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Verizon just issued mandatory vax mandate following US Federal government announced "executive order" by December 8th. This does not include the union employees.

9:26 AM · Oct 14, 2021·Twitter for Android
 

Sleeping Cobra

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Wow! Think that many? From another forum:

There's going to end up being 100 million unemployed in this country at once because of these damn mandates. What then?
 

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Verizon requires Covid vaccines for non-union employees

by Linda Hardesty | Oct 14, 2021 4:44pm

Verizon Chief Administrative, Legal & Public Policy Officer Craig Silliman posted a notice for Verizon employees today regarding the company’s Covid policies. He said that beginning December 8, non-union Verizon employees in the U.S. must provide proof that they are fully vaccinated regardless of where they work or how often they come into a Verizon work location.

The only non-union employees excluded from these requirements are those designated as “home-based” within the Verizon Consumer Group and employees outside of the U.S.

“At the moment, this does not apply to our union-represented employees as we are in discussion with the unions,” said Silliman...

 

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Rumble — Here’s a crowdsourced documentary featuring many U.S. veterans and newly discharged soldiers who are now reporting for duty to defend our country. This video was released on September 22. Here's the statement that we posted with it:

U.S. Veterans Preparing For War

The Biden administration is denying VA healthcare to all non-vaxxed veterans.

The tactical fascist vaxx purge of the U.S. military has now happening.

Make no mistake, it is the most devastating blow to military readiness in the history of the United States, and it is a blatant act of war against the American people.

Hundreds of thousands of newly discharged U.S. military service members, police, doctors and nurses are now joining forces with veterans to defend our country against this global fascist takeover attempt.

They are presently forming a decentralized asymmetric defense of our homeland.

Here’s a brief statement to give you a little taste of what is featured in this courageous and awe-inspiring video:

“This is the land of the free.

We will not allow forced injections, segregation or an authoritarian surveillance and control grid passport system.

We have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies.

We will do everything in our power to keep the peace. We, the combat veterans and Special Forces veterans of America, know the horrors of war all too well.

We will be strategic, disciplined and surgical.

We know who the leading perpetrators are, and if they do not stand down, cease and desist, if they keep trying to oppress our people and enslave our nation, if they keep striping away our freedom and rights, those fascist enemy combatants will be held personally accountable.

Do you think we do not know what is going on?

You released a bio-weapon.

Then you systemically shutdown life-saving treatments leading to millions of unnecessary deaths.

You strategically censored doctors, nurses, medical experts, scientists, journalists, Intel Community members and soldiers.

Now you are injecting millions of people with a weaponized spike protein in an immune system degrading, gene-altering nanotech vax.

You have committed Crimes Against Humanity on a global scale.

Your power-addicted pathological shortsighted greed has destroyed our economy and severally inhibited people’s abilities to provide for their families.

You have rigged our political and economic system, burying people in inescapable debt.

You have captured and corrupted both of our political parties and the government agencies that are supposed to protect the civilian population from predatory global interests.

You have captured and corrupted our information and communication systems.

You are trying to cut off our ability to get healthcare and move freely throughout our communities.

You are contaminating our water supply and now you are systematically destroying our food supply, which you have been systemically poisoning for years as standard operating procedure.

Your long list of systemic abuses and usurpations amount to absolute Despotism.

Your wickedly evil corruption is now infecting all aspects of our lives.

We Have Had Enough!

The Line Has Been Drawn.
 

marsh

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Project Veritas: Pfizer Scientist Admits Covid Antibodies Transfer During Pregnancy “Through the Umbilical Cord” (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published October 15, 2021 at 5:56pm
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Project Veritas on Friday released undercover video of a Pfizer scientist admitting natural Covid antibodies transfer during pregnancy through the umbilical cord.
Nick Karl, a scientist at Pfizer said of pregnant women: “it’s either you get antibodies naturally or vaccinated you pass it through.”

Meanwhile, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has completely ignored natural immunity and continues to push the Covid vaccine on pregnant and breastfeeding women.

VIDEO:

View: https://youtu.be/aW3fNGiJDBk
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In the last few weeks Project Veritas has released four under cover videos exposing the truth about Covid vaccines.
  • Part One: HHS whistleblower goes public with secret recordings: ‘Govt doesn’t want to show the vaccine is full of sh*t’
  • Part Two: FDA on under cover video: ‘Blow dart African American’ and wants ‘Nazi Germany registry for unvaccinated’
  • Part Three: Johnson & Johnson: ‘Kids shouldn’t get the f*cking vaccine’ because of ‘unknown repercussions’
  • Part Four: Pfizer scientists admitted natural immunity may be better than the Covid vaccine
 

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French Senate (overwhelmingly) rejects mandatory Vaccination… Vote was 262 to 64…
Posted by Kane on October 15, 2021 10:25 pm

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A small but significant victory was achieved Wednesday when the French Senate voted against a socialist senator’s proposal to make the COVID experimental vaccine mandatory for all citizens living in France. Non-compliance would trigger a fine of 135 euro (about $150 USD), and 1,500 euro for re-offenders.

The rejection of the draft law presented by Senator Patrick Kanner together with several dozen other socialist members of France’s upper chamber did not come as a complete surprise. One week earlier, the Senate’s social affairs commission had refused to adopt the proposition.

But Wednesday’s public vote, with 80 percent against making the injection compulsory for as many age groups as France’s Higher Health Authority would deem convenient, was a slap in the face to those who are already coercing people into getting the jab in order to enjoy the ordinary freedoms of life or to keep their jobs.

Only 64 senators voted for the bill and 262 voted against.
 

marsh

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moderna boosters at the FDA
is the romance of "big covid" and federal regulators starting to sour?

moderna is looking to get “booster shots” for their covid vaccine approved by the FDA.

so far, it’s not going terribly well. medpage today (a wonky and non partisan medical rag) was not pulling punches. (HERE) “meh” is a technical term of art in medicine, but i suspect you get the drift.



this “trial” was poorly designed, poorly run, rigged in 10 different ways to show efficacy, and it STILL DIDN’T WORK.

it’s full of lots of nasty little tricks.

let’s take it from the top:
first, this is a biomarker study. it measured antibody levels not a clinical outcome. so that’s a bit of a reach right from the start. it’s an assumptive correlation and one that has not been defined, merely suggested.



second, the inclusion criteria were rigged. they skewed young and healthy vs even the comparator group used to judge antibody levels which was, itself, already skewed young and healthy.

“Overall, 149 adults received the two-dose 100 μg series, which is the dose authorized under EUA, plus the booster dose and were evaluated for immunogenicity. They were a mean age of 53, about three-quarters were between ages 18-65, and 60% were women. Nearly all (95%) were white, and 14% had obesity. Median interval between completion of the primary series and the booster dose was about 7 months.”
these are exactly the low risk folks who will have fewer bad reactions and stronger immune (antibody) reactions.

all the actual high risk folks to whom such boosters would be preferentially offered and whose needs such boosters are purported to serve were excluded.
“FDA staff noted adults with a history of chronic cardiovascular disease, chronic pulmonary disease, HIV, diabetes, and a history of hypertension were excluded from participating in study P201.”
this is like running a drug trial for an obesity drug in only triathletes.
it gets worse.

the rate of covid infection in the trial population was MASSIVE.

this, of course IS a clinical outcome. and whoo doggie does it not align with the assumptive claims of higher antibodies being protective.
“Interestingly, there were 38 COVID-19 cases of 171 booster recipients reported during the Delta surge in study P201.”
guys, that’s a 22% infection rate. i don’t know what population baseline was, but have you seen ANYPLACE where 22% in a fairly healthy group of folks was common? i have not.

this looks terrible.

it looks like our old friend the “immunosuppression worry window” rearing its head.

they they play a scummy trick to try to hide it:
“Moderna performed a post hoc analysis of incidence of SARS-CoV-2 among participants originally randomized to Moderna vaccine (median 13 months post-dose 2) and the participants randomized to placebo and crossed over to Moderna (median 7.9 months, post-dose 2). The analysis showed 77.1 cases per 1,000 person-years versus 49.0 cases per person-years, respectively. However, this analysis was not independently verified by the FDA.”
there’s a meaningful sleight of hand here. it LOOKS like they are compensating for the difference in time in the cohorts by reporting cases per person year. but that’s only half the issue. what was going on DURING that time is the rest. covid’s seasonal expression seems to be around 3-4 months in most places. where it fell and what it was averaged with matters.

example:

imagine new york city in feb of 2020. i take 2 groups of people. one gets nothing. the other gets red sox hats to wear. (GO SAWX!)

we follow the bareheaded group for 8 months. we follow the stylishly hatted group for 13. then we average covid per person year. no hats gets the surge and not much low period to average with. hats get the same but an extra 5 months of low covid time to average in.

“look, red sox hats stop covid!” (told ya, new york)
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this is a crazy stunt to try to pull with the FDA and deeply dishonest data handling. it is not normalized at all (nor can it be given temporal divergence). you need to match the period and region so you match the prevalence.

everything else is assumptive or hand waving.

ugh.

there’s more.

despite using a “half dose” of 50μg vs 100 for dose 1 and 2:
“FDA staff noted a higher rate of lymphadenopathy among adults ages 18-64 after the booster dose versus the primary series (24.8% vs 11.6%, respectively), but no evidence of "increased frequency or severity of local or systemic reactions after the booster dose, they said. Rates of lymphadenopathy were also significantly higher among adults ages 18-64 than adults ages 65 and up (24.8% vs 5.3%). Fatigue and headache were the most common unsolicited adverse events (AEs)."
so you get the same level of adverse events as before despite half the dose. you get FAR more folks with lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes) a sign of immune activation/stress which by itself makes me wonder about this “no additional AE’s".”

this led me to peruse (and i’m still working on it) the 66 page data submission to the FDA:



a fair few seem to be arguing about this “acceptable safety profile.”

many nordics have suspended moderna use among the young and healthy.

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(UPDATED) Iceland joins Finland, Sweden and Denmark in pausing or limiting Moderna due to increased heart issues such as myocarditis and pericarditis. Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns


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this trial was MUCH too small to catch AE’s like this.
but it still captured many.

~60% got headaches and fatigue.



about half got muscle and joint aches. 15% got nausea. nearly 40% got chills.



this is a lot of people feeling crappy. but, as ever, the real fun is in the UN-solicited AE’s, not the ones they asked everyone about.

28% of those getting the full 100μg needed medical attention. well no wonder they dropped dose to 50… (also note that it’s 50 that claimed parity to prior, so 100 must have been considerably worse, raising issues about interaction.)

but even then, it’s over 10%. that’s worse than covid in a healthy group like this.

they claim most were “not related to treatment” but this has been a huge fudge in all these studies and i simply do not believe them. the variance is too wide AND it scales heavily with dosage in both arms.

if it’s not related to vaccination, why does a higher dose of vaccination affect it so much?

pull my other paw. it plays jingle bells.



a key thought: if this vaccine is broadly immunosuppressive for a period, whether through TLR deactivation or neutropenia or whatever, you could get all kinds of infections and diseases that look unrelated but are really the result of you being left wide open to infection. if you get an autoimmune response, this too looks unrelated. mRNA vaccines are notorious for triggering autoimmune issues in animals.

it looks to me like this is RJR claiming you cannot prove that cancer was from smoking and defining AE’s out of existence because they are second order effects. (caused by immune suppression or over-activation, not the actual vaccine)

so this trial looked rigged to show efficacy and hide adverse events.

and the capper is: they STILL missed the endpoint.

they claim this:



but the FDA is saying this:
“While "immunobridging analyses against the D614G strain met the pre-specified success criteria for the [geometric mean titers] ratio," FDA staff added that in seroresponse rates after the booster dose compared to dose 2, "the pre-specified success criterion was not met," as the difference in seroresponse rate was -10.5%, and the lower limit of the 95% CI had a criteria of less than -10%”
and, amazingly, seeming to remember that you must specify end points BEFORE a trial and then hit them, not fish around for ones that made it look like your drug worked on a post facto basis and p-hack your way to approval.

it’s a simple system. you say “this is what success looks like. this is how we will test it.” the FDA signs off on your protocol (study design) and your outcomes (endpoints) you file the trial on clintrials and then you do the study.

success state is pre-defined. and the FDA is supposed to hold you to it (and does in most cases).

goodness, might they start actually doing their jobs and running a square game again?

we need to be pro science and pro data, not pro “do something because i’m panicked” and “pharma as talismanic wubbie.”

assessing the data on vaccine does not make you anti-vaxx any more than assessing the data on a bad chemotherapy trail makes you anti-medicine or pro cancer.

it’s, quite literally, what science is. arguing “vaccines are good, this is a vaccine, ergo, it’s good” is just rhetoric by false equivalence.

LOTS of vaccines fail clinical trials. that’s a GOOD thing. it’s why most are so safe.

the FDA was once a gold standard kind of organization. perhaps they are starting to remember themselves.

all in all, this romance of big covid and federal regulators looks to be a bit on the rocks.

it’s long past time.

this has not been working.
 

marsh

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are leaky vaccines driving delta variant evolution and making it more deadly?

assessing the england data on variants and vaccines. the pieces are coming together.

one of the great fears in any vaccination campaign is that the vaccine can wind up becoming the driver viral evolution and making the virus more dangerous. this is a special concern around imperfect (so called “leaky”) vaccines that are non-sterilizing. such vaccines do not stop spread or contagion of the virus. this means the virus will have lots of chances to replicate.

when you combine this with a vaccine that reduces severity of cases and prevents deaths in the vaccinated, it’s a bit of a perfect storm. you get full spread but break the evolutionary gradient towards mildness that viruses tend to follow (and that protects humanity from them).

all a virus wants is to replicate. “make a copy of me and pass it on.” that’s the biological imperative of the selfish gene. excel at it, you win. fail, you disappear. simple as that.

killing or harming the host is maladaptive to viral spread. it’s like burning down your own house with your car in the garage. now you have nowhere to live and no way to get around. that’s not a recipe for reproductive fitness.

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this is a property of the world, not of the viruses themselves. so it applies to all of them, evolved and lab hotwired alike.

so viruses evolve to become less, not more virulent. they do not want to kill you.

ideally, they’d like to help you. figure out how to be a useful symbiote, and you get a huge boost in propagation. (mitochondria were probably bacteria that were so useful, all our cells incorporated them.) so seeing case fatality rate (CFR) rise in a variant of a virus is like watching water flow uphill. it’s not supposed to do that and when it does, you need to suspect some external force acting on it.
and we’re seeing water flow uphill here.

i started with the england variants of concern (VoC) data. it’s the best quality and the best broken out. (the US data is just plain broken. it’s being deliberately scrubbed to prevent analysis like this.) because this data is always aggregated from feb to current period, it does not provide good temporal snapshots, but this can be fixed by subtracting the penultimate report from the current one etc.

you subtract report 22’s totals from report 23 and you get just what happened in the last 2 weeks (it used to be a weekly report, now it’s bi-weekly)

what we see is not what one would expect from a virus. none of the other variants (pre vaccine) worked like this. none saw CFR rise like this. and no jump from major variant to variant saw a statistically significant rise in deadliness.

this IS however what one would expect if a virus were undergoing vaccine mediated evolution (as mareks disease did in chickens) and selecting for hotter strains because vaccinated people can carry and spread them and not die.

experienced CFR on delta is nearly 7X what it was in the beginning of june and has been galloping since the middle of july.

(note that pretty much all this data has a large artifact in it from the 21 june report (VoC 17). there was a “data-dump” in it where they caught up on a bolus of past data. it’s an artifact, not a signal. best to ignore it. i suspect the curve from mid june to mid july was smooth.)


put simply: this is not good.

delta is rapidly approaching alpha (1.1%) in terms of CFR whereas it used to be 90% lower. (it also means that the reports on delta CFR in these VoC updates are FAR too low because they are a blend of all cases and deaths back to feb, so they are averaging in the low CFR past and are slow to respond to current dynamics)
this is consistent with, but not proof of vaccines mediated evolution. to get there, we need to do better.

so now we need to start ruling things out and validating this claim to see if it’s meaningful.

first, it’s not a simpson’s paradox in age data. CFR is rising in over and under 50’s.

it’s not mix shift alone. CFR in over 50’s is up 2.5X. it’s up 4-7X in under 50’s.

we’re at about a 3X rise in CFR overall in delta since the summer once we adjust for shifts in age. not as worrying as 7, but still worrying.



and the deaths are real. it’s not made up counting. this can be clearly seen when we comp CFR to the euro-momo Z scores (thoughtfully provided by frequent gato collaborator ben m at USmortality.com. z score is just a measure of deviation from expected all cause deaths. (explained HERE)
alignment is quite strong.



z score was trending negative and spiked to high levels just as CFR really started to ramp up.

z score for the year can be seen here. starting in wk 22 (may 31) (numbers after the year are weeks)



and given that we know that vaccines DO work to stop deaths in the UK (seemingly in the 50-60% range) it’s even more unexpected that CFR would be rising like this. but it is and the rise in the vaxx rate is not hampering it.

(the precise alignment here is more chart crime than signal, so i’d caution against inferring too much from it)



none of this is what one would expect. not remotely. it bucks evolution, it bucks the other variants, and it flies in the face of late stage pandemic dynamics like increase in acquired immunity (which IS sterilizing), depletion of high risk cohorts, improvements in treatment, etc. all these should be pushing CFR down.
instead, water is flowing uphill.

the question is “why?”
the other day, i discussed ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) where antibodies wind up acting as passkeys for a virus to enter cells and also the fetchingly biblically named OAS (original antigenic sin) whereby preferential training to one antibody response leads to its use against new variants of a pathogen and thereby prevents adaptation to more effective modalities.

note that these two phenomena are by no means mutually exclusive and are actually strongly synergistic.

but are they driving this issue?

i do not not think so.
  • if they were, we’d be seeing the CFR rise in the vaccinated but not in the unvaccinated and if it were ALL antibodies, we’d be seeing the previously infected getting hit too. but they are not.
  • we’d also likely be seeing low or negative vaccine efficacy (VE) for deaths. but we aren’t. it’s clear the vaccinated are doing better.
CFR is (and has been) much better in the vaccinated than the unvaxxed in UK over 50’s (the highest risk category). trends are similar, but absolute values durably disparate.



whether and to what extent this is real vaccine efficacy vs cohort bias in a place where 90% of this demographic is vaccinated remains an open issue. it may simply be that only those with the weakest/most compromised immunes systems have not gotten the jab. but this is not really material here.'

what IS material is the fact that CFR in the unvaxxed is trending up significantly and so is CFR in the vaxxed. but we’re not seeing many cases of re-infection and almost none of those are serious. this does not look like ADE or OAS as a major driver. if it were, there’s no reason the CFR in the unvaccinated would be rising too.

what this IS consistent with is a variant heating up and getting more and more deadly because it is not checked by normal biological limitations. vaccine mediated evolution (VME) would be very bad news for us.



we can see similar in the under 50’s, though the data here is a bit of a mess as during this period, so many very low risk under 50’s (those under 18) got vaccinated that it moved a material risk profile reduction from unvaxxed to vaxxed. i suspect that is why “CFR vaxxed” dropped. it was not vaccines working, it was the vaccinated category being “salted” with large number of the lowest risk folks around. (it also means that group left the unvaxxed, so you get an effect on both)

so i view this data as much lower quality than over 50’s, but it still looks like VME, not ADE or OAS.

Part 1 of 2
 

marsh

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Part 2 of 2


this is EXACTLY what leaky vaccines did in chickens.

(read these links. THIS in particular. it’s important.)

such vaccines change the evolutionary gradient for a virus. instead of becoming less virulent/deadly, they can tend the other way because the maladaptiveness of killing the host is mitigated in the vaccinated population. this is what happened with marek’s disease in chickens.

not only is it now more lethal to them than ebola is to humans, making it one of if not THE hottest persistent disease known (killing 100% of unvaxxed birds in 10 days), but, it’s now a disease so hot that an unvaccinated chicken cannot spread it. they die too quickly. only the vaccinated birds spread the nasty strains of mareks. they’re the only ones who live long enough to shed virus.
““Previously, a hot strain was so nasty, it wiped itself out. Now, you keep its host alive with a vaccine, then it can transmit and spread in the world,” Read said. “So it’s got an evolutionary future, which it didn’t have before.”
[emphasis mine]



this is an awful lot of puzzle pieces snapping together and i think we’re really starting to see what this is a picture of.

leaky vaccines that stop severe illness and death but not spread look to be affecting the evolution of the covid 19 virus.

this is an established, predictable, and well supported risk from such vaccines.
this has become my leading hypothesis.

it also explains why we’re seeing such a large rise in deaths relative to cases and deaths and hospitalization overall in so many places. it’s the virus adapting to a stressor we put on it and becoming much more dangerous as a result.

the CFR is a function of the virus, but the virus has become a function of the leaky vaccines.

and it also means the vaccine is protecting no one. yes, it seems to have 50-60% protection against death. but what good is that against a CFR that’s up 300% or more (and rising)? everyone is worse off.



negative VE’s on spread are accelerating cases and this is multiplicative with higher CFR. this is the nightmare scenario and no one is left better off as a result.

the CFR among the high risk vaccinated groups is way up too.

everyone is harmed but the brunt is borne by the unvaccinated which perversely winds up looking like better vaccine efficacy. the very fact that vaccines made everyone worse off but spread the misery unevenly makes it look like vaccines are a good idea.

it’s just simple math. if we do something to one group that makes their death rate rise from 1 to 2 per 100 but that also makes the death rate in another group rise from 1 to 4 per 100, that looks like a VE of 50%. in reality, it’s killing 100% more vaxxed people and 300% more of the unvaxxed.

mistaking that gas pedal for the brake and pushing ever harder when you fail to slow would represent an accelerating disaster curve.
that’s the problem with relative measures that ignore absolute changes. you can hide all manner of calamity in such analyses.

it’s still, or course, possible that i’m wrong, but this is looking more and more like it has to be the answer. i can find nothing else fits the facts and the facts themselves are weird enough that “it’s just normal” does not look like a satisfying explanation either and we have enough features here that we can really start testing our puzzle pieces. this one aligns in an AWFUL lot of places.

for something this odd to happen, it takes a truly uncommon exogenous stressor.

i’m just not seeing what else it could be than vaccine mediated selection for hotter variants driving pernicious delta evolution.

so, i’m putting this out to you all to see if you can find some other explanation for what’s going on that fits these facts.

looking forward to the peer review as, honestly, i hope i’m wrong here. this is not an outcome that anyone wants. it’s the nightmare scenario both as a pandemic and as a political horror in the making as if this was an “own-goal”, what would the experts and politicians than pushed this plan not be willing to do to avoid accepting the blame?

because this is career or pharma franchise polonium, and that’s if you’re lucky.

let’s keep at this. one way or the other, we need to know.

the facts do not care about our feelings and epidemiology data is a lousy fabric from which to spin a wubbie to hide under.

we need to get at the truth.

(even if it makes us make a face like this)

 

marsh

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The Chinese Outbreak Began in Spring 2019
A look at the Internet 2.0 report on 2019 PCR equipment purchases in Hubei.


A few weeks ago, this report by a security organisation calling themselves Internet 2.0 hit the news. Its authors assemble data on procurement contracts issued for PCR testing equipment in China. Alongside an unsurprising trend of increasing reliance on polymerase chain reaction tests since 2010, they find an enormous spike in the purchase of PCR testing supplies in Hubei province beginning around May 2019.

The report has been widely discussed in the media, complete with sad, limp-wristed attempts to wave away the findings by the usual suspects:
Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said he didn’t know why purchases in Hubei province specifically had increased at the time. But he said it wasn’t so surprising because in general purchases of PCR equipment have been growing, even pre-Covid, as it has become “the methodology of choice for pathogen detection.”
Adalja, whose work focuses on emerging infectious disease and pandemic preparedness, said the data wasn’t specific enough to sway the conversation on Covid’s origins. “I don’t think it adds anything plus or minus,” he said. “It’s not enough.”
The Center for Health Security is the same operation that partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October 2019 to bring you the bizarrely prophetic Event 201, by the way. You can’t trust anything these people say.

In fact the Internet 2.0 report goes well beyond demonstrating a simple surge in purchasing, with highly intriguing information about which agencies were buying the tests and when. Consider this year-on-year overview of PCR equipment procurement contracts in Hubei, broken down by “Use Requirement,” or purchasing agency:



The volume of money spent on PCR supplies in Hubei increased dramatically in 2019, but that’s not even half the story. Look at the sudden, tectonic shift in the organisations involved. In earlier years, the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine had been bit players, but in 2019 both began spending some of the largest sums on PCR testing in the province, dwarfing hospital spending for the first time. This would be consistent with a massive disease surveillance effort in 2019 – in contrast to prior years, when PCR testing was driven primarily by hospitals and university researchers.

The report authors also provide a month-by-month view of who was dispensing contracts, and when:



Here we see an initial spike in May, driven mostly by the Wuhan CDC and hospitals. This is followed by substantial animal testing in July and August, and finally massive university laboratory testing in October. Last in line is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which placed orders in November, as their own researchers became infected. There is a whole story in this data: Efforts to diagnose and isolate the earliest patients in May were followed by a campaign to identify plausible animal reservoirs through the summer. Universities got in on the game relatively late, and hospital testing remained elevated from September, as Hubei entered respiratory virus season.

Chinese public health authorities, on guard since 2004 about a resurgence of SARS, would have administered either SARS or more generic SARS-related PCR tests to early viral pneumonia patients. There was likely widespread knowledge within the Hubei public health bureaucracy of an ongoing SARS-related virus outbreak from spring at the latest. This would explain why Christian Drosten and his team at the Charité in Berlin were able to begin building the first PCR test for the novel Coronavirus in early January 2020, before the virus had even been officially sequenced. The Chinese had been using generic SARS-related virus PCR tests to track infections for months, and he simply threw together a similar test that western scientists and media would find credible. (Of course Drosten and friends were unable to explain how they knew it was a SARS-related virus,
awkwardly explaining that this was an assumption they had made based on “social media reports”.)

UPDATE: A friend points me to this investigation of Wuhan Institute of Virology virus sample databases going dark after 12 September 2019.
On the 12th Sep 2019, the main database of samples and viral sequences of the Wuhan Institute of Virology went offline. Eventually every single one of the 16 virus databases managed by the WIV was taken offline. Here we show how these databases may provide essential clues at to the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and review the circumstances in which they were taken offline.
Reduced posting frequency this week due to professional obligations (an academic conference). In the coming days, things will get back to normal.
 

marsh

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Resistance Is Not Futile
Actions do not have to be big in order to make a huge impact.

by JD Rucker
October 15, 2021

Resistance Is Not Futile

Here’s an extremely important message for most Americans. It doesn’t matter if you’re vaccinated or not. It doesn’t matter if you’re Republican, Democrats, Independent, or Other. It doesn’t even matter if you believe that everyone else should be vaccinated. If you love this nation and, perhaps more importantly, want to have a future here that does not turn completely apocalyptic, you MUST actively and aggressively resist the vaccine mandates.

For those who are not directly affected by them because your job (currently) doesn’t require them or because you are already vaccinated, resisting can be as simple as participating in local protests. If you are directly affected, you must stand on the side of freedom. If you’re unvaccinated, remain unvaccinated and stand up to tyranny. If you’re already vaccinated, stand with your brothers and sisters athwart of tyranny.

History has taught us that invariably the acquisition of power by any government results in expansion of both scope and scale of future acquisitions of power. Our system of checks and balances have kept the United States from suffering as quickly as other empires simply because the ebb and flow of power allows for competing interests. It behooves the legislative branch to rein in powers of the judicial and executive branches, for example. But what we’re seeing today seems partially immune to the constitutional checks and balances within the federal government.

That leaves the states to fight, and some are. But they will not succeed without the organized, concerted efforts of the people backing them up until the vaxx-nannies back down. The Biden-Harris regime has already stated their intentions of imposing supremacy and dismissing the 10th Amendment, and unfortunately I do not see legal challenges to their mandates being successful enough to stop them completely. Their tyranny will continue and grow over time.

The reason that everyone, vaccinated or not, should be opposed to the mandates is because they will morph, spread, and evolve. We have not seen this type of arbitrary mandate before. And yes, it’s arbitrary. There is no science that supports universal vaccinations. One can argue that the science backs personal vaccinations, but to impose the injections on others does not reduce spread and therefore does not align with science.

But we already know that science is not at the top of mind of a people in which over half of the population is still unaware of the effectiveness of natural immunity. It’s the saddest testament to our collective national intelligence that despite all of the data that other nations have been willing to embrace, we are still stuck with a population that mostly believes the Covid-19 “vaccines” are as effective if not more effective at stopping the coronavirus as natural antibodies acquired through previous infections. It’s ludicrous.
The vaccinated may like the mandates being imposed today, but the mandates that will come if we don’t stop these ones right now will inevitably result in tyranny that even the vaccinated do not like.
Today, it will be the vaccine mandates. Tomorrow, it will be booster shot mandates. Once all of that is embedded into the “new normal” post-truth society they are creating, they will move on to other nanny state priorities such as forced compliance to the “green agenda.” Then, there will be forced reductions in meat because veganism is supposedly healthier and meat causes global warming, or something like that.

The vaccinated may like the mandates being imposed today, but the mandates that will come if we don’t stop these ones right now will inevitably result in tyranny that even the vaccinated do not like. If you can’t imagine a world in which we are required to post proof that we’ve taken our daily Covid booster pills or face fines, then you’re not paying enough attention.

Journalists and politicians often invoke the “slippery slope” in reference to actions that will lead to unintended consequences. The vaccine mandates are the slipperiest slopes ever conceived, far worse than anything George Orwell or Aldus Huxley could have imagined. These mandates are the first stage in the self-imposed apocalypse being ushered in by those who do not oppose them. If these mandates are allowed to stand, they will undoubtedly expand. When that happens, the slippery slope will disappear as we will be in a freefall with all of our liberties questioned and eventually suppressed.

We must stand up and resist. WE MUST STAND UP AND RESIST. Thankfully, it appears that many are already starting to do just that. If my half of this article rang the bells of doom and gloom, hopefully Mike Adams will be able to offer a bit of hope…

A CONTAGION of COURAGE Is Spreading Across America as Pilots, Police, Firefighters and Other Workers Say, “Take This JAB and SHOVE It!”

After mass vaccinating the oblivious sheeple (the first 30%), then incentivizing or threatening the easily controlled obedience worshipers (another 30%), the genocidal vaccine pushers have reached the fiercely resisting 40% of the country that refuses to go along with vaccine tyranny.

All across America, pilots, firefighters, police officers, sheriff’s deputies, construction workers, office workers and many other people are saying, “Take this jab and shove it!”

Courage is contagious.
When groups of informed Americans rise up and say, “No!” to the genocidal vaccine tyrants, the tyrants are eventually forced to back down for the simple reason that you can’t run society without workers. And if those workers decide that risking their health and life isn’t worth a measly paycheck in soon-to-be-worthless dollars, society simply cannot function.

The revolt of the workers is best captured in this explicit video by “Old Man Cruz” (not related to Sen. Ted Cruz), a construction worker who explains what happens when workers stand up to vaccine tyranny: (colorful language warning)

https://www.brighteon.com/cb53fe59-bd77-4e24-8337-2c9c1f9f565d 1:03 min

“If you stand together, they can’t take your dignity, your pride!”

Head of Chicago Police Union tells Mayor creature Lori Lightfoot to go pound sand

As The Epoch Times is reporting, Chicago’s police union president John Catanzara has declared that if Chicago tries to force vaccine mandates on the police who work the city, Chicago will lose half its police force beginning tomorrow.

From TET:
“Do not fill out the portal information,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in a video to officers posted on YouTube. “I’ve made my status very clear as far as the vaccine, but I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody—let alone that information about your medical history.”

According to Catanzara, the police union is preparing a lawsuit against the city if Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration attempts to enforce the mandate, which requires city workers to report their vaccine status by Friday or be placed on a “no-pay” status.

“It’s safe to say that the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 percent or less for this weekend coming up,” Catanzara said. “I can guarantee you that no-pay status will not last more than 30 days,” Catanzara said on Tuesday. “There’s no way they’re going to be able to sustain a police department workforce at 50 percent capacity or less for more than seven days without something budging.”


In my Situation Update podcast today, I describe this coming weekend in Chicago as the “Chicago Purge,” where violence and lawlessness will explode due to Lightfoot trying to force police to commit vaccine suicide with a deadly, genocidal spike protein injection.

Similarly, Seattle is about to lose 40% of its police force due to vaccine mandates.

As Zero Hedge reports:
It was inevitable – as vaccine mandates across the country approach their deadlines, vast swaths of American workers, service members and athletes face termination or disciplinary action for refusing to take the Covid-19 jab.

In Los Angeles, nearly 1,000 firefighters are about to sue the city over the mandate.

Southwest Airlines’ pilot union sued the company last week, before staffing shortages led to the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights over the weekend (and more on Monday). Meanwhile, doctors and nurses across the country have begun suing their employers.

Seattle … stands to lose 40% of its 1,000 person force for failing to get vaccinated as an Oct. 18 deadline approaches.

“The environment has been pretty toxic and negative,” one officer anonymously told Fox 13. “Not just from this whole mandate, but prior to that as well. I’m not sure this would be a good place for me to work long-term for my mental health. It has been very stressful.”


Final Editor’s Commentary
It seems cliché to say that our nation is at the crossroads, but it’s true. The path we choose from here will be the path our nation continues down for the foreseeable future. If we succumb to the medical tyranny staring down at us, then we will beginning our descent on the aforementioned slippery slope with no realistic chance of recovery. If we fight this oppression and declare we are a free people, then our oblivion will be delayed until the next existential threat arises.

If there’s a silver lining to all of this, it’s that the nation needs an infusion of patriotism in action from time to time. Our patriotic muscles are like real muscles.

They need to be exercised or the grow weaker. Today is our opportunity to defend the Constitution and the God-given freedoms the Constitution highlights.

If we are to be a free people, then we must recognize that our freedoms will not defend themselves. It takes action at times like these. It takes courage.

It takes us. All of us.

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Vaccination Rates NOT Linked to Lower COVID Rates, Epidemiology Paper Finds

A new paper in the European Journal of Epidemiology that analyzed 168 countries and 2,947 US counties found that higher vaccination rates were not associated with fewer COVID-19 cases.

by Jon Miltimore
October 15, 2021

On Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article noting that California has some of the lowest COVID-19 case rates in the US, even though the Golden State’s vaccination rate lags many states that are currently struggling with the delta variant.

“One clear example is the New England states of Vermont and Maine,” the Chronicle reported. “Relatively shielded from the worst of the nation’s previous surges, they have struggled against the delta variant, which has sent their case rates soaring.”

In fact, Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. Among those 65 years and older, 99.9 percent are fully vaccinated, and 74 percent of those 18-64 are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Mayo Clinic.

Yet, as the Chronicle points out, despite its high vaccination rate, Vermont recently set its single-day case record for the entire pandemic. And as of Oct. 1, Vermont’s seven-day average case rate per 100k people was 30—triple that of the Bay Area.

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What the Vaccines Do—and Don’t Do
There is widespread agreement among scientists that COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at reducing the risk of developing severe COVID symptoms, which can result in hospitalization and death.

Their effectiveness at reducing transmission of the virus, however, remains a subject of debate, particularly since the CDC released findings in June that show vaccinated individuals still contract the virus, transmit it, and carry just as many virus particles in their throat and nasal passages as unvaccinated individuals do when they contract the virus.
The findings published in the European Journal of Epidemiology help explain why US states such as Vermont and Maine are suffering massive case outbreaks despite their high vaccination rates.
While scientists concede that the vaccines cannot stop transmission, many contend they still reduce transmission of the virus.

“We are confident vaccination against COVID-19 reduces the chances of transmitting the virus,” Johns Hopkins epidemiologists M. Kate Grabowski and Justin Lessler argued in The Daily Beast.

Other scientists are less sure, and a new study suggests their skepticism may be warranted. The study, published last month in the European Journal of Epidemiology, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal, examined 168 countries and 2,947 counties in the United States and concluded that higher vaccination rates are not associated with fewer COVID cases.

“At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days,” the researchers concluded. “In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.” (emphasis added)

At the county level, the researchers said, there “also appears to be no significant signaling of COVID-19 cases decreasing with higher percentages of population fully vaccinated.”

The findings do not suggest people shouldn’t get vaccinated. Again, there’s robust evidence showing vaccines reduce the risk of severe symptomatic COVID-19 reaction. What the research does suggest, however, is that vaccines are primarily a matter of personal health, not public health.

This is precisely what Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine who studies epidemiology at Stanford, recently suggested. Bhattacharya noted that research indicates that the mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna offer abundant individual protection—Bhattacharya credits his own speedy recovery from COVID-19 to the vaccines—but don’t contribute to herd immunity or improve public health.

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Planned Chaos
The findings published in the European Journal of Epidemiology help explain why US states such as Vermont and Maine are suffering massive case outbreaks despite their high vaccination rates. (Public health experts also point out that California has much higher levels of natural immunity than its eastern counterparts, the Chronicle reports.)
If getting vaccinated is simply a matter of individual health, there is little reason for planners to exercise control over the public.
But it doesn’t explain why so many continue to maintain that the vaccines reduce transmission of the virus as well as offer protection to individuals—despite an abundance of evidence (both empirical and anecdotal) to the contrary.

One explanation may be found in an observation from economist Ludwig von Mises.

Mises famously observed that much of the strife in the modern world is a struggle over who designs the world, authorities or individuals. As Mises put it, we can either have “the democratic process of the market, in which every individual has his share, [or] the exclusive rule of a dictatorial body.”

If getting vaccinated is simply a matter of individual health, there is little reason for “the planners” (as Mises called them) to exercise control over the public. It would be akin to requiring individuals to have cancerous tumors removed in the name of “public health”.

But if not getting vaccinated is a threat to public health, or “society,” then central planners have their reason (if not a valid justification) to exercise control over society.

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In other words, evidence that shows COVID vaccination is primarily about individual health runs counter to the raison d’etre of the planners, which is to exercise their plan over society.

“What those calling themselves planners advocate is not the substitution of planned action for letting things go. It is the substitution of the planner’s own plan for the plans of his fellow-men,” Mises argued in Planned Chaos. “The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute pre-eminence of his own plan.”

For people trying to understand why for the first time in modern history public health officials are trying to combat a respiratory virus by coercing healthy individuals to take their desired actions—and in many cases lose their job and basic freedoms if they do not—Ludwig von Mises is required reading.

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October 15, 2021
COVID: A series of accidents or a planned conspiracy?
By Peter Skurkiss

With the advent of the Wuhan virus in early 2020, the country has been severely disrupted, metaphorically turned upside-down. We've gone from ubiquitous mask-wearing to locking down the economy to the release of untested vaccines to now harsh vaccine mandates. All through this torturous process, freedoms that were once taken for granted in the U.S. have been steadily chipped away.

We even witnessed the 2020 presidential election being stolen by increasing mail-in voting, extended time for voting, and overriding state election laws by a number of governors and attorneys general. Containing the Wuhan virus was the pretext for this, and it made extensive cheating possible.

Looking back at what has transpired, a question must be asked: is this whole COVID mess the result of a series of random accidents and bad decisions by those in authority? Or is it a subterfuge that was planned out in advance? The latter point brings us to conspiracy theory territory.

Conspiracy theories are a mixed bag. Many are outright crazy, colorfully so. However, some others have substance. Today, what is often labeled a conspiracy theory is nothing more than something the ruling class finds uncomfortable being discussed. Using their wealth and influence, the elite direct government agencies and their media stooges to ridicule and lambaste any debate that puts them in a bad light. That's the reality we live in.

Consider this. A number of conspiracy theories have been floating around from, say, the 1960s. Each, in turn, has been debunked many times over by official government sources and the corporate media. Fine. But given what is now known about the clandestine war waged against President Trump by elements in the federal government, even some in his own administration, and the corporate media, should the idea of any conspiracies be dismissed out of hand?

Here's a recent example to make the point. Remember the "straight-shooting conservative" Bill Barr? He said that after a "thorough" investigation, his Justice Department determined that Jeffrey Epstein "definitely" committed suicide in his heavily guarded cell at Rikers Island in 2019. The media accepted that as the "official" version, and now to refute it labels you a conspiracy theorist. I ask you, is there room to doubt here?

Going back in time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "If anything happens in politics, you can bet it was planned that way." FDR was in a position to know. He was elected four times to the presidency.

Who could possibly be behind a COVID conspiracy? Playing devil's advocate, I suggest the globalists or, if you will, the Davos crowd and their lackeys. And what does this elite of the elite desire? According to their public statements, some of which they've consistently repeated for decades, they call for one or more of the following:

1. Strengthening international organizations,
2. moving toward global government and erasing national boundaries,
3. creating complacent populations,
4. reducing world population through infertility and other means,
5. slowing economies to prevent global warming, which they feel is a threat,
6. transferring wealth from the middle class to themselves,
7. empowering technocrats, and
8. eliminating representative democracy to create situations like the European Union, where bureaucrats in Brussels run the show.

I submit to you that each of these globalist goals has been moved forward to one degree or another with COVID. Donald Trump was an obstacle to the globalist agenda. Without a doubt, the overreaction to COVID played a significant role in removing him from office.

So is this all happenstance...or were things planned this way? I leave it up to you to decide. But before you do, realize that the ruling class has both the motive and the means to pull this off. And who would blow the whistle on these people? The media? Government agencies?
 

marsh

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[Per Sidney Powell's Telegram page]

Do you want to see the interoffice vaccine mandate orders the DOJ is has sent out to all of its Federal employees?

To the DOJ Federal Workforce:

As we move towards the President’s November 22 deadline for all federal employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, I want to update you on some important and immediately looming interim deadlines. I also want to provide you with an update on the Department’s COVID-19 vaccination attestation plan and related information.

Vaccination Requirement. If you are not yet fully vaccinated, please remember that in order to meet the November 22 deadline for full vaccination, you must hit these target dates for your vaccine doses (based on the different recommended periods between two-dose vaccines):

• By October 11: first dose if you are getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

• By October 18: first dose if you are getting the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

• By November 8: second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.

• By November 8: first and only dose if you are getting the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

These dates are fast approaching, please do not let them pass.

Attestation and Proof of Vaccination. As I noted in my September 17, 2021 workforce email, you are required to attest to your vaccination status and upload proof of your vaccination. The Department has an online app known as COVID Check for this purpose, and FBI and BOP have similar apps for their respective employees. Your component has either already begun, or will begin shortly, inviting you to log on and upload your vaccination proof. Easy to follow instructions will come with your invitation. You will have seven calendar days to complete your attestation and upload it. If you are on leave for the duration of the seven days, work with your supervisor regarding a limited extension. The process is fast and easy, and over 48,000 DOJ employees have already submitted their documentation. Thank you!

Testing Protocol for Unvaccinated Employees Entering the Workplace. The Department has determined as a matter of policy that employees who attest to not yet being fully vaccinated, prior to entering a Department workplace other than their telework location, will have to provide to their supervisor (or component designee) a negative COVID-19 test result from within the previous three days. This requirement also applies to employees who are under a pending reasonable accommodation exception, as well as approved exceptions that include testing. Testing is also necessary for unvaccinated individuals who travel or participate in an official meeting or function at any location other than a telework location. The testing requirement takes effect upon the employee’s submission of the attestation that they are not fully vaccinated. To monitor and enforce this requirement, supervisors will be following up with employees who attest to not being fully vaccinated. The Department will not prohibit an unvaccinated employee from entering the workplace if they follow the testing protocol.

The testing requirement can be satisfied with any COVID-19 test approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Employees are strongly encouraged to obtain a test that produces a dated report, such as those performed at a pharmacy or doctor’s office. If employees use a home test that does not produce such a report, their supervisor must be able to ascertain the date of the test, and components will establish a process for ensuring this. For example, if permitted by your component, the home test could be performed at the building entrance in the presence of a supervisor or other employee designated by the component. Your management may provide additional guidance on the process for confirming that you have had a recent negative test if you are not fully vaccinated and need to enter the workplace.

At the present time, employees tested under this policy are responsible for arranging their own testing unless their component offers COVID-19 testing to employees.
 

marsh

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It’s the saddest testament to our collective national intelligence that despite all of the data that other nations have been willing to embrace, we are still stuck with a population that mostly believes the Covid-19 “vaccines” are as effective if not more effective at stopping the coronavirus as natural antibodies acquired through previous infections. It’s ludicrous.
Be also aware that as a result of massive gaslighting, fact-checking, and outright lying by the media, many are not aware of effective early treatment, effective enough to cleanse sections of India nearly a quarter billion strong of covid.
 

thompson

Certa Bonum Certamen
I highlighted the money quote starting on the fifth paragraph. Going on hunches and gut feelings.. Such utter bullshit.




Moderna Booster Shot Backed by FDA Advisory Panel

FDA advisers voted unanimously in favor of the agency’s clearance of the shot to seniors and others at high risk of severe Covid-19

Updated Oct. 14, 2021 4:34 pm ET

Vaccine experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted 19 to 0 Thursday to recommend authorization of an extra dose of Moderna Inc.’s MRNA -2.31% Covid-19 shot, a key step in making booster doses available to millions more people.

A vaccine-advisory panel voted in favor of giving a Moderna booster shot at least six months after the second dose, to adults 65 years and older, as well as adults under 65 who are at high risk of severe Covid-19 or serious complications because of their jobs, living conditions or underlying medical conditions.

The panel voted in favor of a booster shot that is half the dosage of the first two doses. The FDA is expected to decide on whether to authorize the booster dose within days.

Moderna said the booster doses can be drawn from the same vials that contain the original two-dose vaccine series, meaning the boosters will be available soon after authorization.

Members of the FDA’s vaccine-advisory panel supported Moderna’s booster dose even though the evidence for it was from a small study and had mixed results.

“It’s more a gut feeling rather than based on really truly serious data,” said Patrick Moore, a member of the committee and a professor of molecular genetics and biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. “The data itself is not strong
, but it is certainly going in the direction that is supportive of this vote.”

The meeting is a regular part of the federal government’s evaluation of the vaccines and the latest move toward authorizing Covid-19 boosters. The FDA often asks its expert advisers to share their views before the agency decides whether to clear a medicine, and the agency usually follows the advisers’ recommendations.

After clearing Covid-19 vaccines for adults starting late last year, the FDA has been in recent months evaluating applications to expand use of the shots to younger ages and to add an extra dose to bolster vaccinated people’s immune defenses, especially against the Delta variant.

The FDA has authorized the vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE for adolescents. The agency also has already greenlighted booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for seniors and adults at high risk of Covid-19 who received the shots already and are at least six months past their first vaccination.

It also has authorized boosters of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for certain people with weakened immune systems.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel is scheduled to meet Oct. 20 to weigh endorsing an additional Moderna dose, before it becomes available to the general public. The CDC doesn’t have to accept the panel’s recommendation but usually does.

The meeting of the FDA panel, called the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, comes as Covid-19 cases caused by the contagious Delta variant drop from highs in many parts of the country, though they are increasing in some states.

Federal health officials have pushed for boosters to sustain the immune protection in people who have been previously vaccinated, especially against Delta.

Up to 60 million people will become eligible for Pfizer’s booster shot in the coming weeks, the Biden administration has said.

Adding Moderna’s additional shot would significantly expand the U.S. booster campaign. More than 69 million people in the U.S. are fully vaccinated with Moderna’s shot, according to the CDC.

Moderna has asked the FDA to authorize a booster that is half the dosage of the first two vaccine doses, and is taken at least six months after the second dose.

The booster shot increased immune responses in about 170 people in a Moderna study. The booster’s effect on immune responses met one goal in the study but fell slightly short on another goal, FDA staff said.

Some members of the advisory panel expressed concern about the small size of the study, saying it limited their ability to assess the safety of the booster shots. The FDA said the safety profile of the booster was largely consistent with the first two doses.

The panel also began to debate whether to make booster doses more widely available beyond the categories currently authorized, which include seniors and adults at high risk because of medical conditions or where they work.

Some members said they were skeptical about the need to give an extra dose to everyone who was vaccinated because the shots appear to be working well and offer lasting protection for younger people.

“I don’t necessarily see the need for a sort of let it rip campaign for boosters for everyone who has ever been vaccinated,” said Michael Kurilla, director of clinical innovation at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.

Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s center for biologics evaluation and research, said the U.S. sees booster doses as a potentially important part of its strategy to mitigate cases heading into the winter.

“The problem here is we don’t know what we don’t know,” he said. “There are models that predict that we could potentially have another wave of Covid-19 as people go inside this winter.”

The advisory panel will meet again on Friday to consider Johnson & Johnson’s application for a second dose and to review data on mixing and matching vaccines and boosters.

Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and J&J are authorized for use in people 18 years and older, while the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is cleared for people 12 years and over.

Outside the U.S., Israel, the U.K. and the European Medicines Agency have cleared use of boosters, and many countries have been rolling out the shots. The World Health Organization, however, has encouraged rich nations to delay booster campaigns and send doses to countries with limited supplies.
 

Buick Electra

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I'm not posting this to shame or say one segment is better than another. The Lord knows how difficult decisions to take or not take the vax is and I pray that all who had to make the gut-wrenching choice to take it either got placebos or that God heals them.

What dropped my jaw was the difference in reporting systems (about half way down).


October 16, 2021
The Unvaccinated Are Looking Smarter Every Week
By Thomas T. Siler, M.D.

There is a massive propaganda push against those choosing not to vaccinate against COVID-19 with the experimental mRNA vaccines. Mainstream media, the big tech corporations, and our government have combined efforts to reward compliance and to shame and marginalize non-compliance. Their mantra says that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Persons who choose not to vaccinate are characterized as unintelligent, selfish, paranoid people who don’t read much and live in a trailer park in Florida (or Alabama, or Texas, or name your state). Never has there been such an effort to cajole, manipulate through fear, and penalize people to take an experimental medical treatment.

However, as time has passed with this pandemic and more data accumulates about the virus and the vaccine, the unvaccinated are looking smarter and smarter with each passing week. It has been shown now that the vaccinated equally catch and spread the virus. Vaccine side effect data continues to accumulate that make the risk of taking the vaccine prohibitive as the pandemic wanes. Oral and IV medications (flccc.net) that work early in the treatment of COVID-19 are much more attractive to take now as the vaccine risks are becoming known, especially because the vaccinated will need endless boosters every six months.

First, let’s address the intelligence of the unvaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is multi-factorial and has little to do with level of education or intelligence. Carnegie Mellon University did a study assessing vaccine hesitancy across educational levels. According to the study, what’s the educational level with the most vaccine hesitancy? Ph.D. level! Those can all have been awarded to liberal arts majors. Clearly, scientists who can read the data and assess risk are among the least likely to take the mRNA vaccines.

The claim that there’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated is, therefore, patently untrue. As a retired nurse from California recently asked, “Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?” If the vaccine works to prevent infection, then the vaccinated have nothing to worry about. If the vaccine does not prevent infection, then the vaccinated remain at some risk, and the unvaccinated would be less likely to choose a vaccine that does not work well.

The mRNA vaccine efficacy is very narrow and focused on the original alpha strain of COVID-19. By targeting one antigen group on the spike protein, it does help for the original alpha strain, but it is clear now it does not protect against Delta strain and is likely not protective against any future strains that might circulate. It also appears that the efficacy wanes in 4-6 months, leading to discussions about boosters.

Several authors have pointed out that vaccinating with a “leaky” vaccine during a pandemic is driving the virus to escape by creating variants. If the booster is just another iteration of the same vaccine, it likely won’t help against the new strain but will, instead, produce evolutionary pressure on the virus to produce even more variants and expose us to more side effects. Why, then, is this booster strategy for everyone being pursued?

This vast Phase 3 clinical trial of mRNA vaccines in which Americans are participating mostly out of fear is not going well. It is abundantly clear for anyone advocating for public health that the vaccination program should be stopped. Iceland has just stopped giving the Moderna vaccine to anyone which is a good step in the right direction. Sweden, Denmark, and Finland have banned the Moderna vaccine for anyone under the age of 30.

VAERS, our vaccine adverse effect reporting system, showed at the beginning of this week 16,000 deaths, 23,000 disabilities, 10,000 MI/myocarditis, 87,000 urgent care visits, 75,000 hospital stays, and 775,000 total adverse events. The VAERS system is widely known to under-report events by 1-10%.

Eudravigilance, the European reporting system now associates 26,000 deaths in close proximity to administration of the vaccine.

Whistleblower data from the CMS system (Medicare charts) showed close to 50,000 deaths in the Medicare group shortly after the vaccine.


An AI-powered tracking program called Project Salus also follows the Medicare population and shows vaccinated Medicare recipients are having worse outcomes week by week of the type consistent with Antibody Dependent Enhancement. This occurs when the vaccine antibodies actually accelerate the infection leading to worsening COVID-19 infection outcomes. Antibody Dependent Enhancement has occurred previously with trials of other coronavirus vaccines in animals. The CDC and the FDA are suppressing this data and no one who receives the vaccine has true informed consent.

The Rome declaration has 6,700 medical signatories attesting that the handling of the pandemic amounts to crimes against humanity for denying the best medical treatment and continuing to advocate for harmful vaccines. The evidence is right in front of Americans to end the propaganda and mass mask psychosis.

The media narrative of perpetual fear is falling apart. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have ended all COVID restrictions and are doing much better than the US, UK, and Israel, three countries that continue to vaccinate into the pandemic. Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia, almost all of Africa, and parts of India have low vaccination rates and are doing much better than the US, something attributed to their managing the pandemic by using Ivermectin.

Over 500,000 people attended the Sturgis motorcycle rally in August and there was no super spread of COVID-19. Football season started in August and stadiums around the country are packed with 80,000 fans yelling and screaming with no masks. There have been no superspreader events, yet the students are forced to go back to masking in class. This makes no sense.

If the vaccine is so important why do our government leaders and illegal aliens not have to take it? Currently, 13 states that are Democratic with high vaccination rates have the highest “case” rates (using a faulty PCR test), while Republican states are all doing better. How does this happen?

It should be clear that the government has manipulated COVID to create perpetual fear, so we’ll hand it our liberty. In this giant battle between our government and the unvaccinated, I hope enough people will refuse to comply so that we can unite to stop this madness.

I know this decision is very difficult for many people when it comes to losing their job. To the vaccinated, please don’t take any boosters for you’ll just be perpetuating the risk of side effects and new variants.

If we allow the government to decide this medical decision for us, it is a short step for the government to say it can decide other medical decisions for you, e.g., all persons over 75 never be resuscitated; people may have only three children (or two or one) with mandatory sterilization for women; or refusing the government’s demands will see you denied health care.

Is this the totalitarian state you want to live in? If you are proudly vaccinated now and on the government side, what about the next government mandate, when you’re on the other side, coerced into a decision you don’t want, how will you feel then?

It is obvious that the government (with the Fauci subset), the media, and big tech, are trying to divide us and take away the freedoms we have enjoyed as Americans. I am praying that all who call themselves Americans can unite to end this medical tyranny and regain a free America before it is too late. Peacefully resist and do not comply.
 

TammyinWI

Talk is cheap
Verizon requires Covid vaccines for non-union employees

by Linda Hardesty | Oct 14, 2021 4:44pm

Verizon Chief Administrative, Legal & Public Policy Officer Craig Silliman posted a notice for Verizon employees today regarding the company’s Covid policies. He said that beginning December 8, non-union Verizon employees in the U.S. must provide proof that they are fully vaccinated regardless of where they work or how often they come into a Verizon work location.

The only non-union employees excluded from these requirements are those designated as “home-based” within the Verizon Consumer Group and employees outside of the U.S.

“At the moment, this does not apply to our union-represented employees as we are in discussion with the unions,” said Silliman...


That violates many laws, including the 14th Amendment, equal protection under the law.
 
“The problem here is we don’t know what we don’t know,” he said. “There are models that predict that we could potentially have another wave of Covid-19 as people go inside this winter.”
There are models that predict twenty feet of sea level rise as the ice caps melt in the next twenty years; but I don’t trust them either.
 

Sleeping Cobra

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From another forum:

Newsom wants vax exemption for prison guard union that gave him $1.75 million campaign donation
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, one of the most prominent supporters of COVID jab mandates in the United States, is facing criticism for his efforts to stop a vaccine mandate affecting members of a union that donated $1.75 million to help him survive this summer’s recall election.

The news comes after Newsom told CBS News “we need to stiffen our spines and lean into keeping people safe and healthy,” arguing in favor of increasing mandates by saying “[w]e shouldn’t be timid in trying to protect people’s lives and mitigate the spread and transmission of the disease.”

One vaccine mandate Newsom does not support, however, is the one affecting the members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), a powerful state prison guard union that helped bankroll Newsom’s recall success with a massive $1.75 million campaign donation in July.

Representing 28,000 officers statewide, the CCPOA came out strongly in support of the medical freedoms of its members, arguing that prison workers ought to be allowed to voluntarily choose or decline vaccination.

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Sleeping Cobra

TB Fanatic
Judge orders Chicago PD FOP President to keep his mouth shut about vaccine.
Judge Orders Chicago FOP President to Stop Encouraging Officers to Defy Vaccine Requirement

With almost 50% of the police force unvaccinated and pushing back against the mandate a judge has ordered a limit of freedom of speech

A Cook County judge on Friday ordered Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara to stop making public comments encouraging his members to defy the city’s COVID vaccine policies.

Judge Cecilia Horan’s decision came just hours before a deadline for officers to enter their vaccination status in a city web portal, something Catanzara had encouraged them not to do.

 
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