zealanders, said she was stuck in Perth with her two children, and had been unable to secure a spot, despite her job and tenancy in Australia ending. “All of us stranded overseas are affected. We’re all going through mental and emotional stress,” she said. “Soon I’m going to have no money, no house, and no help in a foreign country.” Claire, a New Zealander in San Diego, said: “I feel like every shred of hope has been stripped away … There is no end in sight, it’s just demoralising.” Claire asked to be referred to by first name only amid concerns about criticism by fellow New Zealanders, most of whom have favoured border restrictions.

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Canada screwing up royally.

Grocery Stores Could Close If Labour, Product Shortages Worsen (CP)

Grocery stores are struggling with rising labour and product shortages that could threaten Canada’s food security, experts say. Employee absenteeism due to workers calling in sick and COVID-19 protocols has hit about 30 per cent at some stores and is continuing to rise, Gary Sands, senior vice-president of public policy with the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said Tuesday. Without access to rapid testing in many provinces, he said workers are repeatedly forced to isolate for a week or more after an exposure to COVID-19. If the situation worsens, some grocery stores won’t be able to stay open _ threatening food security in rural and remote areas that rely on a sole independent grocer, Sands said. “If we have to keep sending people home, at a certain point stores are not going to be able to operate,” he said. “We’re very frustrated with the lack of rapid test kits for grocers.”


Health Canada has made some rapid test kits available directly to companies in critical sectors, including the food industry, with 200 or more employees. But many independent grocery stores don’t meet that threshold, putting those kits out of reach, Sands said. Yet many grocers cannot obtain rapid tests through provinces either, he said. “Independent grocers are in a myriad of communities in this country where there is no other grocery store,” Sands said. “If those stores close, you’ve got a food security issue.” Meanwhile, stores are also experiencing a shortage of goods stemming from supply chain issues, including a shortage of truckers, packaging and processing delays and the Canadian winter. Grocers rely on “just in time” delivery, meaning even transient issues like inclement weather can cause delays and shortages, Retail Council of Canada spokesperson Michelle Wasylyshen said.

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How many will be famous?

Ghislaine Maxwell Ends Fight To Keep Eight ‘John Does’ Secret (CTV)

Ghislaine Maxwell will no longer fight to keep the names of eight ‘John Does’ secret and will leave it to the court to decide whether the names should be unsealed, according to a Jan. 12 letter to federal Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York. The documents containing the names are connected to a 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and that Maxwell aided in the abuse. The case was settled in 2017. Maxwell, 60, faces up to 65 years in prison after she was found guilty last month in a New York federal court on five federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor. The charges were related to her role in Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004.

“After careful review of the detailed objections submitted by Non-Party Does 17, 53, 54, 55, 73, 93 and 151, counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell writes to inform the Court that she does not wish to further address those objections,” Maxwell attorney Laura Menninger wrote. “Each of the listed Does has counsel who have ably asserted their own respective privacy rights. Ms. Maxwell therefore leaves it to this Court to conduct the appropriate review.” Giuffre’s attorney had filed a brief on Wednesday, arguing for the names to be revealed. “[G]eneralized aversion to embarrassment and negativity that may come from being associated with Epstein and Maxwell is not enough to warrant continued sealing of information. This is especially true with respect to this case of great public interest, involving serious allegations of the sex trafficking of minors,” Guiffre attorney Sigrid McCawley wrote.

“Now that Maxwell’s criminal trial has come and gone, there is little reason to retain protection over the vast swaths of information about Epstein and Maxwell’s sex-trafficking operation that were originally filed under seal in this case.” McCawley said the court has already rejected similar arguments for anonymity and the same standard should apply to the eight ‘John Does’ who still remain anonymous in court documents.

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“Germany would have no way of paying Moscow for its natural gas contracts”

Western Governments Drop Plans To Cut Russia Off From SWIFT – Media (RT)

German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported that Western leaders have ruled out the possibility of disconnecting Russia from the global banking interchange SWIFT. However, the US government has contradicted the assertion. “No option is off the table,” a spokesperson for Washington’s National Security Council told reporters on Monday. The denial comes after Handelsblatt claimed that the US had, in fact, given up on the threat of removing Russia from SWIFT in talks with the German government. If the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication cuts ties with Russian banks, Germany would have no way of paying Moscow for its natural gas contracts. It could also unleash a catastrophic rise in oil and food prices.


Instead, the Düsseldorf-based business daily reported that the US and German governments are discussing “targeted” sanctions against Russia’s largest banks in the event that Moscow “invades” Ukraine. US intelligence has claimed for several weeks now that Russia is preparing an attack on its neighbor. Moscow has rejected the insinuations as “fake news.” Germany has insisted that any sanctions include exceptions so that the import of oil and gas from Russia can continue, according to Handelsblatt. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the sanctions proposal with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the paper added.

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“PULL UP WHOOP WHOOP DON’T SINK TOO LOW GEAR”

5G Network Deployment In The US Spawns A Cluster Of Disruption (TAC)

Something is going on with Runway 10L at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida. Last week, a Bombardier-built CRJ200 regional jet on final approach had the strangest thing happen. The aircraft’s radar altitude abruptly ran down to zero, causing repeated loud aural warnings: PULL UP WHOOP WHOOP DON’T SINK TOO LOW GEAR. The flight landed without incident in good weather, but it wasn’t the first time. “Exact same location multiple times the past two weeks,” the pilot, who was on the flight deck for both anomalies, told The Air Current.

The incidents were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. It’s not known definitively if the radar altimeter behavior was related to pre-deployment testing of 5G telecommunication technologies, but the unexplained incident underscored the fears of aviators, as well as the confusion and increasing disruption that is now befalling U.S. commercial aviation. International airlines like Emirates, Air India, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways have cancelled flights to select cities, citing the 5G C Band interference risk to their aircraft. Boeing on Monday night sent a so-called multi-operator message to carriers flying 777 and 747-8s and “recommends operators do not operate 777 airplanes on approach and landing to U.S. runways” with 5G C Band notices starting on January 19 unless there is an alternative means of compliance with FAA directives, according to guidance reviewed by The Air Current.

“The above recommendation has been determined through the Boeing Safety Review Board and engineering pilot evaluation based on the uncertainty of the 5G operating environment,” the company wrote. The review board meeting was held on January 15. “Boeing recommends that operators develop contingency plans for their operations.” Boeing referred comment to the FAA after saying, like Airbus, it was working with an industry coalition to address the 5G deployment issue with U.S. regulators. The FAA did not respond to questions about the reported incident in Palm Beach.

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Y2K?

Multiple Flights to US Suspended Over 5G Fears (RT)

Prominent airlines from Japan, India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have suspended flights to airports across the United States after expressing concern over the deployment of 5G. Emirates, Air India, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways canceled flights to New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Seattle, among other US cities. Air India announced on Tuesday that it would no longer operate flights the next day to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport “due to deployment of the 5G communications in USA.”


On the same day, Emirates canceled flights to at least nine US cities, again “due to operational concerns associated with the planned deployment of 5G mobile network services in the U.S,” while Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways canceled at least 13 flights. Airlines and the FAA previously repeatedly voiced concerns about C-band 5G potentially disrupting airplane instruments, namely radio altimeters. So far, the US aviation body cleared less than a half of the nation’s commercial fleet for low-visibility landings at the airports potentially affected by 5G interference. International airlines were also seriously affected, with All Nippon Airways saying that while its Boeing 787 aircraft could operate under the new guidelines, 777’s could not. In response to concerns, AT&T and Verizon postponed the Wednesday rollout of 5G service near some airports, but not all.

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  • #98433

    Alfred Sisley Snow at Louveciennes 1878   • US Daily COVID Cases Drop By 47% And Deaths Fall By 38% Week-on-week (DM) • ‘Much Brighter Than Befor
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 19 2022]

    #98434
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Alfred Sisley Snow at Louveciennes 1878

    Nice, very nice…

    #98436
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    Hooray. Steve Kirsch got 4 out of 6 correct. He gets bonus points for getting the most important 4 correct.

    The two where Steve missed the mark were where he dissed masks and social distancing. Why Steve, why? Look at the data! Look at the scoreboard! It is not even close! In Asia, where masking and social distancing are widespread, we are totally kicking your ass. It is mostly in the US, which has the worst statistics by a mile, and where there has been the most resistance from Day 1 to masking and social distancing, where there is a “blinders on” religious resistance to masking and social distancing. And just look at the numbers! Not even close!

    I have my complaints against the pro-pharma kiss-the-ring vaccine-only slavish and mindless obeisance of the Korean approach. But give credit where credit is due. When it comes to controlling transmission, we are totally kicking your ass, and it is because of masking and social distancing.

    Apart from these two blind spots, good work, and please continue the good fight!

    #98437
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Fine art and physical fitness, what a great combination!

    #98438
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “When it comes to controlling transmission, we are totally kicking your ass, and it is because of masking and social distancing. ”

    is that what they do in africa?

    #98439
    those darned kids
    Participant

    • US Daily COVID Cases Drop By 47% And Deaths Fall By 38% Week-on-week (DM)
    § is that with death or from death?

    • ‘Much Brighter Than Before’: COVID-19 Cases Plunge Across US (ET)
    § is there an election this year?

    • The Narrative Is Falling Apart, Piece By Piece (Kirsch)
    § step by step, inch by inch, slowly i turned..

    • US Faces Wave Of Omicron Deaths In Coming Weeks, Models Say (AP)
    § so now we’ve got victoria’s secret in charge!? finally!

    • New Research: Covid Less Deadly Than Thought In 1st Year Of Pandemic (JTN)
    § new?! NEW?!! NEW?!?!? ¿¡¡¿¡¡¡¿GNU?!?!?!!

    • The Last Days of the Covidian Cult (CJ Hopkins)
    § watch your back..

    • Calls Grow To Ditch Compulsory Covid Jabs Law For NHS Staff (DM)
    § calls grow for bigger ditches for nhs leadership.

    • Observations From An Experienced Nurse About The Covid Vaccines (Kirsch)
    § who needs experience? “fourth graders to be called in to replace striking seven graders.”

    • Think About What Denying Health Care To The Unvaccinated Means (Vezina)
    § lower taxes. woohoo!

    • Nicola Sturgeon Announces Lifting Of Omicron Restrictions In Scotland (G.)
    § something fishy, here..

    • New Zealand Closes Borders To New Arrivals Over Omicron Risk (G.)
    § good. who wants to get trapped in a dystopian nightmare worse than the one you now live in?

    • Grocery Stores Could Close If Labour, Product Shortages Worsen (CP)
    § NEWSFLASH! Farmers’ Markets to Sell Food!

    • Ghislaine Maxwell Ends Fight To Keep Eight ‘John Does’ Secret (CTV)
    § now that they’re hasbeens anyways..

    • Western Governments Drop Plans To Cut Russia Off From SWIFT – Media (RT)
    § russia to drop obnoxious western governments from gas shipments.

    • 5G Network Deployment In The US Spawns A Cluster Of Disruption (TAC)
    § in people’s veins?

    • Multiple Flights to US Suspended Over 5G Fears (RT)
    § but how will the kiwis escape?!

    #98440
    zerosum
    Participant

    “the narrative is clearly crumbling.”

    Omicron …. drippy nose …. 5 sick days …. delayed Deployment to the Ukraine war effort

    Omicron …. drippy nose …. 5 sick days …. supply line shortage and disruptions

    Omicron ….. drippy nose …. 5 sick days …. War postponed due to lack of vaccinated volunteers

    #98441
    zerosum
    Participant
    #98442

    because of masking and social distancing. ”

    is that what they do in africa?

    Sounds like a reasonable comment. I am troubled by masks with holes 1000x the size of a virus, being able to stop it. “People in Asia eat more rice” sounds good too. Most people in the west practice social distancing. And Asians still get on subways and buses. Overall, not totally convincing.

    #98443

    because of masking and social distancing. ”

    is that what they do in africa?

    Sounds like a reasonable comment. I am troubled by masks with holes 1000x the size of a virus, being able to stop it. “People in Asia eat more rice” sounds good too. Most people in the west practice social distancing. And Asians still get on subways and buses. Overall, not totally convincing.

    #98444

    Some doctors are revealing
    The things they’re really feeling:
    They hate your guts
    They think you’re nuts-
    Just die and stop your squealing!

    #98445
    Noirette
    Participant

    yesterday ‘ s post went poof into the ether – here text with the links split

    —————————————-

    Novak Djokovic supports the movement against Rio Tinto Mining Company and the Serb Gvmt. who want to mine lithium deposits in Serbia.

    Dec. 5 2021. — > 2 news links

    Link 3 is to a v. long youtube of the protests in Serbia and shows ppl holding up signs against Rio Tinto etc.

    Rio Tinto is a Global — Extractive Company. It is essentially Australian, its headquarters are in Melbourne, and it is registered there.

    https://www.riotinto.com/en

    Novak D. and his wife manage a foundation, its actions are mostly aimed at children (pre-schoolers particularly, they seem to follow a philosophy similar to Headstart’s in the US, only in Serbia..), there is also support for U students, etc. Large amounts have been gifted, and the projects accomplished are impressive (if correctly reported…)

    Home

    An article in The Australian, Jan 14 ’22 lists some of their donations “to fix (his) reputation”.. see link 4.

    Novak D. is not just a tennis player, he is an international player, and has, in Serbia, a +++ reputation.

    The Rio Tinto mining project in Serbia is “delayed”…from the Financial Times … link 5.

    #98446
    Noirette
    Participant
    #98447

    Illness may be a downside for going maskless but it is the price we pay to be human. We MUST see each other’s faces. We must be able to breathe freely, even germ laden air (which happens to boost our immune systems, both personal and societal.) Wear one if you want, but don’t force them on others.
    Influenza hit those mask wearing societies pretty hard prior to the “pandemic”.

    Mandatory masking destroys empathy and may be a reason we are now confronted with heartless, murderous doctors and raging maniacs on airplanes and elsewhere.
    From my experience, the mouth is more important than the eyes when it comes to reading deception, aggression, contempt, and disgust (as well as mirth, friendliness, kindness…)
    Pervasive, mandatory masking is malicious theater.

    #98448
    deflationista
    Participant

    #98449
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    It is too bad that the Czech singer didn’t also intentionally have plans in place to treat Covid…because then she likely would not have died.

    The article looks like the situation where the news organization combs the world for a story that fits its preferred narrative — in this case, stoking fear of acquiring immunity through natural Covid infection — and then running that story, rather than focusing on the vastly larger cohort of people who did the same thing with no long term ill effect. In order to understand risk, we can’t simply be informed of outliers, we need a broad sampling.

    #98450
    those darned kids
    Participant

    what a heartless robot..

    attention 77th brigade! please update algorithm to include 0.02% empathy.

    #98451
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    From Valdai Club today: John Mearsheimer, Malcolm Rifkind, Sergei Ryabkov.

    It’s about relation between Russia and the West.

    (Mearsheimer’s remark starts at about 32:45 mark.)

    https://youtu.be/cCH3Q712bp8

    … stand-by for a significant event, … soon!

    F.S.

    #98452
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The German response to the Plandemic is morphing steadily into the Fourth Reich.

    Double that for Austria, home of Adolf Schicklgruber, and back in the day, Austria had more official members in the Nazi Party than Germany, quite an accomplishment all in itself.

    The Big Lie today is that the Germans don’t need Russian energy.

    Laughable as that lie is to hear out loud, the kabuki theater of ‘sanctions’ against Russia is truly grotesque in it’s transparent absurdity.

    ‘We’re gonna harsh the Russian mellow but good, but Bejesus, Mary and Joseph, don’t stop us paying for that sweet Russian gas!!!”

    This is classic “sub-adult” behavior. A Sub-Adult is someone who acts and speaks like a pimple faced teenager, but wants all the perks and respect of a Real Adult, minus actually responsibilities.

    Sub-Adultness is now the Zeitgeist of Western Culture.

    The only touch missing is the fashion statement of ‘gangsta’ saggy baggy pants with a Butt Crack showing and looking like it conceals a big load of poop as the de rigueur Western World Leaders official dress code for appearing in public.

    Boris J would look fetching in gangsta poop pants with his bed head look of bleach blonde hair.

    Whazzhappening? DAWG!

    Even better.

    https://2w6kxc22rrr9mabqt1mglgait6-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Boris-trousers-on-fire.jpg
    .

    #98453
    zerosum
    Participant

    “the narrative is clearly crumbling.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-jan-19-2022-elliott-moore-update-1.6320029
    New COVID-19 cases due to Omicron in Ontario expected to peak this month, health minister says
    CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2022 8:04 AM ET |

    Look for the reporting. ( I’ll wager that this harassment will not get reported)

    ” some doctors are telling lies about the safety of the vaccines. We cannot have that. We will send a letter to the association of doctors to remove their license.”

    #98454
    Oroboros
    Participant

    That’s Boris giving a half hearted Sieg heil salute.

    #98455
    deflationista
    Participant

    looks like the situation where the news organization combs the world for a story that fits its preferred narrative

    This website, and this comment section, is based on this model.

    You do see that, don’t you?

    #98456
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    McMaster could play the role of Buck Turgidson in a remake of Dr. Strangelove. He has the right shirt and has a talent for saying absurd things.
    Buck Turgidson

    #98457
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Who knew?

    “In a special address to the WEF’s 2022 Davos Agenda virtual event, Xi [Chinese President Xi Jinping] also urged concerted efforts to defeat the pandemic and promote steady recovery of the world economy, as the world continues to face a still raging COVID-19 pandemic. He called for the equitable distribution of vaccines, faster vaccination, as well as a continuation of economic globalization, stressing protectionism and unilateralism can “protect no one.” – bold added for emphasis.

    No ‘countercurrents’ can stop globalization trend: Xi
    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1246218.shtml

    F.S.

    #98459
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    The Climate-Change Trip to Abilene

    The Climate-Change Trip to Abilene

    “Climate change is not the biggest problem facing the world. It is a symptom of the much larger problem of overshoot. Overshoot means that humans are using natural resources and polluting at rates beyond the planet’s capacity to recover.

    The main cause of overshoot is the extraordinary growth of human population made possible by fossil energy. Concerns about overshoot and population raised more than 40 years ago were dismissed. Climate change has captured public awareness more recently although many doubt that it is an emergency.

    Overshoot is more difficult to dispute: the destruction of rainforests, the extinction of other species, the pollution of land, river and seas, the acidification of the oceans, and loss of fisheries and coral reefs.[…]

    F.S.

    #98460
    John Day
    Participant

    England Ends All COVID Passports, Mask Mandates, Work Restrictions
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/england-ends-all-covid-passports-mask-mandates-work-restrictions

    New Narrative… Can BoJo survive now?

    #98461
    WES
    Participant

    US’s 5G:

    So 5G interferes with airplanes operating in US airports but not anywhere else. Big question: Why?

    The US 5G system uses higher frequencies to achieve higher speeds than in other countries. The frequencies US 5G uses are just below the frequencies airplane height instruments use, increasing the risks of interference.

    Most other countries limited their 5G frequencies to a lower bandwidth providing a greater buffer zone with aircraft. This also limited their 5G system speeds compared to the US 5G system.

    Are you really surprised that the US 5G companies did this? Corporations own US gov.

    #98462
    WES
    Participant

    BoJo:

    Maybe we should be really, really glad that BoJo attended that elite garden party, and “accidently” blowing up the one world government’s great Reset!

    To try and survive the elite’s elaborate covid social rules, the delicious irony is that BoJo suddenly feels the need to abandon the elite’s rules, to save his own skin!

    Oh, the one world gov elites must be very dismayed at this sudden unintended turn of events!

    Boohoo!

    #98463
    WES
    Participant

    Figmund Sreud:

    The irony today is that Xi is trapped in his own zero covid policy trap!

    #98464
    WES
    Participant

    So RussiaRussiaRussia (oh look at the squirrel over there!)

    Just in case you have forgotten, it is winter in Russia! I doubt the Germans have forgotten! The French probably still remember! If you still want a winter war in Russia, then please be my guest!

    Oh, so you really don’t want a winter war in Russia? Oh, I see you really meant the FBI’s J6 war in Washington DC! Yes, that J6 narrative is a really frozen stiff corpse isn’t it!

    #98465
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @WES, #98463 – Xi is trapped in his own zero covid policy trap!
    _____________________

    Yes, but there is a lot, lot more in that article: … Xi ( … Klaus Schwab’s pal?) is insisting that China is absolutely, the most critically important for globalization to march forward!

    F.S.

    #98466
    those darned kids
    Participant

    doc day: well, that’s great news from england, but it does worry me as it makes no sense in their nonsense.

    what’s next?!

    #98467
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    #98468
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    From or With Covid?

    #98469
    chooch
    Participant

    Israel, Too bad she didn’t go full Monty and burn the mask.

    https://etana.substack.com/p/a-crack-is-forming

    -Most Covid patients in the hospital are NOT there because of Covid, rather their infection is incidental.

    -There is not even one Covid patient on a ventilator, as opposed to previous waves/strains.

    -There are many flu patients on ventilators, yet there are no rules surrounding the flu.

    -We must have the ability to be flexible, and adjust accordingly. The Professor calls for mass testing and quarantine to end immediately, and for all healthy people to return to regular routine.

    -She DOES stress a caveat that masking should remain in place.

    You never know which courageous voice will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, so stay strong, speak up when you can, share information, and don’t ever accept this as a status quo, or there will be no end in sight.

    #98470
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    A funny thing just happened. Is anyone else’s antivirus trying to block TAE? That hasn’t happened to me before. Appears the PTB are getting nervous.

    #98471
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Re: Xi and China: after recently reading (here) Xi’s biography, I can only conclude that that fellow is extremely sideways in the head, and China’s troubles have only begun.

    #98472
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    John Michael Greer wrote an excellent essay today.

    The Unmanageable Future

    It pointed out to me that I have abstract knowledge and practical hands on work knowledge and much more to learn and do. It also addresses reflecting on life which I find myself doing daily.

    #98473
    those darned kids
    Participant

    this just in! merriam-webster changes definitions of the following words: truth, justice, and the american way..

    #98474
    boscohorowitz
    Participant
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