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Game-changing news has emerged out of Iceland. As of this week, Iceland is the first country in the world to completely drop ALL Covid measures. There will be no lockdowns or social restrictions. There will be no mandatory Covid testing and if you happen to catch Covid you do not have to isolate. There will be no vaccine passports and no vaccine mandates. Anyone regardless of their vaccination status can travel to the country with no test required. The unvaccinated will not face any form of discrimination or exclusion from society. Iceland is returning to going back to life as...

The devastation wreaked by the Covid-19 virus on human life and the world economy – especially the way it made doomsday scenarios of contagion all too real – has made ordinary people anxious to know its origin. Shockingly, there is enough evidence and reason to suspect that the pandemic might have been the result of a vaccine arms race that skirted dangerously close to bioweapons development. And that a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China – inadvertent or, well, by design – may have been responsible for the pandemic. The behind-the-scenes players were the U.S. government, Big Pharma, and...

Last week Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, gave an interview to Yahoo Finance and made some truly startling admissions. He said, among other things, that the two original Pfizer injections provide no protection against Covid-19. “We know that the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any,” Bourla confessed. If, then, you have received the two shots you are not protected against infection or severe Covid or death. Neither are you less likely to transmit the disease to others than your unvaccinated neighbor or co-worker. To put it in a different way, the first two jabs...

In November, Republican Glenn Youngkin prevailed in a tough race for the Virginia governorship and led the party in sweeping the state. The result has galvanized Republicans, convincing them, justifiably, that the victory augurs well for their bid to win Congress back in 2022. In that same vein, Democrats fear Youngkin’s victory means Trumpism remains potent despite Trump's defeat. The Democratic Party is right to be nervous -- history is unkind to political coalitions forged in opposition to a single individual. In the early 1800s, America was led by an elite comprised of the nation’s banking and merchant class, and...

Commercials take up 27% of commercial television screen time and are the main source of income for TV and radio stations. In most cases, advertisements on all channels appear simultaneously, so don't try to change the channel, there will be commercials elsewhere, too. Nowadays they have also taken over the Internet. For financial support, websites have to run ads on their pages, the largest share supplied and controlled by Google. Ads pry into your eyes, unceremoniously interfere with text, and on YouTube, in the most inappropriate places, they cut into the action of films, lectures, and concerts, tearing apart musical...

Here is some number-crunching. Using natural immunity as a base and the fully vaccinated to mean two mRNA shots, we can conclude the following: An unassailable stat from the Israelis, which made Fauci change his guidance from "if you are fully vaccinated, you will not catch it" to "if you are fully vaccinated, you can still catch it and spread it," was that the fully vaccinated in Israel were 6–13 times more likely to catch the D variant than the naturally immune population. And the first decent-sized sample regarding omicron shows that the fully vaccinated are 2.61 times more likely...

Have the drug companies been intentionally misleading us? I just read a disturbing study of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine's efficacy by the Canadian COVID Care Alliance. This organization comprises over 500 independent Canadian doctors, scientists, and health care practitioners. The title of the article, "The Pfizer Inoculations for COVID-19: More Harm Than Good," is disturbing. The article itself, which discusses the many nuances of this study, is even more distressing. You may recall the much-reported "95% efficacy" of the vaccine against COVID-19. We all assumed that if we were vaccinated, we would then only have a 5% chance of becoming...

As time goes on, we are learning more and more about Covid 19 and the Covid 19 vaccines. To date the most important and surprising information about the vaccines is that they do not prevent the vaccinated from contracting or transmitting the virus. The irony is that the CDC, a government agency, readily admits this[i] but other sectors of the government are carrying on as if this vitally important new information did not exist at all. Take for example Biden's OSHA which, before it was temporarily halted by a Circuit Court ruling, ordered the unvaccinated but not the vaccinated employees...

Former president Donald Trump has hurt his chances for a second go of the presidency, if he plans to run. By recently saying, "The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind," he dismayed a large swath of supporters who consider the COVID shots one of mankind's greatest failures. SNIP One of the hardest things in the world to do is admit being wrong. Pride is widely considered to be the worst of the seven deadly sins. There's also plenty of pride going around within the CDC, FDA, and NIH these days, with devastating consequences as the COVID shots...

COVID cases are rampaging in Denmark, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. According to the numbers on omicron, it is the vaccinated who account for a disproportionate share of the infections. In other words, vaccines are making things worse instead of helping. Raymond Wolfe reports in LifeSiteNews (emphasis added): 79 percent of Danes infected with Omicron by December 15 were fully jabbed, according to a report released Tuesday by the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a Danish health ministry that tracks COVID-19 variants. The double-vaccinated accounted for more than 14,000 of 17,767 Omicron infections recorded in...

And that's a conservative estimate. To get an idea of just how dangerous the current Covid vaccines are, we only need to look at the numbers in the government authorized VAERS database. As you may know, VAERS is an acronym for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. This system is co-maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This is how the FDA describes this facility on its website: “VAERS is an early warning system used to monitor adverse events that happen after vaccination. VAERS is the frontline system of a...

So, how do the COVID vaccines (grouped together for this piece) compare to other vaccines? I’ll tell you. But first, I gotta disclaim: 1. Yes. I am a medical doctor. 2. No. I am not your doctor. 3. No. I am not providing you with medical advice. 4. Yes. I do not know you. 5. What you choose to do re: the COVID vaccine is a choice made among (you) + (your physician) + (whomever else you decide to include) +/- (government/employer mandates). I am completely out of it as far as your health care choices are concerned. As always,...

Let's say you owned a catering business hired to set up an outdoor wedding. Rain is forecast, and you can cover only 70% of the seats with tents. If the rain came, would you expect to have more dry seats with the tents or without? You would say, "Obviously, you'd have 70% fewer wet seats if you used the tents." And in a pre-COVID world, you would be right. Yet 70% of the citizens in Germany have been fully vaccinated against COVID, and still they are reporting record or near-record high daily numbers of new COVID cases. When it wanes,...

They have it exactly backwards when they blame the unvaccinated for mass murder. We are hearing an increasing drumbeat from COVID alarmists and control freaks that if someone refuses to get the COVID-19 shot, these evil refusers will be responsible for the deaths of all those good people who obeyed and are fully vaccinated. This is pure panic alarmism. It turns out the exact opposite of their statement will prove to be true. That is – it is they and not the unvaccinated who will cause the deaths of millions of our citizens. Why are these alarmist citizens doing this?...

There is a massive propaganda push against those choosing not to vaccinate against COVID-19 with the experimental mRNA vaccines. Mainstream media, the big tech corporations, and our government have combined efforts to reward compliance and to shame and marginalize non-compliance. Their mantra says that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Persons who choose not to vaccinate are characterized as unintelligent, selfish, paranoid people who don’t read much and live in a trailer park in Florida (or Alabama, or Texas, or name your state). Never has there been such an effort to cajole, manipulate through fear, and penalize people to...

There is a massive propaganda push against those choosing not to vaccinate against COVID-19 with the experimental mRNA vaccines. Mainstream media, the big tech corporations, and our government have combined efforts to reward compliance and to shame and marginalize non-compliance. Their mantra says that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Persons who choose not to vaccinate are characterized as unintelligent, selfish, paranoid people who don’t read much and live in a trailer park in Florida (or Alabama, or Texas, or name your state). Never has there been such an effort to cajole, manipulate through fear, and penalize people to...

I'm sorry, President Trump -- not everything is about you. I'm not getting jabbed, hordes of others aren't either, and it has absolutely nothing to do with you in any way. Although I have supported him since he ran for president (and believe him to be the legitimately elected president of the United States), Donald Trump really does have an problem getting a bit too full of himself and saying nonsensical things while flailing around narcissistically. I present this bit of nonsense he rambled on Thursday about people who remain unvaxxed as irrefutable evidence: "During my administration, everybody wanted the...

There are a number of reasons to explain the intense push from the Biden administration and the government medical bureaucracy to get people to take the COVID vaccine. From a wide search of the information available, I find it hard to believe that the actual health of people is one of the reasons. For example, why demand people with natural immunity get vaccinated? And why insist on vaccinating children when their risk of serious effects from the virus is minuscule? It make no scientific sense especially when the vaccine itself can possibly cause serious health issues for the young. This...

Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist. He's not against vaccines per se but is a skeptic of the ones for COVID. He's also a proponent of using ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine regimens for preventing and treating COVID. For that, YouTube demonetized his broadcasts. From that vantage point, Weinstein has an interesting take on how game theory applies to public health in the time of a pandemic such as we're in now. It goes something like this. During a viral pandemic, the public health authorities may conclude that the best policy is to vaccinate as large a percentage of the population as...

You may have heard that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot received FDA approval this past Monday. Politicians, national health officials, and journalists are breathless with excitement about how this approval will finally induce the remaining “vaccine-hesitant” into stepping forward to receive their jab. The FDA even has a press release on their website about it.There’s just one problem.If you read the actual letters that the FDA sent to Pfizer on August 23, 2021, you’ll see the FDA did no such thing. In the sense that the term ‘FDA approval’ is generally understood, this drug is NOT approved by the FDA. It...