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  • Report Criticizes ‘Catastrophic Errors’ of COVID Lockdowns, Warns of Repeat

    03/18/2024 6:51:37 PM PDT · by lightman · 10 replies
    epoch times ^ | 17 March A.D. 2024 | Kevin Stocklin
    It was four years ago, in March 2020, that health officials declared COVID-19 a pandemic and America began shutting down schools, closing small businesses, restricting gatherings and travel, and other lockdown measures to “slow the spread” of the virus. To mark that grim anniversary, a group of medical and policy experts released a report, called “COVID Lessons Learned,” which assesses the government’s response to the pandemic. According to the report, that response included a few notable successes, along with a litany of failures that have taken a severe toll on the population. During the pandemic, many governments across the globe...
  • The Prophets: D.A. Henderson

    03/16/2024 5:21:01 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 4 replies
    The Free Press ^ | 16 Mar 2024 | Joe Nocera
    >Years before Covid, the scientist credited with eradicating smallpox warned against shutting down the world to combat an epidemic.,p>In 2006, ten years before his death at the age of 87, the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson laid out a plan for how public health officials should respond to a major influenza pandemic. It was published in a small journal that focused mainly on bioterrorism—and was quickly forgotten.As it turns out, that paper, titled “Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza,” was Henderson’s prescient bequest to the future. If we had followed his advice, our country—indeed, our world—could have avoided...
  • Excessive drinking caused nearly 500 deaths per day during pandemic, CDC says

    03/02/2024 12:22:51 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 49 replies
    ktla ^ | 03/01/2024 | Jas Kang
    Loneliness, depression, and mental health issues also spiked during a time when most people were asked to self-isolate. Alcohol consumption and deaths also went up during that time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new report by the CDC found that there were roughly 488 deaths per day during the pandemic due to excessive alcohol drinking in 2020-2021. “Stress, loneliness, and social isolation; and mental health conditions might also have contributed to the increase in deaths from excessive alcohol use during the Covid-19 pandemic,” During 2016 and 2017, there were 137,927 alcohol-related deaths nationally. For 2020...
  • More proof that COVID killed medical ethics

    thousands of elderly COVID patients in the United Kingdom were secretly euthanized in April 2020 ... This disturbing claim came from an investigation directed by Wilson Sy, director, Investment Analytics Research Australia, and ... The alleged euthanasia claim seems unlikely because in the U.K., it is regarded as either manslaughter or murder by the National Health Service ... Having had a career in analytics, I was skeptical. I reviewed the ResearchGate investigation documentation fully expecting to find fake news. Instead, I found that the report was exceptionally well researched and documented, and the claim appears valid. The truth was buried...
  • Not wearing a mask during COVID-19 health emergency isn’t a free speech right, appeals court says

    02/07/2024 9:03:20 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 75 replies
    abcnews.go ^ | 02/06/2024 | MIKE CATALINI
    TRENTON, N.J. -- A federal appeals court shot down claims Monday that New Jersey residents' refusal to wear face masks at school board meetings during the COVID-19 outbreak constituted protected speech under the First Amendment. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in two related cases stemming from lawsuits against officials in Freehold and Cranford, New Jersey. The suits revolved around claims that the plaintiffs were retaliated against by school boards because they refused to wear masks during public meetings. In one of the suits, the court sent the case back to a lower court for consideration. In...
  • Florida COVID grand jury releases findings, says Biden administration stonewalled efforts

    02/04/2024 4:17:58 AM PST · by EVO X · 15 replies
    Florida's Voice ^ | Feb. 2, 2024 | Eric Daugherty
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The 22nd Statewide Grand Jury on Friday released its first interim report a little more than a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis petitioned its formation. While the governor was primely targeting COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and their advertisement of vaccine efficacy, the first report drew conclusions mainly on lockdowns and masks, and the grand jury said the issue of the vaccines was far more nuanced and could not be answered in a “vacuum.” It also said that the Biden administration did not cooperate with efforts to obtain testimony from officials representing agencies like the CDC, FDA and U.S....
  • Epidemic Forecasting Models Overestimated Potential Infection Numbers Amid COVID-19 Lockdown Debate

    01/23/2024 7:47:46 PM PST · by lightman · 15 replies
    epoch times ^ | 21 January A.D. 2024 | Naveen Athrappully
    A new study has shown that flawed epidemic modeling techniques can lead to overestimating the number of people who could get infected during a pandemic—resulting in unnecessary measures such as lockdowns and mass vaccination campaigns. The peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of Physics Complexity on Jan. 9, associated existing models of forecasting epidemics with the structure of social networks among people. The most widely used forecasting method is a “compartmental model,” which usually makes an assumption of “random mixing,” meaning that any individual can infect any other person. However, this is a flawed assumption that can lead to “greatly...
  • THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION ---- (about when the great C19 panic began)

    01/11/2024 4:14:14 AM PST · by dennisw · 33 replies
    MARK OSHINSKIE ---Substack ^ | JAN 11, 2024 | MARK OSHINSKIE
    The night before the lockdowns began, I laid alone in bed, listening to National Public Radio affiliate WNYC-FM in the dark. A newscaster grimly announced that New York Governor Cuomo would, the next day, issue a 15 day “Shelter in Place Order.” I couldn’t believe this was happening. Put a state of 22 million on house arrest? Over a respiratory virus that was linked to deaths of a tiny fraction of old Italians and Spaniards? Over a hokey video of some Chinese guy laying on the sidewalk scissoring his legs? When had healthy people ever been locked down? What made...
  • It’s the power, stupid

    12/19/2023 6:04:57 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 19 Dec, 2023 | Robert Arvay
    If a way were discovered to produce free material wealth, in unlimited supply, the initial result would likely be something that feels like utopia. With all material needs satisfied, what need would there be for conflict, for competition, for war? That initial phase, however, would be only temporary. That is because human greed is not restricted to money and material things. A far greater greed among humans is the greed for power — the lust to rule. Lucifer had everything he could have wanted, except for one thing: to be God. Pursuit of that “one thing” has plagued all of...
  • GOP Rep. Blasts Pandemic Treaty on House Floor, Rejects WHO Authority Over United States

    12/13/2023 3:29:22 PM PST · by george76 · 21 replies
    The Politics Brief. ^ | December 13, 2023
    The World Health Organization has been urgently pushing a new Pandemic Treaty, officially known as the “Zero draft report of the Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies to the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly.” A Republican Congressman, Dr. Rich McCormick from Georgia, slammed the need for such a pandemic treaty and specifically referenced the World Health Organization in a much-needed speech on the House floor. Much like other international organizations, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, World Health Organization, is vying to gain more authority through pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response accord,” Rep. McCormick said....
  • A new ‘highly infectious’ COVID-19 variant is spreading across the US: What to know about HV.1

    11/24/2023 9:30:34 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 105 replies
    Click2houston ^ | 11/23/2023 | Erica Ponder
    97 HOUSTON – COVID-19 is continuing to make its presence known across the world as it adapts and evolves into a new strand. American Medical Association Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, said HV.1 has become the variant responsible for most COVID cases here in the United States in just a few short weeks. According to an article from the TODAY Show, the omicron subvariant accounts for nearly one-third of cases nationwide and is “highly infectious.”
  • Disabled people were secretly given Do Not Resuscitate orders, Scottish Covid-19 inquiry hears

    11/23/2023 8:30:38 PM PST · by MNDude · 19 replies
    Disabled Scots felt like their lives were ‘not worth saving’ during the pandemic after Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders were secretly imposed on many of them, an inquiry has heard. As Covid began to spread, GP receptionists even called up those with disabilities to try to persuade them to sign up to the orders, which inform doctors that they do not want their lives saved in an emergency. Glasgow Disability Alliance chief executive Tressa Burke also told the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry how some of her members were left so isolated during lockdowns they feared their bodies would not be discovered...
  • Charges dropped against restaurant that refused to shut down or use vaccine passports during COVID lockdowns

    11/18/2023 12:46:44 PM PST · by Twotone · 27 replies
    The Blaze ^ | November 16, 2023 | Andrew Chapados
    A restaurant that refused to shut down during COVID-19 restrictions and didn't require documentation of vaccination had its charges dropped after finally getting its day in court. The crown dropped charges against Jesse Johnson, owner of Without Papers Pizza, after just 10 minutes of action in the courtroom, Media Bezirgan reported. The Calgary, Canada, business faced shutdowns and charges from the Alberta provincial government after it refused to close while also declining to participate in Canada's vaccine passport program, which required two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to eat indoors at restaurants. "These bastards, they literally tried to break me...
  • Gavin Newsom's French Laundry Moment, Part Deux

    11/16/2023 9:06:31 AM PST · by george76 · 11 replies
    PJ Media ^ | NOVEMBER 15, 2023 | VICTORIA TAFT
    Gavin Newsom is celebrating the second French Laundry moment of his governorship practically on the anniversary of the first one! In November 2020, all humanity in his fiefdom was supposed to be on lockdown. Californians .. be ready to answer waspish Where's your mask!! epithets, and not to eat with anyone outside their bubble — especially not for Thanksgiving because you'll kill Grandma! Three years ago this very week, LA reporter Bill Melugin posted photos showing Gavin Newsom, his wife, and all manner of lobbyists, including a health care lobbyist and California Medical Association lobbyist, collected at the French Laundry...
  • Exclusive: Healthy 21-Year-Old Given 3 Days to Live After Pfizer Shots Led to Rare Autoimmune Disorder

    11/08/2023 10:50:41 AM PST · by george76 · 34 replies
    TTAC Publishing ^ | October 4, 2023 | Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
    Cody Hudson was interning in a medical office near his home in Florida, taking a gap year before beginning college in Arizona, when the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns went into effect and ended his internship. Like many American families, Cody and his family took the recommended precautions around COVID-19. But when the vaccines became available, his parents were skeptical, Cody told The Defender in an interview. As he began planning for college and started a short-term job at a coffee shop where everyone was vaccinated, Cody started researching the vaccine online and talking to people around him. He concluded the vaccine...
  • Professor Lockdown Denies Ever Calling for Lockdown

    10/30/2023 2:54:13 PM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    Brownstone Institute ^ | OCTOBER 30, 2023 | Will Jones
    one of the more bizarre moments at the Covid Inquiry so far, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain’s lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order – in the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling. The Mail has more. Professor Neil Ferguson’s terrifying March 2020 models warned that 500,000 Brits would die unless tougher action was taken to curb the virus’s spread. It spooked Boris Johnson into adopting draconian restrictions that saw the country told they “must stay at home.” Vaccines — considered the only safe route out of the pandemic — were still months away from...
  • Commentary: How we got COVID’s risk right but the response wrong

    10/29/2023 10:33:06 AM PDT · by lightman · 33 replies
    Portland Press Herald ^ | 29 October A.D. 2023 | Justin Fox
    Early in March 2020, I decided to write about the risks posed by COVID-19. I have no background in epidemiology or even health journalism, but I can multiply, divide and make charts, and was frustrated with the lack of quantification in most reporting and public health messaging on what was soon to be declared a pandemic. In the resulting column, I took what seemed to be the most authoritative estimate of COVID’s per-infection fatality rate – 1% – and noted that this was about 10 times the 0.1% fatality rate of seasonal influenza, then conservatively multiplied a Centers for Disease...
  • Evangelical Free Church of America Seeks To Defrock Pastor For Defying Lockdowns

    09/21/2023 12:57:37 PM PDT · by Morgana · 18 replies
    Evangelical Dark Web ^ | September 17, 2023 | Ray Fava
    The Evangelical Free Church of America is the orthodox version of the credobaptist tradition stemming from Swede immigrants to the United States whereas the Evangelical Covenant Church has embraced liberalism. However the powers that be at the top echelons of the organization are extremely liberal and vindictive. After defrocking Pastor Jeff Kliewer, the pastor of Cornerstone Church in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, they have their sights on a new target: Pastor David Whitney. His crimes stem from his refusal to shut down his church during lockdowns. In the small town of Taneytown, MD, a Republican organization, the Tri-District Republican Club...
  • Lawyer Who Won Epic Lawsuit Against New York State’s Draconian COVID Camps Receives Standing Ovation for Her Oral Arguments in Lawsuit Appeal

    09/17/2023 6:21:28 AM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Sep. 16, 2023 | Margaret Flavin
    On Wednesday, Attorney Bobbie Ann Cox faced off against the New York State Attorney General to defend her victory over New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York Department of Health (DOH) in the epic lawsuit Borrello v. Hohul. The case resulted in the New York State Supreme Court in Cattaragugus County striking down Hochul’s unconstitutional “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” that allowed them to illegally lock citizens up, or lock them down, without any proof of illness and without any due process. The State Attorney appealed the decision. Cox presented her oral arguments in front of the Appellate Division’s...
  • Last 3 men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer found not guilty

    09/15/2023 8:58:19 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 8 replies
    The last three men to stand trial in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have been found not guilty on all counts.Eric Molitor and twin brothers William Null and Michael Null were among the 14 men charged in state and federal court over the alleged plan to kidnap the governor at her vacation home in Antrim County in 2020, largely over the Democratic governor's strict COVID-19 shutdowns.Molitor, 39, and the Null brothers, both 41, had pleaded not guilty to state charges of providing material support for terrorist acts and illegally possessing firearms.