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CV19 Booster Shot Also a Bioweapon – Karen Kingston

CV19 Booster Shot Also a Bioweapon – Karen Kingston
By Greg Hunter On November 27, 2021 In Political Analysis 332 Comments

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Karen Kingston is a biotech analyst and a former Pfizer employee who has researched and written about many cutting edge pharmaceutical issues. Kingston thinks that Covid 19 and the so-called vaccines and boosters are here to stay for a long time. Kingston explains, “The reason why it keeps going is because Covid 19 is now a multi-trillion dollar industry many times over that has been forecasted out for the next ten years and beyond. I do have numerous business plans that have been put up on numerous biotech industry websites. I am in the mecca of the biotech industry. I am in San Diego, and most people do not know we are the biotech industry of the world.”

Kingston says there are untold billions of dollars being invested into CV19 injections. Just one fund alone has already invested a half billion dollars into research, and Kingston points out, “There is a $500 million fund that has a partnership with Qualcomm that will map out all the genetic variations of Covid 19. Covid 19 is really just code for human beings, and they want to map out our genetic makeup. So, if Covid 19 goes away, where does the half billion dollar project go? . . . They just announced here in Carlsbad, California, that they are going to create a new manufacturing facility to produce 600 million rapid Covid 19 tests a year. If Covid 19 goes away, where does that manufacturing facility and the billion dollar a year company go? These are just two small examples of tens of thousands of examples. So, that’s why it’s not going away. . . .That’s why there are such strong mandates for our schools and for our city and state employees. . . . 740 of the 1,850 police here in San Diego are not vaccinated and don’t want to be. Mayor Todd Gloria gave them two choices: You can surrender your body to be injected with this biological agent, or you can surrender your badge and gun. I gave the police a third option which was arrest the Mayor.”

Kingston says the CV19 so-called vaccines are not vaccines but bioweapons and goes on to say, “The hot water that Pfizer is in is they never demonstrated anything even remotely being a vaccine, and their mechanism of action is defined by the FDA under viral gene-based therapy, which is what it is. They met no criteria as a vaccine. On top of that, the FDA has approved other products in this category for cancer treatments. So, if there is a serious attorney out there that wants to engage me and my analysts, this is actually a big case. Pfizer broke their (liability) shield, and the FDA was grossly negligent. The data is right there to show you this goes beyond false and misleading labeling and off-label claims . . . . They told doctors that this was a vaccine–when it’s not.”

Dr. Fauci now claims that a booster is “essential” for protection against CV19. Does Kingston recommend a CV19 booster shot? Kingston warns, “I don’t think anyone should inject themselves with a bioweapon, so, no. I also think nobody should have the right to inject their children with a bioweapon. This is a firm No. This has to stop. . . . If I did not have any bad reactions (from the CV19 injections), I would drop to my knees and thank God. . . . I would pray for forgiveness that I was deceived.”

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with biotech analyst Karen Kingston as she warns people NOT to get the bioweapon booster shot.

CV19 Booster Shot is Bioweapon Too – Karen Kingston 43:53 min

CV19 Booster Shot is Bioweapon Too – Karen Kingston
Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com Published November 28, 2021
 

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Another covid shot death. Our neighbor, a former Marine just lost one of his good friends to his 2ed covid shot. They gave it to the guy and a few minutes later he passed out and died, 30 years old.
I wonder if his friend is an active duty service member. Prayers for them all.
 

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Cleveland Clinic Suspends Vaccine Mandate After The Gateway Pundit Exposed Hospital’s ‘Heinous’ COVID Malpractice

By Alicia Powe
Published December 3, 2021 at 8:00am

Days after a nurse exposed the heinous malpractice a Cleveland Clinic subjected its patients and staff to at the hospital, the hospital suspended its vaccine mandate, allowing unvaccinated workers to keep their jobs.
Healthcare workers at Cleveland Clinic were required to participate in Medicare and Medicaid be fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022 under the federal government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Cleveland Clinic’s Indian River Hospital refused to accept a religious exemption from its employee Hellen Smith last month. As a result, the veteran nurse was forced to resign from her job in the hospital’s intensive care unit. A week before her forced resignation, Smith blew the whistle on the disturbing malpractice she has witnessed and was subjected to in the hospital’s intensive care unit throughout the coronavirus pandemic in an exclusive interview with the Gateway Pundit.


Employees at different Cleveland Clinics around the country began protesting the unconstitutional vaccine mandate.

After a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for health care workers that received funding from Medicare and Medicaid, Cleveland Clinic finally sided with its outraged employees and announced that its chain of hospitals is “pausing the implementation of our Covid-19 vaccine policy.”

The Cleveland Clinic Hospitals issued a statement Thursday that it will instead institute additional “safety” requirements for unvaccinated employees, “including periodic testing for those providing direct care to patients.”

Cleveland Clinic’s complete statement reads:
A federal court recently issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily blocking enforcement of the COVID-19 vaccine federal mandate by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That rule is now on hold.

In light of these developments, we are pausing the implementation of our COVID-19 vaccine policy, which required all employees and those who provide services with us to either receive the COVID-19 vaccine or an approved exemption with accommodations. However, to further strengthen our protection of employees and patients, we will put in place additional safety requirements for employees who are unvaccinated, including periodic testing for those providing direct clinical care.

As a health system, we continue to strongly encourage all employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and we are proud that the majority of our employees are already vaccinated.
 

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Of the New Cases of the Omicron Variant Identified in the US on Thursday – All the Individuals Were Vaxed When the Vaccination Status is Known

By Joe Hoft
Published December 3, 2021 at 7:00am
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Of the new cases of the omicron variant identified in the US today, all the individuals have been vaxed of those whose vaccination status is known.


The UPI reported earlier on new cases of omicron being reported in the US:
One day after the first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was confirmed in California, New York reported five cases of the virus while additional cases were identified in Colorado and Minnesota, public health officials said Thursday.
New York authorities stated that they knew one of the cases in the state had at least taken the vaccine once. New York officials said they did not know about the other four cases. In Colorado, the case was related to an individual who was said to be ready for a booster shot now, indicating she had at least one vaccination for COVID.

Alphanews.org reported on the case in Minnesota:
A fully-vaccinated and boosted Minnesotan is the nation’s second case of the omicron COVID-19 variant, Minnesota Department of Health officials confirmed Thursday.

The nation’s first omicron case was discovered Wednesday in California in an individual who recently traveled to South Africa. This individual was also fully vaccinated.

The Minnesotan with the omicron variant is an adult male resident of Hennepin County who completed his vaccine series more than six months ago. He was “boosted” in early November, Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said at a Thursday press briefing.

The individual developed symptoms on Nov. 22 after returning from a trip to New York City for an anime convention and was tested on Nov. 24. His symptoms have since “resolved,” according to a press release.
This omicron variant reportedly is not reactive to the COVID vaccine but fortunately, it is reportedly milder than the previous variants of COVID.

 

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Scientists Find "Trigger" For Rare Blood Clots Created By AstraZeneca Jab

FRIDAY, DEC 03, 2021 - 11:23 AM
As vaccine-makers scramble to retool their products, a team of researchers working between the US and UK believes it has found the "trigger" that causes extremely rare blood clots in some patients.

The side effects, first exposed over the spring and summer, have hurt sales of the UK-developed jab, which was a collaboration between AstraZeneca and Oxford University.



According to scientists, who published their findings in the journal Advances, a protein in the blood is attracted to certain ingredients in the vaccine. This phenomenon can kick off a chain reaction involving the immune system that sometimes culminates with the production of dangerous blood clots.

Despite this, AZ has sought to play down fears about the clots, since regulators in the UK, Australia and Europe (though notably not the US) have approved the jab, insisting that risks of these "rare" blood clots was far outweighed by the protections it offered the vaccinated.

However, the jab has often come with restrictions, like in the UK, where the government has asked those under 40 to take a different vaccine.

Now, the world is learning once again that breakthrough infections are much more common than they were initially told. What's more, scientists are still trying to determine whether omicron can surpass protections offered by the jabs and natural infection from earlier variants.

Most insist that infections with this new variant are mostly mild, especially since several vaccinated individuals have reportedly been infected and suffered only minor symptoms.

As for the AstraZeneca jab's blood clots, the BBC has created a diagram purporting to illustrate how the process works:



In its report, the BBC added that there were two initial clues for the researchers investigating the rare blood clots:
  • The greater risk of clots was seen only with some of the vaccine technologies
  • People with clots had unusual antibodies that were attacking a protein in their blood called platelet factor four
So far, all vaccines used in the UK work by delivering a kernel of genetic code from SARS-CoV-2 into the body to train the immune system. Some jabs package that code up inside spheres of fat, while the AstraZeneca jab uses an adenovirus (specifically a common cold virus from chimpanzees) as its microscopic postman.

Ideally, this breakthrough should help AZ tweak its vaccine to eliminate this side effect - assuming that's even possible. But it's also reminder that vaccine-makers are still working to refine their product to eliminate these rare but dangerous side effects.
 

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FDA Expedites Review Process For Omicron Vaccines And Drugs

FRIDAY, DEC 03, 2021 - 08:05 AM

It's been one week since the omicron variant first rattled markets and prompted the Federal Reserve's latest rethink of its plans for rolling back its monetary stimulus. And in that time, vaccine-makers have talked their book by sharing plans to produce new omicron-targeted vaccines, while others claim that there are no data suggesting the Pfizer-BioNTech jab is less effective against omicron.

Assuming the world still does care about omicron three months from now (the first cases of the variant have only just been confirmed in the US in recent days), the FDA and its advisors are reportedly working on an expedited approval process that will allow "tweaked" versions of extant vaccines and remedies to be sheperded through in a matter of weeks.



WSJ reports that the FDA has been quietly meeting with drug makers to establish guidelines for expedited approval of the next generation of vaccines, if they're needed (and that's still a big "if"). According to the new rules the FDA is adopting, drugmakers are working on new vaccines and would be expected to meet standards similar to those required for authorization of boosters.

This means vaccine-makers would be spared the effort of conducting massive, time-consuming trials where they monitor a vaccine test group and a placebo group and wait to see which group reports fewer COVID casualties.

Instead, vaccine-makers could study the "immune response" elicited by the new jabs. Companies like Pfizer would have 3 months to create and test the jabs, with two or three weeks for the FDA to approve them.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said this week that the company and its partner BioNTech could have the vaccines ready in 100 days, while Moderna has said the company can advance new candidates to clinical testing in 60 to 90 days.

Only three cases of omicron have been confirmed in the US, and fewer than 300 have been confirmed globally. Scientists are still trying to figure out whether new treatments are necessary to protect people from the variant, especially since South African scientists at the institute that first identified the new variant are saying that it produces milder infections than delta, especially in patients who have already been vaccinated.

A WHO spokesman said Friday that the agency hasn't seen any deaths linked to the omicron variant just yet - a good sign.

Bottom line: while the FDA is doing everything in its power to make sure it's prepared for omicron, at this point it's not yet clear whether the world will still care about this latest "variant of concern" three months from now.
 

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Manchin Joins GOP Effort To Nix Biden's Vaccine Mandate For Large Businesses

FRIDAY, DEC 03, 2021 - 07:48 AM

President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for large businesses has yet another opponent: Joe Manchin.



The moderate Democratic Senator from West Virginia announced Thursday night that he would be supporting a Senate GOP effort to resist the mandate, which is supported by all 50 Republicans in the chamber. With Manchin's vote, the resolution can pass.

"Let me be clear, I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses.

That’s why I have cosponsored and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private businesses," he said in a statement, adding "I have long said we should incentivize, not penalize, private employers whose responsibility it is to protect their employees from COVID-19."

"I have personally had both vaccine doses and a booster shot, and I continue to urge every West Virginian to get vaccinated themselves."

That said, the resolution would still need to pass the House - and as The Hill notes, would likely be vetoed by Biden.
Republican senators introduced the resolution earlier this year under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to roll back the mandate, with which the Occupational Safety and Health Administration orders businesses with at least 100 employees to require their workers to get vaccinated or undergo regular testing by Jan. 4.
Republicans are able to use the CRA to force a vote to nix Biden's mandate at a simple majority vote. The resolution is expected to come to the floor for a vote next week and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who is leading the effort, told The Hill on Thursday night that he is in talks with a handful of additional Democratic senators.
"I hope that more Democratic Senators and Representatives will follow Senator Manchin’s strong lead and stand up against this federal overreach that will wreak havoc on our recovering economy and trample on the rights of millions of Americans," said Sen. Braun in a statement.

Manchin's announcement is somewhat of an about-face, after he previously voted against a GOP amendment to defund the mandate which would have been attached to a short-term government funding bill - though he says it's because he didn't want to risk a shutdown.
 

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Seen this on the local news last night.


Dr. Anthony Fauci on omicron variant: 'The U.S. needs to be prepared' for more cases | WPMI (mynbc15.com)

A recent Israeli study found that natural immunity is 13 times more effective than vaccines - but Fauci says to be careful when looking at studies that compare natural immunity to vaccines.

“If you are infected, and you recover, you have a good degree of immunity,” said Fauci. “What is unclear is the relative degree based on your age, about how sick you got when you got infected, about whether you were asymptomatic, about where you are in a certain situation.”

Fauci says that while natural infection does provide immunity, it is a bit more uncertain to what degree than when receiving the vaccine.
 

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UK Govt Won’t Mandate Jabs as Long as ‘People Keep Taking the Booster’, Says Minister
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 13: A Covid-19 vaccination centre sign stands at St Thomas' hospital opposite Westminster on September 13, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Tomorrow, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out his plan to manage Covid-19 through the winter, including what actions would need to be …
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A senior government and Conservative Party figure refused to rule out following Europe into mandatory vaccination or lockdowns for the unjabbed, only saying that the UK will not have to consider those measures as long as “people keep on taking the booster”.

Conservative Party co-chairman and Minister without Portfolio Oliver Dowden has effectively said that as long as people take the booster when the government demands, the Johnson administration will not consider following European countries down the road of mandating vaccination or lockdowns for the unvaccinated, refusing several times to rule out the British government would never subject citizens to such oppressive measures.

Responding to the news that Austria had mandated the vaccine for all and Germany was introducing lockdowns for the unvaccinated only, Mr Dowden said on talkRADIO on Friday morning: “It’s not something that we want to do or plan to do in the United Kingdom. The reason why we don’t want to and hopefully won’t have to do any of that is because of the booster.”

“So as long as people, when they get the call up, take that booster jab — it’ll be open to everyone by the end of January — I’m confident that… we’ll be able to withstand even given the challenges of this new variant,” Mr Dowden added.

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Giving the minister the opportunity to clarify that “hopefully won’t have to” in fact means the government would never go down the road of forced vaccinations or lockdowns for the unjabbed, talkRADIO host Julia Hartley-Brewer interrogated: “What I heard Mr Dowden was, if you get the jab we won’t have to force you to get the jab. You said ‘it’s not something we want to do or plan to do’ or ‘hopefully won’t have to do’. There a really simple answer to this: ‘This is wrong and we will never do it.’ Why won’t you say that?”

“I do not agree in principle… with mandating vaccines, forcing people to have vaccines… the reason why we won’t have to contemplate those sorts of decisions is because of the efficacy of the vaccine and booster,” Dowden said.

The Conservative Party co-chairman for the second time avoided ruling out going down the path of Austria and Germany when pressed again, only responding: “I disagree with it profoundly in principle and I’ve also said to you we also have the tools to prevent us ever having to do that.”

Questioned a third time, Dowden again refused to rule out the Conservative-led government ever adopting such drastic procedures, merely saying repeating: “We have to keep in this world by making sure people keep on taking the booster. As long as we keep on doing that, we avoid having to contemplate any of these things.”

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This is not the first time a senior figure in Boris Johnson’s government effectively said that Britons will not be subject to further restrictions as long as they do what they are told.

On October 20th, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that in order to “keep your freedoms”, Britons must be fully vaccinated as well as boosters because “covid vaccine reduces materially over time”.

Mr Javid said at the time:
…please [book your vaccination]… not just to save lives, but to keep your freedoms too… And if we want to secure these freedoms for the long-term, the best thing we can do is to come forward once again when that moment comes.
Last month Austria announced that from February 2022, citizens will need to be vaccinated or face fines and even prison. This week, the outgoing chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel announced effectively s lockdown on the unvaccinated, with the country’s parliament set to vote on making vaccination against the Chinese virus mandatory.

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Woman threatened with $5,000 fine for stepping over yellow line…
Posted by Kane on December 3, 2021 12:48 pm

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1466712921266814977
1:37 min

Check this disturbing video from Australia.
Woman threatened with $5,000 fine for stepping over a yellow line.
She has never tested positive. She was forced into camp for being a contact.

Life inside the Quarantine Camps
View: https://youtu.be/mGFdWcJU7-0
20:14 min
 

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South African COVID Cases Quadruple, Omicron Confirmed In 6th US State

FRIDAY, DEC 03, 2021 - 01:41 PM

While scientists continue to determine just how deadly, and how transmissible the new Omicron Covid strain is, it's worth noting that South Africa has seen its new daily COVID cases quadruple in recent days, even if the vast majority of these new vases have only mild symptoms.

Whether it's omicron or some kind of seasonal dynamic driving it, South Africa’s daily number of confirmed COVID cases almost quadrupled from Tuesday as the omicron variant spread across the country. The country recorded 16,055 infections in the last 24 hours and a positivity rate accelerated to 24.3% from 16.5% on Tuesday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.



A South African study of infections since the start of the pandemic found that the risk of reinfection from the omicron coronavirus variant is three times higher than for any previous strain.



Back in North America, the number of confirmed omicron cases in Canada has risen to 11.
A South African study of infections since the start of the pandemic found that the risk of reinfection from omicron is three times higher than for any previous strain.

Another 25 COVID deaths were reported in South Africa, bringing total fatalities to 89,944 to date. Hospitals reported an increase of 279 admissions in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 3,202. In Gauteng each infected person on average is able to pass on the virus to another 2.33, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. That’s a record rate, and any level over 1 means the virus’s spread is accelerating.

It's not just Pfizer that's scrambling to get a head start on its research into the omicron variants; the WHO said Friday that some 450 researchers from around the world are teaming up to isolate the highly mutated COVID strain, grow it in a slab, validate its genomic seqeuences
The new strain's rapid spread across South Africa has raised concerns that the omicron variant can more easily surpass vaccine protections.
"We welcome that because they will help us to prepare," she said. "WHO is contacting each of the vaccine manufacturers and requesting from them information on their current plans to modify their vaccines, if they have any preliminary data, and the time line for the scaling up and implementation of the modifications."
As American authorities search for more cases of omicron, Bloomberg reported that NYC has a new problem: informing all 53K attendees of a recent anime convention at the Javits Center that they should strongly consider getting tested.

Omicron cases have been found in at least half a dozen states. Five cases have been found in New York State. One was found in California, another in Minnesota (after returning from NYC). And cases have been found in Hawaii, Nebraska and Colorado.

Finally, the President of Botswana told CNN in an interview that four diplomats who visited his country earlier in November were actually the first individuals to be carrying the omicron variant. President Mokgweetsi Masisi said some of the diplomats included Europeans. Botswana is home to the first case of omicron.
 

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Exclusive — House Republicans Divided on Purpose of Vaccination Database Bill
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 22: The U.S. Capitol Building is seen on October 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Following a breakfast meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Democrats were nearing a deal on reconciliation. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Eighty House Republicans on Tuesday voted with Democrats to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021, which if signed into law would reportedly “modernize” already existing vaccination database systems. Not one Democrat voted “no” on the legislation, also called H.B. 550, but 130 Republicans declined to support the bill.

There seems to be a disconnect between House GOP members who voted to pass the bill and those who did not regarding what the legislation would actually accomplish. Among the “no” votes, some lawmakers view H.B. 550 as a chance for the federal government to grossly expand its power. Among the “yes” votes, the bill would do the opposite, and, in fact, protect states from federal government overreach in public health, according to a source affiliated with the bill’s development.

Breitbart News previously reported that the bill could assist in the creation of a federal vaccination database, a concern aired by Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), who voted “no” and told Breitbart News exclusively that the bill is “clearly a legislative tool to enforce vaccine mandates and force their Orwellian rules onto those who do not comply.”

On Wednesday, Breitbart News reached out to the offices of the four Republican bill cosponsors — Reps. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), James Baird (R-IN), David McKinley (R-WV), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) — as well as four representatives who voted “yes” on the bill. None of the cosponsors replied by the time of publication, but Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) and the spokesman of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) exclusively provided insight into the representatives’ reasons for passing the bill.

But First…Some Background
According to the bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH), the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion.” An immunization information system (IIS) is defined as a “confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care providers to persons within the geographic area covered by that database.”

IISs have been around for decades, operate in all 50 states, and “help providers and families by consolidating immunization information into one reliable source.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that it does not possess personal vaccine information — only state IISs do. According to the CDC, IISs provide “aggregate data on vaccinations for use in surveillance and program operations, and in guiding public health action with the goals of improving vaccination rates and reducing vaccine-preventable disease.”

Vaccination information from these systems is also meant to be kept secure and “only be used for its intended purpose and not be used in a punitive manner,” the CDC states. These systems are also already capable of exchanging information with immunization healthcare providers and other information systems, and currently “remind families when an immunization is due or has been missed.”

The legislation would “[expand] CDC and Public Health Department Capabilities,” include the federal government in data exchanges, and allow the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to award grants to health departments that enhance their IIS and adopt the CDC’s immunization information system functional standards and security standards. The government would be able to develop “public-private partnerships” to help with “technical assistance, training, and related implementation support.”

According to the bill, the HHS secretary would help departments by:
improving the secure bidirectional exchange of immunization record data among Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governmental entities and non-governmental entities … by improving such exchange among public health officials in multiple jurisdictions within a State … by simplifying and supporting electronic reporting by any health care provider … supporting the standardization of immunization information systems to accelerate interoperability with health information technology. [emphasis added]
In Breitbart News’s previous report, Miller contended that the “bill would allow the government to collect, study, and share your private health data. There are endless ways the government could potentially use that information against you — purposefully and accidentally.”

In a statement, Kuster proudly touted that the bill “will improve and expand information-sharing between state and federal governments, as well as public and private health care providers, to ensure vaccines are being administered effectively and efficiently across all states and territories.” Kuster specifically said the bill would bolster the country’s “vaccine infrastructure” and “prepare our health care system for future public health crises.”

The Debate
An internal memo from Bucshon’s office to Republican legislative staff, obtained by Breitbart News, framed H.B. 550 as a bill that would “improve and enhance” the ability of IIS programs to “securely exchange real-time immunization record data between state, local, tribal, and territorial public health programs and providers across health care settings in the immunization neighborhood—all while enhancing the security of the confidential, population-based databases.” [emphasis added]

The memo did not mention that the federal government would be a part of that exchange, unlike the actual text of the legislation. The memo mostly focused on how the bill would bolster security of personal health data in state IIS programs, whereas Kuster’s statement emphasized increased information sharing between state and federal jurisdictions.

Burgess told Breitbart News he voted “yes” because the bill “seeks to fortify the security for existing confidential STATE database systems” — he did not mention how the federal government could play a role in data sharing.

“Also, it establishes guardrails to ensure that American tax dollars are going to modernizing these confidential systems and NOT to enforcing vaccine mandates,” he said, contrary to Miller’s concerns.

When Breitbart News asked Burgess if the federal government could use the updated system as a “tool to target unvaccinated Americans,” he said “no.”

“It will simply safeguard the existing state level database systems and ensure that information remains confidential and kept private,” he said.

Burgess also claimed the bill would not enable a “personal tracking system” and “establishes guardrails that make it unconstitutional for the Biden Administration to track any American’s vaccine status,” which is directly at odds with what Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) told Breitbart News about the bill. Donalds was one of 130 Republicans to vote against the bill.

“This legislation would unnecessarily appropriate millions of taxpayer funds intended to expand bureaucracy in Washington. A database solely created to record and collect confidential vaccination information of Americans explicitly encroaches upon individuals’ fundamental right to medical privacy,” Donalds said. “As a fiscal conservative, I cannot in good faith support legislation that contributes to the Democrats’ habitual pattern of reckless and wasteful spending and the intrusive heavy hand of government.”

The spokesman for McCarthy, Mark Bednar, established a similar motive to Burgess for the House minority leader’s decision to vote for the bill, saying it “codifies privacy protections for the American people in existing immunization systems that were previously not in place.”

He continued:
Immunization systems exist in most all states in order to deal with infectious disease outbreaks (like the measles outbreak in 2019) and because parents broadly support vaccines for kids for disease like measles and smallpox. This bill does not create any new system or spend any new money, but it does ensure that immunization data is de-identifiable and confidential.
Like any piece of enacted legislation, the privacy protections must be closely monitored to ensure it is not being abused or misused, but absent this legislation those protections would not even exist.
Miller previously argued that HHS cannot be trusted with more power.

“The government has become so large, you cannot expect them to keep anything private anymore. There is hardly any congressional oversight into studies these agencies conduct,” she said.
 

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19 Senate Republicans Voted for Stop-Gap Funding Without Defunding Vaccine Mandate
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Nineteen Senate Republicans voted Thursday night to fund the federal government without defunding President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.

The Senate passed H.R. 6119, a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the federal government through February 18. The CR will keep spending levels at the same levels, although it contains $7 billion for Afghan refugees that some conservatives have criticized for having insufficient checks.

The vote followed a contentious battle over Senate conservatives’ battle to defund Biden’s vaccine mandates. The vote failed after Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted against the measure, as the proposal would need at least one Democrat to pass through the Senate.

Several Senate Republicans voted then to continue funding the government even though the CR would not address many of the crises unfolding 12 months into Biden’s administration. This includes soaring inflation, the supply chain crisis, and the border crisis.

These 19 Senate Republicans include:
  1. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
  2. Richard Burr (R-NC)
  3. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
  4. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
  5. Susan Collins (R-ME)
  6. John Cornyn (R-TX)
  7. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
  8. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
  9. John Kennedy (R-LA)
  10. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
  11. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
  12. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
  13. Rob Portman (R-OH)
  14. Mike Rounds (R-SD)
  15. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
  16. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
  17. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
  18. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
  19. Todd Young (R-IN)
The Senate vote on the CR strikes a stark contrast between the House’s CR vote, in which only Republican, the Never Trump Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), voted to continue funding the government.

Rank-and-file Republicans and House Republican leadership alike fought against the CR vote, in contrast to several Senate Republicans who voted in favor of the continuing resolution.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) served as a strong voice for using the prospect of a government shutdown to defund Biden’s vaccine mandates:

House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) urged his 158-member caucus to vote against the CR, as it would not solve the many crises the country continues to face.

The House Freedom Caucus urged McConnell to “deny timely passage of the CR unless it prohibits —in all respects — for the vaccine mandates.”

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) released a whip notice ahead of the vote, noting the many problems of funding the government without sufficient measures in the bill to solve America’s current problems:

He said:
Further Extending Government Funding Act:
Democrats have been so singularly focused on jamming through their big government tax-and-spend agenda, they have once again failed to address one of the core responsibilities of governing, which is to work with Republicans to fund the government. As a result of Democrats refusal to engage in meaningful negotiations with Republicans, we will consider another short-term continuing resolution that is damaging to our military, fails to address the multiple crises our country is currently facing and is being rushed through at the last minute due to the Democrats’ inability to govern.
  • H.R. 6119 continues appropriations at current levels until February 18, 2022, with limited exceptions.
  • The legislation also provides $7 billion to assist in the resettlement of Afghan refugees, however, fails to address concerns raised on the last CR related to insufficient documentation during the verification process for Afghan refugees.
  • The text of the legislation was not made available for members to review until 8:00 AM this morning, with a vote on final passage expected later this afternoon.
The bill goes to Biden’s desk to sign, although it may not solve the nation’s problems.
 

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Spanish Investigation Finds Vaccine Passports Have No Impact on Infection Rates

And also send wrong message that vaccinated can’t spread the virus.

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3 December, 2021
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An investigation by experts in Spain has concluded that vaccine passports have no significant impact on reducing COVID-19 infection rates.

Details of the study, carried out by Spain’s inter-regional Covid committee, were obtained by El Pais and reported on by the Telegraph.

Looking at how the scheme has been implemented in other European countries, the experts found that mandating people show proof of vaccination to enter venues like bars, restaurants and cinemas “is not reducing levels of transmission.”

“In European countries where [the system] is being used, cases are rising significantly, although it is true that their level of vaccination is much lower than in Spain,” the report states.

Although Spain doesn’t have vaccine passports at the national level, eight out of 17 regions are using a similar system.

The researchers also concluded that vaccine passport schemes “contribute to a false impression that vaccinated people do not get infected,” when in fact “around 40 per cent of those vaccinated are susceptible to infection and transmitting the infection,” the report states.

The only positives of such a scheme are that it “warns people that there is still danger from the pandemic and encourages vaccination uptake among the reticent.”

In other words, although vaccine passports have no discernible impact on their stated goal – reducing the spread of COVID-19 – they do succeed in keeping people fearful and compliant.
And perhaps that’s the primary goal.

“The findings are similar to evidence found by the UK government – that vaccine passports could increase Covid rates in the country,” writes Ken Macon.

“The government in Wales, UK, also found that, despite introducing vaccine passports, they could not find any evidence that they were working.”

Numerous European countries have imposed vaccine passport schemes that segregate the jabbed from the unjabbed.

In some cases, the option to provide a negative test result has been removed, meaning only those who are fully vaccinated (and yet can still spread the virus) are given permission to enter venues.
 

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Do Covid Injections Compromise Natural Immunity?

by Tessa Lena
December 3, 2021

Do Covid Injections Compromise Natural Immunity


STORY AT-A-GLANCE
  • “Blue Ocean Strategy” is a business strategy that proposes creating a brand new market and dominating it, as opposed to trying to compete in an existing market
  • Today’s new commercial frontier is the human body, “body as a platform”
  • We are being ushered toward a life-time subscription to an artificial immunity service
  • It is important to understand whether in the process of receiving experimental injections, our broad spectrum immunity gets compromised
  • A few studies came out recently showing that it may be the case, and more research is needed
People as Software Platforms
A few months ago, I wrote an article about the war on natural immunity and ability, in which I discussed how we were being ushered toward a subscription model under which we would have to obtain a life-time subscription to the artificial immunity service — with boosters from here into infinity.

The notion of a life-time subscription to an artificial immunity service is dystopian, and I was hoping to be wrong. But alas, the messaging around the need for boosters due to waning immunity seems to indicate that this is where we are heading, unless we don’t participate.

The model is based on the “Blue Ocean Strategy,” which is a business strategy that “proposes creating a brand new market out of thin air and dominating it (a blue ocean) — as opposed to trying to compete in an existing market (an ocean red with blood).”

For example, when the internet was introduced into commercial use, it was a brand new market and a “blue ocean,” since no such market had existed prior. The introduction of the internet created a whole new “space” that could be monetized in different ways.

Today’s new commercial frontier is the biological realm and the human body, “body as a platform.” In today’s market terms, the human body has the market potential of a natural resource. You know how they say that data is the new oil? If data is the new oil, then we are all data hosts, and we can look forward to being treated like oil reserves.

“Here’s how it applies to natural immunity. A healthy person with a natural immunity might be a happy person — but to a 2021 biotech entrepreneur, who views the human body as a market to dominate, he is a sheer insult. From the standpoint of that entrepreneur, replacing the default natural immunity of the past millions years with a fully artificial tool that requires a ‘subscription’ throughout one’s entire lifetime (see ‘variants’ and ‘boosters’) is desirable.

Replacing the default natural immunity with an artificial tool is a very successful case of creating a brand new market (‘artificial immunity market’) out of air. A life-long subscription to artificial immunity, with an ever-expanding range of necessary ‘upgrades’ is a lot more profitable than some traditional shop selling vitamins. Even better, if artificial immunity destroys the natural immunity, customer loyalty is guaranteed.”

At the time when my article about the war on natural immunity was published, it was still unclear if COVID injections had the potential to undermine our natural broad-spectrum natural immunity. It seems like it would be “good for business” in a psychopathic world but I didn’t really want to think in that direction, it was too dark. Since then, however, a number of studies came out, and they look alarming.

Complexity of Innate Immune Response
Before we dig into the studies about mRNA vaccines and their impact on our innate immunity, let’s talk about how our immune response works in general, in layman’s terms. Our innate immune response is a very complex, coordinated dance between different types of cells and receptors.

All day long, our body is fighting off different mutations (i.e. potential cancers, for example), keeping in check dormant viruses, and so on. When our bodies are in their natural state, our immune systems get trained from doing the work. Just like an athlete or a pianist gets better from exercise, different components of our immune system get better from being exposed to different pathogens and fighting them off successfully.

And just like a person who has solved a particular challenge gets more experienced in general and develops the ability to solve other challenges more effectively, our natural broad immune response also “learns” broadly from solving specific challenges.

With vaccines — which in a good world could be a useful addition to the medical arsenal, if designed and manufactured with total integrity, thoroughly tested, and used without fanaticism — it gets tricky. The problem is that the scientists’ understanding of the tremendous complexity of how everything in our body talks to each other is still very limited.

So when they design a solution to a particular problem — even with the best of intentions — they don’t necessarily consider how their solution impacts us as a whole. Same applies to drugs, this is kind of just the myopic nature of how things are done in our culture. And when we add commerce and hubris and God knows what else to the mix, it gets even trickier.

As a type of a medical product, vaccines (or drugs) are as good or as faulty as our overall state of science and commerce. And because our culture leans on the side of “moving fast and breaking things,” when vaccines are designed to solve a particular problem, the measured outcomes are about that problem alone.'

In the real world, however, we are whole organisms, and everything in our bodies is interconnected and works together. Therefore, if a medication or a vaccines solves one problem at the expense of creating another problem, then we suffer as a whole.

DTP Vaccine: A “Natural Experiment” in Africa
For example, even before the mRNA vaccines showed up on the market, in 2017, a telling study was published in EBioMedicine. The study was called, “The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural Experiment.”

In that study, the researchers observed a “natural experiment” in which, for logistical reasons, one group of babies received the DTP vaccine, and another group of babies didn’t. Here is their conclusion:

“DTP was associated with 5-fold higher mortality than being unvaccinated. No prospective study has shown beneficial survival effects of DTP. Unfortunately, DTP is the most widely used vaccine, and the proportion who receives DTP3 is used globally as an indicator of the performance of national vaccination programs. It should be of concern that the effect of routine vaccinations on all-cause mortality was not tested in randomized trials.

All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis. Though a vaccine protects children against the target disease it may simultaneously increase susceptibility to unrelated infections.” [emphasis mine]


If I were to interpret that study philosophically, I would say that nature is generally wiser than the scientists — and so when scientists try to outsmart nature by force without being humble about how thoroughly they observe the outcome of their effort, and without total love for the people they are supposed to help — they almost inevitably underestimate the complexity of the situation and break something — and then somebody pays the price for their limited vision.

Without total honestly about one’s limitations and without genuine love for the people, science turns into a conveyor belt that harms. And that’s before adding the desire of control and profits to the mix — and that happens to be the case almost universally, not just in medicine.

Potential Effects of COVID Jabs on Innate Immune Response
Now, when it comes to the COVID injections, we find ourselves in an even more adventurous territory since the product is new and experimental. In order for the mRNA vaccine to get into the body and be allowed by the body to do what it is designed to do in the ideal world, the body’s natural immune reaction to foreign mRNA needs to be turned off — otherwise it will attack the invader on entrance and voila.''

Thus, with the current technology, the body’s “security alarm” gets turned off in order to let in the mRNA. But of course, that same security alarm is generally needed by the body, and it is currently unknown what kind of long-term effect turning it off in the context of these injections has on one’s immunity.

If we are to look at the studies that are starting to come out now, the overall effects of turning off the “alarm” might be, well, alarming.

According to a 2021 study (not yet peer-reviewed) by a team of scientists from the Netherlands and Germany, titled, “The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses,” the vaccine “modulated the production of inflammatory cytokines by innate immune cells upon stimulation with both specific (SARS-CoV-2) and non-specific (viral, fungal and bacterial) stimuli.

The response of innate immune cells to TLR4 and TLR7/8 ligands was lower after BNT162b2 vaccination [emphasis mine], while fungi-induced cytokine responses were stronger.”

The paper further stated the following: “We observed a significant reduction in the production if IFN-α secreted after stimulation with poly I:C and R848 after the administration of the second dose of the vaccine [emphasis mine]. This may hamper the initial innate immune response against the virus [emphasis mine], as defects in TLR7 have been shown to result in and increased susceptibility to COVID-19 in young males.

These results collectively demonstrate that the effects of the BNT162b2 vaccine go beyond the adaptive immune system and can also modulate innate immune responses.” [emphasis mine]

In other words, the BNT162b2 injection modified the innate immune response and seemingly weakened certain aspects of it, and no one really knows or understands the details and the very long-term consequences.

If you are curious about the technical detail of how the “alarm” gets turned off, this Scientific American article explains what kind of modifications are used in the mRNA vaccines in order to trick the body into letting the foreign mRNA in.

The article features two scientists: Karikó, senior vice president and head of RNA protein replacement therapies at BioNTech, and Weissman, a professor of vaccine research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, who were awarded a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work.

The article says that “when foreign mRNA is injected into the body, it causes a strong immune response. But Karikó and Weissman figured out a way to how to modify the RNA to make it less inflammatory by substituting one DNA “letter” molecule for another.”

Here is how the researchers themselves explain the mechanism in a study called, “Suppression of RNA recognition by Toll-like receptors: the impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA”:

“DNA and RNA stimulate the mammalian innate immune system through activation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) … We show that RNA signals through human TLR3, TLR7, and TLR8, but incorporation of modified nucleosides m5C, m6A, m5U, s2U, or pseudouridine ablates activity” [emphasis mine]

Activation of Previously Dormant or Controlled Pathogens?
Are there recent studies addressing the clinical effects of receiving the COVID injections on people’s broad immunity? There are a few. This study titled, “Hepatitis C Virus Reactivation Following COVID-19 Vaccination – A Case Report,” deserved to be quoted in detail:

“Materials and methods: Here, we report a case of an 82-year old patient with dementia who was admitted to a nursing home in the Netherlands. After vaccination with COVID-19 vaccination, physical examinations and lab tests were performed.

Results: She had a reactivation of hepatitis C infection after vaccination with the mRNA-based Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This reactivation manifested with jaundice, loss of consciousness, hepatic coma and death.

Conclusion: This reactivation of hepatitis C virus after vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine suggests a need for critical consideration of individuals with prior HCV infection and considered for COVID-19 vaccination.”


In other words, she passed away as a result of a hepatitis C infection that, according to the researchers, activated after she received the injection. While she luckily lived a long life and passed away at 82, no one knows how long she would have lived if she didn’t get the injection.

It’s as simple as nobody knows, and it doesn’t look like our leaders care to make sure that this is studied thoroughly before mandating the product on everyone.

Another study titled, “Varicella zoster virus reactivation and mRNA vaccines as a trigger” talks about the reactivation of the zoster virus following the mRNA vaccines. It states the following:
“The suggested pathogenic mechanism was induced lymphopenia and the functional impairment of lymphocytes, particularly CD8+ T cells and natural killer cells.

With regard to COVID-19 vaccines, it is postulated that, as a product of a massive shifting of naïve CD8+ cells, VZV-specific CD8+ cells are not temporarily capable of controlling VZV.

The question of why VZV reactivation occurs almost exclusively with mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and not with viral vector or inactivated COVID-19 vaccines remains to be answered.
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And finally, in this extremely informative interview on The Highwire, Dr. Ryan Cole provides a good explanation of the potential mechanisms of immunosuppression as a result of COVID injections. He also mentions his observations regarding an alarming trend of previously-under-control cancers going out of remission after the administration of COVID injections.
In another talk, Dr. Cole goes further into what he believes to be a great uptick in cancers post-vaccination, based on the results that he is seeing in his labs.

Conclusion: Unfortunately, it looks like COVID injections could be compromising our broad-spectrum innate immunity at least to some degree — and I wish somebody with a conscience had looked into it very thoroughly before injecting the product into billions of bodies. Why? Because despite what the proponents of the Fourth Industrial Revolution think of us, we are human beings, not commercial platforms.
 

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New Research with Stunningly Accurate Prediction Model Counters Omicron Scariant Hysteria

by Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn
December 3, 2021
New Research with Stunningly Accurate Prediction Model Counters Omicron Scariant Hysteria


So much talk about Omicron; so much fear mongering; so much talk about science. Most is nonsense. The best research has received little attention. It comes from esteemed, senior French scientist, Dr. Jacques Fantini, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Aix-Marseille.

You are about to learn what senior people in the public health establishment need to use, especially Fauci who claims he speaks for and represents “science.” If he knows the French research, he is not sharing it with the public, nor is mainstream media.

The key scientific achievement by Fantini is the calculation of one key parameter he calls the index of transmissibility (T) of a COVID variant. The key work was published in June 2021 with the title “Structural dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants: A health monitoring strategy for anticipating Covid-19 outbreaks.” This research is very sophisticated, detailed and challenging. Genomic sequence data are used in the analyses of variants.

The molecular details of variants are analyzed to calculate T values for COVID variants.

Originally, T values for known variants or strains of the COVID virus were determined. The T value for the Delta variant done in early 2021 accurately predicted the surge of Delta throughout the world, making it the dominant variant in many countries, including the US.

The T value accurately describes to what extent a variant is or is not very transmissible. The higher the value of T, the greater is the ease at which a variant is spread from one person to another. The higher the value, the more contagious is the variant. Fantini said how T values could serve a critical need: “T-index can be used as a health monitoring strategy to anticipate future Covid-19 outbreaks.”

The pressing question now: “Is the T value for Omicron of concern?”

The following table gives T values for the original five variants published by Fantini, plus what he has just released for the new Omicron variant.

Omicron T-Cells

Delta stands out for having an extremely high T value compared to previous variants. No surprise that it quickly became the dominant variant globally.

And equally impressive is the relatively low T value for Omicron, just 37% of the Delta value.

Omicron should not be of high concern by people and nations. It is in line with most pre-Delta variants. It is not exceptional. There is no scientific basis for all the hysteria about Omicron. As shown below, most people assessed with Omicron were vaccinated and got breakthrough infections showing vaccines offer little if any protection.

Additional observations
Note that the higher the T value, the less effective current vaccines are for defending against the variant and protecting people from it (as real-world data given below show). However, the higher T value does not imply greater lethality. As is known by virologists, variants are smart enough to not kill their victims, which would also kill them and prevent them from spreading.

Thus, high T value variants spread easily, can cause health impacts but do not necessarily kill people at a high rate.

Fantini said this: “For Omicron, the mutations go in all directions, without any particular logic, some annihilating each other. The mutational profiles … suggest that neutralizing antibodies [from vaccine immunity] will have very low activity on this variant. … This analysis of the Omicron variant suggests that this variant will not supplant Delta.” In other words, with far less spreading potential, Omicron is not likely to replace the much higher transmissible Delta prevalent globally even though reports keep coming in from different nations that Omicron has been found.

More positive insights had to do with the more than 30 mutations and exactly where they were located in the molecule. “The affinity of the Omicron … for ACE-2 [cellular material that causes infection] is decreased compared to all other variants analyzed to date, probably as a consequence of this accumulation of mutations.” Fantini is saying that Omicron is not only not as highly transmissible as Delta, it is also not as infectious.

Worth remembering is that all the current COVID vaccines were designed to address the earliest COVID virus molecule. Thus, they do not protect very well against later variants that have considerable mutations. Is protection zero? No. Current vaccines offer limited defense against variants because they only aim at a small fraction of the virus molecule components.

Vaccine problems
In a more recent article, Fantini and an associate said there is a “progressive loss of immunity induced by the two doses of vaccines directed against the spike protein” because current vaccines are not designed to defend against recent variants, including Delta and Omicron.

Moreover, “the third vaccine [booster] dose can have serious long-term side effects due to the ‘ADE’ phenomenon (Antibody-dependent enhancement: facilitation of infection by antibodies). The benefit/risk ratio would be unfavorable.”

In other words, like other researchers, they see the negative impact of current COVID vaccines that reduce protection offered by a person’s immune system. What is being said is that antibodies not only offer little protection but, instead, facilitate viral infection and promote release of new mutations or variants. This is consistent with considerable data showing correlations between higher vaccination rates and higher death rates at the nation level.

This too was noted: “The immune response to SARS-CoV-2, whether natural or vaccine-induced, produces antibodies directed against the spike protein. In the case of mRNA vaccines, the only molecular target is the spike protein. In the case of natural infection with the virus, the immune response [natural immunity] is directed against several viral proteins, including the spike protein. In all cases, the spike protein is therefore crucial. However, SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus that mutates a lot, and many mutations affect the spike protein, which disturbs its recognition by antibodies.”

The bottom line is that vaccine immunity is inferior to natural immunity, because the former was designed for the earliest strain and only targets a small fraction of the complex COVID molecule.

Real world data show no severe illness and no protection from vaccines
The forecast by Fantini about Omicron is consistent with information flowing in. Specifically, vaccines will have little impact on Omicron transmission or infectivity. For example, Reuters reported: “Four people in southern Germany have tested positive for the Omicron COVID-19 variant even though they were fully vaccinated against the coronavirus said officials.”
Moreover, “All four showed moderate symptoms.”

Previously it was highlighted, according to the Botswana government, the Omicron variant was first detected in four people who were fully vaccinated. And information from South Africa is that Omicron caused mild symptoms and no patients needed hospitalization, and that the European Union’s public health body said that they’ve found 44 cases containing the omicron variant in 10 of their member countries, all of which had mild or asymptomatic illness.”

Also reported was that “Two quarantined travelers in Hong Kong who have tested positive for the variant were vaccinated with the Pfizer jab. All three initial confirmed and suspected cases reported from Israel occurred among fully vaccinated individuals. And an Israeli doctor revealed that he had been infected with Omicron despite being triple vaccinated also wearing a mask.

In Australia, “New South Wales state authorities reported that two travelers from South Africa to Sydney had become Australia’s first omicron cases. Both were fully vaccinated, showed no symptoms.” A person in San Francisco was reported to have traveled from South Africa, had mild symptoms and had been vaccinated. Interestingly, officials said they had contacted everyone who had close contact with the person and they had all tested negative.

Meanwhile, everything that Fauci has said is completely inconsistent with actual data as well as what Fantini has forecast. Everything he has said seems clearly aimed at instilling fear about Omicron so that invasive, authoritarian government actions and continued push for vaccines could be justified.

Conclusions
A review of studies found unequivocally that COVID vaccines do not stop viral transmission, with no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. So, all real-world evidence is that Omicron cannot be effectively addressed by COVID vaccines. Together with Fantini’s work the proper conclusion it that Omicron will not be very transmissible nor be more infective than Delta.

Because mutations will continue to produce variants, it is critically important to use the work of Fantini to accurately assess whether or not a new variant should evoke the fears and government responses that have sprung up so quickly for Omicron.

Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Pandemic Blunder and many articles and podcasts on the pandemic, worked on health issues for decades, and his Pandemic Blunder Newsletter is on Substack. As a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he directed a medical research program between the colleges of engineering and medicine. As a senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association, he directed major studies on health-related subjects; he testified at over 50 US Senate and House hearings and authored hundreds of articles and op-ed articles in major newspapers. He has served as an executive volunteer at a major hospital for more than 10 years. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and America’s Frontline Doctors.
 

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Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Losses Mount as Three Federal Judges Cite Executive Overreach in Two Days

December 3, 2021 The Center Square
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by Bethany Blankley

President Joe Biden lost three federal challenges to his vaccine mandates in just two days this week, with judges ruling the mandates are executive branch overreach and likely unconstitutional.

Federal judges in Missouri, Kentucky and Louisiana issued rulings on Monday and Tuesday in separate cases filed by multiple states, handing primarily Republican attorneys general sweeping victories and ensuring workers wouldn’t be fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shots.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove in Kentucky blocked Biden’s mandate imposed on federal contractors in response to a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.

“The question presented here is narrow,” Van Tatenhove wrote in his decision. “Can the president use congressionally delegated authority to manage the federal procurement of goods and services to impose vaccines on the employees of federal contractors and subcontractors? In all likelihood, the answer to that question is no.”

On the same day, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against Biden’s mandate on health care workers. His order blocked a regulation issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Nov. 4, which would have required more than 17 million full- and part-time employees, volunteers and contractors working at health care facilities funded by Medicare or Medicaid to lose their jobs if they didn’t get the vaccine by certain deadlines.

Doughty said the Biden administration doesn’t have the constitutional authority to bypass Congress and issue such a mandate.

“If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands,” he wrote.

“If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency … During a pandemic such as this one, it is even more important to safeguard the separation of powers set forth in our Constitution to avoid erosion of our liberties. The liberty interests of the unvaccinated requires nothing less.”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the ruling was a “major win for our healthcare heroes.” He added, “While Joe Biden villainizes our healthcare heroes with his ‘jab or job’ edicts, I will continue to stand up to the President’s bully tactics and fight for liberty.”

Landry led a 14-state coalition that sued the Biden administration, arguing the mandate violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Social Security Act, the Congressional Review Act and the U.S. Constitution.

Thirteen states joined Louisiana, including Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said of the ruling, “In the past weeks, I’ve heard from healthcare workers across our state whose jobs were being threatened if they did not comply with President Biden’s overreaching federal mandate. With the CMS mandate now blocked in Montana until the case is decided, medical facilities have no reason to threaten their employees if they don’t get the vaccine.”

The rulings came after one issued on Monday by U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp in Missouri. Schelp granted a preliminary injunction in 10 states that sued over the health care worker mandate, including Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

“Congress did not clearly authorize CMS to enact this politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate,” Schelp argued.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver, who has sued over the mandates on behalf of federal employees, Navy SEALs and members of the U.S. military, said, “It is promising that these federal judges are acknowledging that Biden has no authority to issue unlawful shot mandates to any person in America. It’s a matter of time before more courts rule against this administration’s agenda to force people to choose between their livelihood and religious beliefs and injecting an experimental drug into their bodies.”

In each ruling, the judges restrained the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the CMS, their directors, employees, Administrators and Secretaries from implementing the mandate, as well as all healthcare providers, suppliers, owners, employees and all others it attempts to cover.

The preliminary injunctions will remain in effect pending the final resolution of the cases, or until their respective appellate courts, or ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the matter.

Earlier in November, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court in New Orleans twice ruled against Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate, citing “grave” constitutional concerns.
 

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[Senator Ted] Cruz: ‘No Pissant Politician … Has The Right Or Legal Authority To Force You’ To Get Vaccinated

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By Ryan Saavedra
Dec 3, 2021 DailyWire.com


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the Biden administration on Thursday for its vaccine mandates, despite his own support for vaccines, noting that the mandates pose a threats to people’s jobs which in some cases pose a risk to U.S. national security.
Cruz’s remarks come after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit halted Democrat President Joe Biden’s mandate last month, citing potential “grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate.”
“The Biden White House mandates have been struck down repeatedly by the courts,” Cruz told reporters on Thursday. “They are blatantly lawless. Joe Biden knows they’re lawless.
His lawyers have told him that the vaccine mandates are contrary to law. And Democrats don’t care. They don’t care about medical privacy.
They don’t care about individual autonomy. Instead, we have seen in the course of this pandemic, Democrats, being very comfortable with being petty tyrants and decreeing that you must obey their medical mandates.”
Cruz noted he supports vaccines and that both he and his family have been vaccinated against the coronavirus but he “also support individual liberty and individual responsibility.”

“It ought to be your choice as a responsible adult to decide whether to get the COVID vaccine,” Cruz continued. “And you ought to make that discussion, that decision in consultation with your doctor. And no pissant politician — whether a local mayor, or a governor or the President of the United States — has the right or legal authority to force you to make that decision.”
“And the cynicism of the Biden White House was really underscored when their illegal vaccine mandate was enjoined by the Federal Court of Appeals and the next day, the White House press secretary’s office stood up and told Americans obey the order anyway, never mind those pesky little courts,” Cruz said. “Never mind the rule of law, never mind following a judicial order, you should obey our decree anyway. I think that is lawless. I think it’s wrong. It’s an abuse of power. It is threatening the jobs of millions of Americans from active-duty military soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines to federal civilian workers, to Border Patrol agents, to federal law enforcement to airline pilots and flight attendants to air traffic control.”
Louisiana Western District U.S. Judge Terry Doughty ordered a nationwide injunction this week against the Biden administration’s CMS Mandate for healthcare workers this week,
saying, “if the separation of powers meant anything to the Constitutional framers, it meant that the three necessary ingredients to deprive a person of liberty or property – the power to make rules, to enforce them, and to judge their violations – could never fall into the same hands.”
“If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands,” he added.
“If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.”
 
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On The Heels of Austria and Germany Locking Down The Unvaccinated, EU Leader Calls For Throwing Out Nuremberg Code In Favor of Forced Vaccinating All Dissenters

By Julian Conradson
Published December 3, 2021 at 1:30pm
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On Wednesday, Ursula Van Der Leyen – the chief of the European Union (EU) Commission – told the press that she would like to see the long-standing Nuremberg Code ignored completely in favor of allowing countries to force vaccinate anyone who is refusing to take the experimental jab.

Her alarming comments come just days after Germany followed Austria’s lead, mandating an authoritarian lockdown on only the unvaccinated.
In addition to being in full support of the segregated lockdown, von der Leyen said it was “understandable and appropriate” for EU countries to discuss mandatory COVID vaccinations because of the new Omicron variant, which has already been detected in 12 countries in the EU.

From The BBC:
“European Union countries should consider mandatory vaccination to combat Covid and the Omicron variant, the head of its Commission has said.
Ursula von der Leyen said vaccines would be crucial in the fight against the “highly contagious” new variant

How we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union? This needs discussion. This needs a common approach, but it is a discussion that I think has to be led.
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Forcing individuals to take this experimental and potentially dangerous vaccine against their will would be in direct violation of the Nuremberg Code which was established in 1947 in the immediate wake of the horrific medical experiments and human rights atrocities by Nazis during the Holocaust.

The laws expressly state that the voluntary consent of the human subject is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL,” meaning that the individual is able toexercise free power of choice, WITHOUT the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior forms of constraint or coercion – a la taking away your right to work if you are not vaccinated.

A leading cause for the code’s creation was the Nazi’s sickening performance of medical experiments on subjects without their consent. These procedures, typically performed under the command of high-ranking officials such as Dr. Josef Mengele, were some of the worst and most deranged ever documented. Since then, full and proactive ongoing consent for any medical procedure has been required by law in western nations that recognize the Nuremberg Laws.
The only way countries in the EU would be able to get away with forced vaccinations for this mild virus, which is an extraordinarily unethical and atrocious violation of human rights, is to do away with the Nuremberg laws, or just ignore them completely.

As esteemed professor, Dr. Jordan Peterson sarcastically notes: “Hey, it’s just the Nuremberg code. Only what we learned from the Nazi atrocities, not least those that were medical.”

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Maryland County to Revaccinate 70 Children After Giving Them Expired Doses

By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published December 3, 2021 at 1:12pm
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The Maryland State Health Department has announced that they are going to re-vaccinate approximately 70 children in Prince George’s County after they were given expired doses of the Pfizer vaccine.


The department claims that the children, aged 5-11, are not at risk of health issues due to the error.

The doses given to children on November 26 at the Wayne K. Curry Sports and Learning Center in Landover, were expired by two days.

George L. Askew, deputy chief administrative officer for health, human services, and education, told the Washington Post that the Health Department reached out to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to figure out how to handle the situation.

They decided to give the kids another dose.

“It is nice when everyone is in agreement — and everyone was in agreement that receiving the expired vaccine was not going to be detrimental to the children’s health,” he said, according to The Post. “But everyone was also in agreement that it did not give all the protection and that children should get revaccinated.”

Children in this age range began being vaccinated in November at the urging of the CDC.
“We certainly regret this incident,” Askew reportedly said. “And we are really, really sorry for the inconvenience it causes our families.”
 

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Omicron does reinfect after natural infection

Dec 3, 2021


Dr. John Campbell


Reinfections are probable, not good news actually How likely somebody who has already had Covid to catch Omicron? (catching it twice or more) Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of the Omicron variant in South Africa What is already known on this topic https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11...

Prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to provide 84% reduction in infection risk What this study adds We find no evidence of increased reinfection risk associated with circulation of Beta or Delta variants, compared to the ancestral strain in routine epidemiological data from South Africa. In contrast, we find clear, population-level evidence to suggest substantial immune evasion by the Omicron variant. Omicron selection advantage is at least partially driven by an increased ability to infect previously infected individuals.

Omicron variant increases reinfection risk - Yes Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates substantial population-level evidence for evasion of immunity from prior infection. Retrospective analysis of routine epidemiological surveillance data 4th March 2020 to 27th November 2021 South Africa’s National Notifiable Medical Conditions Surveillance System N = 2,796,982 Laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Results 35,670 suspected reinfections were identified among 2,796,982 individuals with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2, who had a positive test result at least 90 days prior to 27th November 2021 35,670 individuals with at least two infections 332 individuals with third infections 1 individual with four infection The relative hazard ratio for wave 2 versus wave 1 was 0.75 The relative hazard ratio for wave 3 versus wave 1 was 0.71 Relative hazard ratio for the period from 01 November 2021 to 27 November 2021

The relative hazard ratio for wave 4 versus wave 1 was 2.39 In the time of beta and delta Increases in primary infections No corresponding increase in reinfection hazard In the time of omicron Omicron variant, decrease in the hazard for primary infection Increase in reinfection hazard coefficient

Conclusion Population-level evidence suggests that the Omicron variant is associated with substantial ability to evade immunity from prior infection. In contrast, there is no population-wide epidemiological evidence of immune escape associated with the Beta or Delta variants.

This finding has important implications for public health planning, particularly in countries like South Africa with high rates of immunity from prior infection. Urgent questions remain regarding whether Omicron is also able to evade vaccine-induced immunity, and the potential implications on protection against severe disease and death.

Prof Paul Hunter The implications of this paper are that Omicron will be able to overcome natural and probably vaccine-induced immunity to a significant degree. But, the degree is still unclear - though it is doubtful that this will represent complete escape. Prof Francois Balloux, University College London

The higher estimated re-infection ability of the Omicron variant to cause re-infection is not overly surprising and could be largely anticipated based on the large number of mutations in the spike protein carried by the omicron variant, which increase the Omicron variant's ability to bypass host immunity
 

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Need for vaccine aspiration confirmed, why is this not being done

Dec 3, 2021


Dr. John Campbell


Oxford vaccine and blood clots https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti... https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...

From 4 January to 4 August AZ vaccine administered across the UK 24.8 million first doses 23.9 million second doses 412 suspected cases of CVST (Cerebral Sinus Vein Thrombosis) have been reported across the UK (Only 43 suspected cases were after the second dose of AZ vaccine) Overall incidence of CVST After first dose, 14.9 per million After second dose, 1.8 per million CVST is a complication of COVID-19 infection 42.8 per million MHRA as of 11 August, there were 73 fatal cases from the 411 events ChAdOx1 interacts with CAR and PF4 with implications for thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Vaccines derived from chimpanzee adenovirus As part of the largest vaccination campaign in history, Ultra rare side effects not seen in phase 3 trials, including thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) Adenoviruses deployed as vaccination vectors versus SARS-CoV-2 bind to platelet factor 4 (PF4), a protein implicated in the pathogenesis of HIT. heparin-induced thrombocytopenia Computational simulations to demonstrate an electrostatic interaction mechanism with PF4, which was confirmed experimentally by surface plasmon resonance. These data confirm that PF4 is capable of forming stable complexes with clinically relevant adenoviruses, an important step in unravelling the mechanisms underlying TTS. Platelet factor 4 (PF4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platele... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4142... https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

This chemokine is released from activated platelets during platelet aggregation, and promotes blood coagulation Also has a role in inflammation and wound repair Prof Alan Parker, Cardiff University The adenovirus has an extremely negative surface, and platelet factor four is extremely positive and the two things fit together quite well What we have is the trigger, but there's a lot of steps that have to happen next

Recent case reports show that most patients presenting with TTS ( more than 90%) tested positive for PF4 antibodies A ChAdOx1/PF4 complex could induce anti-PF4 autoantibodies. In this potential mechanism, small quantities of ChAdOx1 enter the blood through minor capillary injuries caused by the intramuscular injection, as has previously been observed

This proposal goes some way toward explaining why TTS is observed so rarely, because it may require a series of low frequency stochastic interactions, first between small numbers of adenovirus particles entering the blood / lymph and then monocytes and / or B cells, which may only occur in individuals who are predisposed toward the generation of anti-PF4 antibodies. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59418123
 

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J Cell Physiol. 2020 Sep 22 : 10.1002/jcp.30055.
doi: 10.1002/jcp.30055 [Epub ahead of print]
PMCID: PMC7536980
PMID: 32959892

Quantitative proteomics reveals a broad‐spectrum antiviral property of ivermectin, benefiting for COVID‐19 treatment
Na Li, 1 , 2 , 3 Lingfeng Zhao, 4 and Xianquan Zhan
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Viruses such as human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS‐CoV‐2]) represent a great burden to human health worldwide.

FDA‐approved anti‐parasite drug ivermectin is also an antibacterial, antiviral, and anticancer agent, which offers more potentiality to improve global public health, and it can effectively inhibit the replication of SARS‐CoV‐2 in vitro. This study sought to identify ivermectin‐related virus infection pathway alterations in human ovarian cancer cells. Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) quantitative proteomics was used to analyze human ovarian cancer cells TOV‐21G treated with and without ivermectin (20 μmol/L) for 24 h, which identified 4447 ivermectin‐related proteins in ovarian cancer cells. Pathway network analysis revealed four statistically significant antiviral pathways, including HCMV, HPV, EBV, and HIV1 infection pathways. Interestingly, compared with the reported 284 SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19‐related genes from GencLip3, we identified 52 SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19‐related protein alterations when treated with and without ivermectin. Protein–protein network (PPI) was constructed based on the interactions between 284 SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19‐related genes and between 52 SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19‐related proteins regulated by ivermectin. Molecular complex detection analysis of PPI network identified three hub modules, including cytokines and growth factor family, MAP kinase and G‐protein family, and HLA class proteins. Gene Ontology analysis revealed 10 statistically significant cellular components, 13 molecular functions, and 11 biological processes. These findings demonstrate the broad‐spectrum antiviral property of ivermectin benefiting for COVID‐19 treatment in the context of predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine in virus‐related diseases.

Keywords: ivermectin, quantitative proteomics, SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19, stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture, virus‐related pathways
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    This study sought to identify ivermectin‐related virus infection pathway alterations in human cells.
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    Quantitative proteomics revealed that ivermectin‐related proteins are involved in four statistically significant antiviral pathways, including human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV1), and COVID‐19 infection pathways.
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    We identified 52 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)/COVID‐19‐related protein alterations when treated with and without ivermectin, and these proteins were involved in cytokines and growth factor family, MAP kinase and G‐protein family, and HLA class proteins.
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    These findings demonstrate the broad‐spectrum antiviral property of ivermectin benefiting for COVID‐19 treatment in the context of predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine in virus‐related diseases.

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Nevada Becomes First State To Impose Surcharge On Unvaccinated Workers

FRIDAY, DEC 03, 2021 - 05:40 PM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Nevada on Thursday became the first U.S. state to impose a surcharge on workers who have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, though the penalty doesn’t take effect until the middle of next year.

A supervisor puts a COVID-19 specimen sampling tube into a refrigerator at a testing site at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas on Nov. 30, 2020. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

All but two members of the state’s Public Employees’ Benefit Program Board (PEBP) voted during a meeting to approve a surcharge of $55 a month on unvaccinated workers.

The approved proposal also stipulates a surcharge of $175 a month for workers’ spouses, partners, and dependents 18 and older. That could be adjusted down the road.

The surcharges will go into effect on July 1, 2022.

They’ll help offset the costs of COVID-19 testing, Laura Rich, executive officer of the board, said.
Testing costs through September were estimated at $3.3 million.

The board did not analyze the cost of COVID-19 hospitalizations for the proposal because that would have made the surcharge for spouses and dependents “significantly higher,” Rich said.

State rules bar making the surcharge on workers any higher.

Nevada’s Department of Labor last month released guidance saying the surcharges were legal, and Rich compared them to surcharges on smokers imposed by plans in the past.

Exemptions are available for religious or medical reasons, as required by law.

Public commenters during the meeting, and those submitting written statements, spoke out against the proposal before the vote.

I believe that the proposed surcharge is inappropriate and excessive,” Ellen Crecelius, one member of the public, said in a statement. She noted that many people enjoy natural immunity, or the protection one gets after having recovered from COVID-19.

Shanna Cobb-Adams said she already pays $255.06 a month. The new surcharges would increase that by 90 percent. She expressed concern about her 18-year-old son getting a vaccine when studies show that young males are at elevated risk of developing heart inflammation after getting a vaccine, while COVID-19 poses little risk to healthy youth without serious underlying health conditions.

Another commenter noted that Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, is the one forcing workers to get tested weekly if they don’t get a vaccine. “The unvaccinated should not have to foot the bill for the agency’s unjust decisions,” she wrote. “The fact is vaccinated and unvaccinated employees both can contract and spread the virus equally, yet the state has decided to only put the hardships on the unvaccinated unfairly.”

Some members also voiced opposition to the proposal, and two voted against it.

Several state residents did support the measure, including one who said that “anti-vaxxers should pay for their choice since their freedom is not free.”

Sisolak’s policy director, DuAne Young, said that the pandemic “has been shouldered on the burden of everyone.”

And now this particular burden—the testing—should be shouldered on the burden of those who refuse to (be vaccinated),” Young added.

Some companies have imposed surcharges but no states had before Thursday.

Discussions with entities that had imposed penalties pointed to benefits like increasing the percent of workers who are vaccinated and offsetting rising costs, Rich said. If the board did not approve the surcharges, every workers’ premium, regardless of vaccination status, would need to be hiked, she said.

Revenue from the surcharges is expected to be about $18 million a year. Testing costs are pegged at ranging from $12 million to $24 million.

Prior to the vote, representatives for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and the Nevada Faculty Alliance said the unions were not taking a position on the proposal.

Terri Laird, representing the Retired Public Employees of Nevada, said the organization also was neutral on the surcharges.

But, she told members, the added costs would “burden many employees.”
 

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Hot Babe Detained At Australian COVID Internment Camp EXPOSES Mistreatment And Lockdown Propaganda

Dec 3, 2021


Tim Pool


Hot Babe Detained At Australian COVID Internment Camp EXPOSES Mistreatment And Lockdown Propaganda. As The Omicron variant spreads in the news and fear rises more politicians begin implementing lockdowns and covid restrictions. In Australia people are now being taken by force to quarantine camps, one such camp is the Howard SPrings Quarantine Camp. To cover up and lie about the violation of human rights, propagandists at Quillette tried arguing that Hot babes were loving it. But a hot babe has come out exposing the mistreatment and horrors of the interment camp
 

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Roughly 19,000 active-duty Marines, Navy sailors unvaccinated after Biden administration deadline

Even small percentage of military's 2.1 million troops begin unvaccinated, perhaps expelled, translates to tens of thousands of personnel

Updated: December 3, 2021 - 10:06am

As many as 19,000 active-duty Marines and Navy sailors reportedly remain unvaccinated after the Biden administration's Nov. 28 deadline.

Military leaders have vowed to expel personnel declining to comply with the mandate, according to The Washington Post.

In each service branch, the number of holdouts is roughly 9,500, according to official counts by the newspaper.

That 5% of Marines are unvaccinated had been anticipated. But the Navy had a larger pool of unvaccinated sailors than had been projected. The Navy, in announcing its final tally this week, said officials had uncovered last-minute "discrepancies" with a data-tracking system.

As recently as last week, official data showed 99.8% of sailors had at least one shot by Sunday's deadline. The accurate number is just over 97%, The Post also reports.

More than 8,800 members of the U.S. Air Force also have declined to get vaccinated.

In all three services, many are awaiting decisions on exemption requests. However, the number of permanent waivers granted is expected to be nominal.

Army data shows 4% of its active force, about 19,000 soldiers, have not received any vaccine dose, with a compliance deadline of Dec. 15.

The vast majority of service members have complied with the Pentagon's vaccination mandate, but even a small percentage of the military's 2.1 million troops begin unvaccinated, and perhaps expelled, translates to tens of thousands of people, also according to The Post.
 

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This segment begins with a report on Covid lockdowns for the unvaccinated in Austria and
Germany and then looks at how the media are cheerleaders for medical oppression. Author Naomi Wolf, who has been predicting the worst policies of the progressive left to use Covid as a tool to gain power, talks about where we are today.

“Every morning I think I’m waking up in America, and then I realize by 10 o’clock in the morning I’m living in an Orwellian dystopian nightmare, and that’s where we are. In Austria, people who are unvaccinated are going to be locked in their homes… This is straight up Nazi methodology.

… Mengele is not the only Nazi doctor. It started exactly like this. It started with the medical establishment aligning with policy makers to create second class status for non-citizens or sub-citizens, marginalize them, strip them of access to public spaces, access to professions, access to universities, and start to deny them medical care.”

Then listen to War Room’s European correspondent Ben Harnwell talk about the harsh oppression in Europe, as well as hope for the future with a new nationalist candidate arising in France.

Video on website 13:23 min

Part 2: Warning To Americans: Be Extremely Wary About Accepting This ‘Free Gift’

Video on website 5:30 min
 

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Pentagon Blames Biden, Newsom for US Inaction in Breakaway Republic Crisis

Prospects for peace recede in a region ravaged by the effects of climate change and sectarian conflict.
Tim Marchman
By Tim Marchman
December 2, 2021, 7:42am

UNITED STATES—As the escalating crisis over the Constitutional Republic City of Oroville enters its second month, U.S. military leaders have refused to rule out an invasion, telling Motherboard that civilian leaders are responsible for inaction to date. For their part, those leaders have articulated no plans to protect both the territorial integrity and the people of their once-proud nation—but have also pointedly refused to deny that military force remains an option.

While reporting by local news media traces the roots of the crisis to the effects of climate change, as well as preexisting sectarian tensions between residents of the Oroville enclave and those of the surrounding Northern California region, the spark that lit the flame came when local leaders declared their community of 15,000 a republic on November 2.

Records show that at a council meeting, after considering such subjects as whether to lease a photocopying machine for $219 a month and a proposal from a firm called D.H. Slater & Sons for the demolition and remodeling of part of a local public safety building, the leaders adopted a resolution declaring Oroville a “Constitutional Republic City.” The document said that Oroville would no longer recognize the authority of the executives of the state of California and the U.S. federal government:

Confusingly, the leaders of this land of contradictions—who have said they’re motivated by California governor Gavin Newsom’s mandate that schoolchildren be vaccinated against COVID-19—have asserted that they are not seceding from either the state of California or the United States, but simply refusing to recognize their legal and political authority. (They cite the refusal of San Francisco, a Newsom stronghold, to enforce federal immigration laws as precedent, though that city has not declared itself a republic.) Footage from the council meeting, though, complicates the picture.

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Citizens applauded as the resolution was brought up for consideration; while one leader said that it was not meant to begin a secession effort, he also said that he had “not expended any time to research whether that’s possible.”

In a stirring speech, a U.S. loyalist and citizen of Oroville suggested that declaring the city a constitutional republic was a move designed to be “anti-decent living,” because it would allow the republic to ignore anti-discrimination laws and mask mandates. He was, though, laughed at by his fellow citizens

“God has created our immune system, the most genuine and genius to fight these kinds of things off, and our whole family got it,” said one citizen. “We are now 30 percent stronger from getting any kind of sickness … everybody should be able to make their own choice.”

“Thank you for standing up for Oroville,” said another to raucous applause.

Even the cameraman filming the meeting was moved to speak in favor of the separatist movement, leaving his post from behind the camera to suggest that the U.S. should “look at Star Wars. They gave emergency powers to Chancellor Palpatine and look what happened.”

“I think it’s time for us to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough,” said separatist leader Scott Thomson, who serves on Oroville’s leadership council as vice mayor.

Recently, Thomson has struck a more conciliatory note. “The desire here is dialogue,” he claimed to local news media.

With whom peace talks would be carried out isn’t clear, though. The U.S. State Department refused to answer specific questions from Motherboard, declining to say whether the U.S. government will be recognizing the republic (and why not, if not); whether it has anything to say about this threat to the integrity of the 245-year-old political union; what it has to say to Americans who fear they may find their communities annexed by violent Oroville separatists; and whether diplomats are working the problem or simply washing down fancy cheeses with wine at dinner parties where people speak foreign languages.

While the diplomatic situation is murky, it’s clear that for the U.S. government, all options remain on the table. Asked whether it had been tasked with planning an invasion of Oroville and whether it believes it has legal authority to wage war, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense firmly declined to say that it is not readying the full might of its trillion-dollar war machine, which has nearly a million and a half fighting men and women under arms as well as a powerful nuclear arsenal. “I refer you to the White House on this,” said the spokesperson, who declined to say whether they had anything to say to Americans living in fear, how many tanks the Pentagon might bring to an invasion, and whether it is currently invading. “You might also check with the California governor’s office where these sorts of actions would originate.”

President Joe Biden’s White House, which exercises control over both the federal diplomatic and military apparatuses, refused to respond to Motherboard’s inquiries. Governor Newsom’s office, which exercises joint control over local military forces alongside federal leadership, did not directly reply to questions similar to those put to the State Department and Department of Defense, nor answer questions about whether Newsom is in communication with Biden about the crisis or projecting weakness by not sending troops into Oroville. It did, however, issue a statement:
It’s unfortunate that Oroville leaders are willing to jeopardize the health and safety of their residents in this misguided effort to deny the scientific consensus underpinning California’s public health guidelines. The state will continue to focus on lifesaving measures to protect Californians from COVID-19 and prevent our health care system from being overwhelmed during this unprecedented pandemic.
The Oroville regime has so far not made representatives available to discuss the ongoing hostilities or a potential path to peace. An assistant city clerk, who is believed to be in direct contact with the separatists, told Motherboard, “I have reached out to our Mayor and Vice Mayor with your information. Please feel free to contact me back in the next few days if you haven’t heard from one of the three of us.” As of press time, Motherboard had not heard from them.

[COMMENT: As a former CA Supervisor, we often passed Resolutions of protest in our County. A Resolution is merely a statement of policy. We even passed an Ordinance on the "State of Jefferson." (An Ordinance is a local law.) None had legal clout. In CA, a county exists only as an extension of the state - created by it and delegated power and authority by it. The concept of "popular sovereignty" where people have a right, in America, to create their own independent sovereign government was shot down during the early "State of Franklin" attempt. There is a process outlined in the Constitution for creating a new state, with approval of Congress, and that is what we attempted to do with the State of Jefferson. ]
 

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Covid-19 and the Right to Travel
Bans and quarantines are constitutionally suspect when applied against U.S. citizens.

By Eugene Kontorovich
Dec. 2, 2021

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President Biden has followed President Trump’s lead in attempting to use international travel bans to reduce the spread of Covid-19. But Mr. Biden is reportedly considering an expansion of the policy. U.S. citizens, permanent residents and their immediate relatives are all exempt from existing travel bans.

The Washington Post reports the administration is considering a mandatory seven-day quarantine for everyone arriving from abroad—regardless of citizenship, vaccination or a negative Covid test. Some observers have urged officials to go further and ban entry by unvaccinated citizens or by citizens returning from high-risk countries.

The government has the authority to impose reasonable health inspections at the border. But these measures would go further than anything that has ever been done. They raise significant constitutional questions.

The right to enter their country is an essential element of citizenship. In 1215 the Magna Carta proclaimed: “It shall be lawful for any man to leave and return to our kingdom.” In the 20th century, the Supreme Court declared that “the right to travel is part of the ‘liberty’ of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. . . . Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values.”

The right to re-enter can be subject to reasonable restrictions, including passport requirements and health inspections. Existing law gives the federal government the authority to isolate or quarantine citizens arriving from abroad, but only under narrow circumstances. Federal regulations limit quarantine and isolation to cases in which the individual is known to have been exposed to a communicable disease. Everyone subject to such measures must be provided with “an explanation of the factual basis” for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s belief that he had been exposed or infected.

The existing regulations apply to all arrivals to the U.S. For citizens, the Constitution provides an added protection against blanket restrictions on entry. Universal quarantine requirements for citizens, such as the White House is reportedly considering, aren’t based on any particular risk assessment. To the extent they apply to citizens with multiple negative tests, they go beyond what is permitted by existing regulations, while failing to tailor the burden on constitutional rights in any reasonable way.

It is no answer to say that Covid is somehow different. The existing federal quarantine rules were applied to some of the worst known viruses, like Ebola and SARS.

A quarantine isn’t a banishment, but it can become one. Early in the pandemic, Australia imposed rigid entry requirements on citizens—a mandatory two-week quarantine and a tight limit on total arrivals. Many Australians were stranded outside their country for months. Such a situation is no longer a dystopian fantasy for Western countries, so it’s important to draw constitutional lines early.

A suspicionless quarantine requirement, especially as applied to citizens, erodes basic rights.

The government could take many lesser steps, from limiting flights from high-risk places to imposing rigid testing requirements. But a universal quarantine is unreasonable. It would burden even vaccinated citizens coming from places with less infection than the U.S.

Restricting citizens’ ability to travel is a hallmark of a police state. Infectious disease will always be with us. It cannot become an excuse to give the federal government carte blanche to control the lives of citizens.

Mr. Kontorovich teaches constitutional law at George Mason University Scalia Law School.
 

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Vaccine-Enhanced Infection
A Lancet study indicates the vaccines are now increasing vulnerability to Covid rather than protecting from it.
In Israel a nosocomial outbreak was reported involving 16 healthcare workers, 23 exposed patients and two family members. The source was a fully vaccinated COVID-19 patient. The vaccination rate was 96.2% among all exposed individuals (151 healthcare workers and 97 patients). Fourteen fully vaccinated patients became severely ill or died, the two unvaccinated patients developed mild disease.
Not just oops, VEI.
Vaccine Enhanced Infections.
This may be why people in Europe and the USA are now talking about mandatory vaccinations, because no one in their right mind is going to voluntarily submit to them once they realize that the protection they were promised has been inverted by VEI.

UPDATE: Vaccines are not stopping the transmission of the virus and they may not even be slowing it any longer.
Successful vaccine rollouts have failed to stop Covid transmission, with new data showing the prevalence of the virus increasing in fully jabbed individuals, according to a medical study in The Lancet. Examining new infections in Germany, researchers found that the rate of cases among fully vaccinated individuals aged 60 and older has risen from 16.9% in July to 58.9% in October.
 

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In Germany, Covid management is being militarized
Since last year, Major General Carsten Breuer, as commander of the Territorial Tasks Command, has organized the Bundeswehr's administrative assistance in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Published: December 2, 2021, 11:41 am

BERLIN
A general with experience from operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the NATO Defender Europe major maneuvers will in future lead the Corona crisis team of the new German government. Breuer is called “General Corona” in the Bundeswehr.

The tasks of his command also include the operation of military training areas and practical measures in connection with host nation support, i.e. the stay of troops from allied states in Germany and their transit. In this context, Major General Breuer was tasked with assisting the advance of US troops towards the Russian border during the Defender Europe maneuvers.

He now runs the new Corona crisis team, a supposedly civil body, from an office in the Federal Chancellery. By assigning posts to a general, the new government, in which the Greens have a strong position, is pushing for the normalization of a military response to a health issue.

Italy is being touted in Berlin as a “model” for the plan to transfer the chairmanship of the crisis team to a military. There, in order to increase the low vaccination rate, the government appointed the three-star general Francesco Figliuolo as “Covid Special Commissioner” in March. Figliuolo actually managed to increase the vaccination rate significantly.

The Kosovo and Afghanistan veteran usually appears in uniform. He also has a reputation for ignoring the prescribed distribution of competencies in the state structure. In response to criticism of his appearances in military uniform, Figliuolo said: “I hope that this uniform creates trust.”

Major General Carsten Breuer is not the first soldier to lead the “civil” German Corona crisis team. The previous Corona crisis team in the Federal Ministry of Health was also headed by an officer – General Staff Doctor Hans-Ulrich Holtherm, whom Health Minister Jens Spahn appointed on March 1, 2020 as head of the new department “Health Protection, Health Security, Sustainability” in the Ministry of Health.

Holtherm, who was previously the commander and medical director of the Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm, had extensive operational experience and participated in missions abroad in Croatia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Djibouti. In 2014, he was also a member of the interdepartmental Ebola crisis team that the German government had set up specifically to coordinate the German contribution to the international response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. At that time, the Bundeswehr carried out numerous transport flights and also sent soldiers to volunteer in the areas affected by Ebola.

To coincide with the militarization of health, Germany’s defense minister in July disbanded an elite commando unit, known as the KSK, following an official report of “far-right extremism” within its ranks.
 

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2,000+ Employees File Lawsuit Against United Airlines Over Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate

By Jim Hoft
Published December 3, 2021 at 8:16pm
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More than 2,000 employees filed a class-action lawsuit against United Airlines for religious and medical discrimination over the unconstitutional vaccine mandatory.

Captain Sherry Walker, the co-founder of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom, told The Gateway Pundit that many of her colleagues have been terminated by United for not violating their faith, or for being too ill to take the shot.

“The stories are sad and evil. Our woke CEO is harming our people and perpetuating the destruction of our nation for his bottom line,” she added.

The lawsuit is headed to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana and they need help raising funds. You can offer your support by donating to their GiveSendGo or visiting their website AE4HF.org.

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Here’s a copy of the letter they sent out to our legislators:

On August 6, 2021, United Airlines CEO, Scott Kirby, announced a vaccine mandate for all employees, regardless of their medical condition or religious beliefs. Of course, Kirby never intended to actually provide reasonable accommodations (see video), as he commanded his lieutenants to develop a draconian and retaliatory process. This effort, we believe, exploits the pandemic for marketing purposes affording him the ability to tout UAL as the only “all vaccinated airline”.

Few employees, steadfast in their faith or determined to maintain medical autonomy, survived the process as UAL attacked the employees they claimed to value as essential during the pandemic. Managers threatened termination, conducted public shaming, and mounted fear campaigns, but the faithful stood firm. To date, the only reasonable accommodation offered is indefinite, unpaid leave without benefits along with a restriction against outside employment.

Effectively, UAL is making it impossible for any employee to survive with reasonable accommodation.

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Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom (AE4HF) began as a group of faithful employees determined to exercise their rights to reasonable accommodations under Title VII and under the Americans with Disabilities Act to protect their medical autonomy. As our membership approached 4000 across many different airlines and other industries including Amtrak, 2000 of our members joined together to file a complaint against UAL in the 5th Circuit in Ft. Worth, TX.

On September 24, a Temporary Restraining Order was granted to prevent any UAL employee who submitted a request for a reasonable accommodation prior to 9/23 from being terminated or placed on unpaid leave. To date, UAL continues to violate the initial agreement terminating several employees. Additionally, UAL refuses to allow employees to request accommodations after 8/31. How can a company put a deadline on faith, and what happens to those who find faith after the deadline?

No one can answer those questions as UAL systematically terminates employees who choose to exercise their religious liberties. Many of our employees acquiesced under pressure to ensure they could continue to feed their families. They violated their faith one time and are now facing forced booster for the foreseeable future. Those who chose not to get the shot face severe retaliation almost daily. As a form of punishment, a modern scarlet letter, UAL instituted an N95 respirator requirement for all employees who sought reasonable accommodations.

However, UAL refused to provide the OSHA and manufacturers’ required medical examinations, training, or fit testing.

Many employees suffered severe harm from the respirator mandate. On the first day, an agent suffered a broken clavicle, torn rotator cuff, and damaged meniscus passing out from use. A baggage handler, in the extreme heat of the aircraft belly, passed out face-first on a moving belt loader. A flight attendant passed out in flight, falling into the jumpseat. And, an agent passed out on a desk requiring paramedic attention and an ambulance. How many more must be injured before UAL is forced to reverse this policy?

Our case rests in the hands of Hon. Mark Pittman, and we are hopeful that we will soon be allowed to return to our careers. However, while we await a ruling on our request for a preliminary injunction, our employer continues to threaten those who have asserted their civil rights. Most recently, Kirby engaged the press to shame us and turn our vaccinated co-workers against us, intentionally creating a hostile work environment to further promote his fear campaign. He claims that our vaccinated co-workers refuse to fly with us, but we know this is untrue as we have received hundreds of letters of support. At the same time, our members are routinely bullied and threatened on company property.

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Although the EEOC has accepted claims from almost 2000 of our members, they are tabling their investigations pending the outcome of our case. Any assistance you can provide, specifically on that front, would be most appreciated as our many Tennessee members are suffering terribly.

CEO Kirby believes those objecting to his mandate are only doing so because they “do not want to be told what to do.” Frankly, his disdain for employees of faith is disgusting. And, that disdain is not limited to Christians. One of the named plaintiffs is a Buddhist, and our group includes people of all faiths including Muslims, LDS, Jewish members, Sikhs, etc.
 

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The Power to Imprison — Life in Pandemicland

by Dr. Joseph Mercola
December 3, 2021

STORY AT-A-GLANCE
  • As of midnight November 15, 2021, Austria began another nationwide lockdown, but it only applies to residents aged 12 and older who have declined the experimental COVID jab. An exception is made for unvaccinated individuals who have recently recovered from COVID-19. The lockdown will reportedly affect an estimated 2 million of the 8.9 million residents
  • Germany is preparing legislation to make people work from home again unless they have a “compelling professional reason” to be in the office, in which case they must prove they’ve gotten the COVID jab or show a negative PCR test
  • In 2017, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was granted authority to restrict interstate travel during a health crisis and to quarantine Americans without a clear and direct path to challenge the quarantine order in federal court
  • Will the CDC use these powers? At the end of October 2021, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said “there’s a plan” to provide unvaccinated workers with “education and counseling,” which sounds like a plan to put people in reeducation camps
  • The plan to quarantine people in their homes and shutter private businesses as a form of pandemic response was invented by Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, president of the Global Vaccine Business Unit at Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation
As of midnight November 15, 2021, Austria began yet another nationwide lockdown, ostensibly to rein in rising COVID cases.1 What makes this lockdown unique is that it only applies to residents aged 12 and older who have declined the experimental COVID jab. An exception is made for unvaccinated individuals who have “recently recovered from COVID-19.”

They’re only permitted to exit their front door for “essential” work, “essential” shopping (such as food), quick exercise and getting vaccinated. All other outdoor leisure activities are forbidden.

The lockdown will reportedly affect an estimated 2 million of the 8.9 million residents.
Random spot-checks are prescribed to make sure no healthy unvaccinated people are roaming the streets, and fines for breaking the lockdown order can run as high as €1,450 (approximately $1,640).

Just two days earlier, it had been suggested the lockdown would only affect the northern portion of Austria and Salzburg,2 but that quickly changed to include the whole country. It’s hard to see this action as anything but punishment for refusal to be a medical guinea pig, considering Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg referred to the country’s 65% COVID jab rate as “shamefully low.”3

How Do Austrians Feel About It?
On the first day of Austria’s quarantine of the unvaxxed, Freddie Sayers of Unherd.com took to the streets to find out how Austrians feel about it. He writes:4

“What strikes me most is the class inflection to the whole thing. We started this morning on one of the fancier shopping streets in the old town, full of Rolex and Karl Lagerfeld stores in which well-heeled locals lined up to express their support for the lockdown. There is very little sympathy for a truculent minority that is seen as ‘stupid’ and ‘having brought it on themselves.’

On the same street, however, if you approach the people wearing fluorescent vests, guarding the stores and making deliveries, you tend to get a different response. They are more reluctant to speak to us, but decidedly less supportive. ‘It is bullshit,’ was one man’s pithy response.

Questions about the practical efficacy of such a measure don’t seem to be of much interest. When I ask people if they know that vaccinated people can also contract and transmit COVID, they tend to brush it aside as a minor detail.

Not a single person we have spoken of so far referred to the likely practical outcome of this new policy — it is simply a hardening of the vaccine passport policy that so far has evidently failed to contain the latest wave of infections …

I can’t escape the sense that the motivation is at least partly punitive. They don’t understand people who are not taking the vaccine, they don’t like them, and they are slightly afraid of them — so the simplest thing is to remove them from society altogether.”


Totalitarians Are Ignoring the Will of the People
It’s interesting to note that this latest round of lockdowns comes despite persistent, ongoing public protests. In fact, some areas of Europe have regularly held mass protests for well over a year, yet government leaders are flatly ignoring the will of the people and mainstream media refuse to report on these gatherings.

And, as the failures of the COVID shots are becoming increasingly evident, public demonstrations against mandates and lockdowns are gaining speed. As reported by The Vaccine Reaction,5 Vienna, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rome, Brussels, Rotterdam and other European cities all held mass protests the weekend of November 19 and 20, 2021. Some of these cities are among the most highly vaccinated in Europe. The Vaccine Reaction reports:6

“Nov. 19, 2021, the Austrian government announced a new 10-20 day nationwide lockdown … The government also became the first E.U. country to institute mandatory vaccination, giving citizens a Feb. 1, 2022 deadline to get vaccinated.

The next day, tens of thousands of Austrians took to the streets whistling, blowing horns and banging drums in Vienna. Waving Austrian flags, chanting ‘Resistance’ and holding signs that proclaimed ‘no to vaccination’ and ‘enough is enough’ and ‘down with the fascist dictatorship,’ they marched to Heroes’ Square in front of the former Hofburg Palace in central Vienna.

There was another big rally on Nov. 27 in Graz, Sankt Poelten and Klagenfurt. This time they chanted ‘Peace, freedom, no dictatorship’ …

[T]he leader of Austria’s populist FPO party Herbert Kickl branded the government’s mandatory vaccination announcement as ‘unconstitutional’ and said ‘Austria is now a dictatorship.’ He called on the nation’s high court to intervene and block ‘totalitarian’ measures by a government ‘that believes it should think and decide for us.’
He said:

‘… In almost two years, the government has not been able to develop effective strategies to protect the people. Instead it has set up new harassment week after week to curtail healthy people in their basic rights bit by bit. And now we have reached a level with compulsory vaccination that nobody actually thought was possible. We cannot and must not put up with that.’”

Europeans Demand Freedom
Several other European countries are also in turmoil, as their governments ignore the people’s demand for freedom. Germany, which is also reporting a new spike in cases, is reportedly preparing a law to make people work from home again unless they have a “compelling professional reason” to be in the office, in which case they must prove they’ve gotten the COVID jab or show a negative PCR test.7

In Belgium, which has a 76% COVID jab rate, government officials have reinforced its COVID restrictions, triggering a protest of at least 35,000 people in central Brussels. People were shouting “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” and singing “Bella Ciao,” an anti-fascist song.8

The rally remained peaceful until the very end, when a small number of people clashed with police, who brought out tear gas and water cannons. Forty-two protestors were detained; two were arrested.

Violence also erupted in the Netherlands during an anti-lockdown protest. November 12, 2021, government placed limits on the number of people allowed in each home. Bars, restaurants, cafes and supermarkets all faced a mandatory 8 p.m. closure and “nonessential” shops had to close at 6 p.m. They also canceled a number of public events. According to The Vaccine Reaction:9

“Nov. 19, seven people were injured when Dutch police used water cannons and fired on anti-lockdown protesters throwing rocks and fireworks, wounding two and arresting 20 people during a demonstration in one of Rotterdam’s main shopping areas.

Riot police carrying shields and batons and officers on horseback and in police vans patrolled the streets after the confrontation that left at least one police car burned out and dozens of bicycles destroyed.”


People are also fighting for freedom in Italy, where thousands gathered in the Circus Maximus in Rome, November 20, 2021, to protest the Green Pass requirement. One demonstrator carried a banner that said, “People like us never give up.”

Australia, where some of the most mind-boggling overreaches have occurred in recent weeks, is also fighting back. November 27, 2021, Millions March against Mandatory Vaccination organized protests in 30 cities, including Sydney and Melbourne, where thousands gathered.

Here, protesters bore signs saying “Never lock down again,” and “Less government, more freedom.”

CDC’s Unconstitutional Quarantine Powers
Around the world, we’re seeing ever-more tyrannical infringement on basic human rights and freedoms, and while the Supreme Court recently paused president Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 employees or more, pending judicial review,10,11 Americans are not out of the woods yet.

As reported in a New York Times op-ed back in January 2017,12 there’s reason to be concerned about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s authority to quarantine Americans at will. At that time, we didn’t know how that power might be used. Today, you don’t need a very vivid imagination to see how that 2017 regulation might be pulled out as a fail-safe if the mandates fall through. As reported by the NYT at the time:13

“The rules outline for the first time how the federal government can restrict interstate travel during a health crisis, and they establish in-house oversight of whether someone should be detained, without providing a clear and direct path to challenge a quarantine order in federal court.

State and local authorities had previously been the ones to usually deal with issues like this during epidemics … It’s imperative that whenever the next outbreak hits, emergency health measures are grounded in scientific evidence and guided by clear, fair rules to protect people from wrongful deprivation of their liberties …

Prompt judicial review has always been important during epidemic scares. People can usually challenge a state’s order of quarantine immediately. Indeed, in several states, the government has to get a judge’s approval before quarantining someone.

Unfortunately, the new rules give the C.D.C. significant in-house oversight of the decision to quarantine, with up to three layers of internal agency review. This internal review has no explicit time limit and could easily stretch on for weeks while a healthy person languishes in quarantine.

And since federal courts often wait until an agency has completed its internal process before it will consider hearing an appeal, we won’t know until the next crisis hits whether a federal judge will agree to hear a petition from someone detained before the C.D.C. review is completed. In addition, the C.D.C. now has clear legal authority to take over the quarantine role from states in many cases, and to restrict interstate travel.”


Fast-forward to the end of October 2021, and CDC director Rochelle Walensky is now on record saying “there’s a plan” to provide unvaccinated workers with “education and counseling,”14 which sounds an awful lot like sticking people in FEMA reeducation camps. So, the CDC’s quarantine powers may be used yet.

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Part 2 of 2

The Founding Father of Lockdowns
In a mid-November 2021 article for Brownstone,15 Jeffrey Tucker reviews how the idea of nationwide lockdowns in response to an infectious pandemic was born, and whose mind it came from.

The plan to quarantine people in their homes and shutter private businesses as a form of pandemic response was invented by a Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, president of the Global Vaccine Business Unit at Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation.
As with almost every revolution in history, a small minority of crazy people with a cause prevailed over the humane rationality of multitudes … The task now is to rebuild a civilized life that is no longer so fragile as to allow insane people to lay waste to all that humanity has worked so hard to build. ~ Jeffrey Tucker
In his book, “The Premonition,” Michael Lewis identifies Venkayya as the proverbial “father of lockdowns.” In 2005, Venkayya led a bioterrorism study group under then-president George W. Bush, who reportedly demanded a “whole-of-society plan” for dealing with pandemic threats.

Bush wanted something that would encompass borders, travel and commerce, not just the conventional threat assessment, distribution of therapeutics and vaccine development.

Venkayya’s answer was wholesale lockdowns. But the basis for this idea is questionable at best.

An Idea Devoid of Science
Tucker explains:16

“Dr. Venkayya began to fish around for people who could come up with the domestic equivalent of Operation Desert Storm to deal with a new virus. He found no serious epidemiologists to help. They were too smart to buy into it.

He eventually bumped into the real lockdown innovator working at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. His name was Robert Glass, a computer scientist with no medical training, much less knowledge, about viruses. Glass, in turn, was inspired by a science fair project that his 14-year-old daughter was working on.

She theorized (like the cooties game from grade school) that if school kids could space themselves out more or even not be at school at all, they would stop making each other sick.

Glass ran with the idea and banged out a model of disease control based on stay-at-home orders, travel restrictions, business closures, and forced human separation. Crazy, right? No one in public health agreed with him but like any classic crank, this convinced Glass even more …

Glass imagined himself to be smarter than 100 years of experience in public health. One guy with a fancy computer would solve everything! Well, he managed to convince some people, including another person hanging around the White House named Carter Mecher, who became Glass’s apostle.

Please consider the following quotation from Dr. Mecher in Lewis’s book: ‘If you got everyone and locked each of them in their own room and didn’t let them talk to anyone, you would not have any disease.’

At last, an intellectual has a plan to abolish disease — and human life as we know it too! As preposterous and terrifying as this is — a whole society not only in jail but solitary confinement — it sums up the whole of Mecher’s view of disease.

It’s also completely wrong. Pathogens are part of our world; they are not generated by human contact. We pass them onto each other as the price for civilization, but we also evolved immune systems to deal with them. That’s 9th-grade biology, but Mecher didn’t have a clue.”


Hell Unleashed
March 12, 2020, Venkayya’s now 15-year-old plan was put into practice and schools across the U.S. were shut down even though there wasn’t a shred of evidence to suggest educational facilities were hotbeds of viral spread. Indeed, actual science suggested the opposite, that children were not good carriers of infection and didn’t pose a serious threat to adults.

None of that mattered though. The models of Glass and Mecher suggested school closures would cut transmission rates by 80%. As noted by Tucker, what we’re seeing “is not science but ideological fanaticism in play.” He continues:17

“As with almost every revolution in history, a small minority of crazy people with a cause prevailed over the humane rationality of multitudes. When people catch on, the fires of vengeance will burn very hot. The task now is to rebuild a civilized life that is no longer so fragile as to allow insane people to lay waste to all that humanity has worked so hard to build.”

I couldn’t agree more. At the same time, we must also recognize the prevailing psychological underpinnings of society at large that empowered this minority to step in and attempt to crush us.

Psychological Conditions That Allow for Totalitarianism

As explained by psychology professor Mattias Desmet in the interview above, the reason so many have bought into what are clearly illogical pandemic measures is because enough of us were psychologically weakened to begin with.

This in turn allowed for a psychological condition known as “mass formation” to occur. It can be likened to a form of mass hypnosis, as it eliminates people’s critical thinking ability en masse. This also just so happens to be a prerequisite for totalitarianism. Four base conditions must be met by a large portion of society in order for mass formation to occur:
  1. Lack of social bonding — Social isolation was a widespread problem long before the pandemic. In one survey, 25% of respondents said they didn’t have a single close friend.
  2. Seeing life as meaningless and purposeless — Desmet cites research showing that half of all adults feel their jobs are completely meaningless, providing no value to either themselves or others. In another poll, done in 2012, 63% of respondents said they were “sleepwalking” through their workdays, putting no passion into their work whatsoever. So, condition No. 2 for mass formation hypnosis was also fulfilled, even before the pandemic hit.
  3. Widespread free-floating anxiety and free-floating discontent — Free-floating anxiety refers to anxiety that has no apparent or distinct cause. Judging by the popularity of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, condition No. 3 was also fulfilled long before the pandemic.
  4. Widespread free-floating frustration and aggression — This tends to naturally follow the previous three. Here, again, the frustration and aggression have no discernible cause.
Mass Formation Gives Rise to Totalitarianism
When these four conditions are fulfilled by a large enough portion of society, they are ripe for mass formation hypnosis — and the rise of totalitarianism. All that’s needed is a story in which the cause of the anxiety is identified, while simultaneously providing a strategy for neutralizing that cause.

By accepting and participating in whatever that strategy is, people with free-floating anxiety feel equipped with the means to control their anxiety and avoid panic. They also suddenly feel reconnected with others, because they’ve all identified the same nemesis.

They’re joined together in a heroic struggle against the mental representation of their anxiety, and this new-found solidarity gives their lives the meaning and purpose they lacked before. This explains why so many have bought into a clearly illogical narrative, and why they are willing to participate in the prescribed strategy — “even if it’s utterly absurd,” Desmet says.

Mass formation is a very dangerous condition, especially for those under its spell, but also for everyone who isn’t. The “mental intoxication” that results makes people willing to do things that are clearly wrong and utterly immoral, up to and including voluntarily killing their own families and themselves, if told it’s for the greater good. In short, masses of people become profoundly gullible and self-destructive, which is not a good combination.

Since self-destructiveness is built into the totalitarian system from the ground up, totalitarian regimes cannot be sustained forever. They fall apart as they’re destroyed from within. But it can be hell while it lasts, as totalitarianism built on mass formation almost always leads to heinous atrocities being committed in the name of doing good.

Action Plan
The good news is that understanding the psychology that led us here also gives us the answer for getting out of it. The key strategy, Desmet insists, is to dissent, and to do so loudly. Not violently, but persistently and frequently. We must join together and speak against totalitarianism for two reasons:

1.To give the cowardly majority a sound alternative — Typically, only 30% of people in a totalitarian society are actually under the hypnotic spell of mass formation. Another 40% simply go along because they fear sticking out or going against the grain.

The remaining 30% are not hypnotized and want to wake the others up. By grouping together, the dissenters give the 40% majority an alternative to simply going along for fear of being ostracized.

Once the vocal dissenters and the acquiescing majority are joined together, the mass formation falls apart and the totalitarian state is finished, because it’s those who go along with what they know to be wrong that allow mass formation to take root and grow. Once they’re no longer participating in and feeding that process, the totalitarian takeover cannot succeed.

2.Speaking out limits the atrocities a totalitarian regime commits — In a traditional dictatorship, the dictator usually softens his grip once dissenters are silenced, but in a totalitarian system, the opposite occurs. Once dissenting voices are silenced, that’s when the real atrocities are rolled out, against friend and foe alike.

We can see signs of this already. The more people comply, the worse it gets. “Get the shot and you won’t need to wear a mask” became “you have to wear a mask even if vaccinated, and, by the way, you’re not fully vaccinated unless you get all the boosters, oh, and even if everyone’s vaccinated, we may still need to lock down if the caseload goes up, oh, and you can’t work unless you’re fully jabbed or access medical care” — it has just gone from bad to worse.

In what ungodly universe do people condemn other people to die from treatable medical conditions or bar them from buying food “in order to save lives”? I can think of only one right now, and we’re in it.

If for no other reason than to limit the devaluation and destruction of life that is guaranteed to occur in any totalitarian system, we must never, ever, become silent. What they’re doing is wrong, and it must be stopped.

Once we’re free and clear of the totalitarian threat, we need to address the four base conditions for mass formation, to prevent this condition from appearing again. But for now, we need to focus on uniting and speaking out against tyranny and the stripping away of our God-given rights and freedoms.

The Truth About COVID-19” exposes the hidden agenda behind the pandemic, showing the countermeasures have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with ushering in a new social and economic system based on totalitarian, technocracy-led control. So, it’s not misinformation they fear. It’s the truth they want to prevent from spreading. Pick up a copy of this best-selling book today before it’s too late.

 
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