The vaccine imperative moves ahead full throttle.
The Seventy-Third World Health Assembly endorses the Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind with the goal of vaccinating everyone, everywhere.
Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion in the US.
Johnson & Johnson inks a massive deal with the US for 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine at more than $1 billion.
The Trump administration announces a $1.5 billion deal with Moderna for 100 million vaccine doses under Operation Warp Speed.
Facebook admits it has taken down several million posts for spreading “coronavirus misinformation” and labeled 100 million posts with warning notices about “coronavirus misinformation.”
A lengthy Columbia Journalism Review exposes Bill Gates financial influence over numerous media outlets.
Public Health England (PHE) changes its definition of 'covid deaths.'
Multiple states and localities launch COVID exposure apps to conduct “contact tracing.”
As policy makers begin shutting down schools or delaying reopening for the fall, some organizations warn this will lead to catastrophic learning losses.
A news station in Knoxville, Tennessee, reports on a six-year-old girl dying in her sleep from COVID-19, and CNN reports that a seven-year-old African American boy has died of Covid-19 in Georgia. The media neglected to mention that the little girl had hydrocephalus, epilepsy and autism and that the boy drowned in a bathtub after having a seizure due to a high fever.
The validity of the covid PCR test is questioned as investigations reveal clear scientific evidence that these tests are not accurate and create a statistically significant percentage of false positives.
A new CDC report shows 94% of COVID-19 deaths in the US had multiple contributing conditions. Data from multiple sources around the world show that patients notified as a “covid death” had two or more severe comorbidities.
Resistance to the covid measures grows as huge numbers of people around the world say they won't take a covid jab and as protests against mask mandates and business closures increase.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden calls for a nationwide mask mandate.
As vaccine developments move full-steam ahead, debate rages over how to coerce people into taking the vaccine, with many opinion pieces advocating mandates.
August 1, 2020 — The Associated Press (AP): "Thousands protest in Berlin against coronavirus restrictions"
"Thousands protested Germany's coronavirus restrictions Saturday in a Berlin demonstration marking what organizers called 'the end of the pandemic' — a declaration that comes just as authorities are voicing increasing concerns about an uptick in new infections.
"With few masks in sight, a dense crowd marched through downtown Berlin from the Brandenburg Gate.
"Protesters who came from across the country held up homemade signs with slogans like 'Corona, false alarm,' 'We are being forced to wear a muzzle,' 'Natural defense instead of vaccination' and 'We are the second wave.'"
August 1, 2020 — The Hill: "Tucker Carlson calls Fauci a 'fraud' after tense hearing"
"'It's not merely an inconvenience when your economy collapses. It's the end of the American dream. That's not a small thing. Maybe it's worth it. Maybe it's not, but if it is, then you probably shouldn't take a pass on the question "Are protests, are riots OK?" unless you're a total fraud, like a complete fraud,' Carlson added.
"Carlson blasted Fauci again later in the segment, saying, 'What a fraud this guy is.'"
"Carlson has been critical of Fauci several times on his program, including earlier this week, calling him 'a hypocritical buffoon.'
"'Under no circumstances can you note that Dr. Fauci is in fact very often a hypocritical buffoon who refuses to admit what he clearly doesn't know,' Carlson said Monday.
"'If you say that out loud, they will cancel you. Fauci is too useful to the Biden campaign. So until November, Fauci's word must be law even when it doesn't make sense. Criticize Fauci and you will disappear from the internet,' he added."
August 1, 2020 — Axios: "Trump says Fauci is 'wrong' about coronavirus cases surge"
"In the video of Friday's testimony, Fauci explained that while European countries shut 95% of their economies, the U.S. 'functionally shut down only about 50%.' Trump responded, 'Wrong! We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000.'"
August 1, 2020 — The Tennessean: A significant bump in lawsuits across several Southern US states regarding mandated coronavirus restrictions
August 2, 2020 — The Stanford Daily: Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt explains why there should not be a lockdown
"'People live and they die, and it's very sad because we all have people that we've loved who have died and it's terrible, but we know that that’s the way the world works.
"'And it seems to me that dying at 70 isn’t the same as dying at the age of 17, no matter how great you think you are and how important you are. The fact is that a 17 year old has, let’s say, 60 years of life in front of him, and a 73 year old has maybe five years of life ahead of him.'"
"'One thing that also I found disturbing was The New York Times ran a front page where they listed the names of the first hundred thousand COVID-19 fatalities. How many of those people died from lots of other reasons? 90% of the people who died from COVID-19 have heart problems, lung problems and other conditions.'"
August 3, 2020 — Politico: "Trump blasts Birx after she warns coronavirus pandemic is 'extraordinarily widespread'"
"President Donald Trump on Monday slammed White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx after the public health official said the pandemic was 'extraordinarily widespread.'
"'What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread,' Birx told CNN, adding that the pandemic was affecting both urban and rural areas.
"Trump's public attack on Birx was at odds with recent messaging from his top spokespeople, who fiercely defended Birx days ago following [Speaker of the House Nancy] Pelosi's criticism."
August 3, 2020 — Reuters: "Fauci says states seeing 'surge in COVID-19 cases' should reconsider some lockdown measures" and The Harvard Gazette: "As school year nears, experts note recent upticks, speed of virus' spread"
From Reuters:
"The U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Monday said states with high coronavirus case counts should reconsider imposing lockdown restrictions, emphasizing the need to get cases to a low baseline before the fall flu season."
"Fauci said that it is crucial that the outbreak be contained before autumn, when influenza cases are likely to spike alongside COVID-19 and more people begin to move indoors, increasing the risk of contagious.
"Fauci also cautioned that although data suggests that young children do not get seriously ill from COVID-19, they are still capable of getting infected and spreading the virus."
From The Harvard Gazette:
"The movement may be an early signal that governors and other local officials need to take modest steps to head off the need for more drastic measures in several weeks' time, according to Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
"Officials should be mindful of just how quickly a trickle of new cases can become a steady stream and then a deadly flood, Jha said in a Monday conference call with reporters. That change, he said, can occur in just a few weeks' time and could, in some states, threaten plans to reopen schools and colleges next month.
"'The problem with this disease is it lulls you," Jha said. 'When numbers start increasing, you're down at 20 or 30 or 50 cases and it goes to, like, 70, then 120, then 180, and it still looks really small but it's actually starting to get into exponential growth. What happens is by the time it hits you . . . that you have a problem . . . you're starting to replicate from a much higher number and the cases really start spiking. This is what happened with Arizona, Texas, Florida.'"
August 4, 2020 — Oxford's Center for Evidence-Based Medicine releases a report that analyzes the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) Registered Deaths in England and Wales for one week in July.
The report gives a breakdown of deaths by age group for the week ending July 27, 2020, plus the number of people in each age group corresponding to the number of "covid deaths." The numbers reveal just how unlikely it is that anyone will die from "covid" at present.
For example, in the age group 45–64, ten people died in that week, meaning there was approximately one death per 1.5 million people in that age group. There are 22.4 million people aged 15–44 in the UK, and there were three deaths from "covid" that week, meaning there was roughly a 1-in-7.5 million chance of dying.
By comparison, here are the figures for deaths from other causes:
- Drowning in the bath: 1 death per 685,000 people
- Dying in a train crash: 1 death per 500,000 people
- Falling out of bed: 1 death per 2 million people
- Dying from food poisoning: 1 death per 3 million people
- Dying in a car crash: you have a 1-in-20,000 chance over the course of a year and a 1-in-240 chance over your lifetime!
The Oxford report shows just how low the "covid" death rate has become and addresses the familiar problem of mis-attribution of deaths to that cause. It ends with the statement:
"The 167 registered deaths that occurred in week 30 do not match the Public Health England data, which reported 442 deaths in England alone for the week to the 24th of July. Given the inaccuracies in the PHE data set, it should be discontinued."
August 4, 2020 — NBC News: "U.N. chief warns world faces 'generational catastrophe' because of COVID-19 school closures"
"United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world faces a 'generational catastrophe' because so many schools have been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"'The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the largest disruption of education ever,' the U.N. chief said."
August 4, 2020 — ABC News: "New York City's health commissioner resigns, criticizing coronavirus handling"
"Dr. Oxiris Barbot resigned as New York City's health commissioner, saying in her resignation letter that 'the Health Department's incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been.'"
Previous to her resignation, Dr. Barbot had said:
"There is currently no indication that it's easy to transmit by casual contact. There's no need to do any special anything in the community. We want New Yorkers to go about their daily lives. Ride the subway. Take the bus. Go see your neighbors."
August 5, 2020 — Global Research: "COVID Tests Scientifically Fraudulent, Epidemic of 'False Positives'"
"Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests are used worldwide to 'diagnose' SARS-CoV-2 infection. An in-depth investigation reveals clear scientific evidence proving that these tests are not accurate and create a statistically significant percentage of false positives. Positive results more likely indicate 'ordinary respiratory diseases like the common cold.'"
"Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to 'diagnose' SARS-CoV-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose.
"Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby 'positive' is usually equated with 'infected.'
"However, when looking closely at the facts, the conclusion is that these PCR tests are meaningless as a diagnostic tool to determine an alleged infection by SARS-CoV-2."
August 5, 2020 — WVLT8 News in Knoxville reports, "Tennessee 6-year-old girl dies in sleep from COVID-19, parents say"
NOTE: The parents neglect to mention their daughter's preexisting medical condition. Unless you click through to the original story, you are left with the impression that she had no medical issues other than a positive CV19 test. But, in fact, when Gigi was adopted at age three after living in a Ukrainian orphanage, she was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, epilepsy, and autism, the Today Show reported in 2019. The Morse family, who have adopted several children from different countries, including Gigi, writes several blogs about their adoptions and family life. The blogs each have thousands of followers.
August 5, 2020 — Johnson & Johnson reaches deal with US government for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine at more than $1 billion
"The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, is committing over $1 billion for this agreement. The vaccine will be provided at a global not-for-profit basis for emergency pandemic use. The U.S. government may also purchase an additional 200 million doses of Ad26.COV2.S under a subsequent agreement."
August 5, 2020 — The World Economic Forum (WEF): "COVID-19 has accelerated India's digital reset"
"Since the beginning of its COVID-19 lockdown in late March, India has distributed around $5 billion in cash benefits to its citizens who need assistance the most, entirely through payments made via digital platforms."
"The digital reset of the Indian economy has seeped into almost every aspect of life. Almost every Indian now has the digitally authenticated Aadhar identification number. The connection of Aadhar with bank accounts (under a financial inclusion scheme called Jan Dhan) and mobile phones (India has more than a billion mobile phone subscriptions), or what has been called JAM, is the bedrock of much of this reset.
"With the lockdown placing immense strain on the household budgets of several sections of society, JAM played the role of a safety net and helping millions who need immediate monetary aid through ubiquitous direct transfer of state benefits."
August 6, 2020 — President Trump issues Executive Order 13944, "Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States"
"It is critical that we reduce our dependence on foreign manufacturers for Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs to ensure sufficient and reliable long-term domestic production of these products, to minimize potential shortages, and to mobilize our Nation's Public Health Industrial Base to respond to these threats. It is therefore the policy of the United States to:
(a) accelerate the development of cost-effective and efficient domestic production of Essential Medicines and Medical Countermeasures and have adequate redundancy built into the domestic supply chain for Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs;
(b) ensure long-term demand for Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs that are produced in the United States; . . . ."
August 6, 2020 — CNN reports that a 7-year-old African American boy has died of Covid-19 in Georgia
The 7-year-old boy is the youngest victim of the virus in Georgia. After being found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the hospital, the child tested positive for Covid-19 postmortem.
A few days later, according to CNN, it would come to light that the boy drowned in a bathtub after having a seizure due to a high fever and died about two weeks before his death was reported by the health department.
August 6, 2020 — According to a Children's Health Defense (CHD) report, "Components of mRNA Technology 'Could Lead to Significant Adverse Events in One or More of Our Clinical Trials,' says Moderna."
Moderna admits of its vaccine, which contains mRNA, PEG and lipid nanoparticles:
"[T]here can be no assurance that our LNPs will not have undesired effects. Our LNPs could contribute, in whole or in part, to one or more of the following: immune reactions, infusion reactions, complement reactions, opsonation reactions, antibody reactions . . . or reactions to the PEG from some lipids or PEG otherwise associated with the LNP. Certain aspects of our investigational medicines may induce immune reactions from either the mRNA or the lipid as well as adverse reactions within liver pathways or degradation of the mRNA or the LNP, any of which could lead to significant adverse events in one or more of our clinical trials. [Emphases and links added by CHD.]"
August 6, 2020 — A website called Awakening Channel publishes a video of 640 doctors who claim that "CV19 is a global scam."
The doctors, who are from all over the world, are part of the Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee.
August 7, 2020 — The World Health Organization (WHO): The Seventy-Third World Health Assembly endorses the Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind (IA2030) in resolution WHA73/(9):
"The Immunization Agenda 2030 strategic proposal envisions a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines to improve health and well-being. The key goal is to extend the benefits of vaccines to everyone, everywhere. The strategy is people-centric, led by countries, implemented through broad partnerships and driven by data. It systematically applies these 4 core principles across a set of key priorities, highlighting that immunization is an investment for the future, creating a healthier, safer and more prosperous world for all."
August 8, 2020 — Newsweek: "Mississippi Coroner Says State's Coronavirus Death Tally Is Misleading, Causing 'Unnecessary Fear In The Public'"
"A Mississippi coroner said his state's death count from coronavirus could be incorrect, telling residents that possible misreporting has led to 'unnecessary fear in the public.'
"Joshua Pounder, the coroner for DeSoto County in northwest Mississippi, wrote on his Facebook page . . . a breakdown of all causes of death in the county in July. He said he felt compelled to act because of the 'many facebook google experts and politicians with politically driven agendas driven by money reporting information that is twisted and false to the public.'
"The post . . . described what Pounder called an 'average month in Desoto County,' despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The coroner's office recently completed reports for 144 deaths in July, Pounder wrote.
"Pounder attributed the highest number of deaths to heart conditions, lung or vascular diseases and strokes, with 67 reported deaths. Pounder wrote that cancer was the second-highest, causing 30 reported deaths in the county.
"Of the 11 causes of death Pounder listed, coronavirus was not among them. Instead, the 24 DeSoto County residents who had a positive COVID-19 test at the time of their death were included in the count of total deaths and attributed to causes other than the novel coronavirus, Pounder said."
August 8, 2020 — USA Today: "Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion, spread among 7 companies"
"The federal government has allocated more than $9 billion to develop and manufacture candidate vaccines. More than $2.5 billion more has been earmarked for vials to store the vaccines, syringes to deliver them, and on efforts to ramp up manufacturing and capacity.
"And they're not done yet.
"So far, the largest sums have gone to pharmaceutical giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and a collaboration between Sanofi and GSK, as well as biotech firms Moderna and Novavax — all of which have candidate vaccines being tested in people."
August 8, 2020 — New York Post: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally goes on as planned
"[T]he 10-day event kicked off as scheduled Friday with 250,000 defiant bikers revving into town."
"'Screw COVID,' read the design on one T-shirt being hawked. 'I went to Sturgis.'
Bruce Labsa, 66, rode in [from] North Carolina for the rally. He wasn't wearing a mask Friday and told The New York Times he wasn't worried about catching the virus."
August 9, 2020 — CJ Hopkins publishes "Invasion of the New Normals"
"They’re here! No, not the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We're not being colonized by giant alien fruit. I'm afraid it is a little more serious than that. People's minds are being taken over by a much more destructive and less otherworldly force . . . a force that transforms them overnight into aggressively paranoid, order-following, propaganda-parroting totalitarians.
"You know the people I'm talking about. Some of them are probably your friends and family, people you have known for years, and who had always seemed completely rational, but who are now convinced that we need to radically alter the fabric of human society to protect ourselves from a virus that causes mild to moderate flu-like symptoms (or absolutely no symptoms at all) in over 95% of those infected, and that over 99.6% survive, which, it goes without saying, is totally insane.
"I've been calling them 'corona-totalitarians,' but I'm going to call them the 'New Normals' from now on, as that more accurately evokes the pathologized-totalitarian ideology they are systematically spreading. At this point, I think it is important to do that, because, clearly, their ideological program has nothing to do with any actual virus, or any other actual public health threat. As is glaringly obvious to anyone whose mind has not been taken over yet, the 'apocalyptic coronavirus pandemic' was always just a Trojan horse, a means of introducing the 'New Normal,' which they've been doing since the very beginning."
"The slogan has been relentlessly repeated (in a textbook totalitarian 'big lie' fashion) for going on the past six months. We have heard it repeated so many times that many of us have forgotten how insane it is, the idea that the fundamental structure of society needs to be drastically and irrevocably altered on account of a virus that poses no threat to the vast majority of the human species.
"And, make no mistake, that is exactly what the 'New Normal' movement intends to do. 'New Normalism' is a classic totalitarian movement (albeit with a pathological twist), and it is the goal of every totalitarian movement to radically, utterly transform society, to remake the world in its monstrous image."
August 9, 2020 — NBC News: "Small farmers left behind in Trump administration's COVID-19 relief package"
"The uneven distribution of funds is stark. The top 10 percent got over 60 percent of the pot, while the bottom 10 percent got just 0.26 percent."
"NBC News found over a dozen examples of bailouts that went to what appear to be foreign-owned farms, including a Swiss-owned farm in Texas, a Korean-owned farm in South Dakota and a series of Dutch-owned companies in Wisconsin. Their payments add up to over $3.6 million, an average payout above the Agriculture Department's payment cap."
August 10, 2020 — Forbes reports that Dr. Scott Atlas is brought in by the administration to advise on COVID-19 matters: "Trump's New Covid Health Adviser Seen As Counter to Fauci And Birx"
- "Atlas appeared as a guest on Fox News, calling on school districts and colleges to open their doors for in-person instruction and railed against the 'frenzy' around mass testing.
- "During a Fox News appearance on Aug. 3 discussing college reopenings, Atlas echoed an argument often made by Trump that children 'have no risk for serious illness" and 'they're not significant spreaders,' adding, 'There should never be and there is no goal to stop college students from getting an infection they have no problem with.'"
August 11, 2020 — The Washington Post: "Facebook says it has taken down 7 million posts for spreading coronavirus misinformation"
Facebook labeled 98 million posts with warning notices about coronavirus misinformation between April and June.
August 11, 2020 — NPR: New Zealand Raises Alert Level After 4 Cases Of COVID-19 Emerge From Unknown Source
"All four cases are members of the same family, who live in South Auckland, the government said Tuesday."
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned [see 9:36m–10:00m of this YouTube video or transcript]:
"We are asking people in Auckland to stay home to stop the spread. Act as if you have COVID and as if the people around you have COVID. At Level 3, you are asked to stay at home in your bubble, other than for essential movements such as going to the supermarket or local recreation.'"
August 11, 2020 — The Hill: Trump Administration Announces $1.5 Billion Deal with Moderna for 100 Million Vaccine Doses under Operation Warp Speed
"Of all the potential vaccines the government is funding, Trump said there is 'tremendous promise in every single one of them and we have many of them and they’re years ahead of schedule.'
"'The military is ready to go,' he added. 'They're ready to deliver a vaccine to Americans as soon as one is fully approved by the [Food and Drug Administration] and we're moving very close to that approval.'"
According to this Department of Defense news release:
"The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, collaborated with the DoD Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense and Army Contracting Command to provide up to approximately $1.5 billion to manufacture and deliver the vaccine doses to government-designated locations across the country. The government also can acquire up to an additional 400 million doses of the vaccine."
August 12, 2020— Public Health England (PHE) changes its definition of 'covid deaths'
The new definition is now death in a person with a laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 test and died within (equal to or less than) 28 days of the first positive specimen date will now be reported.
What this means is that England has had 36,695 deaths using this definition as opposed to the previous reported 42,072—a difference of 5,377.
PHE uses two definitions of death in a person with COVID-19 in England, one broader measure and one measure reflecting current trends:
1) A death in a person with a laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 and either: died within 60 days of the first specimen date or died more than 60 days after the first specimen date, only if COVID-19 is mentioned on the death certificate.
2) A death in a person with a laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 test and died within (equal to or less than) 28 days of the first positive specimen date.
August 13, 2020 — CNBC: "Joe Biden calls for a nationwide mask mandate as he pushes his plan to combat coronavirus"
"Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, called for a nationwide mask mandate, drawing a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump, who rarely wears a mask himself and opposes such mandates.
"'Every single American should be wearing a mask when they're outside for the next three months at a minimum,' Biden said at a press appearance in Wilmington, Delaware. 'Every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing.'"
August 13, 2020 — Dr. Joseph Mercola publishes "Testing the Most Effective Method to Manipulate Minds"
- "The U.S. government is planning to launch an 'overwhelming' COVID-19 vaccine campaign in November.
- It’s still unclear exactly when a vaccine will be available, but it could be as early as October, or as late as January 2021. According to a White House administration official, the advertising campaign will be tailored to specific subsets of the population, depending on the people the vaccine is likely to benefit the most.
- Yale University is studying the effectiveness of various messages about vaccinating against COVID-19 to ensure maximum vaccine uptake.
- The primary outcome measure is willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Secondary outcome measures include the participants' confidence in the vaccine, their willingness to persuade others to get vaccinated, their fear of those who have not been vaccinated and the level of social judgment of those who choose not to vaccinate."
August 13, 2020 — Children's Health Defense publishes "Vaccine Fundamentalism—War Metaphors in the COVID-19 Response, Vaccine Policy and Public Health, Part 1"
"The metaphor of war has long been a part of public health. In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world's public health agencies mobilized and shut down entire parts of society under the utilitarian goal of stopping the spread of Covid-19.
"In America, entire states were locked down, public schools were dismissed, government public services halted, and businesses closed, while grim pictures of death were painted, pictures of sick and dying on ventilators were broadcast, and vivid dialogue of 'overwhelmed' hospital capacity were plastered on mainstream media. Journals and media outlets played along, streaming out content about the dangers of Covid-19 and the need for continued lockdown. Dissenting views on social media were censored by social media tech companies."
"Public health officials themselves disseminate the war mentality with the repeated message: We are at war with an invisible enemy that must be eradicated. War mentality emphasizes the need for self-sacrifice in order to stop Covid-19 spread. And the weapons of war are glorified; public health authorities glorify its chief weapon of vaccination.
"Like any war, there is collateral damage. The collateral damage here are the bedrocks of medical ethics, informed consent, human rights, civil liberties, and even science itself. How can proper science be conducted when one goal, 'deliver a vaccine at warp-speed,' is emphasized over healthy scientific skepticism and public discourse? The ultimate collateral damage, of course, is among those damaged or injured by decisions resting on faulty science.
"A further examination of the public health response to Covid-19 reveals a deeper problem: the metaphor of war and the assumption of vaccine fundamentalism has long been part of the public health mindset."
August 13, 2020 — Boston Federal Reserve announces multiyear collaboration with MIT to develop central bank digital currency
"The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston today announced a multiyear collaboration with the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to perform technical research related to a central bank digital currency. The research project will explore the use of existing and new technologies to build and test a hypothetical digital currency platform."
August 13, 2020 — Rolling Stone publishes "Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers: How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry—and everyone else will pay the price"
"On June 29th, 2020, while America remained transfixed by anti-police protests, the chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Gilead issued a much-anticipated announcement. In a breezy open letter, Daniel O'Day explained how much his company planned on charging for a course of remdesivir, one of many possible treatments for Covid-19. 'In the weeks since we learned of remdesivir's potential against Covid-19, one topic has attracted more speculation than any other: what price we might set for the medicine,' O'Day wrote, before plunging into a masterpiece of corporate doublespeak.
"The CEO noted a study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health, showing that Covid-19 patients taking remdesivir recovered after 11 days, compared with 15 days for placebo takers. In the U.S., he wrote, 'earlier hospital discharge would result in hospital savings of approximately $12,000 per patient.'"
"To recap: Gilead, a company with a market capitalization of more than $90 billion, making it bigger than Goldman Sachs, develops an antiviral drug with the help of $99 million in American government grant money. Though the drug may cost as little as $10 per dose to make and is being produced generically in Bangladesh at about a fifth of the list price and costs about a third less in Europe than it does in the U.S., Gilead ended up selling hundreds of thousands of doses at the maximum conceivable level, i.e., the American private-insurance price — which, incidentally, might be about 10 times what it's worth, given its actual medical impact."
August 14, 2020 — CNBC: "The U.S. has already invested billions in potential coronavirus vaccines. Here's where the deals stand"
- So far, the federal government has struck deals with a handful of pharmaceutical giants that have topped roughly $10.79 billion as part of Operation Warp Speed.
- The operation aims to provide at least 300 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by January 2021.
- Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and BioNTech, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, Novavax and AstraZeneca have all received funding from the operation for their vaccines.
August 14, 2020 — CIDRAP: The National Urban League reports that "US blacks are three times more likely than whites to get COVID-19"
"The report, based on data from Johns Hopkins University, also shows black Americans are twice as likely to die from the virus.
"According to the 'State of Black America,' the infection rate for blacks is 62 per 10,000, compared with 23 per 10,000 for whites. Latinos see even more infections: 73 per 10,000.
"During the early months of the pandemic, the report asserts that blacks were more likely to have preexisting conditions that predispose them to COVID-19 infection. . . ."
August 14, 2020 — US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): "Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, June 24–30, 2020"
The CDC report notes that in June 2020, suicidal ideation in young adults increased, as did anxiety and depression, stress-related symptoms, and commenced or increased substance abuse. 25% of young adults considered suicide that month.
August 14, 2020 — NBC News: "Facing massive fines and jail, N.J. gym owner says nothing will make him close his doors"
"The owners of Atilis Gym have been arrested and threatened with hefty fines but say they will fight to keep their doors open no matter what.
"The owners, Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti, have received and ignored several citations and were arrested last month and charged with contempt, obstruction and violating the Disaster Control Act.
"They reopened the gym less than a week later."
"'We're not going to back down — this is not about opening up a gym,' Trumbetti told NBC News hours before the hearing. 'This is about our constitutional rights, and he has violated them,' Trumbetti said, referring to [Gov. Phil] Murphy."
August 14, 2020 — Laura Hayes writes an op-ed for Age of Autism: "The Catastrophic Costs of Complying"
"In the event you haven't noticed, things are getting worse, not better. And I am not talking about 'Covid-19,' whatever that is or isn't (no way for us to know, as we have been lied to from the get-go). I am talking about the state of our God-given rights, many of which our U.S. Constitution was created to protect, rights that include: the right to breathe freely, minus dangerous impediments; the right to communicate and socialize with others, minus facial covering and physical distancing requirements; the right to move about freely, including frequenting businesses of our choosing, minus finding businesses forcibly closed, and minus absurd shopping and walking around town rules; the right to conduct business, minus being deemed non-essential, minus being restricted in scope and ability to conduct business, and minus being coerced to enforce dangerous and absurd requirements of employees and customers; the right to assemble, minus ridiculous and arbitrary physical distancing and maximum number restrictions, and minus the forced covering of the majority of one’s face; the right to seek medical, dental, and eye care, minus temperature checks, facial masking, and in some cases, Covid-19 testing requirements (with the nasal swab testing causing harm and damage to some of those being tested that way); the right to practice one’s religion, and to congregate and fellowship with others, minus rules and requirements which prevent one from doing so; and the right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, minus unwarranted, unconstitutional, and unacceptable government interference.
"Americans should find it shocking, frightening, and intolerable that acting on our God-given fundamental rights as human beings has now been deemed illegal behavior and can result in being charged with a crime in a growing number of situations and locations. Stop and think about that for a few minutes. That which prior to 2020 were considered basic human rights, including the rights to breathe, smile at others, communicate, entertain, move about, congregate, shop, conduct business, seek care and services, and go to church, have instantaneously been labeled dangerous behaviors if done in a free, unregulated, and unimpeded manner, deemed worthy of fines, ostracization, shaming, social isolation, forced quarantine, closures, lockdowns, lawsuits, and no doubt very soon, prison time and 're-education camps.' Perhaps this is why nearly half of U.S. states have released thousands of prisoners before their sentences were completed, including those who have committed violent crimes…to make room for those who will refuse to comply with rights-stripping, unconstitutional, life-destroying edicts made and enforced by those abusing their positions of power.
"In short order, we have been put under mask requirements, physical distancing requirements, quarantining of healthy people, business closures, lockdowns, required testing (or lose your job, or be denied services), contact tracing (how long will it take for literally every American to be put on someone’s list. . . . I predict that could be accomplished in less than 2 weeks), and soon dissenters will be victims of knocks on their doors, removal to quarantine centers and/or re-education camps, forced vaccinations while being held down, and prison time, followed by 'suicides' and unexplained deaths.
"Our country is being run by a real-life mafia, comprised of a small group who has assumed a powerful form of global authority. These mafia heads have many minions who populate the pharmaceutical industry and government leadership and regulatory positions. These mafia underlings then have their many minions which include elected officials, university and education system officials, the mainstream media, and public health officials. And as of late, this despotic mafia has succeeded in enlisting citizens to 'police' one another, both voluntarily and for pay, via snitch lines, social media shaming, contact tracers, informants who report violations, and non-police enforcers of mask wearing and physical distancing."
August 15, 2020 — CNN: "Huge numbers of people around the world say they wouldn't take a Covid jab"
"Neil Johnson, a physicist at George Washington University who is studying vaccine skepticism on social media, told CNN the four most common objections are: safety; whether a vaccine is needed; trust of the establishment and pharmaceutical companies; and perceived uncertainty in the science."
"An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs online poll from May indicated half of Americans would hesitate to take or refuse a vaccine, and a study by King's College London last week found similar results in the UK."
August 15, 2020 — NBC News: "An all-out war over mail voting erupts in courts across the U.S."
"Do you have to request an absentee ballot application, or will one be sent to you automatically? Will your ballot be counted if the mailman is late? If you fill out your absentee ballot wrong, can you fix it?
"Questions like these—the fine print of democracy when it comes to mail voting—are at the heart of a record-breaking, high-dollar legal war being waged in courtrooms nationwide, fueled by the coronavirus that's upended the idea of holding a presidential election as usual and by President Donald Trump's constant warnings about widespread voter fraud. . . ."
August 16, 2020 — A CDC report, "Duration of Isolation and Precautions for Adults with COVID-19," notes:
"At this time, we do not know if someone can be re-infected with COVID-19. Data to date show that a person who has had and recovered from COVID-19 may have low levels of virus in their bodies for up to 3 months after diagnosis. This means that if the person who has recovered from COVID-19 is retested within 3 months of initial infection, they may continue to have a positive test result, even though they are not spreading COVID-19.
"There are no confirmed reports to date of a person being reinfected with COVID-19 within 3 months of initial infection."
NOTE: According to Totality of Evidence, the CDC report reveals that its PCR tests amplified to 33 cycles, indicating that it is NOT replication-competent, which creates a false positives "casedemic." The New York Times later reports that the US testing regime advised by the CDC returns a false positive rate of more than 85%.
August 17, 2020 — The Washington Free Beacon: "Michigan College Will Digitally Track Students' Movements At All Times"
"A Michigan college is requiring students to download a phone application that tracks their location and private health data at all times in an attempt to protect them from the coronavirus.
"Albion College, located in Albion, Mich., is one of the first schools in the country to tackle contact tracing. The school is working to create a 'COVID-bubble' on campus and asking students stay within the school's 4.5-mile perimeter for the entire semester; if a student leaves campus, the app will notify the administration, and the student could be temporarily suspended."
August 18, 2020 — The documentary "PLANDEMIC 2: Indoctornation" is released.
This film, Part 2 of the Plandemic series, explores untold stories and exposes the powerful forces that comprise and control the medical establishment.
August 18, 2020 — Healthcare Finance: "CMS adds 20% to inpatient Medicare payment for COVID-19 patients"
"The guidance requires providers to document a positive COVID-19 test result in the medical record."
"If a Medicare patient has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and needs to be admitted to a hospital, the payment to the hospital is increased by 20% to reflect the additional costs of treating a patient with COVID-19."
August 18, 2020 — Newsweek: "Fauci Warns Even the Healthy Can Have Coronavirus Symptoms for Months"
"Fauci said: 'In individuals who are young and otherwise healthy, who don't require hospitalization but do get sick and symptomatic enough to be in bed for a week or two or three and then get better, they clear the virus—they have residual symptoms for weeks and sometimes months.'"
August 18, 2020 — The Washington Post: "American attitudes toward covid-19 are divided by party"
"Since the coronavirus pandemic began, numerous polls have found U.S. public opinion seems to be polarizing along party lines over such issues as who fears the virus, wears masks, complies with social distancing and supports policies that help flatten the curve. We were concerned partisanship might be undermining the unified response required to fight the pandemic. But our research found the public health crisis itself might help to undo political polarization — at least, on issues related to the virus. We find fear of becoming seriously ill from covid-19 helps blunt knee-jerk partisan reactions, which suggests the most effective public messaging strategy to bring Americans together might be fear itself."
August 19, 2020 — CNBC: "Australia PM walks back coronavirus vaccine comments after saying it should be mandatory"
- "[Australia's Prime Minister Scott] Morrison said a coronavirus vaccine would not be compulsory.
- Earlier he suggested there would be exemptions on 'medical grounds but that should be it.'
- The prime minister said he was aiming to get about 95% of the country vaccinated."
August 19, 2020 — From The Atlantic: "Long-haulers are redefining Covid-19"
"Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can't understand the pandemic."
And from The Guardian: "We know too little about Covid-19 'long-haulers.' We need a comprehensive study"
"'Long-haulers' is no longer just a job description for truckers.
"This term now refers to the growing number of people who contracted Covid-19 and have continued to have symptoms for more than 100 days — even though tests reveal no virus left in the body. Covid-19 'long-haulers' continue to struggle with debilitating symptoms, often alone, in the shadows of this devastating disease. Having escaped the worst, they nevertheless continue to struggle. It feels like a betrayal."
August 20, 2020 — University of Minnesota: "New research finds association between COVID-19 hospital use and mortality"
"Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Washington found a statistical relationship between the number of hospital beds (ICU and non-ICU) occupied by COVID-19 patients in a state and reported mortality. Published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, this research is believed to be the first to use actual, state-level data to examine this association."
August 20, 2020 — Denis G. Rancourt, Marine Baudin, and Jérémie Mercier publish "Evaluation of the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 in France, from all-cause mortality 1946–2020"
Summary:
"We analyzed historic and recent all-cause mortality data for France, and other jurisdictions for comparison, using model fitting to quantify winter-burden deaths, and deaths from exceptional events. In this way, COVID-19 is put in historic perspective. We prove that the 'COVID-peak' feature that is present in the all-cause mortality data of certain mid-latitude Northern hemisphere jurisdictions, including France, cannot be a natural epidemiological event occurring in the absence of a large non-pathogenic perturbation.
"We are certain that this 'COVID-peak' is artificial because it:
i. occurs sharply (one-month width) at an unprecedented location in the seasonal cycle of all-cause mortality (centered at the end of March),
ii. is absent in many jurisdictions (34 of the USA States have no 'COVID-peak'), and
iii. varies widely in magnitude from jurisdiction to jurisdiction in which it occurs.
"We suggest that:
• the unprecedented strict mass quarantine and isolation of both sick and healthy elderly people, together and separately, killed many of them,
• that this quarantine and isolation is the cause of the “COVID-peak” event that we have quantified,
• and that the medical mechanism is mainly via psychological stress and social isolation of individuals with health vulnerabilities.
"According to our calculations, this caused some 30.2 K deaths in France in March and April 2020. However, even including the 'COVID-peak,' the 2019–2020 winter-burden all-cause mortality is not statistically larger than usual. Therefore SARS-CoV-2 is not an unusually virulent viral respiratory disease pathogen."
August 20, 2020 — Vox: "Government shutdowns of 'nonessential' retailers were a huge gift for Amazon, Walmart, and Target"
"Some feared the pandemic would widen the gap between the haves and have-nots of retail. That fear is now reality.
"When stay-at-home orders due to the Covid-19 pandemic forced many US brick-and-mortar retailers to close up shop late winter and into this spring, some industry observers feared the government measures would widen the existing gap between the retail industry's haves and have-nots.
"A few months later, that fear has become reality.
"Amazon, Walmart, and Target all recently reported record sales or profits metrics for their second quarters ending in June or July, as government-mandated store closures gave consumers fewer options for brick-and-mortar shopping and more consumers moved their spending online. Big grocery chains as well as home-improvement giants like Home Depot and Lowe's that were deemed essential have also fared well."
August 21, 2020 — ABC 8News: "Virginia Health Commissioner says he'll mandate a COVID-19 vaccine"
"[Virginia's] State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.
"Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available."
August 21, 2020 — Columbia Journalism Review: "Journalism's Gates keepers"
A Columbia Journalism Review exposé reveals that Bill Gates has steered more than $250 million to the BBC, NPR, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, Univision, Medium, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pulitzer Center, National Press Foundation, International Center for Journalists, and a host of other groups.
To conceal his influence, Gates also funnels money via subgrants for contracts to other press outlets.
"During the pandemic, news outlets have widely looked to Bill Gates as a public health expert on COVID—even though Gates has no medical training and is not a public official. PolitiFact and USA Today (run by the Poynter Institute and Gannett, respectively—both of which have received funds from the Gates Foundation) have even used their fact-checking platforms to defend Gates from 'false conspiracy theories' and 'misinformation,' like the idea that the foundation has financial investments in companies developing COVID vaccines and therapies. In fact, the foundation's website and most recent tax forms clearly show investments in such companies, including Gilead and CureVac.
"In the same way that the news media has given Gates an outsize voice in the pandemic, the foundation has long used its charitable giving to shape the public discourse on everything from global health to education to agriculture—a level of influence that has landed Bill Gates on Forbes's list of the most powerful people in the world."
"From virtually any of Gates's good deeds, reporters can also find problems with the foundation's outsize power, if they choose to look. But readers don't hear these critical voices in the news as often or as loudly as Bill and Melinda's. News about Gates these days is often filtered through the perspectives of the many academics, nonprofits, and think tanks that Gates funds. Sometimes it is delivered to readers by newsrooms with financial ties to the foundation.
"The Gates Foundation declined multiple interview requests for this story and would not provide its own accounting of how much money it has put toward journalism."
August 22, 2020 — The Guardian: "Coronavirus pandemic halts life-saving UK cancer and heart disease research"
"More than 1,500 clinical trials of new drugs and treatments for cancers, heart disease and other serious illnesses have been permanently closed down in Britain in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, a further 9,000 have been suspended and most will need major cash injections if they are to be reactivated."
August 22, 2020 — MarketWatch: "Bill Gates: Millions more will die in this pandemic, and 'freedom' hinders the disappointing U.S. response"
"Bill Gates predicts that 'the worst is still ahead' and the death toll will ultimately rise by millions.
"Emerging markets, where health-care systems and economies are already struggling, is where the pain will be most pronounced, [Gates] explained in a recent interview in the Economist."
August 22, 2020 — In her Web of Debt blog, Ellen Brown writes a post titled "From Lockdown to Police State: The 'Great Reset' Rolls Out"
"On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: 'People are entitled to think there is an "agenda to destroy western society."'
"The gist of an August 13th article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the title: 'Australian Police Go FULL NAZI, Smashing in Windows of Civilian Cars Just Because Passengers Wouldn't Give Details About Where They Were Going.'
"Another article with an arresting title was by Guy Burchell in the August 7th Australian National Review: 'Melbourne Cops May Now Enter Homes Without a Warrant, After 11 People Die of COVID — Australia, This Is Madness, Not Democracy.' Burchell wrote that only 147 people had lost their lives to coronavirus in Victoria (the Australian state of which Melbourne is the capital), a very low death rate compared to other countries. The ramped up lockdown measures were triggered by an uptick in cases due to ramped up testing and 11 additional deaths, all of them in nursing homes (where lockdown measures would actually have little effect).
"'But the piece de resistance,' writes Burchell, 'has to be that now police officers can enter homes with neither a warrant nor permission. This is an astonishing violation of civil liberties. . . . Deaths of this kind are not normally cause for government action, let alone the effective house arrest of an entire city.' He quoted Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews, who told Victorians, 'there is literally no reason for you to leave your home and if you were to leave your home and not be found there, you will have a very difficult time convincing Victoria police that you have a lawful reason.' Burchell commented:
'[U]nder this new regime you can't even remain in your house unmolested by the cops, they can just pop 'round anytime to make sure you haven't had Bruce and Sheila from next door round for a couple of drinks. All over a disease that is simply not that fatal. . . .'"
August 22, 2020 — CNN: "Syracuse University suspends 23 students after 'incredibly reckless' gathering"
"The gathering was Wednesday night about 10 p.m., wrote the dean of students, Marianne Thomson, and the head of public safety, chief Bobby Maldonado, on Thursday."
"In a separate campus-wide letter Thursday, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation J. Michael Haynie said the gathering of first-year students 'may have done damage enough to shut down campus, including residence halls and in-person learning, before the academic semester even begins.'"
"This comes after other universities across the country have had to suspend students who gathered in large groups and cancel in-person classes."
August 23, 2020 — Reuters: "Government health advisers say missing school is greater risk to kids than COVID"
"The chief medical officers of the United Kingdom have said children should return to school after the summer holidays, warning that missing out on their education posed much bigger risks to them than catching COVID-19."
August 24, 2020 — Around the NFL: "All 77 false-positive COVID-19 tests come back negative upon reruns"
"Testing irregularities at one of the labs used by the NFL led to 77 positives for COVID-19 among players and staff members from multiple teams Saturday.
"NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport and NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported that all 77 original tests were rerun Sunday night, and every single one came back negative, per sources informed of the situation.
"All 77 individuals also underwent additional point-of-care tests. Each came back negative as well."
August 24, 2020 — Open The Magazine publishes an editorial by former UN Assistant Secretary General Ramesh Thakur, "The Tyranny of Coronaphobia"
Ramesh Thakur says he is concerned that the majority of people can be successfully terrorised into surrendering their individual freedoms.
"I've had two big worries during the pandemic, starting from the very beginning and still ongoing. Both relate to my sense that 'coronaphobia' has taken over as the basis of government policy in so many countries, with a complete loss of perspective that life is a balance of risks pretty much on a daily basis."
"I remain very puzzled at how so many people I considered to be liberals have been so utterly indifferent to the plight of the poor and the casual labourers who do not have the luxury of working from home, nor savings to fall back on to tide their family over until they can earn an income again. Celebrities posting videos and selfies of working from home in opulent mansions is positively obscene and revolting. Not surprisingly, given my Indian background, I was powerfully influenced by the visual images of the millions of migrant workers literally on the march by foot over thousands of kilometres trying desperately to make their way back to home villages as all work dried up. Many died en route and the heartbreaking case of Jamlo Madkam in particular, a 12-year old girl who trekked 100km but died of exhaustion just 11km from home, has never stopped haunting me."
"This is not to say that high-income Western countries are immune from the deadly effects of lockdown. A report in Financial Times referenced an internal British government estimate that ultimately, without mitigation, up to 150,000 people in the UK could die prematurely of other conditions because of the Covid-induced lockdown that put on hold huge numbers of screenings and operations. A report in Lancet Psychiatry said measures taken in response to Covid-19 could have a profound and pervasive impact on mental health. In the UK, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has reported a sixfold increase in suicide attempts by the elderly because of depression and anxiety caused by social isolation during the lockdown. There's also been a surge in 18-25-year-old men 'badly affected by first-time mental health issues.' Australian experts warn that lockdown-induced 50 per cent jump in suicides could kill 10 times as many as the virus. US authorities and experts, too, are warning of an approaching 'historic wave' of mental health problems caused by the months-long Covid-related 'daily doses of death, isolation and fear.' Lockdowns also put women at much greater risk of domestic violence. This is just unconscionable and hard to comprehend intellectually as well as emotionally."
August 24, 2020 — PREP Act Amendment Allows Pharmacists to Vaccinate Children Ages 3–18
The Federal Register of the US government writes that "[t]he following additional persons are qualified persons:
"(d) A State-licensed pharmacist who orders and administers, and pharmacy interns who administer (if the pharmacy intern acts under the supervision of such pharmacist and the pharmacy intern is licensed or registered by his or her State board of pharmacy), vaccines that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends to persons ages three through 18 according to ACIP's standard immunization schedule."
August 25, 2020 — The WHO suggests a global effort for the purpose of "Immunizing the public against misinformation"
"Soon after the world started getting used to the terms coronavirus and COVID-19, WHO coined another word: 'infodemic' — an overabundance of information and the rapid spread of misleading or fabricated news, images, and videos. Like the virus, it is highly contagious and grows exponentially. It also complicates COVID-19 pandemic response efforts.
“'We're not just battling the virus,' said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. 'We're also battling the trolls and conspiracy theorists that push misinformation and undermine the outbreak response.'"
"Even as the world is laser-focused on the search for a safe, effective vaccine, misinformation continues to spread about immunization as well."
"A new UN alliance to fight the infodemic — comprising WHO, UNESCO, the International Telecommunication Union, and UN Global Pulse — recently received just over US $4.5 million from the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund to scale its community amplifier work, social listening initiative, and other projects including the creation of a centralized fact-checking and misinformation center to provide countries with tools to address the infodemic."
August 26, 2020 — New England Journal of Medicine: Developing Safe and Effective Covid Vaccines — Operation Warp Speed’s Strategy and Approach
Authors: Moncef Slaoui, Ph.D., and Matthew Hepburn, M.D.
“Announced on May 15, Operation Warp Speed (OWS) — a partnership of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the private sector — aims to accelerate control of the Covid-19 pandemic by advancing development, manufacturing, and distribution of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.”
“The partnership grew out of an acknowledged need to fundamentally restructure the way the U.S. government typically supports product development and vaccine distribution.”
“The initiative set ambitious objectives: to deliver tens of millions of doses of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine—with demonstrated safety and efficacy, and approved or authorized by the FDA for use in the U.S. population—beginning at the end of 2020 and to have as many as 300 million doses of such vaccines available and deployed by mid-2021.”
“OWS selected vaccine candidates on the basis of four criteria… candidates had to use one of four vaccine-platform technologies that we believe are the most likely to yield a safe and effective vaccine against Covid-19: the mRNA platform, the replication-defective live-vector platform, the recombinant-subunit-adjuvanted protein platform, or the attenuated replicating live-vector platform.”
“We aim to have stockpiled, at OWS’s expense, a few tens of millions of vaccine doses that could be swiftly deployed once FDA approval is obtained.”
NOTE: Moncef Slaoui, former head of the vaccines department at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), was named to lead OWS, alongside chief operating officer and four-star general Gustave F. Perna. In July 2017, Slaoui joined Moderna's Board of Directors. Upon his appointment Slaoui resigned from the board of Moderna to avoid conflicts of interest; he held Moderna stock options worth over $10 million.
Colonel Matthew Hepburn was program manager at DARPA's Biological Technologies Office for 6 years. Prior to joining DARPA, Matt served as the Director of Medical Preparedness on the White House National Security Staff. Enabling Technologies rapidly develops new vaccines and treatments against future infectious disease challenges.
August 26, 2020 — Newsweek: "Sweden Finds Thousands of False Positive Results From Chinese-Made Coronavirus Test Kits"
"In a statement, [Sweden's Public Health Agency] said that the PCR kits, which test for coronavirus infection, were made in China by BGI Genomics and that the errors were discovered during routine quality control checks in two laboratories. The tests were unable to distinguish the difference between very low levels of virus infection and a negative result.
"According to the agency, the tests were used to conduct at-home tests between March and August. Approximately 3,700 residents received false positive results, the agency said."
"In the contract it states, 'The total number of reports during peak activity (which are not expected to reflect sustained activity) is expected to be 1,000 reports per day, with up to 40% of the reports serious in nature.'
"This estimate represents a projected 700% increase of adverse events reported to VAERS. Even that turned out to be a colossal underestimate."
August 28, 2020 — Reuters: "Severe or fatal COVID-19 very rare in children, study finds"
"Children and young people are far less likely than adults to get severe cases of COVID-19 infection, and death from the pandemic disease among children is exceptionally rare, according to UK research published on Thursday.
"A study of COVID-19 patients admitted to 138 hospitals in Britain found that less than 1% were children, and of those fewer than 1% — or six in total — died, all of whom were already suffering serious illness or underlying health disorders.
"'We can be quite sure that COVID in itself is not causing harm to children on a significant scale,' said Malcolm Semple, a professor of outbreak medicine and child health at Britain's University of Liverpool, who co-led the work.
"'The highest level message really has to be that (in children with COVID-19) severe disease is rare, and death is vanishingly rare — and that (parents) should be comforted that their children are not at direct harm by going back into school,' he told a briefing."
August 29, 2020 — The New York Times: "Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be."
"In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found."
"One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus.
"Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said."
"The C.D.C.'s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations.
"For example, North Carolina's state lab uses the Thermo Fisher coronavirus test, which automatically classifies results based on a cutoff of 37 cycles."
"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. 'I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,' he said."
August 30, 2020 — ABC 15News: New CDC report shows 94% of COVID-19 deaths in US had contributing conditions
According to the CDC, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate for only 6% of deaths.
"Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death."
Of the 153,504 deaths, 94% had up to four comorbidities listed as cause of death, the majority were very advanced in age.
Data from multiple sources from around the world has shown that typically patients notified as a death with the virus already had two or more severe co-morbidities (such as cancers, pneumonia, heart disease, etc.).
August 30, 2020 — Sky News Australia: Coronavirus: Anti-mask protests held across the world
"Tens of thousands of people have protested against COVID-19 restrictions in anti-mask demonstrations across the world."
"About 1,000 anti-mask protesters . . . gathered in the Swiss city of Zurich and a similar number demonstrated in London at Trafalgar Square, many holding home-made banners.
"One called for an 'End to medical tyranny'; another read 'No to mandatory vaccines' while one man waved a placard declaring 'Masks are muzzles.'"
August 31, 2020 — CNBC: "Canada to purchase 76 million doses of Novavax coronavirus vaccine, company says"
"KEY POINTS:
- Novavax said it expects to finalize an agreement that would see it begin to supply Canada with doses 'as early as the second quarter of 2021,' the company said.
- The company's vaccine, called NVX-CoV2373, is currently in phase two trials.
- Novavax has previously said it could begin late-stage trials as early as October."
August 31, 2020 — National Institutes of Health (NIH): "Phase 3 Clinical Testing in the US of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Begins"
"The trial will enroll approximately 30,000 adult volunteers at 80 sites in the United States to evaluate if the candidate vaccine can prevent symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)."
"'Safe and effective vaccines will be essential to meet the global need for widespread protection against COVID-19,' said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D."
As the covid mRNA vaccine crazy train barrels down the tracks in a world gone mad, the “coronavirus crisis” has shown just how easy it is to impose a totalitarian regime. Create mass fear and authoritatively offer a solution.
Once we stop being distracted by the media bullhorns and focus purely on the dystopian things being implemented, we see the claim that the responses were determined by “the science” was always false, a mere rhetorical device to justify the imposition of totalitarian rule.
Even a cursory account of the situation shows none of the emergency measures even make sense:
1) The average age of "covid deaths" in most countries exceeds the normal lifespan of citizens of those countries with on average 2.5 comorbidities. For example: Austria 80+ years Source EMS; Canada 86 years Source HCSC; England 80+ years Source NHS; France 84 years Source SPF; Germany 82 years Source RKI; Italy 81 years Source ISS; Spain 82 years Source MDS; Switzerland 84 years Source BAG; United States 80 years Source CDC; Sweden 86 years Source FOHM
A "global pandemic" is certainly not defined by the age of deaths exceeding the normal lifespans with no young, healthy people being affected.
2) The "excess" death toll seems to be an artifact of hospital and nursing home protocols with around 50% of "covid deaths" coming from nursing homes;
3) The "deaths from covid" are from a specific demographic—not merely the elderly but the most fragile of the fragile of the elderly that reside in institutional settings. Pandemics are supposed to impact mortality rates of a broad demographic;
4) That death toll is mainly due to policy shifts and attribution to "covid" is demonstrably false as “cases” are determined by flawed PCR tests and aberrant policy shifts—the CDC changed years old policies on March 24th, April 14th and June 13th with each change designed to increase number of "positive" test cases;
5) "Deaths from covid" are from specific locations. Pandemics are supposed to be defined by cutting across a wide swath of geographic regions.
None of the above is esoteric, numerous other discrepancies are apparent to any rational thinker. Yet many intelligent people are unaware of these facts and apparently believe that this coronavirus is the new Black Death and only by everyone obeying every changing edict from the authorities is there any hope of seeing another day on this earth.
Denial and avoidance of the shocking truth has worked upon them as an insidious cultural hypnosis.
There is nothing “normal” about what is going on here, new or not.
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