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Hospitals across the United States are overwhelmed with children suffering from a specific respiratory illness, according to reports. According to a report from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), data showing Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases spiked over the last month. Typically, RSV causes children to contract the usual mild-cold symptoms, but the impact could be far worse for those with a compromised immune system or a heart defect. ... “We are treating a very high number of severely ill children,” Sarah Combs, an emergency medicine physician at Children’s National, told The Washington Post.

A German man got himself vaccinated against Covid 90 times so he could sell forged jab passes. The passes, which had real vaccine batch numbers, were being sold to those who did not want to get jabbed themselves. It is said that the man, 60, from the city of Magdeburg, received up to 90 vaccinations against COVID-19 at centres in Saxony. The 60-year-old, whose name has not been released in line with German privacy laws, got the jabs for months until police caught him. He was discovered after he had a COVID-19 jab two days in a row at a...

If you were to watch CNN, the former cable news network’s biggest story about Hillary Clinton is that she’s selling a $32 baseball cap with “But Her Emails Hat” stitched on it pink as a “dad hat”.... ... The big Hillary revelation doesn’t involve the $32 baseball cap that CNN is promoting, but a digital Clinton spy network that allegedly targeted Trump Tower and even the White House. In the fall of 2016, as the election was approaching and the investigation into her own server was heating up. Hillary Clinton threw out the bizarre claim that "computer scientists" had "uncovered...

(excerpted) ...Suggested Daily Dosages The provisional daily dosage suggestions offered by McCarty and DiNicolantonio to help control RNA viruses, including influenza and coronavirus infection, are as follows:The Importance of Vitamin D Optimization Solar ultraviolet-B radiation and supplemental vitamin D have also been shown to reduce pandemic fatality rates, which makes sense considering how important vitamin D is for controlling infections and lowering your risk for influenza and the common cold. Research shows high-dose vitamin D supplementation lowers the risk of respiratory illnesses and lung infections in the elderly by 40%. As noted by an author of that study, “Vitamin D...

Dr. Anthony Fauci wants “anybody and everybody that is coming into the country” to get a coronavirus test within 24 hours — but not those captured crossing into America illegally. “That’s a different issue,” he said. Don’t you know, you stupid, stupid people, science is for Democrats to dictate; Americans to obey; and illegals to do as they wish? ... So for citizens, the science says that even though you’re vaccinated and vaccinations are supposedly oh-so-effective, you must still wear a mask while on the plane, while boarding the plane, while hanging out at the airport waiting to board the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just announced new coronavirus guidelines that said some people, some people with vulnerabilities, some people with compromised immunities, may indeed, should indeed, may very well mightily should indeed get — get this — a fourth shot. ... First came the “two weeks to flatten the curve” argument, the one that turned into, “oh, oops, we meant two years.” ... Then came the “if one face mask is good, two face masks are better” lines of science... Then came U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and his videotaped instructional on how to fabricate a face...

Shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday evening, Royal Examiner received the following response from Valley Health President and CEO (Chief Operating Officer) Mark Nantz regarding comments by Front Royal Town Councilman Scott Lloyd citing their employee COVID vaccination mandate of July 19 as one reason he considers his vaccine-related ordinance proposal now an “Emergency” submission to council. That ordinance, as previously reported, would legislatively block by municipal code any private sector business or organization operating within the town limits from reassigning or terminating employees or members who refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. ...

Note: link is to the general descrption of the test, not my results. My results follow: COVID-19 Antibody Test (SARS-CoV-2 AB IgG), Semi-Quantitative POSITIVE Current Result 1.25 index <1.00 Negative > or = 1.00 Positive I took this IgG test at the end of April and it was negative, took it 16 days after the J&J shot and it was still negative https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3965215/posts Took it again 14 days later (30 days after J&J) and it is finally positive. That means a detectable level of antibodies to the spike protein.

...We would all have to agree, I think, that 2020–21 was a banner year for dangerous clowns and their quack brethren, starting with the lunatics whose successful gain-of-function genetic research succeeded in turning a harmless bat virus into Covid-19, the virus that causes a kind of human ’flu that shut down the world and killed off thousands of old folks. Then we should include all the political and medical quacks who made sure that effective treatments, well-known to all real, competent physicians for years, were unavailable, even forbidden, and who went on to cause incalculable social and psychological damage by...

As promised, here are my antibody test results. Link is to the test description, not my test. I'll paste my test results in the first comment. I had J&J on the 19th and had blood drawn at Quest yesterday (16 days later). My baseline test in late April was also negative.

“Caitlyn” (aka Bruce) Jenner has announced his candidacy for governor of California. The question is should conservatives support him? After all, Jenner stands for lower taxes, common-sense border security, and less government intrusion in our daily lives. Surely this would be better than the tyrannical rule of Gavin Newsom, wouldn’t it? The answer, in a word, is no, and the simple reason is, likewise, one word — priorities. ... Conservatives understand that our cultural foundation is weak when we live merely pragmatic and materialistic lives. We know the more weight life brings to bear on the shifting sand of moral...

Can't connect to FR via my ISP. But when I access via dreamhost, I have no problem. This post is via dreamhost.

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In 1811, Tecumseh, the native American confederacy leader, and his men faced the United States military lead by William Henry Harrison. The battle at the Tippecanoe River ended in a defeat for Tecumseh and resulted in the death of his brother, Tenskwatawa. The battle meant to defend their territory from an aggressive American expansion to the west ended up in a horrific defeat for the Native Americans. Tecumseh died two years later in the Battle of the Thames in an effort to help the British in defeating the Americans, resulting in the collapse of the Native American confederacy. This is...

BEIJING — The domestic politics of major countries are never kept within their borders — and the future policy orientation of the United States has become a hot topic for many people in China. There is no denying the fact that China-U.S. relations have suffered serious damage over the past four years. Each country has expressed much complaint and concern about the other. The United States believes that China craves world hegemony. China sees the United States as trying to block China’s way forward and as hindering its people’s pursuit of a better life. It seems that both sides are...

Seven City of Milwaukee voting wards reported more 2020 U.S. Presidential election votes than they had registered voters, according to an analysis of results and Secretary of State files. Five of them are in the city’s eleventh aldermanic ward, on the city’s far Southwest Side. Vice President Joe Biden carried the five in 2020 with 3,768 votes to President Donald Trump’s 2,883— a margin of 885, or eight times what it was in 2016, when Trump earned 1,904 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 2,012. ... Wisconsin is one of 21 states that allow same-day voter registration at the polls. ...

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos predicted Tuesday that Democrats were going to perform well in “ruby red” districts this year. “I think we are going to see some wins in these deep red districts that over time you’re going to see going from ruby red to purple to even blue,” Ms. Bustos, Illinois Democrat, told reporters on an Election Day press call. ... Overall, Republicans have 17 seats considered a toss-up while Democrats only have nine and are likely to grow their majority by 10 to 15 seats, according to an analysis from the Cook Political Report. ....

REPORTER: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THE SUPPORTERS OF THE Q-ANON, The people who believe in that conspiracy and what they think is true about America that THERE IS SEX TRAFFICKING, CONSPIRACIES AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR NOT REJECTING THE CONSPIRACY AND THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN IT? JOE BIDEN: I'VE BEEN A BIG SUPPORTER OF MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT WHILE IT STILL EXISTS IN THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IT'S BIZARRE. TOTALLY BIZARRE. AND NOW, HAVE YOU GUYS FOUND THAT PLANELOAD OF PEOPLE and weapons...

The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s record goes much deeper. In 1980, he developed a presidential prediction model that retrospectively accounted for 120 years of U.S. election history. Over the past four decades, his system has accurately called presidential victors, from Ronald Reagan in ’84 to, well, Mr. Trump in 2016. blah blah blah