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Los Angeles Sheriff Says He Will Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate (VIDEO)

By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published October 8, 2021 at 7:45am
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Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva has announced that he will be defying the city council mandate forcing his employees to get vaccinated.


City council passed the mandate on Wednesday.

“The issue has become so politicized,” Villanueva said on Thursday. “There are entire groups of employees that are willing to be fired and laid off rather than get vaccinated, so I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5 percent, 10 percent of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate”

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1446135107027234825
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The new mandate will also force people to show proof of vaccination before entering many public spaces, including indoor restaurants, salons and gyms — similar to the vaccine passpo+rts being enforced in New York City.

The Hill reports that the city’s mandate is “one of the strictest in the country.”
Villanueva announced earlier this year that he would not enforce an indoor mask mandate.

“Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines,” Villanueva said in a statement at the time.
 

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Joy Behar Says Black People Should Trust the Vaccines Because ‘…the Experiment Has Been Done on White People’

By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published October 8, 2021 at 8:15am
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The View cohost Joy Behar raised more than a few eyebrows while urging black people to get the vaccine.


Behar said that black people shouldn’t have vaccine hesitancy because “…the experiment has been done on white people.”

The controversial figure brought up the Tuskegee experiments, during which untreated syphilis experimentation was done on nearly 400 black people without their knowledge or consent for 40 years, between 1932 and 1972. Over 100 people died as a result of the study.

Behar said that because this was done, she does not blame the black community for their low vaccination rates.

“How do they get through to people like the black audience, for instance, the African American community, who has been burnt in the past by these Tuskegee experiments and things coming out that have harmed them,” Behar said. “I don’t blame that community for being skittish about it, but I say that so many white people have gotten it now, you know, the experiment has been done on white people now.”

Fellow cohost Whoopi Goldberg chimed in agreeing with Behar.

“The Tuskegee experiment, there are countless things we can point to. But this is not one of them. This isn’t one of them. And did you just say, Joy, white people?

This is what I said at the beginning: White people are getting it. If you don’t see them with double heads, it’s OK. You know, if you don’t see a tail, it’s OK.”

Rumble video on website 5:49 min
 

marsh

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[WA state] State Trooper shortage due to Vaccine mandate…
Posted by Kane on October 8, 2021 3:49 pm
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZsFCQPRZY&feature=emb_rel_pause
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The Washington State Patrol says ‘we’re looking at a potential public safety crisis with the loss of hundreds of troopers due to the vaccine mandate for state workers.’
 

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HOMESCIENCEVOL. 374, NO. 6564CROSS-REACTIVE CD4 T CELLS ENHANCE SARS-COV-2 IMMUNE RESPONSES UPON INFECTION AND VACCINATION
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RESEARCH ARTICLECORONAVIRUS

Cross-reactive CD4+ T cells enhance SARS-CoV-2 immune responses upon infection and vaccination

LUCIE LOYAL HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0001-5738-4437JULIAN BRAUN HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-7788-8154LARISSA HENZE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-6540-4263BEATE KRUSE[...]CLAUDIA GIESECKE-THIEL HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-5927-7018 +33 authors Authors Info & Affiliations

SCIENCE•8 Oct 2021•Vol 374, Issue 6564•DOI: 10.1126/science.abh1823
Cross-reactive T cells aid in the fight
There is mounting evidence that immunological memory after infection with seasonal human coronaviruses (hCoVs) contributes to cross-protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Loyal et al. identified a universal immunodominant coronavirus peptide found within the fusion peptide domain of coronavirus spike protein. This peptide is recognized by CD4+ T cells in 20% of unexposed individuals, more than 50% of SARS-CoV-2 convalescents, and 97% of subjects treated with the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Although ubiquitous, these coronavirus-reactive T cells decreased with age, which may explain in part the increased susceptibility of elderly people to COVID-19. —STS

Structured Abstract

INTRODUCTION
The clinical manifestations of COVID-19 vary from asymptomatic infection to respiratory failure. Severe disease courses are primarily associated with advanced age, immune dysfunctions, and comorbidities. Initially, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was thought to encounter an immunologically unprotected population. However, SARS-CoV-2 has significant homologies with endemic seasonal cold coronaviruses (HCoVs), and recent HCoV infection is associated with a less severe course of COVID-19, suggesting a protective role of cross-reactive immunity.

RATIONALE
The preexistence of SARS-CoV-2–cross-reactive CD4+ T cells in unexposed individuals has been repeatedly demonstrated, but their contribution to host responses is an active area of investigation. Here, we investigated the functional role of preexisting SARS-CoV-2–cross-reactive and HCoV-reactive CD4+ T cells with high resolution.

RESULTS
We demonstrate broad CD4+ T cell cross-reactivity in unexposed individuals, with the spike glycoprotein serving as one of the immunodominant targets. Although the N-terminal part of spike (covered by the S-I peptide pool) did not elicit cross-reactive T cell responses, the more HCoV-homologous C-terminal section (covered by the S-II peptide pool) induced T cell responses in unexposed donors. We identified a universal immunodominant coronavirus peptide located within the fusion peptide domain of spike (S816-830) recognized by CD4+ T cells in 20% of unexposed individuals, 50 to 60% of SARS-CoV-2 convalescents, and 97% of BNT162b2-vaccinated individuals. S816-830– and spike–cross-reactive T cells were recruited in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and BNT162b2 COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. S816-830-reactive T cells initially contributed up to 100% of the S-II–reactive CD4+ T cells but their proportion decreased during the course of the S-II–specific immune response. Upon primary vaccination, cross-reactive cellular and humoral immunity exhibited kinetics typical for secondary immune responses. The frequencies of preexisting cross-reactive T cells correlated positively with functional avidity of the T cell receptor, as well as with the induction and stabilization of anti–SARS-CoV-2-S1-IgG and neutralizing antibodies. Although HCoV-responsive T cells are ubiquitous, their frequencies and the frequencies of SARS-CoV-2–cross-reactive CD4+ T cells decreased with age, consistent with an increased vulnerability of the elderly to severe COVID-19 disease.

CONCLUSION
Preexisting cross-reactive CD4+ T cells enhance immune responses in SARS-CoV-2 infection and BNT162b2 vaccination. Because these cells are greatly diminished in the elderly, our results suggest that their decrease may contribute to the increased susceptibility of this population to severe COVID-19. Preexisting cross-reactive immunity may be responsible for the unexpectedly rapid induction of protective immunity after primary SARS-CoV-2 immunization and the high rate of asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 disease courses.
 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-qKrh6AZs4
53:31 min

CDC COVID-19 Partner Update: Vaccinate Update in the Fight Against COV

Oct 8, 2021


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


CDC will share information and updates on efforts to get people vaccinated including: current guidance on primary vaccination, status of booster doses, and CDC’s readiness to support access to vaccines, especially for those populations who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Resource Links: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-... Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-... This video can also be viewed at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-...
 

marsh

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvRHCsblwPU
52:18 min

Biden DEFENDS Mass Terminations Over Vax Mandates Amid CATASTROPHIC Jobs Report And Economic Crisis

Oct 8, 2021


Tim Pool


Biden DEFENDS Mass Terminations Over Vax Mandates Amid CATASTROPHIC Jobs Report And Economic Crisis. Amind a nursing shortage, EMS shortages, dispatcher shortages, truckers, labor in general, food, rising gas prices, Joe Biden has the nerve to defend the losses of even more jobs. Democrats remain oblivious to the disaster unfolding as the jobs report is a catastrophe and vaccine mandates are only making things worse Republicans are no better, sitting by and doing literally nothing as the crisis worsens.
 

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"Proceed With Caution At Your Own Peril" - Merck's COVID 'Super Drug' Poses Serious Health Risks, Scientists Warn

FRIDAY, OCT 08, 2021 - 09:56 AM

As it turns out, all the scientists and doctors who insisted that Merck's "revolutionary" COVID drug molnupiravir is extremely safe weren't faithfully adhering to "the science" after all. Because according to a report published Thursday by Barron's, some scientists are worried that the drug - which purportedly cut hospitalizations in half during a study that was cut short - could cause cancer or birth defects.

So much for having a "strong safety profile," as Dr. Scott Gottlieb claimed in an interview on the day Merck first publicized the research.


It's perfectly understandable why Merck might choose to play down this safety risk: assuming it's approved, the drug is widely expected to be one of "the most lucrative drugs ever" - which is one reason why Merck's shares soared into double-digit territory after the announcement.

As we reported earlier this week, Merck and its "partner" Ridgeback Biotherapeutics will profit immensely by charging customers up to 40x what it costs to make the drug, which Ridgeback originally licensed from Emory University for an "undisclosed sum". The drug was developed with funding from the federal government.

According to Barron's, some scientists who have studied the drug believe that its method of suppressing the virus could potentially run amok within the body.
Some scientists who have studied the drug warn, however, that the method it uses to kill the virus that causes Covid-19 carries potential dangers that could limit the drug’s usefulness.

Molnupiravir works by incorporating itself into the genetic material of the virus, and then causing a huge number of mutations as the virus replicates, effectively killing it. In some lab tests, the drug has also shown the ability to integrate into the genetic material of mammalian cells, causing mutations as those cells replicate.
If that were to happen in the cells of a patient being treated with molnupiravir, it could theoretically lead to cancer or birth defects.
In particular, Raymond Schinazi, a professor of pediatrics and the director of biochemical pharmacology at Emory who studied the drug while it was being developed, and published a number of papers on NHC, the compound that's the active ingredient in the drug. He published a paper that showed the drug can produce a reaction like the one described above, and insisted it shouldn't be given to young people - especially pregnant women - without more data.
Schinazi told Barron’s that he did not believe that molnupiravir should be given to pregnant women, or to young people of reproductive age, until more data is available. Merck’s trials of molnupiravir have excluded pregnant women; the scientists running the trial asked male participants to “abstain from heterosexual intercourse” while taking the drug, according to the federal government website that tracks clinical trials.
Barron's even shared a paper published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in May by Schinazi and scientists at the University of North Carolina which reported that NHC can cause mutations in animal cell cultures in a lab test designed to detect such mutations - something Merck claims it has tested for. The paper's authors concluded that the risks for molnupiravir "may not be zero".

Merck told Barron's that it has run "extensive tests" on animals which it says show that this shouldn't be an issue. "The totality of the data from these studies indicates that molnupiravir is not mutagenic or genotoxic in in-vivo mammalian systems," a Merck spokesman said.

Still, scientists and doctors who have studied NHC say that Merck needs to "be careful," and it's not just Schinazi warning about the drug's potential risks.

Dr. Shuntai Zhou, a scientist at the Swanstrom Lab at UNC, said "there is a concern that this will cause long-term mutation effects, even cancer."
Zhou says that he is certain that the drug will integrate itself into the DNA of mammalian hosts. "Biochemistry won’t lie," he says. "This drug will be incorporated in the DNA."
Merck hasn't yet released any data from its animal studies, but the scientists believe that it would take long-term studies to show that the drug is truly totally safe.
"Proceed with caution and at your own peril," wrote Raymond Schinazi, a professor of pediatrics and the director of the division of biochemical pharmacology at the Emory University School of Medicine, who has studied NHC for decades, in an email to Barron’s.
Analysts are already warning that these questions about the drug's safety suggest the reaction in Merck's shares was a little "overblown", to say the least.

Investors apparently were so eager for a new "pandemic panacea" (now that the mRNA jabs have proven to be much less effective than advertised) that they didn't ask too many questions about safety, or even question the paucity of data.

One analyst for SVB Leerink Dr. Geoffrey Porges described investors' reaction from Friday as "wishful thinking".

Even once the FDA authorizes the drug, Dr. Porges believes it will come with strict limitations on who can and can't use it. "I think it is effectively going to be a controlled substance", Dr. Porges said, adding that the risks to pregnant women, or women who may soon become pregnant, could present thorny problems for the FDA's advisory committee reviewing the drug.

Given that the safety risks of the drug seem well-documented already, Wall Street's gushing about the drug's prospects - "it really is THAT good", one analyst insisted - seems like an idiotic blunder in retrospect. The product of what one might call "magical thinking".
 

marsh

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Taibbi: The Cult Of The Vaccine
Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News,

Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the seeming delay of the development of a drug called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of The Hill: Rising for more). In the time it took to report and write that piece, conventional wisdom turned against the drug, which is now suspected of ivermectinism and other deviationist, anti-vax tendencies, in the latest iteration of our most recent collective national mania — the Cult of the Vaccine.

View: https://youtu.be/PnVAVDpTwEk
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The speed of the change was incredible. Just a week ago, on October 1st, the pharmaceutical giant Merck issued a terse announcement that quickly became big news. Molnupiravir, an experimental antiviral drug, “reduced the risk of hospitalization or death” of Covid-19 patients by as much as 50%, according to a study.

The stories that rushed out in the ensuing minutes and hours were almost uniformly positive. AP called the news a “potentially major advance in efforts to fight the pandemic,” while National Geographic quoted a Yale specialist saying, “Having a pill that would be easy for people to take at home would be terrific.” Another interesting early reaction came from Time:
Vaccines will be the way out of the pandemic, but not everyone around the world is immunized yet, and the shots aren’t 100% effective in protecting people from getting infected with the COVID-19 virus. So antiviral drug treatments will be key to making sure that people who do get infected don’t get severely ill.
This is what news looks like before propagandists get their hands on it. Time writer Alice Park’s lede was sensible and clear. If molnupiravir works — a big if, incidentally — it’s good news for everyone, since not everyone is immunized, and the vaccines aren’t 100% effective anyway. As even Vox put it initially, molnupiravir could “help compensate for persistent gaps in Covid-19 vaccination coverage.”

Within a day, though, the tone of coverage turned. Writers began stressing a Yeah, but approach, as in, “Any new treatment is of course good, but get your ****ing shot.” A CNN lede read, “A pill that could potentially treat Covid-19 is a ‘game-changer,’ but experts are emphasizing that it's not an alternative to vaccinations.” The New York Times went with, “Health officials said the drug could provide an effective way to treat Covid-19, but stressed that vaccines remained the best tool.”

If you’re thinking it was only a matter of time before the mere fact of molnupiravir’s existence would be pitched in headlines as actual bad news, you’re not wrong: Marketwatch came out with “‘It’s not a magic pill’: What Merck’s antiviral pill could mean for vaccine hesitancy” the same day Merck issued its release. The piece came out before we knew much of anything concrete about the drug’s effectiveness, let alone whether it was “magic.”

Bloomberg’s morose “No, the Merck pill won’t end the pandemic” was released on October 2nd, i.e. one whole day after the first encouraging news of a possible auxiliary treatment whose most ardent supporters never claimed would end the pandemic. This article said the pill might be cause to celebrate, but warned its emergence “shouldn’t be cause for complacency when it comes to the most effective tool to end this pandemic: vaccines.” Bloomberg randomly went on to remind readers that the unrelated drug ivermectin is a “horse de-worming agent,” before adding that if molnupiravir ends up “being viewed as a solution for those who refuse to vaccinate,” the “Covid virus will continue to persist.”

In other words, it took less than 24 hours for the drug — barely tested, let alone released yet — to be accused of prolonging the pandemic. By the third day, mentions of molnupiravir in news reports nearly all came affixed to stern reminders of its place beneath vaccines in the medical hierarchy, as in the New York Times explaining that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who initially told reporters the new drug was “impressive,” now “warned that Americans should not wait to be vaccinated because they believe they can take the pill.”

Since the start of the Trump years, we’ve been introduced to a new kind of news story, which assumes adults can’t handle multiple ideas at once, and has reporters frantically wrapping facts deemed dangerous, unorthodox, or even just insufficiently obvious in layers of disclaimers. The fear of uncontrolled audience brain-drift is now so great that even offhand references must come swaddled in these journalistic Surgeon General’s warnings, which is why whenever we read anything now, we almost always end up fighting through nests of phrases like “the debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab” in order to get to whatever the author’s main point might be.

This lunacy started with the Great Lie Debate of 2016, when reporters and editors spent months publicly anguishing over whether to use “lie” in headlines of Donald Trump stories, then loudly congratulated themselves once they decided to do it. The most histrionic offender was the New York Times, previously famous for teaching readers to digest news in code (“he claimed” for years was Times-ese for “full of shit”) but now reasoned a “more muscular terminology,” connoting “a certain moral opprobrium,” was needed to distinguish the “dissembling” of a politician like Bill Clinton from Trump’s whoppers. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” could be mere falsehood, but “I will build a great great wall” required language that “stands apart.”

The key term was moral opprobrium. Moralizing was exactly what journalists were once trained not to do, at least outside the op-ed page, but it soon became a central part of the job. When they used they word “lie,” the Times explained, they wanted us to know that was because “from the childhood schoolyard to the grave, this is a word neither used nor taken lightly.” Put another way, the Times didn’t want people reading about something Donald Trump said, grasping that it was a lie, and, say, chuckling about how ridiculous it was. If the New York Times sent the word “lie” up the flagpole, they now expected an appropriately solemn salute.

This was the beginning of an era in which editors became convinced that all earth’s problems derived from populations failing to accept reports as Talmudic law. It couldn’t be people were just tuning out papers for a hundred different reasons, including sheer boredom. It had to be that their traditional work product was just too damned subtle. The only way to avoid the certain evil of audiences engaging in unsupervised pondering over information was to eliminate all possibility of subtext, through a new communication style that was 100% literal and didactic. Everyone would get the same news and also be instructed, often mid-sentence, on how to respond.

At first this expressed itself via regurgitation of Approved Unambiguous Phraseology™ handed down from official or law enforcement sources, like “Russia’s election interference activities,” e.g. “Page’s alleged coordination with Russia’s election interference activities.” However, it wasn’t long before the stage-direction factor in coverage went berserk, as I noted last year after this question by Anderson Cooper in a presidential debate:
COOPER: Mr. Vice President, President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine. I want to point out there’s no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you.
The phrase, “no evidence of wrongdoing,” was a mandatory add last year in all coverage involving Ukraine, Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden, from the Guardian (“No evidence the younger Biden did anything illegal”) to CNBC (“There is no evidence that Trump or Giuliani has produced which shows that Hunter Biden was engaged in wrongdoing”) to Newsweek (Although there is no evidence of illegal wrongdoing by the Bidens in those dealings”) to NBC (“No evidence of wrongdoing on the part of either Biden”) to AP (“There has been no evidence of wrongdoing by either the vice president or his son”) to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Axios, and countless others.

The language was absurd on multiple levels, beginning with its incorrectness — unless they were talking purely about a legal definition, the issue of whether or not there was “wrongdoing” in Hunter Biden accepting a no-show $50,000-a-month job from a crooked Ukrainian energy firm was a matter for readers to decide, not an issue of fact. Still, a lot of people not only swallowed it, but vomited these and other terms back up again, over and over, on social media, or to their friends and family, or to anyone at all, in what became a new way for a certain kind of person to relate to the world.

As a student in the Soviet Union I noticed subscribers to what Russians called the sovok mindset talked in interminable strings of pogovorki, i.e goofball proverbs or aphorisms you’d heard a million times before (“He who takes no risk, drinks no champagne,” or “Work isn’t a wolf, it won’t run off into the woods,” etc). This was a learned defense mechanism, adopted by a people who’d found out the hard way that anyone caught not speaking nonstop nonsense could be suspected of harboring original thoughts. Voluble stupidity is a great disguise in a society where silence is suspect.

We’re similarly becoming a nation of totalitarian nitwits, speaking in a borrowed lexicon of mandatory phrases and smelling heresy in anyone who doesn’t. This cult reflex was bad during the Russiagate years, but it’s gone into overdrive since the arrival of COVID. The CNN writer who thinks it’s necessary to put a disclaimer in the lede of a story about molnupiravir, of all things, is basically claiming he or she is afraid a theoretical unvaccinated person might otherwise read the story and be encouraged to not take the vaccine.

Except, if that theoretical unvaccinated person could be convinced by anything CNN said or did, they’d have already gotten the shot, because the network runs ten million stories a day directly imploring people to get vaccinated or die. News flash: the instinct to armor-plate even unrelated news subjects with layer after layer of insistent vaccine dogma is not for the non-immunized, who mostly don’t watch outlets like CNN or read the New York Times. Outlets apply that neurotic messaging for their own target audiences, who’ve been trained to live in terror of un-contextualized content, which everyone knows leads to Trump, fascism, and death.

I’d be the last person to claim there aren’t dumb people out there in America, but at least the audiences of channels like Fox and OAN know that content has been designed for them. The people gobbling down these pieces by Bloomberg and the Times that have the journalistic equivalent of child-proof caps on every paragraph that even parenthetically mentions COVID really believe that content has been dumbed down for some other person. They think it’s someone else who can’t handle news that vaccines work and that there also might be a pill that treats the disease, without freaking out or coming to politically unsafe conclusions. So they put up with being talked to like children — demand it, even. Which is nuts. Right? It is nuts, isn’t it?
 

marsh

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“I’m Willing to Lose Everything…Even My Life” – Anesthesiologist Escorted Out of UCLA Medical Plaza for Refusing to Get Covid Vaccine (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published October 8, 2021 at 6:30pm
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California – An anesthesiologist was escorted out of UCLA medical plaza this week for refusing to get the Covid vaccine.

Dr. Christopher Rake took video of himself being escorted out of the UCLA Medical Plaza in Westwood.

“They are escorting me out of the building… This is what happens when you stand up for freedom and when you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated, and this is the price you have to pay sometimes,” Dr. Rake said. “But what they don’t realize is that I’m willing to go lose everything — job, paycheck, freedom, even my life for this cause.”

He added, “Be well. United we stand, divided we fall.”

Anesthesiologists go through 12-14 years of medical school and residency and can’t just be replaced.

UCLA Health required all workers in California to be vaccinated for Covid by September 30.

“Those out of compliance are subject to progressive discipline, including restricting access to work sites and being placed on leave,” a UCLA spokesperson told McClatchy News.

VIDEO:

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1445571820174798854
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The Biden Regime and the Democrats are getting rid of the intellectuals, doctors and highly educated people.

What’s next? Gulags for the unvaxxed?
 

marsh

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MSNBC’s Melvin: Time to ‘Recognize’ — Unvaccinated ‘Don’t Care About Public Health’

PAM KEY8 Oct 2021353

MSNBC’s anchor Craig Melvin said Friday on his show “Craig Melvin Reports” that it is time to call out the unvaccinated for not caring about public health during an interview with Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins.

Melvin said, “You mentioned the 70 million Americans that haven’t gotten the vaccine yet, Dr. Collins, despite months of an all-out PR blitz, despite their neighbors getting it and their loved ones getting it. I mean, at what point do we just recognize that there are going to be millions of people in this country that really. They don’t care about public health as much as some of the other ones, and they’re just not going to get the shot?”

Collins replied, “I’m not ready to give up, but I think some of those people are still potentially interested but have been misled by false information. I’m sympathetic with them, although I’m not sympathetic with the people spreading around the false information — shame on them. But I do think if we can continue to get that evidence out there, to remind the people who are dying now are virtually unvaccinated, and you don’t want to be one of those. Also, to encourage people to think about the fact, this is not just about you. If you’re the unvaccinated person getting sick, you’re spreading it to others who may be quite vulnerable. You could be responsible for other people getting very sick or even dying. You don’t want to do that. You want to love your neighbor, and here’s a chance. It’s not too late.”
 

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Sidney Powell sues Defense Department over vaccine mandate

The lawsuit represents 16 active service members and outlines their “right to refuse” the vaccine.

Updated: October 8, 2021 - 3:54pm

Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell announced Wednesday that she is suing the Defense Department in regards to their vaccine mandate.

According to The Hill, Powell is representing the Texas-based group “Defending the Republic” in a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in regards to the military’s mandatory vaccination requirements.

The lawsuit represents 16 active service members and outlines their “right to refuse” the vaccine.

“Through the filing of this lawsuit, we make clear that these service members — those who serve their country with honor — are not the property of the U.S. government, and the Constitution does not allow them to be treated as such,” the group said on its website.

In August, Austin ordered that all military and civilian members of the Defense Department be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, following the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine.

Austin did not set a specific deadline for people to get vaccinated. Instead, he left it up to each branch of the military. Each branch has set deadlines sometime prior to the end of the year.

In the most recent version of the complaint, the plaintiffs argue that the Defense Department’s mandate is unconstitutional because it is “forcing Plaintiffs to choose between violation of their constitutional rights or facing life-altering punishments.”

Besides seeking to overturn the vaccine mandate, the lawsuit also seeks to have the FDA’s approval of Pfizer’s vaccine ruled unconstitutional.
 

TammyinWI

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As Deaths and Injuries to Teens Increase After COVID-19 Shots Pfizer Asks FDA for Emergency Authorization to Inject 5 to 11-Year-Olds

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News


It was announced today that Pfizer has now petitioned the FDA in the United States to give them emergency use authorization to begin injecting the COVID-19 shots into children between the ages of 5 and 11.

FiercePharma reports that while there is “significant resistance by parents to vaccinate their children,” Pfizer went ahead and requested permission to start injecting children between the ages of 5 and 11.

This will broaden their market in the U.S. to another 28 million people who will now be able to get the shots, all children.

Pfizer and BioNTech have asked the FDA to authorize their vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, the companies revealed on Thursday.
An FDA advisory committee has scheduled a meeting on Oct. 26 to discuss authorization. The submission potentially sets up the vaccine for emergency use approval late October or early November, but the companies may face a tough sell trying to convince parents that the shot is safe. (Source.)
Pfizer is undoubtedly counting on support from people like California Governor Newsom, who just decreed that all children in public and private schools will need to be injected with COVID-19 shots to get an education.

I wonder how much money Pfizer is spending to get government officials mandating their shots to children as a condition for receiving an education?

If you are a parent and you allow your children to be injected with the experimental COVID-19 shots, you and you alone will be responsible before God for their injuries and/or deaths.

Ignorance of the risks is no excuse, and neither is rolling the dice on their lives just because it is too inconvenient for you to keep your children home and educate them yourselves.

As we have previously reported here at Health Impact News, using the government’s own data on adverse reactions to the COVID-19 shots, teens are 50x more likely to develop heart disease, and teenagers have 7.75 X more deaths, 15 X more disabilities, 47 X more ER visits, and 46 X more hospitalizations than all other FDA-approved vaccines COMBINED that these teenagers are receiving. (Source.)

I have produced this video report of teenagers and young people who have died or suffered crippling injuries after being injected with a COVID-19 shot, including testimonies from grieving parents who deeply regret their choice to allow their child to receive one of these shots.

This is on both our Bitchute and Rumble channels.

(videos at links)

 

"Proceed With Caution At Your Own Peril" - Merck's COVID 'Super Drug' Poses Serious Health Risks, Scientists Warn

FRIDAY, OCT 08, 2021 - 09:56 AM

As it turns out, all the scientists and doctors who insisted that Merck's "revolutionary" COVID drug molnupiravir is extremely safe weren't faithfully adhering to "the science" after all. Because according to a report published Thursday by Barron's, some scientists are worried that the drug - which purportedly cut hospitalizations in half during a study that was cut short - could cause cancer or birth defects.

So much for having a "strong safety profile," as Dr. Scott Gottlieb claimed in an interview on the day Merck first publicized the research.


It's perfectly understandable why Merck might choose to play down this safety risk: assuming it's approved, the drug is widely expected to be one of "the most lucrative drugs ever" - which is one reason why Merck's shares soared into double-digit territory after the announcement.

As we reported earlier this week, Merck and its "partner" Ridgeback Biotherapeutics will profit immensely by charging customers up to 40x what it costs to make the drug, which Ridgeback originally licensed from Emory University for an "undisclosed sum". The drug was developed with funding from the federal government.

According to Barron's, some scientists who have studied the drug believe that its method of suppressing the virus could potentially run amok within the body.




In particular, Raymond Schinazi, a professor of pediatrics and the director of biochemical pharmacology at Emory who studied the drug while it was being developed, and published a number of papers on NHC, the compound that's the active ingredient in the drug. He published a paper that showed the drug can produce a reaction like the one described above, and insisted it shouldn't be given to young people - especially pregnant women - without more data.

Barron's even shared a paper published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in May by Schinazi and scientists at the University of North Carolina which reported that NHC can cause mutations in animal cell cultures in a lab test designed to detect such mutations - something Merck claims it has tested for. The paper's authors concluded that the risks for molnupiravir "may not be zero".

Merck told Barron's that it has run "extensive tests" on animals which it says show that this shouldn't be an issue. "The totality of the data from these studies indicates that molnupiravir is not mutagenic or genotoxic in in-vivo mammalian systems," a Merck spokesman said.

Still, scientists and doctors who have studied NHC say that Merck needs to "be careful," and it's not just Schinazi warning about the drug's potential risks.

Dr. Shuntai Zhou, a scientist at the Swanstrom Lab at UNC, said "there is a concern that this will cause long-term mutation effects, even cancer."

Merck hasn't yet released any data from its animal studies, but the scientists believe that it would take long-term studies to show that the drug is truly totally safe.


Analysts are already warning that these questions about the drug's safety suggest the reaction in Merck's shares was a little "overblown", to say the least.

Investors apparently were so eager for a new "pandemic panacea" (now that the mRNA jabs have proven to be much less effective than advertised) that they didn't ask too many questions about safety, or even question the paucity of data.

One analyst for SVB Leerink Dr. Geoffrey Porges described investors' reaction from Friday as "wishful thinking".

Even once the FDA authorizes the drug, Dr. Porges believes it will come with strict limitations on who can and can't use it. "I think it is effectively going to be a controlled substance", Dr. Porges said, adding that the risks to pregnant women, or women who may soon become pregnant, could present thorny problems for the FDA's advisory committee reviewing the drug.

Given that the safety risks of the drug seem well-documented already, Wall Street's gushing about the drug's prospects - "it really is THAT good", one analyst insisted - seems like an idiotic blunder in retrospect. The product of what one might call "magical thinking".
We already have at least one extremely safe and far more effective drug. 100x cheaper as well.
 

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Biden: The Vaccinated Are "Protected" From COVID, "Cannot Spread It To You"

Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date October 7, 2021

Video on website 2:20 min

President Joe Biden defended mandates from industries such as healthcare providers and the military to have employees and service members vaccinated in a speech on Thursday. Biden said it is a safety precaution because those who have been vaccinated "cannot spread it to you."

"We're requiring active duty military to be vaccinated. We’re making sure healthcare workers are vaccinated, because if you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have the certainty that the pro -- the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you," Biden claimed.
BIDEN: We still had more than a quarter of people in the United States who were eligible for vaccinations but didn’t get the shot.

And we know there is no other way to beat the pandemic than to get the vast majority of Americans vaccinated. It’s as simple as that.

And to — to spread to our children, to spread throughout society and at our hospitals the risk of other variants — it’s all dangerous and obvious, but we’re still not there.

We have to beat this thing. So, while I didn’t race to do it right away, that’s why I’ve had to move toward requirements that everyone get vaccinated or I had the authority to do that. That wasn’t my first instinct.

My administration is now requiring federal workers to be vaccinated. We’ve also required federal contractors to be vaccinated. If you have a contract with the federal government, working for the federal government, you have to be vaccinated.

We’re requiring active duty military to be vaccinated. We’re making sure healthcare workers are vaccinated, because if you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have the certainty that the pro- — the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you.
 

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[Long article continued on website]

The WEF and the Pandemic \

The WEF and the Pandemic
WEF founder Klaus Schwab in 2014 (Alamy)

Published: October 6, 2021 (upd.)

How is the Davos World Economic Forum involved in the coronavirus pandemic?

The Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) is a premier forum for governments, global corporations and international entrepreneurs. Founded in 1971 by engineer and economist Klaus Schwab, the WEF describes its mission as “shaping global, regional and industry agendas” and “improving the state of the world”.

According to its website, “moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.”

The WEF has been involved in the coronavirus pandemic in several ways.

First, the WEF was, together with the Gates Foundation, a sponsor of the prescient “Event 201” coronavirus pandemic simulation exercise, held in New York City on October 18, 2019 – the same day as the opening of the Wuhan Military World Games, seen by some as “ground zero” of the global pandemic.

China itself has argued that US military athletes may have brought the virus to Wuhan.

Second, the WEF has been a leading proponent of digital biometric identity systems, arguing that they will make societies and industries more efficient, more productive and more secure. In July 2019, the WEF started a project to “shape the future of travel with biometric-enabled digital traveler identity management”.

In addition, the WEF collaborates with the ID2020 alliance, which is funded by the Gates and Rockefeller foundations and runs a program to “provide digital ID with vaccines”. In particular, ID2020 sees the vaccination of children as “an entry point for digital identity.”

Third, WEF founder Klaus Schwab is the author of the book COVID-19: The Great Reset, published in July 2020, which argues that the coronavirus pandemic can and should be used for an “economic, societal, geopolitical, environmental and technological reset”, including, in particular, advancing global governance, accelerating digital transformation, and tackling climate change.

Finally, the WEF has been running, since 1993, a program called “Global Leaders for Tomorrow”, rebranded, in 2004, as “Young Global Leaders”. This program aims at identifying, selecting and promoting future global leaders in both business and politics. Indeed, quite a few “Young Global Leaders” have later managed to become Presidents, Prime Ministers, or CEOs (see below).

During the coronavirus pandemic, several WEF Global Leaders and Global Shapers (a junior program of the Global Leaders) have played prominent roles, typically promoting zero-covid strategies, lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates. This may have been a (largely failed) attempt to protect public health and the economy, or it may have been an attempt to advance the global transformation agenda outlined above, or perhaps both.

In this regard, some notable Young Leaders include Jeffrey Zients (US White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator), Stéphane Bancel (CEO of Moderna), Jeremy Howard (founder of influential lobby group “Masks for All”), Leana Wen (zero-covid CNN medical analyst), Eric Feigl-Ding (zero-covid Twitter personality), Gavin Newsom (Governor of California, selected in 2005), Devi Sridhar (British zero-covid professor), Jacinda Ardern (Prime Minister of New Zealand), French President Emanuel Macron (selected one year prior to his election in 2017), Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (selected back in 1993), and German Health Minister Jens Spahn.

To get a full overview of their members, see Global Leaders for Tomorrow and Young Global Leaders on WikiSpooks (a Wiki focusing on covert power structures) as well as the official Young Global Leaders website. For an overview of some notable members in politics and the media, see below.

In conclusion, the Davos World Economic Forum has indeed been involved in the strategic management of the coronavirus pandemic, with a major emphasis on using the pandemic as a catalyst for digital transformation and the global introduction of digital identity systems.

Digital Identity: The 2018 vision of the World Economic Forum


Digital Identity: The vision of the World Economic Forum (WEF, 2018)

WEF “Young Global Leaders”

An overview of some WEF Young Global Leaders (2005-2021) and Global Leaders for Tomorrow (1993-2003) in politics and the media. The list is not exhaustive.

Sources: Global Leaders for Tomorrow and Young Global Leaders on WikiSpooks.
United States

Politics and Policy
Jeffrey Zients (White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator since 2021, selected in 2003), Jeremy Howard (co-founder of lobby group “masks for all”, selected in 2013), California Governor Gavin Newsom (selected in 2005), Peter Buttigieg (selected in 2019, candidate for US President in 2020, US secretary of transportation since 2021), Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Foundation board member), Huma Abedin (Hillary Clinton aide, selected in 2012), Nikki Haley (US ambassador to the UN, 2017-2018), Samantha Power (US ambassador to the UN, 2013-2017, USAID Administrator since 2021), Ian Bremmer (founder of Eurasia Group), Bill Browder (initiator of the Magnitsky Act), Jonathan Soros (son of George Soros), Kenneth Roth (director of “Human Rights Watch” since 1993), Paul Krugman (economist, selected in 1995), Lawrence Summers (former World Bank Chief Economist, former US Treasury Secretary, former Harvard University President, selected in 1993), Alicia Garza (co-founder of Black Lives Matter, selected in 2020), Stéphane Bancel (Moderna CEO).

Media
CNN medical analyst Leana Wen (selected in 2018), CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Covid Twitter personality Eric Feigl-Ding (a ‘WEF Global Shaper‘ since 2013), Andrew Ross Sorkin (New York Times financial columnist), Thomas Friedman (New York Times columnist, selected in 1995), George Stephanopoulos (ABC News, 1993), Lachlan Murdoch (CEO of Fox Corporation).

Technology and Social Media
Microsoft founder Bill Gates (1993), former Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer (2000-2014, selected in 1995), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (1998), Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (2002/2005), former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (2001-2011, selected in 1997), Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales (2007), PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel (2007), eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar (1999), Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (2009), Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (2007).

[continued on website: The WEF and the Pandemic ]

Cross posted on the Great Reset thread for archival purposes
 

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CANADIAN NEWS Oct 8, 2021 10:08 AM EST
Ontario town requires full vaccination to get married

Those making "any new appointments for marriage licenses and ceremonies" will be required to show proof of full vaccination prior to make an appointment.
Ontario town requires full vaccination to get married


Hannah NightingaleWashington DC

October 8, 2021 10:08 AM1 Mins Reading

If you're looking to get married in the town of Oakville, Ontario, you now have to show proof of full vaccination in order to obtain a marriage license.

As part of Oakville's vaccine requirements that started on September 22, those making "any new appointments for marriage licenses and ceremonies" will be required to show proof of full vaccination prior to make an appointment.

The town does note though that "appointments for marriage licenses and ceremonies that have already been pre-booked [prior to September 22] do not require proof of full vaccination

"The town's requirements exceed the province's proof of vaccination regulations in an effort to provide added protection to our community and town staff from COVID-19," the town states.

In Ontario, showing proof of full vaccination to access many locations began on September 22.

Full vaccination is required to enter restaurants, gyms, nightclubs, sporting events, concerts, casinos, strip clubs, and more.

Some exemptions are given, like for people entering an area to use the washroom, contractors entering a building for work purposes, and for accessing essential services.
 

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Saved, to glorify God.
That's how Biden gets his "good" unemployment numbers, they don't include as unemployed the hundreds of thousands people who lost their jobs due to the Vaccine mandate.
 

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Companies Mandating COVID Vax Are Owned By Same Company That Owns Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J

By Jon Fleetwood 5 hours ago

Most major companies requiring vaccines for workers are owned by BlackRock Inc., which in turn owns the pharmaceutical companies producing Covid-19 vaccines.

QUICK FACTS:

  • Anthem, Cisco, Citigroup, CVS Health, Delta Airlines, Facebook, Ford, Goldman Sachs, Google, Jefferies, Lyft, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, NBCUniversal (Comcast), Netflix, The New York Times, Salesforce, T.J. Maxx, Twitter, Tyson Foods, Uber, United Airlines, ViacomCBS, Walgreens, Disney, Walmart, and The Washington Post (Graham Holdings) have mandated vaccination for some or all of their employees, according to NBC News.
  • AT&T, Bank of America, Capital One, Cardinal Health, Centene Corp, Chevron, CNN (Warner Media, AT&T), Eli Lilly, Hess, Kraft Heinz, Royal Bank of Canada, and TD Bank have also required vaccinations for workers, Fortune reports.
  • All of these companies are owned by BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, holding nearly $10 trillion in assets. BlackRock’s technology platform, Aladdin, oversees at least $21.6 trillion in assets.
  • But BlackRock also owns Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson, the top COVID vaccine manufacurers.
  • In other words, the same company who owns major shares in companies that are requiring employees to receive the Covid-19 vaccine also owns major shares in those Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers.
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Screenshots from holdingschannel.com taken October 8, 2021COVID VAX MANUFACTURERS MAKE $BILLIONS:
  • Pfizer “is on track to book sales this year of $40 billion or more from Covid-19 shots, equivalent to the company’s total revenue last year,” notes The Times.
  • Moderna’s value “has soared from $6.5 billion to more than $180 billion, making its fortysomething French chief executive, Stéphane Bancel, a billionaire in the process,” also according to the Times. Moderna “expects to generate $20 billion from its vaccine sales in 2021.”

A CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
  • Scholarly journals have pointed out the “misalignment between the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and those of public health.” These journals warn about a company’s untoward “[o]bligation to shareholders overriding public health considerations.”
  • Harvard Business Review acknowledges, “It’s pretty much a given in modern capitalism that [corporation] managers’ top priority is maximizing value for shareholders,” and that shareholders—like BlackRock—”own the corporation and, by virtue of that, have the ultimate authority over its business.”
  • In this case, it is plausible that companies today who are synchronistically mandating their employees and patrons receive Covid-19 vaccinations are doing so not primarily for the good of public health but in order to maximize BlackRock’s profits.
BACKGROUND:
  • Yesterday, Joe Biden said more U.S. businesses should obligate workers to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, calling the move vital to ending the pandemic and sustaining the economy, Reuters reports.
  • Several BlackRock officials—Brian Deese, Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, Michael Pyle—serve on the Biden administration.
  • The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) shows 15,937 deaths from the Covid-19 vaccine as of September 24, 2021. However, because a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) report conducted by Harvard doctors reveals only “1% of vaccine adverse events are reported” to VAERS, a more accurate number of people who have been killed by COVID vaccines is 1,593,700.
  • BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink promotes globalism and is a board trustee member of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organization promoting the “Great Reset” which seeks to end free-market capitalism and install “stakeholder capitalism” worldwide after which world populations will “own nothing. And you’ll be happy.” The Transnational Institute characterizes the WEF’s actions as “a silent global coup d’etat” to capture governance away from individual countires. BlackRock is an official partner of the WEF.
  • Bill Gates, another official partner at the WEF, has been criticized for claiming during a “TED Talk” presentation that vaccines can help lower the world population, i.e., cause depopulation. “First, we’ve got population,” Gates said during the talk. “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent. But there, we see an increase of about 1.3.” Watch Gates make the claim below.
Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates (starts at the spot that gives the gory details)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I&t=257s


 

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Twitter Censors Thread From Entrepreneur Who Regrets Taking the Vaccine After Serious Side Effects

By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published October 9, 2021 at 8:00am
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Twitter has censored a thread in which Michael Robison explained that he regretted trading “my solid health, for a temporary freedom to travel and freedom from being criticized.”


Robison — an investor, entrepreneur and the founder of SPARTN Monkey Rescue — had posted his personal story about his health declining after taking the COVID vaccine and warned people to “THINK, STUDY & BE AWARE” before getting it themselves.

“I am not anti-vaccine… but I will caution…. Proceed with care!!! Police cars revolving light I am now fighting a T-Cell Lymphoma as a result of the degraded MRNA Protein Spike via dendritic reaction, called by Pfizer a waning immunity! It is not truly a safe precaution for #COVID19,” Robison wrote.

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Robison continued on to say “the CDC, Pfizer, Moderna and J&J know that the instability of IVT use of MRNA is accompanied by the bodies clearing of the Inert 19 Protein Spike by the immune system. When it leaves the cell structure compromised after insertion & clearing…. It results in autoimmune issues….”

“One such issue is the risk and causation of severe results such as Leukemia and T-Cell Lymphoma. Another common long term effect is autoimmune disorders that impact the skin…. And require life long maintenance and treatment…” the thread continued. “All such issues and cases have been consistently reported to VAERS which is co-managed by the CDC & FDA…. But no attention or research has been prioritized or funded for this repository of information!”

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“My caution is this…. Be aware. As late as 2018 all of the groups involved were still convinced that MRNA was still far too unstable for use in vaccine distribution. This vaccine is the largest form of a clinical trial in the history of mankind,” Robison wrote.

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He concluded by saying, “my caution is this…. Be aware. As late as 2018 all of the groups involved were still convinced that MRNA was still far too unstable for use in vaccine distribution. This vaccine is the largest form of a clinical trial in the history of mankind.”

Soon, the first post of the thread had amassed over 100 retweets — and was noticed by the censors.

First, Twitter slapped on warning on the tweet claiming that it is “misleading” because health officials say that the vaccines are safe for “most people.” They also took away the ability to like, comment or share it.

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Next, the platform made it so that if you clicked on the first tweet, the ones below it no longer appeared.

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Speaking to the Gateway Pundit, Robison said that “this stark, swift and harsh censorship by Twitter is a reminder that the ‘facts’ you read on any social media platform are not unbiased or unfiltered. Rather it is dictated by narratives that fit the political or personal gain of those in charge of multi-billion dollar platforms to which we have surrendered our lives.”

“It’s good to be reminded that social media is nothing more than a highlight reel of life, managed by agendas, driven by money!” Robison continued.

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You can follow Robison (and his adorable monkeys) on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook — for now, anyways.

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