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Around the world, every minute of every day, three million masks are tossed out. Let that sink in. THREE million masks are tossed out every MINUTE. Every single day, on average, a little over four billion — with a “b” — masks are thrown out.

Discarded surgical masks strewn along the sidewalk aptly represent COVID-19’s lasting legacy. The federal medical bureaucracy’s response to the pandemic has resulted in a wasteland of lost economic and educational opportunities, psychologically damaged children, terminally lonely nursing home residents, and lives lost to suicide, illicit drug overdoses, and missed diagnoses.Thanks to the lockdowns, 140,104 businesses were temporarily closed and 97,966 were permanently closed by September 2020 according to a Yelp survey. Significantly, more than half of these were local small businesses—and small businesses employ nearly half of all American workers. Predictably, the workers who were most affected were not the...

President Donald Trump is coming back to social media with his: "own platform" in two to three months. A platform that will: "completely redefine the game" Those words from Trump advisor Jason Miller... A top British official says that masks-muzzles and social distancing could last for several years... Protesters on the streets in Vienna, Austria today opposing the government and coronavirus lockdowns... In Israel a doctor on a vaccination committee resigning. Eran Dolev citing the lack of informed consent for pregnant women being vaccinated... The vaccine stats for the US today... Pepper balls unleashed by police on spring break crowds...

Data Leak Shows Regulators Had Major Concerns About Pfizer’s mRNA VaccineLeaked documents show that some early commercial batches of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA, prompting wider questions about how to assess this novel vaccine platform.By Serena TinariAs it conducted its analysis of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in December, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) was the victim of a cyberattack. More than 40 megabytes of classified information from the agency’s review were published on the dark web, and several journalists — including from The BMJ — and academics worldwide were sent copies of the leaks....

CDC: “After you’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you should keep taking precautions in public places like wearing a mask, staying 6 feet apart from others, and avoiding crowds”Original: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.htmlArchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210308164227/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.htmlWhen You’ve Been Fully VaccinatedHow to Protect Yourself and OthersMarch 8, 2021COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what we know about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic.We’re still learning how vaccines will affect the spread of COVID-19. After you’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you should keep taking...

The state House in Mississippi on Wednesday passed legislation that would protect female athletes by banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. An overwhelming vote of 81-28 allowed for the passage of the ‘Mississippi Fairness Act.’ The Senate last month passed the bill in a similar landslide fashion, with a vote count of 34-9. The act requires that any public school or institution of higher learning designate their sports teams according to biological sex. You know. Science.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chair (NRCC) Tom Emmer warned former President Trump against backing primary challenges to Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him. Emmer made the comments in an interview with Politico. “He can do whatever he wants,” said the Minnesota Republican. “But I would tell him that it’s probably better for us that we keep these people and we make sure that we have a majority that can be sustained going forward.” On Trump weighing into the primaries, Emmer said, “That’s not gonna be helpful.”

Martha: You know, what is your big picture look at this? These six books that have been banned. When you go through the images and I’ll put a couple up to look at, some people find them offensive. Stereotypical. Leo Terrell: I come from this as a public school teacher that read those books as a student, a young boy that read those books. As a civil rights attorney. The images reflect the time in which the books were written, in the 20s and the 30s. I am not offended by those pictures because it talks about the evolution of...

BOMBSHELL: Lin Wood Leaks Whistleblower Transcripts Exposing VP PenceWe don’t use the bombshell term ever… but this is truly one instance.From Lin Wood: Let’s get the day started with a big BANG of truth. Below is the transcription of the entire taped interview conducted with the brave whistleblower who speaks credibly about crimes committed at the highest levels of our government. He speaks at risk of his life and the life of his family. He consented to this public revelation of his truth. You can judge for yourself whether the claims of the whistleblower must be investigated by law enforcement....

A decade ago, the late Rush Limbaugh scoffed at the notion of leaving any of his money behind. We know this because he was reacting to us. Our coverage of Steve Jobs' no-tax estate plan made a lot of waves. Rush felt the need to insert himself into the narrative by sharing his thoughts about legacy. They were terse and tough. He didn't want to leave anything behind. If he spent everything and died broke, he'd be happy, he said. Now, a year after announcing he had terminal cancer, he's gone. And as far as anyone can tell, he left...

OANN CEO Robert Herring offers Lou Dobbs a new home on the competing cable news network One America News Network CEO Robert Herring seemingly offered a job to former-Fox Business host, Lou Dobbs, after his former network fired him following a lawsuit from Smartmatic, one of the voting machine companies accused of being complicit in widespread fraud in the 2020 election. “One America News would like Lou Dobbs to get in contact with us,” wrote Herring. “We may have a position available for you in which you wouldn’t be censored for speaking the truth!” Robert Herring @RobHerring One America News...

Former professional WWE start Gabbi Tuft has come out as a Transgender after he retired from wrestling since 2014. Tuft, 42, who is best known for her time with WWE under the ring name Tyler Reks made the announcement via Instagram on Thursday. “The ball dropped early today as this is now worldwide news. This is me. Unashamed, unabashedly me. This is the side of me that has hidden in the shadows, afraid and fearful of what the world would think; afraid of what my family, friends, and followers would say or do.” “I am no longer afraid and I...

THERE is a remarkable parallel under the reign of both Pope Francis and President Donald Trump. They are two completely different men in vastly different positions of power, yet with many fascinating similarities surrounding their incumbency. Both men are provoking strong reactions among their constituents and beyond. Here, I am not staking out any position but rather pointing out the parallels in order to draw a much broader and spiritual conclusion beyond State and Church politics. • The election of both men was surrounded by controversy. According to alleged conspiracies, it has been suggested that Russia colluded in getting Donald...

The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the president’s emergency satchel, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, the button, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room. It functions as a mobile hub in the strategic defense system of the United States. It is held by an aide-de-camp. It is the closest modern-day equivalent of the medieval crown and scepter—a symbol of supreme authority. Accompanying...

For what it's worth. Very interesting video.

A man was left bleeding from his penis and unable to have sex for a month after he said his hi-tech internet-connected chastity belt was taken over by greedy hackers. Sam Summers, the unfortunate owner of a Cellmate digital chastity belt, ended up paying the hackers a $1,000 ransom to free his manhood from the device, only to have the unscrupulous cyber-pirates demand even more money. Fed up with the shakedown, Summers and his partner took matters into their own hands and employed brute force - and a sturdy pair of bolt cutters - to crack the chastity belt, leaving...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) – A South Carolina couple has been accused of having sex on the Myrtle Beach Skywheel ride and in a community pool to make videos for a popular porn site. Eric Harmon, of Surfside Beach, and Lori Harmon, both 36, face multiple charges after police say they saw videos of the two having sex in public on a pornography site. Myrtle Beach police opened an investigation into indecent exposure on Jan. 12 and said they found the videos. In one video, the couple is having sex inside a gondola encased with glass and in view of...

No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists. As movies such as The Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future and many others show, moving around in time creates a lot of problems for the fundamental rules of the Universe: if you go back in time and stop your parents from meeting, for instance, how can you possibly exist in order to go back in time in the first place? It's a monumental head-scratcher...

A “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle that the actress peddles on Goop exploded into flames in the living room of a UK woman who won the odoriferous product in a quiz, the Sun reported. “The candle exploded and emitted huge flames, with bits flying everywhere,” Jody Thompson, 50, told the outlet.

... If you are one of the roughly 141 million Americans whose body produces sperm, the substance likely seems abundant and cheap. For the rest of us, it is very much neither. That has always been true, especially if one is discerning. But now, the coronavirus pandemic is creating a shortage, sperm banks and fertility clinics said. Men have stopped going in as much to donate, even as demand has stayed steady at some banks and increased rapidly at others. “We’ve been breaking records for sales since June worldwide not just in the U.S. — we’ve broken our records for...