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    Hi fellow members!

    Two of my favourite's Spiro and Corbet.
    The importance of NOT complying is CRUCIAL!!! for humaniy's future.





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    (Noticed Stealthy Monk above = The Ugly, since I'm the Good,where is the Bad )
    IMDB Trailer https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2789278...tt_pv_vi_aiv_2

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    I just noticed the trailer and its all wrong!
    It states:

    Lee Van Cleef as "Sentenza / Angel Eyes" as the ugly according to the trailer? NO he is "the bad"!

    Eli Wallach as "TUCO" as the bad ? NO he is "the ugly" !

    THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENCE! IS THIS ANOTHER MANDELA EFFECT ?
    Am I going crazy? , Please help me out here ?!

    Just posted on "Mandela effect", go there,looking forward you answers
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    Reader: "In eleven minutes, this man explains brilliantly how the COVID hysteria has been contrived as a cover story for the financial crisis."

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    He couldn't have said it any better. *Watch before they take this down again* (<--- click)

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    LOL - I don't know who is "The Bad". Great film!

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    I'm going to send this video to my governor and ask him if this doctor is talking about him.

    Most governors claim that it's the "science" that they're following, when it's no such thing. They love the power trip so much that they'll say anything. I used to think Gov. Wolf of PA was better than most. But I've been paying closer attention. (Thank God, he's not like Michigan's power mad nutjob)....

    Dr. Tim O'Shea explains what to look for so we don't get caught up in govt and Lamestream medias' attempts to mislead us. Seems that it's all in the wording.... and of course, we get snagged by it all the time... Anybody else here, getting fed up with all of this?

    https://www.brighteon.com/7a0cac08-7...2-6a3609110224

    Btw, I don't know anyone who's got the Rona virus. But I've noticed alot of sickly looking eyes behind masks, One cashier looked like she was going to pass out, which is one of the symptoms of Hypercapnia... Btw, my governor is going to get the diagram of Carbon Dioxide Toxicity because it's easier to understand than a bunch of words by the real experts....

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    How Government “Cures” Drive Out Real Cures
    by Barry Brownstein, PhD
    Published August 16, 2020
    https://thevaccinereaction.org/2020/...ut-real-cures/


    "Scurvy, we all know, is a disease caused by a vitamin C deficiency. It took almost 200 years from the time a “lemon juice” cure for scurvy was discovered until it was promoted by the British government. Some think the mental biases that caused the needless deaths of millions have been eliminated in more “enlightened” modern times. They are wrong.

    In his book, Bad Medicine, history professor David Wootton explains that scurvy “became a major problem only with the beginning of transoceanic voyages.” On those voyages, fresh fruits and vegetables were lacking for at least ten weeks.

    On long voyages, the mortality rate from scurvy was 50 percent. Wootton writes, “One estimate is that two million sailors died of this dreadful disease between Columbus’s discovery of America and the replacement of sailing ships by steamships in the mid-nineteenth century.”

    Wootton accounts that in 1740 George Anderson commanded a fleet of six ships and 2,000 men and lost 1,800 men to scurvy. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), approximately 133,000 of 184,000 sailors in the British fleet died from scurvy. Many of the dead sailors had been “press-ganged into service.”

    Yet, most of these deaths were avoidable. By 1601 merchant Sir James Lancaster had already solved the scurvy problem by stocking his ship with lemon juice on his voyage to the East Indies. Wootton reports the practice of stocking lemon juice “became standard on ships of both the Dutch and English East India companies in the early seventeenth century.”

    Unfortunately, the lemon juice cure, Wootton writes, “made no sense to doctors with a University education, who were convinced that this disease, like every other, must be caused by bad air or an imbalance of the humours.” Pressured by doctors, ship captains refused to stock lemons.

    The British Admiralty “formally asked the College of Physicians for advice on how to combat scurvy.” In 1740, 139 years after the lemon juice cure was known, the response of the College of Physicians was to advocate the use of vinegar and Ward’s Drop and Pill. The pill consisted of poisonous ingredients, including antimony, cobalt, and arsenic, thought to purge illness from the body.

    Wootton points out that history incorrectly credits a surgeon, James Lind, with discovering the cure for scurvy. Yet, Lind’s “discovery” occurred 150 years after knowledge of the efficacy of lemon juice was known to the Portuguese, the Spanish, and the first American colonists.

    Initially, Lind recognized the lemon juice cure but didn’t understand that scurvy was a nutritional disease. He stuck with a humours theory and believed skin pores clogged by damp air caused scurvy. Lind thought lemon juice unblocked clogged pores. Decades after his first success in 1747, Lind himself lost faith in his remedy and again resorted to bloodletting for scurvy patients. It took another 50 years for lemon juice to be generally adopted by the English Navy.

    Voices of those who knew the lemon juice cure were rejected. In 1786, a merchant sea captain wrote to the British Admiralty, informing them that lemon juice cured scurvy. The captain was told that trials have been made of the use of lemons in the treatment of scurvy and that surgeons “all agree” that “lemons and oranges were of no service either in the prevention or cure” of scurvy.

    The Admiralty issued this “official” advice 185 years after James Lancaster effectively used lemon juice against scurvy. Notice that merchants were more open-minded in their willingness to try new treatments to save lives. Without the power to press gang, protecting crew members and saving lives was paramount. Notably, Captain James Cook, commanding the Endeavour during his 1769 voyage to New Zealand and Australia, bucked the Admiralty by serving sauerkraut and fresh vegetables when he made landfalls. Cook didn’t lose a single crew member to scurvy during his almost three-year voyage. Yet, in 1773 Lind was still insisting diet was not the cause or cure of scurvy.

    Wootton is clear; doctors were culpable: “When good arguments are beaten from the field by bad ones, those who do the driving must bear the responsibility.” “Bad knowledge drove out good,” Wootton argues. The advice of doctors was used as a shield by an inflexible government determined not to yield to the evidence.

    Gresham’s Law
    Is Wootton correct, did bad knowledge about scurvy drive out good knowledge?

    Gresham’s Law explains why bad money drives out good money. This law is frequently misunderstood.

    Gresham’s Law only is operable when the bad money and the good money are both legal tender. For instance, when both silver quarters and non-silver quarters were circulated side-by-side, the public hoarded the more valuable silver quarters, taking the silver quarters out of circulation. Bad money (non-silver quarters) drove out good money (silver quarters), but that was only because shopkeepers were forced to treat both silver and non-silver quarters as having the same value.

    Detractors of free markets frequently seek to apply Gresham’s Law to products other than money. Their antipathy to free markets leads them to claim that the market rewards the lowest common denominator.

    Yet, a moment’s reflection shows this to be untrue. A men’s shirt from Walmart peacefully competes with ones from Charles Tyrwhitt, and these stock shirts peacefully compete with custom-made shirts costing hundreds of dollars. Consumers decide which products best fit their needs, given their preferences and income.

    Wootton is correct; history shows how bad knowledge drove out good knowledge about the prevention and treatment of scurvy. Gresham’s Law can be applied: The British Admiralty sanctioned the College of Physicians to provide a “legal tender” treatment—ineffective vinegar and poisonous pills. The bad treatment crowded out the good treatment (lemons) on government ships. The British Admiralty was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of sailors by blocking a known effective treatment.

    If YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook were around in the 18th Century, would they have censored advocates of lemon juice on the grounds that it undermined “the science” endorsed by the College of Physicians?

    Remdesivir
    Like the British Admiralty acting on the advice of “expert” physicians, many of our experts and politicians assure the public that for COVID-19 there is no prevention other than lockdowns, social distancing, masks, and soon a vaccine. They claim there is no treatment for COVID-19 other than the astonishingly expensive new drug remdesivir. Remdesivir costs $3,120 a dose and is the only FDA-approved treatment for COVID-19. And yet, remdesivir does nothing to reduce mortality from COVID-19. The United States bought the entire supply of remdesivir at the cost of over $1 billion; great for the politically connected pharmaceutical company Gilead, producing remdesivir. But if remdesivir is the “legal tender” treatment, how does this impact our health?

    We have all seen this lousy movie before, but our memories are short. In 2009, during the Swine Flu pandemic, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer asked hard questions about Tamiflu, the “remdesivir” of that time. As with remdesivir, Tamiflu at best reduced the duration of illness without impacting mortality. As with remdesivir, Tamiflu was very expensive and was stockpiled by the government. Brownlee and Lenzer questioned whether “the expensive antiviral drugs that the government has stockpiled” have “power to reduce the number of people who die or are hospitalized?” They report,

    “As with [flu] vaccines, the scientific evidence for Tamiflu and Relenza is thin at best. In its general-information section, the CDC’s Web site tells readers that antiviral drugs can “make you feel better faster.” True, but not by much. On average, Tamiflu (which accounts for 85 to 90 percent of the flu antiviral-drug market) cuts the duration of flu symptoms by twenty-four hours in otherwise healthy people. In exchange for a slightly shorter bout of illness, as many as one in five people taking Tamiflu will experience nausea and vomiting. About one in five children will have neuropsychiatric side effects, possibly including anxiety and suicidal behavior.”

    In short, antivirals such as Tamiflu “have had their effectiveness overplayed, and harms underplayed.”

    Today, politically anointed remdesivir is crowding out the inexpensive 65-year-old generic drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Anecdotal and empirical evidence shows HCQ is safe and effective in treating COVID-19. Bretigne Shaffer has done an outstanding job compiling the known evidence about hydroxychloroquine.

    Adnan Munkarah, MD, is Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, and Steven Kalkanis, MD, is Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer of the large Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. They report that hydroxychloroquine significantly cut mortality rates for thousands of their Health System’s patients. Yet, as Munkarah and Kalkanis write, “the political climate that has persisted has made any objective discussion about this drug impossible, and we are deeply saddened by this turn of events.”

    “Scientific debate,” they write “is a common occurrence with almost every published study. In part, this is what fuels the advancement of knowledge–challenging one another on our assumptions, conclusions and applications to get to a better place for the patients we collectively serve.”

    Scientific debate is being stifled. Dr. Peter Gøtzsche is one of the leading advocates of “rigorous methodology and the elimination of bias in assessing the efficacy of treatments.” In July he warned,

    “It has become increasingly difficult to publish articles in medical journals that are critical of drugs or the drug industry, or that expose fraud and other wrongdoing committed by doctors. It is also difficult to publish articles documenting that the status quo in a medical specialty is harmful for the patients even though such articles should be warmly welcomed.”

    How much has really changed since the British College of Physicians suppressed a real cure for scurvy in favor of Ward’s Drop and Pill?

    With hydroxychloroquine, “experts” led by Dr. Fauci are actively suppressing debate. The FDA has revoked its emergency use permission for hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine is denied to those inflicted with COVID-19, not on the merits of remdesivir, but due to the coercive force of government.

    What Government Is Selling
    Connecting the dots is easy. The government is spending over $10 billion on its Operation Warp Speed to produce a vaccine that will be shielded from liability.

    A rushed COVID-19 vaccine will not go through full safety trials, yet the FDA will probably issue an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to approve a vaccine. To issue an EUA, there must be “no adequate, approved, and available alternative.” In other words, HCQ or another effective treatment is a threat to a vaccine; if hydroxychloroquine is effective, there can be no fast-tracked vaccine.

    Recently Bill Gates was questioned about the side effects of a COVID-19 frontrunner vaccine being manufactured by biotech start-up Moderna. Norah O’Donnell asked Gates about the alarming report that 80% “of the participants [in the vaccine trial] experienced a systemic side effect.” Gates responded, “The side effects were not super severe; that is, it didn’t cause permanent health problems.” Given the short-term trial time, Gates doesn’t know if there are permanent health problems. Gates’s “not super severe” standard might be acceptable to some people; many others are ready to say no thanks.

    Gates then added, the FDA will do a good job [of not allowing a vaccine with severe side effects] despite the pressure. Fauci, too, said he is not worried about side effects of the Moderna vaccine.

    Fauci and Gates rely upon the FDA to guarantee safety. In his book Against Leviathan Robert Higgs writes:

    “Rather than supplying the quality assurance that people value, the FDA serves, in a sense, as a central planner in the quality-assurance sector of the medical goods economy. The agency imposes a body of rigid, one-size-fits-all rules, binding on everyone regardless of the actual individual differences of people’s medical conditions, personal preferences and attitudes towards bearing risks…Like other forms of central planning, it cannot solve the problems of information and incentives inherent in its way of dealing with the issues within its jurisdiction.”

    Higgs quotes former FDA official Dr. Henry Miller as saying, “The gold standard of FDA regulation is fool’s gold.”

    As an economist, I’m concerned that liability shields eliminate the essential role insurance companies play in assessing risk. I take seriously the words of Ruud Dobber, an executive at AstraZeneca, another COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer, who said about the worldwide liability shields his company sought, “We as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects.” As a consumer, I give more serious consideration to Dobber’s reservations than Gates’s “not super severe” assurance of side effects.

    A recent survey by KEKSTCNC, a global strategic communications firm, found that in the United States, Americans believe the prevalence and morbidity of COVID-19 are far greater than actual counts. Americans believe an astonishing 9% of Americans have died from COVID-19. The public perception is exaggerated 225x.

    If many people you know are in a constant state of fear for themselves and their children, incessantly monitoring themselves for symptoms, now you know why. To the frightened, Dr. Fauci is a hero who they desperately hope will relieve their existential fears of death, an existential dread that many have projected onto COVID-19. They resent when their hero is fact-checked.

    Refuse Fauci’s favored vaccine solution, and some advocate the government should force you to take the vaccine or jail you. Such draconian solutions take root when the government feeds existential fears.

    There are likely “lemon juice” solutions to COVID-19, and perhaps hydroxychloroquine is one. But a government that suppresses debate and wants to funnel billions towards politically connected firms will discredit all challengers to their favored solutions. In the name of what they define as “the science,” the discovery process of real science is suppressed. Science suppressors are part of an illiberal movement whose members, in the words of Jeffrey Tucker, are “enemies of freedom and human rights.” They threaten the health of billions.

    This article was reprinted with the author’s permission. It was originally published by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Barry Brownstein is professor emeritus of economics and leadership at the University of Baltimore. He is senior contributor at Intellectual Takeout and the author of The Inner-Work of Leadership.

    Note: This commentary provides referenced information and perspective on a topic related to vaccine science, policy, law or ethics being discussed in public forums and by U.S. lawmakers. The websites of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provide information and perspective of federal agencies responsible for vaccine research, development, regulation and policymaking. "
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    The following article was written back on May 30th for The Spectator magazine. Much, if not all of its content remains pertinent.

    ______________________________

    "Normally, two doctors are needed to certify a death, one of whom has been treating the patient or who knows them and has seen them recently. That has changed. For Covid-19 only, the certification can be made by a single doctor, and there is no requirement for them to have examined, or even met, the patient. A video-link consultation in the four weeks prior to death is now felt to be sufficient for death to be attributed to Covid-19."


    - Dr. John Lee, Histopathologist

    ____________________________

    The way ‘Covid deaths’ are being counted is a national scandal
    We have no idea how many lives have really been lost to the disease

    From magazine issue: 30 May 2020



    As a pathologist, I’m used to people thinking that my job mainly involves dealing with death. But nothing could be further from the truth. That is why I and many of my colleagues are so dismayed by changes introduced during the coronavirus epidemic which mean that pathology has not been able to play the role that it should have in helping to understand this new disease.

    The word ‘pathology’ tends to conjure up images of body bags, mortuaries and murder investigations. ‘Ho ho,’ people say, ‘your patients can’t answer back.’ They imagine days spent trudging across fields to reach murder scenes, Silent Witness-style, and nights sifting through arcane evidence to catch the perpetrators. And a rare type of pathologist — the forensic pathologist — does indeed do that.

    Most pathologists, though, spend the majority of their careers looking after the living. After all, pathology is the study of disease, and the whole point of knowing about diseases is to inform our approaches to preventing and treating them.

    There are four main types of pathologist. Microbiologists specialise in the study of infectious diseases — a subtype is the virologist, in particular demand at the moment. Chemical pathologists are experts in the liquid parts of the blood; they analyse the endless samples that pour into path labs day and night, looking for changes in chemicals and hormones that indicate disease. Haematologists are experts in diseases of the blood cells, the red cells and white cells that can cause problems such as anaemia or leukaemia.

    And then there is my own speciality of histopathology, or cellular pathology. We are experts in analysing changes in the fabric of our bodies that result from disease. Many diseases affect our tissues in ways that can be seen down the microscope, allowing them to be accurately diagnosed and monitored, particularly tumours and inflammations. Every time a biopsy or surgical sample is taken, it comes to the histopathology lab to be examined. Histopathology is often regarded as a ‘gold standard’ for diagnosis of diseases that change tissue structure. A clinical examination or X-ray may suggest that a tumour or fibrosis of the lung, say, is present, but you need to examine a tissue sample microscopically to be sure that it’s really there, what type it is, and how advanced. Tissue can also be examined genetically to look for the presence of infectious agents or cellular receptors that may determine how deadly it is.

    The other thing that some histopathologists do is autopsies — hence the confusion with forensic pathology. But in this case the autopsies are not typically looking for evidence of foul play. They are usually requested by a coroner to ascertain the cause of death. Relatives, even doctors, are often surprised by the need for this in the world of modern medicine. Surely all the examinations, tests and imaging carried out in life mean that the treating doctors know what was wrong with the patient when they die? But no, it turns out that autopsies often reveal the unexpected. Tests and images can be misleading, and treating doctors may have fixed ideas about what the matter is, based on first impressions or incomplete evidence.

    Autopsy — auto opsis — literally means seeing for oneself. And the person doing the seeing should be clear-eyed — an independent specialist medical practitioner, with no emotional or professional vested interest in what happened to the patient. Autopsy studies typically show major discrepancies between actual findings and clinical diagnosis in a quarter to a third of cases. And in about a sixth of the cases, knowing about these hidden pathologies in life could have made differences to treatment that might have prevented death. In the UK in recent decades about one in six deaths have had an autopsy examination — a deceased person’s last gift to the living.

    The results contribute to maintaining and improving care, verifying and upholding the standards of public health statistics, preventing diagnostic drift, and basically keeping medicine honest. Autopsies also allow sampling of tissues from more organs than is usually possible in life, facilitating molecular and genetic studies.

    And nowhere are autopsy studies more important than in the study of new diseases and new treatments. The best example of this in recent years was acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or Aids. When Aids first appeared in the early 1980s no one knew what it was, how it affected victims, how to treat it, or what effects potential treatments had. Knowledge about all of these aspects was substantially acquired by study of tissue samples taken during life, and by autopsy examinations, with study of samples acquired after death. There was much uncertainty and worry at the time about how the disease was spread, and possible contagion to healthcare workers and to the general population. But work continued, and the results were of immense help in understanding the disease and developing treatments.

    Looking at the current crisis, the response so far has been very different. We are still struggling to understand coronavirus. I can think of no time in my medical career when it has been more important to have accurate diagnosis of a disease, and understanding of precisely why patients have died of it. Yet very early on in the epidemic, rules surrounding death certification were changed — in ways that make the statistics unreliable. Guidance was issued which tends to reduce, rather than increase, referrals for autopsy.

    Normally, two doctors are needed to certify a death, one of whom has been treating the patient or who knows them and has seen them recently. That has changed. For Covid-19 only, the certification can be made by a single doctor, and there is no requirement for them to have examined, or even met, the patient. A video-link consultation in the four weeks prior to death is now felt to be sufficient for death to be attributed to Covid-19. For deaths in care homes the situation is even more extraordinary. Care home providers, most of whom are not medically trained, may make a statement to the effect that a patient has died of Covid-19. In the words of the Office for National Statistics, this ‘may or may not correspond to a medical diagnosis or test result, or be reflected in the death certification’. From 29 March the numbers of ‘Covid deaths’ have included all cases where Covid-19 was simply mentioned on the death certificate — irrespective of positive testing and whether or not it may have been incidental to, or directly responsible for, death. From 29 April the numbers include the care home cases simply considered likely to be Covid-19.

    So at a time when accurate death statistics are more important than ever, the rules have been changed in ways that make them less reliable than ever. In what proportion of Covid-19 ‘mentions’ was the disease actually present? And in how many cases, if actually present, was Covid-19 responsible for death? Despite what you may have understood from the daily briefings, the shocking truth is that we just don’t know. How many of the excess deaths during the epidemic are due to Covid-19, and how many are due to our societal responses of healthcare reorganisation, lockdown and social distancing? Again, we don’t know. Despite claims that they’re all due to Covid-19, there’s strong evidence that many, perhaps even a majority, are the result of our responses rather than the disease itself.

    It might have been possible to check these proportions by examining the deceased. But at a time when autopsies could have played a major role in helping us understanding this disease, advice was given which made such examinations less likely than might otherwise have been the case. The Chief Coroner issued guidance on 26 March which seemed designed to keep Covid-19 cases out of the coronial system: ‘The aim of the system should be that every death from Covid-19 which does not in law require referral to the coroner should be dealt with via the [death certification] process.’ And even guidance produced by the Royal College of Pathologists in February stated: ‘In general, if a death is believed to be due to confirmed Covid-19 infection, there is unlikely to be any need for a post-mortem examination to be conducted and the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death should be issued.’

    We need proper information to inform our responses to the virus, both clinical and societal. Instead, we have no idea how many of the deaths attributed to Covid-19 really were due to the disease. And we have no idea how many of the excess deaths were really due to Covid-19 or to the effects of lockdown. Officials should be releasing, as a matter of urgency, detailed information on the surge in deaths, both apparent Covid and non-Covid — particularly in care homes. How many are dying of Covid acquired in hospitals? Data presumably exists on this too, but is not released.

    The first rule in a pandemic should be to ensure transparency of information. Without it, errors can go undiscovered — and lives can be lost. We will never be able to find out for sure what this disease was like, or what it did in the early stages of the crisis.

    One of the unappreciated tragedies of this epidemic so far is the huge lost opportunity to understand Covid-19 better. We like to beat ourselves up for having the worst Covid death toll in Europe — but we will never know, because we decided not to count properly. In a country that has always prided itself on the quality of its facts and figures, the missing Covid-19 data is a national scandal.
    “If a man does not keep pace with [fall into line with] his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” - Thoreau

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    Connecting the Dots: Big Meat, Big Pharma, Big Vaccines and Big Pandemics
    August 20, 2020
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    by Martha Rosenberg
    https://www.organicconsumers.org/blo...content=OB+672

    "The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is surely the worst in recent memory, but prehistory is full of records of plagues and pandemics.

    In more modern history, we’ve seen the Asian flu pandemic of 1957, the Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968 and the AIDS pandemic of 1981.

    Then, a decade ago, along came H1N1, a novel flu virus hosted by pigs. H1N1 was followed in 1997 by H5N1, a bird flu virus that first surfaced in Hong Kong.

    What's different about these more recent pandemics?

    They're directly linked to the “intensive confinement of animals” in factory farms, according to the Journal of Public Health Policy.

    Since the onset of COVID-19—which clearly did not originate on an industrial factory farm—experts have rightly pointed out that our industrial meat and poultry production systems are breeding grounds for future pandemics.

    But what most have them haven't done, is connect the dots between Big Pharma's animal vaccines and the increased risk of pandemics.

    Connecting the dots: swine flu, avian flu and pandemics

    The novel H1N1, originally called swine flu, which was responsible for the 2009 – 2010 pandemic, was a new and ominous combination of five viruses––North American swine flu, North American avian flu, two swine flu viruses from in Asia and Europe and a human flu virus.

    The five viruses had undergone re-assortment and swapped genes, creating a novel virus not previously identified in humans.

    Not only did no one have immunity or antibodies to H1N1, but experts said humans could both give and get H1N1 from pigs. According to Nancy Cox, director of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) during the H1NI pandemic:

    "Unlike the situation with birds and humans, we have a situation with pigs and humans where there's a two-way street of exchange of viruses."

    Five months after its identification, H1N1 had spread to 43 countries according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which declared it a pandemic in June 2009. Between 151,700 and 575,400 people died worldwide, according to the CDC.

    In 1997, a strain of avian flu called H5N1 surfaced in Hong Kong, and for eight years had much of the world fearing a pandemic. Like H1N1, H5N1 was novel pathogen never before encountered. By 2004, H5N1 had spread to more than 50 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

    Though there were cases where H5N1 was "transferred from birds to humans, in settings such as farms or open markets with live animal vending," said researchers in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, H5N1 lacked the human-to-human transmission of H1N1. But of those who got the virus, as many as 66 percent died.

    During the H5N1 pandemic scare hundreds of millions of birds were inhumanely exterminated in a vain attempt to stop the disease. But new, unexposed animals introduced into the same, virus-laden environments perpetuated it. The disease remains endemic in several countries.

    Moreover, bird viruses related to H5N1, such as H5N2, H5N7 and H5N8, have raged through industrial poultry farms in the U.S. since 2015, with tens of millions of birds destroyed––12 percent of U.S. egg layers and 8 percent of turkeys.

    Big Food succeeded in hiding the extent of the bird flu outbreaks on industrial poultry farms in the U.S., to avoid scaring people away from eating their products. "It doesn't affect humans, just birds," they declared, even as CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operations, the industry term for factory farms) operations across the country have been depopulated under the public's radar. A new U.S. bird flu outbreak in 2020 barely got a mention in the mainstream press.

    Experts: ‘Widespread vaccination may actually be selecting for new viral types’

    Prehistory is full of records of plagues and pandemics. But, according to the Journal of Public Health policy, today's pandemics are different, especially when it comes to flu viruses, thanks to the “intensive confinement of animals” in factory farms—and the widespread use of animal vaccines on those farms:

    "For centuries, the evolution of the influenza virus had remained relatively stable. In recent years, however, the virus has undergone an evolutionary surge, with new variants emerging rapidly. The intensive confinement of animals is shown to be a major contributor to this surge. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, first isolated in the Guangdong Province of China in 1996, is one of the most notable pathogens to appear recently...

    According to the World Organization for Animal Health of the Food and Agriculture Organization, two lessons should be learned from these prior outbreaks. First, that if LPAI [low pathogenic avian influenza] viruses are allowed to spread among farmed birds, they can eventually mutate into HPAI [highly pathogenic avian influenza] viruses; and second, that densely confining birds considerably increases their vulnerability to infectious diseases."

    The crowding and stress rampant throughout industrial factory farms are only part of what has changed in modern meat production. The other big change is the extent to which food animals are medicated and vaccinated.

    For example, Merck, a leader in both human and animal vaccines, markets over 30 vaccines for poultry diseases like fowl pox, turkey coryza, bursal disease, coccidiosis, laryngotracheitis, hemorrhagic enteritis, avian encephalomyelitis of course salmonella and E. coli.

    Merck also markets vaccines for cattle, pigs and even farmed fish.

    According to an article in Science magazine, titled "Chasing the Fickle Swine Flu," vaccination is now routine in traditional animal farming.

    "Another crucial change has been the recent wide-scale vaccination for swine influenza. In less than a decade, vaccination has become the norm for breeding sows."

    The widespread use of vaccines has caused a whole new set of problems, according to the article:

    "Today, more than half of all sows are vaccinated against both both H1N1 and H3N2 viruses, says Robyn Fleck, a veterinarian at Schering-Plough, one of the nation's three producers of swine influenza vaccine. But the vaccine is not protecting against all new strains. 'We’re seeing clinical disease in vaccinated pigs,' says Rossow [veterinary pathologist of the University of Minnesota]. Flu is also showing up in piglets thought to be protected by maternal antibodies passed on from vaccinated sows."

    The big question that neither Big Food or Big Vax want the public ask is whether vaccinations are driving pandemics, especially because of the uniform immunity created by animal bio-engineering that helps them spread.

    Again, according to Science magazine:

    "Widespread vaccination may actually be selecting for new viral types. If vaccination develops populations with uniform immunity to certain virus genotypes, say H1N1 and H3N2, then other viral mutants would be favored. Webby [Richard Webby, a molecular virologist] suggests that the combination of avian polymerase genes generating errors in the genetic sequence and immunologic pressure from vaccination may be selecting for unique variants...

    Schering-Plough veterinarian Terri Wasmoen acknowledges that vaccines 'may be pressuring change.' But she also notes that larger hog confinement operations and more shipping from state to state may play a role."

    How did H1N1 really start?

    Suspicions continue to circulate about the origins of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. In 2009, the journal Environmental Health Perspectives wrote that "one potential source of the original outbreak—factory swine farming in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)—has received comparatively little attention by public health officials."

    Gregory Gray, director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, notes the inherent risks in CAFOs:

    "When respiratory viruses get into these confinement facilities, they have continual opportunity to replicate, mutate, reassort, and recombine into novel strains...The best surrogates we can find in the human population are prisons, military bases, ships, or schools."

    Unlike such human congregate facilities where a virus will often "burn out," said Gray, in CAFOs, because there is a continual introduction of new animals, "there’s a much greater potential for the viruses to spread and become endemic."

    In fact, when H1N1 first surfaced, in Mexico near the town of La Gloria in the Mexican state of Veracruz, a cluster of CAFOs owned by the Mexican meat giant Granjas Carroll and partially owned by Smithfield Foods immediately came under suspicion.

    Mexican government officials were quick to deny any links.

    According to GRAIN, a small international non-profit organization supporting small farmers and biodiversity-based community-controlled food systems, there were additional questions about the H1N1 virus' origin in Mexico:

    "While it has not been widely reported, the region around the community of La Gloria is also home to many large poultry farms...in September 2008, there was an outbreak of bird flu among poultry in the region. At the time, veterinary authorities assured the public that it was only a local incidence of a low-pathogenic strain affecting backyard birds.

    But we now know, thanks to a disclosure made by Marco Antonio Núñez López, the President of the Environmental Commission of the State of Veracruz, that there was also an avian flu outbreak on a factory farm about 50 kilometres from La Gloria owned by Mexico's largest poultry company, Granjas Bachoco, that was not revealed because of fears of what it might mean for Mexico's export markets."

    According to Grain, scientists from the National Institutes of Health warn that locating swine CAFOs next to avian CAFOs "could further promote the evolution of the next pandemic."

    The centralized nature of the CAFO industry ensures that "the disease gets carried far and wide, whether by feces, feed, water or even the boots of workers," added Grain.

    Residents of La Gloria, however, had no luck in getting authorities to investigate the "genetic cocktail of pig, bird and human influenza," lurking at the nearby Granjas Carroll operation. Authorities even accused the residents of spreading the disease through the use home remedies wrote Grain.

    Such corporate cover-ups are commonplace, according to Grain:

    "It is not the first time and it will not be the last time that corporate farms conceal disease outbreaks and put people’s lives at risk. It is the nature of their business...in Romania, Smithfield refused to let local authorities enter its pig farms after residents complained of the stench coming from hundreds of dead corpses of pigs left rotting for days at the farms...Eventually, it emerged that Smithfield had been concealing a major outbreak of classical swine fever on its Romanian farms.

    In Indonesia, where people are still dying from bird u and where many health experts believe the next pandemic virus will emerge, authorities can still not enter large corporate farms without the permission of the company."

    It will only get worse . . . unless we end industrial meat production

    There are clear reasons CAFOs drive pandemics. The stress and crowding reduce animals' immune systems which are already impaired by bio-engineering and the uniform immunity it produces.

    The many medications animals are given, including hormones, growth producers and antibiotics further, reduce the animals' health.

    Finally, vaccines encourage the development of mutant strains of a virus.

    CAFOs not only encourage pandemic-capable viruses, they spread them through polluting the air and water with their run-off, manure lagoons and biosolids.

    CAFO's also spread pandemics through their unethical treatment of workers. According to Environmental Health Perspectives, protection of the 54,000 workers working on swine and poultry CAFOs during the H1N1 pandemic was "relatively small" and workers can unwittingly spread the virus:

    "In a 2-year prospective study of 803 rural Iowans, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases in December 2007, he [Dr. Gray] found that CAFO workers were 50 times more likely to have elevated H1N1 antibodies than nonexposed controls. Equally important, their spouses were 25 times more likely to harbor these antibodies, reflecting how the viruses can jump from farm workers to their intimate contacts.

    Similarly, in work published 15 May 2009 in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Gray and coauthor Whitney S. Baker reported that 84% of 44 seroepidemiologic studies reviewed identified an increased risk of zoonotic pathogen infection among veterinarians."

    In July, the CDC reported that 16,200 workers across 23 states had tested positive for the virus.

    The worldwide danger of CAFOs has long been recognized says Dr. Michael Greger, a physician and internationally recognized public health expert:

    "The public health community has been warning about the risks posed by factory farms for years . . . in 2003, the American Public Health Association, the largest and oldest association of public health professionals in the world, called for a moratorium on factory farming. In 2005, the United Nations urged that '[g]overnments, local authorities and international agencies need to take a greatly increased role in combating the role of factory-farming,' which, they said, combined with live animal markets, 'provide ideal conditions for the [influenza] virus to spread and mutate into a more dangerous form.'"

    Yet despite the warnings, global industrial meat production marches on."
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    If You Test Positive, Do You Really Have COVID-19?

    A positive COVID-19 test result is widely considered a COVID-19 'case,' but is it really? Find out why the clinical diagnosis of someone with severe respiratory illness shouldn't be confused with someone who tests positive, yet remains asymptomatic.

    CDC Admits Hospital Incentives Drove Up COVID-19 Deaths
    by Dr. Joseph Mercola
    August 20, 2020

    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...&rid=944819904



    STORY AT-A-GLANCE
    In April 2020, Minnesota state senator and family physician Scott Jensen came out with a strong critique against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance for how doctors were to certify COVID-19 fatalities on the death certificate
    In July, Jensen came under investigation by the state medical board and faced disciplinary action and loss of his medical license after an anonymous complaint was filed against him, alleging he had been spreading misinformation about how death certificates are categorized during the pandemic
    July 28, 2020, Jensen announced the Minnesota Medical Board had dismissed the allegations against him
    CDC director Robert Redfield recently admitted that financial policies likely have resulted in artificially elevated hospitalization rates and death toll statistics. Brett Giroir with the U.S. Health and Human Services Department also told lawmakers the COVID-19 death statistics the HHS has been receiving from states “are over-inflated”
    Perhaps the most egregious misrepresentation of reality is the media’s conflating a positive test result with the actual disease, COVID-19. “COVID-19” refers to a clinical diagnosis of someone who exhibits severe respiratory illness characterized by fever, coughing and shortness of breath. If you test positive but are asymptomatic, you do not “have COVID-19” and should not be counted as a “COVID-19 case”
    Four months ago, in early April 2020, Minnesota state senator and family physician Scott Jensen came out with a strong critique against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance for how doctors were to certify COVID-19 fatalities on the death certificate.1

    Jensen called the guidelines “ridiculous,” saying they could easily lead to unwarranted fear as it would make the disease appear deadlier than it actually is. According to the CDC guidelines:

    "In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as 'probable' or 'presumed.'"

    Indeed, reporting deaths as COVID-19 deaths, without factual proof that the patient was in fact infected and actually died of the illness, is a clear manipulation of the statistics that drive up the perceived death rate.

    Death Statistics Are Clearly Unreliable
    In his April interview with Laura Ingraham, Jensen said:2

    "The idea that we are going to allow people to massage and sort of game the numbers is a real issue because we are going to undermine the [public] trust. And right now, as we see politicians doing things that aren’t necessarily motivated on fact and science, their trust in politicians is already wearing thin."

    In that interview, Jensen pointed out that according to CDC guidelines, a patient dying after being hit by a bus, who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after death, would be reported as a COVID-19 death, regardless of the injuries sustained in the accident, and regardless of whether symptoms of COVID-19 had even been present to begin with.

    “That doesn’t make any sense,” he said. We recently saw a near-identical example of this nonsensical practice in Florida, where a motorcycle accident claimed the life of a 20-something man who was subsequently listed as a COVID-19 death.3

    Ditto for a Florida man who died of a gunshot wound to the head, and a 77-year-old who died of Parkinson’s disease.4 According to a July 24, 2020, Washington Examiner report,5 only 169 of 581 COVID-19 deaths in Florida have COVID-19 listed as the sole contributing factor on the death certificate.

    That same week, it was reported6 that the CDC website listed more than 3,700 COVID-19 deaths that also involved “intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events,” and in Texas, the death toll was reduced by more than 3,000, as they were never actually tested.

    Financial Incentives Can Have Significant Influence
    At that time in April, Dr. Anthony Fauci brushed off questions about COVID-19 deaths being “padded” as yet another “conspiracy theory” that should be ignored.7 A host of mainstream media reports also claimed suspicions that hospitals were overreporting positive cases and deaths in order to charge more money were pure conspiracy theory that lacked a basis in reality.

    The fake arbiter of hoaxes, Snopes, also gave a “False” rating to Jensen’s claim that CDC guidelines for listing COVID-19 on death certificates in the absence of a test are resulting in an overcount.8 At the time, Jensen reacted to Fauci’s dismissal saying:9

    "Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things [have] impact on what we do.”

    Indeed, if we are to believe the first-hand testimony of nurse Erin Olszewski, these financial incentives were indeed at the heart of the routine overdiagnosis and mistreatment of patients at Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital in Queens, New York, which was “the epicenter of the epicenter" of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

    I reported her shocking story in “Nurse on the Frontlines of COVID-19 Shares Her Experience.” According to Olszewski, patients who tested negative for COVID-19 were routinely listed as positive and were quickly placed on ventilators — a largely inappropriate treatment that ended up killing virtually all of them.

    CDC Director Agrees Hospitals Likely Inflated COVID Deaths
    Now, CDC director Robert Redfield admits that financial policies may indeed have resulted in artificially elevated hospitalization rates and death toll statistics. As reported by the Washington Examiner, August 1, 2020:10

    “… Redfield agreed that some hospitals have a monetary incentive to overcount coronavirus deaths … ‘I think you’re correct in that we’ve seen this in other disease processes, too.

    Really, in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack but also have HIV — the hospital would prefer the [classification] for HIV because there’s greater reimbursement,’ Redfield said11 during a House panel hearing … when asked by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer about potential ‘perverse incentives.’

    Redfield continued: ‘So, I do think there’s some reality to that. When it comes to death reporting, though, ultimately, it’s how the physician defines it in the death certificate, and … we review all of those death certificates.

    So I think, probably it is less operable in the cause of death, although I won’t say there are not some cases. I do think though [that] when it comes to hospital reimbursement issues or individuals that get discharged, there could be some play in that for sure.’”

    Brett Giroir with the U.S. Health and Human Services Department also believes financial incentives have inflated COVID-19 fatalities. Giroir told lawmakers the statistics the HHS has been receiving from states “are over-inflated.”12

    Medical Board Drops Case Against Jensen
    Many medical professionals, scientists and researchers have been put through the wringer as a result of expressing views about the pandemic and its response that differ from the status quo put forth by the likes of Bill Gates and the World Health Organization.

    Jensen, too, has been a fairly outspoken critic of several COVID-19 related issues over these past few months. In a July 6, 2020, video (above), Jensen told viewers he was under investigation and faced disciplinary action and, possibly, loss of his medical license after the Minnesota medical board received an anonymous complaint against him. The two-count allegation claimed he had:

    Spread “misinformation” about how death certificates are categorized during the pandemic
    Given “reckless advice” by comparing COVID-19 mortality to that of influenza
    In his video, Jensen explained why neither of these accusations had any basis in fact. Copies of his response letters to the Minnesota Medical Board can be found on the Highwire website.13 July 28, 2020, Jensen announced14 the Medical Board had dismissed the allegations against him. In a press release, Jensen stated:

    “We are all entitled to our own reasoning. In a nation built on free speech, this right must be protected. I was forced to respond to allegations from accusers I could not face. These people threatened to uproot my practice, my profession, and my life. But cancel culture didn’t win this time.”

    String of ‘Errors’ Have Permanently Muddled Statistics
    As reported in “Consistent Inaccuracies in COVID-19 Testing and Reporting” and “Common Cold May Trigger Positive COVID-19 Antibody Test,” the only consistent pattern in COVID-19 statistics is their inconsistency.

    Faulty or contaminated tests have been used, labs have sporadically reported only positive test results,15,16,17 and reporting guidelines for infected cases (positive tests), hospitalizations and deaths have been changed so many times, it’s now virtually impossible to determine the accuracy of these statistics.

    Positive Test Result Is Not a COVID-19 Case
    Perhaps the most egregious misrepresentation of reality, though, is the media’s conflating a positive test result with the actual disease, COVID-19. These tests only test for the virus directly (PCR tests) or antibodies to the virus. The fact that a person tests positive does NOT equate to actually having the disease.

    The media is intentionally confusing a positive test result with COVID-19 to deliberately mislead the public into believing the disease is far more serious than it is. They know better but consciously choose this despicable practice.
    They’re infected, yes, but “COVID-19” refers to a clinical diagnosis of someone who exhibits severe respiratory illness characterized by fever, coughing and shortness of breath. If you’re asymptomatic, you do not “have COVID-19.” The worst that could be said is that you’re infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but if you’re not actually ill, you do not have COVID-19.

    The media is intentionally confusing a positive test result with COVID-19 to deliberately mislead the public into believing the disease is far more serious than it is. They know better but consciously choose this despicable practice. A recent example would be CNN’s article, “Florida Has More COVID-19 Than Most Countries in the World.”18

    They refer to the positive test as a “case.” This is beyond stretching reality to suit their nefarious purposes. Again, a case is NOT a positive test result but, rather, a person that has a positive test result and is seriously ill. You would never know that by reading their article.

    Further down in their fear-mongering article is a subhead, “Florida Has Surpassed Italy in COVID-19 Cases, Too.” But at the very end of the article they finally admit the truth: Even though Florida surpassed Italy in “cases,” they had nearly 90% FEWER deaths — the metric that really counts, unless your goal is to perpetuate needless fear into the population.
    What is your risk for developing COVID-19? Take the two-minute COVID risk quiz to find out. The quiz was designed by a coalition of health experts dedicated to help stop COVID cold."

    Check my Covid Risk: https://www.stopcovidcold.com/
    Sources and References
    1, 2, 7, 9 Fox News April 9, 2020
    3 Washington Examiner July 17, 2020
    4, 5 Washington Examiner July 24, 2020
    6 Washington Examiner July 23, 2020
    8 Snopes
    10 Washington Examiner August 1, 2020
    11, 12 Breitbart July 31, 2020
    13 The Highwire Senator Scott Jensen’s Medical Board Investigation Documents
    14 SW Newsmedia July 28, 2020
    15 Florida State Coronavirus testing by laboratory, Data through July 6, 2020
    16 Florida State Coronavirus testing by laboratory, Data through July 13, 2020
    17 Alachua Chronicle July 7, 2020
    18 CNN July 13, 2020
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    Who Do You Trust?
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    "There are two competing narratives of the you know what. One is being pushed by people who are, by my estimation, untrustable. The other side of the story, buried by mainstream media & social media giants, is being represented by people on the ground who are risking everything to speak sense into this chaotic and insane panic."
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    The Real Slog blog re covid insanity: https://therealslog.com/2020/08/16/th...

    Morality Pill: https://theconversation.com/morality-...

    Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Document (item is on pg 10) https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annu...

    NIH Study on Vaccine Messaging: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/N...

    Rancourt / The Wall Will Fall, Mask Studies show Masks don’t work: https://thewallwillfall.org/2020/06/2...

    Summit News Australia lockdown: https://summit.news/2020/08/18/melbou...

    Obama Rationer in Chief: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014...

    Emanuel on allocating resources for COVID: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

    NIH Scientists fired for taking money from China:

    BBC Doctor Video Pulled: https://www.bbc.com/news/53559938

    German Panel of 500 investigating COVID: https://www.collective-evolution.com/...

    Forbes, WHO faked a pandemic: https://www.forbes.com/2010/02/05/wor...

    Pill Tracker: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press...

    Biometric UN refugees: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2...

    NIH Chinese Money, Scientists fired: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/...

    NIH – WUHAN funding: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-op...

    AAAS: NIH Lifts Ban: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...

    NYT: Pseudo Pandemic, 2007, PCR test don’t work: https://web.archive.org/web/202008101...

    VIDEO: Upward Look TV re Gates & Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVyqn...
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    Here's another example of the extremely suspect testing process shared by a commenter on Twitter earlier:

    “If a man does not keep pace with [fall into line with] his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” - Thoreau

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    Bombshell Evidence that COVID RNA Base Pairs are Identical to Chromosome 8 Human DNA
    8/25/20
    by Alexandra Bruce
    https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/bom...e-8-human-dna/

    "There are many physicians and healthcare practitioners who subscribe to this newsletter, so I think many of you may appreciate this video by Canadian naturopath, Amandha Vollmer."

    ***
    "This is what they're using to detect in your body and to make a positive test result, okay?

    "This is their sequencing, their primary assembly - now, over here, this is Homo sapiens - that's humans!

    "Chromosome 8. Primary Assembly Chromosome 8 is this sequence CTCCCTTTGTTGTGTTGT - very specific and over here, CTGCTCCCTTTGTTGTGTTGT.

    "What what they are doing, is calling our Chromosome 8 Primary Assembly as the 'coronavirus'.

    "We are the virus. Your own DNA - like I've been saying, like I've been teaching, here's the evidence that what they are pulling out of your body and calling a disease - is your own DNA.

    "This should really help you, okay to understand the scam at hand, here and if you can't see this, if you go, 'Oh, blah blah blah!' Go away. Go take the vaccine.

    "Leave! Please. Because you're too dumb to exist. Really. Alright? Go back to the soil. Start over.

    "But for those of us with a thinking brain. This should help you understand the Big Scamola...

    "So, Gardasil syndrome - you can read about it more. This is basically poison. This is not protecting you from anything. There's no HPV. Your body makes these things in response to injury. Your body makes these things with your own DNA inside of it or RNA, to send to an area that has damage

    "If your cervix has been damaged, either by sex either by inflammation, either by some sort of imbalance in the tissues; acidity in the tissues, chronic inflammation, what happens is, your cells, your pleomorphic cells change shape to go and take the information to repair those cells to the area and that's your own DNA.

    "It's your own DNA. They're tool boxes of repair. And of course, once the job is done, it will shed or it will just be present or be reabsorbed, if it doesn't need to shed.

    "But if you want to go and do a scraping, what are you going to find, there? You're going to find these particles of your own DNA in the area, that's trying to repair it.

    "And these dumb mofos, who can't think, who call themselves 'doctors', who call themselves 'intelligent', they are so confused. They're in such a cult. They're so brainwashed. They're so dumbed-down.

    "They can't see what's right before them - and what's right before them is the evidence, the effect of a healing.

    "They think every symptom is a disease. They think they suppress it and they kill it.

    "They can't get their head around it, because they've been brainwashed by these clowns; by the WHO and all their cronies, okay? So this is important for you to understand, okay?

    "It's important that you realize that this is evidence of what I'm talking about and have been talking about for years; that the material we are finding, that we or they are calling 'viruses' is nothing more than your own DNA.

    "And why do you think they're getting such false positives out of this crappy test? Because, you all have this in your body and at any given point in time, your body is going to repair this piece of information, especially if you have inflammation; especially if you're having exudate of the lungs; you're having a clear-out or a detox of the lungs, which is what a cold and flu is: it's a detox.

    "It's getting rid of waste. If you detox your body ahead of time, you don't get sick, you don't get these things. It's not contagious. You don't catch anything. You don't get anything. You get triggered into detoxes, that's all it is.

    "And so, when you're detoxing and they find these particles that have come to the area to repair your cells, they make a cartoon of it and they tell you it's floating through the air and it's going to kill you.

    "You're being punked. You're being lied to. This is a hoax. This is a Trojan Horse for a Socialist takeover, okay?

    "I don't know how much more clearly I can explain it to you than this." "

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    “This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid That's 9,210 deaths The other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses & the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age”
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    SIX THOUSAND KILLED BY CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN

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    Here is a graph showing all deaths in England and Wales on a weekly basis, in red, over the year 2020. The ONS (Office of National statistics) provides these, as well as a helpful average figure for the five previous years, for comparison, here shown in green. We can see the massive spike in deaths which began in the last week in March, i.e. right after the lockdown.




    For the opening month of this year you can see there was actually a deficit of deaths – actually 5% less, compared to previous years. Then suddenly, the fear, stress and loneliness of the lockdown started killing off old people, together with the policy of emptying out the hospitals. That big peak over April-May as well as the last week in march, shows almost six thousand people dying. Yes, it was a cull of old people.

    For the months of June, July and August there was NO excess, the death rate is absolutely normal. The lockdown was eased, cafes started opening up, and the dreadful stress eased off: the lockdown was no longer killing people. The killing spree was over!

    It’s the same for every country for which reliable mortality data exists: the big surge in deaths happened after the lockdown is implemented, NOT before.

    The Government tell us, “COVID-19 is the biggest threat this country has faced in peacetime history.” Whereas it is actually just one more exercise in state-fabricated terror. Why do the British people fall for it?

    Did Lockdown prevent anything? I doubt it. It’s just part of the daily diet of fear-porn that the British people seem to need.




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    Deaths in Sweden, which NEVER locked down, are far less than New York State, which DID lock down


    by Robert
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    “In Sweden, daily corona deaths are now close to zero. The overall mortality rate is in the range of earlier strong flu waves. Even the monthly peak mortality (in April 2020) remained below the strong flu waves of the 1990s.” https://swprs.org/facts-about-covid-19/

    “So the graph shows the cumulative deaths in Sweden since March 11?” says reader Penelope. (She’s referring to the graph here.)

    “I admit to a preference for graphs showing the daily deaths, as it shows nearly zero.”

    “This site contains a graph comparing deaths per million in New York State and Sweden:
    New York State 1670 deaths per million, Sweden 540.”
    “45% of US corona deaths occurred in nursing homes,” says Penelope.

    “Over 50% occurred in the six states that actively placed Covid patients in nursing homes.”


    Did you get that?
    A locked down state with triple the number of deaths as an entire country that did not lock down!

    New York State, 1670 deaths per million, Sweden 540.

    Can anyone tell me what good the lockdown is doing?
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    I like many others get frustrated with the media and Goverment narative that keeps the fear building in spite of the evidence posted by Gwin Ru and others.
    Yet social distancing, masks and self isolation mandatory, continues.

    In UK leading Professor stated that the increased testing
    See on link (posted several times)
    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/coronaviru...135414823.html

    https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...-Boris-Johnson

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    I don’t have it.

    I don’t know anyone who has it within my circle...none of my friends have it...none of my colleagues have it...none of my friends friends have it and none of my colleagues friends have it.

    Are we immune to it or do a lot of people have physiological COVID as per link below

    https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020...logical-covid/

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    To the above post I would add that I also know of no one who had it and that everyone who I heard had it had some other underlying precondition. That actually does not mean it does not exist, but it does means that the bulk of humanity is immune to this flu.

    Last I heard is still just like first thing I heard:
    Infection rate: 10 - 15 %
    Death rate: .04%

    Which means:
    Out of 10,000 average citizens:
    1,000 will get the flu
    4 will die

    And of the whole population then (averaged so I don't need a calculator):
    10,000,000,000:
    1,000,000,000 will be infected
    4,000,000 will die
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    What to make of this from the World Bank in 2018............

    https://wits.worldbank.org/tariff/tr...product/902780

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