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Five years ago, in March 2020, Yale sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis MD, PhD, MPH took to Twitter to marvel at China’s response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19. In a detailed thread, he described China’s “social nuclear weapon” (of the people-clearing ‘neutron bomb’ -variety?): unprecedented lockdowns, movement restrictions on 930 million people, and a collectivist culture harnessed by an authoritarian regime. He framed it as a Newtonian feat: the sheer force required to stop the virus revealed its power. Contrast this with Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, MA (economics): equally credentialed, but clear-eyed (the French term is “clairvoyant”),...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world. Many of those changes are now part of everyday life. Medical experts say there’s still more to learn from this new normal and COVID’s impact five years later. Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the pandemic, medical experts shared their thoughts, including where public health stands now “We are better today, better as a society, better as health care professionals and we’re more aware of the factors that prevent our patients from getting good health care and focused on changing those factors,” said Dr. Amit Sachdev, Neurology...

So basically taxpayers paid for the creation of the Covid-19 virus through USAID and then paid the mainstream media to brainwash them about masks, vaccines, and lockdowns? It's unbelievable what these sick people did to us. ... You, the American taxpayer, paid for the global pandemic and then you paid the media to brainwash you into complying with their agenda. ... Americans went from starting a revolution over a tea tax to sleeping through our own government trying to kill us. ... It's time for the masses to wake up to how corrupt their own government is. ... Mind-blowing what...

As the COVID pandemic swept across the United States and in the years that followed, scientists, informed commentators, and journalists who questioned the origin of the virus and subsequent COVID policies were summarily dismissed, censored, blacklisted, and even canceled without serious consideration. From ineffective masks to "social distancing," to corporate lockdowns and school closures, those among us who relied on unbiased facts and valid information have been vindicated, as one COVID canard after another has gone up in smoke. Now, new study results published by the Journal of Infection further undermine the lies and obfuscations told by the former head...

GENERAL MARK MILLEY: AFTER BETRAYING AMERICA TO CHINA, HE'S WALKING FREE THANKS TO BIDEN'S PARDON.. Biden just pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, the man who undermined Trump while he was president, secretly called China, and presided over America’s most humiliating military failures—and now, he faces zero accountability. SECRET CALLS TO CHINA In 2020 and 2021, Milley unilaterally called China’s top general, promising he’d warn them if Trump ever ordered an attack—completely going behind the back of the President. This was a stunning act of insubordination, potentially treasonous, as it directly compromised U.S. national security. THE AFGHANISTAN DISASTER Milley oversaw Biden’s catastrophic...

Former Canadian finance minister – and deputy Prime Minister – Chrystia Freeland announced yesterday (17) that she will join the contest to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Canadian ruling Liberal Party. Before we share some of the Reuters’ reports about their former senior editor Freeland, let’s bring back a dimension of her that MSM will do their utmost to cover up: the Nazi connection. Chrystia Freeland’s family connections to Ukrainian Nazis revolve around her maternal grandfather, ‘Michael’ Mykhailo Chomiak. Chomiak was an editor of a Ukrainian-language Nazi propaganda newspaper called Krakivski Visti, published in Nazi-occupied Poland...

Donald Trump’s recent announcement of Sheriff Chad Chronister as his nominee for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator has sparked a fierce backlash among conservatives, who are raising serious concerns about Chronister’s record, particularly his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and his perceived alignment with leftist policies. ... many conservative voices have condemned the pick, pointing to his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and his alignment with liberal policies. Among the most controversial moments of Chronister’s career was the arrest of Tampa Bay Pastor Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne in March 2020. The pastor was charged with violating public health orders after keeping...

Bhattacharya is a champion of the people and real science, who vows to “reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again.” ... Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published in October 2020 that challenged the response to the covid pandemic lockdowns. The declaration proposed an approach called “Focused Protection,” which advocated for allowing those at lower risk to resume normal life, implementing strong measures to protect high-risk populations, and reliance on widespread immunity through reliance on natural infection. If this guidance had been followed, our society’s massive and expensive damage could have been avoided. It was...

Neil Oliver reacts after a top Dutch government official has admitted 'Covid' was a military operation. Transcript linked below video.

Mike Pence brags in his book how he pushed Trump into lockdowns and then pushed Birx to keep states locked down as long as possible. This man is not what he seems. ... Pence and his staff were the leaks from the White House during Trumps first term. ... He’s a fraud and a traitor.

If you’ve spent any time online over the past four days, you’ve probably seen internet users thirsting over Gavin Newsom. But if you chose to crawl into a hole after Tuesday’s election, I will sum up the posts for you: Gavin Newsom is an evil sociopath and he’s hot and he hates Republicans so he must run for president. The reason for this unabashed yearning is, of course, that Donald Trump is the president-elect. Again. How catastrophic his second term will be is still unclear. What is clear, though, is that Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party suffered...

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has belatedly admitted that he is “not sure” if the draconian lockdown measures imposed on the nation by his government during the Chinese coronavirus were effective in stemming the tide of the illness. In an excerpt of his upcoming memoirs published in the Daily Mail, Mr Johnson appears to have admitted to being swept up in the panic of the Wuhan virus, sensationally revealing that he considered a literal invasion of The Netherlands to obtain covid vaccines being blocked by the EU, as well as admitting that he had growing doubts about the effectiveness...

The architect of New York City's coronavirus lockdowns admitted to breaking his own rules to attend drug-fueled sex parties in an undercover sting. Former Covid czar Dr Jay Varma was caught on camera talking about how he got high and went to underground raves that were 'not Covid-friendly' at the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. He also detailed how he snuck around to participate in 'deviant sexual' gatherings, hosted sex parties at his home and rented a hotel with friends where they would get 'naked' and take 'molly,' a street name for MDMA or ecstasy.

New York City, with a population of over 8.8 million, had some of the most iron-fisted COVID lockdown policies in America. While the ridiculous, unscientific COVID policies in America’s largest city, which is run almost exclusively by Democrats, were destroying businesses and lives, the person in charge of setting those policies was hosting private sex parties with his wife on Wall Street. In an undercover meeting with a reporter working for Steven Crowder’s popular Mug Club show, Dr. Jay Varma, the former Socialist Mayor Bill De Blasio’s COVID Czar for NYC, was caught revealing stunning details about how he ignored...

Covid lockdowns, such as school closures, canceled sports activities and stay-at-home orders, prematurely aged teen brains by as much as four years, researchers from the University of Washington found. The new study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is more evidence of how disruptions to daily routines may have contributed to behavioral problems, an increase in eating disorders, anxiety and depression in adolescent girls and boys. Scientists at the university's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) began the study using MRIs in 2018 to see how the brain structure of 160 teens from the...

A recent study by the University of Washington found that the COVID pandemic may have prematurely aged teenagers' brains, particularly young girls. Many people experienced disruptions to their daily lives and routines due to stay-at-home orders and limited social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, with this being shown to particularly affect the well-being of young people. Now, a study by researchers at the University of Washington has found that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused unusual changes in adolescents’ brain development, resulting in accelerated brain maturation. "We were really surprised to find that in our post-COVID data the cortical thickness...

Everyone knows the left can't meme, but watching them attempt to troll the right is just as entertaining in person. Here's the setup: A couple of weeks ago, vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance walked into a donut shop and ordered donuts. The left-leaning media had a field day because things became awkward when the donut lady expressed hostility about being on camera. The encounter ended with Vance saying, 'Give me some glaze, sprinkle-themed stuff, some of these cinnamon rolls … yeah, whatever makes sense.' View on X"Who orders donuts like that?" the Left screamed. Two weeks later, Vance's opponent Tim...

“Kamala, you are supposed to drink AFTER the speech.” — Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA. “The entire Democrat campaign will now be focused on gaslighting the country into believing Trump has been president for the last 4 years and Kamala has been an innocent bystander the whole time. They can’t run on her record, so they’re going to invent one and lie about it.” — Sean Davis, The Federalist. Get this: there is one thing, one lurking terror, behind every fake and desperate move the Democratic Party has made this dire election cycle: the fear that hundreds of high officials...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “we saw so many deaths from COVID because” former President Donald Trump put out misinformation. Host Kristen Welker said, “Let’s talk big picture. The campaign is only a month old. Everything she’s said in the past is starting to come into focus. When she ran in 2020, she called for banning fracking, supporting single-payer health care and eliminating private health insurance. The campaign says she no longer supports those positions. The Trump campaign is calling here a chameleon. Do you think vice president has to explain more on...

President Trump has rejoined X/Twitter and posted a campaign video!