Hot on the heels of the bombshell admission last week by Facebook lawyers in legal filings that “fact checks” are nothing more than opinion, this open letter to Zuckerberg and Facebook/Meta from highly respected The British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows even more reason Facebook is simply engaged in wanton censorship. It is equivalent to a professional ‘bitchslap’ in my opinion.
It it worth repeating and sharing everywhere. It is time to pushback twice as hard. h/t to Willis Eschenbach.
Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mark Zuckerberg,
We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta.
In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.
The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ’s usual high level editorial oversight and review.[1]
But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about “Missing context … Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share “false information” might have their posts moved lower in Facebook’s News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were “partly false.”
Readers were directed to a “fact check” performed by a Facebook contractor named Lead Stories.[2]
We find the “fact check” performed by Lead Stories to be inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible.
— It fails to provide any assertions of fact that The BMJ article got wrong
— It has a nonsensical title: “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials”
— The first paragraph inaccurately labels The BMJ a “news blog”
— It contains a screenshot of our article with a stamp over it stating “Flaws Reviewed,” despite the Lead Stories article not identifying anything false or untrue in The BMJ article
— It published the story on its website under a URL that contains the phrase “hoax-alert”
We have contacted Lead Stories, but they refuse to change anything about their article or actions that have led to Facebook flagging our article.
We have also contacted Facebook directly, requesting immediate removal of the “fact checking” label and any link to the Lead Stories article, thereby allowing our readers to freely share the article on your platform.
There is also a wider concern that we wish to raise. We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime. To give one other example, we would highlight the treatment by Instagram (also owned by Meta) of Cochrane, the international provider of high quality systematic reviews of the medical evidence.[3] Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task. Fact checking has been a staple of good journalism for decades. What has happened in this instance should be of concern to anyone who values and relies on sources such as The BMJ.
We hope you will act swiftly: specifically to correct the error relating to The BMJ’s article and to review the processes that led to the error; and generally to reconsider your investment in and approach to fact checking overall.
Best wishes,
Fiona Godlee, editor in chief
Kamran Abbasi, incoming editor in chief
The BMJ
Competing interests:
As current and incoming editors in chief, we are responsible for everything The BMJ contains.
References:
[1] Thacker PD. Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial. BMJ. 2021 Nov 2;375:n2635. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2635. PMID: 34728500. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
[2] Miller D. Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials. Nov 10, 2021. https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/11/fact-check-british-medical-jo…
[3] https://twitter.com/cochranecollab/status/1458439812357185536
Don’t use facebook. Don’t use twitter.
When you use Facebook, you are being used by Facebook, and guess who gets the better end of that deal.
When a product is free, realize you are actually the product being monetized.
More properly: “. . . you are being abused by Facebook . . .”
Gave them up couple years ago, never used Twitter.
Never liked the Facebook set up anyway as forums does it much better but then too many people are too lazy to run a forum, so they flock to facebook who does the work for them.
Better to set up a forum instead.
This.
I’m old enough to remember when we owned and controlled what we published. We had blogs to put our personal random stuff out there, and forums (fora, really) to discuss our collective random stuff. Nobody but us owned it.
By submitting to the control of Big Tech, you are giving away control. Don’t do it!
I’ve set up several free independent fora for random groups on the interwebs when their existing platform was curtailed or stopped by existing owners. People didn’t even realise it was not only possible, but as free as a bird. Many are still going quite happily.
I have owned several forums including one of the biggest climate forums existing, it was maliciously taken down by a giant corporation 4 years ago when this underhanded censorship became visible.
Zig Zag Wanderer,
I can and do attest that the climate blog operated by Sunsettommy was of the highest quality.
Richard
That is very kind of you, I was thrilled when you chose to join and post there.
It is still available on WayBack Machine even can click on the comments to read them, they trawled unusually deep in it.
Global Warming Skeptics
Better to set up a forum instead.
The other side of that is that people don’t want to do forums anymore, because they use facebook. Getting people ON your forum is quite difficult.
I hate the all — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc., etc. Without changing careers and a major change in lifestyle (Unabomber Estates, anyone?) I’m stuck with the tech companies.
As for social media, I make limited use of Facebook. With Twitter, I’m still blocked for saying Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense — despite the fact a court and a jury of his peers found he did act in self-defense and violated no laws.
But you can fight back by limiting tracking. First, stop using Chrome. Use the Brave browser as much as you can, Edge when you can’t and Chrome only if you’re forced to. Second, clear your cookies everytime you close your browser and change your settings to never allow third-party cookies. Also use private browsing as much as possible.
Duckduckgo now has its own browser, which works fine. It also has a tool built-in to track and bl9ck Android apps that send your data out. It’s very revealing.
I have downloaded the Brave browser. It seems to have some relation with Chrome. For instance, you can run maps.google.com in it. Also you can install extensions for Chrome.
What’s the deal with that?
Also, I have looked for the duckduckgo browser. I have found the instructions for installing it on Win10 but they do not work. Any ideas there? Or do you have a link that you have actually used to install the duckduckgo browser? There are links that claim to do that but they do not work.
Brave is based on Chromium which is the “engine” that drives chrome. That’s why chrome extensions work. There are two main engines, the other being Mozilla. Firefox uses Mozilla.
I would expect websites like maps.google.com to work fine regardless of browser.
I don’t think there is a desktop version of the DDG browser, only phone/tablet apps.
You are not stuck. Check out locals.com, a forum hosting site set up by Dave Rubin, whose terms of service promise that the creator of a forum on Locals owns his forum and all its contents no matter what management may do in the future.
There is also Steem, which is baes on block chain and is true peer to peer – mo central authority to block you.
I would recommend using Duck Duck Go & Opera before using Edge. Try to use as little of Microsoft stuff as possible.
I second the use of Brave. I understand that DuckDuckGo is just an unfiltered Google search. True or not – anyone?
No it isn’t true. According to tech reviews of Duckduckgo, it uses it’s own search engine core, but you can use its privacy extensions on Chrome, Edge, Safari etc. which would then use the search engines of those providers.
“it uses it’s own search engine core”
That’s news to me, will have to check it out
DDG also has some privacy extentions on the Firefox desktop browser. Of course, using a VPN is prb’ly the best way for privacy.
My Favorite is using a VPN with Tor browser. Or something like OnionFruit if I wanna use Tor + Brave.
Not sure about the searching; however, DDG does not track or records searches. I have used DDG as my main search engine for several years and never had any issues.
I get vastly different results from DDG than from Google.
I think DDG uses Bing under the hood, but it also anonymizes so that results aren’t bubble-filtered: different users with different histories from different locations all get the same results.
Get a trusted VPN service on all the devices you use to stop IP address tracking and browser visit logging by your ISP.
I’ve thought of using a VPN but I’m cautious about anything on the net- is there a downside to the use of a VPN?
Only that it’s slower because everything is encrypted. I use it all the time.
I use Firefox and they have used a pop-up recently selling their VPN network. Anyone have experience or advice?
is there a downside to the use of a VPN?
It slows things down. Depending on your internet connection, that may or may not be a problem.
Better/faster connections it will likely be barely noticeable.
“is there a downside to the use of a VPN?”
I have to add that some websites refuse connections when using a VPN. One example is “walmarde” online purchasing.
Use of VPN can mess with your home wireless link to your printer
Oh, OK- good to know- however, I can’t turn on my router’s WiFi, my wife says it causes brain damage! After hours “debating” this, I gave up ’cause I wasn’t going to get dinner that night if I didn’t surrender. :-} So, I have 3 computers, my network printer and 2 upstairs TVs all connected with ethernet. Had to drill holes in the floor upstairs to connect to the TVs.
Tell her it’s the electromagnetic capacitor flux wave from television that is the real culprit.
Yes, definitely use a VPN. You want to look for one which supports the Wireguard protocol. I use VPN Unlimited, and the speed difference on my 25 mbit connection is unnoticeable (from S Vt to Toronto).
I had a very fast computer built for me a couple of years ago. They installed CC Cleaner on it. I use FireFox in private mode for everything except my mortgage company site which requires me to use Chrome. Before I use Chrome and immediately when I get off, I use CC Cleaner and it always shows 400+ trackers from that single use. I am able to remove them but have to do it each time.
I have FF set to Delete All Cookies and Site Data on Exit. Gets rid of a lot of cruft. Also use the uBlock Origin along with Privacy Badger extensions for FF. Never see any ads, don’t know how unprotected browsers can even function on some sites.
Use telegram
It is still free.
This may change soon.
Remember the olden days of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when the Internet was ragged and fun, before the mega-corps took over? <Sigh>
the old timers will remember the usenet- for all I know it may still exist but I don’t know anyone using it
Milady Wife is completing a T-shirt quilt of memorabilia t-shirts. She was rummaging through rag bags of my old t-shirts when she came up with a Nuke Proof t-shirt, and that reminded me of my Green Card Lawyers t-shirt by *Joel Furr*.
I remember Usenet, but it has been swallowed up by evil Alphabet G00gle
Sadly, I remember ARPAnet the progenitor to them all.
It exists and it’s still active, but it’s difficult to find a group that isn’t almost all spam anymore. And you really can’t get free access anymore.
In 1992 it was AOL and noise and large telephone access bills—yeah real fun.
Never used AOL.
Not when I found that you had to send a certified letter to their physical offices to remove yourself from AOL.
Used Yahoo, back then, for searches.
Yahoo eventually succumbed to big tech fortunes and they sold Yahoo to a company in India.
Bought a domain from Network Solutions and used that for email since the mid-1990s.
There were a lot of companies back in the early 1990s claiming that they’d “never sell your personal information”.
All of them changed their usage “contracts” until personal information is their total reason for allowing people to use their systems.
Prior to that, it was BB bulletin boards and dial up service with the fastest modem you can afford.
The key trick was to find a local number for dialing the BB. Local numbers allowed toll free calling.
It’s only (oldish) guys and gals who use Bookface. It’s dying on its bum. Absolutely no one will care about it soon. Me? Even though I’m one of those oldies I’ve never used the awful site.
However, I used to love Twitter – it was like the Wild West of the internet. But I got banned because a snowflake who didn’t understand sarcasm ran off crying to the lead Twits.
today they’re little more than tools for oppressing wrongthink
you choose to dance with the devil, you can’t complain when he takes your soul
or as the old story about the maiden and the snake goes
“bitch, you knew what I was when you picked me up”
If you want to see how invasive FB really is, then read their documentation on how to close an account and remove your personal information.
Frightening.
Ditto for Google.
Facebook removed my account a few years ago, and won’t let me back on with my old email.
Given that I rarely used it, and certainly didn’t abuse it, it’s hard to say why. Strange company that would deny users for no apparent reason.
Never used twatter, got banned from fakebook.
I agree!
I got a new phone last Spring and did not install Twitter, or Facebook or any of its properties. I use a VPN on the phone and my computers. QWANT has a mobile browser that does not track you. DDG and Brave are preferable to Chrome and Edge.
Fakebook’s “fact checking” is mostly political. Apparently, someone thought sucking up to Fauci et al was policy.
Stating unpopular facts on Twitter, such as Rittenhouse did nothing wrong and isn’t a white supremacist or quoting studies that show the vaccinated still cary the SARS-CoV-2 virus and can infect as many people as the unvaccinated will get you locked out from Twitter. You have to remove the “offending” tweet to continue. Keep repeating these offenses and you get banned.
What’s worse is that since their symptoms are often less or hidden (having actually suffered they symptoms from the vaccination in my experience), they will infect more people than unvaccinated people. Therefore vaccinated people are actually more dangerous to those at risk.
It used to be well-known and understood that vaccination protects the vaccinated, and it’s the unvaccinated that are more at risk. How that got turned around, I’ll never fathom.
Simple. The controlling agencies (FDA, CDC, et al, changed the definition. Evidently goalpost moving is an epidemic.
It’s been known for a long time that one can’t vaccinate out of a pandemic.
The usual vaccine protocol is to protect individuals from episodic exposure. Vaccines are broad-spectrum. Until now they’ve generally been killed or attenuated viruses. The vaccines raise antibodies against a number of protein targets on the virus.
The anti-Covid mRNA raises antibodies only against a single protein target — the Corona spike protein.
RNA viruses rapidly mutate during reproduction. When the virus infects an mRNA-treated person, the viruses with mutated spike proteins escape the narrow-focus antibodies and get transmitted into the population.
The mRNA treatment is leaky.
This is standard vaccine-resistance microbiology. It’s well-understood.
The delta, omicron, and all the other Corona variants that have entered the population since December 2020 are produced by the “vaccinated.”
Using a leaky vaccine to control an on-going pandemic (they’re all leaky) will only produce resistant viral variants and prolong the pandemic.
The only way to end a pandemic is to let people get the virus and then use drugs to help the vulnerable fight it off.
The CDC and the medical establishment are doing everything exactly wrong. See Inglesby, et al., 2006 “Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza.”
If the CDC/Fauci/Wallensky had planned to prolong the pandemic indefinitely, they’d not have done anything different than the actions we have observed. An observation, not an accusation.
Small pox and polio spring to mind. And you have probably never seen measles or mumps either if you are less than 30 years old.
Yellow fever is a virus with high mortality even in young and healthy. It is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Yellow fever vaccine is widely recognized as one of the inducers of a potent, long live immune system protection of the host (person). The YFV vaccine is a strongly attenuated, but live replicating yellow fever virus. It “discovery” was by Max Theiler, who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Medicine-Physiology. it is a fascinating story.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892770/
People over say 52 yrs probably have a Small pox vaccine scar on their shoulder.
I’m one of those who doesn’t. They tried getting the proper reaction with renewed inoculations over a period of several years to no avail. The scar was apparent proof of immunization. So, officially I’m unvaccinated. Travel in the early ’60s was awkward without my immunization record handy.
53 years old, no scar. Small Pox vaccination stopped being offered in my city the year it was my turn to get it. My sister a few years ahead of me has it, though.
I saw small pox in one of the last epidemics in India at the age of 15. I will never forget the 11 y/o on a string cot in a tiny mud hut. She had no skin visible between the lesions and she was septic. The vaccinator had been in the village a few weeks earlier and grandma had said to keep her back so she could look after 2 young siblings when they were sick from the vaccine.
My Mum said, as I had heard her say many times before, “We have to consign this child to God’s care.”
Pat,
While I agree with the overall thrust of you post, I have to specifically offer counterexamples to your assertion “The only way to end a pandemic is to let people get the virus and then use drugs to help the vulnerable fight it off.”
This was certainly not the case with the smallpox virus (European pandemic of 1870-1874), nor was it the case with the polio virus (US epidemic of 1949-1952).
T cell immunity is what clears a viral infection from an infected host. T cell memory cells are long lived relative to B-cell/plasma cell antibody production. Virus cognate Tcells arising from real replicating viral infection usually recognize a broad array of structural (spike protein) and non-structural (polymerase) viral epitopes (snippets of peptide motifs) that the virus cannot evade. Even small amounts of evasion (mutation to those epitopes) results in drastic fitness reduction for the virus. The mRNA and JnJ vaxes do a poor job of inducing much if any long lasting, broadly covering T cell immunity.
This is why the Swedish approach to natural herd immunity achievement via infecting the base of young and healthy of this largely inconsequential seasonal cold virus was the correct approach. T cell immunity is crucially dependent on a replicating viral infection.
immunology has known this for several decades now. what Fauci, Wallensky, and Collins are pushing is anti-science. And they privately must know this. Whatever is motivating them now is deeply malevolent.
https://doi.org/10.1089/bsp.2006.4.366/
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The covid vaccines smelled bad to me when they were first unveiled. My first thought was that if no systematic tracking of side effects was lacking, I would not volunteer to be part of the experiment. I have run clinical experiments, and I know what all potential subjects must be told. These were rolled out with zero “informed consent”.
The tracking in Australia was good enough to detect 6 cases of fatal thrombocytopenia in about 6 million doses. I’n not sure if the tracking was “systematic” but it implies at least an alertness to the possibility of problems. I’m not aware of any additional serious complications.
The Phase 3 trial of Astrazenica in the UK had 11,000 people in it before it was released and made available for you. Its what trials are for – systematic tracking. Are you referring to another vaccine released without trials of this nature?
-Pat Thanks for the nice summary of vaccines for the ignorant. Hopefully a few will read this and weep for being suckers going on 2 or more years.
Link is broken.
Pat, here’s an unbroken link to your reference to Inglesby, et al.
https://www.aier.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/10.1.1.552.1109.pdf
link is broken.
“How that got turned around, I’ll never fathom.”
My thoughts exactly. Perfectly intelligent friends of mine have been shouting that the unvaccinated are putting my (vaccinated) friends at risk. When did vaccines start working in reverse?
When anti-science Democrats decided this continued COVID fear mongering mass delusion fit into their broader agenda of using a continuous string of hobgoblin-like fears for political power.
“Save the NHS!!” was used in UK for lockdown then vaccination then stopping infections (impossible) to save the NHS. While that all makes no sense is obvious to some of us many others just believe what they are told by authority.
It’s funny (in a very sad way) that the masses are told on one hand that the COVID-19 vaccines are “safe and effective” {actually, such a claim is illegal per Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Subpart 312.7(a) “Promotion of an investigational new drug” . . . check it out!} while at the same time everyone is being told to wear facial masks and practice social distancing as necessary means of “preventing the spread of COVID-10” despite one’s, or even society’s, vaccination/boost status.
Methinks the FDA/NIH/CDC/NIAID clumsy-constructed house of cards is well into it’s expected fall.
Mr. Dressler: I also noticed that as the latest variant emerged, the shouting got louder- GET VAXXED NOW!!- to distract from the news that the vax didn’t work on the latest variant The idea that it was mild is being excised as well. In my view, the house of cards fell during this past (NH) summer, and they are just throwing the cards at us as fast as they can grab a handful off the floor.
Having a healthy un-jabbed control group is not conducive to the populace submitting to further diktats from the authorities. If it becomes obvious to the jabbed that ongoing m-RNA therapies are not in their interest, they may take it out on those who experimented on them. The more stringent calls to force the survivors to submit to the jab suggest that time is running out.
“Oh, the humanity” to be banned by Twitter. Guess I’d have to join first.
Jim, like you I never joined any of the group chat fora that sprung up throughout the early 2000’s. My children, however, did and I from them formed the opinion that social media is at best annoyingly amusing and can be extremely dangerous for unguided young minds.
Everything has a price. At Facebook, it is facts. These things don’t happen by accident. Question: who is paying FB to make these false allegations and bear false witness?
Nazification in action?
I concur. We need to start an educational campaign regarding Fascism being as much far-left as far-right and how Nazism was actually a darling of the left for most of the 1930’s.
What, the national socialist party? Not socialist? Who knew?
The full title was the National Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany!!!
It was the post WW2 political left who seized the opportunity to label them as a party of the far right, probably to raise their profile as a supposedly caring political group. The only thing the political left care about is power & control, the money will naturally follow!!!
Fascism was always the political left. It just got branded as politically ‘right’ because that Austrian guy gave it such a bad image. It’s just about the state controlling the means of production instead of the state owing it.
Just look at the beetle. The Volkswagen. The ‘people’s car’. How was that not a socialist concept? It’s all so obvious when you look at it. Socialists don’t want you to look.
Fascism and Nazism and Communism are nothing more than branches of the Marxist tree. Right wing is Anarchy, not totalitarian government. Right and left are measured by the level of government power and control, not by who sits on which side of the King.
They have delegated fact checking to people with a political agenda.
The whole idea that right-leaning speakers need to be fact-checked is doublespeak, and shows that Facebook has descended to the level of Pravda. They are loyal to a narrative and that narrative comes from the Devil.
More accurately, they have set up a sham system where they in fact censor content just as surely as if their own employees did it, but their friends and cronies do the technical tasks so that they can claim that they don’t make any censorship decisions.
Something similar to theoretically having Dementia Zhou set up a “third-party” election advertising fairness board called the Democratic National Committee, which impartially decides whether Trump and Biden ads contain any misinformation rather than having a government agency do it.
It’s not that they’re biased, it’s just that every Biden ad turned out to be perfect, and every Trump ad happened to be filled with lies. Stop with the conspiracy theories already!
Should “delegated” perhaps be “assigned”?
It’s the best way to get the cheapest price for that service. Most labor/liberal political activists will work for free driven by their cultural personality.
I wonder what Meta would do with WikiLeaks publication of actual war crimes reported?
The D.o.J has a different kind of fact-checking – secret tribunals.
And if the revelations were so world shattering, why not use WikiLeaks?
What is being done to Assange is the real scandal.
No kidding. The press went on and on about Kashogi (spelling?) and Assange is treated like a criminal.
He was one of them :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jamal-khashoggi/
One of the things about the Khashoggi killing that bothered me was the assumption that only the Prince could have ordered it. The King is still the King. He had more than enough reason to call for the killing, and more than enough power to order it done. While the media was all up in arms about the Prince, the real malevolent actor was given a pass. Everyone seems to forget that the Prince needed/needs the approval of the King to change the changes being made.
Assange is being persecuted (word play intended) because the US deep state can’t stand that journalism is not a crime, or that its jurisdiction does not extend to other countries. If they succeed it will give the US a Star Chamber court to go with our Bastille. So much for being a nation of laws and not of men.
Obummer enhanced the trend with extrajudicial executions (especially of American citizens) with drones. Nobody approved by the Leftist institutions saw any problem with that practice.
Pfizer are too big to criticize.
Meanwhile they are busy confirming all the worst Mark Soderburg stereotypes of corrupt and sinister big Pharma.
It’s now hard to distinguish Pfizer, Facebook, Government and media – a seamless unified mafia.
They are damaging the reputation of and trust in both Pharma and government, not helpful during a pandemic.
” not helpful during a pandemic.”
Not relevant any other time.
I dunno. That diamond-shaped blue pill is pretty popular….
It’s not really unified, it’s controlled by the money source. There’s only one part of that which really created any money by producing anything, and that’s Big Pharma.
Imagine the profits up for grabs when everyone on the planet is wanting a vaccination. Profits!
Then make it less effective, so you need two vaccinations. Double profits!
Then tell everyone that you need a booster after six months. Triple profits!
Then, wait for it, reduce that to five months, shortly to be reduced to four months. Quadruple profits!
Then get the Fauxis of the world to convince governments that two vaccinations are needed every four months. Wow! Sextuple profits! YAY! Give that man a massive bonus and a Ferrari!
Seriously, am I off base here?
& now U need two shots for the latest variation (Ox…sp) of the Chinese Flu.
more profits still & probably when the following new variation after the O version passes will need two more shots & on & on & on & also now you need to wear a mask whether you are vaxed or not. It’ll be never ending,
of course from what I see of people these days they will happily be begging
to have that needle stuck into their arm as many times as the blowhards in the FDA & their lackey panty-waist politicians say to do it, if for no other reason than to virtue signal & to feel good about themselves….. #%@&!%#?
Why not just install a permanent ersatz “vaccination” port so one can get his bi-monthly top up of mRNA concoction. Have they decided what to call the variant once they get to omega?
“Why not just install a permanent ersatz “vaccination” port”
Have you ever seen The Giver? They had some sort of daily injection they were required to get. It was installed in the house at the front door and they just hit it on the way out to school or work.
I hear everyone saying “well you get boosters for other vaccines” – but I can’t think of one that requires 4 boosters in a year.
Any “vaccine” that requires so many “boosters” in under a year and is still ineffective is no success. They’ve lied so much and so often no one who hasn’t done separate research has a clue what’s right or wrong. The media is offering both actual data mixed with projections at the same time. Yup, they offer boosters for other vaccines, but after years or even decades.
I disagree. Damaging the reputation of and trust in corrupt institutions is beneficial to the public and the world. Those members of the public who still believe in a mainstream will simply have to learn — many of them the hard way — that institutions so powerful they aren’t hurt if you don’t buy their services are not to be trusted one bit; and that therefore we must individually treat all sources of information with skepticism, now and forever.
The hard part is making sure the rest of us still have the ability to exchange true news and commentary with impunity. And for that, we must free Assange or at least depose and punish those who are railroading him to his death.
The “fakecheckers” are checking narrative compliance, not facts.
So many people are credulous of narrative as fact. Narrative is merely extended ad-hockery. Not many can read E.T. Jaynes’ Probability Theory to understand the faults of ad-hockery.
“Facebook is simply engaged in wonton censorship”
LOL. Another clear example of anti-Asian bias!
(i.e., spell cneckers can’t always save you)
OTOH, they can save you from typos. Inadvertent further humor. I meant “draughts”, of course.
Fixed, thanks.
Spell check is my biggest enema.
That must be uncomfortable
Spell check is a lifesaver. It is people that allow software to change what they write that are the problem. Its like riding a horse; always tell him what to do before allowing him to do it.
I have mine set up to highlight words I may have misspelled. Now if only I can train myself to review before posting.
Post at haste, suck up Twit venom at leisure.
Just finished a nice bowl of wanton soup
What is the soup wantoning to do? [And my spell-checker had no problem with “wantoning.” I assume it sensed that I like that in my women.]
what’s a “spell cnecker”?
Social media censorship is an end run around freedom of speech, which is guaranteed in the Constitution. link
If the social media can no longer censor then we’ll be back to: you can say anything you want but if you say something illegal you may end up in jail.
The problem with sending people to jail is that it requires due process. That’s a PITA for the government and that’s why they want the social media to do what they aren’t allowed to do.
What are the limits to free speech? Everyone has heard the quote about falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater. What most people don’t realize is that it came from a case involving opposition to the draft in WW1.
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So what’s the difference between “no draft” and “vaccines bad”? There are things the government would rather that we didn’t say. The Constitution and the courts have mostly ensured that we can still say them. On the other hand, there’s Assange and Snowden, et al.
Law professor wants to rewrite the 1st and 2nd amendments so that they are no longer individual rights. She also wants both free speech and self defense to be limited so that they maximize social justice. That is, if what you say does not promote “social justice”, it can be banned.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/university-of-miami-law-professor-first-second-amendments
People who want to live under Red Chinese law should be shipped there.
in empty containers
with holes cut in them, on leaky barges across the Pacific during typhoon season.
According to many leftists, Sen. Manchin coming out against Biden’s Building Socialism Better plan means the end of democracy in the US.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/manchin-media-critics-predict-vote-democracy
G’Day Mark,
“… the end of democracy in the US.”
Those “leftists” should be made to search the Constitution of the Republic of the United States of America for the word ‘democracy’, or even ‘democratic’ – they’re just not there. The US never has been a ‘democracy’. (Just for fun, search for the word ‘Republican’.)
Socrates, if I remember correctly: “Republics degenerate into democracies which then become dictatorships.”
I like Manchin- but, too bad his family name got changed from Mancini- I like Italian names. My Italian name got changed so long ago- nobody knows when- long before coming to America.
We all ought to be VERY thankful Sen. Manchin is in the Senate. It’s all about a republic- the right statement at the right time can work wonders on setting the government aright.
Many will complain because he didn’t act sooner, but he acted at exactly the right time- when Pelosi and the dims did not have time to do anything about it.
The Left needs US self-defense laws to be weakened and the elimination of the 2nd Amendment in order for the NWO mob army/Red Army (Antifa-BLM thuggery was just a start) to terrorize the population. Exactly what Mao’s RedArmy did and the resulting cultural revolution to destroy any opposition to single party rule from within the population.
I think we’re getting close to the need for ‘restructuring’ of university faculties, for some and placing an “Out of Business” sign on many others. Let them finance their own cultural revolution. “Social justice” is much like hate speech a slippery subject.
Social media censorship is not a big deal unless the regime imposing it has a monopoly (or close enough to one that no new market entrant can out-compete them).
Rumble/Locals is now out-competing even YouTube. There is hope.
As has been said before: If you want free speech print your own material and create your own internet space. Also, sue the shit out of Meta and the others when they lie about you.
The problem with suing them when they lie about you is that the courts have so widened the “public figure” exception, that if one newspaper writes one story about you, you become a public figure and the odds of winning a libel suit go way, way down.
“We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime.”
Why would BMJ assume incompetence? Malice fits the bill here much better.
Malice is harder to prove.
Isn’t there a rule that says you shouldn’t accuse someone of malice when stupidity provides an adequate explanation?
Hanlon’s Razor: Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
At this point it can’t be stupidity. Malice is the only thing that makes sense.
That’s the hallmark of stupidity – it doesn’t make any sense.
It makes sense if it is malice toward the message upending a politically useful narrative of using fear mongering for accruing and concentrating political power.
What if they’re being paid to be “stupid”? Marxists/Fascists have to pretend to not know things.
Then it is malice!
It is malice with extreme prejudice- See item 3 – VACCINE BATCHES VARY SYSTEMATICALLY IN TOXICITY
If this is even partly true, we should hear much more about it – aka “Kill Shot Roulette”.
Regards, Allan
THE PFIZER INOCULATIONS FOR COVID-19 – MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Recently-released Pfizer 6 month data shows that Pfizer’s COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent.
Plus, an overview of the Pfizer trial flaws in both design and execution.
Video: https://rumble.com/embed/voaxg5/?pub=qdzr7
PDF: https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-COVID-19-Inoculations-More-Harm-Than-Good-REV-Dec-16-2021.pdf
WHAT’S IN THE JABS THEY’RE SO DESPERATE TO GIVE US?
Dr Mark Trozzi December 18, 2021
Video: https://odysee.com/Jab:b0de75155437c65b1037284762e4dc47dda44e4c?src=embed
PDF: https://www.anhinternational.org/news/what-s-in-the-jabs-they-re-so-desperate-to-give-us/
VACCINE BATCHES VARY SYSTEMATICALLY IN TOXICITY AND ARE DISTRIBUTED TO UNSUSPECTING AMERICANS BY THREE COMPANIES: RESEARCHER
James Hill , MD Updated December 18, 2021
Researcher Craig Paardekooper (Kingston University, London) claims US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data show vaccine batches are sequentially marked by varying toxicity.
Paardekooper claims:
· VAERS shows about 1 in 200 vaccine batches (~ 0.5%) are “highly toxic,” having a high number (1000-5000 times the baseline rate) of severe adverse reactions — including hospitalization, disability, and death — in the short term, i.e., within a few days or weeks of injection.
· 70% have only one short-term adverse event reported.
· 80% have only one or two short-term adverse events reported.
· The toxic batches are distributed among all 50 US states.
I guess my wife and I were lucky. She fussed about it and we got jabbed in early January and February.
No obvious side effects. No bout of Covid. The only test I had was negative.
Maybe I can wipe the sweat off my forehead and not have another nearly fake vaccine.
More on malice, with extreme prejudice: I do question the title of this paper, specifically the world “unintended”.
I have warned since January 2021 that the Covid-19 “vaccines” were dangerous and ineffective.
It’s not satisfying to make correct predictions when they are ignored and the worst outcomes still happen.
Schlachthof 6.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF MRNA SHOTS
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola, December 20, 2021
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· “Worse Than the Disease: Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19,” by Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and Dr. Greg Nigh, is one of the most comprehensive descriptions of the many possible unintended consequences of the mRNA gene transfer technologies incorrectly referred to as “COVID vaccines”
· As of December 3, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has logged 19,886 COVID jab related deaths. Pfizer — the only company that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted full licensing for an as-yet unavailable COVID shot — accounts for 13,268 of them
· Calculations suggest VAERS COVID-related reports are underreported by a factor of 41. That means that in the U.S. alone, the actual death toll may be closer to 374,576. Including international deaths reported to VAERS would put the death toll at 815,326
· Key side effects that are now being reported in massive numbers include miscarriages, heart attacks, myopericarditis, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), shingles, Bell’s palsy and a variety of permanent disabilities, many of which involve neurological dysfunction
· The side effects we now see being reported were entirely predictable based on the known science detailed in Seneff’s and Nigh’s paper
MIT scientist Stephanie Seneff’s paper,1 “Worse Than the Disease: Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19,” published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research in collaboration with Dr. Greg Nigh, is still one of the best, most comprehensive descriptions of the many possible unintended consequences of the mRNA gene transfer technologies incorrectly referred to as “COVID vaccines.”
Analysis of data in the UK appears to show that the simple trick of classifying the jabbed as unvaccinated for a fortnight afterwards both hides the vaccine-related deaths, and makes it look like the unvaccinated are at greater risk.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-researchers-discover-covid-jabs-appear-to-expose-people-to-an-increased-mortality/
Even more true in Canada and the USA – data corruption – “finger on the scales” – I’ve published this before.
I advised my governments of these facts weeks or months ago, but this video is perhaps the clearest and best explanation to date of the medical impacts of the Covid-19 Pfizer “vaccines”.
BREAKING NEWS: PFIZER’S OWN STATS: 1200+/40,000 TRIAL PARTICIPANTS DEAD | INTERVIEW WITH DR. NAGASE
The Strong And Free Broadcast December 13, 2021
https://rumble.com/vqq3hw-breaking-news-pfizers-own-stats-1200-40000-trial-participants-dead-intervie.html
Rumble — Dr. Daniel Nagase graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 2004, is a registered member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Alberta where he has been a doctor for over 15 years, an emergency doctor for 10 years and has treated patients in rural under-serviced communities throughout Alberta since 2015. Dr. Nagase was fired after treating three covid patients with Ivermectin at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre. Listen to him speak on the dangers of the injection from a microbiology perspective.
Pfizer’s COVID vaccine trial results; are these statistics “acceptable”?
Absolutely not. They wouldn’t be acceptable for any medication brought to market, this magnitude of side effects, 31% either died, had permanent disability or were not recovered. It’s insane that at the time of the report to government authorities, April 30th, 2021 that this drug, this injection wasn’t pulled off the market immediately.
Explaining some devastating known side effects…
Sequela is some type of a problem that lingers even though you recovered. Let’s say you had an extremely high fever with seizures and the seizures never actually went away, you keep getting occasional seizures every now and then, or you have paralysis of an arm or a leg after the seizure and that just doesn’t go away.
Reverse transcriptase is where mRNA is turned into DNA, and depending on where that segment of DNA accidentally interrupts and integrates itself into the cells DNA, you can either be causing cancer, you can be causing mutations, or you might not cause anything at all. It’s completely random. The reverse transcriptase itself can lead this mRNA injection into causing new mutations in the DNA.
Effects on pregnant women…
Out of 274 pregnancy cases where pregnant women received this injection, there were 75 serious reported clinical events. 75 over 274. That’s a 27% serious clinical event instance. Any pregnant woman who received this injection after April 30th, 2021 should be suing their obstetrician for malpractice. Absolutely unheard of.
Effects on our children…
There were 34 instances where children under the age of 12 were given this injection between December 1st and February 28th. Of those 34 children, 24 had serious side effects. Of those 24 kids who had a serious case after getting this injection 16 were resolved or resolving, 13 had not resolved and five were unknown.
Risks of genetic damage to children….
We’re not even talking about the genetic damage. This is just the damage that they discovered in the first three months between December 1st and February 28th, a pregnancy is nine full months. We don’t know how many of the other cases that were non-serious in the first two months might turn into serious events, miscarriages stillbirths, birth defects, deformities, developmental delay, which is where a child doesn’t develop the ability to walk, talk or think at a normal rate. In previous years, it was called mental retardation. We have no idea what the long-term effects are.
Are smaller doses for children safe and effective?
No, as long as there’s enough of a dose, if it’s a 1/3, one quarter, one tenth a dose, it only changes the amount of time it takes to produce copies of itself. It’ll just take a little bit longer at one tenth of the dose than at the full adult dose. There is no safe dose for this injection.
Sad news – I have tried for a year to prevent this carnage.
The Covid-19 “vaccines” are toxic and ineffective.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR DEAD AFTER BOOSTER
by brian peckford
A NY Times editor has died of a heart attack at 49, one day after receiving a Moderna Covid “booster” shot
Alex Berenson Dec 25, 2021
Carlos Tejada was married and had two children; he spent his career at the Wall Street Journal before joining the Times in 2016.
In July, he received a Johnson & Johnson DNA/AAV Covid vaccine. He was thankful to get it, per his Instagram page.
On Dec. 16, in Seoul, South Korea, he received a Moderna mRNA/LNP “booster.” No clinical trials have ever been conducted to examine the safety or efficacy of mixing various types of these vaccines, and Carlos did not give informed consent, as the consent form was in Korean, a language he could not read. He joked that Omicron should “hit me with your wet snot.”
A day later, Carlos was dead of a heart attack.
RIP Carlos Tejada, Dec. 7, 1972 – Dec. 17, 2021.If this does not wake the Times nothing will.
brianpeckford | December 26, 2021 at 7:55 pm |
Video by Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University
DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI: ORGANS OF DEAD VACCINATED PROVES AUTO IMMUNE ATTACK – 22/12/2021
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fHIT55iM4Zv9/
Dr Bhakdi cites proof that the Covid-19 vaccines are killing the young and the old.
Dr Bhakdi, who is highly competent, is deeply upset by this needless killing caused by these toxic “Covid-19 “vaccines”.
He is entirely correct, as I’ve said for the past year. This is not a debate – never was – I don’t publish on this subject unless the facts are certain.
So the question is: Why are our governments continuing to kill their citizens?
OH THE MYSTERY OF HOW CORONAVIRUS DOESN’T INFECT AND KILL PEOPLE IN JAPAN ANYMORE?
Absolutely no one who writes for newspapers has any idea of why Covid may have almost completely disappeared from Japan since the sudden Delta wave in August. The trajectory collapsed on August 25th and vaccines don’t explain it.
“While Omicron explodes around the world, COVID cases in Japan plummet and no one knows why”
Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 23
Call it the hunt for a potential “X factor,” such as genetics, that may explain the trend and inform how Japan could deal with the next wave… blah blah blah
HInt: They started using Ivermectin in Japan and eliminated Covid-19 in a few weeks.
Are Japanese politicians really intelligent, or are our politicians just exceptionally stupid and corrupt?
BREAKING — JAPAN PUTS WARNINGS ON COVID JABS
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola December 28, 2021
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· Japan has taken steps to warn its citizens about serious side effects linked to COVID-19 injections
· They’ve added a warning label to the jabs, warning about the risk of myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle
· Japan is also taking strict measures to monitor and report all side effects to the unprecedented jabs
· Hospitals must report, in detail, any adverse effects that occur within 28 days of receiving a COVID-19 injection
· Japan’s Ministry of Health includes a “consent to vaccination” section on its website, which states mandatory vaccination and discrimination against those who choose not to be vaccinated are not advised; this includes at workplaces, which are told not to force anyone to get injected
· Japan is standing out as a protector of informed consent and medical freedom, during a time in history when many other countries are opting for totalitarian control
IVERMECTIN META-ANALYSIS BY DR. TESS LAWRIE NEARS MOST CITED EVER
September 20, 2021
The Dr. Tess Lawrie publication concludes with this:
“Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.”
She reported, “The story of Ivermectin has highlighted that we are at a remarkable juncture in medical history. The tools that we use to heal and our connection with our patients are being systematically undermined by relentless disinformation stemming from corporate greed. The story of Ivermectin shows that we as a public have misplaced our trust in the authorities and have underestimated the extent to which money and power corrupts.
Had Ivermectin being employed in 2020 when medical colleagues around the world first alerted the authorities to its efficacy, millions of lives could have been saved, and the pandemic with all its associated suffering and loss brought to a rapid and timely end.”
Dr. Lawrie called out the corruption of modern medicine by Big Pharma and other interests.
She went on, “Since then, hundreds of millions of people have been involved in the largest medical experiment in human history. Mass vaccination was an unproven novel therapy. Hundreds of billions will be made by Big Pharma and paid for by the public. With politicians and other nonmedical individuals dictating to us what we are allowed to prescribe to the ill, we as doctors, have been put in a position such that our ability to uphold the Hippocratic oath is under attack.
At this fateful juncture, we must therefore choose, will we continue to be held ransom by corrupt organizations, health authorities, Big Pharma, and billionaire sociopaths, or will we do our moral and professional duty to do no harm and always do the best for those in our care? The latter includes urgently reaching out to colleagues around the world to discuss which of our tried and tested safe older medicines can be used against COVID.”
Like street-corner drug pushers, only not as ethical…
PHARMA’S WAR ON SCIENTISTS TO MANDATE JABS FOR LIFE
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola December 29, 2021
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· Another cache of emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) reveals Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, colluded to quash dissenting views on the lockdowns
· October 4, 2020, three medical professors — Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford and Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford — launched the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for focused protection of high-risk individuals rather than the continuation of blanket lockdowns
· As support of the declaration rapidly spread, Fauci and Collins discussed how they could stop the call for a sane, science-based approach. In an email to Fauci, Collins wrote, “There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises”
· The emails between Fauci and Collins are the smoking gun showing that it is they who are waging war against science
· Despite having a combined annual budget of $58 billion, and a combined staff of 31,000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the NIH/NIAID have not yet conducted an actual study to determine how natural immunity stacks up against the COVID jab, likely because they don’t want to know the answer
The more we learn about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the worse he looks. The grandfatherly figurehead has now had two years in the limelight, urging people to “follow the science,” which he has shamelessly equated to his own ever-shifting opinion.
Another cache of emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) now reveals Fauci and his boss, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, colluded behind the scenes to quash dissenting views on the lockdowns.1
Fauci and Collins Conspired to Destroy Dissent
October 4, 2020, three medical professors — Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford and Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford — launched the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement anyone could sign onto that called for focused protection of high-risk individuals, such as the elderly, rather than the continuation of blanket lockdowns. AIER sponsored the declaration.
“Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health,” the declaration stated. “Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.”
As support of the declaration rapidly spread, Fauci and Collins seemingly panicked, and discussed how they could possibly stop the growing call for a sane, science-based approach. In an October 8, 2020, email to Fauci, Collins wrote:2,3,4,5
“The proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists who met with the Secretary seems to be getting a lot of attention … There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises …”
“Don’t worry, I got this,” Fauci replied. Later, Fauci sent Collins links to newly published articles refuting the focused protection solution, including an op-ed in Wired magazine, and an article in The Nation, titled “Focused Protection, Herd Immunity and Other Deadly Delusions.” “Excellent,” Collins replied.
This correspondence is a real peek behind the curtain as to who Fauci and Collins really are. They’re not interested in debating scientific merit. Their go-to strategy is simply to demolish the opposition by any means necessary.
I post this note as a health warning.
I strongly oppose the medical apartheid that has been imposed upon the Covid-unvaxxed, and I would also strongly oppose similar oppression of the vaxxed, even though they are more dangerous to society.
I do support Professor Peronne’s statement (below) referring to the European COVID-19 policy as “completely stupid.” The same statement also applies to Covid-19 policies in North America and Asia, which I would describe as imbecilic and corrupt.
We cannot expect our governments to ever admit the truth, that they mandated the mass injection of our populations, including our children, with Covid-19 “vaccines” that were dangerous and ineffective.
FORMER WHO ADVISER TELLS VACCINATED TO QUARANTINE OVER WINTER
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola December 30, 2021
[excerpts]
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· According to President Biden, “a winter of death” awaits anyone who rejects the experimental COVID jab. If we are to go by actual science and data, the warning Biden issued should have gone out to the vaccinated, because everything points to the double and triple jabbed being at increased risk for infection, especially with the Omicron variant.
· One reason for this is because the COVID jab reprograms your innate and adaptive immune systems, causing immune depletion. Data also show that the more heavily “vaccinated” a population is, the higher the case rate gets.
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According to President Biden, “a winter of death” awaits anyone who rejects the experimental COVID jab which, by the way, has been consistently shown to do far more harm than good.
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White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain defended Biden saying “we have a duty to warn people what they are facing if unvaccinated.”4 But from my perspective, the rub is that they continue to pretend that lies are truth and truth is lies.
Everything is upside-down, and many are rejecting this “winter of woe” message for the simple fact that they know the opposite is true.
If we are to go by actual science and data, the warning Biden issued should have gone out to the vaccinated, because everything points to the double and triple jabbed being at increased risk for infection, especially with the Omicron variant.
One reason for this is because the COVID jab reprograms your innate and adaptive immune systems, causing immune depletion.5 Data also show that the more heavily “vaccinated” a population is, the higher the case rate gets.6 And even this fails to account for the massive increase risk of dying from the jab or becoming permanently disabled, as many jabbed millions have already suffered.
FORMER WHO ADVISER TELLS VACCINATED TO QUARANTINE OVER WINTER
Back in August 2021, the U.K. Column interviewed professor Christian Perronne, a French infectious disease expert, long-time vaccine policy chief and former vice president of the World Health Organization’s European Advisory Group, who issued the opposite — and likely far more accurate — warning:7
“Vaccinated people are at risk of the new variants … It’s been proven in different countries, so vaccinated people should be put in quarantine and should be isolated from society. Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous to others.
It’s proven in Israel now. I’m in contact with many physicians in Israel. They’re having big problems now; severe cases in hospitals are among vaccinated people. And in the UK also, you had a larger vaccination program and also there are problems.”
Not surprisingly, despite impeccable credentials, Peronne has been censored and shunned for his contrarian views on COVID countermeasures, the COVID gene transfer shots in particular. During his interview, he didn’t mince words, referring to the European COVID-19 policy as “completely stupid.”
Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone are two of the most knowledgeable and ethical physicians on the planet regarding Covid-19 and the “vaccines”.
It is more-than-obvious that the Covid-19 “vaccines” are harmful and ineffective – we’ve known that for at least one year. The insistent lies of Twitter, Facebook, drug companies, governments and health authorities do not change that reality. There will be a day of reckoning – their deceit is becoming increasingly desperate and obvious, to even the most obtuse of humanity.
The VAERS data greatly under-estimates the number of people killed and injured by the Covid-19 “vaccines”- some estimates say by a factor of ~40 times – that would suggest total North American and European deaths caused by the Covid-19 “vaccines” of almost 1 million, and tens of millions of vaccine-injured.
DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH: VACCINE MANDATES SHOULD BE REPEALED
By Tammy Hung and Jan Jekielek December 29, 2021
[excerpt]
COVID-19 vaccine mandates “have to be repealed” as the vaccines are “still in research” and “people cannot be mandated to participate in research,” says Dr. Peter McCullough.
McCullough, a cardiologist, epidemiologist, and internist who manages COVID-19 patients with heart-related complications and patients who become ill after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, contends that COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate the Nuremberg Code.
McCullough notes that the CDC and FDA have yet to publish “their first monthly safety report” on the vaccines, and that as of Dec. 17, the CDC’s VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) has reported 20,622 deaths post-vaccination globally and over 983,000 adverse events.
TWITTER SUSPENDS KEY mRNA VACCINE CONTRIBUTOR DR. ROBERT MALONE
By Jack Phillips December 29, 2021 Updated: December 30, 2021
[excerpt]
Dr. Robert Malone, a key contributor to mRNA vaccine technology and an outspoken critic of COVID-19 mandates and rules, was suspended by Twitter.
Writing on his Substack page, Malone, who had massed more than 500,000 followers, confirmed that his account was “permanently suspended from Twitter” and said, “We all knew it would happen eventually.”
“Over a half million followers gone in a blink of an eye. That means I must have been on the mark, so to speak,” he wrote on Dec. 29. “Over the target. It also means we lost a critical component in our fight to stop these vaccines being mandated for children and to stop the corruption in our governments, as well as the medical-industrial complex and pharmaceutical industries.”
According to Malone’s post, he directed users to read his Substack page for future updates.
The parallel to China’s Cultural Revolution (which the “woke” are trying to repeat in the US by means of CRT) pretty much rules out non-malice.
I think he said incompetence not stupidity.
Exactly, see Simon’s posts on here.
In Simon’s case, both malice and ignorance seem to be in operation.
Mainly ignorance and stupidity from simple Simon.
The facts are showing the BMJ correct, and Pfizer’s vaccine development sloppy. There are cases of anaphylactic shock and myocarditis that were apparently not in them original EUA submission. This has resulted in new additional warnings applied by the FDA, and some countries contraindicating or withdrawing approval for the healthy 18-34 age cohort.
Facebook ‘opinions’ hid the BMJ truth that Fauci’s does not want out.
BTW, the newest (Friday) UK NHS data says the following:
So don’t get a booster, get omicron and then natural immunity. The opposite of what Fauci’s is now saying and Biden will apparently say Tuesday.
In America there’s still plenty of Delta still around. If you already had the first two shots, you may as well get the booster.
In any event, you’re going to be exposed to Omicron and that’s sufficient to cause your system to react and develop immunity. If you do actually catch Omicron the chances are that you won’t know it unless you get tested.
If you don’t have symptoms, don’t get tested (unless someone forces you to). If you catch Omicron, even if you don’t have symptoms, you’ll have to isolate for a couple of weeks and that will mean you aren’t doing your job. In Great Britain, we’re seeing hospitals that are short staffed because employees have to isolate.
I wouldn’t suggest that infected hospital workers report for work. But what about the people who keep the electricity on or do otherwise important jobs necessary for keeping people fed and warm?
I am what was called an essential worker so I had to work when multitudes of people were sitting in their homes receiving government largess. I am also working for a company that has federal contracts. As it stands, I will be fired in January because I will not comply with the “vaccine” mandate.
I guess I’m not so essential now.
As far as I can tell, the stress of being jobless will probably be harder on you than taking your chances with the side effects of the vaccine.
If you have another job to go to, fine. If you don’t, maybe think twice.
People who become jobless in mid-career usually don’t do that well. Is this really the hill you want to die on?
I have a medical exemption filled out by my doctor, I’m trying not to die on any hill. They denied my exemption so screw them.
I’m not mid-career, I’m early retirement age. I had planned on working another 5 years but, push come to shove, I can go now. I am highly skilled and should be able to pick up another job with a smaller company if SCOTUS screws up.
Thanks for your concern though.
Brad, I would echo commieBob’s comments. Don’t be a martyr and unduly hurt yourself financially just to make a point that won’t be noticed by anyone in power.
The shot (it’s not in fact the vaccine that it was supposed to be), may be useless but it’s also not so risky that you should give up your job over it. As he said, it’s probably not the hill you want to die on.
Anyone in power won’t notice my absence but will notice the high percentage of non-compliance. The last statistic given out showed only 73% compliance. The mandate will severely impact the operation of the company and with it the operation of a major part of the infrastructure of the country.
In Quebec they are re-hiring doctors because they are desperately short staffed.
If I was one of these doctors, I would be asking for plenty of money and job protections and back pay.
What are principles if you don’t stand on them?
Discretion is the better part of valor.
If you have a family to support and what you’re being asked to do is not an inherently immoral act, it’s not weakness or lack of principle to make a prudent choice.
We have recourse to the ballot box. If it turns out that we do not, then simply quitting our jobs is not an adequate remedy anyway.
Discretion has nothing to do with it in my case. I have a reasonable concern about the side effects noted with the vaccines and my doctor agrees.
It would be an immoral act to take something that could cause me harm and deprive my family of my continued existence. I would also be diminished by knuckling under the coercion prevalent with this administration.
If you wish to be a servant or subject of the Biden realm, that’s your business. Life always has its risks and I’ve determined which ones I’m willing to take.
FJB
Rich, we’re going to have to disagree on that one. Principles that you sacrifice for the sake of expediency are not deeply held principles. And I consider vaccine mandates to be inherently immoral.
Problem is, “making a prudent choice” is the norm anymore, which is why the PTB know they can push stuff like this with impunity.
Also, you seem to think it won’t have any impact, but that’s already being proven false. Several industries are now hiring back unvaccinated personell, or dropping the mandate, due to staff shortages. It works if enough people stand together.
We have staff shortages at hospitals here in part because the training and education pipeline for nurses was disrupted last spring. Fewer classes are held means fewer graduates. The ones being graduated have about half the hands-on experience of graduates from 2019 and prior.
Don’t worry. They’ll spin the lack of medical staff as a problem caused by so many people getting covid.
It’s like CAGW, you can avoid all blame for idiotic and failing policies!
I really get tired of the knee jerk recommendation for boosters. It makes no sense to get a booster in Dec 2021 for what Covid was in Dec 2019. You don’t keep getting the same flu vaccine for different annual flu viruses. The boosters are more about Big Pharma’s bank account they the are disease prevention.
I think some people should go to jail.
About the only person I trust about the pandemic is Dr. John Campbell (a retired nursing instructor).
The official line is: vaccinations, masks, social distancing. Other things like HCQ, Ivermectin, and calcifediol have been aggressively suppressed. If there were an effective treatment, the vaccines would never have received emergency approval. The motivation to suppress treatments is crystal clear.
The refusal of doctors to treat patients symptomatically, before they are hospitalized, is heinous. The refusal of pharmacists to fill Ivermectin prescriptions is heinous.
Having said all the above, my wife and I, will be getting our boosters. Our age bracket makes that almost a no-brainer. We’re also taking D3 and zinc and getting outside and exercising. The official line should be pushing things like that hard, but obviously isn’t.
On the other hand, if I were the parent of young children, I would think really really hard before letting them be vaccinated. ie. I probably wouldn’t.
The failure of the U.S. and world medical profession to treat Covid-19 empirically constitutes an unconscionable failure in duty. Any reasonable empiric started within the first five days produces a dramatic reduction in hospitalizations and deaths. Ivermectin and HCQ combined with other drugs show >=85% effective, with a p <0.001.
See:
American Association of Physicians and Surgeons @ https://aapsonline.org/resources/
and Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
It’s relatively easy to show that the mRNA shot has very likely killed more Americans than has Covid-19.
It’s also easy to show that Covid-19 is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu.
The mRNA shot is all risk and no benefit. That includes the so-called boosters.
Given the availability since mid-2020 of effective early treatment, there is zero medical reason to take the mRNA shot.
All you need is access to a medical doctor with professional integrity.
It’s relatively easy to show that the mRNA shot has very likely killed more Americans than has Covid-19.
It’s also easy to show that Covid-19 is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu.
The mRNA shot is all risk and no benefit. That includes the so-called boosters.
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It’s relatively easy to show that the mRNA shot has very likely killed more Americans than has Covid-19.
It’s also easy to show that Covid-19 is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu.
The mRNA shot is all risk and no benefit. That includes the so-called boosters.
Given the availability since mid-2020 of effective early treatment, there is zero medical reason to take the mRNA shot.
All you need is access to a medical doctor with professional integrity.
For me and my wife, the decision is now purely economic. I no longer believe there’s a medical benefit that outweighs the risks because it’s ineffective against the omicron variant. Earlier this year my view was that it was a net beneficial choice to take the shots to reduce the severity of any infection, so I did. Now it looks like omicron is not omg but more of an actual vaccine.
My wife is required to maintain fully-vaxed status for her job. If my employer requires it, I will comply, but so far they aren’t, so I will avoid the booster(s).
So you think one tetanus in childhood will last the rest of your life. May be it will, but most people have another one if they get a tetanus prone wound.
..tetanus vaccination ….
The tetanus toxoid has likely coevolved with the mammalian immune system to be highly immunogenicity. It takes very little to incapacitate the nervous system’s motor neurons synaptic message control and induce the classic “locked jaw” muscle contraction that can’t relax.
Botulin toxoid is similar, but it causes relaxation muscle paralysis. If it was injected as toxoid prep similar to tetanus toxoid (formalin treated) people couldn’t get effective results from the localized micro injections of Botox facial wrinkle therapy as antibodies would require a substantially higher amount that could be disastrous.
“You don’t keep getting the same flu vaccine for different annual flu viruses.”
They keep saying “well you get a flu shot every year, how is this different?” – you nailed it exactly.
Get your booster today. Triple those Big Pharma pfofits!
Get your booster every four months. Quadruple those Big Pharma profits.
Heck, go for two every four months. Sextuple those Big Pharma profits! Ferraris don’t pay for themselves, you know!
Indeed. The experience in South Africa is that Omicron has displaced Delta. If that happens world wide, the pandemic is over because the symptoms are so mild that it’s literally no worse than the common cold.
With any luck I will get one booster shot and be safe from Delta for as long as necessary and then there will be no more booster shots.
Then maybe someone will go after the guilty. Did Fauci use taxpayer money finance the gain-of-function research in Wuhan that led to this whole mess? Who was the idiot responsible for lifting the ban on gain-of-function research?
Then maybe someone can go after Pfizer for their sloppy research. And someone can go after the FDA for not investigating said sloppy research when it was brought to their attention.
Given the number of needless deaths we’ve had, climate science looks almost benign incomparison.
Have you heard of “original antigenic sin”? The vaccine may prevent natural infection with related virus’s providing broad lasting immunity.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33692194/
And, when “super-immunity” from boosters is claimed, do you ask how this fits into the normal function of the immune system?
Where can I get exposed to Omicron? It sounds like the best route, except for young men. They probably should pass the opportunity, if they can.
Rud:
Would these two fact taken together provide a basis for a defamation suit?
Yes, but the technical legal term would be libel. Libel is generally physical (writing, as here) while defamation is generally oral, like on a TV show.
Libel is textual, slander is verbal. Both are defamation.
The below is from Wex (Cornell University Law School) – the difficulty here, as in most such suits, would be proving #4.
“ a false statement purporting to be fact”
This would seem to be counter to Meta’s statement that “fact checks” are opinion. If they’re calling them fact checks, they’re not opinion, they’re false statements purporting to be fact.
There’s this WUWT story that was at the top of the page for nearly a week.
Facebook’s response was to say that their ‘fact checks’ are protected opinion rather than asserted facts. In doing so, they may have defanged the ‘fact checking’ process.
Facebook’s response has shown that they take seriously the prospect of a successful lawsuit.
Those very suits have already been heard; that’s where Facebook used the lie “fact checks are opinion” as a defense and got away with it. Twice.
One is left to wonder whether these rulings by the judges were gross misconduct (malice) or stupidity. Again I believe the evidence supports malice.
If the test period for the Pfizer vax was extended past 60 days, it would have fallen below the 50% effectiveness threshold required for emergency FDA approval. Just coincidence that the drug trial period was so limited?
None of these vaccines will ever be “approved” and found “safe & effective.” They will never be more than experimental drugs “authorized for emergency use.” And they will never abide by the legal requirement for “full disclosure” for the “voluntary” use. And that is what makes the vaccine mandates so totally wrong.
If the information proclaimed here is correct, much is explained, including why the FDA is requesting 50 years to respond to the FOIA suit for release of vaccine approval data.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/12/say-hello-serf-to-your-new-head-of-state-mr-pfizer/
why the FDA is requesting 50 years to respond
That’s one of the most confounding bits of this whole puzzle to me.
It’s only confounding because you only looked at the headline and not the details.
The FOIA request was overly broad, requesting over 300K pages of documents. It takes time to gather, review, redact, and otherwise process those pages. The standard FOIA rate to do all that is 500 pages per month (which for the large number of documents requested would work out to take about 50 years).
Remember, responding to FOIA request is only allocated a tiny portion of any agencies work hours each week (the FDA office that would need to do the work has ten employees, including two trainees, and is currently processing about 400 FOIA requests.).
“Courts do not waiver from the standard 500 page per month processing rate even when a FOIA request would take years to process The FDA said. The FDA has invited Plaintiff to narrow its request by specifying records it no longer wants FDA to process and release, and Plaintiff has declined to do so. If Plaintiff decides to request fewer records, then FDA will be able to complete its processing at an earlier date.”
So, in short, the more documents you request, the longer it takes to process all of those documents in order to release them
Contrary to the misinformation you’ve been swilling, the fact is the FDA already approved the first of the vaccines back in Aug:
Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine | FDA
The only problem is that Cominarty is not commercially available.
And it won’t be until the EUA on the current Pfzer product is withdrawn, which also will never happen.
now you are shifting the goal posts. before it was “it will never be approved” now that that has been shown to be fake news, its now “it’ll never be commercially available”. When it does become commercially available, where will the goal post be shifted to then?
You don’t understand what an EUA means. In order to get an EUA, the product must demonstrate:
If any of these conditions are not met, the product must be pulled from the market. Revenue loss begins.
This is why we are seeing variant after variant in order to keep the “Emergency” active. Easy to do when you just dial up the PCR testing rate to create an “Emergency”.
The Cominarty product has FDA blessing, but current product does not. Because of that the current EUA product has no liability issues, however if the above reasons activate and the current Pfizer product is withdrawn then the Cominarty product assumes liability status because it NOT EUA.
Now you understand why the successful alternative treatment protocols (HCQ,IVM,etc)have been suppressed.
Thimk!
Regardless of whatever conspiracy theories you choose to believe, the original point I was addressing remains: The claim of “never being approved” is *FALSE* as the first of the vaccines *WAS* approved *MONTHS AGO*. Sorry to break it to you, but shifting the goal posts to your conspiracy theory du jour does not alter that fact one iota.
Uh, I NEVER said anything about “never being approved”, can you show me where that occurred? I don’t think so.
I listed the 4 reasons an EUA is granted. Do you disagree with any of them?
Please let me know exactly what statements I made which are not true. Know that I have over 15 years of clinical trial experience.
Do you even understand how EUA works?
The initial claim that I responded to was (and I quote)
You chose to jump in and try to shift the goal posts away and distract from that because you didn’t like the fact that I pointed out that was a false claim. Sorry, but I’m not going to let you shift the goal posts, I’m going to keep pointing out that the claim you want to distract from was false every time you try to shift those goal posts.
You shouldn’t jump into conversations when you haven’t read or understood the posts that you were responding to.
You replied to the wrong comment.
Nope, I replied to the right one. It’s you who jumped in without understanding (willfully so I suspect) the comments you were replying to.
It was only “approved” with a lot of additional information to be provided by Pfizer if they market it. I suspect it will never see the light of day, because it will come with liability.
Suspecting is fine. You can suspect all you want. Its when people state their suspicions as some kind of fact that conspiracy theories are born. Kudos to you Fran for at least being able to tell the difference between what you suspect and what is a fact. Shame certain other posters are not so wise.
FDA response to Pfizer’s trial errors
“It’s all good – such time pressure plus such urgency means that you get a pass”
FDA response to AstraZeneca trial errors
“Drop dead you limey ba5tards! Keep your goods off of our turf!”
Here in regional Australia, they have just opened the state borders. Now we have to wear face nappies everywhere (although I avoid it by carrying an open bottle of water and sipping it constantly). We had 1 (one) case in our town (500 km from anywhere). In one day there are 24 cases.
I said from the very start that we’ll all get it, and our elimination policy was pie-in-the-sky insanity. This seems to prove me right.
Omicron seems like the very best way to get rid of covid 19, like all the other covid viruses. A very contagious and almost harmless variation. This pretty much always happens with viruses.
Notice all the scaremongering by media and politicians, and how they started out saying that omicron was perhaps less dangerous, but now they have ‘cancelled’ that message. Now it’s all about how contagious it is, not how dangerous it is. We’re being gaslighted all over again.
I’m really surprised police in Oz have been enforcing these draconian rules.
Whatever happened to “No rules, just right.”?
There’s a pub that just got fined $7,000 for not checking that customers have had two vaccinations. They posted it on farcebook wrapped around a toilet roll and said they’ll carry on.
In a sane world, if they just had a sign stating their policy, people who believe that the unvaccinated are dangerous can keep away.
Some idiots would argue that the unvaccinated would be more likely to spread the virus, but it just isn’t true. They’d be more likely to have symptoms than infected vaccinated people, and stay home. The vaccinated infected people are more dangerous. When i got my vaccination, I couldn’t even hug my daughter. She’d had a terrible two days from both of her vaccinations (like most people I know), and I could easily have caused her the same reaction from mine, even though I had no symptoms.
I’m vaccinated myself because I want to travel. I have no problems with vaccinations in general. I detest the vaccine apartheid, however, and refuse to ‘prove’ my vaccination status except when I leave the country (assuming they ever let me when my flight goes).
Hah! Now we’re told that the 20,000 lifesavers in Oz can’t work unless they’re double vaccinated.
Go and drown because you’re scared of getting covid!
It’s not stupidity on Fauci’s part either. He owns vaccine stocks.
Where is the profit it that?
How does that reduce overcrowding in the too many people, too few houses world?
“So don’t get a booster, get omicron and then natural immunity. The opposite of what Fauci’s is now saying…”
Thank you Rud – I believe that is the correct path and have advised my governments, based on conversations with my physician friends – IF omicron is similar enough to convey broad immunity to Covid-19 – it is reportedly quite different from other variants. It’s definitely worth a try – our governments keep adopting the same failed tactics again and again, and expect a different result – what’s that called again?.
Please study and use the World Council for Health Cease and Desist Declaration. It serves as both a cease and desist order as well as a notice of criminal and civil liability. It is just 2 1/2 pages. Here you can also see an introductory video by Dr. Tess Lawrie: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/campaign/covid-19-vaccine-cease-and-desist/
As I have published previously and sent to our rulers in Edmonton on 17Dec2021:
Highly effective, inexpensive early treatments like Ivermectin were officially suppressed, resulting in millions of needless, preventable Covid-19 deaths.
Despite a scary-sounding name, the new Omicron variant appears to be all hype and no real threat. Primary symptoms of infection with this SARS-CoV-2 strain is a couple of days of fatigue, headache, body aches, scratchy throat and intermittent cough. South Africa reports that no patients so far have required oxygen or even hospitalization for their symptoms. All have been very mild. The first four cases in Botswana were all fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Nevertheless, we can expect another over-reaction to this mild Omicron variant – one hopes Alberta will be less extreme than other parts of Canada and overseas.
By far the greatest harm to society from Covid-19 was caused by excessive government-mandated over-reactions – lockdowns, costly and inappropriate treatment protocols and the toxic Covid-19 “vaccines”.
Based on all the evidence, the government over-reactions to the Covid-19 virus were never justified, and were ineffective and dangerous – but then, this was never about public health – it really was all about control. If it was about public health, our governments would have promoted Vitamin D, Ivermectin and other highly-effective health measures – not destructive lockdowns and dangerous, ineffective “vaccines”.
There is ample evidence of fraud and criminal activity in the governments’ illegal over-reactions to the relatively mild Covid-19 flu. Our governments have collaborated, knowingly or unknowingly, with a global fraud to peddle costly, ineffective, dangerous Covid-19 “vaccines” that are already causing enormous harm – premature deaths and serious illnesses – much worse than the Covid-19 flu.
The following important evidence, including that in my 13Dec2021 email below, supports criminal prosecutions of those responsible for the fraudulent mismanagement of Covid-19.
US HOSPITALS: FRAUD, MURDER, CASH; FEDERAL ASSASSINATION-FOR-HIRE PROGRAM < JON RAPPOPORT’S BLOG
[excerpt]
“Attorney Thomas Renz and CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] whistleblowers have calculated a total [federal] payment [to hospitals] of at least $100,000 per [COVID] patient.”
by Jon Rappoport December 14, 2021
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a private medical organization founded in 1943, has the story — “Biden’s Bounty on Your Life: Hospitals’ Incentive Payments for COVID-19” (11/17/21), authored by Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. and Ali Shultz, J.D.
Here are stunning excerpts:
“Upon admission to a once-trusted hospital, American patients with COVID-19 become virtual prisoners, subjected to a rigid treatment protocol…for rationing medical care in those over age 50. They have a shockingly high mortality rate…”
“As exposed in audio recordings, hospital executives in Arizona admitted meeting several times a week to lower standards of care, with coordinated restrictions on visitation rights. Most COVID-19 patients’ families are deliberately kept in the dark about what is really being done to their loved ones.”
“The combination that enables this tragic and avoidable loss of hundreds of thousands of lives includes (1) The CARES Act, which provides hospitals with bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and (2) waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).”
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I commented:
Even though this article reads over-the-top, I know some of this is true – eg Filed treatment protocols in the USA: delays in early treatment, remdesivir kills, ventilators don’t help.
A knowledgeable friend responded:
The trouble with this article is that it sounds like a far-out conspiracy theory; however there are a lot of similarities to other information I have verified. Yes, remdesivir kills, usually by kidney and liver failure and yet hospitals are still using it and blind to much safer and more effective and more-researched anti-virals. Ventilators kill and yet hospitals are still using them when simple oxygen delivery is apparently more effective. It is very profitable to have Covid patients, but I do not understand why Medicaid pays for these expensive ineffective treatments. Are they getting incentives?
One must always ask to what purpose and the elephant seems to be a need to pump up the Covid numbers and keep the profitable fear-machine going.
typo: Failed treatment protocols…
More to Rud re:
“So don’t get a booster, get omicron and then natural immunity. The opposite of what Fauci’s is now saying…”
from one of my physician friends.
S.AFRICA STUDY SUGGESTS OMICRON ENHANCES NEUTRALIZING IMMUNITY AGAINST DELTA
By Reuters Staff 28Dec2021
(Reuters) – Research by South African scientists suggests that Omicron could displace the Delta variant of the coronavirus because infection with the new variant boosts immunity to the older one.
The study only covered a small group of people and has not been peer-reviewed, but it found that people who were infected with Omicron, especially those who were vaccinated, developed enhanced immunity to the Delta variant.The analysis enrolled 33 vaccinated and unvaccinated people who were infected with the Omicron variant in South Africa.
While the authors found that neutralisation of Omicron increased 14-fold over 14 days after the enrolment, they also found that there was a 4.4-fold increase in neutralisation of the Delta variant.
“The increase in Delta variant neutralization in individuals infected with Omicron may result in decreased ability of Delta to re-infect those individuals,” the scientists who conducted the study said.
The results of the study are “consistent with Omicron displacing the Delta variant, since it can elicit immunity which neutralizes Delta making re-infection with Delta less likely,” they said. [here]
According to the scientists, implications of this displacement would depend on whether or not Omicron is less pathogenic compared to Delta. “If so, then the incidence of COVID-19 severe disease would be reduced and the infection may shift to become less disruptive to individuals and society.”
Alex Sigal, a professor at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa, said on Twitter on Monday that if Omicron was less pathogenic as it looked to be from the South African experience, “this will help push Delta out”.
According to an earlier South African study, there is reduced risk of hospitalisation and severe disease in people infected with Omicron compared with the Delta variant, though the authors say some of that is likely due to high population immunity.
The Omicron variant, first detected in southern Africa and Hong Kong in November, has since spread worldwide and threatened to overwhelm hospitals in some countries.
‘WE WILL NOT COMPLY’: MASSIVE LONDON PROTEST AGAINST COVID PASSPORTS, THREAT OF MANDATORY JABS.
Video: https://rumble.com/vr2y37-we-will-not-comply-london-marches-for-freedom-18122021-oracle-films.html
Kinda freaky that Mark Zuckdroid was actually born in 1984.
Ominous :
Weirwood tree?
I wish I knew one or two Facebook fact checkers. I have a bridge I’ve been trying to sell for some time.
They aren’t stupid. They’re doing exactly what they’re being paid to do. Censorship.
I always try to cross-post from paler or gab to facebook everyonce in awhile, just to let them know they aren’t the only game in town.
Rumble is another platform gaining users.
Well who are you going to believe Facebook/Meta and their outsourced slacker narrative checkers, or the British Medical Journal?
Actually that’s not a bad idea, just start calling it Narrative Checking, instead of the obviously misleading Fact Checking, quit restricting the posts, but label it a “Narrative Violation”, and everyone will be happy.
Narative Defence
Nothing we didn’t know. All those who were called conspiracy theorist now being shown to be the truth tellers.
More omicron good news, this time out of South Africa. The health ministry just announced a cessation of contract tracing and quarantine for those exposed to symptomatic omicron. They found the majority of omicron cases were asymptomatic or so mild people did not bother even getting tested. So omicron is just mostly an endemic cold virus, as is the case for UK NHS symptomatic confirmed omicron cases.
The continuing Fauci omicron vaccine hysteria is NOT scientifically justified based on available information.
But you’ve forgotten the HyperPrecautionary Principle.
Don’t you mean the hyperprofit principal?
Hyperpecuniary Principle
Rud,
Extrapolation for South Africa to UK, USA, Australia (for example) is complicated because of the ways that immunity can be acquired and how long it is effective.
South Africa has high levels of natural immunity to Covid because of the widespread prevalence of existing viral illnesses that were able to create relevant immunity.
In these other countries, most immunity is from vaccination.
This raises the question of whether one form of immunity is better than another.
It also bears directly on preferred actions for the unvaccinated and partially vaccinated, the choice as you say “So don’t get a booster, get omicron and then natural immunity. “
The danger is two-fold, one: that the illness is more severe in counties other than South Africa and two: that earlier variants like delta will persist more in these other countries and so cloud the choice over vaccination or natural immunity.
These issues will be better known by New Year, so it might be prudent to avoid this decision just yet.
Disclaimer: I am a (chemist) scientist, not a medical researcher, but I am experienced in the interpretation of relevant data. Geoff S
Indeed. It’s going crazy in the UK right now so we can look there to see what we’re going to get. As far as I can tell, the South Africa experience is carried on in the UK.
The fear is that everyone will get it all at once. Everyone will have to isolate even if they don’t have symptoms. The work force will be so depleted that the lights will go out and we’ll starve and freeze to death in the dark. (poetic license #30995784972960894)
Keep up the fear of viruses, no matter how harmless. Past civilizations have easily survived much worse pandemics, and never had to resort to worldwide Communism.
Western civilization has indeed become weak.
Don’t forget, Britain failed to become a dictatorship in the past because of the sheer numbing and staggering incompetence of the bureaucracy.
Incompetency will probably end up keeping the lights on!
“Extrapolation for South Africa to UK, USA, Australia” and Canada.
Funny. Not so long ago, South Africa was evil and UK, USA, Canada etc. were virtuous because we opposed Apartheid, but now the shoe is on the other foot.
Ever heard of ‘original antigenic sin’. The vaccine may prevent subsequent broad immunity from getting a related virus.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33692194/
So far, in the US, the omicron virus is behaving much the same as in Africa. Very modest symptoms,. sneezing, runny nose, some aches and pains for a few days, then a quick recovery. There are apparently at least some young men, age ~18-25, who have more serious responses and require hospitalization.
Omicron does cause some deaths, but the odds are extremely against more than 2-5 or so/10,000 people, depending on the populations
Philo, how can that possibly be? I’m told that everyone who isn’t vaccinated is going to d!e of Omicron!
https://odysee.com/@VSRF:d/Vaccine-Safety-Research-Foundation-TNI:e?fbclid=IwAR0rnzzlprzFeqplWVOHrtdBZLc-g8oFHN6nlL3ZWEl1baB7YIw9uyVxU5w
Trusted News Initiative
Beware!
‘Trusted’
Orwell would appreciate that.
The question that needs to be answered is why Facebook, Twitter, or any other media company granted common carrier status needs to check content at all.
Facebook’s characterization of “fact checks” as opinion is not an admission, it is a deceptive legal strategy which exploits a loophole in American libel law that says, if a derogatory statement about someone is mere opinion, then it is not actionable and the plaintiff is out of luck.
Within the last two months Facebook has gotten two different courts to accept this view, thus defeating libel suits brought by John Stossel and Candace Owens. I believe both plaintiffs have filed appeals, which have not yet been heard.
I hope they both win, because the rulings are nonsense. Calling commentary a “fact check” is in fact a straight-up claim that the “fact checker’s” statements are objective fact.
it is a deceptive legal strategy which exploits a loophole in American libel law
What I don’t get is how they can get away with calling it “opinion” in court while touting it publicly as a “fact check”
Bent judge?
Cumulative all cases mortality in Europe 2021.
Unprecedented.
Covid contributes just a small portion to it.
The major signal is in the age group 15-44 years.
They are not susceptible to Covid,
The are prone to vaccination and boosters
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#excess-mortality
It’s “narrative compliance check”, not “fact check”.
Anytime someone says – “We know what the truth/facts are, and you shouldn’t question us.” – you need to find another source for unbiased information.
Scary thought.
Wickedpedia may now more reliable than both the MSM’s and MSSM’s “fact checkers”.
(MSSM = “Main Stream Social Media”)
Interesting twist. It seems the author of the article in question was one Paul Thacker (ref. 1 in the BJM letter). Small world.
https://climateaudit.org/2006/04/13/thackers-sources/amp/
Honestly, it’s incredibly telling that everyone who is into CAGW hysteria is also into covid lockdown, vaccination and mask hysteria too, and everyone who isn’t into CAGW hysteria is not into covid hysteria.
I know it’s not a perfect match, but I estimate 97%…
Explanation for ZZW – re “everyone who is into CAGW hysteria is also into covid lockdown, vaccination and mask hysteria too, and everyone who isn’t into CAGW hysteria is not into covid hysteria”.
“The same leftist groups concocted and promoted the global warming fraud and the Covid-19 lockdown scam, for political and financial gain.”
CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID-19, AND THE GREAT RESET – A Climate, Energy and Covid Primer for Politicians and Media March 21, 2021, Update 1e May 8, 2021
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/climate-change-covid-19-and-the-great-reset-update-1e-readonly.docx
SUMMARY
We published in 2002 that there was NO catastrophic human-made global warming /climate change crisis, and green energy schemes were NOT green and produced little useful (dispatchable) energy. Dangerous global warming and climate change have NOT HAPPENED and green energy schemes have proved to be COSTLY, UNRELIABLE AND INEFFECTIVE.
Global warming is NOT a threat, but global cooling IS dangerous to humanity and the environment. In 2002 we predicted that natural global cooling would start circa 2020, based on low solar activity, and that prediction is strongly supported by recent evidence.
Politicians foolishly believed scary global warming falsehoods and brewed the perfect storm, crippling our energy systems with costly and unreliable green energy schemes that utterly fail due to intermittency, at a time when we need more cheap, reliable, dispatchable energy due to increased energy demand and imminent global cooling. The people of Australia, Britain, Germany, California, Texas and elsewhere have all suffered due to GREEN ENERGY FAILURES THAT WERE PREDICTABLE AND WERE PREDICTED.
We published in March 2020 that there was no justification for the Covid-19 lockdown, and that it would cause great and needless harm. The Covid-19 lockdown is now estimated to have caused 10-to-100-times the damage of the Covid-19 illness, in terms of increased harm to individuals, families and the economies they depend on.
The same leftist groups concocted and promoted the global warming fraud and the Covid-19 lockdown scam, for political and financial gain. Then these groups linked the two frauds, stating “to solve Covid-19 we have to solve Climate Change” – utterly false and foolish, not even plausible enough to be specious. Then these same groups proposed their Final Solution, the “Great Reset”, a Chinese Communist Party style dictatorship, a centrally-controlled economy where we live like poor slaves, lorded over by our wealthy political masters.
The tragic reality is that the twin frauds of Climate-and-Covid have been accepted by most politicians. Some have covertly or overtly embraced extreme-left politics, and others are so simple-minded and gullible that they believe any falsehood that is repeated often enough. We are governed by scoundrels and imbeciles.
When political agendas serve to hide the truth, people get harmed. This is especially evident when medical findings are censored by ignorant political hacks. Many (perhaps millions) died as a result of the censoring of information regarding effective treatments for Fauci Designer Flu, as well as hiding the dangers of “gene therapy”.
That’s more than irresponsible; it’s fatal in a big way.
Similarly, the censoring of information regarding the truth about global warming, how innocuous it is, and indeed beneficial, it’s true causes (or absence), in the face of a worldwide tsunami of alarmist political propaganda, has harmed billions of people who suffer skyrocketing energy costs and the consequential inflation of every other commodity. The theft, poverty, and hardships inflicted are unconscionable.
The “fact checkers” are propagandists pure and simple. Whatever their motives might be, their actions result in tragedy for (most of) humanity.
When I have an annual blood test, I am given a printed report with all the details. When I had two PCR tests and asked how the number of cycles I got no answer.
Why with all other treatments does my GP give me the details of diagnosis and medications but does not have the details for me to make an informed choice about vaccination? Why is information that would be helpful concealed or stuck away in some inaccessible place?
The above-quoted letter from the BMJ is a proper dress-down of Facebook/Meta, but I’m confident that Mark Zuckerberg’s response (never to be put into writing, of course) would be along the lines of: “What, you talkin’ to me?”
If Facebook, Twitter, Instagram were to simply dissolve into liquidation bankruptcy, and take all $938 billion in market cap down the drain, the world would be a better place immediately. Appropriately, it’s skilled work force of IT/sysops, programmers, and software engineers could then go find gainful employment working in the coal and oil-gas industries.
They are censoring the data, therefore they are publishers not platforms, therefore they should lose their special protections under the law currently protecting them from lawsuits.
Funny isn’t it, how in this time of Credentialism, there were no actual names provided of the “factcheckers”.
My guess: twenty-something uni grad (social studies, over $100K in student debt, no math credits, no real science understanding).
The Facebook Fact Checka is not interested in facts or truth. They are only interested in protecting and projecting the Party Line.
the self appointed fact checking, so-called, has been a political exercise on the part of those who control these media outlets as a way of promoting their political stance. For example, orange man bad.
Re Fauci, Pfizer et al concerning medical experimentation:
23 Nazi scientists, physicians, and senior officials of Nazi medical administration and army were put on stand at the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trial (Military Tribunal #1) was the trial in which the Nazi scientists and doctors were tried and sentenced their verdict. These trials of Military Tribunal #1 were also known as the Doctor’s Trial. These trials took place on December 9, 1946. The procedures of the trial lasted for 180 days. There were about 1,500 documents of proof and 85 witnesses.
Seven of these doctors were sentenced to death, nine were given long prison sentences, and seven were acquitted. The seven doctors who were sentenced to death were hung on June 2, 1948. The nine who were delivered prison sentences all went to prison for a minimum of fifteen years.
Facebook. Well, I posted there some links to scientific articles in Nature. They blocked the comments. I posted a link to GitHub where I corrected a climate computer model software bug (this was the only case where they unblocked it when I protested, which is quite amazing because any other protest went to their Artificial Extreme Stupidity). They erased a comment of mine against homeopathy telling that it’s ‘bullying’. I guess it’s illegal to bully pseudo sciences on fakebook, they deserve respect. I reported a highly illegal page that sells recipes for ‘curing’ cancer with dangerous substances that can result in the death of the ‘cured’, doing fiscal evasion on top of that. They did nothing, because they earn money from the scam advertisement.
On top of that, they pushed on me idiotic articles from all sorts of journals I did not ‘like’ or ‘follow’. A nano-technology group I followed ‘published’ an alarmist ‘study’ about climate. Probably nano-climate or something.
I had enough so I removed my account there.
Facebook operating without an obligation to the truth.
Fact checkers operating without facts or integrity. And with warnings. Hoodwinking.
The WHO and the CDC built their pandemic response model on what they learned from their failed attempt to foist a global H1N1 pandemic in 2009. This time they had friends in high places and the focus of their response was propaganda not a scientifically based response for. COVID -19. Coronaviruses are vastly different than a flu virus. They are air borne and not dependent on droplets, which makes them highly contagious. The are breathed in and breathed out. South Korean research that was censored demonstrated experimentally that cloth and surgical masks do not work for COVID 19. So why did we settled on them when N95 and KN 24 masks actually work? We are still wearing useless masks more as a political banner than a useful measure to fight the pandemic. Why did we end up with a COVID-19 test that is so extremely sensitive that it has a high false positive rate. It tests for spike proteins. We all could have spike proteins in our airway and not actually be exposed the COVID-19, nor be infected with the virus. Furthermore, there is very strong evidence that the virus was likely underway in the Fall of 2019— globally by the time the WHO rang pandemic alarm bell in March 2020. In late Summer and Fall of 2019, between Washington DC and Philly there was a big up tick of viral pneumonia and coronavirus admissions beginning in August through December 2019 with warnings going out in Sept 2019 that a bad flu season was expected. Remember, at the time we had a coronavirus test that was not specific of COVID 19 so COVID 19 would have been undetectable until March 2020.. By March 2020 COVID-19 was already well distributed through out the USA and unstoppable and still is. The non-scientific socio-political response is and will continue to be a man made catastrophe globally. The pandemic did unify the the world and the result has been an increase in globalism, central control, social repression and a giant step toward globalized socialism. We should wonder if this was an accidental outcome?. And who benefited financially the most? The research on SARS Coronaviruses began globally after the 2006 outbreak. The gain of function research accelerated as the Crispr-CAS-9 technology was underway by 2015. The purpose of this research was for developing vaccines. This is the reason the vaccines were able to hit the market in record time…a good thing right? . Given all the research on SARS coronaviruses since 2006, you would think that the WHO and the CDC would have been better prepared for a SARS Coronavirus pandemic. If this is true why did we get a Flu virus response protocol. It has not worked and is still not working. No the only solution they have for us is to do it harder, faster, more and more and longer. This is always the message of the self righteous and/or /marketers who stand aloft from the actual needs and realities of human community.
I’ve read extensively on the 1918 flu epidemic. Masking didn’t work in cities like San Francisco that mandated it
We hope you will act swiftly: specifically to correct the error relating to The BMJ’s article and to review the processes that led to the error; and generally to reconsider your investment in and approach to fact checking overall.
*fart vanishes into hurricane*
the Gramscian march never goes backward chum
Yeah, the hegemon has risen.
“Fact checking” has the veneer of cold ruthless objectivity, and when it can approach this ideal then it has considerable worth.
But cold ruthless objectivity is in short supply these days. Many people hardly recognize such a thing.
The source for a lot of the FB fact check is USA today. Here is one of the many articles FB uses:
https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-false-claim-arctic-163838903.html
Sometimes, they get brave enough to identify their sources, like the end of this one:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/12/03/fact-check-laws-thermodynamics-support-climate-change-theory/8796217002/
The British Medical Journal… eh?
Medical fact checking? – look no further than the venerable Lancet which is getting a bit of clearly well deserved stick
google the Great Barrington Declaration and the top doctors that wrote it.
Now ask yourself why you have never heard of this.
The BMJ recently published a paper about the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trials. The person who raised many many issues was sacked. The very next day the FDA granted EUA to the Pfizer vaccine. Not a surprise really when one considers the FDA receives nearly 50% of its funding from big pharma.
Hot on the heels of the bombshell admission last week by Facebook lawyers in legal filings that “fact checks” are nothing more than opinion, this open letter to Zuckerberg and Facebook/Meta from highly respected The British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows even more reason Facebook is simply engaged in wanton censorship. It is equivalent to a professional ‘bitchslap’ in my opinion.
BMJ’s headline was stupid. Lead Stories’ response to the open letter is pretty reasonable. it seems to me it is by no means an open and shut case BMJ good, fact checker bad, as your article implies.
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The other night I posted video of a fire in our fireplace (live in NJ USA) with the comment “getting ready for a cool night” on my family FB pages. FB posted their COVID info alert on it. Their AI obviously thought “cool night”= party that’s ridiculous FB checking is
It seems to me that Facebook does not care about enabling all people to share information with others. It seems that their term “fact checking” means that they want to suppress facts they don’t like. Why would you patronize Facebook? They are a business. Don’t give them any business. Speak freely where you can and eschew the business of controlled information.
They are helping to prove that the trouble with ignorance is that it gains confidence over time.
There’s a reason FB and the other social media sites are free. They need you more than you need them. Unplug.
It would be nice if Zuckerberg were to receive a subpoena for Christmas for election meddling, bribery, and an assortment of other charges related to his/facebook actions. With a big bow of course. Maybe even a singing telegram!
Nasty weather is not as bad as nasty factchecks
“Lead Stories’ Response To BMJ Open Letter Objecting To A Lead Stories Fact Check”
https://leadstories.com/analysis/2021/12/lead-stories-response-to-a-bmjcom-open-letter-objecting-to-a-lead-stories-fact-check.html?s=09
Opinions can differ. Is this a small problem at 1 site or larger problem that could occur at many other sites but are currently unreported? Is absence of evidence, evidence of absence? In a world of sensational headlines competing for our attention, I’m sad to say there doesn’t appear to be a standard left to follow to judge the correctness of headlines & articles. It’s now harder to know who to trust.
The BMJ left out criminal in their description. That also applies.
“…highly respected The British Medical Journal (BMJ) “
Used to be respected, by me at least. Like many other venerable institutions, they grassed themselves in the filth when they adopted the global-warming mantra.
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Posting the above on FB gets blocked, naturally.
So the first rule in fact checking is opinion.