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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/08/18/as-the-nyt-enables-terrorism-and-anti-israel-hate-with-think-of-the-children-porn/
As the NYT Enables Terrorism and Anti-Israel Hate With “Think of the >>>Children!” Porn…
August 18, 2024 / Jack Marshall
Raja Abdulrahim, the New York Times reporter who prepared and wrote the >>>splashy A-Section feature story in today’s print edition, says in her >>>linked bio that “I abide by The Times’s ethical journalism standards. >>>That includes refraining from promoting or protesting issues related to >>>my work.” Can she possibly believe this while writing a piece of “Poor >>>Palestinians!” propaganda like “There Is No Childhood in Gaza”? [Note: >>>This is a gift link from me to get you past the paywall]
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt, I suppose; it’s the ethical
thing to do. Her story, and the way it is written, however, can evoke no >>>possible response from typical semi-attentive and easily manipulated >>>readers than “Think of the children! The Jews are monsters! Cease fire >>>now! The Gazans have suffered enough! Justice for Palestine!”
And this is exactly the end result that Hamas sought when it launched
its cease-fire shattering surprise terror attack on Israeli civilians, >>>including infants, on October 7.
The words “terror,” “terrorism,” and “terrorist” don’t appear anywhere
in Abdulrahim’s story. I can’t give her the benefit of the doubt on
that: it amounts to deliberate misrepresentation. Here’s the smoking gun >>>paragraph that constitutes the entire context provided for the article:
After the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Israeli military >>>launched the war with the stated aim of eradicating Hamas, unleashing
one of the heaviest aerial bombardments the world has seen in this >>>century on densely populated Gaza. Israel has accused Hamas of taking >>>advantage of Gaza’s urban terrain to provide its fighters and weapons >>>infrastructure with an extra layer of protection, running tunnels under >>>neighborhoods, launching rockets near civilian homes and holding
hostages in city centers. Hamas denies these accusations and says its >>>members are Gazans themselves and live among the population….”
This is reducing a key reality of the war in Gaza to a “he said/she
said” dispute, and hey, how can you know who do you believe? There is no >>>genuine question about the existence of Hamas tunnels under schools, >>>hospitals and civilian communities in Gaza, or about whether Hamas uses >>>the naive citizens who voted them into power as human shields to provoke >>>exactly the kind of outrage against Israel—and Jews—that the Times story >>>will.
Gaza is no different from any war zone since the beginning of time. >>>Children suffer because of the decisions of adults. The photo above >>>struck me in its resemblance to a set in “Saving Private Ryan” that >>>supported a harrowing scene where desperate French parents try to give >>>their child to American troops to protect her. American bombs created >>>that landscape during D-Day. There were no stories in American
newspapers during World War II about the suffering of German and
Japanese children, in part because wartime censors didn’t permit it, but >>>substantially because American journalists knew that the Nazis and >>>Japan’s imperialists would be the direct beneficiaries of “Think of the >>>Children!” propaganda. There are no government censors blocking stories >>>about how hard the war against Ukraine has been on Russian children, but >>>there haven’t been any, and I woulkd be shocked if there ever were.
Yes, this is ethics zugzwang again: the public has a right to know what >>>its government is doing in a war, but because the public will always let >>>emotion overwhelm logic and common sense, its reaction to information >>>such as what children go though when their country is fighting another >>>country will often assist “the bad guys,” or worse, “the evil guys,”
like Hitler and Hamas. This photo, for example…
….a classic in “Think of the children!” porn, helped the Communists win >>>the Vietnam War.
“International law experts have said that Israel has a responsibility to >>>protect civilians, even if Hamas exploits them the way Israel says it >>>does. The Israeli military says it takes “all feasible precautions” to >>>mitigate harm to civilians,” Abdulrahim writes. “The children of Gaza >>>have suffered in myriad ways. Of the tens of thousands of Palestinians >>>killed in the war, an estimated 15,000 were under 18, according to Gazan >>>health officials. The United Nations estimates that at least 19,000 more >>>children have been orphaned. And nearly one million children have been >>>displaced, according to UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency.”
Obviously, the war must be stopped then…
International law is a myth. People who have barely thought about the >>>concept believe there is really some duly passed and executed body of >>>laws that governments are bound to obey regarding warfare. This is part >>>of the hopeless confusion the Nuremberg Trials created, probably
forever. The people who write and “pass” international laws constricting >>>warfare really and truly think they can legislate war out of existence. >>>These are John Lennon fans. They may not do more harm than good, but
it’s a close call.
This section in the quote is a smoking gun: “International law experts >>>have said that Israel has a responsibility to protect civilians, even if >>>Hamas exploits them the way Israel says it does.” There is no “even if” >>>about it, Hamas does exploit its own civilians, and what the Times and >>>“international law experts” are saying is—literally— that if wiping out >>>an organization dedicated to destroying Israel (and that has made it >>>clear that it will never stop trying to accomplish that goal) requires >>>making life terrible for children until that organization is removed as
a threat to slaughter Israeli children, then it is illegal and unethical >>>for Israel to pursue that objective.
This is the “thinking” of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, “The Squad,” Jamaal >>>Bowman, Cori Bush, hoards of campus anti-Semites, much of the Democratic >>>Party and, as this story shows, the New York Times.
The only godly way to win the war against terrorism and anti-Semitism
and bigotry is by lifting up our Messiah, Who is both the always
hungry Lion of Judah **and** the always Wonderful (Isaiah 9:6) Lamb of
GOD as our #1 Example of always living http://WonderfullyHungry.org ( >>https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ) with all glory ( https://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 )
to GOD. Laus DEO !!!
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/08/21/brilliant-what-israel-is-trying-to-do-is-self-preservation-not-genocide-so-genocide-has-to-be-redefined-so-israel-can-be-accused-of-doing-it/
Brilliant: What Israel Is Trying To Do Is Self-Preservation, Not >>>Genocide. So “Genocide” Has To Be Redefined So Israel Can Be Accused Of >>>Doing It…
August 21, 2024 / Jack Marshall
The case of “genocide” is a classic in the annals of deliberate >>>linguistic manipulation for unethical goals.
A detailed essay in the New York Times explains the machinations around >>>the word, which is similar to what we have seen recently in other cases, >>>like that of “women,” “racism,” “lying,” “ad hominem” (in a debate here >>>on Ethics Alarms), “fascism,”and “insurrection,” to name just a few of >>>many. The proliferation of this Orwellian process should set off not
just ethics alarms but evil alarms.
As the article correctly explains, international law addressing genocide >>>was aimed at extreme and unequivocal examples where a nation sets out to >>>exterminate an entire race or ethnic group for no other reason than that >>>group’s existence. It is the ultimate hate crime, and thus was labeled a >>>“crime against humanity.” The Holocaust was the prime example: nothing >>>describes genocide more indisputably than a group of experts, military >>>officials and government leaders sitting around a table and deciding on
a “Final Solution.”
But as the article relates, mission creep has invaded the anti-genocide >>>brigade, for example with the United States being accused of genocide in >>>its treatment of Native American and because of the actions of the KKK >>>and others during the Jim Crow era, and now, with Israel being vilified >>>by the genocide label for being determined to eliminate a terrorist >>>organization pledged to commit genocide against Israelis.
Naturally, the United Nations is complicit in this process, and, >>>naturally, so is the I.C.J., the U.N.’s top court. The U.S., among other >>>nations, supports the Geneva Convention but doesn’t accept the authority >>>of the I.C.J. The article doesn’t explicitly explain why, but the reason >>>is obvious: the court is subject to political motives and bias. It can’t >>>be trusted.
“Genocide” has been slowly made a synonym for “human rights violations,” >>>and wars are by definition human rights violations. Thus the U.N. can >>>always use a politicized definition of “genocide” to declare any war, >>>even one triggered by a nation’s right and obligation to defend itself >>>and its citizens, as “genocide”—particularly if the nation waging the
war is Israel.
By the standards being weaponized by the protesters at the Democratic >>>National Convention, the U.S. ending World War II with two atom bombs >>>would qualify as genocide.
This is the unethical—but effective—process:
1. Identify a nation, group, individual, or leader that you want to >>>demonize.
2. Find a word universally regarded as describing conduct that is
heinous and unforgivable.
3. Redefine that word so that the policies, conduct or stated position
of that nation, group, individual, or leader can be described by it.
4. Repeat that word in association with the nation, group, individual,
or leader’s policies, conduct or stated positions so that the word
itself is defined by those policies, conduct or stated positions, rather >>>than the other way around.
The average member of the public—you know, morons—won’t know the difference. >>>
What makes this tactic so effective, diabolical, and impossible to stop >>>is that there are many examples of pejorative words that should be used >>>and understood to apply beyond their most narrow definitions. Child >>>abuse. Indoctrination. Propaganda. Totalitarianism. Conflicts of >>>interest. The distinction, perhaps, is whether the expanded definition
is made in good faith, or it it is only aimed at a particular adversary >>>to achieve strategic political gains.
The article, “The Bitter Fight Over the Meaning of ‘Genocide’” is here >>>for you to read, freed from the paywall.
Instead of genocide, it's Purim. Phonetically, Hamas remind us of
Haman, who was so hangry at Mordecai, the Jew, that his hatred/bigotry >>extended to latter's entire ethnic group. Just as GOD utterly >>defeating/destroying Haman wasn't murder, His destroying Hamas isn't >>genocide. It is written that GOD says "Vengeance is Mine. I will
avenge."
Very great point!
Bottom line: Terrible things happen to the terribly hungry (aka >>https:/bit.ly/h_angry like Hamas now following the example of Haman in
the time of Esther and the example of https://bit.ly/BiblicalEsau in
the time of Jacob/Israel in Genesis 25:32 when all of Palestine was
sold forever to Israel for just a single meal of bread and red lentil >>soup).
So, instead of hangry, I am simply http://WonderfullyHungry.org for
food right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading
this, also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1f0avxk/northeastern_towns_issue_voluntary_lockdown_to/
Northeastern towns issue voluntary lockdown to prevent spread of >>>mosquito-borne disease
Eastern equine encephalitis can be deadly, health officials warn, but >>>cases are 'extraordinarily rare'
Melissa Rudy By Melissa Rudy Fox News
Published August 23, 2024 6:13pm EDT
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Fox News Flash top headlines for August 23
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on >>>Foxnews.com.
Four Massachusetts towns — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — have >>>enacted a voluntary evening lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of >>>a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease.
The decision comes after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health >>>(DPH) confirmed the first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis
(EEE) since 2020 in Worcester County.
On Wednesday, the Oxford Board of Health voted to support the >>>recommendation for people to remain indoors after 6:00 p.m., effective >>>immediately, through Sept. 30, according to a public health advisory >>>shared with Fox News Digital.
SALMONELLA OUTBREAK CAUSED BY TINY TURTLES, CDC WARNS, WITH CASES ACROSS >>>21 STATES
Starting on Oct. 1, the recommendation is to remain indoors after 5:00 >>>p.m. until the first hard frost.
The period from dusk through dawn is considered "peak mosquito hours," >>>the notice stated.
Mosquito lockdown
Four Massachusetts towns — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — have >>>enacted a voluntary evening lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of >>>a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. (iStock)
The advisory designates the four communities as "critical-risk."
"It is the Board of Health’s responsibility to protect the public
health, and we take EEE very seriously, and we are strongly encouraging >>>residents to follow these recommendations due to the severity of EEE and >>>the fact that it is in our community," a spokesperson for the town of >>>Oxford said in an email to Fox News Digital.
PARVOVIRUS OR ‘SLAPPED CHEEK DISEASE’ IS ON THE RISE, CDC WARNS: HERE’S >>>WHAT TO KNOW
"So far this year in Massachusetts, there has only been one human case
of EEE, but throughout the state, mosquitoes have tested positive for EEE." >>>
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The infected person, who lives in Oxford, remains "hospitalized and >>>courageously battling this virus," according to a Wednesday memo from
the Oxford town manager that was provided to Fox News Digital.
The lockdowns are considered recommendations, and there will be no >>>enforcement if residents do not comply, the town spokesperson said.
A mosquito on human skin
Eastern equine encephalitis is caused by a virus that is spread through >>>the bite of an infected mosquito, according to the CDC, which describes >>>it as a "rare but serious disease." (Reuters/CDC/James Gathany)
"We want to educate our residents about EEE and the seriousness of the >>>illness and make them aware of the risk," the statement continued.
"However, if they want to use town fields outside these recommendations, >>>they will have to show proof of insurance and sign an indemnification form." >>>
WITH MPOX A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IN AFRICA, WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT >>>INCREASED VIRUS RISK
Oxford is working with the other three critical-risk communities, with >>>all four issuing these same recommendations, the spokesperson confirmed.
"Schools are working to reschedule and adjust their sports schedules so >>>practices and games occur before these evening times and on weekends," >>>the email noted.
Fox News Digital reached out to Oxford Public Schools for comment.
What is Eastern equine encephalitis?
Eastern equine encephalitis is caused by a virus that is spread through >>>the bite of an infected mosquito, according to the U.S. Centers for >>>Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which describes EEE as a "rare but >>>serious disease."
"Eastern equine encephalitis can cause brain infection (encephalitis), >>>which can be fatal."
Only a few cases are reported in the U.S. each year, most in the Eastern >>>or Gulf Coast states, the agency states on its website.
Humans and other animals that contract the virus are considered
"dead-end hosts," the CDC states, which means they can’t spread it to >>>mosquitoes that bite them.
Elderly man in hospital
Older people and immunocompromised persons are at the highest risk for >>>mosquito-borne encephalitis, an expert said. (iStock)
Common symptoms of EEE include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, headache,
stiff neck, seizures, behavioral changes and drowsiness.
These usually appear five to 10 days after being bitten.
The disease can be deadly, resulting in fatalities for 30% of infected >>>people. It can also lead to chronic neurological deficiencies, per the CDC. >>>
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'ZIKA-LIKE' MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS HAS SPREAD INTO EUROPE, HEALTH
OFFICIALS WARN
"Eastern equine encephalitis can cause brain infection (encephalitis), >>>which can be fatal," Edward Liu, MD, chief of infectious diseases at >>>Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, told Fox
News Digital.
Older people and those who are immunocompromised are at the highest risk >>>for mosquito-borne encephalitis, according to Liu.
a person applies insect repellent to their arm
Prevention of mosquito bites is the most effective means of protecting >>>against the disease, experts say. (iStock)
Dr. John Ayers, vice chief of innovation in the Division of Infectious >>>Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California, San >>>Diego, confirmed to Fox News Digital that EEE is "serious but >>>extraordinarily rare."
"Without any overt prevention measures, cases remain substantially rarer >>>than being struck by lightning," he said.
Prevention and treatment
The fact that local mosquitoes have the virus and one Massachusetts >>>patient has become infected is "concerning," Liu said.
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"While evening lockdowns could be protective, other options would be >>>educating the public of the risk, encouraging mosquito repellent usage, >>>and spraying to prevent the prevalence of mosquitoes," he advised.
Ayers added, "I don't think there is anything you can do to meaningfully >>>lower your individual chances of illness, because they're already so low." >>>
"These viral encephalitides have no treatment, so prevention and >>>supportive care is the only course of action."
He agrees that typical strategies to deal with mosquito vector diseases >>>are to kill the mosquitoes, reduce areas with standing water where they >>>can nest and spray to kill their larvae.
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"These viral encephalitides have no treatment, so prevention and >>>supportive care is the only course of action," Liu noted.
There is currently no vaccine for Eastern equine encephalitis.
The only godly way to always avoid EEE is by putting on the "full
Armor of GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we do by always saying/writing
that we're http://WonderfullyHungry.org in **all** ways including >>especially caring to http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12)
to be https://bit.ly/Wonderfully_Hungrier more blessed by GOD right
now (Luke 6:21a).
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://thepostmillennial.com/cnn-slammed-for-headline-claiming-american-hostage-in-israel-has-died-he-was-murdered-by-palestinian-terrorists?utm_campaign=64466#google_vignette
CNN slammed for headline claiming American hostage in Israel 'has died'— >>> he was murdered by Palestinian terrorists
CNN claimed the terror victim had “died,” implying the 23-year-old had
passed away from natural causes.
CNN slammed for headline claiming American hostage in Israel 'has died'— >>> he was murdered by Palestinian terrorists
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Ari Hoffman
Seattle WA
Sep 1, 2024
3 minute read
Following the news of an American hostage having been found dead, killed >>> by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, liberal mainstream media outlet CNN
claimed the terror victim had “died,” implying 23-year-old Hersh
Goldberg-Polin had passed away from natural causes and omitting that he
was murdered.
The headline of the article written by Alex Stambaugh and Nectar Gan
originally read, “Israeli American Hostage Has Died.” Goldberg-Polin was >>> kidnapped and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7
massacre conducted against Israel by that Palestinian group.
After CNN was slammed on social media for the phrasing, the headline was >>> changed to “Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin Among Six Dead
Hostages Discovered in Gaza Tunnel.” However, the content of the article >>> was not updated. The article still opened by stating, “Hersh
Goldberg-Polin, an American-Israeli held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, has
died, his family said Sunday, dealing fresh heartbreak to the families
of captives who fear time is running out for their loved ones seized by
the militants more than 10 months ago.”
The biased article also included casualty numbers from Hamas which have
been called out by the US and UN as inaccurate. CNN has regularly been
accused of bias against the Jewish state.
According to the Hostages Families Forum, Hersh was the son of Jon Polin >>> and Rachel Goldberg, and elder brother to two sisters. He was born in
the United States and immigrated with his family to Israel when he was 7. >>>
On October 7, 2023, Hersh attended the NOVA music festival. When the
Hamas attack began, Hersh's arm was injured when terrorists threw
grenades into the shelter where he was hiding. Witnesses report that he
managed to apply a tourniquet to himself and he was last seen being
loaded into a truck by Palestinian terrorists. On April 24, Hamas
released a video of Hersh showing his hand had been amputated.
His body along with the bodies of five other hostages were found in a
terror tunnel under the Gazan city of Rafah. In March, President Joe
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had told Israel not to enter the
terrorist stronghold. Harris threatened “consequences” if the IDF
entered the city. Hersh’s parents addressed the August Democratic
National Convention in Chicago.
“Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. And we will
keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the
remaining hostages," Biden vowed in a statement.
Vice President Kamala Harris added in her own statement, “Doug and my
prayers are with Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, Hersh’s parents,
and with everyone who knew and loved Hersh. When I met with Jon and
Rachel earlier this year, I told them: You are not alone. That remains
true as they mourn this terrible loss. Americans and people around the
world will pray for Jon, Rachel, and their family and send them love and >>> strength. As is said in the Jewish tradition, may Hersh’s memory be a
blessing.”
Harris said during a campaign stop that she and Biden were "working
around the clock" to secure the release of the hostages. Biden had been
vacationing for the past few weeks on a beach in Delaware.
Hersh’s body was found together with the bodies of Eden Yerushalmi (24), >>> Carmel Gat (39) Almog Sarusi (26) Alex Lubnov (32), and Ori Danino (25)
who were all abducted during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
Hours after the IDF located the bodies in Gaza, Hersh’s family issued a
statement early Sunday. “With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family
is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother,
Hersh. The family thanks you all for your love and support and asks for
privacy at this time.”
The only godly way to win the war against terrorism and bigotry is by
lifting up the Messiah, LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, as our #1
Example of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/09/01/more-election-ad-deceit-in-nh/
More Election Ad Deceit in NH
September 1, 2024 / Jack Marshall
Former Senator Kelly Ayotte is the GOP candidate for Governor of New >>>Hampshire. She is also one of the long-time Roe v. Wade opponents who is >>>being targeted by pro-abortion groups in attack ads. If you listen >>>closely, some of the ads reveal the dark and ominous heart of the ‘We >>>Love Abortion!’ movement.
I have had to watch one such ad repeatedly while following the Boston
Red Sox as they are just-barely contending for a wild card berth. A >>>sad-eyed mother reveals that when she was pregnant, a doctor who checked >>>out the embryo (that was well past the usual legal abortion period in >>>many states including New Hampshire) told the mother that “my baby would >>>not survive.” She goes on to say that Ayotte is so cruel that she would >>>make a mother like me “carry” a baby for months knowing that “it would >>>not survive.” Ayotte supports the current 24 week limit on abortions.
There is so much that is intellectually dishonest about the ad and its >>>implied argument. Because of this mother’s unusual dilemma with an >>>unhealthy unborn child, mothers should be allowed to abort healthy, even >>>viable unborn children if they awake one morning and decide, “Eh, this
is too much trouble. Time to kill the thing. Thank goodness I hadn’t >>>named her yet!” Is this part of what Ayotte is “cruel” for opposing?
More ethically suspicious is the ad’s careful use of the word “survive.” >>>What did the doctor say, exactly? That the baby wouldn’t survive birth? >>>That it wouldn’t survive a month? That it wouldn’t survive childhood, or >>>adolescence? None of us “survive” eventually. What is the difference >>>ethically from aborting a living unborn child because it won’t survive >>>some minimum period of time after it is born, and wanting to kill a
child who is diagnosed after birth with a fatal condition?
I don’t see any. The mother, meanwhile, frames the issue with her >>>inconvenience and misfortune, as if the life of the unborn child is >>>irrelevant. The doctor might be wrong. I believe that a shot at life, >>>however short, is preferable to no life at all.
The anti-Ayotte ad confuses and obscures the real issues in the abortion >>>controversy rather than clarifying them.
The only godly way to convince a pregnant woman to not kill their
unborn child is by loving (John 15:12) them as GOD loves (Malachi
1:2-3) us by convincing us to stop being profane (Hebrews 12:16) like >>https://bit.ly/BiblicalEsau and be http://WonderfullyHungry.org
instead, like our LORD Jesus, Who has proven His greater (John 15:13)
love for us.
See:
https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-16.htm
Thus, I am indeed wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a)
and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy >>appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1f6fygf/how_did_the_pandemic_impact_babies_starting/
How did the pandemic impact babies starting school as children now?
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Vanessa Clarke
Education reporter
Fiona Young A baby in a blue sleepsuit is lying in a moses basket. Above >>> the basket his father's hand is holding an ipad and on the screen there
is a couple in a garden waving helloFiona Young
Baby Elijah, who was born in the strictest lockdown, met his
grandparents for the first time online
On 25 March 2020, Fiona and Ben Young drove to their local maternity
unit through London’s empty streets. When they arrived, security guards
sent them to the back entrance. It was day three of England's first
lockdown and the front was surrounded by patients being treated by
doctors in hazmat suits.
Two days later, after a long labour, they welcomed baby Elijah.
Delighted and exhausted, they left the hospital and headed home, full of >>> anticipation over their new life as parents.
But because of lockdown, it was far from what they expected.
"No-one was allowed to visit us for months - there were no newborn
cuddles with family," Fiona recalls.
"I had a number to ring if there was an emergency, which didn’t work. We >>> had no health visitor and no midwives. Our first visitor was a friend
who walked four hours across London to sit in our garden."
Elijah, now four and about to start school, is one of tens of thousands
of babies born during the Covid pandemic. He is also one of 200 children >>> being studied as a 'lockdown baby'.
The Bicycle (Born in Covid Year, Core Lockdown Effects) study, which
launched in July, is looking at whether the lockdowns had an impact on
children's talking and thinking skills.
Based at London's City University, it also involves five other English
universities.
A girl with curly hair is smiling at the camera in a light blue jumper
More than a third of the children going into reception at Elizabeth
Selby have speech and language needs
"Some children may have benefited from more time at home with their
parents and some children might have been negatively impacted," Prof
Lucy Henry of City University explains.
"They may be learning words more slowly or their fine motor skills may
possibly be behind.
"The real question is: who was affected and what can we do to support
them as they go into their school lives?"
Reduced interactions with family members and the loss of access to
services such as health visitors has had a serious impact on the speech
and language of some of these children, initial research by the
University of Leeds found at the end of 2023.
In Bethnal Green, London, twins Aqil and Fawaz were just eight weeks old >>> when the pandemic hit.
Their mother, Fahmeda Ahmed, lived in a second-floor flat with her
husband and their two older children - Hasan, four, and two-year-old
Khaijah.
"It was just the same day over and over again," she said. "We couldn't
go out, we couldn’t socialise, we couldn’t invite friends over and we
couldn't go anywhere with the kids."
A boy in a grey hat and a stripy navy jumper sits beside a lady in a
black and white dress and a black hijab. They are both holding an orange >>> pencil and writing. They are in a classroom sitting at a yellow table
with yellow seats and red blinds behind them
Fahmeda and her son Aqil had regular pre-school catch up sessions to
help him with his progress
Fahmeda bought an inflatable swimming pool for the balcony to try and
keep her older children entertained.
She attempted to homeschool her four-year-old, who had just started
reception, but he completely stopped talking.
And then there was baby Aqil. He was having difficulty swallowing and
Fahmeda tried for months to get a face-to-face appointment with a doctor. >>> Eventually, at three months, he was diagnosed with tracheomalacia, a
condition where the walls of a child’s windpipe collapse. He needed a
minor operation.
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“I was so scared going into the hospital because you would hear stories
that you would catch [Covid]," Fahmeda said.
"And I remember when Aqil was going into theatre, I was so upset. There
was a nurse there and she said ‘I'm so sorry. I can't hug you’."
Four years on, Aqil and Fawaz are healthy young boys, about to start
reception at Elizabeth Selby Infants' School in Bethnal Green.
But they both have speech and language needs.
Their two-year child development check was delayed, they weren't able to >>> attend any baby classes and their first year involved very little
interaction with the outside world.
Fahmeda believes all these factors have had a lasting effect, and
experts agree.
"Children need opportunities to go out into the world and have new
experiences and with those new experiences come new words - but that is
happening less during the cost-of-living crisis and it happened less
during the pandemic," says Jane Harris, head of children's charity
Speech and Language UK.
A teacher with brown hair holds up a large book to a class of
pre-schoolers sitting on a colourful mat with a bug pattern, listening
to the story. Many are sitting with their legs crossed with their hands
together.
The school has employed a speech and language therapist for its
pre-schoolers for the first time
Prof Catherine Davies, from the University of Leeds, who is also
involved in the study, says many of the safety nets for families like
Fahmeda's were taken away during the pandemic.
“The education systems weren't there, health and medical support was not >>> there, their interaction with their wider social networks wasn't there," >>> she said.
One third of pre-schoolers (34%) at Elizabeth Selby had speech and
language needs during the last school year - up from a quarter (25%) in
2020, according to the school.
This year, the school has had to employ a speech and language therapist
for its pre-school class for the first time.
In June, 22,952 children were waiting 19 to 52 weeks for a speech and
language therapy appointment, and 5,832 children were waiting over a
year, according to NHS England.
The Department for Education in England says it will be focusing on high >>> quality early education and is continuing the Nuffield Early Language
Intervention programme for another year.
“If I could, I'd have a speech and language teacher in five days a week
- and I would still have a waiting list," says Shahi Ahmed, head teacher >>> at Elizabeth Selby.
"But I have to think about the budget and how that impacts the school."
Mr Ahmed says there is a "massive increase" in the number of children
needing help with toilet training, which takes teachers away from
teaching. The school is now bringing in outside agencies to help support >>> parents.
And among all of this, attendance is falling, which Mr Ahmed says is
important as it sets "routine and expectations".
A man with brown hair and a beige shirt sits at a table smiling at a
young girl with curly hair and a leopard body warmer and beige woollen
cardigan. She is playing a blue drum and smiling back.
Lots of families haven't had health visitors or access to GP appointments >>> Mr Ahmed believes the increase in children needing more help is
"absolutely" a direct result of the pandemic.
"They didn’t have the chance to interact with other children or even
just go out or have visitors to the house," he says.
"They've been limited to what's around them - and that has caused a gap
in their social interaction skills."
Thankfully, Fahmeda says her twin boys have already benefited from their >>> time in Elizabeth Selby's pre-school classes.
"Fawaz has changed completely - he never used to call me mum," she says, >>> wiping her tears away.
"It's so nice to hear. You might think I'm being silly, but that’s so
amazing and it’s because of the teachers."
As for Elijah, his first interactions with family members were all on Zoom. >>> "We would hold up the iPad to his face and introduce him but he wasn’t
really paying much attention," Fiona said.
"I think he saw the lights and colour but I don’t think he understood he >>> was meeting humans."
He didn't attend any baby classes as they had all been cancelled. "He
spent the first three months solely with us," she said.
Elijah was diagnosed with tongue tie when he was born. Fiona and Ben
were told by a midwife that they would be better off getting tongue-tie
surgery, also known as a lingual frenotomy, privately, as there would be >>> a long wait on the NHS.
"The first day I came back from hospital I was phoning around
frantically to find someone who could do it privately but no-one was
allowed to physically come in - it wasn’t legal for them to come in and
do the operation," Fiona explained.
Elijah finally had the operation when he was two-months-old.
Katie Monnelly A young girl in a yellow dress and hairband is sitting on >>> a couch and over her shoulder we can see a pink ipad with a game with
two grey squares. Her hand is ready to touch the game. Katie Monnelly
Over the next year, the Bicycle project will be using interactive games
to study children born during the strictest lockdown
The long-term impact of Elijah's early years remain to be seen but it
was certainly a "tricky" time for his parents.
Two years after Elijah's birth, Fiona and Ben were back in the same
maternity room, welcoming a baby girl.
“It was a completely different experience, both in the hospital and
after," Fiona said.
"My mum saw Amelia within 12 hours and was giving her newborn cuddles."
The couple volunteered to take part in the Bicycle study because they
want to help researchers understand exactly how the lockdowns affected
the youngest members of society.
It's hoped the results will help answer one pressing question - if it
happens again, what should we do differently?
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/09/02/well-i-guess-i-feel-a-little-better-now-that-its-clear-that-a-lot-of-israelis-are-as-ethically-clueless-as-so-many-americans/
Well, I Guess I Feel a LITTLE Better Now That It’s Clear That a Lot of
Israelis Are As Ethically Clueless As So Many Americans…[Expanded]
September 2, 2024 / Jack Marshall
Over night, Israel’s largest labor union called for nationwide strike to >>> push for a hostage deal, threatening to shut down “the entire Israeli
economy” Tel Aviv’s international airport announced that it would halt
departures and arrivals of flights for two hours, and intense protests
have broken out in response to Israel’s military recovering the bodies
of six hostages killed in Gaza. The protesters say Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not done enough to protect the hostages. >>> To be blunt, the protesters are ethics dunces and morons….much like the
American students, Democrats, pundits and the Biden administration
trying to pressure Israel into a ruinous cease-fire with Hamas.
The head Ethics Dunce here is Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the >>> lone dissenter in the Israel Cabinet, who accuses the Israeli government >>> of prioritizing control of a key border area over a deal to free
hostages (who may be dead already). Calling Netanyahu’s course a “moral
disgrace” during a Cabinet meeting yesterday, Gallant warned his
colleagues, “If we continue on this path, we won’t manage to achieve the >>> goals that we set for ourselves. If we want the hostages alive, we don’t >>> have time. I was taught that we don’t leave the injured behind in the
field.”
That’s odd: I was taught that if you bargain with terrorists for
hostages, you ensure that more hostages will be taken, and validate
hostage-taking as a tactic. That happens to be true. There is only one
party at fault for the fate of any of the hostages, including those who
may have been killed by Israel’s bombing raids as the hostage takers
claim (and why wouldn’t you believe them, with their record of
truthfulness and integrity?). Hamas is 100% responsible, and no one
else. The terrorist leaders of Gaza took the hostages and placed them in >>> peril.
Allowing the fate of hostages to have any effect on Israel’s efforts to
purge the region of a deadly and ruthless terrorist organization that
has pledged to cause Israel’s destruction is logically, historically and >>> ethically indefensible, and yet that is what substantial numbers of
emotion-driven Israelis are protesting for, and worse, what the current
American government continues to try to force on Netanyahu.
Again: ethics dunces, fools and morons.
All of them.
Netanyahu may be corrupt, and he may need to be ejected from power
eventually and even jailed, but in this instance he is correct.
Meanwhile, Israel’s highest court has declared the strike illegal and
ordered that it cease. Good. Unfortunately, stupidity will never be
illegal. The CNN headline current up on its site should be an
embarrassment to protesters here and in Tel Aviv: “Israel Strikers and
Protester Demand Gaza Deal After 6 Hostages Killed.”
________________
ADDED: I just saw this reaction from my friend John Podhoretz:
“Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the
months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing
them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to >>> a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared >>> not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents
dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an >>> Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told
to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American >>> establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being
lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all. >>> Imagine an Israel that was not told by its best friend in the world that >>> offensive action in Gaza had become self-defeating, was not told that
Israel should care more about feeding people in Gaza than about
eliminating the threat to its 9 million citizens and pummelling Hamas
until that evil group of thugs cried uncle and begged for way to
negotiate to return the hostages.
Imagine an America that did not lose its nerve under a president whose
team knew perfectly well he was infirm and was working desperately to
stave off his eventual collapse and departure from the race to save
their own rotten and misbegotten jobs.”
To which you host responds, “Bingo.”
The only godly way to win the war against terrorism and bigotry is by
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Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fasuje/always_check_the_denominator_no_the_risk_of/
Always Check the Denominator
No, the risk of critical Covid disease is not 4% among healthy children. >>>
Kelley K
May 30, 2024
I’ve been very busy lately with my actual job and some other things, so
I haven’t been writing much lately. I paused paid subscriptions for the
summer to try and get caught up. I’m not taking the summer off - I plan
to start writing again even while payments are paused. Hopefully you’ll
be hearing more from me soon! Today seemed like a good day to start…
I woke up to this outrageous claim from CIDRAP in my Twitter feed:
This is not the first time that I’ve written about CIDRAP amplifying
misleading claims from a Covid study to amp up fears about Covid and
kids. They also misreported a study about Long Covid, claiming that 84%
of Covid survivors had Long Covid symptoms 2 years later. Like that
ridiculous Long Covid claim, the claim from their current tweet and
article on Covid risks among kids just doesn’t pass a basic sanity
check. Michael Mina did some basic math to show how absurd this claim is: >>>
Unfortunately, the reporters at CIDRAP (along with many other Covid
journalists and even some scientists) seem to lack the common sense to
do these kinds of sanity checks on the data — because this keeps happening. >>>
A Meta-Analysis of “Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19”
The study, “Risk Factors for Pediatric Critical COVID-19: A Systematic
Review and Meta-Analysis” is primarily about which comorbidities are
risk factors for severe Covid — it’s focused on severe cases and kids
with comorbidities. However, the study does include the 4% claim cited
by CIDRAP. I can’t access the full text of the published paper from the
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, but the study’s
abstract does state: “In previously healthy children, the absolute risk
of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4% (95% CI, 1%-10%).” I wanted
more details of the underlying data, so I found the pre-print of the
study, and the following section of the Results is where this 4%
statistic comes from:
Figure 4 from the study
This small section is the only mention of outcomes in children without
comorbidities, and it doesn’t include nearly enough caveats about the
underlying data. It is a poor conclusion to draw and shouldn’t have been >>> included in the abstract at all in my opinion. The abstract even says
that “the absolute risk for critical COVID-19 in children and
adolescents without underlying health conditions is relatively low,”
which doesn’t seem consistent with a 4% “absolute risk of critical
disease” from their results. In reality, the absolute risk among
previously healthy children is at least an order of magnitude lower than >>> that.
Underlying Study Data
It should be obvious to the casual observer that the 4% was calculated >>>from a population that doesn’t represent typical healthy children. So I
looked up each of the 6 studies included in this subset of studies from
the meta-analysis. Of the 6 studies that looked at medical complexity, 4 >>> were among hospitalized children (3 of the 4 in Brazil)1, one was among
12-17-year-olds with symptomatic Covid recorded in medical records2, and >>> one was a large study of children with documented Covid in Mexico3.
Outcomes for Children without Comorbidities (data extracted from Figure
4 above, population descriptions from underlying studies)
Also, all of the studies were from early in the pandemic (2020 and part
of 2021), so they were primarily first infections, they were primarily
pre-vaccine, and all were pre-Omicron. So they don’t tell us much about
the current situation, even among children who may be hospitalized with
Covid in 2024.
The large study in Mexico included over 130,000 children and found 0.3%
of children with documented Covid infections and no comorbidities died
between March 2020 and mid-June 2021. And that is still biased to more
severe cases, because many asymptomatic and mild infections aren’t
documented in medical records. Despite the overwhelming findings from
this large study of children from the broader community (not just
hospitalized children), the study authors calculated an absolute risk >>>from a small subset of children from these 6 studies (less than 16,000
patients). They don’t provide any further details the subset that they
used for their calculations, but clearly the studies of hospitalized
children and symptomatic teens skewed the results significantly.
Denominators Matter
There’s been much discussion about the importance of denominators
throughout the pandemic, but scientists, journalists, and others keep
making the same mistakes. When we use percentages to talk about Covid
outcomes or other things, we’re talking about a fraction of the
population. But it’s super important to understand WHICH population
we’re talking about. Outcomes among hospitalized patients, or among the
elderly, differ greatly from outcomes in the general population.
Just like the percentage of adults who ride mountain bikes is much
higher among attendees at a mountain biking race than among all adults,
the percentage of children with critical Covid is obviously much higher
among children who are hospitalized for Covid than among all children.
We see this same error with Long Covid studies, where the findings are
percentages among patients at a Long Covid clinic, or among patients who >>> already have Long Covid, but are often reported as if they are
percentages among a representative sample of the population.
The percentage of children with critical Covid outcomes is obviously
much higher among children who are hospitalized for Covid than among all >>> children.
The Sad State of Covid Science and Journalism
The authors of this study were irresponsible to include the claim that
“the absolute risk of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4%” among
healthy children without comorbidities, without explaining that their
data was heavily biased toward patients already hospitalized with COVID. >>> Without that caveat, the 4% claim is a gross misrepresentation of the
underlying data. And this study isn’t from some obscure scientist at a
no-name institution — the senior author, Dr. Carlos Oliveira, is an
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics, and Biomedical
Informatics & Data Science at Yale! Surely he knows that 4% of American
children didn’t have severe Covid outcomes. Why include that misleading
statistic in the paper?!?
I also think the writers at CIDRAP needs to do a better job of
understanding and vetting the studies they report on to make sure their
reporting is accurate. They are a trusted voice for many people, and
their studies often get amplified by the Zero Covid crowd on Twitter. It >>> is profoundly unhelpful to continue scaring people with these misleading >>> and unrealistic statistics. Journalists need to understand the harm they >>> cause by publishing these irresponsible claims.
By the way… I’m already seeing this same error with H5N1 (bird flu) in
the media as well, and will probably write more on that later. Many news >>> reports refer to a 50% “fatality rate”, but that’s only among known
cases that were previously documented. Among the 3 cases identified so
far in the US (one in 2022 and two this year), none have died. The two
known cases this year have only experienced eye infections.
UPDATE: The moment I published this, I saw that another case of H5N1 has >>> been identified in the US. That patient did have respiratory symptoms
but is recovering. (5/30/24)
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In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://jeffjacoby.com/28048/the-empty-symbolism-of-criminal-charges-against
The empty symbolism of criminal charges against Hamas
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
September 8, 2024
Send
Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, one of six defendants named by the Justice
Department in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, is hiding in
his Gaza tunnels, using handcuffed hostages as human shields.
HERSH GOLDBERG-POLIN — the 23-year-old American-Israeli who was one of
six hostages found shot to death in a Gaza tunnel last weekend — was
laid to rest in Jerusalem on Monday. The day after his funeral, the
Justice Department announced criminal charges against six high-ranking
Hamas officials for "planning, supporting, and perpetrating" the Oct. 7
terrorist rampage in which more than 40 US citizens were killed and
eight, including Hersh, were taken captive.
That criminal complaint, originally filed under seal in the US district
court in Manhattan, accurately summarizes the savagery of the Hamas
massacre 11 months ago. It outlines Hamas's close ties to Iran. It notes >>> that Hamas does not attack only Israelis but has been engaged in what
Attorney General Merrick Garland called "a decades-long campaign to
murder American citizens and endanger the national security of the
United States." It asks that warrants be issued for the defendants' arrest. >>>
And it will accomplish nothing.
For one thing, three of the six Hamas chieftains named in the Justice
Department complaint — Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif, and Marwan Issa —
are dead. Haniyeh was eliminated, presumably by Israeli special forces,
during a visit to Tehran on July 31. Deif and Issa were killed earlier
in targeted strikes in Gaza. Other than striking a pose, what is the
point of filing criminal complaints against three deceased terrorists?
As for the other three, it is a virtual certainty that none will ever
see the inside of a US courtroom. Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, is
hiding in his Gaza tunnels, using handcuffed hostages as human shields.
Khaled Meshaal lives in Qatar, protected by a government that claims to
be a US ally yet for years has supported Hamas and shielded its senior
cadres. Ali Baraka is based in Lebanon, which is effectively ruled by
Hezbollah. They have about as much to fear from a Justice Department
filing as Osama Bin Laden did when criminal charges were issued against him.
Clearly the Biden administration has no expectation of ever actually
prosecuting Hamas's leaders. Yet in a detailed press release
accompanying the criminal complaint, it pretends that the terrorists'
fate will be decided in proceedings governed by the Federal Rules of
Criminal Procedure. "All defendants are presumed innocent until proven
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law," the Justice
Department release fastidiously observes. And if Sinwar and his fellow
mass murderers are found guilty? In that case, "a federal district court >>> judge will determine any sentence after considering the US Sentencing
Guidelines and other statutory factors."
This is farcical. Hamas is not a gang of crooks committing crimes on
American soil. Its jihadist masterminds are not going to be arrested,
read their Miranda rights, and provided with scrupulous due process of
law, complete with free lawyers, discovery of prosecution files, and
endless appeals. Hamas is a foreign enemy, violent and fanatical. It is
at war with the United States no less than with Israel, both of which,
its spokesmen declare, "will cease to exist." The killing and kidnapping >>> of dozens of Americans over the past 11 months have been acts of
international terrorism and warfare, not felonies. Hamas will be
defeated on the battlefield or it will not be defeated at all.
In its press release, the Justice Department quotes US Attorney Damian
Williams, the top federal prosecutor in New York: "We will bring justice >>> to this terrorist organization from the top down for the atrocities they >>> have committed."
But no Palestinian terrorist has ever been brought to justice in the
United States for atrocities committed against Americans abroad. There
have been scores of such atrocities, including the murder of two
Massachusetts natives in 2015. Richard Lakin, a retired Newton school
principal, was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem in October. A few
weeks later, Ezra Schwartz of Sharon, a high school graduate spending
his gap year in Israel, was cut down when a Palestinian gunman opened
fire on the van in which he and other students were riding.
In a 2016 congressional hearing, a senior Justice Department official
explained that there are "significant impediments" to prosecuting
foreign terrorists in American courtrooms. Among them: "obtaining
necessary cooperation from foreign governments, gathering evidence
overseas that would be admissible in US court, and apprehending and
extraditing defendants."
Eight years later, the only thing that has changed is the number of
Americans killed, maimed, and abducted by Hamas and other Palestinian
terror groups.
In a heartbreaking moment during the Democratic Party convention last
month, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg told the story of their son Hersh,
who was seized by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival and
dragged off to captivity in Gaza. "Hersh, if you can hear us, we love
you," they said. "Stay strong, survive."
A few days later, Hamas operatives shot their son and five other Israeli >>> captives in the back of the head at point-blank range in a Rafah tunnel, >>> which is where Israeli soldiers found their bodies last weekend. In a
strong statement, Vice President Kamala Harris condemned Hamas as "an
evil terrorist organization" that now "has even more American blood on
its hands." In the face of such "evident and horrifying" depravity, she
said, there is only one acceptable goal: Hamas "must be eliminated and
Hamas cannot control Gaza."
The way to achieve that outcome is not by filing symbolic criminal
complaints in federal court. Nor is it by constantly critiquing Israel's >>> war effort, or by withholding weapons needed to win, or by claiming that >>> raging anti-Israel protesters "have a point," or by putting pressure on
Jerusalem to accept cease-fire terms that would leave Hamas in place.
The way to eliminate Hamas and liberate Gaza is to ensure that Israel
prevails in this war. Everything else is secondary. Terrorists who
kidnap and kill US citizens are America's mortal enemies. The way to
advance America's national interests is not to arrest the terrorists,
but to destroy them.
There is only one godly way to win the war against terrorism and
bigotry and that is by lifting up our Messiah, LORD Jesus Christ of
Nazareth as our #1 Example of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) for
food right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading
this, also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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Corruption review finds 'red flags' in more than 130 Covid contracts
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Investigations correspondent
Getty Images Medical staff wearing protective medical equipment before
entering Covid intensive care ward at University Hospital Coventry on
May 25, 2020 in Coventry, United Kingdom. Getty Images
A general shot of medical staff wearing protective medical equipment
before entering a ward in Coventry, in May 2020
An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns
in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government
during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent.
Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” contracts with at
least three red flags - warning signs of a risk of corruption.
Twenty-eight contracts worth £4.1bn went to firms with known political
connections, while 51 worth £4bn went through a "VIP lane" for companies >>> recommended by MPs and peers, a practice the High Court ruled was unlawful. >>> A Conservative spokesperson said: “Government policy was in no way
influenced by the donations the party received – they are entirely
separate.”
Transparency International UK analysed 5,000 contracts for red flags.
The charity said its analysis also indicated that almost two thirds of
high-value contracts to supply items such as masks and protective
medical equipment during the pandemic, adding up to a total of £30.7bn,
were awarded without any competition.
A further eight contracts worth a total of £500m went to suppliers no
more than 100 days old – another red flag for corruption.
Normal safeguards designed to protect the process of bidding for
government contracts from corruption were suspended during the pandemic. >>> The government, led by Boris Johnson, justified this at the time by
stressing the need to short-cut the bidding process to accelerate the
supply of much-needed items such as personal protective equipment (PPE). >>> But Transparency International UK, a core participant in the Covid-19
inquiry which begins its third module on Monday, said the suspension of
normal safeguards was often unjustifiable, costing the public purse
billions and eroding trust in political institutions.
It is urging the authorities to investigate the high-risk contracts it
has identified.
What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work?
Unused PPE worth £1.4bn 'stored inappropriately'
The charity said it has written to the National Audit Office, the Public >>> Accounts Committee and Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a detailed overview >>> of the findings and the contracts involved.
Chief executive Daniel Bruce said: “That we find multiple red flags in
more than £15bn of contacts, amounting to a third of all such spending,
points to more than coincidence or incompetence.”
He added that “the Covid procurement response was marked by various
points of systemic weakness and political choices that allowed cronyism
to thrive, all enabled by woefully inadequate public transparency.
“As far as we can ascertain, no other country used a system like the
UK’s VIP lane in their Covid response.
“The cost to the public purse has already become increasingly clear with >>> huge sums lost to unusable PPE from ill-qualified suppliers,” Mr Bruce
continued. "We strongly urge the Covid-19 inquiries and planned Covid
corruption commissioner to ensure full accountability and for the new
government to swiftly implement lessons learned.”
Of a total of £48.1bn of public money spent on private sector contracts
related to the Covid-19 pandemic, £14.9bn was written off by the
Department of Health & Social Care.
Of that, approximately £1bn was spent on PPE that was deemed unfit for
use, according to another NGO, Spotlight on Corruption.
A National Audit Office inquiry into public procurement during the
pandemic, published in November 2020, found no evidence of ministerial
involvement in procurement decisions or contract management.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 09/09/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 09/10/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
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Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research
that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
Christian Britschgi | From the October 2024 issue
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In June 2024, Anthony Fauci appeared before the House Select
Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic for a contentious confrontation >>> with congressional Republicans. But it opened on what might have sounded >>> like an amicable note, as the subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Brad
Wenstrup (R–Ohio), played up Fauci's sainted status: "There were drinks
named after you. You got bobbleheads made in your likeness. You were on
the cover of Vogue. You threw out the first pitch at a Washington
Nationals game."
Fauci was the closest thing the world of public health had to a rock
star. For nearly 40 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci had
served as the influential but unassuming director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a subsidiary of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) housed within the sprawling U.S. >>> Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
That post made Fauci the federal government's de facto top pandemic
expert across the dozens of agencies—from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) to the Food and Drug Administration to the
Office of the Surgeon General—that share responsibilities for preventing >>> and responding to disease outbreaks. Fauci steered the U.S. government's >>> response to AIDS, Zika, Ebola, and swine flu. He oversaw billions in
annual research grants aimed at stopping the next disease outbreak.
When COVID struck, Fauci was the face of public health when public
health was all anyone was talking about.
His celebrity also made him a partisan lightning rod. Democrats saw him
as a steady, straight-talking scientist who struck a pleasing contrast
to a chaotic Donald Trump recommending crank COVID cures in White House
press conferences. For many conservatives, he was a hate figure
responsible for locking down the country without regard for civil
liberties or collateral damage. But by that June 2024 congressional
hearing, Fauci was at the center of a new array of controversies.
In 2023, the incoming Republican House majority had reorganized the
coronavirus subcommittee to investigate the origins of the COVID-19
pandemic. The information they'd uncovered, supplemented by years of
dogged investigative journalism, was damning for Fauci and his agency.
Fauci had long denied his agency had ever funded controversial
gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in
Wuhan, China, where the COVID-19 pandemic originated. But weeks before
Fauci's testimony, a senior NIH official admitted that the NIAID had
funded such research. Days later, President Joe Biden's administration
would strip EcoHealth Alliance—the nonprofit that the NIAID had paid to
do that gain-of-function research—of its federal funding, citing the
organization's lack of transparency and oversight failures at the WIV.
Soon after, the select subcommittee revealed that Fauci's senior
scientific adviser, David Morens, told EcoHealth scientists in emails
that Fauci would "protect" the group from public scrutiny about the
pandemic's origins and that Morens could pass any needed communications >>>from EcoHealth to Fauci via a private back channel that was safe from
public records requests.
The day of Fauci's testimony, the Harvard- and MIT–affiliated biologist
Alina Chan argued in The New York Times that a lab leak at the WIV was
the probable cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Together, the revelations painted a picture of Fauci as a dissembling,
denying, power-grabbing bureaucrat who repeatedly used slippery
arguments to dodge public oversight of a controversial, high-risk
agenda—an agenda that may have led to the very pandemic his job was to
prevent.
Fauci argued it was all much ado about nothing. At the hearing, he said
the gain-of-function research the NIAID had funded in Wuhan wasn't of
concern and couldn't have sparked the pandemic; that he had no back
channel with his senior scientific adviser, who he didn't even work that >>> closely with; and that while a lab leak wasn't a conspiracy theory, he
couldn't be expected to know everything that happened in China. His
story was that he had acted in good faith, in the name of science, and
that he wasn't culpable.
Yet when one considers Fauci's record and the accumulated evidence about >>> a lab leak origin of COVID-19, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
he is probably at least partially culpable for the pandemic itself and
actively worked to obscure that fact. As Richard Ebright, a Rutgers
University molecular biologist and fierce Fauci critic, says of the
series of choices that led to dangerous pandemic research being
conducted in Wuhan with U.S. tax dollars: "There are few decisions that
are so centrally linked to a single person and that person's
pathologies, and that person is Anthony Fauci."
We may never know the full story of the pandemic's origin. But if this
were a bureaucratic whodunit, the most likely suspect would be Fauci.
COVID-19 was Fauci's pandemic.
Pushing Risky Research
Prior to COVID-19, Fauci had long supported funding pandemic research
that other scientists found risky, if not downright dangerous.
In 2005, as NIAID director, he praised researchers who'd used a grant >>>from his agency to resurrect the virus that had caused the Spanish flu
pandemic. Better understanding that virus would help prevent future
diseases, he argued. "The certain benefits to be obtained by a robust
and responsible research agenda aimed at developing the means to detect, >>> prevent and treat [future pandemics] far outweigh any theoretical
risks," he said in an October 2005 statement co-authored with then–CDC
Director Julie Gerberding.
This wasn't a universal opinion at the NIAID. The agency's chief
scientist described this approach to pandemic prevention as "looking for >>> a gas leak with a lighted match."
Fauci would continue to praise and fund this kind of research. In 2011,
researchers at the University of Wisconsin and at Erasmus University
Medical Center in the Netherlands managed to manipulate the virus H5N1
(which had been responsible for a 2004 bird flu epidemic in Asia) to
transmit between mammals, a "gain of function" for a virus that had
heretofore only been able to pass from infected birds to humans. One of
the researchers involved in the work would say the enhanced pathogen
they'd created was "very, very bad news" and "probably one of the most
dangerous viruses you can make." Fauci was more sanguine, telling The
New York Times that "there is always a risk. But I believe the benefits
are greater than the risks."
When the influenza research community adopted a temporary moratorium on
gain-of-function research in response to the H5N1 experiments, Fauci
begrudgingly accepted it as necessary to calm public opinion. He still
insisted this work's potential to stop the next pandemic far outweighed
any "theoretical risks" it posed.
Deadly outbreaks of bird flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) in the early 2000s, and the anthrax mailings that followed the
September 11 terror attacks, had both the public health and the national >>> security establishments attuned to "biosecurity" threats.
At the same time, researchers were rapidly improving their ability to
create and manipulate viruses in the lab. This offered the potential for >>> creating new vaccines, therapeutics, and pest control measures. It also
raised the risk that a new pandemic might be accidentally released from
a lab.
In the mid-2000s, President George W. Bush's administration commissioned >>> reports on how "dual-use research of concern" might be subjected to some >>> sort of risk-benefit analysis. But Fauci consistently argued against the >>> idea that their agencies should have to abide by additional guardrails
when funding risky research into pandemic pathogens.
"It's safe to say NIH is always on the 'more science, less regulation'
side. That was definitely true in this debate," Gregory Koblentz, a
biosafety expert at George Mason University who's been a longtime
participant in debates about how to regulate dual-use research, tells
Reason.
There are very good reasons to be wary about regulating scientific
research. But the equation changes when the government itself is funding >>> the research in question. Indeed, Matt Ridley—a science writer who
co-authored Alina Chan's book Viral, about the origins of
COVID-19—suggests that government funding itself is a big part of the
problem. A profit-seeking private sector would never touch the kinds of
research that was being done by EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan, he argues.
The odds that such research will identify the next pandemic virus and
develop a profitable vaccine or therapeutic for it, he says, are too low >>> for even the most starry-eyed venture capitalist.
There was also the downside risk of a lab accident.
In 2014, there was a series of embarrassing safety lapses at U.S.
government labs, highlighting this risk.
Dozens of CDC employees were potentially exposed to live anthrax samples >>> shipped by mistake to labs not equipped to handle them. At another CDC
lab, a less dangerous version of bird flu was accidentally contaminated
with deadly H5N1. Vials of smallpox capable of infecting people were
stashed in a cabinet at an NIH lab, where they'd apparently been sitting >>> for decades. None of these incidents were direct results of
gain-of-function research. But they heightened the concern that
researchers working to enhance deadly pathogens might do so in unsafe
settings.
Oversight Avoidance
In October 2014, President Barack Obama's administration paused federal
funding of gain-of-function research that could make flu, SARS, or
Middle East respiratory syndrome viruses transmissible via the
respiratory route in mammals. It also started crafting a regulatory
framework for vetting these experiments.
In 2017, the White House produced the laboriously titled HHS Framework
for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed Research Involving Enhanced >>> Potential Pandemic Pathogens, which became known as the P3CO framework.
Under P3CO, the NIH would forward grant proposals involving research on
known pandemic pathogens or research that might create or enhance such
pathogens to a new P3CO committee within HHS for a department-level
risk-benefit analysis. The debates leading to the framework stressed the >>> value of performing those risk-benefit assessments publicly and
transparently. But the committee's deliberations would be kept secret.
This framework also gave the NIH considerable autonomy to decide which
grant proposals it would—and wouldn't—forward to the HHS for review.
To date, the P3CO committee has vetted just three research proposals
involving so-called enhanced potential pandemic pathogens, out of
potentially dozens that should have been examined. Two out of three were >>> allowed to go forward unaltered. The committee required the other to
adopt additional safety mitigation measures, and the NIAID ultimately
chose not to fund it.
Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins, also an advocate of
gain-of-function research, found a way to skirt the oversight process.
They "realized that if they don't [forward proposals to HHS for review], >>> there is no review," says Ebright, the Rutgers biologist and a longtime
critic of gain-of-function research. "By willfully violating the policy, >>> they could nullify the policy."
This gap in the oversight system would become apparent when the NIAID
failed to stop gain-of-function research being performed at the WIV.
Dangerous Exceptions
During his June 2024 testimony, Fauci said that he signed off on every
grant the NIAID funded but didn't individually review each one. In a
2022 deposition, he admitted that he also might have signed off on some
exceptions to the Obama administration's gain-of-function pause. But he
couldn't recall specific examples.
So it's possible that one exception Fauci might have signed off on was
the work being performed by EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan, China, and that >>> work might have led directly to the COVID-19 pandemic.
EcoHealth Alliance is a New York–based nonprofit that specializes in
research on pandemic risk from emerging "disease hotspots" in the
developing world. In 2014, it received a five-year, $3.7 million NIAID
grant to collect virus samples from human beings and bats in China and
then sequence and experiment on these viruses at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology.
This type of research was the passion project of EcoHealth's president,
Peter Daszak. Daszak, who Vanity Fair has called "one part salesman, one >>> part visionary," was known in D.C. circles for his invite-only cocktail
parties for senior government officials involved in funding scientific
research. He pitched this research as crucial for finding viruses that
were likely to "spill over" from animals to humans. Once identified,
vaccines and therapeutics could be developed preemptively to stop any
outbreak.
Critics argued this work was an inefficient way of spotting which of the >>> thousands upon thousand of viruses circulating in nature might cause the >>> next pandemic. But in 2016, EcoHealth revealed it was engaged in far
more alarming work.
In its second annual progress report to the NIAID, EcoHealth announced
that it intended to create "chimeric" or hybrid viruses out of spike
proteins, the part of a virus that allows it to enter and infect hosts
cells, from SARS-like coronaviruses discovered in the wild and the
backbone of another, already-known SARS virus.
EcoHealth wanted to use these viruses to infect "humanized" mice—animals >>> genetically manipulated to have human lung cells—to see whether any of
them posed a pandemic risk. It proposed doing the research at the WIV,
where many U.S. researchers considered the biosafety standards much too lax.
This was exactly the kind of dangerous research that the
gain-of–function pause and P3CO framework were intended to control. Upon >>> receipt of EcoHealth's 2016 progress report, the NIAID program officer
overseeing the grant told the nonprofit that its work appeared to
violate the then-active pause on gain-of-function research. EcoHealth
wouldn't receive its next tranche of grant money unless it could explain >>> why it didn't.
Daszak responded that the viruses they were working with hadn't been
shown to infect people yet and were unlikely to do so, given how
genetically different they were from the original SARS virus.
Yet the plain text of the pause policy never required that viruses being >>> experimented with already be shown to infect human beings. The idea that >>> it would is "laughable," says Ebright. "The whole point of a policy that >>> operates at the proposal stage, before the research has been done, is to >>> prevent the construction and creation of such a pathogen."
Illustration: Joanna Andreasson
(Illustration: Joanna Andreasson)
Nevertheless, in July 2016 the NIAID told EcoHealth it could proceed
with its work on the condition that the chimeric viruses it had created
didn't demonstrate higher growth rates than their naturally occurring
cousins.
Experiments run by EcoHealth in 2017 showed that its hybrid SARS-like
coronaviruses exhibited much greater viral growth, and were much more
pathogenic, in the humanized mice compared with natural variants. But
EcoHealth didn't pause its work as promised. It also didn't report these >>> results to the NIAID immediately. It only revealed them in a fourth
annual progress report submitted April 2018.
EcoHealth was plainly violating the terms imposed on its research in
2016. Its work had also not been forwarded to the P3CO committee for
review. Yet the NIAID renewed its grant for another five years. In this
second grant phase, EcoHealth proposed making more chimeric SARS-like
coronaviruses containing features with "high spillover risk" to human
beings.
EcoHealth was scheduled to start this work in 2019. That year, the
nonprofit should have submitted a fifth annual progress report to the
NIAID. It didn't, claiming the NIAID's reporting -system had "locked
them out"—a claim subsequently found false.
When EcoHealth's year five report was eventually submitted two years
late, in 2021, it showed that additional chimeric viruses created in
Wuhan demonstrated both enhanced transmission and lethality in humanized >>> mice.
By that time, the COVID-19 pandemic was already well underway.
'Not Following the Policy'
In 2021, Fauci said the NIH "has not ever and does not now fund
gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology." That
wasn't true. What EcoHealth was doing in Wuhan clearly met the widely
understood definition of gain-of-function research.
In his June 2024 testimony, Fauci dodged accusations that he lied by
saying that while EcoHealth's work might have met a generic definition
of gain-of-function research, it didn't meet the precise definition
established in the P3CO framework.
Fauci said that every time he mentioned gain-of-function research, "the
definition that I use is not my personal definition; it is a codified,
regulatory and operative definition." That definition, he said, "had
nothing to do with me."
On the contrary, regulatory definitions had quite a bit to do with
Fauci. They were designed with the expectation that he and his fellow
public health bureaucrats would use discretion and good judgment when
making decisions. The relevant regulatory language included lots of
"likelys and highlys and reasonably anticipated," says Gerald Epstein, a >>> former director at the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy who wrote the P3CO policy. "These words are inherently
subjective. You can't not be. You've got to be making judgment calls on
something that does not yet exist." Those subjective definitions gave
Fauci and his NIAID underlings considerable room to decide what research >>> required additional review.
Was the agency complying with the spirit of the policy? Epstein points
to the total number of projects the NIH sent to the P3CO committee. "The >>> fact that they found one project in seven years [that needed additional
safety measures] tells me they were being too conservative," he says.
Koblentz is more blunt. When the NIAID allowed EcoHealth to proceed with >>> its work under novel conditions, he says, it "wasn't for them to decide. >>> That was them not following the policy."
Smoking Gun?
The NIAID's failure to forward EcoHealth's experiments to the P3CO
committee was, at minimum, a serious process failure. That failure may
well have allowed for the creation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Wuhan >>> lab.
In 2018, the same year that the NIAID renewed EcoHealth's grant for
another five years, Daszak submitted a $14 million grant proposal to the >>> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), called DEFUSE.
Once again, he proposed creating chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses
selected for their ability to infect human beings. Early drafts of the
DEFUSE proposal, uncovered by U.S. Right to Know reporter Emily Kopp,
show that Daszak envisioned creating viruses with features present in
SARS-CoV-2 and which do not appear in naturally discovered coronaviruses >>> of the same family, including features that primed the virus to infect
and spread in humans.
Kopp's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests also revealed notes >>>from Daszak and his collaborators on DEFUSE project drafts that
suggested the EcoHealth president was deliberately trying to obscure the >>> fact that these novel viruses would be created in Wuhan by omitting the
names of Chinese researchers from the proposal. An early draft of DEFUSE >>> also proposed creating novel coronaviruses in Wuhan because it used
lower biosafety precautions than what would be used in the U.S.,
describing the lower safety standards as "highly cost-effective."
In a note on this early draft, University of North Carolina
epidemiologist and pioneer gain-of-function researcher Ralph Baric, a
proposed collaborator, said that U.S. researchers would "freak out" were >>> such research done at Wuhan's typical biosafety levels.
DARPA ended up rejecting the DEFUSE proposal. But it remains possible
that the Chinese researchers secured separate funding for the work.
Ebright suggests that EcoHealth could also have used NIH funding from
its renewed grant for the work, given how much overlap there was between >>> the two proposals.
Ebright is unequivocal in his assessment that the research described in
EcoHealth's progress reports, its 2018 grant renewal application, and
the DEFUSE proposal, including the early draft and notes, combine into
"smoking gun" evidence in favor of the COVID pandemic having been
created at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"It all falls together. We know what they were doing in the years
preceding 2019. We know what they proposed to do in 2019. We knew how
they proposed and where they proposed to do it," says Ebright. "It is
exactly what the virus' emergence tells us."
Poisoned Debate
We probably won't ever definitively discover the origins of COVID-19.
Officials in both the U.S. and China ensured that.
Chinese officials obstructed any investigation into the Wuhan Institute
of Virology. In September 2019, the Associated Press reported, the
institute took its database of viruses offline. It also hasn't made
public lab notebooks and other materials that might shed light on
exactly what kinds of work it was doing in the lead-up to the pandemic.
In late 2019, the Chinese government also exterminated animals and
disinfected the Wuhan wet market. If COVID did leap from animal to human >>> in the Wuhan market, as many natural origin proponents argue, that
evidence is gone.
What we're left with is studying the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
itself and whatever information can be gleaned from the U.S.-funded
research that went on at Wuhan leading up to the pandemic.
On both fronts, Fauci, his underlings at the NIAID, and NIAID-funded
scientists involved with work at Wuhan have worked to conceal
information and discredit notions that COVID might have leaked from a lab. >>>
In late January 2020, Fauci's aides flagged the NIAID's support of
EcoHealth's Wuhan research in emails to their boss. A few weeks later,
Fauci and Daszak would go on Newt Gingrich's podcast to dismiss the idea >>> that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan lab, calling such arguments
"conspiracy theories."
Both men also worked to shape the discourse behind the scenes away from
any focus on a lab leak. Daszak organized a group letter of scientists
in The Lancet, the U.K.'s top medical journal, declaring that they
"stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that
COVID-19 does not have a natural origin." Daszak did not disclose his
relationship to the Wuhan lab when organizing this letter; The Lancet's
editor would eventually concede that this was improper.
In testimony to the House coronavirus subcommittee in May 2024, Daszak
would claim the "conspiracy theories" mentioned in the Lancet letter
referred only to such wild early pandemic notions that COVID had pieces
of HIV or snake DNA inserted into it. He said a word limit prevented him >>>from being more precise.
Fauci, meanwhile, would help corral virologists into publishing the
widely cited "proximal origin" paper in early 2020. In the paper, the
authors flatly declared that "we do not believe any type of
laboratory-leak scenario is plausible."
Yet troves of private messages and emails released by the House
subcommittee's investigation show that the authors privately expressed
far more openness to a lab leak theory.
One of the paper's authors, Scripps Research evolutionary biologist
Kristian Andersen, privately rated a lab leak as "highly likely." But
Andersen had a pending $8.9 million grant application with the NIAID as
the paper was drafted. That grant was later approved. In an email, one
of the paper's authors, Edward Holmes, references "pressure from on
high" during the drafting process.
The authors of the proximal origin paper say they merely had their minds >>> changed while drafting the paper. They were just following the
scientific method.
Ridley, the science writer, has a much less charitable assessment of
their behavior.
"That's scientific misconduct at the very least," he says, "to write a
paper that says one thing and to think it's wrong in private."
Hiding the Evidence
There may be more we don't—and won't ever—know about Fauci's own
communications with Daszak and other NIH officials about EcoHealth's
work in Wuhan.
In May 2024, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
released a tranche of emails between Fauci's senior scientific adviser
David Morens and Daszak, in which the two strategized about how to get
EcoHealth's federal grant reinstated (after it was terminated by the
Trump administration in 2020) and how the nonprofit should respond to
NIH investigations into its grant work.
Across multiple emails to Daszak, Morens mentioned that he frequently
had conversations with Fauci about Daszak and EcoHealth. He said Fauci
was trying to "protect" Daszak.
Throughout these emails, Morens urged Daszak to email him on a personal
email account to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests, openly
admitted to deleting emails to shield them from FOIA, and said that the
NIH's FOIA staff had advised him on how to hide information from records >>> requests through deletions and strategic misspellings.
Most conspicuously, Morens sent a brief reply to Daszak in April 2021 in >>> an email chain in which the two had been discussing mounting scrutiny >>>from Republicans and some scientists of EcoHealth's Wuhan work.
"PS, i forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs," Morens wrote. "I
can either send stuff to Tony [Fauci] on his private gmail, or hand it
to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send
him stuff that could cause trouble." In another email, Morens mentioned
having a "backchannel" to Fauci.
Asked about Morens' comments at the June hearing of the coronavirus
subcommittee, Fauci denied having substantive conversations about
EcoHealth with Morens and said that his senior scientific adviser was
not someone he worked terribly closely with, outside collaborating on
scientific papers.
The Next Pandemic
Fauci's best defense is that he ran a sprawling agency that doled out
billions of dollars in grants. Even the most detail-obsessed
administrator couldn't possibly keep track of every single program and
project. And U.S. officials had limited control over what happened in
the distant, opaque Wuhan lab.
But even if that's true, it's an admission of administrative negligence, >>> since the oversight protocols weren't followed. It also implies a
dramatic failure of the risky research that Fauci championed for
pandemic prevention. As Ridley says, the pandemic "occurred with the
very viruses that there was the most attention paid to, in the very area >>> where there was the most research going on, where there was the biggest
program looking for potential pandemic pathogens, and yet they failed to >>> see this one coming." At a minimum, gain-of-function research didn't
protect the public from the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the more direct case against Fauci is strong: Not only was he >>> an ardent supporter of research widely believed to be risky, but he
manipulated bureaucratic protocols in order to avoid scrutiny of that
research, then responded evasively when called to account for his
actions. At least one of the programs born out of Fauci's risky research >>> crusade was pursuing exactly the type of viral enhancements that were
present in COVID-19, and that research was conducted at the Wuhan
virology lab in the very same city where the virus originated. Lab leak
proponents cite the virus's transmissibility as evidence for a Wuhan
leak: After all, EcoHealth was trying to create pathogens primed to
spread rapidly in humans.
The evidence is not fully conclusive. But it seems reasonably likely
that Fauci pushed for what his peers repeatedly said was dangerous
research, that some of that dangerous research produced a deadly viral
pathogen that escaped the lab, and that Fauci helped cover up evidence
and arguments for its origins.
It is more than a little bit ironic that, throughout his career, Fauci
fought against restrictions on gain-of-function research, casting those
restrictions as counterproductive shackles on scientific progress. When
a pandemic did finally break out, he would also be an ardent supporter
of imposing the most restrictive controls on the general public.
"Elderly, stay out of society in self-isolation. Don't go to work if you >>> don't have to," Fauci told Science in March 2020. "No bars, no
restaurants, no nothing. Only essential services." When asked in July
2022 what he might have done differently during the pandemic, Fauci said >>> he'd have recommended much stiffer restrictions.
Did Fauci, so revered as a man of science, have any evidence to support
his program of lockdowns and social controls? His eventual admission in
congressional testimony that the federal government's social distancing
guidance was a guesstimate that "sort of just appeared"—and one that
turned out to be ineffective at controlling the pandemic—bolsters the
conclusion that the pandemic restrictions that shuttered schools,
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fh603p/how_the_new_york_times_stoked_covid_alarmism/
A Bias for Panic
How the New York Times stoked Covid alarmism
/ Eye on the News / Health Care
Sep 10 2024
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A 2018 Gallup poll found that 62 percent of Americans believe the media
is biased. Did such bias affect coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic? I run >>> a research team in the department of epidemiology at the University of
California–San Francisco. In our report, the first to analyze a
newspaper systematically, we found significant evidence of bias in the
New York Times, considered by some to be the newspaper of record, on
pandemic coverage—skewed toward overstating the threat posed by the virus. >>>
Our study examined all corrections issued by the New York Times to
articles relating to the Covid-19 pandemic. Between 2020 and 2024, the
newspaper issued 576 corrections for 486 articles. Naturally, in times
of crisis, facing uncertain and evolving information, reporters will get >>> facts wrong. Sometimes they may, for instance, over- or underreport the
number of children who have died or misstate the effectiveness of
interventions like lockdowns. If news organizations are unbiased, one
would expect such errors to occur with relatively equal frequency.
That’s not what we found. Instead, the paper’s errors tended to
exaggerate the harm of the virus (or the effectiveness of
interventions). Corrections were made for such errors nearly twice as
frequently as for errors that downplayed harms. Fifty-five percent of
errors overstated the harm of the virus, while only 24 percent
understated (the rest were equivocal). In other words, when the New York >>> Times got things wrong, it tended to do so in a way that falsely stoked
fear and encouraged harmful social restrictions.
In October 2021, a particularly notable correction read as
follows—inviting questions as to how such a remarkable mistake could
make it into print at all:
An article on Thursday . . . misstated the number of Covid
hospitalizations in U.S. children. It is more than 63,000 from August
2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Glad they could straighten that out.
Not all reporters were equally culpable; some required more corrections
than others. One in particular, Apoorva Mandavilli, was responsible for
7 percent of all corrections. When the “science and global health
reporter” erred, she tended to exaggerate the risk of the virus:
This same reporter is known for inserting her feelings into her content. >>> In 2021, she tweeted the following: “Someday we will stop talking about
the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas,
that day is not yet here.” To my knowledge, the New York Times has not
reassigned any reporter on the Covid-19 beat for getting things
wrong—even when those errors appear to be byproducts of the author’s
underlying prejudice.
Over the last few years, the newspaper has faced more scrutiny of its
ideologically skewed coverage. Opinion editor James Bennet, dismissed
for publishing an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton in the summer of 2020,
wrote a lengthy article in the Economist documenting how progressive
ideology has captured the newsroom. Don McNeil was dismissed as chief
science reporter for comments he had made years before. McNeil, it's
worth noting, was open to the possibility of the lab-leak theory, having >>> published essays that reignited mainstream interest in the subject—in
contrast with his successor, Mandavilli.
In any event, the newspaper’s distortions are skewed in the same
direction as its political bias. When it came to Covid-19, Republicans
tended to be more skeptical of sweeping governmental and public-health
interventions like lockdowns, masking young children, and closing
schools, and more concerned about their negative consequences. Florida
governor Ron DeSantis reopened his state’s schools in the spring of
2020, against the advice of experts like Anthony Fauci, and opposed
masking kids. Democrats, meantime, came to embrace stronger government
policies, such as vaccine mandates. The Biden administration enforced
the masking of toddlers in Head Start programs. The New York Times’s
tilt on these matters appeared consistent with its traditional political >>> sympathies.
It should concern all of us that legacy media displayed such a strong
bias during an unprecedented pandemic. Perhaps our research can prompt
an internal audit at the Times to assess the paper’s role in
intensifying fear and legitimizing harmful social policies. At a
minimum, newspapers should implement more substantive checks and
balances to ensure more balanced coverage—and avoid unduly promoting
panic the next time a crisis strikes.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
I noticed for the past few years that there is a lot of animus >>>against those among us who are of east Asian and southeast Asian descent >>>from the neo-Nazis who regularly post on these newsgroups.
Did slant-eyed girls turn down their sexual advances?
It is right for slant-eyed Melania Trump to turn down their sexual
advances just as she is turning down their idol's sexual advances as >>evident by HangryDJT's sexual advances being publicly displayed as
being redirected toward the Melania-wannabe (aka Laura Loomer).
Or were they slant-eyed BOYS?
Slant-eyed Shaolin fighting monks would immediately end a neo-Nazi
sexual advance by ripping off a neo-Nazi's testicles and throwing them
with such force as to cause lethal shrapnel injury throughout a
platoon of neo-Nazis. While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who >>causes (Deuteronomy 8:3) him to hunger right now (Luke 6:21),
slant-eyed https://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew can (Philippians 4:13)
physically destroy a billion neo-Nazis by just snapping his fingers
before they can even think of sexually advancing.
In the interim, the only godly way to win the war against bigotry and >>racism is by lifting up our LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth as our #1
Example of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org and we do this simply
by greeting (Matthew 5;47) others in His Wonderful (Isaiah 9:6) Name
to thereby be perfect (Matthew 5:48) as GOD commands of us.
And indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a)
and again hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So again, how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://archive.vn/jW1LE
NHS wants to sedate Down’s syndrome patient for Covid jab against
mother’s will
Mother of patient describes ‘covert’ spiking of drinks as ‘tantamount to >>> assault’ and breach of human rights
The patient is the subject of a series of Court of Protection orders
because he 'lacks capacity' and cannot make decisions for himself
The patient is the subject of a series of Court of Protection orders
because he ‘lacks capacity’ and cannot make decisions for himself
Steve Bird
28 September 2024 4:26pm
A mother has launched a legal battle to stop the state from spiking her
Down’s syndrome son’s drinks with sedatives so he can be jabbed with the >>> Covid vaccine, The Telegraph can reveal.
Cups of tea and glasses of orange juice have been secretly laced with
sedatives to subdue the man, in his thirties, so he can be given the
vaccine and booster jabs.
But his mother now is planning to prosecute her local NHS integrated
care board (ICB) for “forced vaccination”, which she claims is
“tantamount to assault” and a breach of his human rights.
Adam, whose name has been changed because he cannot be identified, is
the subject of a series of Court of Protection orders because he “lacks
capacity” and cannot make decisions for himself.
His ICB, which also cannot be named, obtained a court order in 2021
allowing the “covert” spiking so he can be given the AstraZeneca vaccine. >>> The court concluded the vaccine was in Adam’s “best interests” because
he is in a “clinical risk group” due to his learning disabilities,
autism, Down’s syndrome and obesity.
The method of sedating him via a drink was chosen because it “avoids the >>> use of restraint or physical force” and overcomes Adam’s needle phobia,
legal papers seen by The Telegraph explain.
Catherine, his mother, is fighting a fresh application made by the ICB
to allow care home staff to administer sedation and vaccines without
having to seek court approval each time the Government issues new
vaccine guidance.
‘The pandemic is over’
“The pandemic is over and Covid is now treated as little more than the
common cold,” his mother, who is in her 60s and from the home counties,
said. “But my son is being categorised as at the same risk as those with >>> life-threatening diseases.
“It is terrifying that this is happening years after the pandemic and at >>> a time when we are not required to wear masks or socially distance.
“As Adam’s mother, I know what is best for him. I think this excessive
state intervention is unfair, particularly now the Covid landscape has
changed so drastically.”
The mother and her legal team have set up a crowdfunding campaign called >>> “Stop Sedate-to-Vaccinate” to raise funds for her to fight the NHS
application for “forced medical treatments”.
A court previously heard that Adam struggled to follow social distancing >>> rules because he liked to “hug” people.
His carers, including his doctor and a solicitor assigned by the court
to represent him, believe he needs the vaccine because Government
guidelines classify him as vulnerable due to his “chronic neurological
disease”.
Benefits outweigh risks
The 2021 ruling by Judge Brown concluded that although Adam “finds
health interventions distressing” the benefits of the vaccine “far
outweigh the risks”.
But his mother, a devout Christian, claims administering the vaccine
“against his will” has meant he “will not be able to trust people and
his life will be filled with fear”, adding that it amounts “to unlawful
use of restraint.”
She also claims he has lost weight and “is healthier than the average
person” who “hardly gets a cold” and has already had Covid which was mild. >>> The judge concluded she was in no position to rule on the efficacy of
the vaccine or some of the other theories about it which were based on
“extraordinary and dangerous misinformation”.
In her ruling allowing the initial vaccination, Judge Brown wrote how
she understood “genuine and legitimate concern from some, about the
administering of a new vaccine to combat a new virus”, adding how some
people “legitimately and in good faith, raise questions about its
efficacy and possible side effects.”
‘Waste of public money’
The mother’s lawyer, Stephen Jackson of Jackson Osborne Solicitors, said >>> Adam’s four years of good health without vaccination since the pandemic
“speaks volumes for his natural immune system.”
“This is a scandalous waste of public money. The Joint Committee on
Vaccination and Immunisation assesses they need to jab approximately
10,500 people like Adam to avoid just one non-severe visit to the hospital. >>> “At £25 a shot, that’s £262,000 that could be better spent, leave aside
the cost of these proceedings.”
A spokesman for the UK Health Security Agency, the government body
responsible for public health protection, said it would be
“inappropriate” to comment on a specific case.
He added: “Vaccination is voluntary on the basis of informed consent.
Where an adult is unable to consent for themselves it is a matter for
their doctors to consider their best interests in collaboration with
relatives.”
The integrated care board, which insists Adam’s sedation and vaccination >>> are legal, declined to comment “because of patient confidentiality”.
The case will be heard at the Court of Protection in November.
Inside the secret sedation plot
As a “thank you” for having a mug of breakfast tea and a glass of orange >>> juice brought into his room, Adam invariably hugged the staff he trusts
so implicitly at his care home.
Unbeknown to him, on five separate occasions over the last 16 months
those drinks were laced with a “covert anxiolytic medication” – a
powerful sedative. Twice he became groggy before eventually succumbing
to a deep sleep.
Each time, a team of senior carers, a nurse and the home’s manager stood >>> quietly outside the room awaiting the nod to enter. One of them was
armed with a syringe – kept well hidden due to Adam’s needle phobia -
loaded with the Covid vaccine.
When the sedatives worked, Adam’s sleeve was quickly rolled up, the
antiseptic wipe swiped over his upper arm and the needle inserted deep
into his muscle as the plunger was pressed emptying the syringe barrel
of its viscous contents. One carer made copious notes in readiness for a >>> report which would be sent to the Court of Protection explaining how the >>> procedure had gone.
On two occasions, in November 2023 and June 2024, the primary dose and
booster were administered, one carer then had the arduous task of
telephoning Adam’s mother to inform her that despite her opposition her
son had been vaccinated.
Foiled plot
Three times the secret sedation plot was foiled by Adam. In May 2023,
“he poured the drink down the sink”, legal papers show. In June this
year, the “oral sedative (Lorazepam) was not effective”.
The Court of Protection orders approved the use of one of three possible >>> sedatives; 30mg of Temazepam, 4mg of Lorazepam or 10mg of Diazepam.
One document states that “AD [Adam] has not suffered any complications
or side-effects following the administration of the vaccine and/or
sedation.”
At the height of the pandemic, his carers had attempted to assess how
capable he was of expressing his opinions about whether or not he wanted >>> to be vaccinated. Four times they went through a special pack created by >>> Mind, the mental health charity, that explained how the vaccine works
and can be administered.
Adam said ‘no’
“On all occasions when a picture showing a vaccine being administered
was used, AD [Adam] shook his head and said ‘no’,” one ruling notes.
It adds: “However, he demonstrated limited understanding of the
information given to him about the Covid-19 virus.”
A judge concluded that Adam should have the jab because the “benefits
far outweigh the risks”. She approved the “covert” sedation process
because it prevented restraint and the use of force.
Adam’s mother, who visits her son at his special care home nearly every
day and attends church with him on Sundays, believes the drugging and
injection of her son represents an assault.
“Adam won’t take tablets,” his mother says. “So, they have had to hide
the sedatives in either a cup of tea, glass of orange juice or even
Coke. It is very upsetting.
“I am not alerted to when it happens. I get one telephone call after the >>> event.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/
BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
READ HERE
How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being >>> swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
decision... READ HERE
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As therapies go, lockdown was devastating. In our preliminary
discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go >>> near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
persuading them to comply.
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had >>> thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people
not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their
natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two
fingers up to government.
Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that
the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were
deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly,
not to be vectors of the disease.
Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing >>> Street in 2020
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In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not
surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so >>> total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and
which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.
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With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out:
use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track,
send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.
We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and
as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus.
Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions.
A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
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The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
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They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and >>> saving lives.
At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions
on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we
had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri
Geller with a spoon.
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It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic
around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always
two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly
enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.
Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers
to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to >>> repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
possible to repel the tide of the Thames.
I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some >>> effect. But were they decisive in beating back the disease, turning
that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.
Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be
published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
£25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over
£25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.
Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fweoqu/some_of_our_top_schools_are_embarrassing/
Some of Our Top Schools Are Embarrassing Themselves Over Covid
Why are places like Stanford and Johns Hopkins hosting gatherings of
well-known coronavirus cranks?
Gregg Gonsalves
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Stanford University President Jonathan Levin.
Stanford University president Jonathan Levin
(Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
Today, Stanford University is holding an all-day gathering on the Covid
pandemic, with its new president making opening remarks. It’s the second >>> such meeting at a prestigious university in recent months, after Johns
Hopkins hosted a “symposium on health policy” in September. They may
seem fine on the surface, but both events should be a source of
embarrassment for the institutions involved. (I have a personal stake in >>> the former gathering: I’m spending my time this fall at Stanford with a
group of wonderful, truly talented researchers, who I hope do not get
sprayed with the stink of this misbegotten affair.)
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While the organization and funding for these two meetings isn’t
explicitly linked, the cast of characters at both are eerily similar.
They each feature a collection of well-known Covid contrarians: those
who, in the early days of the pandemic thought we should “let ’er rip”
and get as many people infected as possible, with a performative nod to
protecting the vulnerable; suggested that vaccine and mask mandates were >>> somehow akin to Nazi totalitarianism; told us not to worry about
variants (“variants, schmariants,” as one of them remarked months before >>> Delta and Omicron blasted their way through the US); and said we’d have
herd immunity by April 2021.
If you want just one piece of evidence about the kind of cranks we’re
talking about, consider this: A late addition to the Stanford meeting is >>> a senior editor of the Epoch Times, a far-right publication that not
only dabbles in Covid conspiracies but is a frequent purveyor of climate >>> change denialism.
While the organizers have tried to add a few reasonable voices to the
meeting, it doesn’t change the overall thrust of these gatherings. As
former Texas governor Ann Richards said, “You can put lipstick and
earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it’s still a pig.”
Health reporters like Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times blew the
whistle on the Stanford conference in mid-September, and others who have >>> focused on debunking the pseudoscience of this crew have written about
the meetings on both coasts. The faculty at both institutions who are
pushed for and are behind these convocations have defended them on the
grounds of academic freedom—a defense that, in our current era of
freakouts over “cancel culture,” neither Stanford or Hopkins would have
had an easy time overcoming. Chalk one up to the contrarians for putting >>> these schools in an impossible situation—though that still does not
explain why Stanford’s president feels the need to personally show up today.
The architects of these meetings come with bags and bags of right-wing
funding, some of it laundered through think tanks and other
institutions. They have met with Trump officials in the White House and
guided Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Covid-19 policy. Some of them
even got a shout-out from Bret Stephens at The New York Times last week. >>>
They whine on and on about how terribly they’ve been treated, but, far >>>from being persecuted, they are celebrated on the right, even if the
mainstream members of their professions have, time and time again,
considered their ideas and roundly rejected them on their merits.
My question is: Why host these meetings now and in these venues?
Some have suggested this is about “auditioning” for the next Trump
administration as much as it is trying to rewrite the history of the
pandemic. Both are in part probably true. But if you zoom out and think
about these meetings in the context of the right’s war on higher
education, I believe the purpose becomes clearer.
These Covid contrarians—who have found little support for their views
among their peers—have decided that the science has been turned into “a
dogmatic tool of oppression” for rejecting them. In their minds they are >>> Galileos against the church, and now they are tilting their fury against >>> the institutions themselves. This tack is of course reminiscent of the
right’s attacks on the universities as bastions of woke, left-wing
ideology, which either need to be reformed (by hiring more conservative
faculty) or gutted and rebuilt to their liking (e.g., New College of
Florida).
In this light, these two meetings are about establishing a
beachhead—building credibility in what many of the organizers would
consider the liberal bastions of academia. If you cannot convince your
colleagues of the worth of your arguments, then you can cry out that
you’re being discriminated against for simply having “differing views.”
But things don’t work like that in science: we don’t teach intelligent
design alongside evolution, or alternative theories of the cause of
AIDS. Supporters of those discredited ideas would say we need to “teach
the controversy” and not be dogmatic, but there is no controversy to be
had: the preponderance of the evidence supports evolution and HIV as the >>> cause of AIDS. Similarly, many of the Covid contrarians’ favorite claims >>> have withered in the sunlight of scientific scrutiny.
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But just as the Federalist Society has established influence over law
schools and the judiciary, the Covid contrarians and their supporters
would like to do the same for medicine and public health, by
mainstreaming their views—both in academic settings and then in public
policy—by sheer brute force. They won’t give up, and they have the money >>> and resources to continue their campaigns. Should former president Trump >>> regain the White House, their fortunes will rise and these threats to
academic integrity, and to the public health itself (through adoption of >>> their views in practice) will go into overdrive.
And for anyone who thinks this is all academic, in mid-September, the
surgeon general of Florida recommended against the use of mRNA Covid
vaccines, just as we’re heading into respiratory virus season,
endangering the lives of the residents of the state with quackery and
pseudoscience. Of course, it’s the same Covid contrarians who have
organized these meetings, who have been advising the DeSantis
administration for several years now on pandemic policy. Shame on them.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://reason.com/2024/10/07/october-7-offered-a-stark-choice-between-good-and-evil/?comments=true#comments
October 7 Offered a Stark Choice Between Good and Evil
When civilians are the targets, terrorists’ grievances don’t matter;
it’s time to hunt the perpetrators.
J.D. Tuccille | 10.7.2024 7:00 AM
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One year ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists swarmed across the
border from Gaza in a stunning and bloody attack on southern Israel.
Roughly 1,200 people were killed, the vast majority civilians. The
attack set off a still-escalating conflict that raises questions about
how far people can go to defend themselves and what constitutes
legitimate targets for military strikes. But it also posed a stark
choice between good and evil, innocents and terrorists—and some people
around the world are picking the wrong side.
That murderous attacks on unsuspecting civilians and the kidnapping of
hundreds of them—some still in captivity—constitute unjustifiable acts
of terrorism is beyond question. Surprisingly, though, there's no
generally accepted definition of terrorism, because governments like to
keep the term vague so it doesn't encompass their own actions and
perhaps so it can be applied to domestic political opponents.
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Terrorism Means Targeting Civilians
Decades ago, in a class taught by a retired U.S diplomat who worked for
years in the Middle East, I was told the best way to distinguish
terrorism from military action is that terrorism deliberately targets
civilians rather than government officials or military personnel. That
squares with a 2004 report by the office of the U.N. Secretary General
that framed terrorism as "any action 'intended to cause death or serious >>> bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of
intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international >>> organization to do or abstain from doing any act.'"
This doesn't mean that purely military action is necessarily
justified—whether it's right or wrong depends on the rationale. But when >>> civilians are the main target, there's no need to consider the cause;
that's terrorism, it's evil, and it's time to hunt down the perpetrators >>> and bring them to justice.
October 7, When Mostly Civilians Suffered
On October 7, the attack began with a barrage of thousands of rockets
launched from Gaza into Israel. Then approximately 1,500 terrorists in
the employ of Hamas, an Iran proxy which runs Gaza, and its allies
breached the border wall or bypassed it by paraglider and motorboat.
About 1,200 people died at the hands of the terrorists by guns, bombs,
rape and sexual torture, blades, and fire, especially among residents of >>> nearby kibbutzes and attendees at the Supernova music festival.
"Authorities have identified a total of 274 soldiers and 859
non-soldiers killed during the brutal assault," the Times of Israel
reported last December. Removing police and security guards from the
total still "leaves a figure of 764 civilians," the Times added.
"The assault dwarfs all other mass murders of Israeli civilians," The
Economist noted. "The last time before October 7th that this many Jews
were murdered on a single day was during the Holocaust."
Not immediately killed were hundreds of hostages seized by Hamas and its >>> partners. Some have since been released in exchange for concessions, and >>> some have been rescued. Others have been murdered in captivity. A few
have been held for a year and are hopefully still alive, including four
Americans.
The correct reaction is to recognize that terrorists who target
civilians for murder, rape, and kidnapping deserve contempt. They should >>> be on the receiving end of efforts to make sure they're apprehended,
killed, or otherwise rendered incapable of again committing such acts.
Terrorism isn't an act that might be justified if you have a
sufficiently strong grievance; it's slaughter and brutalization of the
innocent to spread fear while bypassing those who might fight back. It
deserves an equally brutal response.
The Limits of a Just Response
That doesn't mean anything goes in punishing terrorists. There's room
for debate about the tactics that can be used to target Hamas and the
degree to which civilians can be put at risk as Israeli forces search
for those responsible for October 7. It's a dilemma amplified by the
fact that Hamas, like many terrorist organizations, embeds itself among
civilians in schools, medical centers, and residential neighborhoods to
make punishing its members impossible without putting the innocent at
some degree of risk.
"With Hamas locating themselves alongside important places like
hospitals, Hamas has actually made Israel fight them in places Israel
wouldn't want to target them, because of the potential loss of civilian
life," American University School of International Service Professor
Benjamin Jensen observed last November. "And in doing so, look at how
fast Israel lost momentum in its information war. Israel is taking a
huge amount of criticism for its killing of civilians as it goes after
Hamas."
Risks can be mitigated. As the conflict expanded to include Hezbollah,
which has rendered much of Israel near the Lebanese border uninhabitable >>> with rocket attacks and violent incursions, Israel planted bombs in
pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah personnel to hit the guilty
and reduce danger to innocent people. Inevitably, though, a few
civilians were killed and wounded. Conventional attacks on Hezbollah's
leadership have been very effective, but also killed and wounded
civilians located near the targets.
Is that too many civilian casualties? Nobody has an easy answer
regarding any conflict. A public health paper published in 2021
estimated that civilians made up 28 percent of all casualties during
America's involvement in Afghanistan, about half of casualties during
the Balkan War, about a quarter of casualties after Russia's first
invasion of Ukraine, and a whopping two-thirds of casualties during the
war in Iraq.
Terrorists Rely on the Deaths of Innocents
Accepting the moral compromises of armed conflict is a hell of a
challenge. But aggressors count on that and are happy to see innocents
killed and wounded to insulate their people from consequences.
Civilian casualties are "necessary sacrifices", Hamas military leader
Yahya Sinwar—who may have since died—told colleagues in correspondence
published by The Wall Street Journal. "In dozens of messages—reviewed by >>> The Wall Street Journal—that Sinwar has transmitted to cease-fire
negotiators, Hamas compatriots outside Gaza and others, he's shown a
cold disregard for human life," the report added.
Such calculated evil leaves people in a bind. Some have chosen to
embrace terrorists as freedom fighters, as if supposed grievances matter >>> when the chosen weapons are murder, rape, and kidnapping. Protests
against the war resulting from October 7 feature symbols and slogans in
favor of Hamas and other terrorists. France's President Emmanuel Macron
wants an arms embargo against Israel. Antisemitism is globally on the
rise as those who favor terrorists expand their hate from Israel to all
Jews.
Let them speak. Those who embrace evil reveal themselves to us and let
us know where the next threat might arise. If they go beyond speech to
action, we'll already have them on our radar. Those who have already
engaged in terrorism should be hunted and punished to prevent a
recurrence of such crimes.
It is written that Israel's (aka Jacob's) Messiah says that only the
LORD Almighty (Isaiah 9:6) is good (Matthew 19:17):
"'Why do you ask Me about what is good?' (LORD) Jesus replied. 'There
is only One Who is good. If you want to enter life, keep (all) the
commandments (by doing what I want as one of My disciples explains at
http://WDJW.net ).'" (Matthew 19:17 w/ parenthetical clarification)
Source:
https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-17.htm
Therefore, there is only one godly way to defeat terrorism and bigotry
and that is by lifting up LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth as our #1
Example of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org ( https://bit.ly/Lk2442
).
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (
https://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1g2i4mf/federal_appeals_court_reinstates_vaccine_choice/
Federal appeals court reinstates vaccine choice law for Montana health
care facilities
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision comes nearly two years after >>> House Bill 702 was partially blocked.
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Montana’s
pandemic-era law barring vaccine mandates and data collection may go
into effect in health care settings, reversing a federal judge’s
injunction from 2022 after state attorneys appealed the case early last
year.
House Bill 702, which was already in place for many other private
businesses and employment settings, prohibits employers from
discriminating on the basis of a person’s vaccination status. The law
applies not only to COVID-19 vaccines but also to immunizations against
measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis
and hepatitis B.
The Thursday ruling by a panel of three justices allows HB 702 to now
apply to health care facilities that were shielded from compliance under >>> the federal district court injunction.
The plaintiffs that challenged the 2021 Republican-backed law included
immunocompromised patients, the Montana Medical Association, the Montana >>> Nurses Association, Western Montana Clinic and Five Valleys Urology.
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Together, the plaintiffs argued that the law conflicted with the
requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) to take available
precautions against the spread of infectious diseases. They also said
that the law made carveouts for some health facilities, such as senior
and long-term care centers when specific federal regulations apply, but
not others.
During a three-day trial in Missoula in 2021, the plaintiffs summoned
multiple health care experts and facility employees to testify about how >>> up-to-date vaccine information can help track which employees are
inoculated against transmittable diseases, such as whooping cough. That
type of mandatory documentation is prohibited by HB 702, making it
difficult to assign workers to different units and patients based on
their immunization status.
In the 2022 ruling, federal Montana district judge Donald Molloy ruled
that the state law was preempted by the federal ADA and OSH Act, as it
applied to health care settings, and was unconstitutional under the
federal equal protection clause by creating distinct classes of
facilities that are similarly situated.
But the Thursday ruling from the Ninth Circuit reversed Molloy’s
decision on all fronts, finding that the plaintiffs’ arguments were too
general to show that a real and present conflict exists between state
and federal statutes.
“The district court’s findings at most support a ‘hypothetical or
potential conflict’ between the [Occupational Health Act] and HB 702,
which is ‘insufficient,’” the court wrote.
Determining that the Montana law prohibits employers from keeping
workers safe from “recognized hazards,” such as disease transmission,
“requires a more specific understanding in any given case about the
nature of the employer, the workplace, the diseases in question, the
risks they pose, the availability and feasibility of other methods of
preventing the transfer of vaccine-preventable diseases, and so on,” the >>> ruling said.
Regarding the ADA, the court also said that the plaintiff’s concerns
were not specific.
“Plaintiffs do not argue that the ADA expressly preempts HB 702, but
that it does so impliedly,” the court said. “Although this does not
foreclose challenges based on future or anticipated conflicts, it does
mean that ‘speculative’ conflicts are not sufficient … [T]he record must >>> fairly support ‘an irreconcilable conflict’ between federal and state law.” >>>
The appeals court decision criticized Molloy’s findings as “overbroad,”
citing the lack of evidence and sufficient fact-finding presented by the >>> parties during the trial.
“[T]he district court below made no apparent findings about whether the
requested accommodation would be necessary to accommodate any specific
ADA claimants, let alone all ADA-protected persons in health care
settings. Nor did the district court properly consider whether ADA
beneficiaries could be reasonably accommodated in ways that do not
violate HB 702, such as through uniform PPE requirements, testing
measures, appropriate alternative work arrangements, and so on,” the
ruling stated.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s office celebrated
the appeal court’s decision in a Thursday statement.
“This is great news for Montanans. No one should be subject to
discrimination because of their vaccination status. We’re glad the Ninth >>> Circuit corrected Molloy’s erroneous decision,” said spokesperson Chase
Scheuer.
The Montana Medical Association, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said >>> it was considering next steps.
“Physicians and health care providers want patients to know that our
policies are set to protect them when they seek treatment,” said MMA
president Ernest Gray, adding that this decision makes that “more
difficult.” He said the organization is “reviewing the decision of the
Ninth Circuit and weighing our future legal options.”
The Montana Nurses Association echoed that comment in a Thursday
afternoon statement.
“At trial, community members came together to show how dangerous this
law is for health care in Montana,” said MNA CEO Vicky Byrd. “We are
analyzing the Court’s decision and assessing our next steps.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1g3goay/covid19_vaccine_omagh_man_wants_help_after_life/
Man says he has been 'left to rot' after Covid vaccine
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Larry Lowe Larry in a grey t-shirt laying down on a hospital bed next to >>> a heart monitor. He is looking directly at the camera Larry Lowe
Larry Lowe struggles with everyday tasks such as walking
On 15 December 2021 Larry Lowe’s life changed.
He was 54, rarely ill, fit, healthy and running 10km most days – until
he got the Pfizer Covid booster.
Within days he developed numbness in the right side of his face and
started experiencing pain.
"I had lost all the feeling in my face, teeth, nose, tongue, eye, that
whole side of my head," he said.
These symptoms have spread through his body and intensified over the
years, with doctors across the UK saying the vaccine is to blame.
Pfizer said patient safety was paramount and it took reports of adverse
reactions very seriously.
It said hundreds of millions of doses had been administered globally
"and the benefit-risk profile of the vaccine remains positive for all
authorised indications and age groups".
Mr Lowe, who is from Omagh in Northern Ireland, said that while he was
not opposed to vaccines, his life had been destroyed.
Larry Lowe Larry and his wife pictured by the seaside both are wearing
sunglasses and smiling into the camera with the sun shining behind
them.Larry Lowe
Larry pictured with his wife before he developed painful trigeminal
neuropathy
What does the Public Health Agency say?
Northern Ireland's Public Health Agency (PHA) said the benefits of the
vaccines in preventing Covid-19 and serious complications associated
with it far outweighed any currently known side effects in the majority
of patients.
Mr Lowe was referred to Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London where he >>> was told the vaccine "was being recognized by my body as a toxin, and
that was the cause of my problems".
He broke down and cried.
"My wife and I were sitting in this little room in Westminster with
consultants telling me the vaccine had destroyed the nerve on the right
side of my face, and it was highly unlikely that I would ever recover >>>from it," he said.
In letters, seen by BBC News NI, London pain management specialists
confirmed the onset of symptoms could be attributed to the Covid vaccine >>> booster.
In correspondence to Mr Lowe's GP last May, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust
confirmed that “our multidisciplinary team were in agreement that the
onset of symptoms could be attributed to the Covid vaccine booster”.
In April 2024, Mr Lowe was diagnosed by a consultant neurologist at the
Southern Health Trust with a “painful trigeminal neuropathy” which had
“the Covid vaccine as its main causative factor”.
NI government consults on mandatory vaccines
He also developed a small fibre sensory neuropathy which the consultant
said “is also one of the post-vaccine related neurological presentations”. >>>
"I struggle when I think about what another 10 years is going to do to
me, because in the three years roughly that I've had this, it's
destroyed me and it's getting worse," Mr Lowe said.
What symptoms does Mr Lowe have?
Mr Lowe said the small fibre neuropathy affected his entire body, from
toes to fingertips.
He suffers from dry eye syndrome and wears sunglasses inside and out
because of his sensitivity to light.
"I feel as if there is a clamp on both sides of my head, squeezing it
all the time," he said.
"I've been told that my condition is progressive. It is going to get worse. >>>
"I didn't ask for this," he said.
He said he took the vaccine in good faith and feels he has been "left to >>> rot".
'My life is barely worth living'
Larry Lowe Larry at the finish line of a half marathon. He is wearing a
green t shirt and is holding his medal up to the cameraLarry Lowe
Before his diagnosis Mr Lowe was an avid runner
"I'm in so much pain, my life is barely worth living, except for my
family," he said.
He said he did not feel like himself anymore.
"Before this I was in a rock band, lead guitar, singing, writing songs,
recording albums, loving it," he told BBC News NI.
"Now that's just a memory," he added.
The former college lecturer had to medically retire.
He said chronic pain was hard to explain because people think of a
"toothache or breaking their leg".
"Once you break your leg, it starts to get better.
"My pain is getting worse every day."
Mr Lowe praised all the medical professionals he had seen, who he said
"tried everything" to help him but all they could offer was medication.
He said his GP was "fantastic," but that he "doesn't have the magic wand >>> that I need".
Larry wearing large dark sunglasses in an indoors setting, he is looking >>> directly at the camera
Mr Lowe suffers from dry eye syndrome and wears sunglasses inside and
out because of his sensitivity to light
'They've destroyed me'
Mr Lowe said he would like the stigma taken out of Covid vaccine injuries. >>>
He said many people do not take them seriously.
Mr Lowe said he had never been opposed to vaccinations which were tried
and tested.
He added that he was not allowed to take any further vaccines.
'Death rate fell'
Professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, Martin McKee, said vaccines had been "absolutely
essential" to allowing society to move on from the pandemic.
"Once the vaccines became available then the death rate fell markedly,"
he said.
Prof McKee said all vaccines came with a risk of reactions and there
would be "a small number of reactions" when a large number of people
were vaccinated.
While he cannot comment on individual cases, he said reactions like Mr
Lowe's were "exceedingly rare".
Gini, a woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a white shirt
looking directly into the camera
Mr Lowe's wife Gini said her and their family's life has been turned
upside down
Mr Lowe said he had exhausted all the medication and treatments
available in the UK and they did not work and he wants "medical and
psychological help".
"I want someone to recognize that the vaccine has done this."
His wife Gini said life had been extremely tough.
She said they had a "fantastic, normal life" to a world that had been
turned upside down.
She said Larry cries and screams at night with the pain.
"We have lost part of Larry and that's hard to take," she added.
Larry Lowe Larry wearing a grey hat and a grey facemask in a school
sports hall which is dotted with people getting their covid jabsLarry Lowe >>> Mr Lowe took this selfie on the day of his Covid-19 booster in December 2021
Dr Louise Herron, deputy director of public health at the PHA said all
vaccinations and medications could have some side effects.
"The most common side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine are mild and get
better within a week," she said.
"As with all vaccines and medicines, the safety of Covid-19 vaccines is
being continually monitored."
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is responsible
for regulating medicines, including vaccines, and conducts robust safety >>> monitoring and surveillance of all Covid-19 vaccines in the UK.
It said vaccination was the single most effective way to reduce deaths
and severe illness from Covid-19.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1g7m74h/vaccinating_care_home_residents_reduced_deaths/
Vaccinating care home residents reduced deaths, but the effect was small >>> – new study
Published: October 18, 2024 8:42am EDT
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David Paton
Chair of Industrial Economics, Nottingham University Business School,
University of Nottingham
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Professor of Industrial Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Nottingham
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Vaccinating older people probably did avert some deaths in 2021, but the >>> effects were small. And even those small effects on mortality seem to
have dissipated during the booster programme. That’s the conclusion of
our new study, published in the European Economic Review.
COVID-related deaths decreased significantly in most of Europe and the
US from the middle of 2021. Although this reduction coincided with the
rollout of COVID vaccines, it has proved surprisingly difficult to
identify the extent to which vaccination contributed to the drop in deaths. >>>
Randomised controlled trials (the gold standard for testing new
treatments) suggest COVID vaccination can provide significant protection >>> against serious illness and death relative to unvaccinated people who
have not previously been infected with COVID. But there are reasons the
effect of vaccination on mortality may be lower when viewed outside of
trials.
Early in the programme, there were hopes that vaccination would also
prove highly effective in preventing the spread of COVID but it has
since become clear that vaccination provides only limited and short-term >>> protection against infection and transmission.
Don’t let yourself be misled. Understand issues with help from experts
It is also well established that a previous infection provides
protection both against reinfection and against serious illness and
death in the event of reinfection that is at least as effective as
vaccination. Having a previous infection significantly reduces the
likelihood of being vaccinated meaning the vaccinated population will
include a relatively high proportion of people without protection from
prior infection. So even if vaccination provides protection at an
individual level, we may still observe population-level mortality rates
that are similar for vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.
The effectiveness of vaccination programmes may also be limited by
people’s behaviour. For example, there is evidence that vaccinated
people who get infected are more likely to have mild symptoms and this
may cause them to take fewer precautions than others against spreading
infection. As a result, vaccination may sometimes be associated with
more rather than less transmission.
Taken together, even if vaccination reduces the risk on an individual
basis, it does not necessarily follow that it will reduce deaths at a
population level. Existing research reflects this ambiguity with some
research finding very significant effects of vaccination on death while
other findings conclude there was little or no effect at all.
Our new study attempts to improve our knowledge about the effect of
COVID vaccination programmes by estimating the effect of vaccination
take up on deaths in care homes. This is a particularly important group
to examine. Given that the vast majority of COVID-related deaths occur
in the elderly, any effect on deaths is highly likely to be seen in care >>> homes.
An ampoule of AstraZeneca vaccine with a syringe.
COVID vaccines reduced serious illness and deaths, but they did little
to stop infection and transmission. Marc Bruxelle /Alamy Stock Photo
Machine learning used to analyse the data
We examined deaths from COVID in care homes across nearly 150 local
authorities in England from the start of the vaccine rollout in December >>> 2020 until after the second booster dose in summer 2022. We tested
whether higher rates of vaccination of staff and elderly residents led
to fewer deaths both in total and from COVID.
One feature of our research is the use of machine learning (a type of
artificial intelligence) to isolate the effect of vaccination from other >>> factors that may also have affected mortality including levels of prior
infection as well as demographic, economic and health differences among
local authorities.
Machine learning is particularly adept at separating out the effects of
a high number of potential explanatory variables, providing much better
evidence of when associations represent true causal relationships. In
contrast to some other research, we also use a measure of vaccination
that takes account of the fact that effectiveness wanes over time.
We found that higher vaccination rates of residents (but not of staff)
did indeed lead to fewer deaths, but the effect was relatively small.
For example, an increase in the resident vaccination take-up rate of 10% >>> in a local authority caused, on average, a reduction of 1% in the total
care home mortality rate. That is equivalent to about 22 fewer deaths
per week nationwide.
Of course, any reduction in deaths is welcome. But vaccination does not
appear to be the key factor in reducing care home deaths from COVID. We
also found that the reduction in deaths was restricted to the initial
vaccination rollout.
From September 2021, when the booster vaccination programme started in
England, higher vaccination rates of elderly residents do not seem to
have led to any reduction in deaths. Based on these results, vaccination >>> is unlikely to have been responsible for the sustained fall in
COVID-related deaths.
Why then did Europe and the US experience large reductions in COVID
deaths since 2021, even during times when infection rates have soared?
There are two explanations. The first is the growth of variants such as
omicron that, although highly infectious, are less deadly than variants
responsible for the early waves.
Second, is the rise in the cumulative number of people who gained
protection from having had previous infections.
These explanations are consistent with the experience of places such as
Hong Kong, New Zealand and Taiwan. All saw relatively low COVID
infections and deaths in 2020, meaning only limited levels of natural
immunity had been built up. All then experienced high mortality rates
during 2022, well after most people in those places had been vaccinated. >>>
For example, the seven-day average mortality rate in Hong Kong reached
40 deaths per million in March 2022, a rate far above the highest peak
seen in the US during the whole pandemic despite cumulative vaccination
rates at that time being similar.
Even though vaccination probably reduced care home deaths by a small
amount in the early rollout period, there is little evidence that the
booster programme had any significant effect on COVID-related deaths.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1gckfpw/farmers_market_to_return_after_five_year_hiatus/
Farmers' market to return after five-year hiatus
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Getty Images A market stall featuring vegetables and salad, with
handwritten black and white price labels. Getty Images
Organisers say the new market would be an "inclusive, free event"
A popular farmers' market is set to return to East Yorkshire after a
five-year absence.
The Humber Bridge Farmers' Market, held at the Country Park in Hessle,
was paused in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Humber Bridge Board announced it would be bringing back the markets
on a trial basis in spring 2025, alongside organisers Little Hummingbird >>> Events.
Andrew Arundel, chief operating officer at the Humber Bridge, said the
organisation was "really excited" about the return of the market.
"There’s not been a week go by when someone hasn’t asked via email, or
at the booths, or via social media when the market is coming back," he said.
The monthly market included food and drink stalls, as well as arts,
crafts and gifts, with the new version set to have a similar feel.
Getty Images A view of the Humber Bridge over the estuary, taken from
the top of the suspension bridge looking towards the town of Barton. It
is a sunny day with blue skies.Getty Images
The Humber Bridge spans the Humber from Hessle, where the market will be >>> located, to Barton in North Lincolnshire
Nicola Hudson, of Little Hummingbird Events, said she wanted the new
market to provide a platform for "talented local artisans and makers".
"It is also about bringing communities together to support each other
and create that much-loved community spirit feel, which is something we
are incredibly passionate about," she said.
Fay Baker, the crossing's deputy chief operating officer, said the new
market would help make the bridge "more than a transport crossing and a
regional landmark".
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1gi68ln/why_workers_fired_for_refusing_covid_vaccines_are/
Why workers fired for refusing Covid vaccines are starting to win in court >>> By Jenna Greene
November 1, 202412:05 PM PDTUpdated 2 days ago
Commentary
Legal Action by Jenna Greene
People receive their second COVID-19 boosters in Waterford, Michigan
s up syringes with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines for
residents who are over 50 years old and immunocompromised and are
eligible to receive their second booster shots in Waterford, Michigan,
U.S., April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Emily Elconin/File photo Purchase Licensing >>> Rights, opens new tab
Nov 1 (Reuters) - Liberal San Francisco is hardly a hotbed of anti-COVID >>> vaxxers – more than 90% of the city’s population got the shot, according >>> to government data, opens new tab.
That’s partly why I found a verdict, opens new tab by a San Francisco
federal jury last week in favor of six public transit workers who were
fired for refusing to comply with their employer’s COVID-19 vaccine
mandate on religious grounds so unexpected.
Jurors awarded the Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, ex-employees more
than $1 million each for workplace civil rights violations, for a total
of $7.8 million.
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As similar cases make their way through courts around the country,
plaintiffs lawyers tell me they see the verdict as a sign of more big
payouts to come.
To misquote the Broadway tune, “If you can make it in San Francisco, you >>> can make it anywhere,” said James Lawrence, a Raleigh-based Envisage Law >>> partner representing three musicians allegedly fired by the North
Carolina Symphony after refusing the COVID vaccination based on their
religious beliefs.
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The lawsuits I've reviewed, whether targeting a food conglomerate in
Arkansas, opens new tab, an airline in Hawaii, opens new tab, hospitals
in Oregon, opens new tab or a host of cities, opens new tab, revolve
around similar claims that employers wrongly refused to accommodate
devout workers who asked to be exempt from COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
plaintiffs who self-identify as Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim,
Buddhist and other faiths say they were discriminated against on the
basis of religion, and that they could have masked, tested, worked
remotely or taken other measures that would have allowed them to stay on >>> the job.
The employers have typically countered that exempting the workers from
the vaccine would have caused undue hardship to their businesses, and
that their mandates were put in place to stem the spread of the
coronavirus and keep their workforce safe.
In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upped the standard, opens new tab for
“undue hardship” to mean that granting an accommodation would impose a
“substantial cost” on the business, Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor at the
University of North Carolina School of Law who specializes in labor and
employment law, told me. “That makes it easier (for plaintiffs) to bring >>> these claims."
One of the first verdicts came in June, when a federal jury in
Chattanooga awarded, opens new tab a Tennessee woman $687,000 –
including $500,000 in punitive damages – against Blue Cross Blue Shield
of Tennessee.
Tanja Benton, who identifies as a Christian, objected, opens new tab to
the vaccine because she alleged cell lines from aborted fetuses were
used in its research and development, which “she believed to be contrary >>> to God’s law,” her lawyer Doug Hamill wrote.
(Multiple public health authorities confirm, opens new tab that the
vaccines themselves do not contain fetal stem cells.)
Hamill did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Benton reply to >>> a message sent via LinkedIn.
Benton, a data scientist who rarely interacted with clients, proposed
that she continue to work remotely from home unvaccinated. Blue Cross
allegedly refused and gave her 30 days to look for another job with the
company that didn’t require vaccination. When she didn’t find a
position, she said she was fired.
A Blue Cross spokesperson said the company "knows that vaccines save
lives," and believes its "vaccine requirement was the best decision for
our employees and members, and that our accommodation to the requirement >>> complied with the law."
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2021 guidance, opens >>> new tab said employers should “generally” proceed on the assumption that >>> an employee's request for religious accommodation is based on sincerely
held beliefs.
Blue Cross and its outside counsel from Holland & Knight, however,
suggest in a pending motion, opens new tab to set the verdict aside that >>> Benton’s objection to the vaccine was not part of a “comprehensive
belief system.” Noting for example that she’d been had flu vaccinations
in the past, the defense argued her objection was a “one-off belief
against COVID-19 vaccination” that doesn't merit legal protection.
In the BART case, defense counsel appeared to focus less on the
sincerity of the plaintiffs’ beliefs and more on the undue burden that
the subway system claimed accommodation would present.
According to the complaint filed in San Francisco federal court in 2022, >>> 179 of BART’s 3,900 employees requested religious exemptions to its
COVID vaccine mandate, which was put in place even though unvaccinated
passengers could still freely ride the trains.
About 70 of the employee requests – which included fetal stem
cell-related objections as well as concerns such as “alteration of a
divinely-created immune system” – were granted, but in every instance,
BART found it would be an undue hardship to provide an accommodation.
For workers with jobs such as station agent or police officer, I can
understand how working from home wasn’t an option.
But one employee had a full hazmat suit and offered to wear it while
working, plaintiffs counsel Kevin Snider of the non-profit Pacific
Justice Institute told me. Another cleaned empty trains at the end of
the line and unsuccessfully argued she could work alone while masked.
No accommodation “was ever good enough,” Snider said.
A BART spokesperson declined comment.
BART lawyers did manage to narrow the case when Senior U.S. District
Judge William Alsup in pre-trial ruling, opens new tab nixed the
plaintiffs’ claims that their First Amendment right to free exercise of
religion had been violated, ruling the vaccine mandate served a
legitimate public purpose in stemming the spread of COVID-19.
However, a similar “free exercise” claim survived against the North
Carolina Symphony in a ruling, opens new tab by U.S. District Judge
James Dever in Raleigh in late September.
Two French horn players, both Buddhists, objected to the taking the
COVID vaccine because it was allegedly tested on animals and used fetal
cell lines, while a Jewish violin player said he believes “his body is a >>> temple” and cannot be altered or defiled by medicine.
In refusing to dismiss the complaint, opens new tab, Dever wrote that
the plaintiffs plausibly alleged that the symphony’s president in
denying their requests wanted to promote a “vaccination ‘culture.’”
A spokesperson told me via email that the symphony's “priority has been
to protect the health and safety of our musicians and staff,” adding
that the vaccine mandate was lifted last year.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1givfyd/the_curse_of_masks_in_health_and_social_care/
The Curse of Masks in Health and Social Care: Testimony From the
Scottish Covid Inquiry
by Dr Gary Sidley 3 November 2024 1:00 PM
The U.K. Covid Inquiry – aka a hugely expensive façade striving to
justify the dominant ‘pandemic’ narrative – is up and running again, and >>> its chairperson, Lady Hallett, is continuing where she left off in her
refusal to acknowledge any significant harms of mass masking. “Some
might say getting an ulcer isn’t as bad as getting Covid” she quips
during an interview with Dr. Susan Hopkins from the U.K. Health Security >>> Agency. Thankfully, the Scottish Covid Inquiry has been much more open
and impartial, as demonstrated by its willingness to address the
profound negative consequences of wearing face coverings in health and
social care settings. In particular, personal stories describing the
dehumanising impacts upon care home residents have been truly harrowing
– Lady Hallett could usefully incorporate these testimonies into her
bedtime reading.
One powerful example was the verbal evidence of Alison Walker, a former
BBC sports presenter, who endured the trauma of both her parents
residing in a care home in 2020. Alison witnessed the mental and
physical deterioration of her mum and dad during the Covid event, and
eloquently described the prominent role that masked caregivers played in >>> this decline:
If you are surrounded by a group of people 24/7 wearing masks, and you
don’t see people smile for up to two years, what kind of effect is that
going to have on your mental health and wellbeing?
(5th video)
Surrounding residents of care homes with people wearing masks for such a >>> long period had a huge impact on them, this in conjunction with
isolating them from their loved ones and everything they know was
catastrophic.
(8th video)
The devastating consequences of denying confused elderly people human
connection – a synergy that is largely contingent on seeing the smiles
and facial expressions of other people – was repeatedly endorsed by
personnel representing frontline caring organisations. Thus, the closing >>> statement to the Inquiry from ‘Care Home Relatives Scotland’ (a
community group advocating for people who have loved ones in nursing and >>> residential settings) included the damning conclusion:
The evidence demonstrated that the use of masks caused distress,
confusion and considerable difficulties with communication. Residents
couldn’t see smiles, had difficulty recognising relatives and those with >>> hearing difficulties couldn’t lip-read or read facial expressions or
visual clues. Some witnesses spoke to being made to wear them, even for
window visits. Lucy Challoner said that her gran felt that people were
laughing at her behind them.
(There seems to have been some formal recognition of these mask-related
communication problems in 2021 when NHS Scotland spent over £5 million
of taxpayers’ money on transparent masks, only for them to be
subsequently deemed to be defective).
Masks often resulted in visiting times degenerating into an especially
frustrating experience, as indicated in the closing statement of
‘Independent Care Homes Scotland’ (a group comprising 12 independent
care home operators). Regarding window/garden visits, they recalled:
…residents not being able to hear relatives properly during these types
of visit due to physical barriers (window/masks) and/or distancing
regulations… many residents did not understand why masks, for instance,
were having to be worn or who suffered from poor hearing and/or who
relied on lip reading to communicate. This often led to distress for
residents …
Indoor visits at Homes were later permitted but again these were
burdened with social distance and PPE wearing regulation which greatly
affected residents, relatives and staff and which gave rise to awkward,
unnatural and at times distressing encounters for all concerned.
Another service provider, ‘Central Scotland Care Homes’, also
highlighted the insidious effect of masks on social interactions between >>> residents and their loved ones:
Garden visits were described as being “horrendous” with no privacy. They >>> were impractical in the Scottish climate and visitors had to shout to be >>> heard while wearing masks and sitting two meters apart.
It was not only elderly residents with dementia who suffered from the
mask mania operating within our health and social care sector. Younger
people struggling with profound/multiple learning difficulties (PMLD)
were also victims of this ideologically driven obsession:
The use of face masks caused concern because many people with PMLD could >>> not tolerate face masks. Facial expression is a key method for
communication. A mask makes it very difficult for a person with PLMD to
see a supporter’s or carer’s facial expressions. Furthermore, masks
could significantly compromise health where the user has respiratory issues.
And the harms of long-term mask wearing were not confined to those
receiving care: the professional caregivers also experienced negative
consequences. Suzanne Napier, a social care worker with Turning Point
and a union representative, told the Inquiry about the physical symptoms >>> she and her daughter endured as a direct result of prolonged mask wearing: >>>
I never in my life had sinusitis before and I had it really… really
badly and still at times suffer for it… I feel that had a real
detrimental effect to myself and others… Even people within my family
are suffering from it, regular sinusitis now… My daughter is a nurse…
her face would be red raw… literally from wearing a mask.
These honest testimonies from people directly involved in looking after
highly vulnerable service users vividly convey the profound harms of
mask requirements in health and social care. Similarly damning are the
experiences of clinical experts – captured in Smile Free’s upcoming
short film, Masking Humanity – that vividly convey the enormous harms of >>> masks in these settings. Those in positions of power and influence –
such as Lady Hallett – should take heed of these personal accounts from
those at the sharp end and do their bit to ensure that the blanket
imposition of de-humanising face coverings never happens again.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/us-news/texas-woman-jailed-during-covid-elected-to-state-legislature/
Salon owner jailed for refusing to shutter her business during COVID
lockdown wins seat in state legislature
By Jon Levine
Published Nov. 9, 2024, 7:44 p.m. ET
Salon owner Shelley Luther walking towards the media and supporters
after her release from jail in Dallas for refusing to keep her business
closed due to COVID-19 concerns
Salon owner Shelley Luther walking towards the media and supporters
after her release from jail in Dallas for refusing to keep her business
closed due to COVID-19 concerns
AP
A Texas woman jailed for operating her salon despite COVID-19 pandemic
lockdowns is moving from the big house to the state house.
Shelley Luther was ordered to jail for seven days in 2020 after Dallas
County judge found her guilty of civil and criminal contempt of court,
according to Fox 4 Dallas.
Salon owner Shelley Luther holding a citation and speaking to media
after refusing to close her reopened Salon A la Mode in Dallas, amid
virus outbreak.
3
Shelley Luther is heading to the Texas state legislature after being
jailed for violating covid lockdowns.
AP
Luther had refused to shutter the business during lockdown. She was only >>> released from jail after the personal intervention of Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott.
Now, however, she’s moving to the Lone Star state legislature, where she >>> was elected this week to represent the northeast 62d district. Luther, a >>> Republican, defeated Democrat Tiffany Drake with roughly 75% of the vote. >>>
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Kristi Lisenbee from Keller, Texas, protesting with sign outside Dallas
Municipal Court for release of jailed salon owner Shelley Luther
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Luther defeated her challenger with 75% of the vote.
AP
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“After about a month, my hairstylist were calling me saying I can’t feed >>> my kids, I don’t know what to do, so we just made the decision to open
back up, and I ended up in jail,” Luther told Fox and Friends.
“I wasn’t super political before any of this, but I’m like, you know,
somebody has to do something about this. And so we ran for our first
office shortly after that.”
Host Rachel Campos-Duffy noted that during the pandemic, some salons
were allowed to stay open — specifically those which catered to
Democratic leaders like then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Chicago
mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Dallas officials issuing a citation to salon owner Shelley Luther for
reopening her Salon A la Mode against COVID-19 regulations, April 24, 2020. >>> 3
Luther was only released from jail when Gov. Abbott personally intervened. >>> AP
Luther said she was lucky to be alive after having suffered a brain
injury during the campaign.
“I had a brain aneurysm a month and a half ago and almost died. And so
for me to walk out of that, being in the ICU for almost 30 days, the
recovery from that, and then putting my name in to run … I knew it was
my time,” she said.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://archive.md/0nhm3
The ‘Jew hunt’ in Amsterdam was no anomaly
Antisemitism, the great evil that Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned of, has >>> spread across the globe.
By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated November 13, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
Three days after a "Jew hunting" attack in Amsterdam, protesters in the
city clashed with police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Nov. 10. >>> Three days after a "Jew hunting" attack in Amsterdam, protesters in the
city clashed with police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Nov.
10.WAHAJ BANI MOUFLEH/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
The first recorded pogrom in history occurred in first-century Egypt,
when lethal mobs in Alexandria, encouraged by the Roman prefect Aulus
Avilius Flaccus, savagely attacked the city’s Jews. In the words of an
eyewitness, the renowned philosopher Philo, the mobs were merciless,
“sparing neither age nor youth, nor the innocent helplessness of infants.” >>> In Amsterdam Thursday, hundreds of attackers, carrying out a “Jew hunt”
planned hours earlier on social media, targeted Israeli tourists who had >>> traveled to the Netherlands for a soccer match. In violence that was
“terribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom,” according to Deborah
Lipstadt, the historian, diplomat, and current US envoy on antisemitism, >>> the assailants shouted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans while
they ambushed, beat, and chased the visiting Israelis. Much of the
violence was recorded on video and posted online. One witness told
Israel’s Channel 12 TV that the attackers were organized “like a terror
group” and waited for the Jewish tourists “with clubs and knives. … They >>> didn’t distinguish between women, children, men, or the elderly.”
In the 20 centuries between Alexandria and Amsterdam, Jews have faced
bloody assaults almost everywhere they have settled. There were pogroms
in Spain and in Syria, in the Rhineland and in Russia, in Turkey and in
Tunisia. The antisemitic violence in Amsterdam occurred one day before
the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organized pogrom against the
Jews of Germany and Austria that foreshadowed the coming Holocaust. It
was also the anniversary of the United Nations’ poisonous 1975
resolution falsely labeling Zionism — the movement for Jewish
sovereignty in the Jewish homeland — “a form of racism and racial
discrimination.”
Unlike most of history’s antisemitic rampages, no one was killed by
Amsterdam’s Jew-hunting mobs, and government officials expressed
revulsion and shame. “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands
during World War II,” said King Willem-Alexander, “and last night we
failed again.” The king was referring to the hundreds of thousands of
Dutch citizens who collaborated with Nazi Germany, when more than 75
percent of the country’s Jews — by far the highest percentage in Western >>> Europe — were murdered in the Holocaust. Today, unlike then, there is a
state of Israel with the ability to assist endangered Jews. Within a day >>> of Thursday’s brutality, six El Al planes were being dispatched to
evacuate the Israeli tourists. Observed The Wall Street Journal: “Jews
are again fleeing the city where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis.”
The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, acknowledged that the anti-Jewish >>> riot brought back “memories of pogroms” and called it “an outburst of
antisemitism that I hope to never see again.” She will not be so
fortunate. Since Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed in >>> the Netherlands. Thousands of chanting protesters disrupted the opening
of a Holocaust museum in March, throwing eggs, igniting fireworks, and
waving Palestinian flags. The Anne Frank monument in Amsterdam has
repeatedly been defaced. “It is now normal for Jews to be screamed at on >>> the street,” the country’s chief rabbi told a reporter in April. “It’s
more and more antisemitic.”
Everywhere is more and more antisemitic.
What happened in Amsterdam is just the latest reminder that for Jews,
safety and tolerance are never permanent. Sooner or later the
antisemitic derangement revives, usually with fearful results. It is as
close to an immutable law of history as anything can be. For some
decades after the Holocaust, when the open expression of Jew-hatred
became taboo in the civilized world, it was possible to imagine that
that “law” had been repealed. But the idyll is over. Hostility toward
Jews and the Jewish state has become fashionable — especially among the
young. On the far left and the far right, on university campuses and the >>> internet, in Europe and the Middle East and North America, antisemitism
has again become mainstream.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan saw it coming. Addressing the UN General
Assembly after its notorious Zionism-is-racism vote 49 years ago this
week, the US ambassador declared that the United States “does not
acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this
infamous act.” The UN, he said, had done something shameful and obscene. >>> It had given “the appearance of international sanction” to the
“abomination of antisemitism.” Moynihan foresaw that “the terrible lie
that has been told here today will have terrible consequences.”
It was with prophetic accuracy that he warned: “A great evil has been
loosed upon the world.” Nearly half a century later, the effects of that >>> evil are ubiquitous. Around the world Jews are again the object of
savagery and hate, threatened and demonized and attacked as they haven’t >>> been since the 1930s, hunted in the streets of cities that take pride in >>> being enlightened. What happened in Amsterdam was no anomaly. Pogroms
are coming back.
In the interim, the true Messiah of the Jews is coming back to
rapture/rescue those of us who are http://WonderfullyHungry.org
(Medical Doctor Luke 24:42-3) like (Medical Doctor Luke 6:40) Him from
the imminent Great Tribulation which is to be more terrible than the
Great Flood of Noah's time and the Great Fire&Brimstone of Lot's time.
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/raptureriddle/c/0rOSQADgVxI/m/aRPR5LyNAwAJ
So I am indeed http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1gycyz4/rude_behaviour_spiked_in_ontario_classrooms_after/
Rude behaviour spiked in Ontario classrooms after COVID-19: Brock research >>> Monday, November 04, 2024 | by The Brock News
High school students sitting at the desk in the classroom and using
smart phones with defocused teacher in the background.New Brock
University research shows incivility increased in Ontario classrooms
following school closures tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Incivility comes in many forms: texting instead of listening to a
teacher, interrupting classmates who are speaking, showing up late to class.
Following an unprecedented period of at-home learning due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, similar types of disruptive behaviour spiked in
Ontario classrooms, says Natalie Spadafora.
The Brock University Postdoctoral Fellow and her team examined the rate
of classroom incivility in elementary and high schools both before and
after pandemic-related school shutdowns, and saw a significant increase. >>>
Their findings are detailed in the recently published paper “Are child
and adolescent students more uncivil after COVID-19?”
The research team conducted two separate studies with Ontario
participants, gathering information from 308 adolescents aged nine to 14 >>> as well as 101 primary educators teaching Grades 1 to 3.
Brock University Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Spadafora.Brock University
Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Spadafora says incivility increased in
Ontario classrooms following the school shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 >>> pandemic.
They compared data from fall 2019 to that collected in fall 2022 to
gauge the impact the pandemic closures had on the behaviour of young
learners.
“Teachers reported that incivility was happening much more frequently in >>> their current classrooms than it did prior to the COVID-19 school
closures, and that there was a lack of awareness of expectations in the
classroom,” Spadafora says.
Adolescent students also self-reported engaging in significantly higher
levels of classroom incivility in the 2021-22 school year, while other
variables, such as bullying and friendships, remained relatively the same. >>>
In the retrospective study, 42 per cent of teachers surveyed for the
project reported instances of classroom incivility happening daily,
compared to only six per cent prior to March 2020. Sixty-eight per cent
also rated classroom incivility as “moderately” or “very” serious in the >>> 2021-22 school year, compared to 32 per cent before COVID-19.
“Teachers expressed there was a general lack of respect, with students
also not following instructions or caring about the consequences of
their behaviour in the classroom,” Spadafora says. “Many students were
lacking the basic elements underlining classroom civility.”
The pandemic closures, which shut down Ontario schools for about 100
days, meant children were not exposed to a typical school routine,
classroom norms and teacher direction in a classroom setting.
The primary years are a fundamental time to establish classroom
routines, behaviours and expectations, Spadafora says, adding the impact >>> the interruption to traditional learning has had is now making itself known.
Many teachers indicated that students did not have the opportunity to
learn — and educators the chance to reinforce — the “rules” of the
classroom that are emphasized as students move through subsequent grades. >>>
“These children missed out on the early days in the classroom where you
learn how to be in school,” Spadafora says. “Because of that, behaviours >>> you wouldn’t typically see in Grade 3 are presenting themselves more
frequently.”
Teachers called attention to a lack of social skills and self-regulation >>> amongst students, with an increase in children who were not used to
being part of a group. This resulted in teachers needing to provide
students with more coaching to work kindly and co-operatively with
others, Spadafora says.
Nearly all teachers — 95 per cent — reported students’ socio-emotional
skills were “lower” or “much lower” than past cohorts.
Spadafora says it’s important to pay attention to these behaviours, as
previous research by her team has indicated incivility can be a
precursor to bullying.
“If incivility is heightened after the pandemic, and we know it can
predict bullying behaviour, we should be intervening more in these
lower-level behaviours,” she says.
She encourages parents to talk to their children about manners and
civility in general.
“It all starts with being a kind, respectful person,” she says. “If you
can teach your children that at a really basic level, you’ve laid a good >>> foundation for them to build from as they head into the classroom.”
Spadafora’s team now plans to look at whether the rise in incivility has >>> continued to climb beyond the period surrounding the COVID-19 school
closures, with a particular focus on the younger demographic.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1h0t0oi/trump_picks_covid_lockdown_sceptic_jay/
Trump picks Covid lockdown critic to lead top health agency
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Getty Images Dr Jay Bhattacharya speaks at the Heritage Foundation on 10 >>> November 2022Getty Images
Dr Jay Bhattacharya co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a leading Covid lockdown
sceptic Jay Bhattacharya to be the next director of a key US public
health agency.
Trump said he had selected the Stanford University-trained physician and >>> economist to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s
biggest government-funded biomedical research entity.
Bhattacharya became the face during the pandemic of a fiercely disputed
open letter - known as the Great Barrington Declaration - that opposed
widespread lockdowns.
Tuesday's nomination rounds out Trump’s top public health team. He has
already unveiled all 15 posts for his cabinet as he prepares to take
office on 20 January.
Earlier this month Trump announced he wanted former rival Robert Kennedy >>> Jr to run the US health department. Kennedy’s vaccine scepticism has
alarmed the medical community, though his calls for stricter regulation
of food ingredients have won praise.
In a statement Trump said Bhattacharya would work with Kennedy to
"restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine
the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health
challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease".
Bhattacharya posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he was "humbled" to be
picked.
"We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy >>> of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make
America healthy again!" he wrote.
On Tuesday the president-elect also nominated Jim O’Neill - a former
federal health official and close ally of conservative donor Peter Thiel >>> - as deputy secretary of the health department.
But it is Bhattacharya who's more widely known after he challenged the
public health establishment's response to the Covid outbreak four years ago.
In October 2020, Bhattacharya co-authored an open letter known as the
Great Barrington Declaration, calling for an alternative to lockdowns,
recommending that the focus should instead be on protecting vulnerable
groups such as elderly people.
Who has joined Trump's top team?
He remains a vocal critic of how Anthony Fauci - a former director of
the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division >>> of NIH - handled the pandemic.
Then-NIH director Francis Collins said at the time the Great Barrington
Declaration, which came before Covid vaccines were available, was
dangerous, dismissing the authors as “fringe experts”.
Bhattacharya is not the only Trump nominee to have criticised the
response of US public health agencies to the pandemic.
Trump has also picked Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon who opposed
the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, to run the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Dave Weldon, a physician and former Republican congressman who has also
cast doubt on vaccine safety, was picked to run the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Kennedy and O'Neill’s department of health would oversee the agencies
run by Makary, Weldon and Bhattacharya, but all five need to be
confirmed by the Senate.
Last week Trump also nominated TV personality Dr Mehmet Oz to be the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.
While Trump’s picks for US public health agencies have broadly been
welcomed by his allies, not all of them have won a positive reception >>>from conservatives.
He has also nominated Dr Janette Nesheiwat, a Fox News medical
contributor, to become the next surgeon general.
But her previous comments opposing abortion restrictions and in support
of masking schoolchildren during the pandemic have riled some Trump
supporters.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1h1irlo/volunteer_radio_station_to_stop_broadcasting/In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
Final day of music and messages as Luton and Dunstable Hospital Radio
stops broadcasting this weekend
Olivia Preston
By Olivia Preston
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Published 25th Nov 2024, 12:38 GMT
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After 60 years on the air, L&D Radio presenters will hang up their
headphones for the final time this week as the station stops broadcasting. >>> The volunteer-led L&D Radio began in Harpenden in the 1960s and
broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the Luton and Dunstable
University Hospital, across Luton and surrounding villages.
The station and its volunteers play music, read news, have educational
speakers and send messages to people staying on the wards.
In an announcement last week, volunteers revealed their plans to close
the station.
Keith Bowden presenting L&D Radio from Futures House, in Marsh Farm.
Keith Bowden presenting L&D Radio from Futures House, in Marsh Farm.
Glyn Davies, station manager, said: “We had to move out of the hospital
into Marsh Farm Futures House, so we started paying rent, which added to >>> the cost of running the station – that’s gone over £10,000 a year. Ever
since the pandemic, we struggled to get new volunteers into the world of >>> radio."
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With a sad twist on the L&D’s catchphrase ‘Making your day with your
favourite music’, Glynn said: “So Saturday will be the last time we make >>> their day.”
Tune in to the final day of music and messages on Saturday, November 30. >>>
And listeners are being invited to pop in and see the team before they
come off the air.
Glyn added: “We're inviting our listeners to pop in and see us. We're
inviting former members of the group, which goes back a fair way, and
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GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1h58x8o/uk_new_covid_corruption_commissioner_begins/
Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe
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Jennifer McKiernan
Political reporter, BBC News•@_JennyMcKiernan
PA Media A nurse wearing yellow PPE working on a patient in the ICU
(Intensive Care Unit) of a hospital during the pandemic.PA Media
The new Covid corruption commissioner has started an investigation into
personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud.
Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of PPE bought
during the pandemic that then had to be written off the government's books. >>>
Mr Hayhoe is also likely to review the previous government's abandoning
of attempts to reclaim money from deals worth £674m.
The National Crime Agency is separately investigating possible criminal
offences committed in the PPE procurement system.
Chris Wormald to become new civil service head
Who is new Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald?
UK failed to stockpile crucial protective kit
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has asked him to try to recover the public
money lost to fraud and underperforming contracts using his experience
in procurement as the former chair of an NHS trust.
A Treasury source said: "The chancellor has been clear that she wants
this money - that belongs to the British people, and belongs in our
public services like our NHS, schools, and police – back.
"She won’t let fraudsters who sought to profit off the back of a
national emergency line their pockets.
"Tom Hayhoe brings a wealth of experience and will leave no stone
unturned as a commissioner with free rein to investigate the
unacceptable carnival of waste and fraud during the pandemic."
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) lost three-quarters of
the £12bn it spent on PPE in the first year of the pandemic, largely due >>> to inflated prices and kit that did not meet requirements.
The civil servant who presided over the DHSC during the pandemic, Sir
Chris Wormald, has now been appointed to be the UK's most senior civil
servant - the Cabinet Secretary.
One prominent company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth
more than £200 million through a so-called "VIP lane" was PPE Medpro,
linked to Baroness Michelle Mone.
Her husband has since accused the government of trying to "scapegoat"
the couple for its own failures, instead blaming the DHSC and calling
for the resignation of its top civil servant, Sir Chris.
Labour had a manifesto commitment to appoint a fixed-term commissioner
and use every means possible to recoup public money lost in
pandemic-related fraud and from contracts which have not been delivered. >>>
Mr Hayhoe's contract is for one year, supported by a small team within
the Treasury, and he will report to Reeves directly.
He will submit a report at the end of his contract with lessons and
recommendations for government procurement in the face of future crises.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1h9ceng/deaths_of_despair_vs_covid_death/
Deaths of Despair vs. Covid Death
Public Health
I remember thinking, if we increase deaths of despair (DoD) even 20%
with lockdowns, we're likely already exceeding any any COVID deaths of
young people.
Not going through a whole CDC wonder export this time, just using
ChatGPT. So not perfect data or comparison, but enlightening.
The average age of DoD is about 36, mainly in 25-49 age group. Average
COVID death 78.
DEATHS OF DESPAIR (US) from ChatGPT (all, not broken down by age bracket >>> unfortunately):
2010: Approximately 80,000
2011: ~85,000 deaths.
2012: ~90,000 deaths.
2013: ~95,000 deaths.
2014: ~102,000 deaths.
2015: ~110,000 deaths.
2016: ~118,000 deaths.
2017: ~127,000 deaths.
2018: ~130,000 deaths. (Slowing increase)
2019: ~132,000 deaths. (Slowing still)
2020: ~155,000 deaths. (Lockdown)
2021: ~176,000 deaths.
2022: ~211,000+ (incomplete, this is the tally so far)
2023: "early data suggesting similar or slightly exceeding 2022."
2024: "likely to remain around 200,000"
Compare to COVID DEATHS UNDER 50
2020: ~11,600 deaths.
2021: ~19,900 deaths.
2022: ~5,300 deaths.
2023: Estimated 2,200 deaths.
2024: Won't give me data easily, but suggests trending down. Let's say
~2,000.
At a glance, I'm seeing likely 250,000+/- additional deaths of despair
2020-2024... mostly 25-49 demographic, about 5x the covid mortality in
that group... who all got it anyway.
Obviously more nuance than this, covid death stats unreliable, etc., but >>> pretty confident my initial reaction was one to consider before burning
everything down and treating despair like an inconvenience.
Again, sacrificing the young (DoD avg. victim 36) for the elderly (Covid >>> avg. victim 78).
Those who hope (Isaiah 40:31) in the LORD Who is our #1 perfect
(Matthew 5:48) Example of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke
24:42-3) have peace (Galatians 5:22-3) from the "Prince of Peace"
(Isaiah 9:6) instead of despair.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77j4774ykyo
Monthly rent soars by £270 since pandemic, says Zoopla
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Renting a newly let property is on average £270 per month more expensive >>> than at the end of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures from
Zoopla.
Rent began to soar in 2021 because of high demand from tenants after
lockdowns were lifted and limited numbers of available properties.
The average cost of renting is now £1,270 a month, or £15,240 a year,
Zoopla said.
However, the rate at which rents are rising is now the slowest for three >>> years, the property portal has said, as potential tenants face limits on >>> what they can afford.
But average earnings in the past three years have not kept pace with the >>> steep rise in rents.
Renters have faced a "red-hot" market in recent years, with a host of
prospective tenants chasing each available property, and rents surging
on the back of the high demand. Demand is nearly a third higher than
before the pandemic.
It led some applicants to offer months of rent upfront or to write
CV-style letters to agents to try to get ahead of the competition.
Signs of cooling market
But the property portal - which covers more than 80% of the rental
market - said there were signs of this market cooling.
But those with the least to spend, in the cheapest areas, may now be
facing the sharpest rent rises.
"With more renters than there are homes to rent, people are seeking out
the best value for money," said Richard Donnell, executive director of
research at Zoopla.
"Within cities, rents are typically rising faster at the lower end of
the market."
George Carden/BBC Mid shot of four young female students standing on a
Brighton street looking to camera. From left to right - From left:
Maddie Bunting, Lauren Hart, Millie Winchester, Blyth Eling, all
students from the University of BrightonGeorge Carden/BBC
Student Blyth Eling (right) said her rent left her with 'virtually no
spending money'
That could hit those on low-incomes, as well as students.
Blyth Eling, a student at the University of Brighton who has a part-time >>> job alongside her studies, spends over £1,000 per month on rent for a
room in a flat.
She recently told the BBC that accommodation took up "pretty much all of >>> my student loan".
"It leaves me with virtually no spending money," she said.
Line chart showing year-on-year changes in average rent for new lets in
the UK from October 2014 to October 2024, according to Zoopla. Rents
rose by 3.9% in the year to October 2014. They fell to a low of 0.5% in
mid-2017, and then rose again to around 2% in late-2019, before falling
to an annual decrease of 1.6% in early-2021. They climbed again from
there, peaking at 12.3% in the year to August 2022, before gradually
falling to 3.9% in the year to October 2024.
On average, rents for newly let properties were now 3.9% higher than a
year ago, Zoopla said.
However, pockets of fast-rising rents remained. Annual rental inflation
stood at 10.5% in Northern Ireland compared with 1.3% in London.
In towns and cities, average rents are rising fastest in Rochdale (up
11.9% in a year) and Blackburn (up 10%), and Birkenhead (up 9%). Zoopla
said renters were seeking areas in and around major cities.
Landlords' concerns
Latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which covers
costs for all privately-renting tenants - including those who are not
moving - shows rents rising at 8.7% a year.
Zoopla tracks rents when homes become vacant and are re-let at an
open-market rent, accounting for about a quarter of the rental sector.
The property portal has forecast rents rising at an average rate of 4%
next year, with demand still outstripping supply.
The increase would come, in part, as a result of fewer properties being
made available by landlords.
The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) said that 31% of
landlords were planning to sell properties they rent out in the next two >>> years.
It wants changes to housing taxation and reassurances over no-fault
eviction rules.
"What tenants need is greater choice. That means encouraging and
supporting the vast majority of responsible landlords to stay and
continue to provide decent quality housing," said Ben Beadle, chief
executive of the NRLA.
Ben Twomey, chief executive of Generation Rent, which lobbies on behalf
of renters, said that more breathing space should be given to tenants
facing cost-of-living pressures.
"The government must act urgently to slam the brakes on rising rents,
whilst unfreezing the Local Housing Allowance rate will protect families >>> on low incomes from poverty and homelessness," he said.
Tackling it Together strap
Agents say there are some simple ways to make it easier to secure a
rental property, including:
Start searching well before a tenancy ends and sign up with multiple agents >>> Have payslips, a job reference and a reference from a previous landlord
to hand
Build up a relationship with agents in the area but be prepared to widen >>> your search
Be sure of your budget and calculate how much you can offer upfront
Be aware that some agents offer sneak peeks of properties on social
media before listing them.
There are more tips here and help on your renting rights here.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1him6f9/covid19_lockdowns_unleashed_a_wave_of_murder/The only godly way to have the peace and joy of the "Prince of Peace"
COVID-19 Lockdowns Unleashed a Wave of Murder
Researchers find that pandemic policies sparked a wave of violent crime. >>> J.D. Tuccille | 12.20.2024 7:00 AM
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Restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 did a huge amount of damage >>> to our liberty, prosperity, kids' education, and even our sanity. But
now there's evidence supporting what many of us suspected: Lockdowns
also contributed to a surge in crime that temporarily reversed a
decades-long decline in homicides. According to a new Brookings
Institution report, forcing young men out of work and out of school
fueled a surge in violence. Worse, this outcome was predicted.
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A Surge in Crime
It's no secret that, after years of declining crime rates, crimes
against people and property spiked in 2020 and for a period thereafter.
Most concerning was the rise in murders, which had happily been
dwindling since the early 1990s.
"In 2020, the average U.S. city experienced a surge in its homicide rate >>> of almost 30%—the fastest spike ever recorded in the country," write
Rohit Acharya and Rhett Morris in a research review for the Brookings
Institution published this week. "Across the nation, more than 24,000
people were killed compared to around 19,000 the year before."
They add that "homicides remained high in 2021 and 2022, but in 2023
they began to fall rapidly."
The surge in crime has variably been attributed to efforts to defund or
deemphasize policing that took off during the 2020 riots sparked by the
killing of George Floyd, demoralized police officers resulting from
those efforts, and the aftereffects of the social disruptions from
lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Acharya and
Morris analyzed thousands of police records and examined the timeframe >>>from which they were drawn. They find that the data best fits the last
hypothesis.
Murderous Lockdowns
"The spike in murders during 2020 was directly connected to local
unemployment and school closures in low-income areas," they conclude.
"Cities with larger numbers of young men forced out of work and teen
boys pushed out of school in low-income neighborhoods during March and
early April, had greater increases in homicide from May to December that >>> year, on average. The persistence of these changes can also explain why
murders remained high in 2021 and 2022 and then fell in late 2023 and 2024."
Interestingly, they write, "the national homicide rate was already on
track to reach a peak far above the previous year even before Floyd was
killed" and police defunding efforts gained traction.
Most violent crimes, Acharya and Morris point out, are committed by
teenage boys and young men in their twenties. Dumping them out of jobs
and out of classrooms, at loose ends and often without money in their
pockets, was a recipe for disaster. In a focused look at Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, they find similar surges in violent crime in that city after
Hurricane Katrina in 2006 and following a massive flood in 2016, both of >>> which displaced students from schools and closed many workplaces.
What's especially frustrating about the Brookings study is that we were
warned that disrupting our society with lockdowns and mandatory closures >>> would do serious social harm.
Ignored Warnings
"I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health
consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life—schools and
businesses closed, gatherings banned—will be long lasting and
calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself,"
David L. Katz, former director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research
Center, wrote in The New York Times in March 2020. "The unemployment,
impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health
scourges of the first order."
As I noted in a column that same month which quoted Katz, the
International Labour Organisation (ILO), a United Nations agency,
quantifies the degree to which shutting down economies damages societies. >>>
"For example," a 2013 report from the ILO emphasized, "a one standard
deviation increase in unemployment raises social unrest by 0.39 standard >>> deviations, while a one standard deviation increase in GDP growth
reduces social unrest by 0.19 standard deviations."
"Why would economic shutdowns lead to social unrest?" I commented at the >>> time. "Because, contrary to the airy dismissals of some members of the
political class and many ivory-tower types, commerce isn't a grubby
embarrassment to be tolerated and avoided—it's the life's blood of a
society. Jobs and businesses keep people alive."
Likewise, education keeps teenagers engaged—or at least off the streets. >>> Lockdowns killed jobs and closed schools, handing young men and teenage
boys a great deal of frustration and free time.
"The shocks of teen boys and young men being pushed out of school and
out of work in low-income neighborhoods occurred across the country just >>> before murders began to rapidly increase, and those baleful educational
and economic conditions lasted for the same period of time that
homicides remained elevated," add Acharya and Morris.
The Mistakes of the Past
These disruptions are a replay of events during past disease outbreaks.
"The number of murders and of mass shootings have both increased
dramatically," Brian Michael Jenkins, a senior adviser to the president
of the RAND Corporation and author of Plagues and Their Aftermath: How
Societies Recover from Pandemics, commented in a 2022 piece about the
impact of COVID-19. "These last two years have resembled the disorders
seen during the Plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian War and the
Black Death in the Middle Ages." He quoted Thucydides' observation that
"Athens owed to the plague the beginnings of lawlessness."
So, what to do? Acharya and Morris propose several anti-crime
interventions, but the fact is that the damage has been done and we're
now recovering to the extent we can. Murder rates have resumed their
previous decline as teens go back to school and young men regain
employment. But that's cold comfort for the families of those killed or
otherwise victimized by the crime surge. They can't regain what they
lost; they can only move on.
The best thing to do, then, is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the
past. We need to minimize social disruptions and certainly not permit
government officials to close businesses and schools by decree. A free
and prosperous society, it turns out, is a much happier and peaceful one >>> than what results from the authoritarian whims of public-health officials. >>
(Isaiah 9:6) even while subject to authoritarian whims of either
public-health officials in their vain (Psalm 127:1) attempts to stop a
plague as has happened in the past or now in the present with
https://AntiChrist45.com and his false prophet, who is falsely
prophesying that conciousness (i.e. souls) will be saved by colonizing
Mars, is by living http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12)
like (Luke 6:40) our LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Who chose to stay
quietly in the cold manger though He wanted to be in the warm arms of
mom Mary being fed and Who chose to eat the "piece of broiled fish and
honeycomb" (https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ) instead of being hangry at His
followers and disciples for losing their faith in Him.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1hnwcqv/a_silent_covid_surge_may_hit_the_us_over_the/
A ‘silent’ COVID surge may hit the US over the holidays, experts warn —
here's what that means
This year's winter COVID-19 wave is off to a late start, and experts
expect cases to keep rising. Here's what to know.
Christmas shopping with covid mask
Person wearing mask COVID surgeGetty Images / iStockphoto
Dec. 23, 2024, 4:09 PM EST / Updated Dec. 27, 2024, 3:30 PM EST /
Source: TODAY
By Caroline Kee
The United States is approaching 2025 with COVID-19 on the rise across
the country. COVID cases were already starting to tick up before the
start of the holidays, and large, indoor gatherings are likely to make
the virus spread even faster, experts say.
Some experts are warning this winter COVID wave, starting later in the
year than usual, could lead to a "silent" surge in transmission over the >>> holidays and into the new year.
They're calling it "silent" because the wave follows a long period of
unusually low COVID activity this fall, so many people are unaware that
COVID levels have risen sharply over the past two weeks, the most recent >>> wastewater surveillance data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention show.
What's more, wastewater viral activity of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that
causes COVID-19 — is currently “high” or “very high” in 28 states, per
CDC data for the week ending Dec. 21.
Despite these signs, people may not know their risk of infection is
increasing or not test if they only have mild symptoms, which can allow
the virus to spread at holiday events, during travel, and more.
“There’s a good chance that a lot of people are going to get sick in the >>> next couple of weeks and be unaware of it. Most people are not tracking
CDC data, and so their only way of knowing whether we’re in a wave is if >>> they’ve gotten sick,” Michael Hoerger, Ph.D., associate professor at
Tulane University School of Medicine and public health expert on
tracking COVID-19 trends, tells TODAY.com.
While the data do not yet show the U.S. is in a large COVID surge, the
country is entering its 10th COVID wave since the pandemic started,
Hoerger adds.
But there's a great deal of uncertainty about how bad this year's winter >>> wave will be and how long it will last. “This is a very risky time in
terms of lots of people interacting indoors, so we don’t really know how >>> quickly transmission can pick up,” Hoerger says.
A risk of "silent" transmission over the holidays
Wastewater levels of COVID-19 are lower than they were at this point
last winter, but they have risen sharply in recent weeks. And cases will >>> likely continue to increase, experts say.
As of Friday, Dec. 26, COVID-19 viral activity levels in wastewater are
high nationally, per the latest CDC data. The week prior, COVID levels
were “moderate” nationally. Just three weeks ago, they were considered
"low."
“Nationally, COVID-19 levels in wastewater have been increasing through
the month of December, following a period of low levels in October and
November,” Dr. Jonathan Yoder, deputy director of the CDC Division of
Infectious Disease Readiness and Innovation, tells TODAY.com.
Currently, COVID wastewater levels are highest in the Midwest, data show. >>>
Where COVID is spreading in the U.S.
National and regional trends of wastewater viral activity levels of
SARS-COV-2CDC
The CDC no longer tracks the total number of new COVID cases in the
U.S., instead estimating transmission levels using wastewater
surveillance, test positivity and emergency department visits.
COVID test positivity is at 7.5%, up 1.9% from the previous week, per
the latest CDC data. COVID-related emergency room visits and deaths are
also increasing slightly.
“The issue with this winter’s wave is it’s a lot different than previous >>> ones," Hoerger explains. In past years, COVID has followed a similar
pattern: Cases ramp up in November, increase steadily and peak around
late December or early January.
This wave is coming on late and “out of nowhere,” Hoerger wrote in a
post on X on Dec. 16.
“Normally people would have had a month or so of warning by now, seeing
friends and family getting infected,” Hoerger explains. "Transmission
was freakishly low for November, and so people are kind of lulled into a >>> false sense of security."
COVID-19 levels are ticking up about a month later than usual, which
puts the country into “uncharted territory," according to Hoerger.
“You can think of the start of the wave as kind of a silent transmission >>> period where people aren’t really aware of it, and that’s coinciding
with the start of holiday travel,” he explains.
Hoerger, the director of the Pandemic Mitigation Collective, uses the
PMC COVID-19 forecasting model, which projects there could be an average >>> of 900,000 new daily infections by January. The PMC New Year's Eve
forecast estimates that, if no one is testing or isolating, there is a 1 >>> in 4 chance of COVID exposure at a party of 20 and a 1 in 2 chance at a
party of 40-50.
Other experts agree that infections are expected to go up in the coming
weeks.
"We anticipate that these holiday gatherings and traveling and all that
will provide opportunities for an increase in COVID, as well as
(influenza) and RSV,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious
diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, tells TODAY.com.
“It’s silent (transmission) because most of these infections are quite
mild so people are not testing, or they’re blowing them off as a cold,"
Schaffner adds.
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What states have the highest COVID rates? Map shows where it's spreading >>> as winter approaches
While this year's late summer COVID surge provided the U.S. population
with some immunity, it's likely starting to wane, the experts say. And
the current variants circulating, including XEC and the decedents of the >>> FLiRT family, are highly transmissible.
"These current variants are causing a lot of milder infections, which
are going largely undetected," says Schaffner, adding that people with
mild or no symptoms can still spread the virus to others.
"The communicability of these viruses is contributing to a silent
epidemic, if you will," he says.
Where COVID is spreading in the U.S.
Where COVID is spreading in the U.S.
Current wastewater viral activity level of SARS-CoV-2 by state in the
U.S.CDC
As of Dec. 21, wastewater viral activity of COVID is currently "very
high" in 14 states, according to the latest CDC data. These are:
Arizona
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Wyoming
As of Dec. 21, COVID wastewater levels are "high" in 14 states:
Arkansas
Connecticut
Delaware
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Michigan
Ohio
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Wisconsin
“If you see increased COVID-19 wastewater viral activity levels in your
area, it might indicate that there is a higher risk of infection,” says
Yoder.
However, regional variation in wastewater data also depend on the number >>> and specific location of wastewater surveillance sites that are
monitoring, says Hoerger. Some states have no data, and others only have >>> limited coverage. “Take regional variation with a grain of salt,” he adds. >>>
Overall, decreases in testing and lags in reporting can make it
challenging to accurately track COVID-19 levels, the experts note.
COVID-19 symptoms in 2024
The symptoms caused by the dominant variants circulating, XEC and
KP.3.1.1, are very similar to those caused by previous omicron
subvariants, according to experts.
Common COVID-19 symptoms include:
Sore throat
Congestion
Runny nose
Cough
Fatigue
Headache and body aches
Fever or chills
Shortness of breath
Nausea or loss of appetite
Diarrhea
Loss of sense of taste or smell
Symptoms will vary from person to person. Even milder infections can be
"debilitating" for several days, says Schaffner.
Although the latest COVID-19 variants appear to be causing milder
disease, they can still cause severe illness requiring hospitalization.
Certain people are at higher risk of developing severe disease. These
include people over the age of 65, people with underlying medical
conditions and people who are immunocompromised.
Every time a person is infected with COVID, they are at risk of
developing long COVID, which can cause symptoms that persist and
reemerge for weeks or months after infection, per the CDC.
Are new COVID boosters effective?
The updated COVID-19 vaccine for 2024–2025 is recommended by the CDC for >>> everyone ages 6 months and older.
The new mRNA COVID vaccine is monovalent, which means it targets one
variant — in this case, the KP.2 "FLiRT" variant. The strains currently
circulating are closely related to KP.2, and the new booster should
provide good protection, TODAY.com previously reported.
However, uptake of the new vaccine has been low so far — just 21% of
adults in the U.S. have gotten the shot, per the latest CDC data.
“The best protection is to get vaccinated. Although vaccinated people
sometimes get infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, staying up
to date on COVID-19 vaccines significantly lowers the risk of getting
very sick, being hospitalized, or dying from COVID-19," says Yoder.
How to protect yourself against COVID-19
When COVID-19 levels are rising, it's important for people to take steps >>> to protect themselves and their families, according to the CDC.
You can take the following actions to avoid infection and prevent
spreading COVID-19 to others:
Stay up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations.
Test if you have symptoms or an exposure.
Stay home when sick.
Seek treatment for COVID-19 if you are at high risk.
Wear a mask.
Practice social distancing.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/01/04/from-the-res-ipsa-loquitur-files-fords-anti-israel-tweets/
From the Res Ipsa Loquitur Files: Ford’s Anti-Israel Tweets
January 4, 2025 / Jack Marshall
Some questions present themselves, such as,
How much trust should we place in the management of a company that can’t >>> staff and oversee its social media accounts better than this?
Is mere firing sufficient punishment for an employee who would post
those? Such an egregious level of betrayal of an employer should carry a >>> lifetime brand, like the scarlet letter.
What could someone guilty of such conduct do to redeem himself?
Ford’s headquarters are in Detroit, an area with a large Arab-American
population with strong pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel sentiments. You
would think that this incident would be sufficiently predictable that
special care would be taken to avoid it. Clearly, that didn’t happen.
The incident is also magnified because of the ugly legacy of the
company’s anti-Semitic founder, Henry Ford, who among other things
promoted the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Henry’s company’s apology was about as inept as one would expect from
one that allowed this to occur: “Our X account was briefly compromised
and the previous three posts were not authorized or posted by Ford,” a
spokesperson said. “We are investigating the issue, and apologize for
any confusion caused.”
Ford apologizes for the “confusion”?
The only godly way to defeat bigotry which includes "anti-Israel
sentiment" is by lifting up the #1 perfect (Matt 5:48) Example of
living "wonderfully hungry" ( https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ).
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
Gaza has fourteen days to surrender unconditionally.
Or else.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel, including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah now but also all
others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
Source:
https://bit.ly/3PqCwTM
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1hxlbhp/we_should_not_be_made_to_forget_about_lockdown/
We Should Not Be Made to Forget About Lockdown
Sensationalism and stupidity reshaped the world. We should remember.
Matt Whiteley
Jan 09, 2025
A friend of mine’s wife is a paediatric nurse who works in a ward that
is, like most NHS hospitals at the moment, completely overrun. She
happened to mention that the nurses refer to the current raft of sick
children as “lockdown babies,” in other words, those who were incubated >>>from accumulating immunity to germs because they were shut in their
houses for the best part of two years.
We’ve forgotten about that now, haven’t we? At the time, those who
objected to the idea of government’s rationing the public’s daily walks
or interaction with their friends, made the point that the danger of
such an act was the sacrifice of the future for the present, the payment >>> of huge and diffuse consequences in exchange for the capitulation to
sensationalism.
So it is not beholden to the media that were clamouring for lockdowns
and promulgating said sensationalism to now pay attention to the fact
that you can see the scars of lockdown almost everywhere in society, >>>from health and mental health to culture, politics, in our relationship
to technology, and to one another.
Even in the most absurd places, even in a generation’s relationship to
sex. Recently there has been outcry across media outlets at the
popularity of OnlyFans girls such as Bonnie Blue staging mass orgies
with “barely legal” young boys and Lily Phillip’s sleeping with 101 men
in a day and ending up being filmed in floods of tears because of the
emotional exhaustion.
When and why do you think these people and the many others they
represent started to say “f*ck it” and began doing this? Yeah, lockdown. >>> Lockdown when all social accountability was stifled, when the seemingly
endless, plan-less, indefinite state of lockdown felt like there was no
reason to think normality would ever return, when politicians were
talking about us accepting that this dystopian reality is the “new
normal,” selling sexual content to people you will never see for easy
money seems like an obvious and perfectly reasonable outcome. At the
other end is a generation of young men doing what young men are
obviously going to do when locked in their houses with nothing to do
except flick on their computer screens.
In fact we have not noticed the way in which the subtle features of
dystopia that lockdown induced have never really left us. Lockdown
convinced us that atomisation is somehow acceptable and survivable,
propelled us into Elon Musk’s world where social media is the new media, >>> it’s truth is the truth and our silos are where we shall remain.
Countless public figures have gone down the conspiracy theory or
political rabbit holes never to return, where the mildest suspicion
about whether coerced mass vaccination was a legitimate idea led
gradually to the unravelling of institutional trust altogether, and with >>> it not freedom from the tyranny of a controlled narrative but credulity
to any narrative selling the opposite.
Then there is the generation of children not properly socialised during
crucial periods?—?periods that we know if socialisation does not happen
there are lifelong effects. The generations of missed education, of
addiction to screens, lack of exposure to the world, of the collapsing
of social accountability.
Then there is the fact that the last four years in the UK have seen the
highest rates of alcohol related deaths ever recorded, that 2020 was the >>> first time in two decades when the rates of decline of smoking slowed
considerably, which continued throughout the pandemic. An illness that
affected mostly those with co-morbidities, many of them related to
lifestyle, saw health messaging that led to most people waiting it out
with a takeaway and a bottle of wine. What else would you do?
Then there is the warped sensationalism that justified lockdown in the
first place. The BBC reports today that because of the current scale of
Flu cases patients in A&E in Liverpool are facing up to 50 hour waits.
Two days. Which is to say that emergency departments are essentially not >>> operational. This is nothing short of a medical crisis, an absolute
catastrophe, a horrific, dire situation, a situation arguably worse than >>> the covid pandemic. In fact, the NHS has today declared the pressure to
be as bad as the “height of the pandemic.”
But it barely even breaks the front pages of the news. Why not? Why
shouldn’t the entire country be on crisis footing, shouldn’t we be
banning person to person contact to ease the burden and “flatten the
curve?” Ambulance waiting times, A&E times, woeful cancer treatment
times, all these things are actually costing lives, and we don’t care
because it can’t be translated into the same kind of sensationalism that >>> covid could during lockdown.
But besides rehashing old complaints and arguments about lockdowns, it
is more important to consider how it happened, why media and governments >>> became so simplistic minded and short sighted, and what it actually means. >>>
Misinformation, Misinformation
If you cast your mind back to the murky, parallel universe days of the
pandemic, you would remember the obsession with the word misinformation. >>> Everyone from the then social media overlords, to the news outlets, to
governments made themselves concerned with the “spread of
misinformation,” probably expressed by the then prime minister of New
Zealand Jacinda Ardern announcing that the government “will continue to
be your single source of truth, unless you hear it from us, it is not
the truth.” With this came a million news stories from the BBC obsessed
with correcting “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation.”
Yet the irony is that the entire of the lockdown movement depended on
the public believing things that weren’t true, and on a perception of
the situation built on sensationalism and the opposite kind of
misinformation that the most part of the news was concerned with.
I remember the very first confirmed cases of covid in the UK. I remember >>> then it feeling like a science fiction movie, how the news reported
every case with a kind of looming terror. One imagined them strapped to
ventilators fighting for their lives, a belief confirmed by images
circulating on social media of people collapsing in China and being
dragged away screaming by men in hazmat suits.
Of course, looking back, this seems comical. Most of those early covid
“victims” were probably sitting in an isolation room reading a magazine
wondering when they could go home. As Jeremy Clarkson tweeted after
reports of him “battling” covid in 2021: “Dear the newspapers. I didn’t
“battle” Covid. I lay on my bed reading a book till it went away.” Yet
If you’d gone door to door in March 2020 as we were plunged into
lockdown and asked the public the average age of death of covid, most
people would have not said “80.” I’d guess they’d have said 40 or 50.
On a daily basis the BBC was filled with stories they’d found of young
healthy people being struck down. This reporting, at a time such as
lockdown when people were drip fed the news as their entire way of
trying to understand what the f*ck was going on, meant that a mistruth
was smuggled under the door. People simply believed for some time that
covid was catastrophically worse than it was.
Not to say it wasn’t serious enough, it was, and for some people it was
tragic. Healthy people really were struck down. But so is flu today,
right now, so are 50 hour waits in A&E, and if they BBC wanted to they
could find the same kinds of cases right now, because sadly that is
reality. The problem was that this reporting was filtered through a
newly created dynamic in which anyone not saying that covid was
basically winged ebola was a “conspiracy theorist” spreading
“misinformation.”
So you weren’t allowed to ask how the decision was made that the
response to a bad winter respiratory virus was meant to be the rationing >>> of daily dog walks, the interruption of education, the banning of social >>> contact, the ruin of businesses, the wrecking of mental health, in
short: the suffocation of the orientation points of human meaning and
connection.
Or indeed, where it came from. The fact that by March 2020 cases in
Wuhan seemed to be receding seemed to be justification enough that
copying the policy of a country that literally welded doors shut to keep >>> people in quarantine was somehow a morally legitimate idea for
democratic Western countries. No one ever pointed out that no
epidemiologist before 2020 had ever even heard of the idea of lockdown,
yet almost overnight they all appeared on out televisions as if they
were experts on it. ‘Pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’ became synonymous in the
news, when the BBC wrote about schools, for example, it wasn’t the
‘effect of lockdowns’ it was the ‘effect of the pandemic.’ Because all
pandemics mean lockdown now.
The irony, then, is that news and governments were content with this
“misinformation” because it served the agenda of compliance with
restrictions. By misinformation they meant anything not in line with
“covid-bad-restrictions-good” and resulting in obedience. Sadly, some
leaders actually liked it. There is no question that during the Canadian >>> truckers protest, when even struggling single parents who donated 10
dollars to the protest found their bank accounts frozen, that the absurd >>> abuse of power on the part of Trudeau was a corollary of the dynamic of
lockdown. Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
The snapping point for a lot of people was when this same dynamic was
applied to vaccination. A six month old vaccine was virtually mandated,
in some countries literally mandated, and anyone who observed that given >>> that the FDA expects most vaccines to be tested for five years before
they are considered safe, calling a six month old vaccine “safe and
thoroughly tested” wasn’t just fast and loose with the truth but a
transparent lie, was suddenly an “antivaxxer.” It’s unsurprising then
how many people were flung down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. If
people are popping up on social media telling you the government is
lying to you, when the government is literally lying to you, why not
believe them?
If you are Elon Musk, you now believe free speech on social media is the >>> solution. His catchphrase has become “you are the media now,” a
representation of the belief that X provides an unfiltered access to
facts and a freedom from the tyranny of the mainstream media narrative.
The problem though is that social media was half the cause in the first
place. Social media algorithms siloed people into entrenched and
absolute positions and ran events through the inevitable catastrophising >>> of the attention economy. Consider, for example, how every time anything >>> to do with Russia and Ukraine is in the news, immediately “nuclear” and
“world war three” start trending. In a time where clarity instead of
sensationalism is what is needed to make sense of a situation, social
media projects the maddest and the worst of a situation: it is
absolutely useless. It was social media that in part created the bough
wave of mad sensationalism that made lockdown possible in the first
place; the images of hazmat suits and screaming covid patients were
around the world before the facts about covid had got their pants on and >>> made it out of Wuhan.
Maybe I’m pessimistic, but I actually don’t think we can recover from
it. I think the blown trust in establishment media is so damaging its
consequences are too enormous to track, I think our new dependence on
social media is terrible for the possibility of any decent political
discourse, and I think almost every public crisis since has leant upon
the same idiotic dynamics. The world is reshaping itself politically,
culturally and technologically because of the effects of the maddest few >>> years in a long time in our history.
But we can begin to look at the causes of the madness, and we can bring
ourselves into some fresh air. We can recognise that real human
perspective is vital, that representing disagreement as an extreme to be >>> shunned as conspiratorial and sinister is a disingenuous and appalling
way to deal with people’s legitimate concerns. We can remember precisely >>> what makes liberal democracies so precious and valuable, before they are >>> sold down the river to populism or tyranny. We can have better dialogue. >>> It is the strangest of times, and in many ways it still feels like we
are wandering around in the dream world we were cast into in 2020. But
we can wake up. We can be us again.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://jeffjacoby.com/28340/the-terrible-deja-vu-of-an-israel-hamas-hostage
The terrible déjà vu of an Israel-Hamas hostage deal
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
January 15, 2025
Send
Supporters greet a busload of Palestinian security prisoners heading to
Gaza City after they were released in exchange for a kidnapped Israeli
soldier, Gilad Shalit, in October 2011. Among the prisoners turned loose >>> were the men who would mastermind the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror
atrocity in Israel.
FOR THE past 15 months, Israel has fought with brilliance and tenacity
to crush Hamas and ensure that an unspeakable atrocity like the one the
terrorist group unleashed on Oct. 7, 2023, never recurs. Yet now it is
on the point of making a grievous blunder — of repeating a grievous
blunder — that all but guarantees that more Israelis will be killed,
maimed, and abducted in future atrocities.
According to multiple news accounts based on information from
negotiators meeting in Qatar, Hamas and Israel are close to finalizing a >>> deal for the release of some of the hostages, nearly all of them
civilians, who have been held in Gaza for more than 460 days. Under the
agreement's reported terms, 33 of the 98 hostages still in Hamas
captivity (not all of them alive) would be freed in exchange for a
six-week cease-fire and the release of an estimated 1,300 Palestinian
security prisoners, including as many as 200 who are serving life
sentences for murder. Negotiations to return additional Israeli hostages >>> would begin during the third week of the cease-fire.
The proposed agreement would also require Israeli forces to withdraw >>>from the narrow buffer zone that separates Gaza from Egypt. For years
leading up to Oct. 7, Hamas smuggled enormous quantities of weapons,
ammunition, construction material, and personnel into Gaza by building
tunnels across the corridor. As recently as Dec. 25, 2024, Israel's
defense minister insisted that Jerusalem would never permit Hamas to
regain control of the corridor.
All of which means that if this deal is approved, it is a certainty that >>> Israeli hostages will remain in Gaza's dungeons and that hundreds of
Palestinian militants — including many with blood on their hands — will
return to the fight. Despite everything Israel has done to destroy
Hamas's infrastructure and decapitate its leadership, it will remain a
deadly foe capable of plotting further atrocities.
Will Israel never learn?
On numerous occasions in the past, Israeli governments have agreed to
similarly lopsided exchanges with terrorist organizations like Hamas,
Hezbollah, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Time and again,
Israel has paid for the freedom of a few hostages or prisoners of war,
or sometimes just their remains, by releasing hundreds of violent
prisoners, many of them responsible for the deaths of civilians. Time
and again, the newly freed terrorists have picked up where they left off. >>>
In May 1985, after nearly a year of negotiation, Israel agreed to
release 1,150 Palestinian prisoners convicted of murder and other
security offenses in exchange for three Israeli soldiers held by the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a notorious terror group. >>> Among those released was a Muslim Brotherhood operative named Ahmed
Yassin, who had served less than two years of a 13-year sentence for
unlawfully stockpiling weapons and establishing jihadist cells. Once
freed, Yassin resumed his terrorist activity. In 1987 he launched Hamas
for the purpose of exterminating Israel and carrying out the mass murder >>> of Jews.
In October 2011, to bring home a kidnapped soldier named Gilad Shalit,
Israel let 1,027 security prisoners walk free. Among those released were >>> two notorious Palestinian terrorists, Yahya Sinwar and Rawhi Mushtaha.
Sinwar went on to become Hamas's senior commander and Mushtaha his top
lieutenant; together they planned the horrific events of Oct. 7.
By agreeing to let murderous and implacable enemies like Yassin, Sinwar, >>> and Mushtaha go free, in other words, Israel has repeatedly paved the
way for more innocent victims to be killed, tortured, and traumatized.
Now it seems ready to do so again — and most Israelis are fine with
that. Not because they are unaware of the devil's bargain they are
striking, but because the moral obligation and emotional yearning to
redeem captives is so deeply entrenched in the psyche of the Jewish
state that for most Israelis, every other consideration pales in importance.
An opinion survey released this week finds that 64 percent of Israelis
support releasing even terrorists with "blood on their hands" if that is >>> the price of bringing hostages home.
Would they feel that way if they knew in advance exactly which innocent
victims would lose their lives, limbs, or liberty at the hands of the
violent prisoners to be exchanged for (some of) the hostages? Does the
moral obligation to redeem captives require Israel to, in effect,
condemn innumerable others to death — or fates worse than death?
On Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the few
high-ranking Israeli officials to condemn the impending agreement,
called it "a catastrophe." He is right. The way to bring home the
hostages is to achieve the goal Israel's leaders have repeatedly
articulated — a total victory over Hamas culminating in its
unconditional surrender. Another wholesale release of prisoners will not >>> speed such a victory but prevent it. It will mean new pain, loss, and
grief. And it will guarantee that this terrible war, which has already
cost Jews and Arabs so much, will cost them even more.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel, including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah now but also all
others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
Of course!
Source:
https://bit.ly/3PqCwTM
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://thediplomat.com/2024/12/did-filipino-americans-help-trump-win-nevada
Did Filipino-Americans Help Trump Win Nevada?
Swing voters in a battleground state may have leaned right.
Sribala Subramanian
By Sribala Subramanian
December 11, 2024
Did Filipino-Americans Help Trump Win Nevada?
A Donald Trump campaign billboard on Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas,
Nevada, August 18, 2024.
Credit: ID 333882490 © Jerome Cid | Dreamstime.com
“Let’s do a poll.”
Donald Trump was addressing a campaign rally outside Las Vegas two weeks >>> before the November 5 election. The event was an outreach to
Asian-American voters in Nevada, the “swingiest” of the battleground states.
“Which do you like more?” asked the former president, referring to tax
exemptions. “Tips. Overtime. Social Security?” Tax cuts on Social
Security got the loudest cheer from the crowd.
“That’s amazing. . . the seniors always win,” said the 78-year-old
candidate, who ended the rally with a pretend golf swing as “YMCA” by
the Village People played over the speakers.
Trump won Nevada by 3 percentage points, flipping the state Republican
for the first time in 20 years.
Did Asian-American voters put the former president over the finish line? >>>
A Washington Post report based on exit poll results showed that 61
percent of Asian voters in Nevada cast their ballot for Trump while 38
percent voted for the Democratic Party’s candidate, Kamala Harris.
Asian-American support for the former president was the highest among
any ethnic group in the state, surpassing even white voters (the
Republican base) by 7 points.
As the largest Asian subgroup in Nevada, Filipino-American voters may
have contributed to the “red wave” that swept across the state.
The Filipino community in the U.S. has historically voted for the
Democratic Party and a pre-election poll indicated that Kamala Harris
was their preferred candidate. However, the AAPI (Asian American and
Pacific Islander) election survey released in September found that
Filipino voters had grown disenchanted with both parties.
About 30 percent of respondents identified as independents, a 6-point
increase from 2020. Filipino voters listed the cost of housing, crime,
and Social Security as high-priority issues that would influence their
choice of candidate in the election.
The head of Turning Point Action, a conservative youth organization that >>> hosted the Nevada rally viewed the community’s growing non-partisan
profile as an opportunity for the Republican Party. “This is a group
that is poised to resonate powerfully with President Trump’s message of
economic empowerment, law-and-order, safe streets, and a return to
orderly, sane immigration policies,” said 31-year-old activist Charlie Kirk.
Both campaigns made a concerted effort to engage the community. At the
Turning Point rally, Trump drew attention to the fact that “so many
amazing Nevada Filipinos” were in the audience. The Harris campaign
focused on heritage and culture putting up billboards with the Tagalog
greeting, “Mabuhay!”
“There was very strong support for President Trump . . . in the state of >>> Nevada,” said Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Philippines’ ambassador to the
U.S., in an interview with the ABS-CBN News. Many Filipino American
voters, he noticed, “were not ashamed to admit” that they wanted to see
Trump back in the White House.
Romualdez pointed out that Filipino voters are “conservative in their
thinking.” An older generation of immigrants, many of whom are
practicing Catholics, support the Republican Party’s platform on abortion. >>>
Trump’s message on illegal immigration struck a chord with naturalized
citizens from the Philippines, who are reluctant to legitimize the
status of undocumented workers from their home country. Romualdez urged
Filipinos without a secure path to citizenship to “leave voluntarily
because once you are deported you can never come back to the United States.”
In a post entitled “Anatomy of a red wave – How Trump won Nevada,” the
non-partisan Nevada Independent commented that “Trump had a clearer,
simpler message than Harris – the people in power made prices high, and
he would fix it.” At the rally, Trump brought up “kitchen table”
concerns saying, “Everybody I speak to, they talk about groceries. . .
your foods have gone up 50, 60, 70 percent.”
Trump’s pitch to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits was popular >>> with Filipino-Americans across the country. “His concerns for the
elderly is admirable,” a first-time voter from Oklahoma told ANC 24/7, a >>> Philippines-based news channel. A tax break on Social Security was “good >>> news” she explained since her retirement benefits were due next year.
A month after the election, however, one Republican lawmaker who had
been briefed on the incoming administration’s plans to cut federal
spending declared “nothing is sacrosanct” implying that Social Security
and Medicare costs would not be excluded from budget-related discussions. >>>
In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, James Zarsadiaz a
historian at the University of San Francisco and Director of the
Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program wrote: “The 2024 election results
make clear: The Asian American electorate has shifted further right.”
In the interim, Trump is most definitely **the** AntiChrist of the
imminent Great Tribulation:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15wGs6DUb6/
There is absolutely only one way to be rapture/rescue ready:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14pFRtAXtU/
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1igyinn/uk_starmer_denies_voice_coach_visit_during/
Starmer denies voice coach visit during lockdown broke Covid rules
Politics
Welsh politics
Keir Starmer
Monday 3 February 2025 at 5:40pm
Keir Starmer.
Credit: PA
Sir Keir Starmer has denied breaking lockdown rules after it emerged he
met a voice coach during the winter of 2020.
Speaking on Monday at a press conference with Nato chief Mark Rutte, he
was asked whether he broke the rules that were in place during the pandemic.
“Of course not,” the PM replied.
The prime minister reportedly employed Leonie Mellinger to help him
prepare a response to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, according to a book
by two Sunday Times journalists.
Get In, by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, claims classically
trained dramatist Ms Mellinger advised the prime minister on his
speaking style.
Excerpts of the book published in the Sunday Times said she qualified
for “key worker” status and visited Labour Party headquarters wearing a
face mask in December 2020, to advise Sir Keir on how to publicly
respond to the Brexit deal.
A Labour spokesman said: "The rules were followed at all times."
Elsewhere in excerpts of the book, Downing Street chief of staff Morgan
McSweeney is said to have described his principal as “like an HR
manager, not a leader”.
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Mr McSweeney is claimed to have voiced fears in private that the prime
minister “might be too timid”, but also described Sir Keir as “very
bright” and “not completely unpolitical”.
Another unnamed ally is claimed to have said Sir Keir was not “driving
the train” but sitting at the front of an automatically driven one, akin >>> to London’s Docklands Light Railway.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1ikeutk/flu_levels_now_highest_since_2009_pandemic_cdc/
Flu levels now highest since 2009 pandemic, CDC reports
healthwatch
By Alexander Tin
Edited By Paula Cohen
Updated on: February 7, 2025 / 10:44 PM EST / CBS News
Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been
since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to figures
published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amid >>> this winter's second wave of the virus.
Close to 8% of visits for respiratory illness to outpatient providers,
including urgent cares and doctors offices, reported to the CDC this
week were people sick with influenza. That is the worst on record in the >>> CDC's influenza surveillance network since late 2009, during the swine
flu pandemic.
While most flu seasons usually see a resurgence of infections after the
winter holidays, this winter's flu wave has now reached unusually high
levels compared to recent years.
That has driven overall levels of respiratory illness to "very high"
levels for the first time this season, despite a smaller and
now-decreasing wave of COVID-19 in recent months.
Other influenza metrics are also far above recent peaks nationwide,
including in emergency rooms and from testing laboratories. Data
collected by the CDC from labs found 31.6% of tests last week were
positive for influenza, close to double the 18.2% at last season's peak. >>>
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The CDC says that most states are at "high" or "very high" levels of
influenza activity, though some states may have now reached their peak.
CDC flu map
As of Feb. 6, 2025, most states have "high" or "very high" levels of
flu-like illness. This map from the CDC uses the proportion of
outpatient visits to health care providers for influenza-like illness
(ILI) to measure the level within a state.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Influenza infections are "likely growing" in 15 states, the agency's
disease forecasters predict, and are either now flat or starting to
decline in most other states.
One of the states where influenza is "likely growing" is Kentucky, where >>> pediatric infectious specialist Dr. Kris Bryant says she's seeing
"extraordinarily high numbers" of positive cases in children. At Norton
Children's Hospital, there were 3,000 positive cases just last week, she >>> said, calling the uptick "worrisome."
"We tend to focus on flu as a respiratory viral illness, but some
parents don't realize that it can cause seizures, even rarely an
inflammation of the brain, and pediatricians are reporting cases of that >>> across the U.S.," Bryant said.
Flu vaccination rates in children is at its lowest level in six years,
according to the CDC. This year, fewer than half of Americans have been
vaccinated. Bryant suspects "vaccine hesitancy" could be playing a role
in the trend.
Unlike the 2009 pandemic, lab tests around the country suggest cases are >>> still from the usual seasonal variants of the virus, and not a new
strain that has spilled over from animals.
While farms have been grappling with a record surge of H5N1 bird flu in
poultry driving up egg prices, and a new potentially lethal strain in
dairy cows, only a handful of human cases have been confirmed from bird
flu in the U.S. Investigations have linked cases to direct contact with
sick animals, not human-to-human transmission.
Janet Shamlian contributed to this report.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1iqmk3n/i_didnt_have_the_numbers_in_front_of_me_yet_to/
Deborah Birx from her memoir, explaining how "two weeks to flatten the
curve" was just marketing for harsh, months-long lockdowns that she was
really planning:
"On Monday and Tuesday [March 9th and 10th, 2020]…we worked
simultaneously to develop the flatten-the-curve guidance I hoped to
present to the vice president at week’s end. Getting buy-in on the
simple mitigation measures every American could take was just the first
step leading to longer and more aggressive interventions. We had to make >>> these palatable to the administration by avoiding the obvious appearance >>> of a full Italian lockdown. … No sooner had we convinced the Trump
administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I
was trying to figure out how to extend it. Fifteen Days to Slow the
Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn’t have the
numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but >>> I had two weeks to get them."
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kimpresser_hamas-terrorist-confesses-he-raped-a-woman-activity-7297380164563292160-cexw/
What he did to the least of the Judenfraulein, he did unto St. Mary, >>> mother of Christ!
Bottom line is as given today in a Facebook group sponsored by the
free U.S. press:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14EHLTCShrT/
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1iz2ca0/counting_the_dead_how_the_uk_failed_at_the/
Counting the dead
How the UK failed at the logistics of death when it mattered most
Laura Dodsworth
Feb 26, 2025
The Day of Reflection – But Not on Everything
On 9th March 2025, the government wants us to reflect—but only on
approved narratives. Missing from their script are the long-term
consequences of lockdowns, mandates, economic devastation, and social
division.
In the lead-up to this carefully curated day, I’ll be publishing a
series of articles which offer alternative reflections. Today, an
article originally published in The Critic magazine on 11th September 2020. >>>
We humans keep dying. We always have. We always will. In 2019,
approximately 57,000,000 people died globally, and 600,000 people in the >>> UK, which equates to 1,600 people per day. As the only real certainty of >>> life is that we are all going to die, we should be better at the death
business by now.
It’s important to count the dead. We count the big numbers and compare
them annually – excess deaths are a barometer that “something is
happening”. But we also need to know and record how people die for
public health management: planning NHS resources in the future, to
inform government policy, for legal and jurisprudence reasons, and to
provide certainty and alleviate the concerns and grief of the bereaved’s >>> family.
While death and disease have dominated the headlines in the UK for most
of 2020, we’re less good at considering our own demise. Perhaps the
potent blend of death tolls in the headlines and our intrinsic fear of
death blunted the nation’s ability to scrutinise exactly what these
totals actually mean.
The UK’s emergency legislation in response to Covid-19 has radically
changed how deaths are registered. If the Imperial modelling that
predicted 500,000 deaths came to pass, it would be essential to fast
track the registering and disposal of bodies. The UK did not want an
Italy or Ecuador situation with bodies piling up. But this came at a
cost: at a time when it is crucial to understand why people are dying,
we have less clarity due to the changes in registration and recording,
and due to lack of preparedness there are other social costs to count.
“Unprecedented” has been horribly over-used this year – and simply does
not stack up against other bad flu years – but it should not equal
“unplanned”. Ministers claimed not to have read the 2016 Exercise Cygnus >>> pandemic planning report. Before Cygnus there was 2007’s Exercise Winter >>> Willow, as well detailed debriefs into SARS, MERS, H1N1 and even Ebola.
Plans should have been robust and flexible, but the NHS and Public
Health England were ill-prepared in terms of surge capacity and PPE stocks. >>>
“Unprecedented” is no excuse when pandemics are the basic bread and
butter of disaster planning. Lucy Easthope is a disaster planner with a
special interest in pre-emptive pandemic and recovery planning. She has
advised the government on Covid-19, as well as Grenfell, the Salisbury
Novichok poisoning and the Manchester bombing. She is the visible
representation of the depth and detail of the UK’s disaster preparation
and puts lie to the so-called lack of planning. She said, “The media and >>> the government have sold the idea that no one could have expected this,
but a pandemic is the most likely national risk, and very well prepared
for in the Home Office and the Cabinet.”
Easthope is involved in planning for excess death and told me the UK is
ready to store thousands of bodies: “For every Covid-19 death we would
estimate another four deaths over two to five years, and that is how we
plan body storage. You see extra deaths for domestic violence and
obstetrics, delayed or missed oncology diagnosis, no admission to A&E,
sepsis, suicide.”
So, should we have locked down? She is cautious, saying, “The virus is
nasty, and it must be respected. Some social changes would be essential, >>> but otherwise I would advocate business as usual. The idea that
essential civil function and hospitals would shut is incredible. In a
pandemic you plan to keep as much open as possible.”
I spoke to a coroner (who does not wish to be named) who confirmed that
the UK quickly increased mortuary capacity. They think the lockdown and
changes to death registrations were necessary when knowledge was scant
and threatened by having to house and process 500,000 bodies. As it
turned out, “the epidemic was essentially the sort of pressure we get
over a normal winter. It was way less than what we had planned for.”
A scientific advisor deeply embedded in Whitehall also spoke to me
anonymously. They told me they warned that there would be severe
consequences for excess deaths if the country locked down. “Lockdown was >>> not the way to go,” they said. “Bluntly, you should try and power
through an epidemic. Lockdown was obviously going tank the economy. We
have never trained for a lockdown like this. You don’t do it for a
coronavirus. I’ve been through all my papers. It’s just not something we >>> do.”
Except we did. The difficulty now is that although death totals are
confidently asserted, the relaxation of the death registration in order
to cope with the worst-case scenario, means we don’t really know how
many people have died of Covid-19. Where once a doctor had to have seen
the deceased within 14 days of death to sign off a death certificate,
now it is 28 days. And in a time of social distancing, what does
“seeing” actually mean? It might be a zoom appointment or telephone
call. Remote verification of the body is even possible by someone who is >>> not a medical professional although they should be independent of family >>> members.
The problem is the UK does not have a functioning Medical Examiner
system. It was being rolled out in England and Wales to add a
safeguarding scrutiny to non-coronial deaths and improve the quality of
death certification. A second, more senior doctor should agree the
proposed cause of death. This would mean arbitrary rules like 28 days or >>> 14 days since seeing the deceased could be relaxed, and it should also
safeguard against another Harold Shipman. The implementation varies
across different hospital trusts, there is no software yet to manage it
nationwide, and the senior doctors who should act as Medical Examiners
were called to frontline work during the epidemic.
The anonymous scientific advisor is frank about the result: “We have no
idea how many people died because of this disease.” Easthope confirmed
that “we have a crisis in death recording.”
15,460 deaths have occurred in care homes in England and Wales, which is >>> over a third of the total Covid-19 deaths, and approximately another
5,000 care home residents have died with Covid-19 after being
transferred to hospital. Another 746in hospices. However, there is
growing uncertainty about some care home deaths.
I spoke to a care home worker in the north of England about this
problem. They have had cases where Covid-19 has been inaccurately put on >>> the death certificate as the cause of death or an underlying cause of
death. One resident, well into her 80s, tested positive for coronavirus
at the end of March, when she had mild symptoms. She recovered but went
on to die in August. A covering doctor who had never met the resident or >>> seen the body, insisted that Covid-19 must have been a cause of death.
The care home worker says, “She actually died of old age, quite
peacefully and contentedly. Old age isn’t supposed to be used on death
certificates, but sometimes it’s what it is.” How many times has this
happened in care homes across the country?
There are a number of dangers. The Covid-19 death total is probably
inflated as it has been liberally applied on death certificates. But a
positive test doesn’t mean Covid-19 was necessarily a contributing cause >>> of death. As all of my interviewees said, we have no idea how often this >>> has happened, and now we never will.
Lockdown itself has caused a horrifying number of excess deaths, just as >>> Easthope warned. By the end of July, one report attributed 21,000 of the >>> excess deaths to lockdown, as a result of delays to treatment. There is
an “epidemic” of people needlessly dying at home because they are
reluctant, or unable, to seek medical help.
Frontline mental health professionals are concerned about the impact of
lockdown. One ONS study showed that the number of people experiencing
some sort of depression increased from one in ten to one in five during
lockdown. Suicide is the biggest killer of young people in the UK. Some
children remain on lengthy waiting lists for mental health treatment.
Ged Flynn, CEO of suicide charity Papyrus says, “This is scandalous.
Saving young lives is no longer a national priority and we must change
that.” Nine out of ten calls to Papyrus during lockdown reflected the
impact of Covid-19 and lockdown, with many concerned about a loss of
income, reduction in service provision, domestic violence and abuse, and >>> the potential to become infected with Covid-19. Ged warns of the
“longer-term problem of emotional distress” for young people as the
impact of lockdown continues and mental health services are stretched.
We have never recorded and announced the deaths of one disease with such >>> dedication. Was this in the spirit of public information or was there an >>> intention to use the metrics designed to create fear? At the outset the
British public was informed how many people had died every day. As the
numbers started decreasing, the focus moved to the “R” number – the rate >>> of transmission, seemingly generated by a mysterious alchemy – and then
to new cases, where we are now. Increasing cases are, of course, also a
result of increased testing. Crucially, this means the number of cases
can be as large or as small as public policy determines, rather than
indicative of the spread or danger of the virus.
It’s just been announced that positive results will be repeatedly
tested, hopefully eliminating some false positives. It’s interesting
that this coincides with the lockdown screws tightening, as gatherings
are reduced from 30 to six, and the first curfew since the Second World
War is threatened. Ministers will be able to proclaim the success of
these restrictions when “cases” can be influenced depending on
sensitivity and volume of testing. We cannot leave the counting to them. >>>
Public Health England death totals had to be revised down after their
counting fiasco was exposed by Carl Heneghan. If you tested positive for >>> Covid-19, your death at any time would have been counted as a Covid-19
death. Professor John Newton, Director of Health Improvement at Public
Health England, said, “The way we count deaths in people with Covid-19
in England was originally chosen to avoid underestimating deaths caused
by the virus in the early stages of the pandemic.” Did the statistics
become politicised?
“Death endures as a metric. Even if the death tolls are revised down, as >>> with PHE’s count, the numbers endure,” said Easthope. “In the UK and the >>> US, death is the metric that we have to come to measure catastrophe by.” >>>
The anonymous scientific advisor wonders if the choice of metrics
reported and the way we count deaths might be part of a plan to increase >>> fear. After all, we know that SAGE recommended that people’s sense of
personal threat needed to be increased to encourage compliance with
rules. Even now we have passed the peak of the pandemic, government
messaging still centres on fear.
Easthope is worried that “we’ve done something incredibly traumatising
to the families that is potentially bigger than the bereavement itself.
In any disaster you should still allow people to see the dead. It is a
gross inhumanity of bad planning that people couldn’t visit the sick,
view the deceased’s bodies, or attend funerals. Had we had a more
liberal PPE stockpile we could have done this. PPE is about accessing
your loved ones and dead ones, it is not just about medical professionals.” >>>
Good planning was cast aside. We were not equipped to process the Covid
dead, and we’ll never be able to properly count them. In decades to
come, when the inevitable reports and studies are published they will be >>> littered with asterisks and freighted with footnotes. Or worse, taken
dangerously at face value.
Beyond counting the dead, how do we count the cost to ourselves? Dying
alone in a hospice, last rites delivered in full PPE, no family beside
the bed. People unable to visit elderly relatives in care homes for
months. Funerals limited to ten people. The young calling suicide
helplines, bewildered and traumatised. The uncertainty over cause of
deaths, the lack of closure. For this, we need the ultimate inquest and
then the birth of better ways to count the dead.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1j5r3o9/jay_bhattacharyas_confirmation_hearing_proves_the/
Jay Bhattacharya's Confirmation Hearing Proves the Lockdown Skeptics Won >>> Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for
criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday,
Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.
Christian Britschgi | 3.6.2025 4:15 PM
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(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom)
Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of then-New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo's first statewide emergency declaration issued in response to
COVID-19, setting up a long series of orders shuttering down businesses, >>> closing schools, and ordering people to stay in their homes.
When enacted in early March 2020, Cuomo's order was the consensus policy >>> response to the pandemic, endorsed by the first Trump administration and >>> quickly replicated by most red state governors.
Meanwhile, critics of lockdowns were dismissed as dangerous, fringe
characters who were peddling "nonsense" solutions or even experimenting
with"human sacrifice."
As it happens, yesterday was the Senate confirmation hearing of one such >>> lockdown critic—Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay
Bhattacharya, whom President Donald Trump has tapped to head the
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Bhattacharya was an early critic of lockdowns and masking. He is perhaps >>> best known for his co-authorship of the October 2020 Great Barrington
Declaration, which criticized school closures and society-wide
restrictions and instead argued for a strategy of "focused protection"
that would "allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their
lives normally."
This was a hugely controversial position to take at the time.
Former NIH Director Francis Collins demanded a "quick and devastating
published take down" in an email to his underling Anthony Fauci. Fauci
would later describe the Great Barrington Declaration as "nonsense."
Public health officials and Democratic politicians either condemned the
declaration or ignored it as they tightened pandemic restrictions in the >>> fall and winter of 2020.
Yet five years on, at Bhattacharya's confirmation hearing, Democrats
were completely mum about his COVID-era research and advocacy.
Not a single Democrat mentioned the Great Barrington Declaration. None
bothered to press Bhattacharya on his opposition to once-consensus
opinions on lockdowns, masking, and school closures.
Despite having every opportunity and incentive to attack Bhattacharya as >>> a dangerous crank nominee, the minority on the Senate's Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee chose not to even mention what
were once his most controversial views.
Instead, Democrats almost exclusively focused their questions on the
Trump administration's recent pauses of NIH grant and advisory
committees and caps on grantees' indirect research spending. Sen. Bernie >>> Sanders (I–Vt.) asked Bhattacharya if he'd lead a campaign against food
companies' advertisement of unhealthy snacks to children.
When Bhattacharya's COVID views were mentioned, the comments came from
Republican senators heaping praise on him.
Sen. Pete Ricketts (R–Neb.), Nebraska's governor during the pandemic,
thanked Bhattacharya for helping him to keep schools open. Sen. Jim
Banks (R–Ind.) called the Great Barrington Declaration "undeniably right." >>>
Bhattacharya himself was unapologetic about his criticism of
lockdowns—saying that Florida ended the pandemic with lower all-cause
mortality than California, as did Sweden vis-à-vis its neighbors.
Democrats' silence and Republicans' praise is a remarkable touchstone.
It's yet more proof that five years on from the start of the COVID-19
pandemic, the lockdown skeptics have won the argument.
Critics of lockdowns can publicly express the idea that lockdowns don't
work as an uncontroversial matter of fact. Past defenders of lockdowns
are now unwilling to back the policies in public, not even in a lockdown >>> skeptic's confirmation hearing for a high-ranking public health position. >>>
This shift of the Overton window is remarkable by itself.
It's also suggestive of where the NIH is headed in a second Trump
administration.
At his confirmation hearing, Bhattacharya criticized past NIH leaders
for stepping outside their role as scientists to tell people what to do
during the pandemic and attempting to silence debate instead of
encouraging it.
"The role of scientists is to say these are the risks by giving more
data," said Bhattacharya. "Science should be an engine for freedom,
knowledge and freedom."
It's a refreshing sentiment and one that would seem to take the most
authoritarian COVID-era policies off the table in any future crisis.
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In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1j6opxp/covid_day_of_reflection_2025_share_your_memories/
Loved ones remembered on fifth anniversary of start of Covid
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PA Media People hugging as they attend a ceremony marking the fifth
anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic at the National Covid Memorial Wall >>> in London.PA Media
People have been coming together to mark the fifth anniversary of the
start of the Covid-19 pandemic in a nationwide day of reflection.
Emotional scenes were played out across the nation on Sunday as the
bereaved and their communities hosted hundreds of events.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: "As we mark five years since the
outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I know for many there is deep grief
and loss that may never be relieved."
The annual day is one of the recommendations set out by the UK
Commission on Covid Commemoration.
BBC News is inviting readers to share their memories of the Covid-19
pandemic by using the form below.
In London, sobbing could be heard as bereaved relatives, led by a
Highland piper, joined well wishers to walk beside the National Covid
Memorial Wall.
They passed 3,000 photographs of the faces of some of those who died,
which represents just over 1% of the total death toll from Covid in the
UK, organisers said.
Choir song and a water cannon salute on the Thames from a London Fire
Brigade fireboat brought the event to a close.
PA Media A row of women stand on a bridge that is strewn with red
flowersPA Media
Flowers were thrown and a fire boat performed a water salute on the
River Thames
A minute's silence was held after the chimes of Big Ben and long-stemmed >>> red carnations were cast into the River Thames.
Lynn Jones fought back tears as she remembered her "fit and healthy"
66-year-old husband Gareth who died after "spending seven weeks in
hospital battling the virus on his own".
She told those gathered at the London event that the Covid wall "is an
expression of so many emotions - rage, love, grief, pain and unbearable
sadness".
Well-wishers at the National Memorial Arboretum in Burton-on-Trent heard >>> a new poem from the writer, poet, broadcaster and former Children's
Laureate Michael Rosen, who spent time in hospital with Covid during the >>> pandemic and was placed into an induced coma.
PA Media A procession of people holding flowers and signs follow a
bagpiper on Glasgow GreenPA Media
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney laid a wreath during the event
at Glasgow Green
Across the UK, just under 227,000 people died who had the virus listed
as a cause of death - with more than 16,000 in Scotland.
A choir sang and a poem was read to take people into a minute's silence
at the reflection event in Glasgow Green.
Doves were released and the event also included a wreath being laid, a
plaque unveiling and individual yellow roses being left in memory of
loved ones.
PA Media National Memorial Arboretum Managing Director Philippa
Rawlinson laying flowers at the Trees of Life glade ahead of a ceremony
marking the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic at the National
Memorial Arboretum, in Burton-on-TrentPA Media
National Memorial Arboretum managing director Philippa Rawlinson lays
flowers
Earlier, Scotland's First Minister John Swinney, who took part in the
Glasgow ceremony, sent his "deepest condolences" to people who lost
loved ones during the pandemic.
Speaking before the service he added: "Children stopped going to school, >>> many shops and businesses were closed, and we were no longer able to
spend time with friends and family as normal."
Other events include a special prayer service at Manchester Cathedral
and a remembrance concert with music, poems and readings in Belfast.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/03/11/the-ethics-of-deporting-mahmoud-khalil-for-pro-terrorist-advocacy/
The Ethics of Deporting Mahmoud Khalil For Pro-Terrorist Advocacy
March 11, 2025 / Jack Marshall
ICE arrested Palestinian activist and former Columbia student Mahmoud
Khalil with the intent of deporting him in accordance with the announced >>> Trump policy of deporting non-citizens who engage in pro-“terrorist”
speech related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Predictably, the
Axis is all-in supporting Khalil, who sure appears to be a bad human
hill to die on. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned ICE’s
detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move, “Violating >>> rule of law, actually,” she wrote. That AOC defends him alone makes me
inclined to want to get rid of the guy, but that would be irrational.
Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York issued an order
today halting Khalil’s processing and scheduled a hearing on the case
for later this week. Ah yes, the Southern District of New York!
In a confusing essay at The Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin writes that
deporting non-citizens for the content of their speech is a Firts
Amendment violation and “a slippery slope,” then, in the fifth
paragraph, acknowledges that 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3), bars “Any alien who
… endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse >>> or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization.” I’d
say endorsing and supporting Hamas qualifies under that law, wouldn’t
you? So Somin says, “Such laws, too, should be ruled unconstitutional.”
But until and unless it is, the Trump administration has the law on its
side.
The question remains, is such a restriction on the free speech of
non-citizens ethical? Somin:
“The First Amendment’s protection for freedom of speech, like most
constitutional rights, is not limited to US citizens. The text of the
First Amendment is worded as a general limitation on government power,
not a form of special protection for a particular group of people, such
as US citizens or permanent residents. The Supreme Court held as much in >>> a 1945 case, where they ruled that “Freedom of speech and of press is
accorded aliens residing in this country.”
I find this absolutist approach fairly persuasive, because free speech
is safest when the exception to the First Amendment are rare. And yet, I >>> can also see the utilitarian value of a principle that says that while
one is a guest in this country and not yet a citizen, one should behave. >>> If you want full protection of the First Amendment, become a citizen.
Somin concedes that even if non-citizens have a right to free speech,
they don’t have a constitutional right to stay in the US so, arguably,
deporting them for disruptive speech doesn’t violate the Constitution.
But, he says, depriving people of a right as punishment for their speech >>> violates the First Amendment.
Except that residing in the U.S. when one is not a citizen isn’t a
right, but a privilege.
Somin also loses me—forever!—with this foolishness: “I would argue that
freedom of movement – including across international boundaries – is
also a human right, one that should not be restricted based on
arbitrary circumstances of parentage and place of birth.” That sounds
like an open boarders argument to me, and that is signature significance >>> for a scholar who is estranged from reality. Utopian positions that are
impossible in the real world are unethical: they just waste time and
confuse people.
Whether deporting non-citizen pro-terrorism advocates like Mahmoud
Khalil is constitutional, legal or ethical is a close call all around.
Presumably the U.S. Supreme Court will end up deciding.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel, including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah now but also all
others in the future, without sacrificing free speech is by lifting up
Israel's http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14486353/Extreme-eater-mukbang-videos-food-dies-obesity.html
Extreme eater famed for 'mukbang' videos showing himself gorging on food >>> dies aged 24 after weeks in hospital due to his obesity
By SABRINA PENTY
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A morbidly obese TikToker known for sharing videos of himself
binge-eating has died aged 24 of weight-related health problems.
Efecan Kultur, who boasted 155,000 followers on TikTok, was well known
in his native Turkey as a 'mukbang' streamer.
Mukbang is a type of online broadcast where a content creator will
consume varying amounts of food while chatting to the audience. It has
become a global trend since the mid-2010s.
Efecan, who died on Friday March 7, had been hospitalised since December >>> 2024 due to health problems as a result of being overweight.
He could no longer stand up and suffered breathing problems as well as
constant bruising due to his size, which triggered mobility issues.
Bedridden and unable to breathe without a machine, he was even unable to >>> visit his mother's grave after she reportedly died one year ago.
Efecan was allowed to continue his treatment at home, where he
ultimately passed away.
His funeral was held at the Celaliye Mosque in the Buyukcekmece Celaliye >>> Neighbourhood, in Istanbul province, before his body was buried in the
Silivri Gumusyaka Cemetery.
A morbidly obese Turkish TikToker who would share videos of himself
eating has died aged 24 due to weight-related health issues
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A morbidly obese Turkish TikToker who would share videos of himself
eating has died aged 24 due to weight-related health issues
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Undated image of Efecan Kultur
Muckbang is a type of online broadcast where a content creator will
consume varying amounts of food while chatting to the audience
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Muckbang is a type of online broadcast where a content creator will
consume varying amounts of food while chatting to the audience
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Efecan is not the first content creator who lost their life at a
tragically young age as a result of eating for views.
A binge-eating live-streamer in China died while broadcasting a 10-hour
binge to her followers.
Pan Xiaoting died on July 14 from a suspected stomach tear while she
gorged on 10kg of food.
Autopsy results revealed that her stomach had become severely deformed
and filled with undigested food, suggesting that her stomach could have
burst, causing stomach acid and food to leak into her abdomen.
The Mukbang trend has become increasingly extreme, with mukbangers
eating larger quantities of often unhealthy food
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The Mukbang trend has become increasingly extreme, with mukbangers
eating larger quantities of often unhealthy food
Efecan died on Friday March 7. He was reportedly no longer able to stand >>> up due to his excessive weight
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Efecan died on Friday March 7. He was reportedly no longer able to stand >>> up due to his excessive weight
Efecan Kultur boasted 155,000 followers on TikTok
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Efecan Kultur boasted 155,000 followers on TikTok
Efecan had been hospitalised since December 2024 due to health problems
as a result of being overweight
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Efecan had been hospitalised since December 2024 due to health problems
as a result of being overweight
His funeral was held at the Celaliye Mosque in the Buyukcekmece Celaliye >>> Neighbourhood, in Istanbul province
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His funeral was held at the Celaliye Mosque in the Buyukcekmece Celaliye >>> Neighbourhood, in Istanbul province
Efecan is not the first content creator who lost their life at a
tragically young age as a result of eating for views
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Efecan is not the first content creator who lost their life at a
tragically young age as a result of eating for views
Xiaoting - who was morbidly obese - became famous in China for her
Mukbang live streams.
In January 2023, TikTok star Taylor Brice LeJeune (known online as
Waffler69), who had some 1.7 million followers on the platform, died >>>from a suspected heart attack.
Taylor, who was just 33-years-old at the time of his death, was known
for his quirky food review videos, in which he would consume novelty
foods as well as expired groceries, including promotional Addams Family
cereal from the 90s.
Large quantities of canned cheeseburgers and a giant Froot Loop were
among the foods he consumed online.
The Mukbang trend has become increasingly extreme, with mukbangers
eating larger quantities of often unhealthy food, prompting doctors to
warn that more people may die.
American TikToker Brittany Sauer tragically passed away last year aged
28 from complications due to Type 2 diabetes.
In Sauer's final videos she said she felt had had 'ruined her life' with >>> binge eating.
Only the truth (John 14:6), Who is our #1 perfect (Matt 5:48) Example
of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 4:2 and Matt 4:2 and Luke
24:42-3), sets us free from our addiction to eating excess food so
that we can (Philippians 4:13) stop being https://bit.ly/h_angry like
the eternally (Mark 3:29) condemned that we see here on USENET all
around us but also in person in the world the #HangryDJT cultists who
are following https://AntiChrist45.com into the "lake of fire" being
prepared for them.
Indeed, I am instead http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12)
for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others
reading this, also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1jax5yg/tom_woods_the_covid_lessons_we_cant_forget/
Five years to the day after President Donald Trump declared a national
emergency, what are the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic? Just asking
questions.
Tom Woods joins us today. He's a historian, host of The Tom Woods Show,
and author of many books, including Diary of a Psychosis: How Public
Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, which has a foreword written >>> by the new National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya.
Because he so painstakingly documented his experience of "COVID mania"
as it unfolded day-to-day, we asked him to reflect on the lockdowns,
social distancing, masks, and vaccines, as well as how all these
measures ultimately affected liberty and what COVID accountability
should look like.
Sources Referenced:
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID
Mania, by Tom Woods
Sweden during the Pandemic, by the Cato Institute
"A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods"
Just Asking Questions with Johan Norberg: "The truth about Sweden's
COVID policy"
Just Asking Questions with Thierry Mallaret: "Is The Great Reset underway?" >>> Follow The Science documentary series
"Were the COVID-19 Lockdowns a Mistake?" by Zach Weissmueller
Have Deaths of Despair Risen during the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Systematic
Review
Global tuberculosis report 2024 by the World Health Organization
The Great Barrington Declaration
Just Asking Questions with Vinay Prasad: "What are RFK Jr.'s real views
on vaccines, diet, and health?"
Then-U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams' archived tweet, February 2020
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction: What have we learned from COVID?
04:30 The early days: Panic, lockdowns, and initial reactions
10:15 Florida vs. California: The great COVID policy divide
16:45 The unseen costs: Lockdowns, economy, and mental health
23:30 The vaccine debate: Mandates, coercion, and public trust
30:20 The science debate: Experts, models, and misleading predictions
37:15 Masks, symbolism, and political messaging
44:00 Australia, New Zealand, and the global COVID response
50:45 Federalism & freedom: Why some states resisted COVID rules
57:30 What comes next? Preparing for the next health crisis
1:04:00 Final thoughts: The lessons we must remember
Producer: John Osterhoudt
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.jewish/c/uJuu3GMedos/m/EtpI57vtw2UJ >>>
Why do you think it constitutes animal abuse? If you or I tried to
fuck a cow, do you think the cow would even notice? It should not
only be legal but acceptable as a legitimate alternative lifestyle.
The fact is that animals are incapable of giving or refusing consent.
To imagine otherwise is a ridiculous anthropomorphism (look it up,
Levinstein). Do we ask animals for their consent before we kill them
and eat them? By comparison, getting fucked is a minor inconvenience
The above quoted Revd/Loose/KK fake-nymshifter is eternally (Mark
3:29) condemned by GOD and is therefore without His Help and
consequently incapable of obeying the LORD's command to stop (John
5:14) sinning. Sexual immorality (Matthew 15:19) is sin in all its
myriad of different forms including bestiality.
The only godly way to stop (John 5:14) the sin of sexual immorality
(Matthew 15:19) is by lifting up our #1 perfect (Matthew 5:48) Example
of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 4:2, Matthew 4:2 & Luke
24:42-3).
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1jhawu2/stay_at_home_looking_back_at_how_the_first/
From stay at home to relaxed restrictions: The 2 months that shook Britain >>> Health
Coronavirus
Friday 21 March 2025 at 12:58pm
Pictures from the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020.
Credit: PA
It's been five years since Boris Johnson announced the first coronavirus >>> lockdown in the UK, and life as we knew it came to a standstill.
The announcement by the then-prime minister dramatically reshaped our
lives, and what followed was an unprecedented health crisis.
More than 200,000 people have since died in the UK after contracting the >>> disease, and some are still suffering from the lingering effects of the
virus.
Here, ITV News looks back at how the lockdown was enforced and how it
put a complete curb on the normal way of life.
March 23: 'Stay at home': PM announces first lockdown in UK
In a ministerial broadcast from Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris
Johnson announced UK-wide lockdown restrictions. The devolved
administrations followed with respective announcements.
Johnson told the public the lockdown was "vital" to slow the spread of
the "invisible killer" and warned citizens would face fines if they
failed to comply with the government's instructions.
"The coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for
decades – and this country is not alone," said Johnson in the evening
address, which lasted just over six minutes.
ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston responds to the prime minister's >>> lockdown announcement while quarantining at home
People were told they could only leave home for one of the four
following reasons:
Shopping for groceries or essentials
Any medical need
One form of exercise per day
Travelling to and from work, if it's absolutely necessary and can't be
done from home
March 25: Coronavirus Act 2020 gets Royal Assent
Two days after the lockdown was announced, the Coronavirus Act 2020
received Royal Assent, following its rapid progression through parliament. >>>
The late Queen formally agreed to make the bill into an Act of
Parliament, so it became law.
March 26: Lockdown measures legally come into force
The lockdown measures outlined by Johnson officially came into force.
Police were given new powers meaning no one was allowed to leave their
home without "reasonable excuse".
ITV News' Rebecca Barry reports from Bath where police were out on
patrol searching for anyone ignoring the warnings
Officers were told they could order someone to go home, leave an area,
have the power to disperse a group and remove someone using "reasonable
force, if necessary".
They could also issue fines or arrest someone they believed to be
breaking the rules.
April 16: Lockdown extended for 'at least three weeks'
Lockdown measures to slow the spread of the virus were extended in the UK. >>>
Matt Hancock, who was health secretary at the time, said it was "far too >>> early" for the lockdown to end.
"We are seeing that peak, but it's still far too high," said Hancock.
"And so it is too early to be making changes."
The extension of the lockdown was announced by the foreign secretary,
Dominic Raab, who stepped in for the prime minister while he recovered >>>from coronavirus.
Johnson spent seven nights in St Thomas' hospital battling the disease
and spent a couple of nights in the intensive care unit.
The prime minister, who thanked the NHS for saving his life, left the
hospital to recover at Chequers.
"This lockdown, locked in, for a while longer": ITV News' Paul Brand
reports on the restrictions being extended
Announcing the extension of the lockdown, Raab said: "There is light at
the end of the tunnel but we are now at both a delicate and a dangerous
stage in this pandemic.
"If we rush to relax the measures that we have in place we would risk
wasting all the sacrifices and all the progress that has been made."
The government set out five tests to be met before social distancing
restrictions could be eased.
Making sure the NHS can cope
Evidence showing a sustained and consistent fall in daily death rates
Reliable data showing the rate of infection is decreasing to manageable
levels
Being confident in the range of operational challenges, like ensuring
testing and the right amount of PPE, are in hand
Being confident any adjustments will not risk a second peak
Government advisors said the evidence was "inconsistent" and
restrictions would remain in place until they were confident that the
peak of the virus had passed.
April 30: 'We are past the peak,' says Johnson
The prime minister resisted calls to outline his "road map" for lifting
the restrictions, saying any relaxation would "risk a second peak" in
the virus.
However, he did say the UK had "passed the peak" of Covid-19.
ITV News speaks to people getting tested at drive-through centres as the >>> PM says we are "past the peak"
Johnson said in short, he would outline how we can "continue to suppress >>> the disease and at the same time restart the economy.”
He claimed the UK had "succeeded" in its aims to protect the NHS and
"avoid the tragedy that engulfed other parts of the world".
May 10: Conditional plan announced for lifting the lockdown
The PM announced a "conditional plan" to reopen society, allowing people >>> in England to spend more time outdoors, as long as they maintained
social distancing.
However, the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland all indicated that they would continue to encourage people to
stay at home.
Johnson said people who could not work from home should return to the
workplace, but avoid public transport.
Schools and non-essential shops would remain shut until at least June,
the prime minister added.
The PM set out his "road map" to easing the restrictions in England, as
reported by ITV News' Carl Dinnen
The PM also said fines for those who break lockdown rules would increase. >>>
"This is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week," he said in
another televised address. "Instead, we are taking the first careful
steps to modify our measures."
In the weeks and months that passed the country began to return to
normal - schools and non-essential shops reopened and on June 23 the
prime minister declared the UK's national hibernation" was coming to an
end. But this was not the end, it was just the start.
A few months later, another national lockdown was introduced following a >>> rise in coronavirus cases.
The NHS then rolled out the largest vaccination programme in British
history, targeting at least 2 million vaccinations per week.
A Covid-19 inquiry followed, looking at whether the government acted
quickly enough. To this day, questions remain over how prepared the UK
was to deal with the outbreak.
The lockdown may be a chapter we've left behind, but its impact will
continue to echo in our lives for years to come.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nursing-influencer-hailey-okula-dies-childbirth-facing-infertility-str-rcna199417
Nursing influencer Hailey Okula dies during childbirth after facing
infertility struggles
“Words can’t describe how badly we wanted to be parents,” her husband
wrote when announcing her death.
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By Alex Portée, TODAY
For nine months, Hailey Okula’s Instagram followers watched her balance
the demands of her job with the happiness of preparing for her and her
husband’s first child. Now, that same community is coming together to
support her husband and their newborn son in the aftermath of her death. >>>
Okula, an ER nurse known on Instagram as Nurse Hailey, died from
childbirth complications shortly after welcoming her son, Crew,
according to a Tuesday 1 update shared by her husband, Matthew Okula.
Matthew Okula’s post featured a video collage of their relationship and
pregnancy journey, which included video of his wife in labor.
“It is with the heaviest of heart that I share the devastating news of
the unexpected passing of my beautiful wife, Hailey Marie Okula,” the
post reads. “Words cannot convey the depth of the loss I feel. Hailey
was more than I could have ever dreamed of in a wife and partner. She
was gorgeous, smart, hardworking, passionate, trustworthy, and, above
all else, unbelievably loyal. For nearly 13 years, she stood by my side
in the hardest of times, loving me endlessly, even when I felt
undeserving of that love. She was my everything.”
In 2019, Hailey Okula founded RN New Grads to support newly graduated
nurses, providing information about finding work and launching into a
nursing career. Her RN New Grads Instagram account shared vulnerable
content as she opened up about her pregnancy journey and the challenges
she and her husband faced with infertility and IVF. She grew the
Instagram community to over 400K followers.
“Being able to say that we are pregnant is indescribable,” she wrote in
a September 2024 pregnancy announcement. “From my infertility problems,
to my husband’s infertility problems, to us having to create a special
probe because we both carry the same genetic disease, lotsssss of meds
and lots of money, the journey has been hard, but so worth it.”
In the post announcing her death, Matthew Okula reflected on Hailey’s
strength throughout their journey to parenthood.
“Words can’t describe how badly we wanted to be parents,” he wrote.
After years of infertility struggles and a long, challenging IVF
process, we were overjoyed to be expecting Crew. Hailey faced every
hurdle with so much courage and love — even though her body went through >>> so much, she never wavered. I will never forget the moment I broke down, >>> apologizing for the toll the process would take on her. She held my
face, looked into my eyes, and said, ‘We are a team, and we’ll get
through this together.’ That was Hailey. A fighter. A teammate. A woman
who would do anything for the people she loved.”
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The Los Angeles Fire Department, where Matthew Okula works as an
engineer, posted about Hailey Okula’s death, saying it “grieves the loss >>> of Mrs. Okula.” It also pointed followers to the “Housewives of LAFD”
Instagram account, which is hosting a fundraiser for the widower and new >>> baby.
Many of Hailey Okula’s followers responded to the news of her passing
with messages of heartfelt support and anecdotes of how she had touched
their lives.
“She was my nurse during one of my toughest hospitalizations,” one user
wrote. “I’ll never forget her kindness and quick help.”
“I am truly shocked and heartbroken for your entire family. There are no >>> words,” one commenter wrote. “Hailey as such a light in this nursing
community. She and I messaged back and forth throughout our pregnancies, >>> and I am devastated to hear this news.”
“I can’t believe this! She was soooo excited about becoming a new mom,”
another commented. “She even replied to my comment, saying thank you
when I told her she was the best content producer for her ER skits…I
WILL MISS HER!!!”
Prayer for surviving family and friends here:
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It is sad really.
That whole business of nurse flashing cards and cheat sheets for
nursing students and new nurses was as innovative as Adam Neumann's
WeWork. It has the potential of becoming a multi-billion dollar business
like WeWork.
She was so looking forward to being a mom. The Fox 11 news report
mentioned she actually saw her son for a brief moment in this life.
In the interim, I am nonetheless http://WonderfullyHungry.org
(Philippians 4:12) for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you,
Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy appetite for
food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1jsi6wo/a_case_study_in_groupthink_were_liberals_wrong/
A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?
US political scientists’ book argues aggressive Covid policies such as
mask mandates were in some cases misguided
J Oliver Conroy
Sat 5 Apr 2025 10.00 EDT
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Were conservatives right to question Covid lockdowns? Were the liberals
who defended them less grounded in science than they believed? And did
liberal dismissiveness of the other side come at a cost that Americans
will continue to pay for many years?
A new book by two political scientists argues yes to all three
questions, making the case that the aggressive policies that the US and
other countries adopted to fight Covid – including school shutdowns,
business closures, mask mandates and social distancing – were in some
cases misguided and in many cases deserved more rigorous public debate.
In their peer-reviewed book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed
Us, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee argue that public health authorities, >>> the mainstream media, and progressive elites often pushed pandemic
measures without weighing their costs and benefits, and ostracized
people who expressed good-faith disagreement.
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The book cover of In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us.
Photograph: Princeton University Press
“Policy learning seemed to be short-circuited during the pandemic,” Lee
said. “It became so moralized, like: ‘We’re not interested in looking at >>> how other people are [responding to the pandemic], because only bad
people would do it a different way from the way we’re doing’.”
She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton
University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the
book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive
discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or
outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the >>> effects of partisan bias,” he said.
Many Covid stances presented as public health consensus were not as
grounded in empirical evidence as many Americans may have believed,
Macedo and Lee argue. At times, scientific and health authorities acted
less like neutral experts and more like self-interested actors, engaging >>> in PR efforts to downplay uncertainty, missteps or conflicts of interest. >>>
It’s a controversial argument. Covid-19 killed more than a million
Americans, according to US government estimates. The early days of the
pandemic left hospitals overwhelmed, morgues overflowing, and scientists >>> scrambling to understand the new disease and how to contain it.
Still, Macedo and Lee say, it is unclear why shutdowns and closures went >>> on so long, particularly in Democratic states. The book argues that in
the US the pandemic became more politically polarized over time, after,
initially, “only modest policy differences between Republican- and
Democratic-leaning states”.
After April 2020, however, red and blue America diverged. Donald Trump
contributed to that polarization by downplaying the severity of the
virus. Significant policy differences also emerged. Ron DeSantis, the
Republican governor of Florida, moved to re-open physical schools
quickly, which progressives characterized as irresponsible.
Yet in the end there was “no meaningful difference” in Covid mortality
rates between Democratic and Republican states in the pre-vaccine
period, according to CDC data cited in the book, despite Republican
states’ more lenient policies. Macedo and Lee also favorably compare
Sweden, which controversially avoided mass lockdowns but ultimately had
a lower mortality rate than many other European countries.
Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan >>> bias
The shutdowns had foreseeable and quantifiable costs, they say, many of
which we are still paying. Learning loss and school absenteeism soared.
Inflation went through the roof thanks in part to lockdown spending and
stimulus payments. Small businesses defaulted; other medical treatments
like cancer screenings and mental health care suffered; and rates of
loneliness and crime increased. The economic strain on poor and minority >>> Americans was particularly severe.
Covid policies escalated into culture wars, amplifying tensions around
other social issues. Teachers’ unions, which are often bastions of
Democratic support, painted school re-openings as “rooted in sexism,
racism, and misogyny” and “a recipe for … structural racism”, the book
notes, despite the fact that minority and poor students were most
disadvantaged by remote learning.
These measures also had a literal price. “In inflation-adjusted terms,”
Macedo and Lee write, “the United States spent more on pandemic aid in
2020 than it spent on the 2009 stimulus package and the New Deal
combined” – or about what the US spent on war production in 1943.
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A student listens to her music teacher over laptop during a lockdown on
5 April 2020 in New York City. Photograph: Education Images/Universal
Images Group/Getty Images
Yet of the $5tn that the US Congress authorized in 2020 and 2021 for
Covid expenditure, only about 10% went to direct medical expenses such
as hospitals or vaccine distribution, according to the book; most of the >>> spending was on economic relief to people and businesses affected by
shutdowns. Ten per cent of that relief was stolen by fraud, according to >>> the AP.
The pandemic was an emergency with no modern precedent, of course, and
hindsight is easy. But In Covid’s Wake tries to take into account what
information was known at the time – including earlier pandemic
preparedness studies. Reports by Johns Hopkins (2019), the World Health
Organization (2019), the state of Illinois (2014) and the British
government (2011) had all expressed ambivalence or caution about the
kind of quarantine measures that were soon taken.
“We take a look at the state of the evidence as it was in early 2020,”
Lee said. “It was clear at the time that the evidence was quite
unsettled around all of this, and if policymakers had been more honest
with the public about these uncertainties, I think they would have
maintained public trust better.”
They wanted there to be an answer – that if we do X and Y, we can
prevent this disaster. And so they’re kind of grasping at straws
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a wargaming exercise >>> in October 2019, shortly before the pandemic began, to simulate a deadly >>> coronavirus pandemic; the findings explicitly urged that “[t]ravel and
trade … be maintained even in the face of a pandemic”. Similarly, a WHO
paper in 2019 said that some measures – such as border closures and
contact tracing – were “not recommended in any circumstances”.
“And yet we did all of that in short order,” Macedo said, “and without
people referring back to these plans.”
He and Lee also believe there was a strong element of class bias, with a >>> left-leaning “laptop class” that could easily work from home touting
anti-Covid measures that were much easier for some Americans to adopt
than others. Many relatively affluent Americans became even wealthier
during the pandemic, in part due to rising housing values.
At the same time, the laptop class was only able to socially isolate at
home in part because other people risked exposure to provide groceries.
Stay-at-home measures were partly intended to protect “essential
workers”, but policymakers living in crisis-stricken major metropolitan
areas such as New York or Washington DC did not reckon with why social
distancing and other measures might be less important in rural parts of
the country where Covid rates were lower.
Lockdowns were intended to slow Covid’s spread, yet previous pandemic
recommendations had suggested they only be used very early in an
outbreak and even then do not buy much time, Macedo said.
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Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. Photograph: Courtesy of Stephen Macedo
Policymakers and experts often embraced stringent measures for reasons
that are more political than medical, Macedo and Lee argue; in a
pandemic, authorities are keen to assure anxious publics that they are
“in charge” and “doing something”.
In strange contrast, policymakers and journalists in the US and
elsewhere seemed to take China as a model, the book argues, despite the
fact that China is an authoritarian state and had concealed the scale of >>> the outbreak during the crucial early days of the pandemic. Its regime
had obvious incentives to mislead foreign observers, and used draconian
quarantine measures such as physically welding people into their homes.
When the WHO organized a joint China field mission with the Chinese
government, in February 2020, non-Chinese researchers found it difficult >>> to converse with their Chinese counterparts away from government
handlers. Yet the WHO’s report was “effusive in its praise” of China’s
approach, the book notes.
“My view is that there was just a great deal of wishful thinking on the
part of technocrats of all kinds,” Lee said. “They wanted there to be an >>> answer – that if we do X and Y, we can prevent this disaster. And so
they’re kind of grasping at straws. The Chinese example gave them hope.” >>> She noted that Covid policymakers might have been better served if there >>> had been people assigned to act as devil’s advocates in internal
deliberations.
Lee and Macedo are not natural scientists or public health
professionals, they emphasize, and their book is about failures in
public deliberation over Covid-19, rather than a prescription for
managing pandemics.
But they do wade into the debate about Covid-19’s origin, arguing that
the “lab leak” hypothesis – that Covid-19 accidentally leaked from the
Wuhan Institute of Virology, rather than spontaneously leaping from
animals to humans – was unfairly dismissed.
The Wuhan Institute studied coronaviruses similar to the one responsible >>> for Covid-19, had a documented history of safety breaches, was located
near the outbreak, and is known to have experimented on viruses using
controversial “gain-of-function” methods funded by the US, which involve >>> mutating pathogens to see what they might look like in a more advanced
or dangerous form.
If policymakers had been more honest with the public about these
uncertainties, I think they would have maintained public trust better
Perhaps because Trump had fanned racial paranoia by calling Covid-19 the >>> “China virus” and rightwing influencers were spreading the notion that
it had been deliberately engineered and unleashed on the world by China, >>> many scientists, public health experts and journalists reacted by
framing the idea of a lab leak – even an accidental one – as an
offensive conspiracy theory. Dr Anthony Fauci and other top public
health figures were evasive or in some cases dishonest about the
possibility of a lab leak, Macedo and Lee say, as well as the fact that
a US non-profit funded by the National Institutes of Health allegedly
funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute.
Since then, though, the CIA and other US intelligence agencies have
cautiously endorsed the lab leak theory, and the discourse around Covid
has softened somewhat. The economist Emily Oster sparked immense
backlash by arguing against school closures in 2020. Now publications
such as New York Magazine and the New York Times have acknowledged the
plausibility of the lab leak hypothesis, for example, and there is
growing consensus that school closures hurt many children.
The reception to In Covid’s Wake has been more positive than Macedo and
Lee expected – perhaps a sign that some of their arguments have
penetrated the mainstream, if not that we’ve gotten better as a society
at talking about difficult things. “The reception of the book has been
much less controversial [and] contentious than we expected,” Macedo said. >>>
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Yet the wounds fester and debates continue. Some readers of the New York >>> Times were furious when The Daily, the newspaper’s flagship podcast,
recently interviewed them, with subscribers arguing that the episode was >>> not sufficiently critical of their stance. And some coverage of the book >>> has criticized it for underplaying the danger of the disease.
Macedo and Lee said that a few of their colleagues have expressed
concern that their critique could fuel political attacks on science – a
worry that crossed their minds too. “Our response is that the best way
to refute criticisms that science and universities have been politicized >>> is to be open to criticism and willing to engage in self-criticism,”
Macedo said.
“We need to make sure these institutions are in the best possible
working order to face the challenges ahead. And we think that’s by being >>> honest, not by covering over mistakes or being unwilling to face up to
hard questions.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1jx241o/five_years_after_covid_it_is_important_to_ask/
Five years after Covid, it is important to ask difficult questions about >>> how we handled the crisis
Truth has been the biggest casualty of the past five years, powered by
the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the decline of
trust in institutions
The pandemic exposed the brittle and polarised character of our own
society, and of countries around the world, amplifying its worst
features when faced with an existential threat (Archive)
The pandemic exposed the brittle and polarised character of our own
society, and of countries around the world, amplifying its worst
features when faced with an existential threat (Archive)
Vikram Patel
Apr 10, 2025 11:47 IST
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Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the day when New Delhi
announced the most stringent lockdown in the world, giving just four
hours to over a billion people to prepare to be trapped in their homes
for at least three weeks. I will never forget that evening. It was my
first encounter with police brutality as I was lathi-charged along with
dozens of fellow villagers as we scampered to buy groceries in the
middle of the night, a brutal reward for having been patriotic citizens
who obeyed our leaders’ exhortations to not hoard food. And I bore
witness, in the weeks that followed, to the tragedy of millions of the
urban poor, who were left without work or shelter and had to trudge on
foot for days to reach their homes in distant villages. How can we ever
forget those images or the harrowing devastation which swept the country >>> the following year?
Five years later, what are the lessons we can draw from the local,
national and global response to the pandemic? The pandemic exposed the
brittle and polarised character of our own society, and of countries
around the world, amplifying its worst features when faced with an
existential threat. The results, in hindsight, were predictable. Those
who wielded historic power in society, from the wealthy to politicians, >>>from medical practitioners to scientists, from global institutions to
the media, all acted in ways which fell well short of what our
communities were entitled to expect. We were offered ideology instead of >>> science. We endured hubris instead of humility. At a time when enormous
uncertainties prevailed, inequities were accelerated as solidarity with
the weakest, already much eroded after half a century of neo-liberal
economic policies, faded altogether.
In the end, perhaps the biggest casualty of all was truth itself.
Although truth is often viewed as the objective interpretation of facts, >>> the tension between them is as old as humanity. Still, there is no
denying that this tension has been greatly catalysed by the confluence
of the smartphone and social media. While the expression of truth
requires thoughtful reflection, analysis and confirmation of facts,
social media posts need nothing more than an impulsive,
emotionally-charged reaction that could be issued in an instant and
spread without any filter. The pandemic offered fertile ground to
accelerate this growing rupture between truth and facts.
Thanks to the billions of dollars spent on investigating the origins of
the pandemic, its impact on populations and the effectiveness of various >>> strategies to control it, there are not only countless facts but
equally, divergent versions of the truth to interpret these facts. This
leads to even more questions that remain unanswered. Consider just a few >>> of them. Could less restrictive measures like masking and staying at
home when you had the infection have been just as effective as a total
lockdown? Did we need to spray all items, even human beings, with
disinfectant? Did we need to shut schools for as long as we did, leading >>> to the largest loss of learning in children and decline in mental health >>> in young people ever recorded? Did vaccination stop the spread of the
infection and, if not, why was it compulsory? How much money did Big
Pharma and the medical profession make along the way, peddling medicines >>> that turned out to be useless?
And perhaps the biggest questions of all: What was the origin of the
virus and how many people actually died? How is it that some of the most >>> celebrated scientists in the world jumped to conclude that the virus
emerged from the wild just months into the pandemic, while, five years
later, every investigation has concluded that we don’t know its origin?
If anything, it now appears that the consensus is shifting to an
accidental lab leak, which, if it was ever confirmed (a remote
possibility given the assiduous clean-up of the potential crime scene in >>> Wuhan), would surely prove to be the deadliest cover-up in history.
How many people died in India? Given that the estimates of the
government and those of independent scientists vary up to eightfold, and >>> there is no reliable mortality data for the deadliest year of the
pandemic, will we ever know the truth?
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Truth is increasingly fluid, and the line between truth and lies is
becoming ever more amorphous, with ideology and emotions seeming to
carry more weight than facts. While it may not be surprising that policy >>> making is only occasionally guided by facts, science, which claims to
put facts at the heart of its mission, often betrays its ideological
moorings too. For example, I recall being warned, during the early days
of the pandemic, by colleagues in the academy to quieten my advocacy
against school closures and lockdowns to minimise the risk of appearing
to side with the anti-science brigade. The influence of ideology on how
a fact is interpreted or different facts presented to address the same
question, has now become the norm for a whole range of actors — the
government, civil society, pharma, healthcare providers, scientists and
the media.
Truth, then, has been the biggest casualty of the past five years,
powered by the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the
decline of trust in the institutions that people rely on to tell the
truth. In its place, propaganda, rumour, myths and misinformation have
taken hold of the collective imagination. While the pandemic today seems >>> like a passé topic that most prefer not to think about, it is important
not to forget that people were dying by the hundreds of thousands just a >>> few years ago. Moreover, the pandemic’s enduring legacy, the inexorable
decline of truth and trust, continues to dominate our lives, grievously
wounding our humanity and, arguably, the very idea of democracy.
(The writer is Paul Farmer Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical >>> School)
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
It was on April 26, 1996 that Christopher Charles Morton first
replied to me on several usenet newsgroupps, including
alt.politics.usa.constitution
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.politics.usa.constitution/c/09up2L-hkHs/m/ET0-5nrcIfUJ
(first reply to me)
"The helicopter doesn't fly if the pilot's face down in the john of his
favorite tittie bar, with a .32 bullet in the base of skull that
somebody put there with a Welrod."- 4/26/1996
It is hard to imagine that this was twenty-nine years ago! Chris has >>> greatly influenced my own political views since then.
How is this even possible?
It is written that "with GOD all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26).
He got that right!
In the interim, the only godly way to stop gun violence and others
forms of terrorism including racism, bigotry, and antisemitism, is our
lifting up our #1 perfect (Matthew 5:48) Example of living Wonderfully
Hungry (Luke 4:2, Matthew 4:2, and Luke 24:42-43). So indeed, I am
"wonderfully hungry" (Philippians 4:12) for food right now (Luke
6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1kcf0e8/ontario_backs_down_admits_that_roadside_billboard/
Ontario backs down, admits that roadside billboard does not promote hatred >>> April 29, 2025
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Media inquiries: media@jccf.ca
George Katerberg on top of his original billboard (Courtesy of George
Katerberg)
SUDBURY, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased
that the Ontario Ministry of Transportation has reversed its decision to >>> ban a proposed roadside billboard that criticized politicians and health >>> officials for Covid vaccine mandates.
George Katerberg is a retired HVAC technician and business owner. After
the era of Covid lockdowns, he decided to close his business, sell his
home and move to Thessalon, Ontario, along the shores of Lake Huron.
On March 1, 2024, Mr. Katerberg rented a billboard along Highway 17 near >>> Thessalon.
The billboard displayed the faces of various Government of Canada
officials, including former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Deputy
Prime Minister, the leader of the federal NDP party, the Ontario
Premier, the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, and the former
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The sign read, “They knowingly lied about safety and stopping
[transmission],” and “Canadians demand accountability.” The sign also
featured an image of two hammers behind a Canadian flag. Mr. Katerberg
said the design was inspired by a symbol from the 1979 Pink Floyd album, >>> The Wall, which addressed government overreach.
Shortly after the billboard was erected, the Ontario Ministry of
Transportation ordered that the billboard be removed, claiming that the
image of the two hammers represented white supremacist ideology. This
was news to Mr. Katerberg.
The Ministry also ordered that Mr. Katerberg contact them in advance for >>> pre-approval of any future signs he might wish to display.
Mr. Katerberg immediately removed the billboard. He then prepared a new
billboard with the same message, but he replaced the image of the two
hammers behind a Canadian flag with an image of the Canadian flag alone. >>> Mr. Katerberg submitted the billboard to the Ministry for approval on
June 18, 2024.
On June 28, 2024, the Ministry denied Mr. Katerberg’s modified
billboard, advising him that “[t]he message on the billboard may be seen >>> as promoting hatred or contempt for the individuals pictured on the
billboard, which may violate certain policies regarding advertising.”
“Any other billboards that you wish to erect on the highway must be
pre-approved by the [Ministry],” an email advised.
With help from the Justice Centre, Mr. Katerberg stood up for freedom of >>> expression and the right to hold the government to account.
Mr. Katerberg asked the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario to review
the decision of the Ministry. (In a judicial review, a court ensures
that the decisions of administrative bodies, like the Ontario Ministry
of Transportation, are fair, reasonable, and lawful.)
Mr. Katerberg argued that the Ministry’s decision was unreasonable and
that it did not balance his Charter right to freedom of expression with
the purposes of relevant legislation.
In his application to the Court, Mr. Katerberg noted, “The Sign does not >>> promote violence, hatred, or contempt…Further, the Sign does not target
any ‘identifiable group’… To the extent that the six well-known public
figures featured on the Sign form a group at all, it is on the basis of
their collective response to the Covid-19 pandemic in their political
and/or professional capacity.”
Six days before the federal election in Canada, on April 23, 2025, the
Ministry reversed its position and agreed that the sign did not promote
hatred. The Ministry will now consider Mr. Katerberg’s billboard.
Mr. Katerberg says the sign has always been about providing hope to
Canadians. “I knew if people saw my sign, they would not be scared to
talk about the mandates,” he remarked. “I knew there was nothing wrong
with my sign.”
He also thanked the Justice Centre donors. “I’m self-employed and worked >>> hard all my life. I wouldn’t of been able to take on this case myself.
I’m glad the Justice Centre was able to support me,” Mr. Katerberg
concluded.
Constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury stated, “Mr. Katerberg’s proposed
sign was a matter of legitimate expression protected by the Charter. In
a functioning democracy, individuals like Mr. Katerberg need to be able
to express their dissatisfaction with public officials. We are pleased
that Ontario has agreed that the billboard does not promote hatred and
will reconsider its decision.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1kn24i0/a_ragtag_group_of_covid_truthtellers_go_to/
A Ragtag Group of Covid Truth-Tellers Go to Washington
Kelley Krohnert, a wife and mother who lives just outside Atlanta,
started a website in 2020 to hold government agencies accountable for
their Covid data. (Kendrick Brinson for The Free Press)
During the pandemic, they were ostracized. Now, they’re influencing
public policy.
By Carrie McKean
05.14.25 — Health and Self-Improvement
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Earlier this week, we ran a collection of pieces by the new leaders of
American public health—doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Vinay >>> Prasad—all of whom just happen to have contributed to The Free Press.
Five years ago, they raised serious questions in our pages about
lockdowns, shuttered schools, and vaccine mandates—questions for which
they were vilified. Now, all of them have been not only vindicated, but
promoted to some of the highest offices in public health. But these
leaders are only part of the story. Behind them is a ragtag group of
ordinary Americans who also asked questions during the Covid era, and
kept asking them, even though they were belittled, discredited, and
ostracized. In today’s piece, reporter Carrie McKean profiles these
individuals, and asks them: How can we move forward? How can these new
leaders restore our faith in public health?
—The Editors
Five years ago, Kelley Krohnert, a wife and mother who lives just
outside Atlanta and runs a small photography business, was, like most of >>> us, filled with dread and confusion. It was the early days of Covid. At
the time, the Georgia Health Department wasn’t keeping a public record
of the number of cases. So Kelley, who’s in her forties, began plugging
numbers she saw on the news into her own spreadsheet and started a
website, Covid-Georgia.com, to share her data, gaining a wide following
on Twitter (now X) under the handle @KelleyKGa.
It didn’t take long for Krohnert to start noticing statistical errors,
which grew only more common as time went on. The CDC’s own “unofficial”
Covid Data Tracker of cases from across the nation often reported higher >>> pediatric death counts than the official numbers on the National Center
for Health Statistics website. And the media often reported those higher >>> numbers. As time went on, the CDC reported that 4 percent of Covid
deaths were children, when their own data showed it was .04 percent. In
2022, she discovered that a frightening study cited by the CDC during
its push for a pediatric Covid vaccine vastly inflated the disease’s
risk to children; for example, it compared 26 months of Covid-associated >>> deaths to one year of deaths from other causes.
“These were mistakes and errors a middle-school student wouldn’t make,”
Krohnert said of errors she found in CDC Covid data. (Angela Weiss/AFP
via Getty Images)
“These were mistakes and errors a middle-school student wouldn’t make,”
Krohnert told me. She didn’t start out with any inherent suspicion of
the government. She expected officials to be a trusted source of
information and to deliver level-headed guidance. But the more she
burrowed into the Covid numbers, the more problems she saw. And
remarkably, all the errors she identified made things seem worse and
more dangerous than they were.
Krohnert did get some recognition and vindication. After she alerted the >>> authors of the study about their errors regarding Covid’s risks to
children, they immediately made corrections, and the CDC eventually
stopped claiming Covid was one of the top five killers of children. Yet
Krohnert said the agency never responded to her directly. It also
characterized her as just “a person with a web page or a blog” in an
email that became public following an FOIA request to the study’s
authors. And it plowed ahead with approval of the childhood Covid
vaccine. After Krohnert replied to a post by Surgeon General Jerome
Adams that defended Covid vaccine trials, he posted a thread. “You trust >>> your electrician / plumber / tax preparer. You should trust your doc,”
Adams wrote.
As for the inflated case numbers? Eventually, the CDC quietly removed
72,277 misattributed deaths from the Covid Data Tracker, a data
correction attributed to Krohnert’s advocacy by The BMJ (formerly the
British Medical Journal).
Looking back now through the fog of Covid, it is easy to overlook the
data nerds, virologists, epidemiologists, and ordinary citizens like
Krohnert who, scattered across the country, doggedly fact-checked the
U.S. government. For their efforts, they were censored and shadow-banned >>> on social media, scorned by polite society, and discredited as
dangerous, science-denying conspiracy theorists by high-level government >>> officials and the mainstream media. But they persisted, and 40 to 50 of
them eventually connected on Twitter, creating an informal group they
dubbed “Rational Ground/Team Reality.”
In 2022, Kelly Krohnert discovered that a study cited by the CDC during
its push for a pediatric Covid vaccine vastly inflated the disease’s
risk to children. (Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Images)
And since then, times have changed. Today, Team Reality is seeing their
recommendations adopted by the federal government.
One of the medical experts who broke with the consensus during the
pandemic and joined forces with Rational Ground, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a >>> professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, is >>> now the director of the National Institutes of Health. Two weeks ago, in >>> one of his first official actions, Bhattacharya announced that the NIH
will accelerate the rollout of a plan to make available to the public
all data gathered from taxpayer-funded NIH scientific research studies.
It’s a policy recommendation consistently put forth by members of
Rational Ground.
“I believe very strongly that the products and data produced by
scientific projects paid for by the public should be available to the
public,” Bhattacharya told me in an email. Just 26 percent of Americans
have a great deal of confidence that scientists are working for the
public good, a recent poll found. Bhattacharya said rebuilding that
fractured trust is at the core of what he must accomplish in his new job. >>>
“It was a kind of pinch-me moment,” said Justin Hart, a 53-year-old data >>> and marketing consultant based in San Diego, about a gathering a few
weeks ago with Bhattacharya near Washington to celebrate the appointment >>> of the “fringe epidemiologist,” as he was baselessly called by former
NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, to run the agency.
Just two years ago, Hart, his wife Jenny, their toddler daughter, and
Bhattacharya had walked the halls of Capitol Hill, passing out a
one-page Rational Ground advocacy sheet and fruitlessly seeking
conversations with lawmakers willing to consider their heterodox views.
Hart and Bhattacharya connected in the early days of the pandemic thanks >>> to mutual friends at Stanford. A small group gathered to meet after
reading an article by Dr. John Ioannidis, a Stanford statistician and
professor of biomedical data science. He said some of the same things
they had all been thinking, including his warning in March 2020 that
public-health officials were making consequential decisions without good >>> data and calling the Covid response a potential “fiasco in the making.”
From there, Team Reality grew. They became supporters of the Great
Barrington Declaration, a document written by Bhattacharya and two
colleagues, advocating for focused protection for those most vulnerable
to Covid, and a return to close-to-normal life for the rest of society.
The team plowed ahead with their advocacy, taking solace in their ragtag >>> community when they faced the scorn of the mainstream.
“We had people who were apolitical, people who were Democrats, people
who were very conservative Republicans,” said Hart. “It’s amazing how
unifying it can be when the government starts pushing around our kids
and impinging our freedoms.”
Matt Shapiro, who goes by the handle @PoliticalMath on X, describes
himself as a right-of-center, “insatiably curious”
artificial-intelligence engineer. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)
Matt Shapiro, who goes by the handle @PoliticalMath on X and lives
outside Atlanta, signed up early in the pandemic to process data for The >>> Atlantic’s Covid Tracking Project, the most complete data repository of
Covid’s impact in the U.S. Shapiro describes himself as a
right-of-center, “insatiably curious” artificial-intelligence engineer
with a background in data management, and he was eager to put his
data-mining skills to work for the common good. His work became a
“full-time Covid hobby,” he said. Shapiro joined other volunteers—“good
people trying to do an important thing”—to input data, analyze trends,
and make data-based recommendations to help shape public health.
But when the data told a story that contradicted the Centers for Disease >>> Control and Prevention’s recommendations, for example, that Covid spread >>> as quickly in places with mask mandates as it did in places without
them, his mostly left-leaning colleagues on the team went silent. “All
my data friends that I had made doing all this work together were just
like, ‘Not touching that,’?” he recalled.
Shapiro said he was mocked and isolated for questioning the predominant
narrative that shuttering schools and businesses was lifesaving. More
alarming to him were the massive implications such conformity had for
society. “That’s not the story we’re telling ourselves about who we
are,” he told me.
Tracking Covid data became Matt Shapiro’s “full-time hobby” during the
pandemic, he said. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)
It was different with Rational Ground/Team Reality. Members of the group >>> worked to provide data for Dr. Scott Atlas, a Covid adviser during the
first Trump administration, who used their findings to refute CDC
assessments at briefings. They advised governors and state-level Covid
task forces, like that of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and federal
lawmakers such as Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Dan Crenshaw of Texas, all >>> Republicans. They held regional gatherings and relentlessly pursued
grassroots campaigns to correct and call out errors wherever they found
them.
In such a diverse group, there was often sharp disagreement. “We’ve had
people rage-quit,” said Hart. “Like in any human endeavor, we definitely >>> have our moments where people don’t see things in the same way, but we
had an open forum where we felt like we could hash it out and discuss
things.”
Five years later, Team Reality is still advocating for institutional
reforms based on what they saw during the pandemic. Under the leadership >>> of Bhattacharya, some of those changes are already happening. They want
safeguards to protect the American people from overreaching government
authority, and they think that constraining power and increasing
transparency will ultimately help restore trust in public health.
To achieve this, they want public-health policy discussions to be
robust, with dissenting voices and a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis >>> of any public-health policy proposal before it becomes enforceable, even >>> in emergency situations.
“Government scientists do not have a monopoly on the truth,” NIH
director Jay Bhattacharya told The Free Press. (Andrew Harnik via Getty
Images)
“Public health policy decisions need a high quality of evidence
demonstrating a good amount of benefit for a small amount of
imposition,” said Krohnert. “With Covid, we got the opposite:
low-quality evidence demonstrating a small amount of benefit with
massive impositions and untold costs.”
They also call for radical transparency. Because CDC guidance during
Covid was often based on desired outcomes rather than actual data-driven >>> science, Shapiro said, data from any publicly funded study should be
publicly available. “If you collect data with our taxpayer money, it’s
our data, and you should have to show it to us, rather than only showing >>> it if it achieves some end-policy goal,” he said.
Bhattacharya agrees. “Government scientists do not have a monopoly on
the truth, which is most likely to be found by a spirit of open-minded
investigation, including by members of the public with access to the
same data as public-health officials,” he told me.
Humility is an uncommon virtue for top government officials, but
Bhattacharya knows better than most how the experts can get things
wrong. “On topic after topic. . . Rational Ground analysts outperformed
and corrected government agencies,” he told me. “Rational Ground often
relied on data that agencies like the CDC had made publicly available to >>> correct the CDC itself on its misinterpretations of its own data.”
Matt Shapiro said he was mocked and isolated for questioning the
predominant narrative during Covid that shuttering schools and
businesses was lifesaving. (William DeShazer for The Free Press)
Opening the data to the public could help extremists misrepresent data
and take it out of context, but the benefits outweigh the risks, said
Krohnert. “Blocking access to data is not going to prevent bad actors >>>from spreading misinformation. If anything, it adds fuel to the fire,
because they can make up what they want and claim it’s from some study
the government ‘doesn’t want you to see,’?” she said.
Other hoped-for reforms go far beyond data reporting. It’s about what
gets studied to begin with. During the pandemic, policy decisions with
enormous effects, such as universal masking or standing six feet apart,
we now know were based on flawed research, or often just guesswork. But
according to Hart, the federal health agencies resisted funding studies
that might refute CDC recommendations.
Then there is the matter of institutional conflicts of interest. For
example, Hart was dismayed to learn that the same people who sit on NIH
grant committees to decide where funding goes also make policy
recommendations.
Such conflicts are a problem. After watching the CDC make so many
errors—and always in the same direction—Krohnert co-wrote a paper for
the open-access Social Science Research Network, with Dr. Vinay Prasad,
the new head of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, calling for a firewall between the government
entities that gather statistics and those setting policy as a shield
against “real or perceived systematic bias.”
Krohnert also thinks there need to be better conversations about the
nature and efficacy of CDC recommendations, which can be overly cautious >>> and reflect a low tolerance for risk, such as its recommendation not to
eat raw cookie dough. As a result, the general public often ignores the
CDC’s advice.
“Blocking access to data is not going to prevent bad actors from
spreading misinformation,” Krohnert said. “If anything, it adds fuel to
the fire.” (Kendrick Brinson for The Free Press)
Since their recommendations can take on the force of law, official
recommendations by the CDC ought to include room for dissent—or at least >>> some wiggle room, depending on the circumstances, Krohnert said. For
example, a recommendation to wear masks to prevent the spread of disease >>> might come with a qualification that it might not be appropriate in
every situation, so that pediatric speech-therapy clinics and preschools >>> needn’t worry about getting sued for failing to follow the agency’s advice. >>>
And though they do want sweeping reform, Team Reality don’t want to burn >>> the house down completely. Krohnert said she doesn’t want to render the
CDC useless. Just the opposite. She believes that Americans need
entities they can trust, though government power usually should be
limited to the ability to recommend and not compel.
“Public-health enforcing isolation of very sick, very contagious people
is not particularly controversial,” she said. “But during Covid, we had
public-health enforcing quarantine of healthy individuals.
“We just seemed to skip over all the ethics of that.”
There is, understandably, some concern that, as the editors of The Free
Press wrote yesterday in an editorial about public health, “this
administration’s approach to reform often uses a hacksaw when a scalpel
is called for.” And yet, the people Trump has selected to lead the NIH,
CDC, and FDA are highly credentialed, well-respected, and extremely
competent, and they are advocating policies that are as careful as they
are radical. “These aren’t Robespierre lieutenants being elevated to
judge, jury, and executioner when the revolution was won,” said Hart.
“These are the people who should’ve been running things in the first place.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/washington-shooting-suspect-charged-with-murder-told-police-he-did-it-for-gaza/
Washington shooting suspect charged with murder, told police he ‘did it
for Gaza’
Elias Rodriguez shot victims in the back at close range, court documents >>> say; FBI investigating his apparent writings and far-left political
affiliations
By Luke Tress and Agencies
23 May 2025, 3:01 am
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Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the
Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the
Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington,
DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in
Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts >>> 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance
with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
WASHINGTON — Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli
embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after >>> the shooting and told them, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” >>> according to a court document filed on Thursday.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside
an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. Lischinsky and >>> Milgrim were a couple, and Lischinsky was planning to propose in
Jersualem next week.
The US Justice Department said Rodriguez has been charged with two
counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the
murder of foreign officials.
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An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint
said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted,
“Free Palestine.”
The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez
walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a
firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back.
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After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired
several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim >>> then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video
shows, according to the affidavit.
Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the
scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He >>> flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage,
the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight.
Yaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees
of the Israeli Embassy in the US, were killed in a shooting in
Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy
in Washington)
Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an
anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last >>> year in protest, calling Bushnell a “martyr.” Rodriguez, a 30-year-old >>>from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the
museum three hours before it started.
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“This brutal, antisemitic violence has no place in our country or
anywhere in civilization,” said US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We
will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible punishment for >>> the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed two wonderful young
people of a bright future together.”
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washington’s Metropolitan
Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office
for the District of Columbia.
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter makes remarks at the Capital >>> Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on May
22, 2025. The Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside an
event at the museum on May 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA) >>> Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was
inside the event before the attack.
“He milled around inside the event. We still don’t know exactly what he
said, but he said enough that they removed him,” Leiter said at a press
briefing at the scene of the attack. “He went outside, waited for
embassy workers to come out, and shot them.”
Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said.
“The person who shot these two young people dead last night shouted
‘Free, free Palestine.’ This was done in the name of a political agenda
to eradicate the State of Israel,” he said. “The State of Israel is now
fighting a war on seven fronts. This is the eighth front in the war to
demonize, to delegitimize, to eradicate the right of the State of Israel.” >>>
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Handwritten notes left at the site of the shooting of two Israeli
Embassy staffers outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish
Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
North America/Getty Images via AFP)
FBI and police investigators are poring over apparent writings and
political affiliations of the suspect.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on social media that
investigators were “aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the
suspect” and hoped to soon have updates regarding their authenticity.
Bongino’s statement appeared to refer to a manifesto signed with
Rodriguez’s name that was posted to an anonymous X account on Wednesday
night shortly before the shooting.
Posted with the title “Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home,” it
condemned Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians since
the October 2023 Hamas attacks, and discussed the morality of “armed”
action.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the bloodshed an “act of terror,”
although Bondi told reporters that authorities believe the suspect acted >>> alone.
Investigators are also delving into the apparent political affiliations
of the suspect, who worked for a healthcare nonprofit and was believed
to have had past ties to far-left groups.
At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his
right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was
set for June 18.
Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, “I do” to
questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood
his rights.
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FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law
enforcement blocked off the street.
Rodriguez was once affiliated with a far-left group in Chicago, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation, according to a post from the group
on X. The group said that Rodriguez had a brief association with a PSL
branch that ended in 2017 and that they knew of no contact with him in
more than seven years.
Rodriguez was also identified in a 2018 local news report as a member of >>> the Chicago branch of a national group called ANSWER, an acronym for Act >>> Now to Stop War and End Racism, which has organized demonstrations in
solidarity with Palestinians.
Rodriguez worked at the healthcare nonprofit American Osteopathic
Information Association, the organization confirmed in a statement
expressing sympathy for the victims.
He had also worked as an oral history researcher at The HistoryMakers, a >>> nonprofit dedicated to preserving African American stories, according to >>> a now-deleted biography on the group’s website.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the
University of Illinois Chicago with an English degree. He previously
worked as a content writer for commercial and noncommercial technology
firms, the deleted page said.
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel on all "eight fronts," including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah
now but also all others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
You got that right!
If Elias Rodriguez has any problem with the National Alliance, the
White Aryan Resistance, and the Stormfront White Nationalist Community,
it is ONLY because he considers them to be rival gangs.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/05/26/ethics-quote-of-the-month-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu
Ethics Quote of the Month: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
May 26, 2025 / Jack Marshall
‘”Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler’”
—-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, referring to the
murder of two young Israelis by a man who screamed “Free Palestine” in
Washington, D.C.
The context of that quote, from Netenyahu’s remarks last week:
“….A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young, beautiful couple,
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Yaron had just bought an engagement
ring for Sarah. He was planning to give it to her in Jerusalem next
week. They were planning to start a new and happy life together… that
tragically did not happen… Yaron and Sarah weren’t the victims of a
random crime. The terrorists who cruelly gunned them down did so for one >>> reason and one reason alone: he wanted to kill Jews… “Free Palestine”…
is exactly the same chant we heard on October 7, [2023]. On that day,
thousands of terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza. They beheaded
men, they raped women, they burned babies alive. They butchered 1200
innocent people and took 251 innocent people hostage to the dungeons of
Gaza…. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz… said to me, “These Hamas
terrorists are exactly like the Nazis.” “and if they could get away with >>> it, these Hamas terrorists would have slaughtered every last Jew on
Earth.” …For these Neo-Nazis, “Free Palestine” is just today’s version
of “Heil Hitler.” They don’t want a Palestinian state. They want to
destroy the Jewish state. They want to annihilate the Jewish people
who’ve been in the land of Israel for 3500 years…I could never
understand how this simple truth evades the leaders of France, Britain,
Canada and others. They’re now proposing to establish a Palestinian
state and reward these murderers with the ultimate prize… [F]or 18
years, we had a de facto Palestinian state. It’s called Gaza. And what
did we get? Peace? No, we got the most savage slaughter of Jews since
the Holocaust. You won’t be surprised to learn that Hamas thanked
President Macron and Prime Ministers Starmer and Carney for demanding
that Israel end its war in Gaza… Hamas was right to thank them, because
by issuing their demand, replete with a threat of sanctions against
Israel—against Israel, not Hamas — these three leaders effectively said >>> they want Hamas to remain in power…want Israel to stand down and accept
that Hamas’s army of mass murderers will survive, rebuild, and repeat
the October 7 massacre again and again and again, because that’s what
Hamas has vowed to do. When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers, and
kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice, you’re on the >>> wrong side of humanity, and you’re on the wrong side of history. Now
these leaders may think that they’re advancing peace. They’re not.
They’re emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever. And they give
them hope to establish a second Palestinian state, on which Hamas will
again seek to destroy the Jewish state.”
The pro-Hamas, “Aww, poor Gaza!” distortion was the position of the
Biden Administration, whoever that was, as well. It is the current
position of the Democratic Party, progressives and their allies, the
journalism and higher education Axis cabal.
Case in point: Here is the reference to the October 7 Hamas massacre in
Harvard’s latest yearbook:
Harvard Chabad, the campus community center for Jewish students, pointed >>> out that this whitewashing is the equivalent of describing 9/11 as “War
breaks out in Afghanistan.” It urged employers: “If you are going to
hire Harvard graduates from 2024-2028, please ask them what they were
doing on campus the last two years,” suggesting that if they called for
a free Palestine, maybe the employers should look elsewhere.
What’s Hebrew for “Bingo!”?
The absolutely only godly way to permanently defeat all enemies of
Israel on all fronts, including either Hamas and/or Hezbollah
now but also all others in the future, is by lifting up Israel's
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3) Messiah.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1kup6g4/declassified_biden_admin_labeled_covid_dissenters/
Declassified: Biden Admin Labeled COVID Dissenters ‘Domestic Violent
Extremists’
Steve Watson
24th May 2025
3 comments
Those who spoke out against vaccine and mask mandates were designated as >>> “DVEs”
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Newly declassified intelligence records have revealed that the Biden
administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination
and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists.”
The documents, which were declassified by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, show that
they cutely abbreviated the term to ‘DVEs’.
Catherine Herridge, one of the journalists who obtained the records,
notes “The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other >>> government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals.”
A former FBI agent told Herridge that this “is often the first step
toward a formal investigation.”
Herridge further reports:
The report… claims that “anti government or anti authority violent
extremists,” specifically militias, “characterize COVID-19 vaccination
and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach.” A sweeping range >>> of COVID narratives, the report states, “have resonated” with DVEs
“motivated by QAnon.”
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The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021
intelligence product whose title reads, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May
React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”
The report cites criticism of mandates as “prominent narratives” related >>> to violent extremism. These narratives “include the belief that COVID-19 >>> vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government
or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and >>> livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.
“It’s a way they could go to social media companies and say, ‘You don’t
want to propagate domestic terrorism so you should take down this
content,’” said former FBI agent Steve Friend.
Wow. Those violent extremists believing that COVID vaccines were
potentially unsafe for young people.
It’s not like they were 100% correct and big pharma is being forced to
admit this is exactly the case.
Herridge also reports that “The newly declassified report seems to draw
a straight line between opposition to vaccine mandates and elevated
levels of domestic terrorism.”
Not unless Trump officially reverses all the pardons made with the autopen. >>
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/05/28/re-abortion-another-bias-makes-you-stupid-op-ed-in-the-nyt/
Re Abortion: Another “Bias Makes You Stupid” Op-Ed in the NYT
May 28, 2025 / Jack Marshall
It’s kind of funny when headline writers are so clueless and biased that >>> what they think is a “res ipsa loquitur” story proving one thing
actually reveals something completely different.
The headline on a Times op-ed ed last week was “A Brain-Dead Woman Is
Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.” (I’m
using my last gift link of the month on this one, so you’d better read
it!) The writer was Kimberly Mutcherson, a professor at Rutgers Law School. >>>
The entire piece radiates contempt for the concept of treating the
unborn as human lives, which, you know, they are and rather undeniably
so. Readers are informed that Adriana Smith is brain dead, and has been
connected to life support machines for more than 90 days to save the
life of her baby. Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she died from
multiple blood clots in her brain.
“Her fetus’s heart continued to beat,” writes the professor, as if it
was an abandoned car with a functioning carburetor. Georgia, she
explains, is one of those crazy, fetus-worshiping states where a nascent >>> human being is deemed a human life that can’t be snuffed out on a whim
if it has a heartbeat. This, to the op-ed’s author, the headline writer
and the New York Times is completely unfathomable.
“Legislators did not seem to have considered a situation in which a
pregnant woman is legally dead,” she sneers. Funny, I don’t see why the
death of the mother compels the decision that the child she is carrying
should be considered a non-person and a life not worth saving. The
professor quotes the dead woman’s mother as saying, “We want the baby.
That’s a part of my daughter. But the decision should have been left to
us — not the state.” Wait: don’t we all believe that it is a proper
function of the state to protect the lives of human beings and to pass
laws that embody that duty? Do families have the option of letting the
children of parents who are killed die from neglect because it’s the
family’s “choice”?
What is stunning (depressing, annoying, telling) about Mutcherson’s
essay is that she can’t grasp why anyone would argue that a brain dead
mother should be kept alive so a vulnerable human being can become
strong enough to live a life outside her womb. Many quotes in the op-ed
make that clear, like…
“Reproductive justice advocates have long been clear that abortion law
is never only about abortion. It is about the exercise of control over
all pregnant women, regardless of whether they plan to carry their
pregnancies to term. That’s why the anti-abortion movement has pursued a >>> broad agenda of legal personhood for embryos and fetuses.” My comment:
“The Horror”! These misguided people think that a human being’s life
should be saved if at all possible. The monsters! This is the “It isn’t
what it is,” “Handmaiden’s Tale” propaganda of the political left, not
objective analysis. Anti-abortion advocates think that living human
beings shouldn’t be killed, that’s all. The position has nothing to do
with “controlling” the people who want to kill them any more than laws
against murder are “about the exercise of control” over citizens who
would like to kill someone.
“This kind of catastrophic event was inevitable, given the expansive and >>> imprecise laws written by legislators who generally lack medical
expertise, and the inability of politicians to fully predict every
emergency situation.” My comment: The professor isn’t referring to the
mother’s death as the “catastrophic event,” but rather the brain dead
woman’s body being kept functioning so her baby can be born. I can
conceive of valid arguments for why this should be considered bad policy >>> or a situation requiring special legislation. But what’s the
catastrophe? The author is incapable of comprehending that in a
utilitarian analysis, a Kantian analysis favoring human life, and
reciprocity principles (“If you were the fetus, what would you want the
hospital to do?”), the situation is thoroughly defensible.
“Emory University Hospital, once Ms. Smith’s place of employment, would
not be legally allowed to remove organs from a brain-dead person without >>> family consent if this person hadn’t previously registered her wish to
be a donor, even if doing so could save or improve dozens of lives.
However, according to Ms. Smith’s mother, the hospital informed her
that, because of the fetus her daughter was carrying, it could not
legally withdraw the artificial means of keeping her body functioning.”
My comment: So? The professor thinks that’s an apt analogy: the dead
woman’s organs can’t be harvested without her prior consent, so they
will be allowed to die along with her. But a liver isn’t a human being.
Never mind; abortion advocates can’t concede that what is at stake in an >>> abortion decision is a second human life. If they do, they know what
abortion becomes.
“Knowing the tremendous work that the body of a pregnant woman must do
to sustain and nourish a pregnancy, the harm to the fetus from being
trapped inside a body without a functioning brain cannot be known with
certainty.” My comment: Consequentialism, the refuge of the ethically
inert: “It’s a bad decision because it might not work.”
Mutcherson concludes by calling the situation “dystopian”—there’s “The
Handmaiden’s Tale” mentality again. She can see no benefit or reason to
try to save a human life. Bias has not only rendered her stupid, but so
morally and ethically blind she can’t see the other side of a genuine
ethics conflict.
"It's written that GOD punished David&Bathsheba w/ a full-term
abortion for their adultery. Thus, abortion reminds us that the
adultery of http://AntiChrist45.com (#TrumpIsTheAntiChrist) is the sin
to stop..."
Source:
https://x.com/WDJW/status/1926364784917676335
The absolutely only godly way to stop the sin of adultery (thereby
stopping abortions) is by holding up our #1 Example of living
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3).
Indeed.
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1l00n93/as_new_covid_strain_from_china_hits_the_us_some/
As new Covid strain from China hits the US... some experts are calling
for FACE MASKS to return
READ MORE: Doctors sound alarm over 'dangerous' new Covid variant
By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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Some experts are urging people to mask up amid rising alarm over a new
Covid variant — and fears of a summer wave of infections.
The NB.1.8.1 strain is already thought to be driving a wave of
infections across China, Hong Kong and Thailand — along with upticks in
hospitalizations.
In the US, there have been fewer than 20 cases detected to date. But the >>> strain has been detected in travelers arriving in California, Washington >>> state, Virginia and New York City, raising fears it may be spreading
quickly.
Lab tests suggest the variant is more infectious than currently
circulating strains, which means it could lead to a spike in infections
and potentially hospital admissions.
In Hong Kong, officials are already urging people to mask up,
particularly while on public transport or in crowded places.
And in the US, chatter about masks is beginning to creep in. Dr Amy
Edwards, a pediatrician at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, >>> Ohio, told CBS News today that anyone who feels a 'little under the
weather' should 'wear a mask'.
Another expert calling for masks is Dr Melanie Matheu, an immunologist >>>from California who previously studied at the University of California,
San Francisco.
She told her 336,000 TikTok followers the US should brace for a 'summer
wave' worse than that from the previous year.
The above shows people wearing facemasks in Bangkok, Thailand, in March
this year - which is among the countries reporting an uptick in Covid
cases thought to be due to the new variant
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The above shows people wearing facemasks in Bangkok, Thailand, in March
this year - which is among the countries reporting an uptick in Covid
cases thought to be due to the new variant
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NB.1.8.1 was declared a variant under monitoring by the World Health
Organization on Friday.
Patients sickened with the strain are suffering from similar symptoms to >>> those infected with other variants, scientists say, including a fever,
cough, sore throat and fatigue.
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In China, data shows the proportion of severely ill respiratory patients >>> with Covid has jumped from 3.3 to 6.3 percent over the last month, while >>> the proportion of Chinese ER patients testing positive for the disease
has jumped from 7.5 to 16.2 percent.
Officials in Taiwan are also reporting a surge in Covid ER admissions,
with numbers rising 78 percent in a week over the seven days to May 3,
the latest data shows.
And in Hong Kong, the proportion of swabs testing positive for the virus >>> has now hit a 12-month high — at 13.66 percent of samples used.
Dr Edwards said: 'If you're a little under the weather, but well enough
to be out and about, wear a mask.'
Advising on other strategies to control the virus, she said: 'Good cough >>> and sneezing hygiene, good hand washing, staying home if you're not
feeling well to keep other people from catching what you've got.'
Dr Matheu added: 'My advice would be the same around these variants.
'Make sure you get your updated booster, wear a mask — especially if you >>> are vulnerable, high risk, live or work with anyone who is vulnerable or >>> high risk — and make sure there is good air circulation in your indoors
and areas where you work.'
The above shows a hospital in China in January 2023. Many of the
patients shown are elderly and were reported to be suffering from Covid
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The above shows a hospital in China in January 2023. Many of the
patients shown are elderly and were reported to be suffering from Covid
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The above image is also from the mystery outbreak that gripped China
back in January 2025
Authorities in Hong Kong have already urged people to start wearing face >>> masks again amid concern over the new variant.
In a statement posted to the Hong Kong Department of Health's website,
officials said: 'High-risk persons (e.g. persons with underlying medical >>> conditions or persons who are immunocompromised) should wear surgical
masks when visiting public places.
'The general public should also wear a surgical mask when traveling on
public transport or staying in crowded places.
'When respiratory symptoms appear, one should wear a surgical mask,
consider avoiding going to work or school, avoid going to crowded places >>> and seek medical advice promptly.'
A spokeswoman for the CDC said the agency was 'aware' of the new
variant, but said few cases had been detected to date.
NB.1.8.1 was first detected in January this year and is thought to have
originated somewhere in Asia.
To date, it has now spread to 22 countries and a total of 518 cases have >>> been detected. There is no data on hospitalizations or deaths.
Scientists say, however, that the infection figures are likely a huge
underestimate — pointing out that many now do not test for Covid and
that government's have majorly scaled back their Covid variant
monitoring programs.
The proportion of cases caused by the variant is spiking globally, and
is up four-fold in the latest month with data available. It was behind
2.5 percent of all Covid cases globally at the start of April, but by
the end of the month, this had surged to 10.7 percent.
Travelers arriving in the US infected with the variant arrived between
April 22 and May 12 from the following countries: China, Japan, Vietnam, >>> South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
The variant has also been detected in Hawaii, Rhode Island and Ohio.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/06/04/never-mind-the-axis-media-spreads-hamas-anti-israel-propaganda-and-there-are-no-consequences/
“Never Mind!” The Axis Media Spreads Hamas Anti-Israel Propaganda, and
There Are No Consequences
June 4, 2025 / Jack Marshall
The Washington Post last night retracted its story misrepresenting an
incident in Gaza. The Post, like most of the news media, falsely claimed >>> that Israel killed 30 Gazan civilians who were just trying to get some
food (you know, the “Aww, poor Palestinians, still being persecuted by
those evil Jews!” narrative).
The Post’s statement was posted on X rather than on its website, and
announced that the paper had “deleted the post below because it and
early versions of the article didn’t meet Post fairness standards.”
That’s another lie, as it is pure deceit. The story had to be deleted
because it was false and should not have been published in the first
place. Yes, false news stories are unfair, but that’s a secondary problem. >>>
Palestinian Arab sources had spread the claim that an Israeli strike
near a humanitarian aid distribution center resulted in at least 30
deaths and numerous injuries. The international media outlets didn’t
consider the source, and leaped to the conclusion that Israel was
committing war crimes.
Later that same day, the IDF released the findings of its initial
investigation into the incident. These findings indicated that the IDF
did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the
humanitarian aid distribution site, and that the reports being
circulated as fact by media outlets were false. Yet even after the story >>> had been discredited, CNN and MSNBC (among others) continued to stick
with the original. anti-Israel spin. I saw this in real time: a Fox News >>> guest told viewers that the report had been debunked, and at exactly the >>> same time, the two Axis networks were repeating the original account.
The IDF again called on the media to be cautious with information
published by the Hamas terrorist organization. Gee, ya think? But they
aren’t careful and don’t want to be careful. They want to back the
Democratic Party’s position that Israel is the villain for reacting to
an unprovoked terrorist attack exactly as the United Sates would (and
has): by crushing the attacker and ensuring that the actions could never >>> be repeated.
Saying “Oopsie! Never mind!” does not undo the damage caused by the
original false reporting. That the Post and other media outlets would
accept without confirmation a Hamas narrative shows where their
confirmation bias lies, and why they are no longer trustworthy.
The only godly way to establish lasting real peace for Israel is by
lifting up their real Messiah Who is our #1 Example of living
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3).
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1laq5ti/canadas_top_doctor_theresa_tam_head_doctor_during/In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
Canada’s top doctor Theresa Tam leaving position when term ends June 20
By The Canadian Press
Published: June 13, 2025 at 12:57PM EDT
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam provides an update on public >>> health concerns related to wildfires during a press conference in Ottawa >>> on June 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
TORONTO — As Dr. Theresa Tam prepares to leave her position next week,
Canada’s top doctor says it’s more important than ever for Canada to
stand up for science and combat disinformation.
She’s held the role of chief public health officer for eight years, but
became a household name in the last five years as she led the country’s
public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her term ends June 20 and she doesn’t have another job lined up, Tam
said in a wide-ranging interview Friday that touched on her desire to be >>> remembered for more than COVID, her passion for health equity and the
musical side of her the public hasn’t seen.
“A strategic bit of planning was to just take a bit of time to reflect
so that I can consider the opportunities that are in front of me and see >>> what excites me, but is purposeful,” she said of what lies ahead.
“I do want to take a bit of time also with family and, you know, focus
on them a bit more,” Tam said.
Although she will “really miss everyone” at work, Tam said she was eager >>> to pursue some hobbies that have fallen by the wayside due to her hectic >>> schedule, including long-distance running and music.
“I am a musician and I haven’t really focused on that very much,” said
Tam, noting that she plays the piano, violin, cello and trumpet.
“At some point in my career, I’ve dropped a whole bunch of them.”
But she kept her musical background in the back of her mind during the
pandemic.
“I translated a lot of my musical thinking into conducting an emergency. >>> So I always think of myself as like a conductor of the orchestra and how >>> to conduct that response.”
While the pandemic killed more than 60,000 in Canada upended so many
facets of everyday life, Tam hopes Canadians also remember it as a time
that communities responded to public health mitigation measures -
including a COVID-19 vaccine campaign - that prevented the toll from
being much worse.
As Canadians remember the horrors of the pandemic, including more than
60,000 deaths, Tam hopes they also recall the successes - including the
high percentage of people who rolled up their sleeves to be vaccinated - >>> that prevented the toll from being much worse.
“If we didn’t have communities doing what they did, we would not have
had an outcome that’s - relatively speaking when you compare to other,
say, G7 countries - relatively good.”
When asked about how the unrelenting pace of the pandemic, as well as
attacks from people unhappy with public health measures affected her,
Tam said her support systems, both at work and in her personal life,
were helpful.
“Mentally, it was very stressful for everyone,” she said.
But she said provincial and territorial public health officials and many >>> other colleagues leaned on each other.
“There were Sunday conversations, which turned very technical, but at
the same time, we wanted to use those opportunities to just share a cup
of tea over the internet and say, ‘Look, what’s happening? How can we
help each other?”’
Tam also credits family, friends and neighbours “who all provided
supports when I felt that I’m so exhausted I can’t go on.”
“And then you have a nap and then you carry on,” she said.
Tam doesn’t want her legacy to be dominated by COVID-19. A pediatric
infectious disease physician by training, she joined the federal
government’s public health team as a field epidemiologist in 1998,
eventually rising to the position of deputy chief public health officer
and then to the top job in June 2017.
Although she’s handled several public health crises - including severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, H1N1 swine flu in 2009, mpox, >>> measles and the threat of H5N1 avian flu - Tam said her passion has
always been working toward health equity for all.
That includes working with racialized groups, people with low
socioeconomic status and Indigenous people, as well as those dealing
with complex societal challenges such as substance use and climate
change that threaten people’s health.
“My ambition (has been) to connect economic, social health and the
environment. And that, I hope, is a nice sort of bookend to my career as >>> the chief public health officer.”
In 1998, the year Tam started working in federal public health, measles
was declared eliminated in Canada. As she leaves, cases of the virus are >>> on the rise.
“To see measles come back, of course, to me is concerning,” she said.
“(But) I want to leave a hopeful message, which is: ‘We’ve done it
before and we can do it again,”’ she said of stopping transmission of
the virus within Canada.
But a big part of achieving that is combating disinformation and
misinformation and building trust in vaccines and the research behind them. >>>
“We do need to pay attention to youth and young adults. They are current >>> and future parents,” she said.
“They are mostly getting their information from social media and
cyberspace. They’re much more exposed to misinformation.”
Tam said it’s a critical time for Canada to stand up for science and
combat disinformation amid anti-public-health measures by U.S. President >>> Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. - measures that included cancelling National Institutes of Health
research projects and replacing the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention vaccine advisory panel.
“We focus on our science-based approaches. We can play an even more
important international role (in public health) under these circumstances.” >>
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://mailchi.mp/bostonglobe/they-stopped-my-heart-cold
Newsletter header that reads "Arguable with Jeff Jacoby." An
illustration of the author, Jeff Jacoby, sits at a typewriter surrounded >>> by stacks of books. A globe is precariously placed at the top of one
stack, while a black cat slinks by another. The author is scratching his >>> head in thought.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Opinion columnist
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They stopped my heart cold. Then they started it again.
My heart was breaking, but not from lost love. It was failing in the
most literal sense.
In 2020, my doctor recommended that I get an echocardiogram — an
ultrasound of the heart — to establish a baseline against which to
monitor any changes as I aged. Though I felt perfectly fine, the image
revealed that I had developed mild aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the
valve that controls the flow of oxygen-rich blood from the heart’s main
pumping chamber (the left ventricle) into the aorta, and from there to
the rest of the body.
Within a few years, the diagnosis had progressed from mild to moderate
stenosis. Further change would likely be gradual, I was told.
Intervention wouldn’t be necessary unless and until the degeneration of
the valve crossed into “severe” territory. But an echocardiogram early
this year showed that the stenosis — which is caused by a buildup of
calcium on the valve — was advancing much faster than expected.
Suddenly, a heart operation wasn’t a development to anticipate in some
abstract future. According to my cardiologist, it was necessary now. I
sought a second opinion, from a specialist working in a different
medical practice. He reviewed the images and the data and made the same
recommendation: Have this surgery.
And so, in late March, I found myself on a gurney, being prepped for the >>> most consequential medical procedure of my life (so far).
Open-heart surgery is the sort of experience you tend to regard as too
remote to even think about — until it's scheduled for you. But the weeks >>> leading up to the procedure made it clear that there is nothing
theoretical about what is going to take place. Over a period of about a
month and a half, I had to meet with a thoracic surgeon, choose an
anesthesiologist, undergo a variety of pre-surgical imaging (X-rays, CT
scan, another ultrasound), submit to catheterization to map out my heart >>> and coronary arteries, and take part in “pre-anesthesia testing” to make >>> plans for sedation during the surgery and pain management afterward.
The surgeon presented me with consent forms in which I acknowledged the
serious risks involved in the surgery. On one of the forms, he had noted >>> in large letters that those risks included death and stroke. I asked him >>> how often such disasters occur. About once in 200 surgeries, he told me. >>> In the abstract, a 0.5 percent mortality risk seems reassuringly low. It >>> seems a lot less so, however, when you realize that if one of 200
patients will die, you might be the one. My wife certainly took little
comfort in the statistics.
In the 1950s, open-heart surgery had a 50 percent mortality rate.
Today it is less than 1 percent.
(Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP via STAT News)
In truth, during the run-up to surgery my greatest dread wasn't that I
would die or be left disabled. It was that I would wake up with a
breathing tube down my throat. That prospect freaked me out so much that >>> I brought it up with every doctor I encountered. They all assured me
that I would be under full anesthesia during intubation and that even if >>> the tube were still in when I regained consciousness, I would retain no
memory of it.
They were wrong. It is the first thing I remember about waking up in the >>> ICU and I remember it vividly — the sense of being about to suffocate,
the restraint of being unable to speak, the panicky urge to get that
thing out of my throat. Three months later, it remains the most
nightmarish part of the whole experience. By contrast, I have no memory
at all of being wheeled into the operating room, though I know I was
conscious at the time and even waved to my wife as I was wheeled past her. >>>
The operation itself took about four hours. What I know of it comes
mostly from my own research (instead of writing Arguable, I’ve been
reading up on the history and techniques of heart surgery and watching
surgical videos), the many questions I asked, and the evidence I can see >>> in the mirror of the surgical team’s precision.
The process was at once elegant and brutal. (Warning: some graphic
descriptions ahead.) After the anesthesia took hold, my chest was
scrubbed and all but a rectangular area in the center was covered by
sterile drapes. Using a scalpel, the surgeon made an 8-inch incision >>>from just below my collarbone down to the upper abdomen. The blade
sliced through skin and subcutaneous fat, revealing the flat, hard bone
of the underlying sternum.
Then he used an oscillating saw to cut through the sternum, while others >>> applied suction and cauterization to stem the flow of blood. A stainless >>> steel retractor was used to forcibly separate the two halves of my rib
cage and keep them apart, exposing the lungs and beating heart beneath.
The pericardium, the sac that encases the heart, was incised and pinned
back. The surgical field was awash in suction, cautery smoke, and the
steady hum of machines. All the while, I slept.
And then, an astonishing miracle of modern medical science took place:
My heart and lungs were taken offline, their functions “outsourced” to a >>> cardiopulmonary bypass machine that would take over their functions so
the surgery could proceed. With tubes and clamps, the surgical team
diverted my blood flow into the machine, which began to artificially
oxygenate it, then circulate it back into my body. Then an ice-cold
potassium solution, cardioplegia, was infused directly into the main
coronary arteries. My heart slackened, collapsed, and stopped beating.
There was nothing poetic about its stillness: It was clinical and eerie
— and essential to giving the surgeon a chance to remove and replace my
diseased valve.
Elie Wiesel, the late Nobel peace laureate, underwent invasive heart
surgery in 2011 and afterward wrote a slim volume, “Open Heart,” about
the experience. “I didn’t know, I couldn’t know, just how complicated it >>> is, with risks and dangers that defy imagination,” he mused. “For the
layman that I am, this surgery is not unlike a walk on the moon. … I was >>> overcome with a feeling of gratitude.”
Prior to surgery, I hadn’t been experiencing any severe symptoms —
nothing more than a mild breathlessness when walking uphill. But if the
valve wasn’t removed, I learned, it would be only a matter of time
before more serious symptoms appeared. At that point, the average
survival without valve replacement is only 2 to 3 years. Aortic stenosis >>> is cruel in that way — you can be relatively asymptomatic until one day
you collapse. In his compelling memoir “Fragile Lives,” the trailblazing >>> British heart surgeon Stephen Westaby quotes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: >>> “Nothing is too late / till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
I had mentioned to my surgeon a couple of times that after he removed my >>> damaged valve, I wanted to keep it as a souvenir and asked him to set it >>> aside for me. But when I asked about it after the surgery, he told me,
rather dismissively, that anything taken from the body had to be sent to >>> the pathology lab. It annoyed me to have my simple request ignored —
especially when, reading “Fragile Lives” a few weeks later, I learned
that Westaby hadn’t hesitated to honor a similar request from one of his >>> patients. But considering what I owed the surgeon, I wasn’t about to
make a fuss over it.
In the immediate aftermath of surgery, I was full of holes. There were
tubes or puncture wounds in my neck, my abdomen, my chest, my hand, and
my thigh. And then there were the pacing wires — thin wires attached
directly to the heart and brought out through my chest, a practice
invented in the 1950s by Dr. Walt Lillehei, an American pioneer of
open-heart surgery. They allow doctors to pace the heartbeat externally
if its rhythm falters. Mine were never needed, thankfully, and were
pulled out just before my discharge. The removal was surprisingly
painless, but the very idea that I had wires running from my heart to
the outside world was surreal.
I also worried about “pump head” — a cognitive fog that can follow
surgery involving the heart-lung machine. It affects memory,
concentration, language ability, and even personality. I'd read about it >>> in Sandeep Jauhar's “Heart: A History” — it can “persist years after
surgery and in many cases is probably irreversible,” he wrote. My
primary-care physician had also warned me that my brain might not work
properly for weeks or even months after the surgery. Considering what I
do for a living, that prospect alarmed me. But I was fortunate. My
memory, attention, and sense of self remained intact. On the other hand, >>> for weeks I experienced strange visual auras — the kind that usually
precede a migraine but without the pain. My doctor was baffled. No one
could say for sure if it was a delayed effect of anesthesia, the
heart-lung machine, or simply my body's eccentric reaction to trauma.
The pain, at first, was unrelenting. Not just in my chest, which I had
expected, but radiating through my upper back. For weeks, I was
constantly being reminded of the violence that had been done to my body
in the name of healing. It was agonizing to cough; even more so to sneeze. >>>
And yet, I quickly began to recover. Within a day I had been moved out
of intensive care; a day after that I was taking short walks in the
hospital corridor; less than a week after entering the hospital, I was
discharged. Once back home I figured out how to take a shower
unassisted. I climbed a flight of stairs (slowly). I even made my way to >>> the Starbucks around the block — though the first few times I tried it,
I had to stop for periodic rests.
As I have learned from my reading, a typical human heart beats three
billion times over a lifetime, pushing blood through 100,000 miles of
vessels — a network so vast it would circle the globe if laid end to
end. That mine could literally be stopped cold and started again, and a
failing valve removed and replaced with a new one, is an astonishment.
We take such surgery for granted now. But when I was born, the type of
surgery I just underwent was still unknown. The first time an aortic
valve from a human being was successfully replaced with one from an
animal was in 1965, the year I entered second grade.
Jauhar writes that until the late 19th century, the heart was considered >>> untouchable — not just medically but metaphorically. For millennia it
was regarded as the seat of human emotion and feeling, and that
perception lives on in our language: We “take heart,” “speak from the
heart,” “have a change of heart,” or “give our heart” to another. When
Barney Clark was scheduled to receive the first permanent artificial
heart in 1982, his wife anxiously asked doctors: “Will he still be able
to love me?”
There is something intensely human about the vulnerability of the human
heart. Even in an age when more than 3,000 cardiac operations are
performed every day, we still think of it as sacred territory. Perhaps
it is.
For me, heart surgery was more than just a medical event. It was a
confrontation with mortality and a chance to marvel at what science and
surgery have made possible — and what they still cannot fully explain.
That I am here, writing this, with a new valve pulsing away in my chest, >>> is a gift I do not minimize. Like Wiesel, I too am “overcome with a
feeling of gratitude.”
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in America. As >>> Jauhar notes, nearly one in four Americans will die from it, despite all >>> our progress. But we have come far. In the 1950s, open-heart surgery had >>> a 50 percent mortality rate. Now it's often less than 1 percent. And
while cardiology may be reaching the limits of what it can achieve, it
still affords the precious chance to extend life — and to reflect on its >>> value.
Open-heart surgery didn’t make me wiser. But it did bring home to me
that the heart is not merely a pump. It is, in more ways than one, the
center of our being. And mine, once broken, beats on.
COVID-19 infection is not benign for the heart and may have been a
contributing factor for Mr. Jacoby's rapidly progressing aortic
valvular disease that was initially only mild in 2020:
"Patients with corona virus disease (COVID)-19 are prone to a variety
of myocardial and vascular complications. Recent studies suggest that
cardiac valves are also potential targets for the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Calcific aortic valve
stenosis (CAVS) is the most common valvular heart disease. Severe
COVID-19 has been associated with main risk factors for CAVS,
including male sex, older age, cardiovascular co-morbidities, obesity,
hypertension, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease. Prognostic
implications for concomitant CAVS and SARS-CoV-2 infection have been
reported. Changes in CAVS diagnostic, interventional, and follow-up
clinical processes have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SARS-CoV-2 may damage aortic valves via both direct injury and
indirect mechanisms that include hyperinflammation, oxidative stress,
and valve thrombosis. The injury is often acute but may be
irreversible and thus favor future CAVS development. Rheumatic heart
disease, which develops as a sequel of rheumatic fever, is one example
of a possible relation between an acute infection and chronic valvular
heart disease. A persistent prothrombotic state, prolonged endothelial
dysfunction, and incomplete resolution of inflammation after COVID-19
convalescence may expose the aortic valves to chronic stimulation
toward CAVS. Priority of CAVS management in COVID-19 includes avoiding
treatment delay and managing underlying pathophysiological state that
promotes CAVS."
Abstract source:
https://journals.lww.com/cardioplus/fulltext/2022/03000/calcific_aortic_valve_stenosis_and_covid_19_.2.aspx
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1lfdix0/covid_virologist_dr_chris_smith_faces_redundancy/
Virologist who explained Covid faces redundancy
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BBC News, Cambridgeshire
Chris Smith Chris Smith, a man with light brown hair, wearing a blue and >>> white checked shirt. He is sitting in front of radio recording
equipment. A screen over his left shoulder is showing The Naked
Scientists logo of a man in a white coat with his arms
outstretched.Chris Smith
Dr Chris Smith is a "public understanding of science" fellow at the
university
A virologist who helped explain Covid-19 to a worldwide audience of
millions has accused the University of Cambridge of "amnesia" as it
threatened to make his post redundant.
Dr Chris Smith heads up the university-based The Naked Scientists
podcast, which helps the public understand and engage with science,
technology and medicine - including during coronavirus.
He said the university wanted to "kill me off" to cut costs, despite
helping to put the university "on the map" during the pandemic.
A university spokesman said: "The University of Cambridge is currently
consulting with Dr Chris Smith about the future of his role within the
university."
Dr Smith's job is split across the university - where he is a "public
understanding of science fellow" - and at Addenbrooke's Hospital in
Cambridge. His university-funded clinical work as a consultant
virologist is at risk by default.
The Naked Scientists, which he began in 2001, has racked up 150 million
downloads and produces several hours of content each week, with Dr Smith >>> and his team questioning scientists and doctors - often from the
university - on a variety of subjects.
Dr Smith also appears as an expert on TV and radio, including BBC 5Live, >>> BBC Radio 2 and the BBC's News Channel.
"I've been doing this for 25 years and they're going to kill it off, and >>> kill me off, when I've been devoting my life to this," he added.
During the pandemic he gave more than 2,000 interviews to help audiences >>> understand what was happening and why, and said he still received
messages from people who found him "reassuring and helpful".
"I think the university has amnesia; I worked for 15 hours a day, stuff
going out to millions of people, on BBC Breakfast every Saturday, and I
never got so much as an email from the university to say thanks.
"All the kudos would have otherwise gone to Oxford, Imperial College and >>> University College London - it put Cambridge on the map and they were
enormous beneficiaries of that.
"I know the strong impact of what I do, but they don't measure it - they >>> will be assessing me based on research papers in journals and the
reaction to that," he added, describing himself as "invisible".
He said he had called for meetings with the university and not had a
response, adding: "They are willing to cut two jobs in one fell swoop
and not come to the table; it's not acceptable."
Since making the news public he has received hundreds of messages and
emails in support, with many also urging the university to rethink.
"People are saying really strong stuff; they all think it's a terrible
idea," he said.
In a statement sent to the BBC, the university said The Naked Scientists >>> podcast was a separate entity that it "neither owned, controlled nor had >>> any direct influence over".
Dr Smith argued Cambridge was "fully behind the project and its output"
and had hired his radio producer, whose job was also at risk.
A Cambridge University Hospitals spokesperson, on behalf of
Addenbrooke's, said: "As his employer, the University of Cambridge is
currently consulting with Dr Chris Smith, and we await the outcome of
those discussions."
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1lsblm9/could_the_calgary_stampede_be_a_measles_super/
Could the Calgary Stampede be a measles ‘super spreader’ event? Experts
have concerns
By Jacqueline Wilson
Published: July 04, 2025 at 9:51PM EDT
About 1.3 million people are expected through the gates of Stampede over >>> these next 10 days, but some could have measles.
More than 1.3 million people are expected to visit the Calgary Stampede, >>> and this massive event is taking place at the same time the province is
experiencing a measles outbreak.
It has doctors concerned about the potential for an increase in cases.
“Measles is world-class in its ability to infect people with relatively
minor amounts of contact, so I think the question would be more, where
couldn’t you get it at the Stampede? The answer to that is probably
outside, probably rides where there’s a lot of movement,” said Dr. James >>> Talbot, Alberta’s former chief medical officer of health.
Measles can remain in the air for up to a couple of hours after an
infected person leaves a room.
For this reason and more, Talbot thinks Stampede has the potential to be >>> a ‘super spreader’ event.
Crowds at the Stampede parade in Calgary, Sunday, July 9, 2023. THE
CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
“To be a super spreader event, there are a couple of things that need to >>> be in place. One, you need to have a highly infectious virus, and
measles qualifies for that. There needs to be activity in the province,
which is still happening. Also, you need to have venues in which large
numbers of people from around the world will gather together,” Talbot said. >>>
The latest report shows there are 11 new cases of measles in Alberta,
bringing the total to 1,190.
“We are concerned that there will be broader measles spread and, in
particular, people from other regions of the province that haven’t had
measles yet or other parts of Canada or internationally,” said Craig
Jenne, University of Calgary microbiology, immunology and infectious
diseases professor.
While risk to fully vaccinated adults is relatively low, it’s those who
are not vaccinated, pregnant, under five years old and/or
immunocompromised that should be careful.
“Individual risk is relatively low, especially if you’re fully
vaccinated. Go on and enjoy the Stampede; it’s a party. But we do have
to be mindful that there is a rather potent virus out there this year,”
said Jenne.
The best protection against measles is to get vaccinated.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://reason.com/2025/07/14/u-n-report-blames-israel-and-capitalism-for-the-conflict-in-gaza
U.N. Report Blames Israel and Capitalism for the Conflict in Gaza
The report includes no mentions of Hamas’ attacks or hostages.
J.D. Tuccille | 7.14.2025 7:00 AM
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We can rest easily, folks: The inaptly named United Nations Human Rights >>> Council (UNHRC) has closely examined the aftermath of Hamas' attack on
Israel and found the culprit: It was settler colonialism and capitalism
what done it! In a masterful mishmash of leftist gibberish, the report
assumes Israel's culpability and combines antisemitism with hostility to >>> free markets. The report should make Americans happy that the U.S. has
disengaged from the UNHRC and bears no responsibility for its actions.
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Forget Hamas, It's All About Settler-Colonialism and Racial Capitalism
"The role of corporate entities in sustaining the illegal Israeli
occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza is the subject of
the present investigative report, which is focused on how corporate
interests underpin the Israeli settler-colonial twofold logic of
displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and erasing
Palestinians from their lands," asserts Francesca Albanese, Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian
territories occupied since 1967, in the introduction to the July 3
report. The document concludes, in part: "The enduring ideological,
political and economic engine of racial capitalism has transformed the
Israeli displacement-replacement economy of occupation into an economy
of genocide."
The report comes over a year and a half after the brutal October 7
invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists during which, as the
Congressional Research Service summarizes, "more than 1,200 Israelis and >>> foreign nationals (including 46 U.S. citizens in Israel) were killed…and >>> Hamas and other groups also seized some 251 hostages." The report
references "October 2023" 30 times, but in a bizarre way. That date
somehow becomes a mysterious turning point during which Israel and its
corporate capitalist accessories became pointlessly meaner than ever
towards the seemingly peaceful people of Gaza.
"Had proper human rights due diligence been undertaken, corporate
entities would have long ago disengaged from Israeli occupation," the
report asserts. "Instead, post-October 2023, corporate actors have
contributed to the acceleration of the displacement-replacement process
throughout the military campaign that has pulverized Gaza and displaced
the largest number of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967."
"Hamas" is mentioned only as part of the URL in a link to a Washington
Post story in a footnote. There is no mention of "hostages." The word
"antisemitism" is used exactly one time, in a dismissive manner when
Albanese "acknowledges the vital work of students and staff in holding
universities to account. It casts a new light on global crackdowns on
campus protesters: shielding Israel and protecting institutional
financial interests appears a more probable motivation than fighting
alleged antisemitism."
A U.N. Official's History of Antisemitism and Support for Terrorism
Albanese and her staff elide any events during October 2023 that might
have precipitated a change in policy by Israel towards Gaza, and they
wave away any possible hostility towards Jews. Of course, Albanese
herself was the subject of a 2024 report from Geneva-based watchdog
group UN Watch that found she is ill-disposed towards Israel and most of >>> its inhabitants. Titled Wolf In Sheep's Clothing: Why Democracies Should >>> Sanction UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese For Propagating Antisemitism
and Supporting Terrorism, that report documented a series of concerning
facts about Albanese. These include her accusation that the United
States has been "subjugated by the Jewish lobby"; that her husband, who
compares Palestinians to Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, formerly worked for
the Palestinian Authority; that in her role as a U.N. official, she told >>> attendees at a Hamas-organized conference "you have a right to resist
this occupation"; and that she responded to Hamas's October 7 atrocities >>> by insisting "today's violence must be put in context."
Based on her conduct, statements, and connections, the UN Watch report
found that "Francesca Albanese knowingly supports Hamas and other
terrorist groups."
Accordingly, Albanese's reappointment to her position in April was
opposed by the United States, Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the
Netherlands, and members of the European Parliament from Bulgaria,
Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Slovakia, and Sweden, among other
interested parties. Nevertheless, she was granted another three-year
term in her position.
Sanctions Beget More Sanctions
That vote of confidence may have encouraged Albanese to let her freak
flag fly—more than in the past, that is. The July 3 report insists
"colonial endeavours and associated genocides have historically been
driven and enabled by the corporate sector, Commercial interests have
contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous people of their lands – a >>> mode of domination known as 'colonial racial capitalism.'" The report
calls out companies by name, including some top tech firms, for offering >>> their services to Israelis and allegedly enabling "Israeli apartheid"
and "military and population-control systems." It hisses that "while it
is impossible to fully capture the scale and extent of decades of
corporate connivance in the exploitation of the occupied Palestinian
territory, the present report exposes the integration of the economies
of settler-colonial occupation and genocide." It adds that "corporate
entities must refuse to be complicit in human rights violations and
international crimes or be held to account" and calls for sanctions not
just on Israel but also on individuals and businesses that engage with
the country.
That's some Ivy League grad student-level idiocy. But it's voiced by a
quasi-governmental official who is likely to justify and inspire
compliance among many U.N. member states that are already hostile to
Israel, Jews, and free enterprise.
After Albanese's latest mischief, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
responded, "Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed
support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel,
and the West." He noted that "she has recently escalated this effort by
writing threatening letters to dozens of entities worldwide, including
major American companies across finance, technology, defense, energy,
and hospitality, making extreme and unfounded accusations and
recommending the [International Criminal Court] pursue investigations
and prosecutions of these companies and their executives."
Rubio's statement imposed sanctions on Albanese of the sort detailed in
an earlier executive order. They include "blocking of property and
assets, as well as the suspension of entry into the United States." Were >>> Albanese a garden-variety bigot and hater of free markets, sanctions
would be an excessive reaction to hateful speech. But she's a U.N.
official: Her pronouncements help shape government policy. The
sanctions, then, are a matter of conflict between the U.S. government
and a hostile state actor.
The U.N. has long been an exercise in waste, failure, and doubletalk
where terms like "human rights" are used to negate their plain meaning.
Worse, though, the organization encourages government-level enforcement
of lies and hate.
The only godly way for there to be real lasting peace for Israel is by
lifting up their true Messiah, Who is our #1 Example of living
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3).
No doubt about it!
Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) for food
right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1m1scmk/las_vegas_711_security_guard_sentenced_for/
Vegas 7-Eleven security guard sentenced to 5 to 14 years in prison for
killing customer over COVID-19 protocols
By Nicholas McEntyre
Published July 11, 2025, 1:35 a.m. ET
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A Las Vegas security guard was sentenced to spend between five and 14
years in prison for fatally shooting a customer outside a 7-Eleven
convenience store during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kegia Mitchell tearfully apologized on Thursday after she entered an
Alford plea for the August 2020 death of 56-year-old Thomas Martin.
“I didn’t mean to take this man’s life, I did not,” Mitchell cried out
in court. “I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.”
AD
The deal means she doesn’t plead guilty to the murder of Martin but
acknowledges that prosecutors may have enough evidence for a conviction, >>> according to KLAS.
Mitchell was tasked with regulating the number of customers permitted
into the convenience store in Las Vegas’ northeast section on August 26
when Martin cut the line and attempted to enter.
AD
Kegia Mitchell holds a gun at Thomas Martin's head outside a Las Vegas
7-Eleven moments before shooting him on Aug. 26, 2020.
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Kegia Mitchell holds a gun to Thomas Martin’s head outside a Las Vegas
7-Eleven moments before shooting him on Aug. 26, 2020.
8 News Now
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Martin was blocked and began complaining that Mitchell was refusing to
let him in while she had allowed other customers through the checkpoint. >>>
The two began arguing as Martin cursed at the security guard,
threatening Mitchell before breaking past and into the store, the outlet >>> reported.
Mitchell grabbed the angry customer and the two shoved each other before >>> she took out a handgun and pointed it at Martin’s face, according to
security footage of the incident.
Thomas Martin attempts to enter the convenience store but is stopped by
Mitchell.
9
Thomas Martin attempts to enter the convenience store but is stopped by
Mitchell.
8 News Now
Kegia Mitchell entered an Alford plea in the August 2020 death of
56-year-old Thomas Martin in front of the convenience store in the
northeast section of Las Vegas.
9
Kegia Mitchell entered an Alford plea in the August 2020 death of
56-year-old Thomas Martin in front of the convenience store in the
northeast section of Las Vegas.
8 News Now
The armed security guard led Martin out of the store with her gun inches >>>from his head.
Martin turned around and attempted to swat the gun out of Mitchell’s
hands when a shot rang out.
Mitchell, who failed her first firearms safety training, was gifted the
gun for Mother’s Day, according to the outlet.
She was arrested and charged with open murder.
A grand jury later indicted her for murder with a deadly weapon.
AD
Martin breaks past Mitchell and into the store before the security guard >>> grabs him.
9
Martin breaks past Mitchell and into the store before the security guard >>> grabs him.
8 News Now
AD
Police outside the 7-Eleven in northeast Las Vegas after the shooting.
9
Police were outside the 7-Eleven in northeast Las Vegas after the shooting. >>> 8 News Now
The charges were changed to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated
assault when Mitchell signed the Alford plea in April.
Martin, a grandfather, was waiting to meet his newest granddaughter when >>> he was killed.
“We were in the process of coming back here, you know, to let him meet
the baby girl and everything, and the bad news hit,” son Brandon Martin
told KLAS in September 2020.
Mitchell holds a gun up to Martin's face during the altercation inside
the store.
9
Mitchell holds a gun up to Martin’s face during the altercation inside
the store.
8 News Now
Martin attempted to disarm the security guard several times before he
was shot.
9
Martin attempted to disarm the security guard several times before he
was shot.
8 News Now
Lawyers for Mitchell argued for parole as she had faced enormous
pressure enforcing the guidelines during the pandemic.
Clark County prosecutors claimed Mitchell abused her powers at work,
pointing to a separate incident 19 days before Martin’s death, when the
security guard was recorded dragging a customer across the parking lot.
“How many times did we hear about 7-Eleven clerks shooting people and
killing them during COVID? That wasn’t a thing — that didn’t happen.
It’s isolated to Miss Mitchell because she abused her authority,” Chief
Deputy District Attorney Christopher Hamner told the court, according to >>> the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Mitchell appears in Clark County court for her sentencing on July 10, 2025. >>> 9
Mitchell appears in Clark County court for her sentencing on July 10, 2025. >>> 8 News Now
Mitchell drags a woman in the parking lot of the store 19 days before
Martin's death.
9
Mitchell drags a woman in the parking lot of the store 19 days before
Martin’s death.
8 News Now
“Mr. Martin wasn’t stealing. He cut a line. And what’s outrageous about
it is that when he cuts the line, it is Miss Mitchell who puts her hand
on his shirt first. And the rest of the struggle is Mr. Martin saying,
‘Get off of my clothing, let me go.’ And she won’t do it … Miss Mitchell >>> ramps it up a whole other level. She pulls out a loaded gun, and she
puts it to the side of his face,” Hamner added.
Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones said the decision was
complicated.
“It’s not what took place in the store that’s the biggest issue,” Jones
said. “It’s what took place outside the store that’s the biggest issue.” >>>
Brandon Martin celebrated the sentencing, saying that his father
received justice following the sentencing.
“JUSTICE FOR MY DAD(TOMMY MARTIN)…..REST IN HEAVEN DAD WE GOT HER TODAY, >>> IT WONT TAKE THE PAIN AWAY OF LOSING YOU BUT AT LEAST SHE’S FINALLY
GOING AWAY AFTER 5 YEARS…..LOVE AND MISS YOU…..HE WAS ONE HAMMAH WAS NOT >>> AFRAID OF THAT GUN, SWATTED IT AWAY ATLEAST 5 TIMES,” Brandon Martin
wrote on Facebook.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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