Covid19: Global reports, news and updates

[onawah]

CHD Will Sue the University of California Over Mandatory Flu Vaccine Policy
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chair, Children’s Health Defense
AUGUST 13, 2020
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/n...e-b65f900faa02


"Dr. Janet Napolitano says mandatory flu shots will “lessen the chance of being infected with COVID.” However, prevailing research suggests that flu vaccines actually raise the risk from coronavirus infection.

A January 2020 US Pentagon study (Wolff 2020) found that the flu shot INCREASES the risks from coronavirus by 36%. “Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as “virus interference…’vaccine derived’ virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus…”

Many other studies suggest the increased risk of viral respiratory infections, including coronavirus, following vaccination for influenza.

A 2018 CDC study (Rikin et al 2018) found that flu shots increase the risk of non-flu acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs), including coronavirus, in children.
A 2011 Australian study (Kelly et al 2011) found that flu shots doubled the risk for non-flu viral lung infections.
A 2012 Hong Kong study (Cowling et al 2012) found that flu shots increase the risk for non-flu respiratory infections by 4.4 times.
A 2017 study (Mawson et al 2017) found vaccinated children were 5.9 times more likely to suffer pneumonia than their unvaccinated peers.
Children’s Health Defense is aware of a contrary study published last month by Gunther Fink et. al. That report appears to conclude that flu vaccines may be prophylactic against coronavirus. The study, of Brazilian populations, has many dubious unexplained outcomes including a 47% death rate among study subjects, raising numerous unanswered questions about the methodology and validity of this research. UC campuses should not be encouraging flu shots until we have unambiguous science supporting efficacy against COVID.

If you want to join our fight against the “UC Jab” visit CHD and fill out the form. Please include details about your opposition to this mandate. We would like plaintiffs representing all the UC system schools and disciplines."

[greybeard]

Part 1 of 4 - Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Judy Mikovits | Dr. Rashid A Buttar

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Leg75TPfLIQ

For more info, visit https://www.AskDrButtar.com/livestream

Dr. Judy Mikovits spent 22 years at the NIH, did many of the "gain of function" studies on Ebola, etc. When she realized vaccines caused autism and cancer, she spoke out. She was threatened that her career would end, her life was threatened, and finally, she was framed and sent to jail. Guess who threatened her? She had a 5-year gag order where she couldn't talk about the truth or she would be sent back to jail. She now speaks out. This is a 4 part series, which will be released every day until all 4 parts will be out.

And yes, "Part 6: Covid-19 Conspiracy? Empowering Yourself", is coming out in the next few days. Just be patient...you need this info first!

[Gwin Ru]

President Trump has chosen a new coronavirus advisor who opposes lockdowns and believes the virus is actually under control. Will Fauci start packing his bags?

by IWB
August 13, 2020

Will presidential hopeful Joe Biden choice of a pro-war authoritarian as his running mate give him the edge over Trump? Is there any issue Kamala Harris is not terrible on from a libertarian point of view?

But there is good news out of Washington: President Trump has chosen a new coronavirus advisor who opposes lockdowns and believes the virus is actually under control. Will Fauci start packing his bags?



Great News From Washington (And It's NOT Kamala Harris!) (starts at 12:50 mark) 32:06

Streamed live on Aug 12, 2020

RonPaulLibertyReport

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KR9gSOEv0ro

(catch the muted segment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0cfLCGWR8)

[Philippe]

UK coronavirus LIVE: Brits returning from France face paying hundreds of pounds as Grant Shapps says it's 'no surprise' it's now on quarantine list

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...rtan-ntp-feeds

More harassment for British friends here in France as the scamdemic of the "second wave" continues unabated. Never in my life the scare for a virus continued after the flew season finished. The errors in counting the tests have already been admitted in the UK. And the more they test the more they find... What a fraud to maintain the pressure for an evil marketing plan. Looking forward for more manifestations all over Europe but the people in the Paris capital region are probably subdued by the enforcement of mask wearing and the threats of heavy fines for non compliance.

[Tintin]

Here's an interesting commentary from a Sean Walsh writing for Conservatives Global

Source: https://conservatives.global/a-posit...covid-19-case/

A positive test does not make you a Covid-19 case
written by Sean Walsh August 12, 2020

I cannot help thinking that the “second wave” of this virus is a bit like the Victorian legend of “Spring Heeled Jack”: a useful fiction intended to keep the children quiet. In both cases there are sightings which do not, by themselves, add up to any existential certainty. Jack has, of course, inherited this policing role from the dreaded “R” number, which even the most thick-headed members of the commentariat are beginning to suss is of no use when infection rates are low.

So, the PM has pivoted. With its now-familiar casual dishonesty the Government is alerting us to “spikes” in “cases” in some parts of the country. As with most deception, the deceit resides in the language. There are no spikes in cases, there are increases in positive tests (entirely consistent with increases in test activity – and in fact explained by them). A case is not the same as a positive test unless you think it is of no significance whether someone has symptoms or not.

There is a qualitative and very consequential difference between testing positive for this virus and being a “case” of it. This is a distinction the Johnson-Whitty-Hancock axis of perpetual control seems to have decided to collapse. From the start of this crisis the government hid behind very second-rate scientists to project an interpretation of correct response which was purely numbers-based. Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences: it does not follow that important qualitative distinctions are never invisible to Her.

Instead of informing us of epidemiological risk, the PM decided in March to deprive us of the right to assess our lives for ourselves. This amounted to more than a confiscation of our civil liberties. It was also an assault upon our personal systems of value. Some of us do not believe that death is the worst thing that can happen to us. Some of us do not believe that illness is to be avoided at all cost. Some of us prefer to live our lives within a framework of belief in the transcendent. Johnson’s interventions in March were a form of secular aggression against that preference.

And this has been the problem. I do not want my PM to be religious. But I want a Conservative PM to at the least have a religious sensibility. I want those who presume to govern me to have humility. I want them to know that however powerful they seem to be in the moment that history is laughing at them from the perspective of the longer term. I would prefer them to understand that you do not defeat a virus by looking into a TV camera and announcing that we all must stay at home.

This Government has no such sensibility and its response to Covid-19 has amounted to little more than a numbers game. And because they have promoted quantification over value they are in a fix. There are real considerations of value which by their nature escape the variables of the grubby calculus of mortality which dominated the narrative in March.

There is no possibility, logically, of a second national lockdown because if one is imposed there will be no “nation” left to emerge from it. The bonds that tie a nation together are difficult to understand and therefore easy to accidentally destroy.

The public has been infantilised to the extent that it has become normal to see parents put masks on their children. A very logical consequence of the assumption that a Government has the right to make it difficult for us to smile at each other in public places.

This is last chance stuff. The spiritual crisis is that pronounced.

The proper attitude to the possibility of a “second wave” is one of acceptance – a primary Christian sensibility which all conservatives should be happy to cultivate.

I would imagine – hope – that every parent who told their child the tale of Spring Heeled Jack knew deep down that the inculcation of fear is very dubious, morally. I am not sure this dysfunctional, patrician and unconservative Government has that level of compassion. Or understanding. Or even that it cares very much.

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SEAN WALSH
Sean has a PhD in the philosophy of mind/artificial intelligence and has taught philosophy at tertiary level in several universities. He now lives in Wiltshire where he works with recovering addicts and writes about and researches the metaphysics of addiction.

[greybeard]

A lot of Info here --check out the case updates too.


https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/th...irus-act-2020/

Also keep Britain free web site

https://www.keepbritainfree.com/so/0...1880673c#/main

Chris

[Bill Ryan]

Remarkable information — if it's accurate — reported by John Campbell (who I track, but don't normally endorse: he's way too mainstream and not all that bright).

It seems that Covid is barely impacting any African nations, apart from (perhaps) in South Africa.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bQcS-UWBq4Q

[Olam]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Remarkable information — if it's accurate — reported by John Campbell (who I track, but don't normally endorse: he's way too mainstream and not all that bright).

It seems that Covid is barely impacting any African nations, apart from (perhaps) in South Africa.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bQcS-UWBq4Q

I would say he appears not that bright as he is following the basic minimum requirements from the WHO. If he does have a different opinion on all this, he is not showing it.
I feel for him it's a balancing act as to stay pertinent with people siding with the WHO and also getting good info out there that you don't get in the media.
He still has a channel..!

[syrwong]

Amid all the noises, Vernon Coleman has always pointed to the most important truths in his 15 min. videos.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jyE9cJ0w1hk

[onawah]

Not to be missed! See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1372459
As follows: "DR. ROBERT YOUNG on Camelot: VACCINES, VIRUSES, HCQ, NANO & RADIATION
August 6, 2020
https://projectcamelotportal.com/202...-hcq-and-more/

"I received the following statement and articles from Dr. Robert Young regarding viruses and vaccines:

..”The virus has never been identified, isolated, purified and cultured and proven to cause infections. So what is a virus – chemical and radiation poisoning. The rest is just a fairy tale that virologists like to tell themselves to give them a purpose. Virology is a religion based upon the faith that a virus might exist. It is the smoke screen for Big Pharma to poison babies, children and adults to reduce the surplus population for money. The viral theory is pure propaganda and Luciferian.”–Dr Robert O. Young

Hi Kerry, I wanted you to be aware the the vaccine from Moderna will kill millions in the name of a fake virus. I am sure you have heard that Moderna is in stage 3 of their vaccine testing. If all goes “well”, which it will (as a killer poison) it’ll become federal law in the USA for mandatory vaccination. Here’s something you may not know. Guess who the first CEO of Moderna was? A Cornell graduate by the name of Anthony Fauci, who was a roommate with none other than Bill Gates. Are you paying attention? It was at Cornell that Bill Gates designed the RFID (Radio-frequency identification) and patented it under US2006257852. Are you awake yet? Now let’s really go down the rabbit hole. Moderna was a pharmaceutical company that started in Germany under the name IG Farben. IG Farben is infamous for it’s mass production of Zyklon-B, the primary gas used to kill millions during the Holocaust. After Germany fell, IG Farben was dissolved and its assets sold off by a Nazi turned American by the name of, you guessed it, George Soros. Soros rebranded the company as Moderna. And who was the primary stockholder of Moderna until his death? Jeffrey Epstein. His role in Moderna is where he made his fortune and established his connections. Let that sink in. Please help wake up the people! We are all being conditioned and controlled. Please share this information with everyone you love and care about.

Link to article:
http://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/ai...ro-wuhan-china "
Much more here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1372459

[greybeard]

Forbidden Truths

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nlS9eaKYXqU

International best-selling author, Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc FRSA, explains how and why politicians, scientists and the media are terrorising the public and giving a vastly exaggerated idea of the danger of covid-19. Dr Coleman also explains that the tests being used to check for covid-19 are ludicrously inaccurate and could be used to sustain the myth of covid-19 long after the disease has disappeared. He shows why parents may have to think about saying 'goodbye' forever when they send their children to school.
For more unbiased information about other important matters, please visit http://www.vernoncoleman.com The transcripts of the videos that YouTube banned are also on the website.

[Tintin]

From James Todaro MD today on Twitter:

And the paper:

Robust T cell immunity in convalescent individuals with asymptomatic or mild
COVID-19

Also in the Avalon Library

[greybeard]

Patients who tested positive for Covid 'were knowingly sent in to Scottish care homes'

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/patients-t...190215218.html

Nicola Sturgeon is facing new questions over her management of care homes after it emerged that patients who had tested positive for Covid-19 were sent from hospitals to the facilities.

At least five health boards knowingly discharged infectious elderly patients into care homes in the early stages of the pandemic, it emerged on Sunday, as the NHS desperately tried to clear beds to prepare for an expected onslaught of coronavirus patients.

The transfers were described as “like putting a lit match to dry tinder” by a public health expert while opposition MSPs described the revelation as “astonishing” and “almost beyond belief”.

Freedom of Information responses, obtained by The Sunday Post from health boards, suggest that at least 37 patients who had tested positive were discharged to care homes. This took place across five health boards - Ayrshire and Arran, Grampian, Tayside, Fife and Lanarkshire.

[greybeard]

Report calls for 'digital coronavirus passports' to help open up the economy and beat travel curbs

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/report-cal...160255092.html

Report calls for 'digital coronavirus passports' to help open up the economy and beat travel curbs
Amy Jones
The Telegraph

Digital 'coronavirus-status passports' could be used to scrap blanket lockdown measures and free up vast swathes of the economy, a new report, backed by former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has urged.

Under the proposals, people would be tested as often as every two weeks for coronavirus and keep their results in a app on their phone.

Passport holders would be able to scan an individual QR code to get into restaurants and sports venues, meaning businesses would be able to reduce social distancing requirements.

Those who test negative would also avoid the need for quarantining when crossing borders.

The report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change advocates for the implementation of 'digital' passports as part of wider calls for mass testing.

In a foreword to the report, Mr Hunt writes: "We know there is a delicate balance to be struck between health and economic concerns.

"We also know that the two are inextricably linked: an economy in freefall causes immense physical and mental harm and the uncertainty of lockdowns will lead to deep and lasting economic damage.

“Having the confidence to return to work and for consumers to interact with businesses is now a must, but it can only be achieved by learning to live alongside the virus. Short of a safe vaccine, mass testing is the only way to realise this.”

The paper, which is also backed by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and ex-leader of the Conservative Party William Hague, argues for “Covid-19 status passports” to help open up the economy further.

The report’s author, strategic adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Ryan Wain said: “It’s almost a passport back to normality. It would allow restaurants to open closer to full capacity, it could help get crowds back in sports stadiums.

“It’s really important for the economy to eventually remove and reduce social distancing and I see the passport as a way of doing that. It would also allow people to travel more freely and enable mass quarantine to be scaled down.”

Mr Wain said the suggestion was different to an “immunity passport”, which was previously touted as a potential route out of the coronavirus pandemic.

In May, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock hinted that immunity certificates could be issued to those who had already recovered from coronavirus in order to enable them to return to a more normal way of life.

However, Mr Wain noted that “evidence is still in flux about how long immunity lasts”, with some studies suggesting it can last for as little as three months.

The paper also argues the Government should look to the football Premier League’s success with mass testing which works by “removing the threat posed by non-symptomatic spreaders".

The Premier League tests every player and staff member across all 20 clubs twice every week in order to find asymptomatic cases.

[Delight]

Made me decide to never carry my phone around with me.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rx0vUl-8LII

[Olam]

Posted by Delight (here)
Made me decide to never carry my phone around with me.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rx0vUl-8LII

I deliberately stopped updating the software on my iphone to the last update before they started installing the framework for tracing apps. ( I have 13.4.1 on a SE).
My phone keeps bugging me to update but I will have none of it...!

[syrwong]

Posted by greybeard (here)
Report calls for 'digital coronavirus passports' to help open up the economy and beat travel curbs

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/report-cal...160255092.html

Report calls for 'digital coronavirus passports' to help open up the economy and beat travel curbs
Amy Jones
The Telegraph

Digital 'coronavirus-status passports' could be used to scrap blanket lockdown measures and free up vast swathes of the economy, a new report, backed by former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has urged.

The cabals have been very creative in introducing various measures that normal people cannot imagine. Like writing a composition, once the topic "coronavirus" is given, they can go as far as they want. Not very different from "What to do when the earth is invaded by invisible aliens?".

[Bill Ryan]

From Zero Hedge, yesterday.

(My own comment) The virus continues to mutate. Conventional vaccines may not be able to do anything about this, just as with other continually mutating coronaviruses, like the common cold. But T-cell immunity (which recognizes earlier encounters with similar but non-identical coronaviruses) may be how herd immunity is eventually reached.

• https://zerohedge.com/markets/covid-...vered-malaysia

COVID-19 Mutation that's "10 Times More Infectious" than the Original is Discovered in Malaysia

17 August, 2020

The English-language press is generally no fan of Philippines' pseudo-'Strongman' Rodrigo Duterte (half of the Americans who know who he is probably mistakenly believe him to be an autocrat due to the general tone of the coverage, although he was Democratically elected). Nonetheless, they've begrudgingly given him credit for his military-imposed lockdowns, and for reimposing the restrictive measures in and around Manila. Still, none of this has stopped Southeast Asia's biggest outbreak from clearly still has a long way to go to bring COVID-19 to heel.



And as South Korea is showing us right now, the virus can be surprisingly difficult to eradicate completely, just one more reason why the world needs to find a more sustainable way to live with COVID-19, rather than resorting to lockdowns as the only tool in the kit.

But there's one variable that could upend all of this thinking, and effectively force all vulnerable populations into strict lockdown mode: that would be a mutation that causes it to become even more deadly. As Dr. Fauci once warned, mutations could make the virus more virulent and more infectious, and there's already some evidence that certain strains of the virus are much deadlier than others.

And as Bloomberg reported on Monday, Southeast Asia - Malaysia specifically - has seen evidence that a certain mutation is more infectious, just like other mutations catalogued in the UK, NY and elsewhere. They call the mutation "D614G". It's also the "predominant variation of the virus" seen in Europe and the US - meaning it's the same "world-conquering" virus we reported on back in June.

Southeast Asia is facing a strain of the new coronavirus that the Philippines, which faces the region’s largest outbreak, is studying to see whether the mutation makes it more infectious.
The strain, earlier seen in other parts of the world and called D614G, was found in a Malaysian cluster of 45 cases that started from someone who returned from India and breached his 14-day home quarantine. The Philippines detected the strain among random Covid-19 samples in the largest city of its capital region.
The mutation “is said to have a higher possibility of transmission or infectiousness, but we still don’t have enough solid evidence to say that that will happen,” Philippines’ Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a virtual briefing on Monday.

And now, we can add 'Southeast Asia' to its list of conquered territory.



Though the often intransigent WHO has yet to fully acknowledge the mutation's potential, it "is said to have a higher possibility of transmission or infectiousness, but we still don’t have enough solid evidence to say that that will happen," Philippines' Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told BBG.

Keputusan terkini baru diterima dari makmal Institut Penyelidikan Perubatan (IMR): seperti disyaki mutasi jenis D614G...
Posted by Noor Hisham Abdullah on Saturday, August 15, 2020

Some argue the mutation won't have an impact on vaccines being developed. But we can't say any of this with 100% certainty, as much as some scientists would like to dismiss the risks out of hand.

One HK University professor told BBG that the mutation "might be a little bit more contagious. We haven’t yet got enough evidence to evaluate that, but there’s no evidence that it’s a lot more contagious,” University of Hong Kong’s Cowling said.

Others have claimed it's "ten times more infectious" than the original.

Still, as more evidence suggests that the variation is linked to higher levels of mortality, understanding its potential will be key to bringing the vicious pandemic to heel.

[mountain_jim]

Posted by Olam (here)

Posted by Delight (here)
Made me decide to never carry my phone around with me.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rx0vUl-8LII

I deliberately stopped updating the software on my iphone to the last update before they started installing the framework for tracing apps. ( I have 13.4.1 on a SE).
My phone keeps bugging me to update but I will have none of it...!

I also refused to update my phone once I became aware of the contact tracing app to be included.

[Delight]

Another outspoken nurse....

NURSE Kate Shemirani
LONDON DEMO TRAFALGER SQ ON 29TH AUGUST 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-xvoC4dYHnI