HeartMDPhD Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/18mraaq/open_letter_to_rishi_sunak_raising_concerns_about/
Open letter to Rishi Sunak raising concerns about the Covid Inquiry
The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP
Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
Copy to: The Rt Hon Baroness Hallett DBE
20 December 2023
Dear Prime Minister,
Concerns in relation to the UK Covid Inquiry
We write as a community of parents, experts, parliamentarians and other
concerned individuals asking you urgently to review the Terms of
Reference for the Covid Inquiry.
We support the Covid Inquiry’s stated objective to learn lessons that
will inform future pandemic responses in the UK, but we have serious
concerns about the approach of the Inquiry to date.
In particular we fear that the Inquiry’s current approach is not only
failing adequately to identify those lessons, but risks entirely
undermining the validity of its future findings by failing to examine a
number of critical and highly salient points relating to the nature of
the pandemic and the desirability and effectiveness of the UK’s response. >>>
Deviation from its stated aims
According to its Terms of Reference, the overriding aim and purpose of
the Inquiry is to identify lessons to be learned “to inform preparations >>> for future pandemics across the UK”. In a number of highly material
respects, however, we believe the Inquiry as currently proceeding is
failing to meet these stated aims.
Harms, costs, QALYs
The Inquiry is creating the impression – reflected in extensive print
media and social media commentaries – of having predetermined that
lockdowns were necessary, proportionate and justified, notwithstanding
the very extensive documented harms they have caused, and continue to cause.
On numerous occasions the Inquiry appears to have failed to consider
whether there was any alternative to the lockdowns that were imposed on
this country and has instead appeared to be almost exclusively focused
on whether lockdowns should have been implemented harder, sooner and for >>> longer. [1]
The question of whether lockdowns were necessary, proportionate and
justified, however, can only meaningfully be considered in the context
of available alternative strategies (including by examining
international comparators) and – crucially – only once one has attempted >>> to evaluate the harms caused by locking down.
Many in the UK, including respected members of the scientific community, >>> believe lockdowns were not necessary, proportionate, or adequately
justified by the evidence, and that the harms caused by mass mandatory
lockdowns were more severe than the harm that would have been done by
the virus had a more consensual, focused protection policy been adopted
(e.g. as in Sweden). An important report published by the Centre for
Social Justice just last week [2] underlines the catastrophic impact of
successive lockdowns on the social fabric of the UK, most particularly
those already disadvantaged. Its findings include that “[t]he lockdown
measures, meant to curb the spread of the virus, had severe consequences >>> on various aspects of life for the most disadvantaged” and it states
that although the disadvantage gap was already significant prior to
2020, “the lockdown implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic was the
dynamite that blew it open”.
Prime Minister, as you said yourself in your testimony to the Inquiry, a >>> quality-adjusted life years (QALY) analysis carried out by two leading
UK academic institutions “suggested that the lockdown in its severity
and duration is likely to have generated costs that are greater than the >>> likely benefit”. We believe this to have been a vital piece of evidence
and are deeply concerned that the Inquiry’s focus on deaths from
Covid-19 as the sole or primary measure of the success or otherwise of
the Government’s approach to lockdowns [3] grossly underweights the
harms of lockdowns and other NPIs. Certainly it underweights in
particular the known severe impacts on children and young people, who
were substantially less likely to become ill or to die as a direct
result of the virus, but far more likely to face increased risk from
lockdown and school closures.
The Inquiry cannot satisfactorily contemplate lessons learned from the
pandemic, and specifically the impact of the response to the pandemic,
unless alongside the actual or perceived benefits it objectively,
openly, and fairly considers the harms of lockdowns, school closures and >>> other measures of lockdowns for children, the young and society as a
whole, including on a QALY basis. Similarly, any objective and fair
consideration of the harms of lockdowns and other measures must include
the short- and long-term impacts of approximately £400,000,000,000 of
debt incurred by the Government to fund pandemic-related policy
decisions, which must now be repaid by future generations.
Decision-making processes
Extensive questioning of witnesses to date has been devoted to examining >>> the relationships between Ministers and their advisers and officials,
and in particular to building an impression that poor working practices, >>> and individual instances of political indecision or incompetence in the
face of uniquely reliable scientific expertise, caused delays in
implementing unquestionably necessary interventions, including lockdowns >>> in particular.
Yet topics of potentially critical significance to our collective
understanding of how decisions were made – and therefore how better
decisions might in future be made – have been entirely omitted,
including: the manner and extent to which Ministers considered it
appropriate to brief and seek the support of Parliament for nationwide
interventions which profoundly impacted human and civil rights in this
country and which implicated massive public spending commitments; and
the ethical aspects of policy-making, including the role and apparently
premature standing down of the Government’s own expert ethics advisory
group in December 2021.[4]
The inquiry has also shied from considering the effect on
decision-making of the suppressive activities of both the Government
(through its CDU and RRU agencies in the DCMS and Cabinet Office
respectively) and private sector partners (including in particular media >>> and social media organisations) in relation to academic, journalistic
and clinical commentaries, opinions and advice perceived as casting
doubt on the Government’s policy decisions.
Approach to experts and their evidence
It is a matter of public record that the Inquiry’s approach to the
selection of core participants and to the selection of witnesses to give >>> evidence in person has given rise to an impression among members of the
public and a significant element of UK print media that the Inquiry has
consistently selected and favoured those who supported lockdown policies. >>>
A criticism levelled at the Inquiry – fairly, in our view – is that by
elevating and leaving unchallenged the opinions and disputed advice of
Government-appointed scientific experts, while appearing to disparage
the credentials and opinions of experts who have not supported the
‘official science’, the Inquiry is perpetuating an impression that it
has a preconceived view of what is ‘the right’ scientific opinion and is >>> closed to considering dissenting views, when it should be inquisitorial
and open-minded about the competing scientific perspectives at pivotal
moments in the pandemic response.
Conclusions and corrections
For the reasons stated above, we each hold serious concerns about the
conduct of the Inquiry to date and believe the Inquiry’s approach is now >>> damaging public confidence in its proceedings and by extension in any
recommendations which might ultimately be made.
It is critical that the very significant public expense of the Inquiry
is not wasted, and that the Inquiry adopts an inquisitive open-minded
approach to its proceedings so that lessons can genuinely be learned,
rather than appearing to be predetermined.
To that end, we respectfully ask that you take prompt action to endorse
a review and update by the Inquiry of its Terms of Reference, in
particular to:
? ensure that metrics other than deaths from COVID-19, including QALYs
lost as a result of lockdowns, are adopted for judging the response to
COVID-19;
? ensure that there is an independent and thorough review of all
relevant data with respect to NPIs, including a rigorous examination of
underlying assumptions (especially those which have since been shown to
have been unreliable);
? commit to explore the extent, role and impact of the agencies of
Government engaged in the monitoring and suppression of commentaries and >>> opinions perceived as casting doubt on the Government’s pandemic policy
decisions; and
? commit to explore the ethical aspects of decision-making, including in >>> relation to the Government’s public communication campaigns.
We also respectfully ask that you take such action as you can to support >>> or require the Inquiry to ensure that witnesses will be selected and
their evidence treated in such a way as to avoid any appearance of
favour based on support for the Government’s lockdown policies. Doing so >>> should enable relevant counterpoint perspectives to be adequately taken
into account, which we believe to be critical if the public is to have
confidence in the Inquiry’s findings.
We are aware that a letter was sent to the Inquiry on 15 December 2023
by JMW Solicitors acting on the instructions of UsForThem which has
signalled that, unless the Inquiry can promptly correct its course to
address these issues of predetermination and fairness, the validity of
its eventual findings are likely to be subject to a legal challenge. We
support the objective of that letter and we would support the principle
of a legal challenge to the Inquiry’s findings should it fail now to
address these critical issues.
Yours faithfully,
Signatories Include:
Lord David Frost
Lord Zac Goldsmith
Baroness Foster
Baroness Fox
Baroness Morrissey
Lord Daniel Moylan
Lord Ian Strathcarron
Lord Andrew Robathan
Ian Paisley MP
Rt Hon Sammy Wilson MP
Sir Desmond Swayne MP
Sir Robert Syms
Danny Kruger MP
Philip Davies MP
Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP
Miriam Cates MP
Chris Green MP
Professor Karol Sikora
Professor David Paton
Professor David Livermore
Doctor Tetyana Klymenko
Doctor Chao Wang
UsForThem
[1] The starkest example of many can perhaps be found in the questioning >>> of Michael Gove, where Counsel to the Inquiry stated: “There was no real >>> argument as to whether, for good and obvious public health reasons,
these measures had to be contemplated. They were matters of life and
death. So there wasn’t really a thesis and an antithesis position here,
Mr Gove. All the public health advice on a public health crisis were
pointing in one direction” and later in questioning of Boris Johnson:
“on the premise that the lockdown was necessary on 23 March, was it
nevertheless imposed too late?”.
[2]
https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CSJ-Two_Nations.pdf
[3] This was apparent from the very outset in Counsel to the Inquiry’s
opening speech: “However, if the protection of life is the pre-eminent
duty which every government owes to the people, the numbers of those who >>> died is the marker against which the government’s response must be
judged. This is the stark metric which matters most”.
(https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/06170713/C-19-Inquiry-3-October-2023-Module-2-Day-1-2nd-Revision.pdf)
[4]
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/24/the-scandal-of-how-the-government-shut-down-its-ethics-committee-after-it-tried-to-intervene-on-the-vaccination-of-children/
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use
Apostle Paul's secret (http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ). Though masking
is less protective, it helps us avoid the appearance of doing the evil
of spreading airborne pathogens while there are people getting sick
because of not being 100% protected. It is written that we're to
"abstain from **all** appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22
w/**emphasis**).
Source:
https://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/5-22.htm
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
http://WDJW.great-site.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) for them to
call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of
stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while
preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations
and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-RNA-replication to form
hybrids like http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current
COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/18tsel5/nhs_in_england_facing_storm_of_pressure_as_flu/
NHS in England facing ‘storm of pressure’ as flu and Covid cases surge
Average of 3,631 patients in hospital with Covid during Christmas week,
data shows, a rise of 57% in a month
Anna Bawden Social affairs correspondent
Fri 29 Dec 2023 11.22 EST
A surge in the number of flu and Covid admissions to hospitals in
England is adding to a “storm of pressure” facing the health service,
NHS leaders have said.
Figures released on Friday showed that in Christmas week, there were on
average 3,631 patients with Covid in hospital, up 57% from the same week >>> in November.
Cases of norovirus were up 61% from the same period last year, while
serious flu cases also continued to spiral, with an average of 942
patients with flu in hospital each day in the week to 24 December,
including 48 in critical care.
The figure is almost six times higher than in November and double the
total a fortnight ago , albeit below the numbers for the equivalent week >>> in 2022 when the UK experienced the worst flu season for a decade.
The winter viruses are having a knock-on effect on staffing, NHS England >>> data shows, with an average of 2,597 employees off with Covid alone each >>> day last week, up 51% from November.
Meanwhile, 10,000 patients had to spend Christmas in hospital, despite
being well enough to go home. Of the 18,669 patients who were fit to
leave hospital on Christmas Eve, only 8,667 were discharged.
In January, the prime minister announced a plan to avoid another NHS
winter crisis. He pledged to create another 5,000 beds in English
hospitals before winter and reduce bed occupancy rates. But Friday’s
figures show that as of 24 December there were only 3,613 extra beds,
while bed occupancy rates remain stubbornly high at 91.4%, although this >>> is lower than previous weeks.
A woman holds a placards saying: '40% of junior doctors planning to
leave. Retain our staff. Save our NHS' and a man holds a placard saying: >>> 'Life + death decisions for just £14 an hour. Pay doctors fairly. Save
our NHS'
New year junior doctors’ strikes will risk patient safety, says health
leader
Read more
A six-day strike by junior doctors will begin next week over pay, with
thousands more appointments and operations expected to be cancelled.
During last week’s three-day strike 86,329 appointments and operations
were rescheduled.
Prof Stephen Powis, the NHS England medical director, said the impact of >>> next week’s strike would probably be “much more severe”, at a time of
high demand and higher levels of virus admissions.
“These figures demonstrate the storm of pressure the NHS is facing,
however, with huge rises in flu patients over the last few weeks and
many more norovirus cases than we saw last winter, as well as the
ongoing impact of Covid – all on top of the added pressure of industrial >>> action.”
The chief executive of NHS Providers, Julian Hartley, said the
“worrying” winter virus figures demonstrated the “scale of the
challenge” facing trusts and staff, and called for more pay talks. “We
urge the government and unions to think afresh, and find a way to
resolve the damaging and demoralising industrial dispute which has
caused so much disruption for patients. There is still time to head off
the longest strike in the history of the NHS.”
Opposition parties accused the government of not prioritising the NHS.
The Liberal Democrat health spokesperson, Daisy Cooper, said: “Hospitals >>> have been underfunded for years under this Conservative government,
leaving both patients and hardworking NHS staff struggling. The NHS and
the number of beds available for people in need should be a key priority >>> for the government, yet these figures suggest that is far from the case.” >>>
Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said the “misery” caused by
the delayed discharges over Christmas was “entirely avoidable” and
promised more “care in the community”.
“Thirteen years of Conservative cuts to social care and district nurses
left 10,000 patients in hospital for Christmas Day who didn’t need to be >>> there,” he said. “The next Labour government … will introduce a fair pay >>> agreement for care workers to tackle staff shortages and trial new
neighbourhood health centres, so fewer patients need to go to hospital
in the first place.”
The British Medical Association said it was open to more pay talks. Dr
Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, BMA junior doctors committee
co-chairs, said the government could avoid “unnecessary disruption” to
patients if it presented a credible offer, “especially if there was, as
suggested by the secretary of state, another offer for them to make”.
“It didn’t need to be this way, and next week’s action can be avoided.
The health secretary says she wants to ‘get this done’ and appeals to us >>> to return to negotiations, yet we never walked away ... We will talk at
any time, right up to the 11th hour, and if talks result in a credible
offer we can put to members, then further strikes can be averted.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “We are making >>> better progress than last winter in cutting ambulance response times,
increasing bed capacity and the number of NHS 111 calls being answered.
“There were also more hospital beds made available than this time last
year and 894 of those beds were occupied by flu patients compared to
3,479 for the same week last year.
“NHS managers, medical directors and clinicians across England have had
to divert their attention from winter preparations to focus on dealing
with the impact of industrial action and we urge unions to call off
strikes next week so we can find a fair and reasonable solution, so we
can all get back to focusing on patients and their care.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1903qkl/analysis_pandemic_is_far_from_over_expert_says_as/
Analysis: 'Pandemic is far from over,' expert says as new variant spurs
major COVID resurgence
Lamenting what he described as the state of denialism in the U.S., Dr.
Eric Topol says: "This passivity reinforces the illusion that the
pandemic is behind us when it’s actually raging."
Author of the article:Aaron Derfel • Montreal Gazette
Published Jan 05, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
A man is opening a door to a building with large windowed walls. A
vaccination centre sign is in the right side of the frame, with an arrow >>> pointing to the door.
Although the updated vaccine booster that has been available in Quebec
since October has been shown to be 60 per cent protective against
hospitalization for COVID-19, only 17 per cent of the Quebec population
has taken it. PHOTO BY JOHN MAHONEY /Montreal Gazette files
Article content
“The pandemic is far from over,” one of the pre-eminent experts on
COVID-19, Dr. Eric Topol, declared on Thursday, roughly four years after >>> the world first learned of a novel virus that was killing people in China. >>>
In an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, Topol’s focus was the
major COVID resurgence now underway in the United States. But he could
have been writing about Quebec, given what’s now going on in the province. >>>
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“The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global >>> dominance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2,” Topol noted. In Quebec, >>>from Dec. 3 to 16, nearly one in two genetic samples screened for JN.1,
up from only eight per cent a month earlier. The prevalence is likely
higher now.
Source: Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Source: Institut national de santé publique du Québec
“Clearly, this virus variant, with its plethora of new mutations, has
continued its evolution with mutations adapted for infecting or
reinfecting us,” Topol added, alluding to JN.1.
Although the updated vaccine booster that has been available in Quebec
since October has been shown to be 60 per cent protective against
hospitalization, only 17 per cent of the Quebec population has taken it
— two per cent lower than the rate in the U.S. And among Quebecers ages
18 to 59, the rate drops to 7.2 per cent, according to the latest data
collected by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.
Meanwhile, hospitalizations with and for COVID-19 have just crept up in
the last few days to the 2,400 range, putting enormous pressure on a
fragile health-care system. By comparison, pandemic hospitalizations
were in the high 2,800 range in the province last January.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/10/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/11/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/01/11/update-we-cant-trust-the-science-because-we-cant-trust-the-scientists/
Update: We Can’t “Trust the Science” Because We Can’t Trust the Scientists >>> JANUARY 11, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
…or the politicians and untrustworthy elected officials who use both for >>> unethical ends.
Further reinforcing his Ethics Alarms status as an Ethics Villain,?the
now retired Dr. Anthony Fauci blithely told lawmakers on the House
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week that “social
distancing guidelines”—warning the public to keep six feet apart from
anyone else supposedly to limit the spread of the Wuhan virus — “sort of >>> just appeared” without scientific input, and was “likely not based on
scientific data.”
Oh! That’s nice! Schools remained closed well into 2021 substantially as >>> a result of the social distancing guidelines that he stood by and
allowed to be issued without scientific data. I was screamed at in
several public places because I knew the social distancing edicts were
garbage from the beginning, just like the “don’t touch your face!”
nonsense and 95% of all masks. My sister has been a phobic about
physical contact ever since March of 2020: she has yet to allow me into
her house, and will only speak to me at my home ten feet away on the
front yard. Research studies and other health officials pooh-poohed the
social distancing mandates early on while media scaremongers—-after all, >>> it was vital to wreck the Trump economy if he was going to be brought
down—were quoting some “experts” saying that we should all wear masks
and socially distance forever. Fortunately my pop culture addiction
served me well: I recognized all of the CDC recommendations from the
2011 pandemic movie “Contagion.” They were exactly the same, proving to
me that “social distancing” and the rest were just boiler plate “Do
something!” measures off the CDC shelf. (They didn’t work in the film,
either.)
Ethics Alarms tried to be an island of sanity in all this, but as you
know, there aren’t many on this island. I wrote in November of 2020 that >>> Canada’s Community and Public Services Committee, pathologist Roger
Hodkinson had told government officials that the pandemic crisis is “the >>> greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.” Hodkinson
said that “there is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the
media and politicians.” Nothing could be done to stop the spread of the
virus besides protecting older more vulnerable individuals, and that
what we have been experiencing is “politics playing medicine, and that’s >>> a very dangerous game.”
Anthony Fauci was the main facilitator and referee of that “game” in the >>> U.S. Yet today he refuses to accept any responsibility for the harm his
abuse of science and his own perceived expertise inflicted on the nation. >>>
Hodkinson stated that “social distancing is useless because COVID is
spread by aerosols which travel 30 meters or so before landing…Masks are >>> utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness
whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling.
They’re not even worn effectively most of the time. It’s utterly
ridiculous. Seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people – I’m not saying >>> that in a pejorative sense – seeing these people walking around like
lemmings obeying without any knowledge base to put the mask on their face.” >>>
When I designated Fauci an Ethics Villain in April of last year, it was
after he lamented the American streak of independence that caused many
to doubt the safety and necessity of the Wuhan vaccines. During the
pandemic there wasn’t enough rebellion and independence, clearly: most
of the nation was duped and given a dose of the kind of totalitarian
measures Democrats would like to use to fight climate change, another
area where the science is over-hyped and the scientists can’t be trusted. >>>
By early December in 2020, I was writing, “I’m not going to wear a mask
inside my home, nor in my car, nor outside while playing with my dog,
and I’m going to regard anyone who follows this edict with a ‘please’
attached as an enemy of my future liberty as an American.” Yet some
places, like California, are trying to inflict masking mandates again.
“Wired” laments that another outbreak of the virus is ongoing, and that
it is dangerous that these ignorant, independent Americans aren’t acting >>> appropriately terrified. “Over 80 percent of people in the US have not
yet received the updated 2023–2024 booster shot, the CDC reported last
week,” it reports, despite Fauci’s successors sagely telling them to.
That is because of Fauci and his cronies lied to us, deliberately tried
to frighten us, and generally forfeited any public trust they had
accumulated.
Not being able to trust authorities and experts is frightening; it’s
reassuring to think someone with superior knowledge and our best
interests at heart is there to tell us what to do. This is not a
comfortable or a desirable place now in the U.S.: an unprecedented
percentage of the country realizes that it cannot trust elected
officials, politicians, journalists, educators (Hi there, Claudine!) or
scientists. We are really and truly in the dark.
But it’s better to be in the dark and know it than to think you have
illumination when what you are experiencing is radiating deception and
manipulation.
***
Added: “The US may be heading to a “dangerous vaccination tipping
point,” with immunization rates falling so low that population-level
immunity is now at risk, and we will likely see thousands of needless
deaths this respiratory virus season, two top officials for the Food and >>> Drug Administration warned in a recent JAMA commentary.”
And whose fault is that?
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
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Michael Ejercito wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1968ggk/were_in_a_major_covid19_surge_its_our_new_normal/
We’re In a Major COVID-19 Surge. It’s Our New Normal
A person wears their mask dangling off an ear during the 2024 COVID-19
surge.
An Elmurst Hospital worker in New York City on Jan. 4, 2024.Anthony
Behar/Sipa USA—AP Images
BY JAMIE DUCHARMEJANUARY 12, 2024 8:00 AM EST
You probably know a lot of sick people right now. Most parts of the U.S. >>> are getting pummeled by respiratory illness, with 7% of all outpatient
health care visits recorded during the week ending Dec. 30 related to
these sicknesses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Many people are sick with flu, while others have RSV or other routine
winter viruses. But COVID-19 is also tearing through the population,
thanks largely to the highly contagious JN.1 variant. Just like every
year since 2021, this one is starting with a COVID-19 surge—and
Americans are getting a good glimpse of what their “new normal” may look >>> like, says Katelyn Jetelina, the epidemiologist who writes the Your
Local Epidemiologist newsletter.
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“Unfortunately,” she says, “signs are pointing to this [being] the level >>> of disruption and disease we’re going to be faced with in years to come.” >>>
The CDC no longer tracks COVID-19 case counts, which makes it harder
than it once was to say exactly how widely the virus is spreading.
Monitoring the amount of virus detected in wastewater, while not a
perfect proxy for case counts, is probably the best real-time signal
currently available—and right now, that signal is a screaming red siren. >>> According to some analyses, wastewater data suggest the current surge is >>> second in size only to the monstrous first wave of Omicron, which peaked >>> in early 2022. By some estimates, more than a million people in the U.S. >>> may be newly infected every single day at the peak of this wave.
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Wastewater isn’t the only sign that things are bad. Almost 35,000 people >>> in the U.S. were hospitalized with COVID-19 during the week ending Dec.
30—far fewer than were admitted at the height of the first Omicron wave, >>> but a 20% increase over the prior week in 2023. Deaths tend to lag a few >>> weeks behind hospitalizations, but already, about 1,000 people in the
U.S. are dying each week from COVID-19.
Yet even as the trends veer in the wrong direction, people are still
working in offices, going to school, eating in restaurants, and sitting
shoulder-to-shoulder in movie theaters, largely unmasked. It can be hard >>> to know how to feel about that reality. Viewed through a 2020 lens, many >>> people would consider it catastrophically concerning that people are
living normally even as COVID-19 sickens the equivalent of an entire
city’s population every single day. But is it as worrisome in 2024, when >>> the pandemic is over on paper, if not in practice?
Not according to Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of
Public Health and the Biden Administration’s former COVID-19 response
coordinator. Almost all of the U.S. population has some immunity from
previous infections or vaccinations; treatments like the antiviral
Paxlovid are available for people at risk of severe disease; and most
people know the basics of masking, testing, and other mitigation
measures. All of these factors, Jha says, mean COVID-19 is becoming less >>> of a threat over time. Some groups of people, including the elderly and
immunocompromised, are still at greater risk than others, and Long
COVID—the name for potentially debilitating chronic symptoms that
sometimes follow a case of COVID-19—remains a possibility for everyone.
But Jha maintains that vaccines and treatments should make everyone feel >>> safer.
“The straight facts are: COVID is not gone, it’s not irrelevant, but
it’s not the risk it was four years ago, or even two years ago,” Jha
says. “It’s totally reasonable for people to go back to living their lives.”
The big challenge now, says Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of medicine at the >>> University of California, San Francisco, is wrapping our heads around
that change. “We’ve got to somehow reprogram our minds to think about
this as a threat that is just not as profound as it was for a couple
years,” Wachter says. “When your minds have been pickled in terror for a >>> couple of years, it’s very hard to do."
How to assess COVID-19 risk in 2024
In the earlier days of the pandemic, Wachter closely watched the
COVID-19 data and used exact numbers and percentages to decide what he
felt comfortable doing. Now, with fewer of those precise numbers and
more disease-fighting tools available, he goes by trends.
During COVID-19 lulls, “I’m living my life about as normally as I did in >>> 2019,” Wachter says. Once indicators like COVID-19 hospitalizations and
wastewater surveillance data start to suggest the virus is on the
upswing, he wears a KN95 mask in crowded places like airports and
theaters, where there’s little downside to masking. And in a full-blown
surge, like now, Wachter masks almost everywhere and avoids some places
he can’t, such as restaurants.
Those decisions feel right to Wachter, based on his personal risk
tolerance and vulnerability to severe disease. He’s up-to-date on
vaccines, which slashes his chances of being hospitalized or dying if he >>> gets infected—but, at 66, those outcomes are still likelier for him than >>> for his 30-year-old children. “Other people might make different
choices,” Wachter says. “And there are going to be people who say, ‘This >>> is a lot of mental energy...screw it.’”
With hard numbers scarcer than they once were and lots of people no
longer willing or able to make detailed risk assessments, Jetelina
instead recommends letting your objectives shape your behavior. Want to
avoid infecting your grandmother before a visit? Maybe skip having
dinner in a crowded restaurant a few days before and test before you go
to her house. Want to minimize your risk of getting very sick if you do
get infected? Stay up-to-date on boosters—as far too few people do, says >>> Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for >>> Vaccine Development.
“The biggest failing right now in our response to COVID,” Hotez says, is >>> that only about 20% of U.S. adults got the latest vaccine, which was
updated to target newer viral variants. “That should be the number-one
priority,” he says, since vaccination is the best way to prevent
complications like hospitalization, death, and, to some degree, Long COVID. >>>
The risks that don’t go away
Even with boosters, Jetelina says Long COVID is a hard risk to plan
around. The only tried-and-true way to avoid it is to avoid infection
entirely; staying up-to-date on vaccines reduces the risk by up to 70%,
according to recent research, but people can and do develop it even if
they’re healthy, fully vaccinated, and have had previous infections
without incident. With variants as contagious as JN.1 running rampant,
doing almost anything in public opens up the possibility of getting sick. >>>
But there are plenty of choices between ignoring the virus entirely and
completely locking down at home, says Hannah Davis, one of the leaders
of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative for Long COVID. She recommends >>> wearing good-quality masks in public, socializing outside or using open
windows and air filters to improve ventilation inside, asking people to
test before gatherings, and avoiding especially crowded places during
surges. “I wish more of those were normalized, because they do at least
decrease the chance of getting infected and causing long-term harm and
disability to yourself or other people,” she says.
But, Davis says, all responsibility shouldn’t fall on individuals. She
says it’s a “huge injustice” that the government hasn’t done more to
warn the public that people can still get Long COVID, and that
reinfections can lead to serious health issues. She also feels the data
support policy measures like ventilation requirements for public places
and mask mandates on public transportation.
The unclear future of COVID-19
Some mask mandates in health care facilities and nursing homes have been >>> reinstated during this surge. But Jha says widespread mandates are
unlikely to come back—and in his view, they shouldn’t. “There was a role >>> for mandates in the early days of the pandemic…when we had no other
tools, no way of protecting people,” he says. “Mandates four years in,
when we have plenty of tests, plenty of vaccines, plenty of treatments,
plenty of masks,” are not as crucial, he says.
Jetelina says she wouldn’t be surprised if 2024 brings a further
relaxation of COVID-19 guidance rather than increased mitigation
measures. She speculates that the CDC may change its isolation
guidelines, for example.
“The threat [of COVID-19] will get baked into the other threats people
have in their background that aren’t front of mind,” Wachter predicts,
similar to the ever-present risk of getting sick with other illnesses or >>> getting into a car accident. And, “as long as the virus doesn’t
shape-shift its way into laughing at our immune status,” he says that’s
not such a bad thing. People will continue to reach different
conclusions about the level of risk-taking they can stomach and behave
accordingly, just as they do in other areas of life.
It’s natural for guidance and behavior to change once a public-health
menace begins to transition from emergency to endemic, Jha says. But
that doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye toward COVID-19 or the
numerous other pathogens swirling around.
"For a lot of people it's been about, 'How do we go back to 2019, to
life before the pandemic?'" he says. But, in his view, that's not the
right goal: "We actually want to look forward."
Jha says he’s hopeful that lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic
will spark a reimagining of how we deal with respiratory diseases in
general. Such an approach wouldn’t necessarily single out COVID-19, as
much of the public-health messaging has done since 2020. Instead, Jha
says, it could standardize and broaden guidance around all infectious
diseases, hammering home the importance of things like vaccines, masks,
ventilation, and sick-leave policies that allow people to stay home when >>> they have any disease—not just the one that has dominated our collective >>> consciousness for the past four years.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the U.S. & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
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Michael Ejercito wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/19c82kx/a_pandemic_mea_culpa_from_francis_collins/
A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins
A key figure in the government’s COVID-19 response admits that he was
willfully blind.
By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 21, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
Dr. Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of
Health, at a 2021 ceremony where Vice President Kamala Harris got a dose >>> of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of
Health, at a 2021 ceremony where Vice President Kamala Harris got a dose >>> of the COVID-19 vaccine.ANNA MONEYMAKER/NYT
It comes three years too late. But Francis Collins, the former head of
the National Institutes of Health, has finally admitted that the
COVID-19 lockdowns caused a massive amount of harm — harm to which he
and other government public-health experts, such as Anthony Fauci of the >>> National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were oblivious
because they were obsessed with doing things their way.
The mea culpa came last summer during a conversation hosted by Braver
Angels, an organization that promotes dialogue among Americans with
sharply different ideologies and political loyalties. Collins, who as
NIH director played a central role in shaping Washington’s response to
COVID-19, was paired with Wilk Wilkinson, a Minnesota trucking manager
and podcast host who strongly opposed how government officials addressed >>> the pandemic. The 90-minute exchange, moderated by Boston College
professor Martha Bayles, was recorded six months ago but only recently
attracted attention when excerpts were posted on social media.
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The whole conversation was interesting, but one segment in particular
was jaw-dropping. Collins described with remarkable candor just how
narrow-minded, how willfully myopic, he and other high-level public
health officials had been as they dealt with the crisis.
“As a guy living inside the Beltway, feeling the sense of crisis, trying >>> to decide what to do in some situation room in the White House with
people who had data that was incomplete, we weren’t really thinking
about what that would mean to Wilk and his family in Minnesota a
thousand miles away from where the virus was hitting so hard,” confessed >>> Collins, who retired from the NIH at the end of 2021. “We weren’t really >>> considering the consequences in communities that were not New York City
or some other big city.”
That was a stunning admission. What he said next was even more scandalous. >>> Advertisement
“If you’re a public health person and you’re trying to make a decision,
you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that
is something that will save a life. Doesn’t matter what else happens. So >>> you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You >>> attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s
lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way
that they never recover from.”
“Collateral damage,” said Wilkinson.
“Collateral damage,” Collins agreed. He and his colleagues were locked
in what he now concedes was the “public health mindset” — a monomaniacal >>> approach that blinded them to the injuries they were causing. “A lot of
us had that mindset, and that was really unfortunate.”
Was it ever.
As early as March 2020, Fauci recommended a nationwide lockdown and
called for a “dramatic diminution of the personal interaction” in daily
activities. He warned that “life is not going to be the way it used to
be in the United States,” while insisting that was “best for the
American public.” Collins said at the time that the only correct
approach was “one that most people would find to be too drastic because
otherwise it is not drastic enough.”
Now, of course, it is far too late to mitigate any of the pain endured
by millions of Americans hurt by the government’s high-handed edicts and >>> recommendations. Those curbs and controls began with the declaration of
a federal emergency and travel ban, which in turn spurred many states to >>> order their own restrictions.
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The coast-to-coast lockdown destroyed tens of millions of jobs and at
least 200,000 small businesses. It exacerbated numerous social ills,
worsened mental illness, and took a deadly toll in missed cancer
diagnoses and untreated heart disease. The prolonged school closures
inflicted unprecedented damage on children. The social distancing and
mask mandates were enforced with a ruthlessness that at times turned
despotic. And countless men and women — from ordinary citizens to noted
epidemiologists to elected state officials — found themselves demonized, >>> censored, or shunned for challenging those who attached “zero value” to
their concerns.
All this damage was caused not by the pandemic but by politicians who
abdicated their judgment and left it to public-health experts. Whether
out of panic, pigheadedness, or perversity, they declined to balance
costs against benefits, a basic function of policymaking. Instead, they
insisted they would “follow the science” — as though scientists were
endowed with an infallible road map to navigate COVID’s complex
interplay of disease, economics, education, psychology, and politics in
a nation of 330 million people.
The great economist and social historian Thomas Sowell has often
observed that “there are no solutions, there are only tradeoffs.” That
is a fundamental reality in all policymaking. There are pros and cons to >>> everything government does. For officials responding to the pandemic,
there can hardly have been a more shocking intellectual failure than the >>> one to which Collins now confesses: attaching “infinite value” to
stopping the disease and no value at all to everything else.
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The same sort of thinking can be a pitfall in many other areas. Focus on >>> reducing fossil fuel use at any price, for example, and the results will >>> be stunted economic growth and continued misery for many of the world’s
poorest people. Assign maximum importance to achieving racial diversity
in student admissions and the result is affirmative action preferences
so lopsided that they violate the Constitution. Allow the prevention of
another 9/11 to override every other consideration, and the CIA ends up
torturing prisoners in secret “black sites” beyond the reach of law.
From crime to homelessness to addiction to national defense, there are
always costs to be weighed against benefits. And if acknowledging
tradeoffs is indispensable to the work of government, it is especially
so at times of crisis.
Toward the end of the Braver Angels conversation, Collins acknowledged
another way in which he and many of his inside-the-Beltway colleagues
blundered.
It was folly, he said, to think that Washington knew what was best for
the whole nation. “The fact that we could put blanket recommendations
across this incredible wide, broad, and diverse country and expect them
to be right . . . obviously could not have been correct. And yet that’s
what was done.”
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COVID-19 would have been a terrible destroyer in any case. But it was
made all the more catastrophic by the failure of politicians and experts >>> who not only were sure they knew best but were unwilling even to
consider other views. Americans’ respect for public-health experts took
a beating during the pandemic, and it is a black mark on Collins’s
legacy that he was so complacent about the harm the government’s
policies caused. For belatedly admitting where he went wrong, he
certainly deserves credit. Let him continue to speak out, to warn other
scientists against falling into the same trap, and he’ll deserve a lot more.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the U.S. & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/19fljky/uk_bbc_misrepresented_covid_risk_to_boost/
BBC 'misrepresented' Covid risk to boost lockdown support, says top
scientist
Corporation accused of reporting rare deaths as the norm during pandemic >>> Simon Johnson,
SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR
25 January 2024 • 11:47am
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A man wears a mask in front of BBC Broadcasting House in London
CREDIT: Will Oliver/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The BBC was allowed to “misrepresent” the risk posed by Covid to most
people to boost public support for lockdown, the UK Covid Inquiry has heard.
Prof Mark Woolhouse, an eminent epidemiologist and government adviser,
lambasted the corporation for having “repeatedly reported rare deaths or >>> illnesses among healthy adults as if they were the norm”.
He said this created the “misleading impression” among BBC News viewers
at the start of the pandemic that “we are all at risk” and “the virus
does not discriminate”.
In reality, he said it was known at the time that the risk of dying from >>> Covid was 10,000 times higher in the over-75s than the under-15s.
But Prof Woolhouse told the Covid Inquiry the BBC did not correct its
reporting, saying: “I suspect this misinformation was allowed to stand
throughout 2020 because it provided a justification for locking down the >>> entire population.”
Prof Mark Woolhouse, a member of the Scottish Government COVID-19
Advisory Group, also claimed hundreds of people may have died after
being told not to "bother" the NHS. He told the inquiry people were
misled about how the crisis would unfold. And he said orders to stay at
home and cease outdoor activity were not needed.
Prof Mark Woolhouse said BBC coverage during the pandemic led to a
'misperception' of the risk of Covid CREDIT: UNPIXS
He said further evidence of this was provided by a briefing dated March
22 2020 by a sub-group of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group
for Emergencies (SAGE) that focused on the public’s behaviour.
This stated that “a substantial number of people still do not feel
sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured
by the low death rate in their demographic group ... the perceived level >>> of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, >>> using hard-hitting emotional messaging”.
Prof Woolhouse said the “misperception” created by the BBC’s coverage
that everyone was at risk was a “barrier to targeting interventions at
the vulnerable minority who truly were at high risk from Covid”.
In his written submission to the inquiry about the impact north of the
Border, he said: “I fear that Scottish Government’s pandemic response
was compromised as a result.”
He also concluded that lockdown had been “least effective at protecting
the most vulnerable precisely because of their need to have contacts
with health care and social care workers — self-isolation was not an
option.” The expert added: “This should have been recognised from the
outset.”
‘Climate of fear’ in BBC during pandemic
Prof Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the
University of Edinburgh and was an adviser to the Scottish Government
during the pandemic, although his submission said his advice was often
not heeded by Nicola Sturgeon.
He also sat on the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling,
which was another sub-group of SAGE.
The submission was published after he gave evidence to the inquiry on
Wednesday. It is sitting in Edinburgh to examine the Scottish
Government’s handling of the pandemic.
The Telegraph spoke last year to current and former BBC journalists who
described a “climate of fear” existing in the corporation during the
pandemic, with experienced reporters “openly mocked” if they questioned
the wisdom of lockdowns, or called “dissenters”.
Some complained to senior managers about the BBC’s blinkered stance, but >>> were ignored. Others communicated via secretive WhatsApp groups to share >>> their frustrations, like members of a resistance movement.
Prof Woolhouse said the public was “not given accurate information”
about Covid in the early stages of the pandemic.
“Some media sources — notably the BBC television news — did repeatedly
misrepresent the risk posed by Covid,” he said.
“One example is that they gave the impression that hospitals were being
overwhelmed during the first wave. Some (mainly in London) were, but
overall hospital bed occupancy was at an all-time low during that period. >>> “A second example is that they routinely reported deaths of healthy
young adults, thereby giving the impression that these were common. In
reality, such deaths were extremely rare; the great majority of Covid
deaths occurred in the elderly, frail and infirm.”
He concluded: “Possibly, this kind of coverage was an attempt to back up >>> government public health messaging; for example, the hugely misleading
claim that ‘we are all at risk’.”
The BBC was approached for comment.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/26/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/maine-moves-to-stifle-conventional-views-on-gender/
Maine Moves to Stifle Conventional Views on Gender
Signs at a rally for transgender rights at city hall in Portland Maine,
March 1, 2017. (Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
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By JAMES ERWIN
January 26, 2024 6:30 AM
A bill being debated by the legislature would allow the state to take
gender-dysphoric kids away from parents who disagree with
‘gender-affirming care.’
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My beloved home state of Maine prides itself on a politically
independent streak as big as the north woods. Unfortunately, in the name >>> of compassion, a newly proposed Maine law would buck our independent
ways by effectively criminalizing dissent on one of the most
controversial topics in American politics today: gender.
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LD 1735, “An Act to Safeguard Gender-affirming Health Care,” would allow >>> Maine courts to take custody of any child from their parents if the
latter disagree with “gender-affirming care” as defined by the state.
That is no exaggeration — the bill text specifically says a court may
take temporary custody of a child “in an emergency” if the child is
present in Maine and “has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health
care or gender-affirming mental health care.”
So “in an emergency” (the vagueness of this term is especially
troubling), a parent of a child experiencing gender dysphoria may not
have a conversation with their child, teach self-acceptance, or
communicate their values if they do not believe that a sex change is the >>> only answer. If they exercise their First Amendment rights in this way,
they could lose custody of their children.
And “gender-affirming care” is broadly defined. The bill text repeatedly >>> states that whether or not such care is warranted is up to the child in
question, and it explicitly includes hormone treatments, mastectomies,
and castration as protected procedures. The bill would also make Maine a >>> safe haven for minors to come receive sex changes if they hail from one
of the states that have begun to restrict such procedures for the
underaged. Courts and officers of the law would be barred from reuniting >>> kidnapped children with their legal guardians if the children came to
Maine for gender-affirming care against their guardians’ wishes.
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“It undermines the law in other states and legalizes kidnapping,” state
representative Katrina Smith, an opponent of the legislation, told me.
“A child could jump on a bus and come to Maine with any stranger they
meet online who tells them, ‘Trust me, not your parents.’”
Smith introduced a bill last year to require parental notification from
schools if a student starts using a different name or pronouns, which
was defeated by the legislature’s Democrat supermajority. She says that
she is sympathetic to those who experience gender dysphoria, especially
children, and emphasizes that LD 1735 targets minors and their parents,
not consenting adults.
Maine’s legislature is part-time, and committee attendance can be poor
during the workweek. As a result, three of the eight Democrats on the
Judiciary Committe
"if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and
pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will
hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their
land (of even gender dysphoria)." (2 Chronicles 7:14 w/ parenthetical
clarification)
Source:
https://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/7-14.htm
Amen!
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/27/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1abt1p0/uk_covid19_inquiry_humza_yousaf_admits_winging_it/
UK COVID-19 Inquiry: Humza Yousaf admits 'winging it' as Scotland's
health secretary during pandemic
On the same day of the exchange, the Scottish government issued a 'state >>> of the pandemic' document reporting a 35% rise in COVID cases around
that time.
By Connor Gillies, Scotland correspondent @ConnorGillies
Friday 26 January 2024 17:31, UK
First Minister Humza Yousaf during a visit to Built Environment -
Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) at Hamilton International Technology Park >>> in Blantyre, Glasgow, to open the new National Retrofit Centre for
Scotland and announce new funding for innovation centres. Picture date:
Wednesday January 17, 2024.
Image:
Pic: PA
Messages have emerged of Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf
admitting to "winging it" during his role as health secretary at the
height of the COVID pandemic.
The UK COVID Inquiry has released WhatsApp exchanges between Mr Yousaf
and Scotland's national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch from
June 2021.
The discussion happened shortly after Mr Yousaf was appointed health
secretary and saw him joke that he was "winging it! And will get found
out sooner rather than later", followed by a laughing emoji.
WhatsApp exchanges between Mr Yousaf and Scotland's national
clinical director Professor Jason Leitch from June 2021
Image:
WhatsApp exchanges between Mr Yousaf and Scotland's national clinical
director Professor Jason Leitch from June 2021
On the same day of the exchange, the Scottish government issued a "state >>> of the pandemic" document reporting a 35% rise in COVID cases around
that time.
The Scottish government told Sky News it would be "inappropriate" to
respond to questions about the messages during the inquiry.
The UK COVID-19 Inquiry has already heard from Mr Yousaf as it takes
evidence during a series of sessions in Edinburgh.
Appearing on Thursday, the now first minister offered an "unreserved"
apology for the Scottish government's "frankly poor" handling of
requests from the inquiry for WhatsApp messages to be handed over.
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has wiped her messages and Mr
Yousaf's exchanges had to be recovered after also becoming lost. The
pair say they were following Scottish government policy on informal
messages.
Mr Yousaf said he accepted this would have caused "serious grief and
retrauma" for those who lost loved ones and announced an external review >>> into his administration's use of mobile messaging.
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'We should have done better'
Asked about WhatsApp messages from the time of the pandemic, which the
inquiry requested from the Scottish government, Mr Yousaf said: "Let me
unreservedly apologise to this inquiry, but also to those who are
mourning the loss of a loved one, who were bereaved by COVID, for the
government's frankly poor handling of the various Rule 9 requests in
relation to informal messages.
"There is no excuse for it, we should have done better and it is why I
reiterate that apology today."
This is a limited version of the story so unfortunately this content is
not available.
Open the full version
Mr Yousaf conceded there was "clearly a gap" in the mobile message
policy in relation to how material in informal messages should be retained. >>>
Ms Sturgeon will appear at the inquiry on Wednesday.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/28/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/29/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1adv5ts/nicola_sturgeons_advisor_says_i_was_wrong_to_push/
Nicola Sturgeon's adviser says 'I was wrong to push for zero Covid'
Prof Sridhar was an advocate of 'zero Covid' but now admits she was wrong >>> By ETHAN ENNALS
The influential public health scientist who advised former Scottish
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that it was possible to eliminate Covid
now admits that she made 'a mistake'.
Professor Devi Sridhar was a vocal advocate of 'zero Covid', the
controversial view that it was possible to eradicate the virus by
adopting draconian measures such as quarantining people when crossing
the Scottish border.
The Covid Inquiry heard last week that Prof Sridhar regularly sent the
then First Minister messages on Twitter where she appeared to push for
the strategy to be adopted. In one, sent in June 2020, she told Sturgeon >>> that she had been working on a 'feasible plan for elimination [of the
virus]'.
Sturgeon would later describe elimination as the 'only sensible
strategy' to tackle the virus.
The revelation will likely cause further controversy after the inquiry
heard last week that Sturgeon also told Prof Sridhar not to 'worry about >>> protocol'.
The influential public health scientist who advised former Scottish
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that it was possible to eliminate Covid
now admits that she made 'a mistake'
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The influential public health scientist who advised former Scottish
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that it was possible to eliminate Covid
now admits that she made 'a mistake'
Prof Sridhar now claims she regrets using the phrase 'zero Covid' and
that her aim was to limit the number of infections in Scotland until the >>> vaccine rollout.
'This was a mistake I made using the word 'elimination',' she told the
Covid Inquiry, adding that 'maximum suppression' would have been a more
appropriate phrase.
Other experts who spoke at the inquiry said that the Scottish
Government's refusal to accept that Covid was 'here to stay' led to a
much slower release of social restrictions than was necessary.
Throughout the pandemic, Scotland eased restrictions several weeks after >>> England.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, an epidemiologist at the University of
Edinburgh and a UK scientific adviser during the pandemic, said Scottish >>> Ministers were preoccupied with appearing more cautious than their
English counterparts. He added: 'This segued into this idea that... we
could somehow end up in zero Covid. To me... this was not consistent
with the evidence.'
In June 2020, when Scotland was recording fewer than five Covid cases
every day, Prof Sridhar, originally from the US, published an article in >>> The Guardian calling for a 'zero-coronavirus Britain'. That same month,
she told New Scientist magazine that 'Scotland could eliminate
coronavirus if it were not for England', arguing that Westminster was
not doing enough to stop the spread of the virus.
However, in January 2022 – 17 months later – Scotland was recording
roughly 8,000 daily cases and Nicola Sturgeon announced the nation would >>> remove the majority of its Covid restrictions in an effort to live with
the virus.
No country has been able to eliminate the virus.
Prof Sridhar now claims she regrets using the phrase 'zero Covid' and
that her aim was to limit the number of infections in Scotland until the >>> vaccine rollout
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Prof Sridhar now claims she regrets using the phrase 'zero Covid' and
that her aim was to limit the number of infections in Scotland until the >>> vaccine rollout
Speaking on Tuesday, Prof Sridhar claimed she never believed that zero
Covid could be achieved and instead likened it to aspirational public
health campaigns that sought to end malaria or tuberculosis. 'We use
these campaigns to say we don't accept the spread of these diseases,'
she said. '[In summer 2020] we had a chance to hold and wait for a
vaccine in an optimal position.'
However, experts accused her of 'rewriting history'.
'Prof Sridhar now claims she never believed in zero Covid, but all you
have to do is go back and read her articles to see that's not the case,' >>> says Professor Robert Dingwall, sociologist at Nottingham Trent
University and former Government scientific adviser.
'Then she argued that Covid could be eliminated if not for the wicked
English. Every scientist who knew what they were talking about said zero >>> Covid wasn't achievable.'
Prof Sridhar declined to comment last night.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1aecbhn/sturgeon_jumped_the_gun_in_banning_mass/
Sturgeon ‘jumped the gun’ in banning mass gatherings early, Gove tells
Covid inquiry
UK cabinet minister during pandemic adds that he was not inclined to
believe Scottish first minister was acting maliciously
UK politics live – latest updates
Severin Carrell Scotland editor
@severincarrell
Mon 29 Jan 2024 12.36 EST
Nicola Sturgeon broke confidentiality and “jumped the gun” when she
announced a ban on mass gatherings in Scotland before other parts of the >>> UK agreed to the move during the pandemic, the UK Covid inquiry has heard. >>>
The then first minister announced on 12 March 2020 that the Scottish
government would ban any gatherings of 500 people or more the following
week, before that decision had been agreed at a Cobra meeting called
later that day to discuss the crisis.
Michael Gove, the then UK cabinet minister, said that caused
“discomfort” and “disquiet” in Whitehall. It led Boris Johnson, then
prime minister, other cabinet ministers and senior civil servants to
question whether Sturgeon could be trusted.
Gove, who was the minister responsible for coordinating the UK’s
devolved administrations, said that while Sturgeon had “jumped the gun”, >>> he was not inclined to believe that she was acting maliciously or for
political gain.
Police officers outside the main entrance to the UK Covid-19 inquiry
hearing at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
UK Covid inquiry to investigate evidence Scottish ministers failed to
protect vulnerable people
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While Sturgeon had not told the UK government she planned to announce it >>> that day, she had indicated that she wanted to shut down large gatherings. >>>
“My approach generally was not to allow moments of irritation, or
disappointment, to curdle,” Gove told Jamie Dawson KC, the inquiry’s
counsel. He wanted to prioritise “effective working in future”, he said. >>>
Heather Hallett, the inquiry’s chair, intervened and said to Gove: “Some >>> might think that’s being rather generous.
“It wasn’t just that the then first minister announced a decision about
mass gatherings in Scotland, it was a breach of confidentiality. You as
a longstanding, very experienced government minister, know the
importance of confidentiality to government decision-making.”
The inquiry on Monday examined extracts from a confidential Cabinet
Office memo prepared for that Cobra meeting, which took place two weeks
before the UK went into lockdown. It said a final decision on banning
mass gatherings would be taken across the UK only after the UK’s four
chief medical officers had given their advice.
Hallett added later that Sturgeon was not bound by the ministerial code
for UK ministers attending Cobra meetings. Gove said that even so,
devolved government ministers should still “at the very least” wait
until the decision had been agreed by everyone.
Sturgeon is due to give evidence to the inquiry later this week and is
expected to be asked about the incident, which fuelled long-running
tensions between the two governments throughout the crisis.
The inquiry heard that earlier that day, the prime minister’s then
adviser, Dominic Cummings, had told Johnson by text not to have
“meetings with the [devolved administrations] on the fucking phone all
the time either so people can’t tell you the truth”.
Cummings urged Johnson to have his daily briefings in the cabinet room
at No 10, which were private, rather than at much larger Cobra meetings, >>> which included all the devolved administrations and officials and
ministers from across Whitehall.
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Gove told the inquiry this was because cabinet room meetings were
confidential, which allowed Johnson to test ideas with his advisers
privately.
Last Thursday, the inquiry looked at an exchange between Sturgeon and
her then chief of staff, Liz Lloyd, in which the first minister
described Johnson as a “fucking clown”. Sturgeon added: “His utter
incompetence in every sense is now offending me on behalf of politicians >>> everywhere.”
Dawson said Scottish ministers were angry about a proposal in May 2020 >>>from Johnson to dilute the stay-at-home lockdown policy. Sturgeon felt
she was being coerced into that move, with which she disagreed. Lloyd
described a Cobra meeting at which that was discussed as “a shambles”.
Gove said he believed Sturgeon and her ministers acted professionally
and in the public interest for the vast majority of the time during the
pandemic. Even so, it would be “naive” to believe she did not exploit
occasional opportunities to promote Scottish independence.
Giving evidence later to the inquiry, Jeane Freeman, Scotland’s health
secretary in 2020, admitted that the government’s understanding of the
level of readiness of Scotland’s care homes for the pandemic was “not
adequate from the outset”.
She said she regretted that. Around half of all Scotland’s Covid deaths
during the first wave took place in care homes; in the early part of the >>> crisis, ministers failed to order hospitals to test elderly patients for >>> Covid before being discharged.
“I regret very much and will do for the rest of my life any deaths that
occurred [in the care sector] because of action that the Scottish
government didn’t take, or did take but could have done better,” she
told the hearing.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/30/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 01/31/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
CJ HOPKINS
FEB 4, 2024
So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal >>> in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022, >>> I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image >>>from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3) >>> dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
crime” charges.
Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then >>> strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant >>> German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
are still interested in actual journalism.
The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a >>> sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in >>> grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated >>> pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me >>> of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
italics mine):
“… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is >>> also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the >>> Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then >>> the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
law gave the government the power to override individual rights
prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
institutions.”
The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
questioning had opened the door.
A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me >>> at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
“the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows >>> on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is >>> significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you >>> to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who >>> get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their >>> bluff.
Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat >>> the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of >>> your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
law and fundamental democratic principles.
This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
“Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
“New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as >>> an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses >>> into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping >>> around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the >>> Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves >>> and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending >>> democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m >>> not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming — >>> even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
what it is they have become.
That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me, >>> she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave >>> like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
conditioning.
In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/12/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/13/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1aq8bko/uk_rise_in_longterm_sickness_pushes_up_labour/
Rise in long-term sickness pushes up labour force inactivity
A record 2.8 million people are suffering from long-term illnesses in the UK
Mehreen Khan, Economics Editor
Tuesday February 13 2024, 12.15pm GMT, The Times
The figures for long-term sickness will pile pressure on the government
to boost funding for the health service
The figures for long-term sickness will pile pressure on the government
to boost funding for the health service
ALAMY
A rise in long-term sickness drove up the proportion of people out of
the workforce last year, according to official statistics.
There were a record 2.8 million people designated as suffering from
long-term illnesses in the UK, pushing up the labour force inactivity
rate by 1.4 percentage points since the pandemic to 21.4 per cent.
The Office for National Statistics said the inactivity rate, a key
measure of the state of the jobs market, had been unchanged between the
third and fourth quarters of 2023. The inactivity rate measures the
proportion of people of working age, between 16 and 64, who are not in
the labour force and have not been seeking work for the past month.
Britain has suffered a larger drop in labour force participation than
neighbouring economies in the United States and the eurozone, where
missing workers have begun to re-enter the jobs market after the end of
pandemic lockdowns. The inactivity rate stood at just below 20 per cent
before Covid.
Thomas Pugh, an economist at RSM, a professional services firm, said
that the “UK’s sickness problem is even worse than previously thought,
with the number of people not in the labour force because they are sick
rising to almost three million”.
The shrinking workforce is a problem for the Bank of England and
businesses because worker shortages help to drive up wage bills and
increase inflationary pressures in the economy. The record figure of 2.8 >>> million people designated as long-term sick was released by the ONS to
reflect upward revisions made to the size of the population.
The numbers will pile pressure on the government to boost funding for
the health service, at a time when Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, is
focused on announcing pre-election tax cuts in his budget next month.
The ONS also said that 108,000 working days had been lost owing to
industrial action at the end of last year, the highest level since the
1980s, with the health and social care industries suffering the most >>>from labour strikes.
Ben Harrison, director of the Work Foundation at Lancaster University,
said the sickness rate was one of the highest since records began in
1993. “Since before the pandemic, the UK now has just under 700,000 more >>> working-age adults out of the labour market due to ill health. Against
this backdrop, the government may be tempted to tighten welfare
sanctions even further to help to fill the 932,000 vacancies and reduce
the benefit bill,” he said.
The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, said the number of people
designated as long-term sick was putting a brake on growth by keeping
overall employment rates below pre-pandemic averages.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/14/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
You (greeting your neighbor): "I am wonderfully hungry and hope you,
neighbor, also have a healthy appetite too. So how are you ?"
Neighbor: "Good."
You: "I hope your 'good' means you, neighbor, have a healthy appetite. >>>> So you do have the ability to eat a piece of healthy fruit at the
moment, don’t you ?"
Neighbor: "Actually, lately I haven’t been able to eat fruit because I >>>> don’t really taste anything anymore."
You: "That’s terrible."
Neighbor: "How so ?"
You: "Losing the ability to taste and smell food is a specific symptom >>>> of being infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus."
Neighbor: "How did you know that I don’t smell anything anymore?"
You: "It’s called anosmia. Google anosmia and COVID-19 together and
see why you need to self-quarantine and call your doctor about your
having anosmia and your consequently needing to be tested to confirm
that you are contagious."
Bottom line: When we are saying we’re wonderfully hungry (Philippians
4:12), we are able (Philippians 4:13) to receive GOD’s help to
possibly (Matthew 19:26) save (Ephesians 2:10) many lives during this
COVID-19 pandemic.
Neighbor: "Are there others like you ?"
You: "Yes, we are members of the ‘My heart & all of me belongs to
Jesus ...’ Facebook group, which you are also welcome to join."
Link to original post in sci.med.cardiology:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
Thank you for sharing.
I am simply wonderfully hungry and hope you, Michael, and others
reading this, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/15/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/16/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
I am simply wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite for food right now
too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/17/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1atvvvl/apoorva_mandavilli_keeps_making_mistakes_at_the/
Apoorva Mandavilli keeps making mistakes at the New York Times to
exaggerate the risk of COVID to keep Americans scared
This is not journalism but activism
VINAY PRASAD
FEB 18, 2024
Apoorva Mandavilli is hell bent on keeping Americans scared of COVID
even if that means publishing falsehoods. Here is the latest.
She can’t even report the number of Americans who died WITH covid per
week accurately. In a prior essay, I detail her COVID errors and show
that these are one-sided. She tends to fear-monger about the virus. See
those e.g. here.
Apoorva Mandavilli is a terrible science reporter working at the New
York Times
VINAY PRASAD
·
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Apoorva Mandavilli is a terrible science reporter working at the New
York Times
Recently, I read an article by Apoorva Mandavilli— the New York Times
science reporter. I will come to that example at the end of this piece,
but it just reminded me that she is incompetent as a science journalist. >>> She has her own views on covid policy. She is pro mask, pro boosting
kids, and pro school shutdown. She seems as if she favors partisan D…
Read full story
It isn’t just factual errors. Even the framing of her recent article is
biased.
This week the CDC considered removing the 5 day requirement for
isolation post COVID. A curious reporter might ask, “Hmmm, among all
people who had covid this last month, what % tested for COVID, and what
% of those isolated for 5 days?”
Were people even following the CDCs policy?
If the answer is no one is testing and no one is isolating, then the
policy change is negligible— as no one was doing it anyway. That’s not
what we got.
Instead the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli believes COVID remains a
big threat, and her article is entirely critical of the proposed rule
change. She laments the proposed policy change and cites a willing band
of selective quotes, but she doesn’t actually provide data.
She can’t even ask the first question: was anyone following the policy
to begin with.
When she does provide statistics, she gets is horrifically wrong. How is >>> this acceptable? Let’s not forget her other comments. She refused to
take lab leak seriously, and condemned it as racist.
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She was wrong about hospitalizations
She was wrong about diagnosis vs deaths
And of course, she is so biased she got school closure wrong and her
reporting contributed to massive harm to generation of kids.
Image
A decent NY Times would relieve her of duty.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/18/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/19/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/20/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/21/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1b1r5p5/medicines_regulator_failed_to_flag_covid_vaccine/
Medicines regulator failed to flag Covid vaccine side effects and must
be investigated, say MPs
All-party group believe MHRA were aware of heart and clotting issues in
February 2021 but did not highlight the problems for several months
Sarah Knapton,
SCIENCE EDITOR
27 February 2024 • 6:24pm
Related Topics
Vaccines, Medicines, Pharmaceutical industry, Steve Brine, AstraZeneca
987
All-party parliamentary group on pandemic response and recovery say MHRA >>> failed to raise the alarm on vaccine side effects
All-party parliamentary group on pandemic response and recovery say MHRA >>> failed to raise the alarm on vaccine side effects CREDIT: iSTOCKPHOTO
The medical regulator failed to sound the alarm over Covid vaccine side
effects and should be investigated, MPs have said.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is
responsible for approving drugs and devices and monitors side effects
caused by treatments.
But the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on pandemic response and
recovery, an influential group of MPs, has raised “serious patient
safety concerns”. It has claimed that “far from protecting patients” the >>> regulator operates in a way that “puts them at serious risk”.
Some 25 MPs across four parties have written to the health select
committee asking for an urgent investigation. In reply, Steve Brine, the >>> health committee chairman, has said an inquiry into patient safety is
“very likely”.
In a letter to Mr Brine, the APPG said that there was reason to believe
that the MHRA had been aware of post-vaccination heart and clotting
issues as early as February 2021, but did not highlight the problems for >>> several months.
Denmark and several other European countries suspended the AstraZeneca
vaccine over clotting fears in March 2021, but the MHRA only published
safety advice on April 7, by which time 24 million people had been
vaccinated.
The watchdog also saw a “signal” for the heart problems myocarditis and
pericarditis in February 2021, but did not include the conditions in
safety updates until June 2021, MPs said.
“In effect, the MHRA licences medical products as safe knowing it lacks
the processes to properly monitor adverse events,” the APPG wrote.
“In the case of Covid-19 vaccines, given the comparatively novel
technology and record manufacturing speed, could the MHRA have even
properly scrutinised the licensing data or known the short term safety?
“Historically trust and confidence in vaccines and vaccine safety has
been high in the UK, but it seems that the experience of the Covid-19
vaccines has undermined this and by association trust in the regulator
and the pharmaceutical industry.
“Now more than ever a wide-reaching and in-depth review is needed.”
Underestimates complexities
The group also warned that the MHRA Yellow Card reporting system – which >>> encourages patients and doctors to flag-up medicine side effects –
“grossly” underestimates complexities, and in some instances picks up
just one in 180 cases of harm.
An analysis by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust found that in the North
West of England, 1,058 people had been admitted to hospital with stomach >>> bleeds caused by anticoagulant medication over five years, yet just six
Yellow Card reports were made during the period.
Side effects from drugs account for one in every 16 hospital admissions
in Britain, and cost the NHS more than £2 billion each year.
But trials are often too small to pick up adverse reactions,
particularly when they are driven by rare genetic mutations, meaning it
is vital to continue monitoring drugs in the community.
The MHRA recently said it would investigate why blood thinners were
causing dangerous side effects in between two and five per cent of patients.
The APPG said it was also concerned that MHRA regulation of medicine was >>> funded by the pharmaceutical industry and said the body had shifted from >>> focusing on scrutiny to trying to help drugs get approved.
‘Watchdog to the enabler’
Dame June Raine, the chief executive of the MHRA, who announced she
would be stepping down last week, has previously said the agency was
transitioning from “watchdog to the enabler,” a phrase which MPs said
warranted its own investigation.
Graham Stringer MP, co-chair of the APPG on pandemic response and
recovery, said:
“The MHRA oversees a failing system that is slow to act, causing harm to >>> patients and beset with conflicts of interest.
“We cannot allow it to continue. That’s why we have written to the
health select committee calling for an urgent investigation into the MHRA.” >>>
The APPG said that concerns raised directly with the MHRA had been met
with “an habitually dismissive and evasive response”.
Dame June said: “We have made significant steps to put patients at the
heart of all our work.
“These include incorporating patient views and lived experience into our >>> safety reviews; involving patients in the early stages of planning
medicines development and building a new responsive reporting system for >>> patients to tell us about any adverse incidents. We have also led on
legislative changes to strengthen surveillance for medical devices and
medicines, meaning patient safety is embedded firmly into law.
“Our progress so far in making changes based on meaningful patient
involvement gives us a solid base to build upon as we continue on this
important journey.”
“We are committed to enabling innovation that brings transformative
medical products safely to patients.’’
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
<> (Lk 24:42) 02/29/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/01/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/02/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1b4rx90/now_they_are_targeting_the_amish/
Now They Are Targeting the Amish
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In January of this year, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, in
cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, raided the Amos
Miller Organic Farm, a longtime members-only organic farm in Lancaster
County. Government agents took possession of many tens of thousands of
dollars worth of food that had been produced on the farm for family and
friends, people who rely on this farm for high-quality products that
avoid factory methods, chemicals, and industrial processes.
This is the kind of food that many people around the country would love
to buy but cannot because of the industrial cartels that control
production and distribution in this country. Residents of Amish country
are wildly fortunate to have such options, particularly as it pertains
to raw milk products, which are widely considered to be more nutritious
and delicious than processed milk. However, that truth is censored very
heavily by YouTube, as part of the general censorship regime in
operation now.
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Food safety regulations seem like they are an attempt to protect the
consumer. The darker truth behind the entire history of this regulation
is that it is designed to prop up certain industries at the expense of
others. In particular, traditional farms have long been a target of such >>> regulation, and often make the mainline food supply less healthy and
even dangerous.
For many decades, regulators have carved out a special exemption for the >>> Amish, who have been allowed to go about their business provided they do >>> not reach a critical mass of consumers. But that is starting to change.
As ever more people have grown gravely suspicious of what the regulators >>> are pushing, more people are trading with traditional farms that sell
organic produce and also fresh eggs and milk.
One might suppose that in a country that presumably values free
enterprise, this would not be a problem. Truth is that the regulators
have been lying in wait for an opportunity to crack down. And that time
seems finally to have arrived. The Amos Miller farm has been disabled,
even though its methods of producing food are no different from that
used for thousands of years and in fact built this country when it was
largely agricultural.
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This problem affects the whole of the food supply. The state departments >>> of agriculture are mere foot soldiers for the USDA, which has been
vexing the Miller farm since 2016, along with every other independent
farmer in the country.
As Thomas Massie has long pointed out and attempted to fix, you simply
cannot get your product to market without using USDA processors, which
are expensive, few and far between, and less capable than independent
sources. Again, it really is an outrage that this is happening in a
country built by yeoman farmers providing for their communities.
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Let’s just take a step back and look at the big picture here. I feel a
certain passion for this subject because, quite frankly, I have long
been wrong about this. I used to laugh derisively at the crunchy
liberals who insisted on natural this and natural that, believing it to
be nothing but an affectation of the rich who did not understand the
vast food needs of a giant population. I fully believed that mass
industrialized and regulated (and probably subsidized) production was
just what was required for the modern age. I suspect that many people
bought into the propaganda, just like I did.
I had placed the defense of independent farming and organic methods
solidly on the left. So it is hilarious and ridiculous to me that it is
now considered a pet issue of the “far right.” It’s utterly absurd: to
defend the right to raise and sell food is not an issue of the left or
right. It is a matter of human rights.
Aside from that, I actually did some reading on food production, only to >>> discover that industrial methods and mass subsidies contribute to
population ill-health. This revelation was slow to dawn but it only
takes a bit of looking to discover that vast amounts of retail food is
all about getting rid of the excesses of the industrial system. That’s
why everything contains corn syrup, why the cows are fed corn, and why
grains are stuffed into every product possible, while healthy food is
rare and expensive.
It doesn’t have to be this way, I came to realize. Regular traditional
farming not only provides for population needs, as it always has, but
has the benefit of being vastly healthier. It has been put at a huge
disadvantage thanks to government regulations. Independent farms barely
survived, and now with their growing popularity, government is
determined to shut them down.
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What finally flipped me on the question was the government’s response to >>> COVID. Everything they asked us to do was the opposite of what we should >>> have done. They kept the liquor and weed stores open while shutting down >>> AA meetings, gyms, and independent groceries. They moved sick patients
into nursing homes. They forced ventilators and pharma products on
people who simply needed sunshine and traditional therapeutics. They
made it impossible to get proven drugs while forcing everyone to take
the experimental misnamed vaccine.
For that matter, they forced the whole population into masks that
reduced the ability to breath and get oxygen, and thereby made people
vastly sicker. When it turned out that the shot came with terrible side
effects and death, they did nothing. In fact, government agencies hid
the evidence of harm from the public.
So you have to ask yourself a fundamental question. Do we want these
same people in charge of farming, ranching, food quality, and food
distribution? The answer is no. In fact, there is a very long history of >>> food regulation being used to ruin the food supply. Every bit of
government involvement that overrides the decisions of producers and
consumers has contributed more to population ill-health.
When I was growing up, I was subjected to the government’s evil food
pyramid that privileged grains and demonized meat and eggs. It took
decades for genuine scientists and nutritionists to debunk that
nonsense. The war on eggs, for example, was completely misguided.
Presumably everyone knows that now. But even today, the United States is >>> one of the few countries in the world that requires retail sales of eggs >>> to include washing off the membrane outside the eggs. That’s why this
country is one of the few in the world in which eggs have to be
refrigerated!
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Look, this huge problem dates far back in history. Back in 1906, the
federal government first got involved in regulating meat quality, and
the problems began immediately. Inspectors used a “poke and sniff”
method of checking for rancid meat that was proven to spread disease.
This idiotic method persisted for many decades after it had been
affirmed to be unsafe.
It also turned out that the main lobbying forces for meat inspections
were the dominant suppliers in the industry. They were attempting to
drive up the cost of compliance as a method of competing and cartel
creation.
An Amish farmer uses a horse drawn harrow in a field on his farm near
Wilson, Wisc., in a file photo. (Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images)
An Amish farmer uses a horse drawn harrow in a field on his farm near
Wilson, Wisc., in a file photo. (Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images)
What will save the food supply in this country is less government
oversight and bullying and more of the free market that the Amish
practice. It is highly dangerous for government powers to be deployed in >>> harassing these people and thus further poisoning the food supply. I’m
happy to admit that I was wrong on this subject for most of my writing
career. But the COVID response taught me a thing or two. I learned that
we cannot trust government oversight in any aspect of human health,
particularly not that which affects our food.
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And it’s not only about food. It’s also about religious freedom. Groups
like the Amish and so many others have thrived in the United States
thanks to religious freedom. Their lifestyle and food choices are part
of that. Take that away and you remove the whole guts of the whole basis >>> of the American experience. It’s that serious.
Meanwhile, as government goes after raw milk, vast numbers suffer real
injury from mRNA shots the government forced on millions of people.
Pharma’s stocks continue to trade at high levels while true
investigations get little attention by the captured corporate media outlets.
The Amos Miller Organic Farm deserves every passionate defense from
anyone who values health and freedom. Make no mistake. The war on the
organic farm is a war on all of us and only to the industrial benefit of >>> large producers tightly connected to the cartel that runs agriculture in >>> this country. The entire regulatory empire needs to be completely
deregulated in the interest of the health and well-being of everyone.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/03/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1b5w1bi/telegraph_ministers_failed_to_consider_longterm/
Ministers failed to consider long-term pain of lockdown, say scientists
Poll of leading thinkers contrasts sharply with public perception at
height of pandemic that there was consensus
Sarah Knapton,
SCIENCE EDITOR and
Joe Pinkstone
2 March 2024 • 6:00pm
667
poll result
The Government did not pay sufficient attention to the long-term
collateral damage of lockdowns, a majority of British scientists
surveyed believe.
A wide-ranging survey conducted by The Telegraph and Censuswide shows
that nearly seven in ten (68 per cent) academics believe more
consideration should have been given to the fallout caused by shutting
down the country.
The views are in stark contrast to the public discourse at the height of >>> the pandemic, when only a few dissenting scientific voices spoke out to
highlight the health and economic risks from lockdowns.
While just over half (51 per cent) of scientists thought lockdowns were
always proportionate and always justified, one third disagreed.
The survey also reveals that while 44 per cent of scientists believed
pandemic modelling was “excellent” or “good”, some 37 per cent thought
it was “average”, “poor”, or “very poor”.
Experts said the results show there was far less scientific consensus
than the public was led to believe, and warned that many academics had
felt unable to speak their mind at the time.
Scientists feared loss of patronage
Prof Robert Dingwall, a former government Covid adviser, from Nottingham >>> Trent University, said: “It was always clear to those of us who were
able to make evidence-based criticisms of ‘official science’ and
government actions, that we enjoyed considerable tacit support in the
scientific community.
“This was, however, muted by concerns about loss of patronage, access to >>> research grants and difficulty in publication as the cost of speaking out. >>> “Others certainly paid a price for trying to voice loyal opposition. I
don’t blame anyone for keeping their head down if they had a career to
build, a family to support or a preference for a quiet life.”
Bob Seeley, a Tory MP who during the pandemic spoke up against
lockdowns, said: “At the time we were, understandably, focused on
immediate risk.
“However, it was also clear that there was precious little thought as to >>> the long-term damage to a society, especially in the development of
young people. Schools should never have been shut. We are seeing a
generation of young people damaged.
“There was too much politics from some scientists who were pushing a
politicised agenda.”
He added: “The lack of interest in the origins of the virus seems bizarre. >>> “My fear is that at very least, lockdown will be seen to have been an
ineffective way of dealing with the crisis. The lack of an open and
science-led conversation during the crisis was, I felt, disturbing.”
A generation scarred
Last month, the World Bank warned that lockdown disruption to education
would scar multiple generations of children who suffered serious
developmental and learning delays.
NHS waiting lists soared to a record 7.8 million last September and
there have been tens of thousands of extra non-Covid deaths since the
pandemic, particularly among heart and cancer patients.
A study from University College London in February estimated that 12,000 >>> years of life had been lost in Britain because of delays in diagnosing
skin cancer during Covid lockdowns.
Gordon Wishart, chief medical officer at Check4Cancer, and visiting
professor of cancer surgery at Anglia Ruskin University, repeatedly
warned in 2020 and 2021 that delaying cancer diagnosis and treatment
would lead to deaths, but said his fears were ignored.
“I did feel like my concerns were falling on deaf ears as far as the
Government is concerned,” he said.
“I have real concerns that we would not do anything different if we have >>> another pandemic, as the Covid Inquiry did not seem that interested in
identifying what went wrong with our approach, and how we would change
it next time.”
The Telegraph survey, taken between December and February by 198
scientists from universities across Britain, also showed that 70 per
cent believed government decisions were not transparent or well
communicated.
During the pandemic, what did you think of the Government’s communication? >>> 17%
Transparent and well communicated
70%
Not transparent and not well communicated
13%
No views on this/prefer not to say
During the pandemic, do you think of the Government paid sufficient
attention to the long-term damage of lockdowns?
19%
Government paid sufficient attention
Government did not pay sufficient attention
68%
14%
No views on this/prefer not to say
SOURCE: CENSUSWIDE SURVEY WITH 198 UK SCIENTISTS (2023/ 2024)
Just three per cent thought all scientific views had been considered by
the Government, while a third believed officials had focused on only a
minority of opinions.
During Covid in the UK, how would you rate the effectiveness of the
modelling that was used?
During the Covid pandemic in the UK, how many, if any, scientific views
were considered?
3%
19%
All of
them
Excellent
51%
Majority
of them
31%
Good
20%
Average
33%
Minority
of them
13%
Poor
4%
1%
Extremely poor
None of them
19%
14%
No views/prefer
not to say
No views/prefer
not to say
During the pandemic, what did you think of the Government's decisions?
Transparent and well-communicated
51%
Not transparent and not well-communicated
33%
No views on this/prefer not to say
16%
SOURCE: CENSUSWIDE SURVEY WITH 198 UK SCIENTISTS (2023/ 2024)
Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University
of Oxford, said it was important to prevent the “abuse and persecution”
of scientists who were prepared to challenge the consensus.
“There are clearly systemic problems in academia that need to be
addressed in order to permit a fuller debate of these critical issues,”
she said.
“In future, I hope universities and institutions like the Royal Society, >>> as well as the government and the media, will see fit to put on more
debates and allow dissenting voices to be heard.”
The survey also showed that scientists are split over whether Covid-19
leaked from a laboratory, with the majority thinking that China has not
been open and transparent about the origins of the disease.
Do you think Covid-19 is of zoonotic/natural origin?
Definitely
Most likely
Most likely not
Definitely not
No views on this/
prefer not to say
0%
10
20
30
40
50
60
Do you think China have been open and transparent about the origins of
Covid-19?
61%
6%
34%
No
Yes
No views on this/
prefer not to say
Do you think Covid-19 leaked from a lab in China?
Yes
No
No views on this/
prefer not to say
0%
10
20
30
40
SOURCE: CENSUSWIDE SURVEY WITH 198 UK SCIENTISTS (2023/ 2024)
Around one third believe that gain-of-function experiments – which
increase the potency of viruses and bacteria – could spark a pandemic,
while the same number think the work could help prevent future outbreaks. >>>
Do you think gain-of-function experiments experiments are needed to
prevent future pandemics?
34%
52%
No views on this/prefer not to say
Yes
14%
No
Do you think gain-of-function experiments experiments risk sparking
future pandemics?
34%
47%
No views on this/prefer not to say
Yes
19%
No
SOURCE: CENSUSWIDE SURVEY WITH 198 UK SCIENTISTS (2023/ 2024)
Ravi Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of
Cambridge, said: “I think the survey shows that people believe in the
ability of science to answer questions but some of those experiments
carry a risk and they need to be regulated.
“Now the dust is settling, hopefully people are allowed to have a
balanced discussion.”
The survey, which dealt with current contentious issues within science,
also found that around six in 10 scientists think that sex is binary,
while a similar number agree gender is fluid.
Do you think sex is binary?
58%
29%
13%
Yes*
No
No views on this
/prefer not to say
*except in rare cases such as intersex individuals
Do you think gender is binary?
22%
64%
14%
Yes
No
No views on this
/prefer not to say
SOURCE: CENSUSWIDE SURVEY WITH 198 UK SCIENTISTS (2023/ 2024)
Responding to the survey, a Department of Health and Social Care
spokesman said: “Throughout the pandemic, the Government acted to save
lives and livelihoods, preventing the NHS being overwhelmed, and
delivered a world-leading vaccine rollout which protected millions.
“We have always said there are lessons to be learnt from the pandemic
and are committed to learning from the Covid-19 Inquiry’s findings,
which will play a key role in informing the Government’s planning and
preparations for the future.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/04/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/05/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1b6ntt8/locking_down_small_areas_during_the_autumn_of/
Covid inquiry: Local lockdowns failed, said Drakeford
21 hours ago
By David Deans, Rowenna Hoskin & Jack Grey,
BBC News
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Getty Images A Covid-19 poster in the foreground with Caerphilly Castle
in the backgroundGetty Images
Caerphilly county borough was the first area to lockdown in September 2020 >>> Mark Drakeford said locking down small areas during the autumn of 2020
was a "failed experiment", the Covid inquiry has been told.
Some council areas and towns like Llanelli and Bangor were subject to
restrictions as officials struggled to cope with rising case numbers.
A senior Welsh advisor said that in hindsight "perhaps they weren't the
best idea".
Rob Orford told the inquiry that lockdowns made it more "complicated".
The chief scientific advisor for Wales was among the senior officials
giving evidence at Monday's hearing, sitting in Cardiff.
It was told that Sir Frank Atherton, chief medical officer for Wales,
called the lack of information surrounding different UK restrictions an
"omnishambles".
The word, voted 2012's word of the year by the Oxford English
Dictionary, means a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle. >>>
Sir Frank told the hearing that Wales should have followed England when
it made masks law in shops.
Meanwhile a senior civil servant, Dame Shan Morgan, admitted to deleting >>> messages early in the pandemic.
Welsh government Wales' chief medical officer Sir Frank AthertonWelsh
government
Wales' chief medical officer Sir Frank Atherton
Tom Poole, counsel to the inquiry, told the hearing that the first
minister had described in written evidence local lockdowns as a "failed
experiment".
Caerphilly county was the first council area to go into a local lockdown >>> in September 2020, after a significant rise in cases there. A number of
other places followed soon after.
It generally meant people could not leave the areas without a reasonable >>> excuse. Case rates fell initially in Caerphilly, before rising again
before the firebreak lockdown of late October.
Dr Orford said in "hindsight perhaps they weren't the best idea".
"I felt it made things more complicated that you had to have more
legislation, more policies in place across different local authorities," >>> he said.
Caerphilly case rate
Figures from the time showed case rates fell in Caerphilly before rising >>> later
The hearing heard an account of the first Welsh government cabinet
meeting where Covid was discussed in 24 February 2020 - a month after
Sir Frank warned Mr Drakeford of a "significant risk" of Covid coming to >>> Wales.
Minutes claimed that Vaughan Gething, who was health minister at the
time, said there had been no imported cases in the UK at that point -
there were nine positive cases by 18 February.
The minutes have been disputed by a Welsh government source, who told
BBC Wales the document was incorrect in its account of Mr Gething's remarks.
Local lockdowns a failed experiment, says first minister
The timeline of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wales
Welsh government 'caught with trousers down' on Covid
Gething deleted messages, Covid inquiry hears
Russell George MS, Welsh Conservative shadow health minister, called the >>> alleged mistake "astounding".
"The fact that he wasn't aware of Covid's arrival into the UK when
others were preparing is very telling."
By the end of January, Sir Frank said it was "increasingly apparent that >>> optimistic scenario of it fizzling out in China was not going to happen". >>>
He added that the delay did not particularly surprise him, because of
"everything that was happening in Wales, including the management of the >>> flooding".
Sir Frank said no matter what the Welsh or UK governments had done, he
believed a nationwide lockdown was unavoidable.
Face masks
During his evidence Sir Frank said Wales should have copied England when >>> it made face coverings mandatory in public places.
Wales made masks compulsory on public transport in July 2020 but not in
shops until September, whereas England made them mandatory in shops in July.
Sir Frank originally advised against it amid concerns over PPE, face
coverings encouraging risky behaviour and coverings not being up to
World Health Organization standards.
"I think from all the time and energy spent on face coverings it would
have been better to align," he added.
The inquiry was shown a page from Sir Frank's notebook with the word
omnishambles scrawled across it, which appears to be from the summer of
2020.
Covid Inquiry A spider diagram Atherton scrawled in his notebook, which
appears to be from the summer of 2020, with omnishambles written at the
centre of the pageCovid Inquiry
Sir Frank had written omnishambles in his notebook about the difference
in UK restrictions
"This represents a degree of frustration I think I had which is that
information came from UK level into Wales very late and left us on the
back foot on some issues," said Sir Frank.
He said it "seemed odd" that some restrictions were being lifted when
the virus was low, but other restrictions - including rules on wearing
masks - were being introduced.
He concluded his evidence by saying there was "no safer alternative" to
discharging hospital patients with symptoms of Covid into care homes
without a test being required.
"The common view was that care homes ought to be able to manage cases of >>> infectious disease by isolating people within there," he said.
Though "not an easy decision" he said it was made "in the context of
hospitals absolutely risking being overloaded".
He said elderly patients could have been asymptomatic in hospital but
potentially "staying in hospital and becoming infected".
The Welsh government's chief scientific adviser for health, Rob Orford,
was concerned early in the pandemic that the disease would overwhelm the >>> NHS.
Rob Orford
Rob Orford, chief scientific adviser for health wrote emails in February >>> explaining the NHS would be overwhelmed
The Inquiry heard he wrote two emails in February warning the NHS
capacity would be outstripped based on the demand.
Public Health Wales advised against the Wales v Scotland Six Nations
match of March 2020 taking place, despite the Welsh government not
forcing its postponement.
By the time organisers called off the match, one day before kick-off,
20,000 Scottish rugby fans had already travelled to Cardiff.
Tom Poole said Public Health Wales had advised the match "should be
postponed or cancelled".
Mr Orford said he was not aware that advice had been given but agreed
that, with "the benefit of hindsight", it would have made sense to call
the match off.
Dame Shan Morgan, who was permanent secretary to the Welsh government
for the bulk of the pandemic - the most senior civil servant in Wales,
also gave evidence on Monday.
She admitted having deleted "some" early WhatsApp messages about Covid.
"I didn't turn on disappearing messages... To be honest I wouldn't know
how to but I know I deleted a few early messages," she said. "I have no
recollection of why beyond I suppose just an attempt at housekeeping."
Counsel to the Inquiry Tom Poole told the hearing that Jane Runeckles,
the first minister's special adviser, switched on the WhatsApp deletion
function in November 2021.
It comes after the Inquiry heard last week that Mr Gething used the same >>> setting during the pandemic.
The Inquiry will continue on Tuesday when Wales' top civil servant
Andrew Goodall and Public Health Wales boss Tracey Cooper will give
evidence.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/06/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> 03/07/24 Peeld/KK tragically vainjangling (1 Tim 1:6) ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: The LORD says "Blessed are you who hunger now ..."
Shame on andrew, look at his red face.
He is trying to pull a fast one. His scripture bit is found among these:
'14 Bible verses about Spiritual Hunger'
Psalms
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: >open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs
13:25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of >the wicked is in need.
Joel
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Psalms
107 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Acts
14:17 "Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by >giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
your hearts with food and gladness."
someone eternally condemned & ever more cursed by GOD perseverated:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: a very very very simple definition of sin ...
Does andrew's "definition" agree with scripture? Let's see in 1 John:
John wrote this to christians. The greek grammer (sic) speaks of an ongoing >> status. He includes himself in that status.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, >> and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is >> not in us.
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/03/14/ethics-alarms-points-out-how-terrible-rfk-jr-s-vp-short-list-is-kamala-harris-says-hold-my-beer/
Ethics Alarms Points Out How Terrible RFK Jr.’s VP “Short List” is;
Kamala Harris says “Hold My Beer!”
MARCH 14, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
What a shameless demagogue.
I am immediately torn, because every Kamala Harris head-exploding
utterance raises a Julie Principle issue: OK, an elected official who
has conclusively proven herself to be dumb, irresponsible and ethically
inert says something that is dumb, irresponsible and ethically alert.
Why is that worth complaining about or criticizing? Nevertheless, some
of Harris’s outbursts are just too despicable to be ignored. Like this
one, today, as she visited abortion providers and staff members at a
clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota to cheer on women putting the unborn to
death for the crime of complicating their mothers’ lives:
“These attacks against an individual’s right to make decisions about
their own body are outrageous and, in many instances, just plain old
immoral,” she thundered. “How dare these elected leaders believe they
are in a better position to tell women what they need, to tell women
what is in their best interest. We have to be a nation that trusts women.” >>>
Nice. Kamala had previously used the “How dare they!” stunt to condemn
the U.S. Supreme Court for daring to do their jobs, which includes
striking down bad decisions that made up constitutional rights that
didn’t exist. The abortion-fanatic’s dishonest defense has always relied >>> on pretending that only one life is involved in an abortion, though the
state has a valid interest in protecting all lives, including unborn
humans who their mothers want to kill. When does an abortion in Harris’s >>> world suddenly involve more than just the woman’s body? Six weeks? 15
weeks? 9 months? Never, if her words mean what they appear to mean.
“Plain old immoral” has always included “Thou shalt not kill”: what
weird definition of “immoral” is Harris alluding to? It must be really
old; Sumarian, maybe? Ancient Aztec?
And what is the right to do whatever you want with your own body? Does
it have any limits? Could Kamala please state this right simply and
concisely? The concept would seem to be an endorsement of anarchy, and
an assertion that the rule of law is itself “immoral,” which is ironic,
since legal codes are moral codes. Government and law necessarily
dictate what a citizen can or cannot to “with their own body,” and
Harris’s party has grand designs on that area even beyond its harsh
measures to force Americans to get mysterious chemicals injected into
their bodies as well as their children. It also wants to find ways to
stop citizens from saying, writing and hearing words, ideas and opinions >>> that progressives find “hateful” or “misinformation.”
Doesn’t using our mouths and brains to do what we want them to do bodily >>> autonomy too?
The claim that abortion is opposed because elected officials feel it
isn’t in a woman’s best interests is a flat-out lie. Abortion’s ethical
conflict is that it pits a woman’s best interests against another human
being’s right to exist. Fine: making the nascent life you carry
disappear may be in your best interests, just as murdering your cheating >>> spouse or stealing your sister jewels might be in your best interests.
But the rule of law is about balancing valid interests, and making the
hard choices that create an ethical society.
Isn’t Kamala supposed to know this? She went to law school, right?
“We have to be a nation that trusts women”—what does Harris think that
means? Should women be subject to no legal restraints at all, since we
trust these heavenly creatures? Women can’t be trusted to do the right
thing when they have an interest in opposition to that conduct; in this
respect, they’re no different from anyone else. Should we trust women
not to get pregnant when they can’t care for or support a child? And if
a woman violates that trust, what are the consequences? Should they be
borne by her, or the innocent life her conduct created? We can trust
women to be highly tempted to choose the latter, not because they aren’t >>> trustworthy, but because they are human, and humans are frequently
guided by non-ethical motives and consideration.
A complex ethics conflict like abortion can only be addressed by
examining all factors and competing interests, and what we get from the
Vice-President of the United States is hypocrisy, straw man arguments ,
appeals to emotion and “How dare they!”
An untrustworthy woman is calling for women to be trusted.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/15/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/16/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/17/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:20:33 -0700, Michael Ejercito
<MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1bhrecg/death_by_a_thousand_cuts_uk_insolvencies_soar_17/
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: UK insolvencies soar 17 per cent and exceed
pandemic levels
BY:JACK MENDEL
The Insolvency Service said the numbers of compulsory liquidations,
CVLs, and administrations were also higher than in February 2023.
Fresh insolvency figures painted a grim picture this morning, with a
number of companies going bust soaring by 17 per cent last month
compared to 2023.
The Insolvency Service said 2,102 companies went bust last month which
was a 17 per cent rise on the same period last year, which was at 1,801. >>>
The government agency said this was higher than levels seen during the
pandemic “while the government support measures were in place”, with
things like the furlough scheme. It is also higher than pre-pandemic
figures.
Analysts blamed a mixture of high inflation and the sharp increase in
interest rates following the mini-budget, which increased costs of
borrowing, and encouraged Brits to tighten their purses.
The war in Ukraine, which Russia launched two years ago, has also placed >>> huge pressure on businesses’ energy costs and ability to pay rent.
It said this included 217 compulsory liquidations, 1,707 creditors’
voluntary liquidations (CVLs), 166 administrations and 12 company
voluntary arrangements (CVAs).
The Insolvency Service said the numbers of compulsory liquidations,
CVLs, and administrations were also higher than in February 2023.
It also said that the number of insolvencies in February 2024 was
10,136, around 23 per cent higher than last year.
This comes as the UK entered a brief recession last month, but there are >>> already signs it had exited that period. This week it was reported the
UK took its first steps out of recession after the economy returned to
growth in January.
At the end of last month, S&P’s closely watched purchasing managers’
index (PMI), also showed the UK economy made a stronger start to 2024
than major European economies.
Yet, many businesses have struggled with higher interest rates, which
have been on hold for some months now.
Millions of Brits are eagerly anticipating their fall, which is
anticipated later this year, but some in the Bank of England’s
decision-making MPC committee have been more hawkish. This week it was
reported that interest rate cuts are drawing ever nearer after new data
showed that slack continued to build in the labour market.
READ MORE
Why the Bank of England will keep interest rates on hold despite lower
inflation
Although almost every measure suggested a softer labour market than
expected, the downside surprises were small, which demonstrated the
labour market was still tight in historical terms.
Julie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, said the latest data “paints >>> an unhappy picture for the state of the UK economy”.
“This environment is putting a huge amount of pressure on businesses and >>> the challenge business leaders now face will be insurmountable for many. “ >>>
Julie Palmer,
“After a decade of interest rates floating around zero, many businesses
simply were not prepared for higher interest rates for a sustained
period of time, having loaded up on cheap debt during the boom years,”
Palmer said.
“Sadly, the debt storm has now broken and this morning’s data from the
Insolvency Service highlights how this macro-economic environment is
wreaking havoc on small and medium businesses across the country.”
She added that the latest figures would discourage business owners who
had hoped interest rates might come down soon.
Daniel Staunton, a senior associate in the restructuring & insolvency
team at Kingsley Napley, warned that “the facts don’t lie”.
Staunton said: “When you speak to other professionals operating in the
restructuring and insolvency field they all report being busier which is >>> reflected in the increased numbers.
“We can likely expect March 2024 stats to show another incremental
increase.”
READ MORE
Pound Sterling makes strong start to 2024 as UK recovery from recession
to continue
He predicted that while “new records continue to be broken” he feared it >>> would “be an ongoing trend and whilst we won’t see tsunami levels, the
total number of insolvencies this year will ebb and flow like the tide.” >>>
Nicky Fisher, president at R3 warned that “businesses are still
suffering the after-effects of last year’s economic turbulence”.
“Rising fuel, energy and funding costs and cautious consumer spending
are continuing to take their toll on bottom lines and make it harder for >>> businesses to break even,” Fisher added.
“After the pandemic era lockdowns; Brexit; staff shortages – and rising
wage costs; spiralling fuel costs; high interest rates and inflation
eroding consumers spending power and confidence; and the contraction in
income implied by falling GDP , it is sad but unsurprising that company
insolvencies have increased.”
Jeremy Whiteson,
“While there is still some optimism among firms about what the next year >>> has in store, the economic conditions remain a key area of concern for
many and unless things improve, we could see more and more firms turning >>> to an insolvency process to help resolve their financial issues. “
Meanwhile, Jeremy Whiteson, restructuring and insolvency partner at city >>> law firm, Fladgate warned that company failures can “provoke wider
economic problems if that causes unemployment or lost production”.
Whiteson said: “Against this background, the increased figures are
worrying. There has been something of a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ for
many businesses”, citing the impact of the war in Ukraine, the aftermath >>> of Covid, Brexit changes and inflation.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/18/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/03/19/heluva-scotus-choice-there-joe/
Heluva SCOTUS Choice There, Joe!
MARCH 19, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
Great. We now have a U.S. Supreme Court Justice who doesn’t like the
First Amendment. The Babylon Bee hardly had to be satirical to come up
with that headline. During yesterday’s oral arguments before the U.S.
Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri, the newest Justice and the only one >>> appointed by President Biden, Kentanji Brown Jackson revealed a
frightening hostility to the most important guaranteed principle of
American freedom from oppressive government.
“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment
hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important
time periods,” Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin
Aguiñaga as he argued against allowing Big Brother to recruit Big Tech
as a political ally by intimidating social media platforms into removing >>> posts the government finds inconvenient. I read Jackson’s quotes
yesterday with genuine horror. My sister, a federal litigator of liberal >>> tendencies, had assured me that Jackson was a smart, solid, trustworthy
jurist based on her experiences appearing before her. Justice Jackson
may be smart, but trustworthy she isn’t. Intentionally or accidentally,
President Biden’s openly DEI appointment to fill the Court slot vacated
by Stephen Breyer installed the perfect tool to assist aspiring Democrat >>> totalitarians to achieve their agendas.
Oh please, tell us again how Donald Trump is the existential threat to
democracy.
“Hamstringing the government” is the entire principle underlying the
First Amendment, indeed the entire Bill of Rights. Jackson’ lament
demonstrates the socking devolution of the American Left. On the
celebrated, ultra-liberal Warren Court that brought us school
integration, the rights have a lawyer appointed and “the fruit of the
poisonous tree” among other advances in civil rights, liberal icon
William O. Douglas and fellow Democrat Hugo Black kept reminding the
public and the government that “Congress shall make no law abridging the >>> freedom of speech” means that Congress shall make no law abridging the
freedom of speech, and that in the Bill of Rights, Constitution
prohibitions on “Congress” are prohibitions on the government as a
whole. In those golden days, it was the evil conservatives trying to
tell people what they were allowed to see, read and hear.
Jackson’s statement about the perils of hamstringing the government were >>> just the beginning of her cheerleading for government censorship. “Some
might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to
protect the citizens of this country” she said, making it obvious that
she was one of the ‘some.” “You seem to be suggesting that that duty
cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring
platforms to take down harmful information,” continued Jackson. “So can
you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got
the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening
circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that >>> the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”
Ah, yes, those “threatening circumstances.” Can’t have that. You know,
like telling the public about the President’s son’s laptop, questioning
the edicts of the CDC during the pandemic and the suspicious undermining >>> of election integrity …or endangering Democratic power in Washington, D.C. >>>
Despite indisputable proof that the Department of Health and Human
Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Centers >>> for Disease Control and Prevention, Census Bureau, Department of
Homeland Security, Department of State, FBI, Department of Justice, and
the White House demanded Big Tech companies like Twitter (now X),
Facebook, and YouTube interfere with Americans attempting to publicize
facts and opinions the government preferred to keep buried, Jackson
appeared to see this as completely benign.
Judge Terry Doughty, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Louisiana in his 155-page ruling described the Biden >>> administration’s efforts to push social media platforms into doing its
censorship “the most massive attack against free speech in United
States’ history.” But Joe’s justice doesn’t see it that way at all. In
another exchange, Jackson argued that a “once-in-a-lifetime pandemic” or >>> other declared “emergencies” should allow the always well-meaning
government expand constitutional limits. You know, like Woodrow Wilson
locking up dissenters during World War I. Biden already has tried to use >>> his “emergency powers” illicitly, like ordering landlords not to evict
deadbeat tenants, or allowing degree holders to skip their obligations
to pay back loans. Most dictators take over in “emergencies,” and the
freedom of speech is usually the first right to go.
“I’m interested in your view that the context doesn’t change the First
Amendment principles,” Jackson said. “I understood our First Amendment
jurisprudence to require heightened scrutiny of government restrictions
of speech, but not necessarily a total prohibition when you’re talking
about a compelling interest of the government to ensure, for example,
that the public has accurate information in the context of a
once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.”
She actually said that, even though it is now undeniable that the public >>> was given false, deliberately misleading and repeatedly wrong
information by the government (as well as the fearmongering news media). >>> Conservative writer Matt Margolis correctly observed this morning, “More >>> often than not, it seems that the speech that the government censored or >>> suppressed turned out to be right in the end.”
Naturally, the mainstream media is soft-peddling Justice Jackson’s
ominous unmasking as a government censorship advocate. But the public
needs to understand: she stands for and with the party and the President >>> that are claiming only they can “save democracy,” when it is becoming
increasingly clear that the exact opposite is the truth.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/19/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/20/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://reason.com/2024/03/20/15-days-to-slow-the-spread-on-the-fourth-anniversary-a-reminder-to-never-give-politicians-that-power-again/
'15 Days To Slow the Spread': On the Fourth Anniversary, a Reminder to
Never Give Politicians That Power Again
In the name of safety, politicians did many things that diminished our
lives—without making us safer.
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Four years ago, government officials told us, "Stay home!" We have "15
days to slow the spread."
Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at
our freedoms.
I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised at how
authoritarian many were eager to be.
Some demanded police to go after people surfing. They took down the rims >>> of basketball hoops. Children's playgrounds were taped up like crime
scenes. They told people in rural Utah and Wyoming to stay in their homes. >>>
In the name of safety, politicians did many things that diminished our
lives, without making us safer.
They complied with teachers unions' demand to keep schools closed. Kids' >>> learning has been set back by years.
Politicians destroyed jobs by closing businesses. Some shutdown orders
were ridiculous. Landscaping businesses and private campgrounds were
forced to shut down.
Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden sharply
increased government spending. Trump's $2.2 trillion "stimulus" package, >>> followed by Biden's $1.9 trillion "American Rescue Plan," led to so much >>> money printing that inflation doubled and then tripled.
This week, the fourth-year anniversary of "15 days to stop the spread,"
my new video looks back at politicians' incompetence.
First, government probably killed people with its endless red tape.
At least the Trump administration broke Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) rules to speed vaccine approvals. But FDA rules kept perfectly
good American COVID-19 test kits off the market because they hadn't gone >>> through its multiyear approval process.
Michigan's Gov. Gretchen Whitmer banned "public and private gatherings
of any size." Residents were told they could not see friends or relatives. >>>
Many of her rules seemed random. She banned motorboats and jet skis, but >>> allowed kayaks and canoes. She closed small businesses, but exempted
big-box stores if they blocked off aisles offering plant nurseries and
paint. Why?
Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) "six-foot
rule" under Trump was arbitrary, says former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott >>> Gottlieb. COVID travels in aerosols that flow much farther than six feet. >>>
When some Americans became fed up and protested, they were vilified for
"threatening the public." Some were fined. A few were arrested.
It's clear now that restrictive rules were not the best way to protect
people.
Sweden took a near opposite approach. They mostly left people alone.
Swedish officials encouraged the elderly and other at-risk people to
stay home.
But beyond that, they let life carry on as normal. Sweden didn't impose
lockdowns, school closures, or mask mandates.
They followed standard pre-COVID wisdom that the best protection is what >>> epidemiologists call "herd" or "collective" immunity. Once a critical
mass of people are infected and recover, collective immunity will reduce >>> the total number of infections.
Arrogant American politicians and media "experts" sneered at Sweden's
approach.
NBC "reported" on what it called, "Sweden's failed experiment. How their >>> dangerous Covid gamble went wrong."
CBS confidently stated, "Sweden becomes an example of how not to handle
COVID."
Time magazine headlined: "Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster."
But the media's experts were just wrong. Swedish health officials were
right.
Yes, at the beginning of the pandemic, Sweden suffered high numbers of
COVID deaths, but as predicted, over time, herd immunity protected
people. Sweden's excess death rate was the lowest in Europe.
Sweden's economy got through the pandemic much healthier than other
countries. Because Swedish schools never closed, Swedish students didn't >>> suffer the learning losses that American kids did.
Four years later, have media blowhards who were wrong apologized?
Corrected their stories? No.
Have American politicians apologized and begged forgiveness for their
arrogance, for destroying jobs, restricting our freedom, and needlessly
pushing us around? No.
Let's not give politicians power like that again.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/21/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/22/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/23/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/24/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1bmxy0t/millions_of_lowincome_families_set_to_lose/
Millions of Low-Income Families Set to Lose Internet Subsidies
The Affordable Connectivity Program, a $14.2 billion federal effort to
make internet service more affordable, is expected to run out of funding >>> this spring.
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A person adjusting a device on top of a long rod on the edge of a flat
roof, with other buildings in the city behind him.
A volunteer installing Wi-Fi at a building in Brooklyn. More than 23
million households receive effectively free or reduced-price internet
service through a federal program that may be about to end.Credit...José >>> A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times
Madeleine Ngo
By Madeleine Ngo
Reporting from Washington
March 23, 2024, 5:01 a.m. ET
Phyllis Jackson, a retired administrative assistant in Monroeville, Pa., >>> signed up for home internet service for the first time in about two
decades early last year. She now regularly uses the internet to pay her
bills online, buy clothes, find new recipes and learn about her medication. >>> Ms. Jackson said she signed up for internet service after enrolling in a >>> federal program that provided a monthly discount for low-income
households. That program is set to run out of funding this spring,
however, which will make it harder for Ms. Jackson and millions of other >>> households to afford to stay connected to the internet.
“I really can’t do without it,” said Ms. Jackson, 79. “The way things
are today, everyone needs to be able to use the computer.”
The $14.2 billion Affordable Connectivity Program provides low-income
households up to $30 off their internet bill each month, and households
living on eligible tribal lands can receive a discount of up to $75 a
month. More than 23 million households receive either reduced bills or
effectively free internet service through the program.
But federal officials began winding down the program early last month,
when they stopped accepting new applications and enrollments. The
program was tucked into the 2021 infrastructure law as a replacement for >>> a pandemic-era program that provided certain households discounts on
their internet bills. Although there is some bipartisan support to
continue the subsidies, lawmakers have not passed an extension.
Participants will continue receiving full benefits through April,
according to the Federal Communications Commission. In May, internet
companies will have the option to provide them with partial discounts
using the remaining federal funding. Based on provider claims data as of >>> Feb. 15, the program had about $2.5 billion left, which is meant to
cover the subsidies and other program expenses.
The program is part of the Biden administration’s broader initiative to
connect every American to affordable, high-speed internet, which
officials hope will stimulate economic growth and widen access to health >>> care and education. The administration is spending an additional $42.5
billion to expand access to broadband to every corner of the country.
The administration is funneling billions of dollars into the expansion
of internet access largely because officials see it as a critical way to >>> strengthen the economy. Across U.S. metros, prime-age workers who have
access to high-speed internet on home computers participate in the labor >>> force at a much higher rate than those without access, according to
research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Other research
has found that internet connectivity can bolster economic growth in
rural areas, helping to create jobs and attract workers.
Some Democratic and Republican lawmakers have coalesced around a bill
that would provide $7 billion to fund the program for about another
year. Senator Peter Welch of Vermont, a Democrat who has sponsored the
bill, said that he was encouraged by the bipartisan support, but that it >>> was “tough to be optimistic.”
“It’s hard to get anything done in this Congress,” Mr. Welch said.
“Anything on the budget becomes very contentious.”
In October, Biden administration officials sent Congress a supplemental
request for $6 billion to extend funding for the program, which they
have urged Republicans to support. “It’s past time for them to step up
for the American people so that we can continue our work to close the
digital divide across America,” Robyn Patterson, a White House
spokeswoman, said in a statement.
F.C.C. officials have said more funding is “urgently needed” to help
millions of households stay connected to high-speed internet. According
to a survey the F.C.C. conducted of program recipients in December, 48
percent of respondents said they would switch to a lower-cost plan that
could be slower than their current one, and 29 percent said they would
drop service after losing the benefit.
Paloma Perez, a spokeswoman for the F.C.C., said that the end of the
program would be a “step backward” and that officials were working with
lawmakers to “think about what the future of this program looks like.”
Image
A lineman in the bucket of a bucket truck stringing fiber optic line on
a tall pole as other linemen walk on the ground. They are surrounded by
grass and trees along a dirt lane.
The Biden administration is funneling billions of dollars into the
expansion of internet access, in large part because officials see it as
a critical way to strengthen the economy.Credit...Mike Belleme for The
New York Times
But some Republicans have argued that the program is wasteful. In a
December letter to the F.C.C., Senator John Thune of South Dakota and
other Republican lawmakers raised concerns about the program subsidizing >>> households that already had internet service. They have also pointed to
findings from the F.C.C.’s Office of Inspector General, which has in
recent months expressed concerns about some providers failing to comply
with program rules and improperly claiming funds.
“Some people are receiving this benefit that don’t really need it,”
Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said during a recent local >>> news interview. “So I think we need to have accountability and make sure >>> that the people that are receiving this benefit are the ones that
actually cannot pay.”
According to the F.C.C. survey, 22 percent of respondents said they did
not have any internet service and 25 percent only had mobile internet
service before enrolling in the program. Thirty percent of respondents
said they had both mobile and home internet service.
Blair Levin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
and an F.C.C. official during the Obama administration, said that
changes to the program would be problematic, but that lawmakers should
reach a compromise before millions of Americans are left at risk of
losing internet access.
Ms. Jackson, who enrolled in the program with assistance from a
Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, said she was not sure if she could afford
internet service after the program ends. She said she would most likely
have to purchase fewer groceries and reduce her electricity use to cut
expenses, but her monthly rent is also set to increase by $50 next month. >>> The end of the subsidy program could also complicate the Biden
administration’s other $42.5 billion program to provide every American
access to broadband, said Drew Garner, the director of policy engagement >>> at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. The funds, which will
be distributed as grants to internet providers, are meant to cover much
of the cost of building broadband infrastructure.
Without the subsidy program, however, more low-income households will
struggle to afford broadband service. With fewer potential customers in
low-income areas, internet providers will have less incentive to expand
service in those neighborhoods and may ask for bigger federal grants,
Mr. Garner said.
“It’s a big task to reach every unconnected household in the country,”
Mr. Garner said. “That’s going to be way harder without the A.C.P.
attracting infrastructure to those very hard-to-reach areas.”
Mr. Garner said the subsidy program has also helped provide households
more stable internet access. In the year before enrolling in the
program, many participants reported only having internet service during
the months they could afford it. Although some households could drop
service entirely, others might opt into slower internet plans, which
could impede their ability to complete many tasks online, Mr. Garner said. >>> Vincent Coleman, a 26-year-old medical student in Huntington, W.Va.,
said he would probably have to downgrade his internet plan. Although the >>> new plan would cost about $40 a month — roughly the same amount he pays
now with the discount — he worries his internet connection would be too
slow to watch lectures or view patient records at home.
Mr. Coleman said the benefit has helped provide relief for him and his wife.
“It’s a great help,” Mr. Coleman said. “Finances are always a major
source of stress, and I budget very carefully.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/25/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/26/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1bni0i3/couple_still_shielding_four_years_on_from_first/
Couple shielding for years still face Covid risks
1 day ago
Daniel Sexton,
Edward Sault
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Gayle and Leslie Howard Gayle and Leslie HowardGayle and Leslie Howard
Gayle and Leslie Howard say they still wear masks when they leave the house >>> A West Sussex couple who are still shielding four years on from the
first Covid lockdown said they feel they have been "left behind".
Gayle and Leslie Howard still wear masks when they leave the house to go >>> shopping, saying that everyone else thinks they are a "bit weird".
Mrs Howard had a kidney transplant in 2018 but despite having a Covid
vaccine and taking a drug for people with weakened immune systems, she
has not got the extra layer of protection she wanted.
She said: "When people see me wearing a mask when I'm out, people walk
straight at me like I'm not wearing it but there is a good reason why I am."
Gayle Howard Gayle Howard lying on a hospital bedGayle Howard
Gayle Howard said people who are shielding "deserve lives as much as
everyone else"
Analysis
By Mark Norman, BBC South East Health Correspondent
The question is – should people with suppressed immune systems be worried? >>>
The statistics would suggest that yes they should.
In 2022 just under 4% of the population were immunosuppressed.
However they accounted for 22% of COVID-19 hospitalisations and 24% of
COVID-19 deaths that year.
One study suggests this group of patients are 16 times more likely to be >>> hospitalised for COVID-19 than immunocompetent individuals.
'Risk with my life'
The couple used to attend music gigs but that is something they have now >>> had to sacrifice.
Mrs Howard said: "Some people are suggesting that I do take the risk but >>> taking the risk is taking the risk with my life."
"There is over a million people still affected by shielding following
the pandemic, but we are suffering. We deserve lives as much as everyone >>> else."
As well as being vaccinated, she takes the Evusheld drug, which contains >>> two antibodies against Covid that boost protection for those whose
immune systems do not respond well to vaccines.
Trials are currently underway on a second version of the Evushield,
which is hoped it will be more effective.
The Department for Health said: "Throughout the pandemic, the government >>> acted to save lives and livelihoods, preventing the NHS from being
overwhelmed and delivered a world leading vaccine rollout, which
protected millions.
"We have always said there are lessons to be learnt from the pandemic,
and are committed to learning from the Covid-19 inquiry's findings."
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
I subscribe to Jeff Jacoby's Arguable, and I came across this story. >>>
https://mailchi.mp/bostonglobe/remembering-two-american-heroes?e=5f6b7fc8b0 >>>
In 1952, if you told someone that medical technology in 2020 would
not be able to cure someone with permanently (at the time) paralyzed
chest muscles, it would have sounded extremely silly. After all, 2020
was sixty-eight years in the future. Surely that was plenty of time to
actually unparalyze chest muscles, or at least develop a miniaturized
iron long that can fit inside the chest cavity, or a robot iron lung
that can contain and be connected to a human central nervous system and
other vital human organs, so that persons like Paul Alexander would be
able to walk around in a mechanical body.
So what happened? Why is this technology non-existent after 68
years! Is this not long enough?
I mean, RoboCop was released just over 36 years ago. RoboCop
predicted that humans could be essentially transplanted into robot
bodies! (Alex J. Murphy's central nervous system and lungs were
essentially transplanted inside an iron lung with arms and legs) Why has >>> there been absolutely zero development in this scientific field?
What happened to scientific advancement?
Why did science completely stall?
For those of us who are believers, the short answer is that "GOD has
not allowed it" and this does underscore how we are "wonderfully made"
by Him so may we always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in
all ways including especially caring to
http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) that GOD is living
as evident by His eating the broiled fish ( https://bit.ly/Lk2442 )
and by His blessing us right now (Luke 6:21a) despite His body
piercings which give the appearance that He might be either dying or
dead (i.e. a ghost).
It still is disturbing.
I am sure children in the 1950's who were paralyzed like this were
told that they could have their mobility restored in ten years due to >advancements in medical science.
These same people were probably told were told the same thing in the
1960's and 1970's.
By the 1990's almost all of them lost hope, still being paralyzed
forty years later.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/27/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
The absolutely only way to speak "the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth" with GOD's Help is as shown at
http://WonderfullyHungry.org simply because LORD Jesus Christ of
Nazareth is our Number#1 Example of living "wonderfully hungry" as
exegesized at:
https://groups.google.com/g/raptureriddle/c/VMfhZpBcxoE/m/74mP0CxfAwAJ
"I am the way and the truth and the life." (John 14:6)
Source:
https://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/28/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1bpury0/pupil_behaviour_worse_at_schools_in_england_since/
Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers
1 day ago
By Lauren Moss & Elaine Dunkley,
BBC News
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classroomGetty Images
Nearly one in five teachers in England has been hit by a pupil this
year, a survey commissioned by the BBC says.
One teacher told BBC News behaviour was a "never-ending battle". Another >>> said spitting, swearing and chair-throwing were among the things
happening often.
A union says its members are reporting worsening violence and abuse from >>> pupils since the Covid pandemic.
The Department for Education (DfE) says it has invested £10m in
behaviour hubs to support schools.
Using the survey tool Teacher Tapp, BBC News asked up to 9,000 teachers
in England in February and March a series of questions about their
experiences with behaviour in the classroom.
A greater proportion of primary and secondary teachers reported pupils
fighting, pushing and shoving compared with two years ago.
Lorraine Meah has been a primary school teacher for 35 years, for the
last five of which she has chosen to do supply work - covering lessons
on an ad-hoc basis - because it is more flexible.
Over that time, she says pupils' behaviour has worsened.
Gemma Laister Lorraine Meah, supply teacherGemma Laister
Supply teacher Lorraine Meah says sometimes pupils as young as six are
throwing chairs
She says she has seen nursery and reception-aged children "spitting and
swearing", with the worst behaviour from five and six-year-olds with
"dangerous tendencies" like throwing chairs.
"You will get three or four children in your class displaying
challenging behaviour. That's hard to deal with when you've got a class
of 30," says Mrs Meah, who teaches in the Midlands.
Another Midlands-based teacher, Zak Copley, did supply teaching for a
year and also says behaviour is "definitely getting worse" and sometimes >>> feels like a "never-ending battle".
On one occasion, the computer science teacher said he had to pull pupils >>> apart after they began "throwing punches" at one another.
"The room got absolutely ransacked," he says, remembering that displays
were "ripped off the wall".
On another occasion, a pupil who had been sent out of class tried to
break back into the room with a cricket bat, he said.
School takes a stand to stop teen toilet vaping
School transforms behaviour with compassionate approach
Teachers speak out over rising pupil violence
In Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, St John Fisher Catholic Academy for 11 to
18-year-olds is working hard to improve its behaviour.
In 2022, it was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted, whose inspectors found
poor behaviour by pupils, including frequent fighting, made others feel
unsafe.
"There was a culture of bullying and an atmosphere of intimidation,"
says Karl Mackey, the school's fifth head teacher in six years.
"We had a lot of internal truancy - kids going into toilet cubicles
vaping and using mobile phones."
BBC/Dan Nelson Karl Mackey, head of St John Fisher Catholic Academy in
DewsburyBBC/Dan Nelson
Karl Mackey has brought in new rules and changed the curriculum to
tackle poor behaviour at his school
Since Mr Mackey joined a year ago, his new behaviour policy has seen
pupils rewarded for good attendance.
Corridors are closed off to stop children being able to wander the whole >>> school if they leave a lesson. There are strict rules about going to the >>> toilet during lessons and mobile phones are banned.
He has also brought in more subjects including dance, drama and music.
Year 9 pupil Tamika was excluded from her previous school, and says
pupils at St John Fisher have "settled down" since the rule changes.
"I find it easier to co-operate with teachers and speak to them if I am
struggling with a lesson, and I can get my head down," she said.
"There are less students going round kicking off. If they do, there will >>> be steps in place for them to reflect on their behaviour - like going
into isolation, or being sent home."
Mr Mackey says the school tries its best to avoid suspending children if >>> possible.
Pupils blame absence on routine shattered by Covid
Boost sport to get pupils back to school - report
Putting pupils in isolation 'harms mental health'
He says the whole school community, including local residents, have
noticed children behaving better.
"There's been a real shift. This year you'll see them in lessons every
single day, not late, in perfect uniform, trying their hardest," he added. >>>
In the Teacher Tapp survey, the BBC also found:
30% of all teachers said they had witnessed pupils fighting during the
week they responded to the questions
Two in five respondents said they had witnessed aggressively violent
behaviour that needed an intervention in a single week
15% of secondary teachers said they have experienced sexual harassment >>>from a pupil when working at school.
Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT union, says teachers
are reporting that violence and abuse in schools "have risen notably"
since the pandemic.
"This is being compounded by cuts to specialist behaviour and mental
health services for children, which have left teachers doing their best
to fill the gaps and meet the needs of pupils that really require the
skills of specialist counsellors and therapists," he said.
Former DfE behaviour adviser Tom Bennett told BBC One's Breakfast
programme, on Tuesday, it had been a problem for "decades" after being
"brushed under the carpet".
"Up until about five or six years ago there wasn't much by way of
[teacher] training in behaviour management, which would probably
astonish a lot of people," he said.
"We need to make sure schools are looking at teaching the behaviour they >>> need, having boundaries and having consequences - a fairly simple
structure but quite hard to put into practice."
Teacher and union representative Debra de Muschamp stands smiling
outside school
Debra de Muschamp, from the head teachers' union, says teachers have
been left "shaken, frightened and isolated" by abuse from parents
The DfE says "decisive action" is being taken to improve pupil behaviour. >>>
A spokesperson added it had doubled its mental health and wellbeing
scheme for head teachers this year, backed by £1.1m.
In 2020, the DfE launched a £10m behaviour hub programme to allow
hundreds of struggling schools to be paired with others to learn new
ways of dealing with poor behaviour.
The programme finishes this year.
Abuse from parents
One in five respondents to the BBC's survey said they had experienced
online abuse from a parent or guardian since September. A similar number >>> said they had experienced verbal abuse.
Head teachers' union NAHT says some members are experiencing growing
problems among a "minority" of parents.
"It can be face-to-face, on the telephone, on social media... enough is
enough," says Debra de Muschamp, a regional NAHT secretary who runs
three primary schools in north-east England.
NAHT, which is running a local campaign to tackle parent-on-teacher
abuse, says head teachers have had tyres slashed and been physically
assaulted.
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In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/29/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/30/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 03/31/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1brzz68/greater_toronto_area_food_banks_see_record_300k/
Daily Bread food banks see record 300k visits in February
Demand has more than doubled in GTA since February 2022
Ethan Lang · CBC News · Posted: Mar 30, 2024 3:13 PM PDT | Last Updated: >>> March 30
About a dozen volunteers sort food donations in a warehouse.
Nearly 200 Daily Bread volunteers sorted roughly 60,000 pounds of food
Saturday. The charity says it's moving about 250,000 pounds of food
every day to programs around the GTA. (CBC)
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With many families gathering for Easter dinner across the GTA this
weekend, more people than ever may be relying on Toronto food banks to
get them through the holiday.
Last month, Daily Bread Food Bank had over 300,000 client visits at its
200-plus programs across Toronto. That's a 40 per cent increase from
this time last year, and a 136 per cent increase from February 2022,
according to the charity.
"We surpassed a milestone we never thought was possible," said Daily
Bread CEO Neil Hetherington.
Food bank use across the GTA has been rising steadily since the
pandemic, with roughly one in 10 Torontonians now relying on them.
"What's new is that there are individuals who have an income, who are
working, who are cobbling together two or three-part time jobs and they
still can't make it," said Hetherington.
Neil Hetherington
Daily Bread CEO Neil Hetherington says he doesn't expect food bank
lineups to shorten until governments take action. (Clara Pasieka/CBC)
At Daily Bread Food Bank's annual spring food sort Saturday, nearly 200
volunteers sorted 60,000 pounds of food, a fraction of the 250,000
pounds he says the charity is sending out daily to food banks across the >>> GTA.
People can't afford rising costs
Rising demand is coinciding with stagnating wages and rising costs,
Hetherington says.
Hetherington says more affordable housing and an injection of funds into >>> the Canada Disability Benefit, which will provide extra money to people
on fixed incomes, are the two most immediate ways to help.she hopes the
Canada Disability Benefit will "come into full force" with the new
federal budget next month, providing extra grocery money to people on
fixed incomes. He says quicker development of affordable housing is also >>> key.
100,000 people expected to turn to food charity in Toronto for 1st time
this year, survey finds
"Until those two things happen, I don't think that the lineups are going >>> to start to decrease at the Daily Bread Food Bank," she said.
Governments need to act: client
Sue Ellen Patcheson says she lives on disability with her two grown
children and two roommates. With $300 a month to spend on groceries, she >>> says there's no way she can afford to buy most of her food from the
supermarket.
"It's time for our government to step up and do something about it," she >>> said. "They have a responsibility here."
The CBC was unable to reach Canada's departments of Finance or
Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities for comment before
publication.
A woman speaks at a podium in front of microphones. A middle aged man
stands behind her
Mayor Olivia Chow and Premier Doug Ford spoke at Daily Bread's spring
food sort Saturday. Chow says all levels of government must play a role
in making life more affordable. (CBC)
But Toronto mayor Olivia Chow spoke at Saturday's food sort, agreeing
that all levels of government have a "role to play" in making life more
affordable.
"The City of Toronto, because of new deal with the province in our
budget, we are building more affordable housing, we are protecting
tenants, we are bringing the city back on track," Chow said.
Food bank visits in the GTA are up 51% from last year, Daily Bread says
Minister says Canada's largest grocery chains have agreed to 'work' on
stabilizing food prices
Doug Ford also spoke Saturday, urging people to privately donate to food >>> banks.
"There's so many people in need right now," Ford said. "No matter if
it's affordable, attainable housing or if it's just basically putting
food on their table to feed their family."
All of the food in all of the food banks in all the world can not help
those who are terribly **not** hungry like the devil cursed for his
sin of deceiving Eve or for the "rich man" who went straight to Hell
for being unkind to wonderfully hungry (i.e. longing to eat at the
rich man's table) Lazarus.
Bottom line:
Only the http://WonderfullyHungry.org can both eat **and** really
enjoy the food they eat today in celebration of both the Resurrection
of LORD Jesus Christ and the LORD's rescue/rapture of Apostle Peter
from prison, which both occurred on Easter albeit one year apart.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/04/05/ethics-verdict-israel-is-right-and-the-biden-administration-is-cynical-dishonest-and-wrong-regarding-gaza/
Ethics Verdict: Israel Is Right and the Biden Administration Is Cynical, >>> Dishonest and Wrong Regarding Gaza
APRIL 5, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
Biden called for an “immediate ceasefire” yesterday in a phone call with >>> Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling him that “strikes on
humanitarian workers” and “the overall humanitarian situation” are
“unacceptable.” Biden also, we are told, “U.S. policy with respect to
Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action”
and on steps to “address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the
safety of aid workers.”
By pure accident, the first thing I saw was Pentagon spokesman John
Kirby (he’s the smart and competent one of the two primary White House
paid liars) gaslight the press when asked how the U.S. policy toward the >>> support of Israel in the war could be “unwavering” (as described by
officials) and yet the Administration is also saying that it is
considering changing that policy in light of the civilian casualties in
Gaza. Kirby, with a straight face. said that the two statements were not >>> inconsistent, prompting incredulity from his questioner. Of course they
are inconsistent; in fact, they are contradictory. This is one more
example of Democrats deliberately playing to the ignorant and uncritical >>> voter.
Why aren’t Democrats
Equally infuriating is the reason for Biden’s <cough!> wavering
unwavering. The party doesn’t like the polling numbers, and the
Democrats’ strong, fact-and-history-challenged far left base has awarded >>> “persecuted” status to the Palestinians while designated Jews as the
white, genocidal, colonial villains. This means they are angry at
Biden—can’t have that!—so his “unwavering” support of Israel now
includes providing aid to Israel’s enemy that has been suffering from
assaults by U.S.-provided weapons and calling for a cease fire in Gaza
that will give the Hamas forces an opportunity to regroup.
Brilliant. This is, as EA has noted before, attempting to appease both
sides of violent dispute simultaneously. The Biden Administration has no >>> integrity. After the most recent ugly display, I wouldn’t expect any
ally to trust the U.S. as long as Biden is in the White House.
Democrats are “pouncing” on the recent misguided Israel missile strike
that killed several World Central Kitchen aid workers in the Gaza Strip. >>> Israel, for diplomatic reasons, is groveling apologies, agreeing that
the incident “should not have occurred.” That’s right: it would not have >>> occurred if Hamas had not broken its ceasefire with Israel in October
with a brutal terrorist sneak attack on civilians, making the war
essential and justified. Unintended deaths of civilians and
non-combatants in Gaza are not “unforgivable” as the World Central
Kitchen, a nonprofit founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres, called it
this week, announcing that it would pause all operations in Gaza
following the death of its workers. Such deaths are inevitable. How do
you prevent them? Well, don’t start wars. Or, going a bit further back
in time, don’t elect terrorist groups to run your government, since they >>> tend to start wars. Or: don’t send humanitarian workers into a war zone
without accepting the reality that doing so puts their lives at risk.
Matthew Continetti , a senior fellow and the inaugural Patrick and
Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise
Institute and earlier the founding editor of the conservative Washington >>> Free Beacon, has the moral and ethical clarity regarding this Washington >>> fiasco that Biden, the Axis, and all those protesting students do not.
He writes in part that the current shift in Biden’s policy-framing is..
a threat to conditional military assistance to Israel based on
absolutely no evidence and grounded in a ridiculous and unachievable
standard of conduct. The move is cynical, opportunistic, and
counterproductive. Biden has lost the plot.
Gee, what a surprise.
The writer continues,
Biden has let anyone within earshot know that he is frustrated and angry >>> with Israel’s strategy and tactics. He approved of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s
(D., N.Y.) call for new elections in Israel and the replacement of
Netanyahu’s government. His advisers have been trying to prevent
Israel’s planned offensive in the city of Rafah, where Hamas’s remaining >>> battalions use the hostages and 1.5 million Palestinians as human
shields. Last month, Biden’s U.N. ambassador chose not to veto a
resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza—a diplomatic
warning that America may not always be there for Israel.
But its support is “unwavering.”
…. “The U.S. must do more to tell Prime Minister Netanyahu this war
needs to end now,” [chef Jose Andres]told Reuters [after the deaths of
his workers]. “The people of Israel need to remember, at this darkest
hour, what strength truly looks like,” he wrote in the New York Times.
Who does Andrés think he is, calling for a unilateral ceasefire,
lecturing Israelis on the nature of strength? He’s not the Pope. He’s a
gourmand who serves traif….
The Pope has no business calling for a ceasefire either. More from
Continetti:
…For six months, huge swaths of the press have painted Israel in the
worst possible light. Netanyahu could say the sky is blue and a thousand >>> fact-checkers would scrub his claim for signs of misinformation.
Pro-Hamas falsehoods, meanwhile, are recycled without second thought.
The casualty numbers from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, the >>> bogus tale of the Israeli rocket “fired” at al-Shifa hospital, the blood >>> libel that Israelis separated Palestinian babies from their mothers, the >>> lie that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East was free of Hamas infiltration—these stories were peddled in
bad faith before Israel had a chance to rebut them.
Which is why a sense of moral clarity in this conflict is so important.
Hamas is evil. Hamas could end the war it started by surrendering its
cadres and releasing its prisoners. Hamas refuses. Hamas would rather
sacrifice the civilian population of Gaza on the altar of its genocidal
ambition and suicidal desires. Hamas brutalizes children, abuses
captives, steals food, fires its rockets indiscriminately, wears no
uniforms, and hides behind schools, hospitals, and mosques. Hamas does
not just commit war crimes. It is a war crime. …
The political heroes of this moment are the men and women who have
retained the ability to make clear distinctions between Israel and
Hamas, between freedom, equality, and the rule of law and violence,
terror, and fear.
Bingo.
There is absolutely only one godly way to win the war against
terrorism including especially in Israel and this is as shown at
http://WonderfullyHungry.org because LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth is
our #1 Example of living wonderfully hungry as evident by His eating
the "piece of broiled fish" ( https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ) on Resurrection
Sunday. Our LORD is the "Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6) and it is
written that He will destroy the AntiChrist ( https://AntiChrist45.com
), who is the Prince of Chaos, with simply His breath.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1by56b3/is_it_covid_flu_or_allergies_california_health/
Is it COVID, flu or allergies? California health experts tell how to
identify symptoms
BY ANGELA RODRIGUEZ
APRIL 07, 2024 5:00 AM
Seasonal allergies can leave you with a cough, itchy and runny eyes and
stuffed up nose. For many with pollen or grass allergies, spring and
summer can be uncomfortable. Mayo Clinic allergist Dr. Nancy Ott says
over-the-counter remedies such as an BY MCCLATCHY
Congestion? Check.
Sneezing? Check.
Coughing? Check, check and check.
With a number of illnesses currently circulating throughout California
and seasonal allergies irritating immune systems this spring, how do you >>> determine what you have?
“Many respiratory viruses, including influenza, (respiratory syncytial
virus) and COVID-19, can cause cold-like symptoms,” the California
Department of Public Health wrote in an email statement to The
Sacramento Bee on Wednesday morning.
Though many respiratory viruses, including the flu, coronavirus, and
RSV, peak between October and March, they circulate year-round in
California, the department’s website says.
As of mid-March, influenza, coronavirus, RSV and norovirus were coursing >>> through the state.
Unless you are at risk for a serious illness, such as pregnant people,
older adults and people with weak immune systems, the state health
department said “it isn’t always necessary to know which virus is
causing symptoms.”
If you want to know what illness is currently attacking your immune
system, however, here’s what California health officials said to do:
DO I HAVE THE FLU?
According to the California Department of Public Health’s most recent
weekly report, the percentage of influenza detection in California is
inching upward.
From March 17 to March 23, flu numbers were up by 5.3% compared to the
previous week — which showed numbers were up by 5%.
During this time frame, nine flu-related deaths were reported in California.
Getty Images
What are flu symptoms?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu
symptoms include:
Fever or chills
Cough
Sore throat
Runny or stuffy nose
Muscle, head or body aches
Tiredness
Vomiting and diarrhea, which are more common in children
How do I know if my illness is the flu?
To determine if your symptoms are being caused by the flu, the
California Department of Public Health said you should “seek testing by
contacting (your) medical provider.”
According to CDC guidelines, these tests require a health care provider
to swab the inside of your nose or back of your throat, and then send
the swab for testing.
Examples of tests include reverse transcription polymerase chain
reaction, viral culture and immunofluorescence assays.
Flu shots for senior citizens are one good way to prevent the spread of
infections among vulnerable people during winter virus season. Staying
home from work is another. Washington’s new sick leave law might help.
Flu shots for senior citizens are one good way to prevent the spread of
infections among vulnerable people during winter virus season. Staying
home from work is another. Washington’s new sick leave law might help.
Mario Tama Getty Images file photo, 2005
HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE COVID-19?
According to the CDC, possible symptoms of COVID-19 include:
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Tiredness
Muscle, head or body aches
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
“Symptoms may appear two to 14 days after exposure to the virus,” the
CDC website says.
Although flu and COVID-19 share common symptoms, the California
Department of Public Health said you can “use COVID-19 over-the-counter
home tests” to determine your illness.
As of Friday, the latest weekly update by the department shows 2.4% of
tests came back positive for COVID-19.
In the past week, roughly 800 individuals were hospitalized due to the
virus.
From Oct. 1 to March 30, a total of 3,145 coronavirus-related deaths
were reported in California
IS IT RSV?
RSV infections typically target individuals during late fall, winter and >>> early spring, according to the CDC.
RSV detections appeared to be trending upward in California, as of Friday. >>> While roughly 12 cases of RSV were reported in California on March 23,
almost 16 cases were reported by March 30, according to the CDC’s most
recent report.
The best defense for fighting illness is a good offense, using tissues
when coughing and sneezing. And, nurses remind parents and children
alike that the single most important thing everyone can do to stay
healthy is to wash their hands with soap and water.
The best defense for fighting illness is a good offense, using tissues
when coughing and sneezing. And, nurses remind parents and children
alike that the single most important thing everyone can do to stay
healthy is to wash their hands with soap and water. Bally Scanlon Getty
Images
Symptoms of RSV can include:
Fever
Cough
Runny nose
Wheezing in very young babies
Difficulty breathing
How to test for RSV: Tests aren’t usually necessary to diagnose RSV,
Mayo Clinic says. However, they can help diagnose complications or rule
out other respiratory viruses that can cause similar symptoms.
These tests can include chest X-rays, swabbing the inside of the mouth
or nose, pulse oximetry to detect levels of oxygen and blood tests.
SHOULD I TEST FOR NOROVIRUS?
Unlike COVID-19, flu and RSV, norovirus primarily impacts the digestive
system.
“Norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea, and foodborne
illness in the United States,” the CDC said. “People of all ages can get >>> infected and sick with norovirus, which spreads very easily and quickly.” >>> More common symptoms include:
Diarrhea
Vomiting
Nausea
Stomach pain
However, some individuals could experience fever, headaches and body aches. >>> “A person usually develops symptoms 12 to 48 hours after being exposed
to norovirus,” the CDC says. “Most people with norovirus illness get
better within one to three days, but they can still spread the virus for >>> a few days after.”
To diagnose your illness as norovirus, Mayo Clinic says your health care >>> provider might recommend a stool test.
A cyclist rides past flowers blooming at William Land Park on Tuesday.
Allergy season has already hit full stride.
A cyclist rides past flowers blooming at William Land Park on Tuesday.
Allergy season has already hit full stride. Randall Benton
rbenton@sacbee.com
IS IT MY ALLERGIES?
According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, pollen in the >>> warmer seasons can cause cold-like symptoms for people with two common
allergic conditions: seasonal allergic rhinitis, also known as hay
fever, and allergic asthma.
Symptoms of allergic rhinitis caused by seasonal allergies can include:
Runny nose
Stuffy nose
Sneezing
Red and watery eyes
Itchy nose, eyes, ears or mouth
Swelling around the eyes
Symptoms of allergic asthma include:
Shortness of breath
Cough
Chest tightness or pain
Wheezing
Waking at night due to asthma symptoms
A drop in lung function
Though respiratory viruses and allergic reactions typically share the
same cold-like symptoms, “people with seasonal allergies almost never
have a sore throat or a cough,” Mayo Clinic says.
With seasonal allergies, individuals will also “notice puffy eyelids and >>> dark marks” under their eyes.
Dr. NaYoung Kim, the chief of allergy and immunology for Kaiser
Permanente Sacramento and Roseville, recently told The Sacramento Bee
that allergies cannot make you sick.
“People will complain that they have a sensation of not feeling well ... >>> but it’s not a direct correlation that just because you have allergies
your immune system is worse,” Kim said. “You’re not more sick because
you have allergies.”
To prevent seasonal allergies, Kim said, “Environmental control is key.” >>> This includes staying indoors or cleaning your hair and clothes if you
have to travel outdoors.
Read more: Why are my allergies so bad right now? This Sacramento doctor >>> has tips to help you manage
A woman sneezes into a tissue. Allergy levels are predicted to fluctuate >>> in Sacramento this week with looming rain and wind in the forecast.
A woman sneezes into a tissue. Allergy levels are predicted to fluctuate >>> in Sacramento this week with looming rain and wind in the forecast.
Dreamstime TNS
HOW CAN I KEEP FROM GETTING SICK?
According to the California Department of Public Health, here are some
tips to lower your chances of getting sick this spring:
Stay up to date on vaccines.
Stay home when sick.
Test and treat your symptoms.
Consider wearing a face mask.
Wash your hands or sanitize.
Shield your cough and sneeze.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1c3banv/appeals_court_rules_government_likely_violated/
Appeals court rules government likely violated First Amendment in
vaccine misinformation campaign
BY IAN SWANSON - 09/08/23 8:20 PM ET
A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled several government entities
including the White House, the FBI, the Surgeon General and the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention likely violated the First Amendment
by pressuring social media companies to moderate their content on
misinformation surrounding vaccines.
In a decision issued Friday evening, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
said government actors “likely coerced or encouraged” social media
companies to moderate their content, affirming a decision by a lower
court with respect to the White House, the FBI, the CDC and the Surgeon
General. The three judges issuing the decision were all appointed by
Republicans.
The decision represents a significant win for conservatives who have
long argued the government has gone too far in pressuring social media
companies to make content decisions in lockstep with government opinion. >>>
At the same time, the court largely vacated an injunction by a lower
court that prohibited the government from contacting social media
companies about their content, ruling the previous injunction was both
too broad and vague.
It issued a modified injunction that prohibits parts of the government >>>from coercing or significantly encouraging a social media platform’s
content moderation decisions. It said this conduct would include threats >>> of adverse consequences, even if those threats were not verbalized or
did not materialize, “so long as a reasonable person would construe a
government’s message as alluding to some form of punishment.”
The decision also said the government could not “supervise a platform’s
content moderation decisions or directly involve themselves in the
decision itself.”
The White House in a statement said the Department of Justice was
reviewing the decision and its options going forward.
“This Administration has promoted responsible actions to protect public
health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly >>> pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections,” the statement said. “Our >>> consistent view remains that social media platforms have a critical
responsibility to take account of the effects their platforms are having >>> on the American people, but make independent choices about the
information they present.”
The pressure mentioned in the decision largely took place in 2021, as
the Biden administrations sought to convince the public to take vaccines >>> as protection from the coronavirus pandemic.
In striking language, the decision harshly criticized the campaign by
the government to pressure social media companies to moderate their
content on vaccines, writing that it did not take its decision lightly
and that “the Supreme Court has rarely been faced with a coordinated
campaign of this magnitude orchestrated by federal officials that
jeopardized a fundamental aspect of American life.”
It said the earlier court was right it its assessment that “unrelenting
pressure” of certain government officials likely “had the intended
result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by
American citizens.”
It also agreed that the plaintiffs in the case had shown they were
likely to have suffered an irreparable injury from the campaign, and
that they were likely to suffer a future injury without an injunction.
In upholding the modified injunction, the court said that while
officials “have an interest in engaging with social media companies
including on issues such as misinformation and election interference,”
it is “not permitted to advance these interests to the extent that it
engages in viewpoint suppression.”
The decision emphasized that it was limited and that it was not
upholding the injunction on all officials. While the court ruled the
White House, FBI, CDC and Surgeon General had likely violated the First
Amendment, it ruled other government entities including the State
Department had not.
Moving forward, the new injunction would cover a host of officials in
the executive office of the president, spelled out specifically by the
court.
In discussing the pressure campaign, the decision said frustration in
the administration over vaccine misinformation reached a boiling point
at a press conference in July 2021.
It noted that the Surgeon General at that press conference described
social media platforms as being “one of the biggest obstacles” to
controlling the COVID pandemic because they had “enabled misinformation
to poison” public discourse and “have extraordinary reach.”
He labeled social-media-based misinformation an “urgent public health
threat” that was “literally costing . . . lives” and asked social media
companies to “operate with greater transparency and accountability,”
“monitor misinformation more closely,” and “consistently take action
against misinformation super-spreaders on their platforms.”
The next day, President Biden said the platforms were “killing people”
by not acting on misinformation.
The court said the social media companies in the face of this pressure
acted “with total compliance,” writing that they “capitulated to the
officials’ allegations.”
The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri filed a lawsuit against
Biden and other administration officials in May for “allegedly working”
with social media companies — including Meta, Twitter and YouTube — to
censor and suppress free speech on topics such as COVID-19 and election
integrity.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are requesting documents
that include communications between the Biden administration and social
media companies as part of the panel’s investigation into what the GOP
says were efforts to “suppress free speech and censor content online.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
someone enroute to Hell whined again:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
someone enroute to Hell whined:
The renowned writer Arthur Koestler warned many years ago that Israel >>>>>>> risked becoming `a nasty little Sparta.’ Half a century later Israel, >>>>>>> grown rich on US military and financial aid, has become a very nasty >>>>>>> big Sparta.
So launching the October 7th attack was a bad idea?
It was a total victory. It will embolden the oppressed Palestinians to >>>> rise up against the Zionazi regime occupying Palestine for as long as
it takes to drive them into the sea.
Only in the same sense that the attack on Pearl Harbor was a total
victory.
Moreover, it is written that Israel purchased Palestine from Esau with
a bowl of red lentil soup and some bread (i.e. a single meal). This
reminds us that those who are terribly hungry (Genesis 25:32) like >>https://bit.ly/BiblicalEsau whom GOD hates (Malachi 1:2-3) will
always fail because GOD is against them. So let's >>http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) that everyone be
like (Luke 6:40) http://WonderfullyHungry.org LORD Jesus instead.
It is written that GOD blesses those who bless Israel and curses those >>>>> who curse Israel.
It was written by the late, great Walt Hampton:
Who was obsessed with brazen bulls and kept calling me a gook!
Then Walt Hampton is burning in Hell right now complaining about his
being very thirsty just as Lazarus' "rich man" is burning in Hell
right now too along with all the others who are terribly **not**
hungry because of being terribly thirsty, including especially satan,
who is cursed (Genesis 3:14) to eat dust the rest of his life for his
sin of deceiving Eve.
That is indeed tragic!
Eternally tragic!
In the interim, I am instead wonderfully hungry for food right now
(Luke 6:21a) and again hope you, Michael, and others reading this,
also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
So again how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1caolm0/the_rise_in_suicide_suicide_rates_are_now_the/In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
The rise in suicide
Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years. >>>
LAURA DODSWORTH
APR 20, 2024
Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years. >>>
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest report
of quarterly suicide death registrations in England for Quarter 4
(October to December) of 2023. Unfortunately, it shows a 6% rise, which
is the highest national rate of suicides since 1999. There were 1,439
suicides registered in Quarter 4, equivalent to 11.4 suicide deaths per
100,000 people. Overall there were 5,579 suicides registered in England, >>> which is significantly higher than 2021 and 2020.
It’s difficult to attribute causes to individual suicides, as well as
trends. While it is important to to be responsible and circumspect when
speculating, this notable and recent upshift in suicide deaths should be >>> analysed and monitored.
Share
The ONS figures need to be interpreted with some caution because there
is a delay in coronial inquests, meaning that only 39.3% of the deaths
registered in 2023 had a date of death in the same year, and some of the >>> deaths occurred in 2022 and 2021. Crucially, this means that we should
be cautious about making conclusions for 2023 at the moment as there
will still be a large number of suicides that occurred in 2023 which
have not yet been registered.
So what might have caused the trend? Professor Louis Appleby who chairs
the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group has commented on >>> the uptick in suicides on Twitter. He suggested that the likeliest cause >>> is the economic downturn and cost of living crisis. Historically
recessions cause suicide rates to increase. The North East, North West
and East of England have seen the most significant increases in suicide, >>> but the North East, Midlands and London are actually the three regions
with the highest levels of poverty, so this theory does not necessarily
tally up neatly. The significant jump in the North West specifically
might indicate a change in the way deaths have been recorded. The
economic effect Appleby proposes would also not easily explain that the
increase for women was greatest in the over 60s.
Could there be another factor? Appleby has zoned in on the economy for
obvious and sound reasons, but has so far ignored a key factor.
In April 2021, Professor Appleby was the Lead Author of the report
‘Suicide in England in the COVID-19 pandemic: Early observational data >>>from real time surveillance’, analysing ’real time surveillance’ (RTS)
of suspected suicides during the pandemic and lockdowns. Despite greater >>> distress, the study did not find evidence of an increase in suicide
rates. Ensuing ONS month by month data for 2020 and 2021 also showed no
increase in suicides.
There was a vital caveat which needed to applied to this data which,
although present within the ONS report, wasn’t given much weight by
people who endorsed the findings: it was too early to be sure. Suicide
is a verdict given by a coronial court, and does not operate in ‘real
time’. Some courts were running almost a year behind on case load during >>> the pandemic. This was not something to be ignored in favour of real
time data — the coronial verdict is not simply a rubber stamping
process. Analysis based on real time surveillance might have delivered a >>> reassuring answer at the time to people who wanted to believe that the
pandemic, lockdowns and other distressing NPIs didn’t ultimately lead to >>> the most tragic consequences, but it was too soon to deliver a verdict.
Indeed, Appleby’s tweet thread on 12th April 2023, just over a year ago, >>> was confident in its assumptions:
‘New @ONS data give us, for first time, national suicide rates month by
month for Covid years 2020 & 2021, compared to earlier years. Graph
shows no rise in these years overall, or any month, or any period of
pandemic, including lockdown.
What can we learn from this?
It may tell us something about the protective power of social cohesion,
of looking out for each other, of community, with its message of
acceptance & concern.
If so, we need to hang on to it. It hasn’t looked in strong supply lately. >>>
It may confirm something we saw after the 2008 recession, the
life-saving impact of economic support - for people on benefits or in
debt or fearing for their jobs & homes.
Particularly important as we head further into the cost of living crisis. >>>
It reminds us to look at the evidence, no matter what the headlines claim. >>>
Or the Twitter “likes”.
Or the academics who should know better.
Or the current attempt at revisionism in the media.'
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In a National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental
Health presentation, Appleby suggested a number of reasons why suicide
had not increased. Despite the obvious anxiety about Covid-19, the tough >>> lockdowns, economic ramifications and huge societal changes, he believed >>> people were protected due to a combination of:
economic protections;
a supposed increase in social cohesion;
increased vigilance and support from family, friends and neighbours;
reduced access to certain methods of suicide;
a sense of short-term crisis.
These could well have prevented the rise in suicide at the time, but
conclusions from previous analyses of other disasters warn that the rise >>> in suicide does not occur during the disaster, but afterwards. The lack
of rise in suicides was in keeping with disaster literature. A
subsequent increase in suicide - as we see happening now - is also in
keeping with disaster literature.
In the early psychological phases of disaster — ‘heroic’ and ‘honeymoon’ >>> — you would not expect to see more suicides. They come afterwards. In
the case of a ‘slow disaster’ like Covid-19, this could be some time
afterwards.
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At the time, Professor Lucy Easthope, the country’s leading authority on >>> disaster and recovery, commented that the real time surveillance data
was very useful, but that more attention should be given to the role of
the coronial process as well as the underreporting of possible suicides
which can be recorded as either an open verdict or crucially a narrative >>> verdict which allows the coroner to expand on the additional factors
that led to death. Ultimately, she concluded, real time death data could >>> be unreliable.
She is now concerned now that ‘post-disaster conditions that may promote >>> hopelessness are all increased, including economic instability, domestic >>> violence, depression and alcohol use’ and that ‘we appear to have
incubated a real sense of nihilism and hopelessness in younger people’.
It’s a frustrating stage of the Covid-19 saga. Warnings at the time were >>> ignored and it is painful for experts such as Easthope to observe the
impact on the public of chronic disaster and delayed support for
physical and mental health, not to mention the toll on response workers
who ‘tend to feel let down and morally injured by the state’.
‘It’s particularly important to consider long-term suicide when risk
assessing economic policies,’ says Easthope. ‘Things like furlough
schemes have positives but also come with substantial emotional
negatives such as future redundancy, effects on self-worth, esteem and
purpose. All disaster decisions come with negatives, there are no purely >>> perfect answers. Discussion of the negatives was not welcomed and people >>> like me were seen as pessimistic if we raised suicide as a result of
Cabinet or Treasury decisions. It was very hard to get traction in 2020
and 2021 with these concerns.’
Whether suicide rates go up or go down, they are preventable and they
are always too high. It’s a tragedy for suicide rates to be the highest
in England for 25 years. If the pandemic and the never-before-used
lockdowns turn out to be a factor in this devastating trend, we could
well see the rates rise further.
Share
According to the Samaritans one in five of us have experienced suicidal
thoughts. If you’re going through a tough time, you don’t have to face
it alone. Call Samaritans day or night on 116 123. Email jo@samaritans.org. >>
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
Michael Ejercito wrote:Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1caolm0/the_rise_in_suicide_suicide_rates_are_now_the/
The rise in suicide
Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years. >>>>
LAURA DODSWORTH
APR 20, 2024
Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years. >>>>
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest report >>>> of quarterly suicide death registrations in England for Quarter 4
(October to December) of 2023. Unfortunately, it shows a 6% rise, which >>>> is the highest national rate of suicides since 1999. There were 1,439
suicides registered in Quarter 4, equivalent to 11.4 suicide deaths per >>>> 100,000 people. Overall there were 5,579 suicides registered in England, >>>> which is significantly higher than 2021 and 2020.
It’s difficult to attribute causes to individual suicides, as well as >>>> trends. While it is important to to be responsible and circumspect when >>>> speculating, this notable and recent upshift in suicide deaths should be >>>> analysed and monitored.
Share
The ONS figures need to be interpreted with some caution because there >>>> is a delay in coronial inquests, meaning that only 39.3% of the deaths >>>> registered in 2023 had a date of death in the same year, and some of the >>>> deaths occurred in 2022 and 2021. Crucially, this means that we should >>>> be cautious about making conclusions for 2023 at the moment as there
will still be a large number of suicides that occurred in 2023 which
have not yet been registered.
So what might have caused the trend? Professor Louis Appleby who chairs >>>> the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group has commented on >>>> the uptick in suicides on Twitter. He suggested that the likeliest cause >>>> is the economic downturn and cost of living crisis. Historically
recessions cause suicide rates to increase. The North East, North West >>>> and East of England have seen the most significant increases in suicide, >>>> but the North East, Midlands and London are actually the three regions >>>> with the highest levels of poverty, so this theory does not necessarily >>>> tally up neatly. The significant jump in the North West specifically
might indicate a change in the way deaths have been recorded. The
economic effect Appleby proposes would also not easily explain that the >>>> increase for women was greatest in the over 60s.
Could there be another factor? Appleby has zoned in on the economy for >>>> obvious and sound reasons, but has so far ignored a key factor.
In April 2021, Professor Appleby was the Lead Author of the report
‘Suicide in England in the COVID-19 pandemic: Early observational data >>> >from real time surveillance’, analysing ’real time surveillance’ (RTS)
of suspected suicides during the pandemic and lockdowns. Despite greater >>>> distress, the study did not find evidence of an increase in suicide
rates. Ensuing ONS month by month data for 2020 and 2021 also showed no >>>> increase in suicides.
There was a vital caveat which needed to applied to this data which,
although present within the ONS report, wasn’t given much weight by
people who endorsed the findings: it was too early to be sure. Suicide >>>> is a verdict given by a coronial court, and does not operate in ‘real >>>> time’. Some courts were running almost a year behind on case load during >>>> the pandemic. This was not something to be ignored in favour of real
time data — the coronial verdict is not simply a rubber stamping
process. Analysis based on real time surveillance might have delivered a >>>> reassuring answer at the time to people who wanted to believe that the >>>> pandemic, lockdowns and other distressing NPIs didn’t ultimately lead to >>>> the most tragic consequences, but it was too soon to deliver a verdict. >>>>
Indeed, Appleby’s tweet thread on 12th April 2023, just over a year ago, >>>> was confident in its assumptions:
‘New @ONS data give us, for first time, national suicide rates month by >>>> month for Covid years 2020 & 2021, compared to earlier years. Graph
shows no rise in these years overall, or any month, or any period of
pandemic, including lockdown.
What can we learn from this?
It may tell us something about the protective power of social cohesion, >>>> of looking out for each other, of community, with its message of
acceptance & concern.
If so, we need to hang on to it. It hasn’t looked in strong supply lately.
It may confirm something we saw after the 2008 recession, the
life-saving impact of economic support - for people on benefits or in
debt or fearing for their jobs & homes.
Particularly important as we head further into the cost of living crisis. >>>>
It reminds us to look at the evidence, no matter what the headlines claim. >>>>
Or the Twitter “likesâ€.
Or the academics who should know better.
Or the current attempt at revisionism in the media.'
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In a National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental
Health presentation, Appleby suggested a number of reasons why suicide >>>> had not increased. Despite the obvious anxiety about Covid-19, the tough >>>> lockdowns, economic ramifications and huge societal changes, he believed >>>> people were protected due to a combination of:
economic protections;
a supposed increase in social cohesion;
increased vigilance and support from family, friends and neighbours;
reduced access to certain methods of suicide;
a sense of short-term crisis.
These could well have prevented the rise in suicide at the time, but
conclusions from previous analyses of other disasters warn that the rise >>>> in suicide does not occur during the disaster, but afterwards. The lack >>>> of rise in suicides was in keeping with disaster literature. A
subsequent increase in suicide - as we see happening now - is also in
keeping with disaster literature.
In the early psychological phases of disaster — ‘heroic’ and ‘honeymoon’
— you would not expect to see more suicides. They come afterwards. In >>>> the case of a ‘slow disaster’ like Covid-19, this could be some time >>>> afterwards.
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At the time, Professor Lucy Easthope, the country’s leading authority on >>>> disaster and recovery, commented that the real time surveillance data
was very useful, but that more attention should be given to the role of >>>> the coronial process as well as the underreporting of possible suicides >>>> which can be recorded as either an open verdict or crucially a narrative >>>> verdict which allows the coroner to expand on the additional factors
that led to death. Ultimately, she concluded, real time death data could >>>> be unreliable.
She is now concerned now that ‘post-disaster conditions that may promote >>>> hopelessness are all increased, including economic instability, domestic >>>> violence, depression and alcohol use’ and that ‘we appear to have
incubated a real sense of nihilism and hopelessness in younger people’. >>>>
It’s a frustrating stage of the Covid-19 saga. Warnings at the time were >>>> ignored and it is painful for experts such as Easthope to observe the
impact on the public of chronic disaster and delayed support for
physical and mental health, not to mention the toll on response workers >>>> who ‘tend to feel let down and morally injured by the state’.
‘It’s particularly important to consider long-term suicide when risk >>>> assessing economic policies,’ says Easthope. ‘Things like furlough >>>> schemes have positives but also come with substantial emotional
negatives such as future redundancy, effects on self-worth, esteem and >>>> purpose. All disaster decisions come with negatives, there are no purely >>>> perfect answers. Discussion of the negatives was not welcomed and people >>>> like me were seen as pessimistic if we raised suicide as a result of
Cabinet or Treasury decisions. It was very hard to get traction in 2020 >>>> and 2021 with these concerns.’
Whether suicide rates go up or go down, they are preventable and they
are always too high. It’s a tragedy for suicide rates to be the highest >>>> in England for 25 years. If the pandemic and the never-before-used
lockdowns turn out to be a factor in this devastating trend, we could
well see the rates rise further.
Share
According to the Samaritans one in five of us have experienced suicidal >>>> thoughts. If you’re going through a tough time, you don’t have to face >>>> it alone. Call Samaritans day or night on 116 123. Email jo@samaritans.org.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1caolm0/the_rise_in_suicide_suicide_rates_are_now_the/
The rise in suicide
Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years. >>>>>
LAURA DODSWORTH
APR 20, 2024
Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years. >>>>>
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest report >>>>> of quarterly suicide death registrations in England for Quarter 4
(October to December) of 2023. Unfortunately, it shows a 6% rise, which >>>>> is the highest national rate of suicides since 1999. There were 1,439 >>>>> suicides registered in Quarter 4, equivalent to 11.4 suicide deaths per >>>>> 100,000 people. Overall there were 5,579 suicides registered in England, >>>>> which is significantly higher than 2021 and 2020.
It’s difficult to attribute causes to individual suicides, as well as >>>>> trends. While it is important to to be responsible and circumspect when >>>>> speculating, this notable and recent upshift in suicide deaths should be >>>>> analysed and monitored.
Share
The ONS figures need to be interpreted with some caution because there >>>>> is a delay in coronial inquests, meaning that only 39.3% of the deaths >>>>> registered in 2023 had a date of death in the same year, and some of the >>>>> deaths occurred in 2022 and 2021. Crucially, this means that we should >>>>> be cautious about making conclusions for 2023 at the moment as there >>>>> will still be a large number of suicides that occurred in 2023 which >>>>> have not yet been registered.
So what might have caused the trend? Professor Louis Appleby who chairs >>>>> the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group has commented on >>>>> the uptick in suicides on Twitter. He suggested that the likeliest cause >>>>> is the economic downturn and cost of living crisis. Historically
recessions cause suicide rates to increase. The North East, North West >>>>> and East of England have seen the most significant increases in suicide, >>>>> but the North East, Midlands and London are actually the three regions >>>>> with the highest levels of poverty, so this theory does not necessarily >>>>> tally up neatly. The significant jump in the North West specifically >>>>> might indicate a change in the way deaths have been recorded. The
economic effect Appleby proposes would also not easily explain that the >>>>> increase for women was greatest in the over 60s.
Could there be another factor? Appleby has zoned in on the economy for >>>>> obvious and sound reasons, but has so far ignored a key factor.
In April 2021, Professor Appleby was the Lead Author of the report
‘Suicide in England in the COVID-19 pandemic: Early observational data >>>> >from real time surveillance’, analysing ’real time surveillance’ (RTS) >>>>> of suspected suicides during the pandemic and lockdowns. Despite greater >>>>> distress, the study did not find evidence of an increase in suicide
rates. Ensuing ONS month by month data for 2020 and 2021 also showed no >>>>> increase in suicides.
There was a vital caveat which needed to applied to this data which, >>>>> although present within the ONS report, wasn’t given much weight by
people who endorsed the findings: it was too early to be sure. Suicide >>>>> is a verdict given by a coronial court, and does not operate in ‘real >>>>> time’. Some courts were running almost a year behind on case load during >>>>> the pandemic. This was not something to be ignored in favour of real >>>>> time data — the coronial verdict is not simply a rubber stamping
process. Analysis based on real time surveillance might have delivered a >>>>> reassuring answer at the time to people who wanted to believe that the >>>>> pandemic, lockdowns and other distressing NPIs didn’t ultimately lead to >>>>> the most tragic consequences, but it was too soon to deliver a verdict. >>>>>
Indeed, Appleby’s tweet thread on 12th April 2023, just over a year ago, >>>>> was confident in its assumptions:
‘New @ONS data give us, for first time, national suicide rates month by >>>>> month for Covid years 2020 & 2021, compared to earlier years. Graph
shows no rise in these years overall, or any month, or any period of >>>>> pandemic, including lockdown.
What can we learn from this?
It may tell us something about the protective power of social cohesion, >>>>> of looking out for each other, of community, with its message of
acceptance & concern.
If so, we need to hang on to it. It hasn’t looked in strong supply lately.
It may confirm something we saw after the 2008 recession, the
life-saving impact of economic support - for people on benefits or in >>>>> debt or fearing for their jobs & homes.
Particularly important as we head further into the cost of living crisis. >>>>>
It reminds us to look at the evidence, no matter what the headlines claim.
Or the Twitter “likes”.
Or the academics who should know better.
Or the current attempt at revisionism in the media.'
Type your email...
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In a National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental >>>>> Health presentation, Appleby suggested a number of reasons why suicide >>>>> had not increased. Despite the obvious anxiety about Covid-19, the tough >>>>> lockdowns, economic ramifications and huge societal changes, he believed >>>>> people were protected due to a combination of:
economic protections;
a supposed increase in social cohesion;
increased vigilance and support from family, friends and neighbours; >>>>>
reduced access to certain methods of suicide;
a sense of short-term crisis.
These could well have prevented the rise in suicide at the time, but >>>>> conclusions from previous analyses of other disasters warn that the rise >>>>> in suicide does not occur during the disaster, but afterwards. The lack >>>>> of rise in suicides was in keeping with disaster literature. A
subsequent increase in suicide - as we see happening now - is also in >>>>> keeping with disaster literature.
In the early psychological phases of disaster — ‘heroic’ and ‘honeymoon’ >>>>> — you would not expect to see more suicides. They come afterwards. In >>>>> the case of a ‘slow disaster’ like Covid-19, this could be some time >>>>> afterwards.
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At the time, Professor Lucy Easthope, the country’s leading authority on >>>>> disaster and recovery, commented that the real time surveillance data >>>>> was very useful, but that more attention should be given to the role of >>>>> the coronial process as well as the underreporting of possible suicides >>>>> which can be recorded as either an open verdict or crucially a narrative >>>>> verdict which allows the coroner to expand on the additional factors >>>>> that led to death. Ultimately, she concluded, real time death data could >>>>> be unreliable.
She is now concerned now that ‘post-disaster conditions that may promote >>>>> hopelessness are all increased, including economic instability, domestic >>>>> violence, depression and alcohol use’ and that ‘we appear to have
incubated a real sense of nihilism and hopelessness in younger people’. >>>>>
It’s a frustrating stage of the Covid-19 saga. Warnings at the time were >>>>> ignored and it is painful for experts such as Easthope to observe the >>>>> impact on the public of chronic disaster and delayed support for
physical and mental health, not to mention the toll on response workers >>>>> who ‘tend to feel let down and morally injured by the state’.
‘It’s particularly important to consider long-term suicide when risk >>>>> assessing economic policies,’ says Easthope. ‘Things like furlough
schemes have positives but also come with substantial emotional
negatives such as future redundancy, effects on self-worth, esteem and >>>>> purpose. All disaster decisions come with negatives, there are no purely >>>>> perfect answers. Discussion of the negatives was not welcomed and people >>>>> like me were seen as pessimistic if we raised suicide as a result of >>>>> Cabinet or Treasury decisions. It was very hard to get traction in 2020 >>>>> and 2021 with these concerns.’
Whether suicide rates go up or go down, they are preventable and they >>>>> are always too high. It’s a tragedy for suicide rates to be the highest >>>>> in England for 25 years. If the pandemic and the never-before-used
lockdowns turn out to be a factor in this devastating trend, we could >>>>> well see the rates rise further.
Share
According to the Samaritans one in five of us have experienced suicidal >>>>> thoughts. If you’re going through a tough time, you don’t have to face >>>>> it alone. Call Samaritans day or night on 116 123. Email jo@samaritans.org.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's >>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps >>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given >>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Source:
https://narkive.com/gsKtPpiE.5
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/23/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/24/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/25/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1cc83aj/uk_the_disruption_and_isolation_of_lockdown_had_a/
'I get overwhelmed by the noises and crowds of school'
20 hours ago
By Lucy Watkinson,
BBC News
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BBC ErinBBC
Erin was at primary school when the pandemic started
The disruption and isolation of lockdown had a particularly profound
impact on children with special needs, many of who did not receive the
support they required. Some schools are now struggling to help pupils
who find it difficult to cope.
Lockdown turned out to be very bad news for 14-year-old Erin, from Oldham. >>>
She was in the last year of primary school at the time of the first
lockdown. The experience affected her confidence massively.
"Before Covid, I'd never imagined feeling uncomfortable doing anything,
I was always the first one to say 'I'll do that', now I don't dare do
anything."
At the time Erin enjoyed being confined to one class, feeling like it
was a safe space.
But when education returned to normal, she struggled at her new school,
Newman Roman Catholic College. "I get really overwhelmed with all the
noises and the crowds. I cannot deal with crowds - it really stresses me >>> out."
The Covid kids starting school unable to speak
The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance
Erin had already been diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia, but an
assessment for autism was put on hold during the pandemic.
"It delayed diagnosis, we missed the opportunity to get additional
support and that has had a big impact on her," says her mum, Cheryl.
Before Covid, 16 children at the school were on Education, Health and
Care (EHCP) plans which set out additional support given by the local
authority for special educational needs. Now the figure is 53.
Cheryl and Erin
Cheryl (l) with Erin
In addition there are 176 children like Erin who need extra learning
support but do not qualify for an EHCP, so the school must fund them out >>> of its existing budget.
For those with an EHCP, the first £7,000 comes from the school budget
before the local authority can offer more.
Across England 353,995 EHCPs were issued in 2019, but in 2023, after the >>> pandemic, the number had risen to 517,000. The number of pupils with SEN >>> support without an EHC Plan now stands at 1,183,384.
EHCP: 'My autistic daughter has not been in school for 10 months'
Erin fell behind at school, and started to get into trouble. She
regularly walked out of class, and then refused to return.
"I was quite a nightmare, I was out of control. One of my mates
literally had to sit and do my work in my lessons because I wouldn't do
it," she says.
Cheryl said she would get frantic phone calls and text messages from
Erin, often from the school toilet, asking for her to come and take her
home. "It was hard. It was really hard, I felt like a failure as a
parent," she says.
Staff say the school has worked hard to address the problems of Erin and >>> the other pupils with special needs. There is a safe space - called The
Link - where pupils can spend their breaks and lunchtimes away from crowds. >>>
Erin is in smaller classes - known as nurture groups - for most lessons, >>> and staff established a pass system to allow her to leave school and
take a break when things got too much.
Erin has also had sessions with the local Children and Adolescent Mental >>> Health Services (CAMHS) to improve her behaviour and self-esteem that
has made a "massive, massive difference".
But despite this Erin has only managed to be in school for a couple of
days a week for the last few years.
"If I walk in the room and there is a test I'm walking back out of it, I >>> can't do it. I need a week to prepare myself."
Pupils like Erin, who go to school in the most-deprived areas - more
than a third of pupils at Newman qualify for free school means - are
much more likely to be persistently absent than those who attended
schools in the least-deprived areas. A third have missed at least 10% of >>> sessions so far this academic year.
Hungry and anxious
Rebecca Ashworth, who plays a leading role in Newman's safeguarding, has >>> to deal with hungry children who ask for food, and severe incidents of
self-harm which result in a trip to A&E.
She says her job is "more stressful" than her old position in front-line >>> social work.
"There is so much more put on schools post-Covid. We have definitely
seen an increase in mental health concerns and safeguarding concerns
across the board," she says.
She said the support services to which pupils are referred are also
incredibly stretched. Although the school has an NHS CAMHS mental health >>> practitioner who sees five children one day a week, they can only deal
with pupils who pose a low-level risk.
With 1,500 children in the school, Rebecca says there is no way that
needs can be fully met, and across Oldham 409 children are waiting for a >>> neuro-development assessment.
Maggie Holland, who works at the school providing mental health support, >>> says problems with pupils' self-esteem have never been worse. Since
Covid she has drop-ins at breaktime and lunchtime, and staff do morning
"meets and greets" with pupils with social anxiety who do not attend
school to try to persuade them to return.
She says family breakdown during Covid have exacerbated problems for
children who found themselves in the middle of conflict. She also
noticed that children's eating habits had changed during lockdown, with
some either bingeing or not eating at all.
Clear behaviour guidelines
Maths specialist Sam Gray, Newman's head of behaviour, says the school
had "the worst behaviour we've ever seen when we got back after Covid".
However, it has worked hard on how best to deal with students,
tightening up the existing systems and responses to behaviour.
For instance, being late to lessons is an automatic detention, but new
rewards have also been introduced, including celebrating a Newman hero
every week.
Sam Gray
The school's head of behaviour, Sam Gray
Staff have undergone a lot of retraining too, but there is only so much
they can do.
"We can't educate 1,500 to the level we want whilst dealing with a huge
amount of personal and societal crisis," he says.
"It's like we're just burying our heads and keeping going without ever
taking a step back and thinking society has changed [post-Covid] and how >>> are we going to change with that.
"There's a lack of trust from parents of anyone in power and I do think
that comes from Covid.
"We've got really good relationships with our parents, we're building
that up again, but that's taking time, that's taken three years."
Head teacher Glyn Potts says the forced pause on normal school life
during Covid should have presented an opportunity to create a better
system fit for the future - but it was not taken.
"We tinkered around the edge and tried to recreate what we had before
moving forward, and that was such a missed opportunity.
"And now more schools are operating within that framework when the world >>> has changed.
"We're dealing with issues and expected to do more when the resources
and the infrastructure are not there - yet we're still finding a way of
making it work."
A Department for Education spokesperson said schools should have
sensitive conversations with families and work closely with them to put
in place support for children with special educational needs.
"Thanks to our fantastic teachers and school leaders, and our package of >>> wide-ranging reforms designed to support schools to improve attendance,
440,000 fewer children were persistently absent or not attending last
year," they said.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/26/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/27/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/28/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1cfhkam/bird_flu_outbreaks_the_whoihr_pandemic_treaty_push/
Bird Flu Outbreaks & the WHO/IHR Pandemic Treaty Push
by Barbara Loe Fisher
Published April 22, 2024
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Even as U.S. health agencies and the United Nations World Health
Organization (WHO) are being heavily criticized for their botched
response to the COVID-19 pandemic,1 2 3 WHO officials are ramping up
pressure on all nations to sign a WHO pandemic treaty and amendments to
the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), which will give them
more authority to track, quarantine, force vaccine use and censor free
speech during WHO declared pandemics.4 5 The WHO’s Director General has
been blaming opposition to the UN agency’s epic power grab on “a torrent >>> of fake news, lies and conspiracy theories.”6
On Apr. 19, 2024, the United Nations sent out a press release declaring
that the “ongoing global spread of ‘bird flu’ infections to mammals
including humans is a significant public health concern,” pointing to an >>> outbreak of H5N1 viral infections in dairy cows in the U.S. and warning
that the virus could evolve and cause human-to-human transmission with
“extremely high” mortality.7 The implication was that a potentially
deadly global bird flu pandemic was a clear possibility.
The CDC website describes symptoms of H5N1 bird flu infections, and they >>> sound very similar to seasonal influenza or SARS-CoV-2 infections
associated with COVID-19 disease:
“The reported signs and symptoms of bird flu virus infections in humans
have ranged from no symptoms or mild illness [such as eye redness
(conjunctivitis) or mild flu-like upper respiratory symptoms], to severe >>> (such as pneumonia requiring hospitalization) and included fever
(temperature of 100ºF [37.8ºC] or greater) or feeling feverish*, cough,
sore throat, runny or stuff nose, muscle or body aches, headaches,
fatigue, and shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. Less common
signs and symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, or seizures.”8
Warnings That Egg and Milk Supplies May Be Contaminated with Bird Flu Virus >>> Mainstream media have been joining the UN in characterizing bird flu
outbreaks in cattle as a significant public health concern, with news
outlets breathlessly reporting that cattle were infecting each other
with H5N1 and some experts questioning whether raw or even pasteurized
milk containing high levels of the avian virus is safe.9 Although H5N1
bird flu was first detected in 1996, since 2020 there have been more
outbreaks in poultry farms, wild bird and land and marine animals.10 11
Americans were warned in early April that the eggs from chickens
potentially infected with the avian virus should be well cooked,12 and
then the media reported that a U.S. dairy farm worker in Texas had been
infected with bird flu.13
The same day the UN issued their press release, Agence France Presse
again reminded readers that a person working on a dairy farm in Texas
was recovering from bird flu. A WHO official was quoted as stating that, >>> “The case in Texas is the first case of a human infected by an avian
influenza by a cow.”14
U.S. Plan to Drive the Global “Health Security” Agenda If WHO Treaties Fail >>> Three days earlier, on Apr. 16, the White House announced a five-year
“Strategy to Strengthen Global Health Security” plan citing the COVID-19 >>> pandemic as the need to put the U.S. in the driver’s seat via bi-lateral >>> financial investment partnerships with 50 to 100 countries to “drive
global action toward shared goals” and “mitigate the impact of health
security threats” in order “to prevent, detect and contain them at their >>> source.”15 The new plan “articulates a whole-of-government science-based >>> approach to strengthening global health security.”
The current U.S. administration is in favor of the WHO pandemic treaty
and IHR amendments proposed by the world’s largest public health
agency.16 However, the WHO is getting pushback from lawmakers and
citizens in the U.S. and in other nations, who do not want to go along
with the UN/WHO power grab that many critics say threatens human rights
and national sovereignty.17 18 19 A respected Japanese scientist posted
a video message to the world online,20 and there was a massive
demonstration In Japan this month against the WHO pandemic treaty.21
The U.S. “Global Health Security” plan would ensure that if the WHO
treaties fail to be signed by enough countries to become international
law, the U.S. will make sure there is a global “rapid response to global >>> health emergencies.” According to the U.S. plan, the core of that “rapid >>> response” are “efforts to transform international financial
institutions, such as the World Bank, and to accelerate “manufacture,
procurement and delivery” of medical countermeasures like vaccines.22
Even though there is increasing public opposition to the WHO’s plan to
expand its legal authority to tell eight billion people what to do
whenever WHO officials declare a “public health emergency” – which
includes eliminating freedom of speech and electronically monitoring
everyone’s vaccination status and requiring people to carry a digital
“vaccine passport” in order to travel or enter public spaces23 – it
looks like the U.S. government is going to get the job done whether the
WHO manages to get enough countries to sign the WHO/IHR treaties or not. >>> The lucrative public-private business partnerships that have been
expanded over the past four decades between the WHO, pharmaceutical
corporations, governments and other institutions is paying big dividends >>> for the Public Health Empire.24
Bird Flu Vaccines Being Developed and Stockpiled
Is the latest well-publicized specter of a deadly global bird flu
pandemic, which is so reminiscent of the well-publicized specter of a
deadly coronavirus pandemic in early 2020,25 a harbinger of things to
come or just a coincidence?
Whatever it is, the preparations for delivery and approval of H5N1
“vaccines,” which includes mRNA bird flu shots, is well underway.
On Apr. 20, Barrons reported that the U.S. government “says it could
distribute enough [bird flu] vaccines within four months to inoculate a
fifth of the U.S. population” (68 million people) if the H5N1 strain
infecting cattle began to spread among humans.26 Healthcare workers, law >>> enforcement and other first responders, military personnel pregnant
women, infants and high risk children would get the shots first.
Apparently, two clinical trials of bird flu vaccine have been underway
since last year and CSL Sequiris and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are under
contract to test the vaccines targeting a strain of avian influenza
closely related to the H5N1 strain currently infecting U.S. dairy cows.
Another major manufacturer of influenza vaccine, Sanofi, would also
likely be involved in bird flu vaccine production.
H5N1 Vaccine Production Could Be Ramped Up to Vaccinate the Entire U.S.
Population
An FDA spokesperson reportedly told Barrons that the approval process to >>> quickly distribute a new H5N1 bird flu vaccine for Americans would be
similar to the accelerated process used to create annual flu vaccines. A >>> spokesperson for Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response
(ASPR) also commented that, if needed, the agency would work with bird
flu vaccine manufacturers “to ramp up production to make enough vaccine
doses to vaccinate the entire [U.S.] population.”
Oil in Water Adjuvants in Vaccines and Autoimmunity
Both Sequirus and GSK have developed “oil in water” emulsion adjuvants
added to influenza vaccines, including bird flu vaccines, to stimulate
hyper-inflammatory responses in the body that generate high levels of
antigen-specific antibodies in an effort to make the vaccines more
“effective.” Squalene adjuvants have been associated with development of >>> autoimmune disorders.27 28 29
GSK’s AS03 adjuvant contains a-tocopherol, squalene and polysorbate
80,30 and some European children and adults, who got GSK’s AS03
adjuvanted H1N1 “swine flu” vaccine in 2009, developed cases of
narcolepsy, a neurological autoimmune disorder.31 The Sequiris
influenza vaccine contains MF59,32 the first squalene oil in water
emulsion adjuvant added to influenza vaccines in the 1990s.33 According
to the Apr. 20 Barrons’ report, large quantities of both of these
squalene adjuvants are stored in the U.S. government’s special pandemic
influenza vaccine stockpile, which was created in 2005, along with
premade influenza antigens.
A 2023 article published by Chinese researchers the medical literature
promoted the “remarkable success” of mRNA coronavirus vaccines and the
need to use three types of specific adjuvants to make mRNA vaccines more >>> effective: (1) RNA with self-adjuvant characteristics; (2) components of >>> the delivery system [such as lipid nanoparticles]; and exogenous
immunostimulants (such as squalene).34
As with squalene adjuvants, the lipid nanoparticles, which envelop and
deliver synthetic RNA in COVID shots to body cells to produce the
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, are highly inflammatory to stimulate a strong
immune response, but also have been associated with allergy and
autoimmunity.35
Europe Already Has Approved Two H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccines
Earlier this year, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved two H5N1 >>> avian flu vaccines made by Sequiris, although neither one are mRNA
products. Medscape reported on Feb.23, 2023 that Celldemic had been
approved for use in infants six months of age and older if public health >>> officials anticipate a bird flu pandemic, and Incellipan had been
approved for use when a bird flu pandemic has been declared.36
mRNA Bird Flu Vaccines A Quick Way to Produce Bird Flu Vaccines
A year ago, Scientific American reported that “vaccine makers are
preparing for bird flu,” with one pediatric infectious disease doctor
quipping “It’s a really dangerous time to be a bird.” Another expert
warned “None of us know when the next influenza pandemic will emerge…At
the outset, you have to say there is uncertainty, with one exception:
there will be a pandemic.”37 In that article, the reliance on U.S.
stockpiled egg-based flu vaccines to produce an H5N1 vaccine was called
into question and mRNA technology to produce bird flu vaccine was
highlighted because it offers “speed of production” so an mRNA vaccine
targeting a new influenza strain can be created in a matter of weeks.
Also in 2023, there was a report in the medical literature that
University of Pennsylvania researchers had created an H5N1 mRNA lipid
nanoparticle vaccine being tested on mice and ferrets.38 In March 2024,
Chinese researchers announced they had created a 10-valent mRNA
nanoparticle vaccine encoding proteins from four seasonal influenza
viruses, two avian flu viruses with pandemic potential, and spike
proteins from four SARS-CoV-2 variants. They said two doses of FLUCOV-10 >>> “elicited robust immune responses in mice” against all 10
vaccine-matched viruses.39
Only Time Will Tell
Amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR) will be
voted on at the end of May. Only time will tell whether the latest
publicity warning the public about a potentially imminent bird flu
outbreak in humans is real or just another bit of propaganda being used
to create fear and put pressure on governments to give up sovereignty
for the illusion of safety.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/29/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/04/28/time-for-some-ethical-clarity-regarding-the-hamas-israel-war/
Time for Some Ethical Clarity Regarding the Hamas-Israel War…
APRIL 28, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
1. Advocating for Gaza or Gazans is advocating for Palestinians and Hamas. >>>
2. Advocating for Palestinians and Hamas is advocating anti-Semitism and >>> genocide—of Jews.
3. Advocating for Palestinians and Hamas is also advocating for,
rationalizing , enabling and encouraging terrorism.
4. Any public statements from President Biden or his administration
critical of Israel’s handling of the war helps achieve Hamas’s
objectives. Helping to achieve Hamas’s objectives as a consequence of
its terrorist attack validates the use of terrorism as a means of
achieving Palestinian ends.
5. It is basic radical revolutionary strategy to manipulate a foe into
harming “innocents,” bystanders, and non-combatants. When such
revolutionaries deliberately place such bystanders, and non-combatants
in harm’s way, it is the revolutionaries who are accountable and
responsible. Except for the children, whom their parents and other
adults have endangered, there are no “innocents” in a population that
knowingly hands its leadership over to violent and extremist leaders.
The German people were not “innocent” in World War II; Japanese
civilians were not innocent either. Rhetoric describing the Gazan
civilians as “innocent” is capitulating to the strategy of terrorists.
6. The campus demonstrations against Israel assist and enable terrorist
propaganda and encourage future terrorist attacks. Unsettling U.S.
society is one of Hamas’s objectives (and Iran’s, and Hezbollah’s). That >>> alone is justification for shutting down the pro-Hamas demonstrations on >>> campus. In addition to interfering with Jewish students’ education (and
non-Jewish students too: the campus protests when I was a college
freshman, frequently stopped me from attending class.), these tell Hamas >>> and other that terror attacks on Israel will have beneficial results to
their cause. In short, these demonstrations will get people killed.
7. Biden’s two-faced, cynical waffling on the war…“We support Israel!”
“We support Palestinian civilians!” “We support Israel!” “We support
Palestinian civilians!”….
…validates Hamas tactics and undermines Israel. The tactic is cowardly,
unethical, immoral, and, as usual for Biden, stupid, irresponsible and
incompetent.
8. Last week there was report that Biden was looking for ways to
recognize a Palestinian state. Allowing Palestinians to get what they
crave as a direct (or indirect) result of the October 7 terror attack
justifies terrorism in their self- warped culture’s poisoned mind.
9. In the same vein, Biden, Harris and Sec. of State Blinken suggesting
in public statements that Israel prosecuting the war vigorously to its
conclusion—the end of Hamas—isolates the country or, as V.P. Harris said >>> regarding the looming invasion of Hamas’s stronghold in Rafah, would be
a “huge mistake” simply bolsters the terrorist’s cause. Sen. John
Fetterman’s reaction was logically, ethically, and morally spot-on:
The only godly way to win the war on terrorism is as shown at
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 04/30/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/01/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/02/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
Jim Kennemur
Glen D. Yeadon "silverback"
Benjamin Cramer
Boedicia
Bolt Upright
Jason P.
Jewdas
JeSSe
plainolantijewishantiamericantraitor
Topaz
Kevin Alfred Strom
Larry L. Jansen
Mark C. Craig
Jerry L. White
Ian McKinney
Doc Tavish
ALL GONE!!!
"It is Mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them (who are
terribly hungry misbehaving terribly)." (Deuteronomy 32:35 w/
parenthetical clarification)
Source:
https://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/32-35.htm
Suggest further reading:
https://bit.ly/h_angry
In the interim, the only healthy way (John 14:6) to stop (John 5:14)
being terribly hungry (aka hangry) is as shown at
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/05/01/ethics-and-constitutional-dunces-the-320-house-members-mostly-republicans-who-voted-for-the-antisemitism-awareness-act/
Ethics and Constitutional Dunces: The 320 House Members (Mostly
Republicans) Who Voted for the “Antisemitism Awareness Act”
MAY 1, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
You know, or should, that your conduct is unethical and outrageous when
it makes Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.) look good by comparison Gaetz voted
against HR 690, as every member of the House should have since it is
throbbingly unconstitutional on its face, no question, no argument, a
flat out First Amendment violation. Gaetz told his followers on
Twitter/X that he voted against the proposed legislation because it is a >>> “ridiculous hate speech bill.”
“Antisemitism is wrong, but this legislation is written without regard
for the Constitution, common sense, or even the common understanding of
the meaning of words,” he wrote. Bingo. The bill, in weasel words
remarkable even by recent Congressional standards, declares that
“anti-Semitism” is a violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.), and embraces an expansive definition of
the term “adopted on May 26, 2016, by the IHRA, of which the United
States is a member, which definition has been adopted by the Department
of State; and… includes the “[c]ontemporary examples of antisemitism”
identified in the IHRA definition.”
The IHRA definition includes examples of pure speech, and I would expect >>> any junior in high school to know that these cannot be criminalized:
Working definition of antisemitism :
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as >>> hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of
antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or >>> their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious
facilities.”
To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as
illustrations:
Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel,
conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar >>> to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as
antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to
harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go
wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and >>> employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.
Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media,
schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into
account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:
Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the >>> name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical
allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such >>> as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish
conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or
other societal institutions.
Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined
wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for
acts committed by non-Jews.
Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or
intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of
National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during
World War II (the Holocaust)
Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or
exaggerating the Holocaust.
Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the
alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own >>> nations.
Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by
claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or
demanded of any other democratic nation.
Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., >>> claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or
Israelis.
Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. >>> Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. >>> Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for
example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic
materials in some countries).
I bolded the most obviously unconstitutional “examples” above that are
made illegal by the “Antisemitism Awareness Act.” That’s right: it’s
every one of them.
The GOP majority is using the legislative process for virtue-signalling
and grandstanding while showing disregard for individual rights and
Constitutional protections. It’s an abuse of power and process, and
anyone who voted for this monstrosity who doesn’t realize it defies the
Bill of Rights is too ignorant to be in Congress.
I was amused to see that Rep. Jackson Lee, among the most prominent
Dunning-Kruger sufferers in the House, was one of the Democrats
sponsoring the bill, along with Rep. Stefanik, who knows better and
should be ashamed of herself.
All 320 House members who voted “yes” should. They disgrace the
Legislative Branch.
The absolutely only godly way (John 14:6) to stop the terrible
misbehavior toward Jews is as shown at http://WonderfullyHungry.org
You got that right!
Baruch HaShem.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/03/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/04/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://orangecounty.momcollective.com/parenting-wisdom/educational/raising-a-mixed-race-girl-in-a-white-world/
Raising A Mixed Race Girl In A White World
By Liz McTan -February 26, 2020
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mixed race girl
My husband and I looked at each other shocked. We had just heard our
daughter say something we never thought would be an issue. Our gorgeous
little mixed race girl, only three years old, said she didn’t think she
was beautiful.
Suddenly, I was aware I had a blind spot.
I had assumed – because everyone comments how pretty she is all the
time, and because she is so clearly gorgeous – that us reinforcing her
other qualities would be enough.
I didn’t expect that all the people she herself thought of as
“beautiful” didn’t look like her.
It happened as I was watching my daughter playing with her precious Anna >>> doll (from FROZEN) with her Dad. They were brushing Anna’s hair. My
husband asked her, “oh look at her long hair. Is Anna beautiful?” “Yes,” >>> said my daughter quickly.
Then he asked “Is Juni beautiful?” And then, just as quickly, my
gorgeous little three-year-old said, “no.”
Hearing her say she didn’t think she was beautiful was like a punch in
the gut.
I jumped into the conversation:
“OF COURSE JUNI IS BEAUTIFUL! JUNI IS ALSO STRONG AND BRAVE JUST LIKE
ANNA, AND SHE’S KIND AND FUNNY LIKE ANNA! AND BEAUTIFUL! JUNI IS VERY
PRETTY LIKE ANNA! WHY WOULD YOU SAY JUNI’S NOT BEAUTIFUL, BABY?”
She seemed so unbothered. We were definitely the more upset ones in this >>> situation. But as we talked, she finally said it.
“MAMA RED HAIR. ANNA RED HAIR. JUNI NO RED HAIR.”
It hit me like a ton of bricks. My daughter is a mixed race girl. Her
favorite character is a white girl, with naturally red hair just like
me. She saw those as the things that make you beautiful. Sweet, simple,
and incredibly painful to realize.
The reality is, there are no children’s characters like my mixed race
girl, half asian and half white.
My child is so uniquely beautiful. I had assumed that other people
commenting on it all the time would sink under her skin, and if anything >>> we would spend her life making sure she didn’t JUST value her beauty.
I knew that over-valuing my looks made some difficulties for me later in >>> life. However I’d never had a lack of representation.
I grew up seeing myself in THE LITTLE MERMAID. In PIPPI LONGSTOCKING. In >>> Jessica Rabbit. I knew my red hair made me special.
While we are generally getting more representation for people of color
and ethnic minorities in our media, role models for mixed race girls and >>> boys are in a whole different ballgame. Representation is a process in
terms of our culture.
How long did it take to get people of color represented beyond the
stereotypical roles at all? The answer is way too long.
When my daughter watches her favorite cartoons, there is no one with her >>> skin tone, her eye shape, and hair color combo.
She is such a perfect mixture of our features. We get people commenting
all the time:
“WHERE DID SHE GET THOSE EYES!?”
The check out girl at the super market asks, looking at me and her
father with our dark eyes. My daughter’s eyes are a
hazel/grey/blue/green that she inherited from her uncles. Her hair is
just slightly auburn in the light, but mostly a light brown neither of
us have. Her eye shape is a subtle mix of her father’s almond and my own >>> more round shape. This all makes her totally unique.
It also means no one looks like her and she will deal with the issues
her life long.
Things my white privilege made me incredibly unaware about as the mother >>> of a mixed race girl.
So what to do? Well, hop on the internet and talk to other mothers of
mixed race children. While it might be that there is a lack of
representation in media, mixed kids are more common than ever before.
Mixed race families are practically the norm here in Southern
California. Juniper certainly isn’t the only one in our friendship
group, school, or anywhere else we go.
My friends suggested things from Barbies that look mixed race to this
great article about how to celebrate diversity with our kids. Books are
on their way to our house as we speak like It’s Okay to Be Different,
and The Colors of Us.
Mostly, I’ve realized that issues of race and white privilege come much
earlier in life than I anticipated.
That’s probably no shock to my friends who aren’t white. However, this
stuff takes time to learn if you haven’t lived it yourself and even the
most “woke” of us have so much room to grow.
I just hope I can do enough to make sure my mixed race girl knows she is >>> beautiful, and her differences make her even more so.
I simply wish that all children (and their parents) know Apostle
Paul's secret ( https://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) "rapture riddle"
(Luke 17:37) answer **now** so that they don't perish with
https://AntiChrist45.com in the imminent Great Tribulation.
Indeed.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1ckmg1a/us_shared_gobsmacking_covid_lab_leak_file_with_uk/
US shared ‘gobsmacking’ Covid lab leak file with UK
Tony Diver
Sat, May 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM PDT·5 min read
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Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of
Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team
Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of
Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team - NG HAN
GUAN/AP
The US shared “gobsmacking” evidence with Britain at the height of the
Covid pandemic suggesting a “high likelihood” that the virus had leaked >>>from a Chinese lab, The Telegraph can reveal.
In January 2021, Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations were convened to >>> discuss the possibility of a lab leak as the US warned that China had
covered up research on coronaviruses and military activity at a
laboratory in Wuhan.
In a previously unreported phone call that month, Mike Pompeo, the
former US secretary of state, presented evidence that supported the lab
leak theory to Dominic Raab, then the Foreign Secretary, and
representatives from Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Speaking to The Telegraph, two Trump administration officials accused Mr >>> Raab and the UK Government of ignoring the lab leak theory because of
resistance from government scientists who supported the explanation that >>> the virus had jumped between animals and humans.
Mr Pompeo presented a summary of classified American intelligence
reports collected in the early days of the pandemic and compiled by the
State Department. The intelligence reports themselves are understood to
have been shared separately with the UK via the Five Eyes network
between October and December 2020.
“We saw several pieces of information and thought that they were,
frankly, gobsmacking,” said one former official who worked on the
intelligence that informed Mr Pompeo’s report. “They obviously pointed
to the high likelihood that this was indeed a lab leak.”
Dominic Raab and Mike Pompeo, the then US secretary of state, in 2020
Dominic Raab and Mike Pompeo, the then US secretary of state, in 2020 -
Kirsty O'Connor/PA Archive
In one document, which has since been released by the State Department
under Freedom of Information laws, US officials warned of “consistent
stonewalling” by China after the virus was first discovered and accused
local officials of “gross corruption and ineptitude”.
The research revealed for the first time that Chinese military officials >>> had worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years leading up
to the pandemic, and that some researchers at the lab had become ill
shortly before the virus was first recorded nearby.
It also showed that Chinese scientists had carried out “gain of
function” research at the institute, which has since become a key piece
of evidence for the lab leak theory.
The theory has become a divisive topic among scientists and government
officials in the years following the pandemic and has prompted two
investigations by the World Health Organisation, which China has been
accused of obstructing.
British government ministers including Boris Johnson initially dismissed >>> the possibility that Covid had been created by scientists, arguing in
June 2021 that “the advice that we have had is that it doesn’t look as
though this particular disease of zoonotic origin came from a lab”.
Two former officials claimed the UK had ignored the evidence presented
by the US because ministers saw the lab leak claims as a “radioactive
American political issue” fuelled by public disagreement between
government scientists and Donald Trump.
“Once the thing became fundamentally political, the ability to pursue it >>> internationally really just collapsed because no one else was interested >>> in touching it,” said one of the officials. “I think [Five Eyes] were
kind of annoyed by the way the issue had become treated in US politics.” >>>
Both separately named Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the Government’s
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies as one of the leading
opponents of the lab leak theory within the British government.
A majority of scientific experts have long said that they believe an
animal to human interaction was the most likely cause of the first
infection.
However, some Government figures, including Michael Gove, have since
said that they believe the virus was “man-made”.
In November, Mr Gove told the Covid Inquiry that there was a
“significant body of judgment that believes that the virus itself was
man-made – and that presents its own set of challenges”.
Both the FBI and US Department of Energy have said they believe a lab
leak is the most likely cause of Covid, while other agencies have said
they think it occurred naturally.
Joe Biden, the US president, has said he does not know where the virus
started, while the US National Intelligence Council said last year it
“probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale
exposure”.
UK ministers are now facing calls to expand the terms of the Covid
Inquiry to include an investigation into the origin of the virus.
The Telegraph understands that the call in Jan 2021 was deliberately
held on an “open line” without security encryption in the hope that
Chinese intelligence agencies would hear that Western countries were
aware of military activity in Wuhan.
“We did that deliberately…we wanted to put pressure on the bad guys,”
said a State Department source.
Ten days after the call, in which officials said the UK was unwilling to >>> assist with a US-led lab leak investigation or share its own research,
the summary compiled by Mr Pompeo’s officials was released to the public >>> in a “fact sheet”.
Those involved in the release said they took care to avoid revealing the >>> sources or methods of US spy agencies, and that it was just the “tip of
the iceberg” of the underlying intelligence that had been gathered.
A UK government spokesman said: “There are still questions that need to
be answered about the origin and spread of Covid-19, not least so we can >>> ensure we are better prepared for future pandemics.
“The UK continues to support the World Health Organisation in its expert >>> study of the origins of Covid-19. It is important that China and other
countries cooperate fully with the researchers.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/05/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/05/05/unethical-quote-of-the-week-the-columbia-law-review/
Unethical Quote of the Week: The Columbia Law Review
MAY 5, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
I gave a legal ethics seminar 90 minutes after finding my wife dead, and >>> these infants are too traumatized to take their exams because of a
“horrific time on campus” and their “level of distress”:
They don’t know the meaning of the word “professionalism” (my seminar
topic), and until they learn it and understand their duty to practice it >>> as lawyers, these students, supposedly the best of Columbia’s best, are
not fit to practice law.
Jonathan Turley didn’t mince words, and he has be a master word-mincer,
regarding this weenie-ism, writing, “Outside of the Columbia Law Review
offices is a thing called life. It is neither predictable nor
comfortable. We enter the lives of our clients when they are often
failing apart. We have to bring our skills and support at those moments
without the assistance of a trauma tent or emotional coach. We also
cannot ask judges for postponements to allow us to process the stress of >>> the moment.” He continued, “[O]ur clients look to us for strength not
fragility in such moments. The response from Columbia Law School should
be simple: see you at the exams.”
Bingo. Meanwhile, the ethics dunces at the Ethics Alarms Unethical
Website of the Century, Above the Law, reacted with its usual almost
infallible ability to get every issue wrong while deriding the more
competent analysts who got it right, writing, “As predictable as night
follows day, right-wing troll outlets are already mocking Columbia law
students for talking about “violence” and being “irrevocably shaken.”
But beyond the smug posturing, there’s not so much a substantive counter >>> to the arguments laid out in the letter.”
Whatever language that last sentence is supposed to be in…
Sure there’s a substantive counter; Turley made it. “Outside of the
Columbia Law Review offices is a thing called life.”
And He Who is the life (John 14:6) is also the Prince of Peace (Isaiah
9:6) so that in Him, we have perfect (Matt 5:48) peace (Galatians
5:22-23).
You got that right!
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/05/06/ethics-heroes-13-federal-judges/
Ethics Heroes: 13 Federal Judges
MAY 6, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
Thirteen federal judges—appellate Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch,
Matthew Solomson of the U.S Court of Federal Claims, District Judges
Alan Albright and Matthew Kacsmaryk, Stephen Vaden, who sits on the
United States Court of International Trade; plus judges David Counts,
James W. Hendrix, Jeremy D. Kernodle, Tilman E. Self, III, Brantley
Starr, Drew B. Tipton and Daniel M. Traynor—have all announced in a
letter to Columbia University’s president, that beginning with the
entering class of 2024, they “will not hire anyone who joins the
Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or law students.” >>>
“Since the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas, Columbia University has >>> become ground zero for the explosion of student disruptions,
anti-semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints on campuses across the
Nation, ” the letter begins. “Disruptors have threatened violence,
committed assaults, and destroyed property. As judges who hire law
clerks every year to serve in the federal judiciary, we have lost
confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education. Columbia
has instead become an incubator of bigotry. As a result, Columbia has
disqualified itself from educating the future leaders of our country.”
After suggesting measures that need to be taken to restore trust in the
institution, the judges conclude, “Recent events demonstrate that
ideological homogeneity throughout the entire institution of Columbia
has destroyed its ability to train future leaders of a pluralistic and
intellectually diverse country. Both professors and administrators are
on the front lines of the campus disruptions, encouraging the virulent
spread of antisemitism and bigotry. Significant and dramatic change in
the composition of its faculty and administration is required to restore >>> confidence in Columbia.”
It is a responsible, powerful, and much needed response, both to the
institution and the students who have demonstrated both an absence of
critical thinking and judicious temperament as well basic respect for
their fellow students, liberal education, and the law.
Now do Harvard.
The absolutely only godly way (John 14:6) to win the war against
terrorism and bigotry is as shown on-line at
http://WonderfullyHungry.org and in Person as LORD Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, Who is our #1 Example of living wonderfully hungry (
https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ).
No doubt about it!
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/08/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
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<> (Lk 24:42) 05/12/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/13/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/05/13/biden-stabs-israel-in-the-back-to-keep-his-anti-semitic-vote-and-gets-justly-hammered-for-his-betrayal-mainstream-media-to-the-rescue/
Biden Stabs Israel in the Back to Keep His Anti-Semitic Vote and Gets
Justly Hammered For His Betrayal? Mainstream Media To The Rescue!
MAY 13, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
“Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!” To be fair, it’s past time to
rephrase the oft-used Ethics Alarm catch phase as, “Nah, the mainstream
media doesn’t just take marching orders from the Democratic National
Committee to cover for Biden’s indefensible leadership!”
Too long, I know. OK, it needs some work.
Suddenly, all through the news media over the weekend, the tale of how
President Ronald Reagan intervened with a threat to withhold arms that
had already been approved for delivery to Israel to force the nation to
change its military strategy was being thrown in the faces of Biden
critics and Israel supporters. Huh. Where did that come from?
Surprise! It came from the New York Times, the flagship of the corrupt,
partisan media, just in time to fuel the “advocacy journalists'” efforts >>> over the weekend to help block Israel’s right to defend its existence
and its citizens from terrorism.
Interviewing GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, and by “interviewing” I mean
debating as she took the side of Democrats, the Biden Administration,
the anti-Semitic students roiling campuses and Hamas, NBC News anchor
Kristen Welker said, “As you know, former President Ronald Reagan, on
multiple occasions, withheld weapons to impact Israel’s military
actions,” Welker said. “Did President Reagan show that using U.S.
military aid, as leverage, can actually be an effective way to rein in
and impact Israel’s policy?”
What a perfect factoid to weaponize for an appeal to authority and
Rationalization #32. The Unethical Role Model: “He/She would have done
the same thing”! The timely Times revelation: in August of 1982, Israel
was shelling Palestinian terrorist strongholds in Lebanon, then a
failing state in the throes of a civil war, with Palestinian forces
controlling territory on its southern border. President Reagan saw films >>> of a Lebanese child horribly wounded in the attack, and called up then
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to threaten a withdrawal of U.S.
aid if the shelling didn’t stop. Begin gave in. The Times also informed
its readers that President Eisenhower threatened economic sanctions and
to cut off aid to force Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula
after it invaded Egypt in 1956. So, the Times concluded, “If it was
reasonable for the Republican presidential icon to limit arms to impose
his will on Israel…it should be acceptable for the current Democratic
president to do the same.” Well, the Times wrote “they argued,” meaning
defenders of all-things Democrat, but we know, or should, that by “they” >>> in such situations, the mainstream media means “we.”
Thereby pre-programmed, Welker sprung the “But Reagan did it!” argument
on Graham after he said, “Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war >>> they can’t afford to lose, and work with them to minimize causalities.”
The Reagan “gotcha!” is a facile and dishonest comparison designed for
ignorant members of the public and wielded by either ignorant or
deliberately deceptive journalists like Welker. First, the two
situations are not sufficiently analogous. Lebanon was in turmoil, and
the nation was not being governed by elected terrorists; its citizens
were literally caught in the crossfire. Israel was not at war with
Lebanon. It is at war with Gaza, because the Gazan government attacked
Israel on October 7. Second, 1982 is not 2024. As even the Times points
out, it was Democrats then that advocated complete support of Israel’s
right to defend itself, and Republicans who were tepid in their
support—and Democrats condemned them for it. Moreover, acceptance of the >>> fact that Israel must employ extraordinary means to to survive has
solidified over the decades, as Iran continues to threaten eventual
nuclear annihilation, Hamas has continued to lob missiles into Israel in >>> defiance of ceasefires and international law, and hope of a peaceful
“two-state solution” has been repeatedly dashed.
Finally, and one would think obviously, the fact that “Reagan did it”
doesn’t mean Reagan was right. That Israel is still being threatened by
Palestinian terrorists over 40 years later suggests that we might not be >>> where we are today if the U.S. had allowed Begin to do what he believed
was best for his own nation and its citizens in 1982. Even as the Times
describes it, Reagan made an emotional decision based on seeing the
image an injured child. “Think of the children!” Shame on him. That is
the level of analysis being used by the pro-Hamas protesters. Competent
Presidents and national leaders do not act because their heartstrings
get tugged on. (I suspect Nancy…)
If Senator Graham had been quicker on his metaphorical feet, he would
have asked Welker to describe the circumstances that led Israel to shell >>> Lebanon, since she was citing it as a fair analogy. She didn’t know. (It >>> wasn’t explained in the Times piece.) She was just mouthing a retort
scripted for her to defend NBC’s favorite party and its President from
criticism while confusing her audience.
mmm
In the interim, the only godly way to win the war against terrorism
and bigotry is as shown on-line at http://WonderfullyHungry.org in the
Person of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Who is our #1 Example of
living "wonderfully hungry" ( https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ).
No doubt about it!
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
<> (Lk 24:42) 05/14/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
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<> (Lk 24:42) 05/19/24 To imitate (3 John 1:11) Christ here ...
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/05/15/suggested-course-for-princeton-campus-protesting-for-weenies/
Suggested Course For Princeton: “Campus Protesting For Weenies”
MAY 15, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
I waited a few days before writing about this because I had to stop
giggling to type.
I you watch Aaron Sorkin’s excellent if a bit too fawning movie, “The
Trial of the Chicago Seven,” you will see that the anti-war campus
protesters of the Sixties had, if nothing else, integrity and guts.
Maybe they had inherited some from their parents, of “The Greatest
Generation.” Today’s student protests in favor of Hamas, terrorism and
Jew-killing (I know, I know: “Think of the children!”), in contrast, are >>> marked by hypocrisy, ignorance and weenie-ism.
Princeton has certainly moved to the front of the line in the latter.
After the protesting students announced a hunger strike in support of
allegedly starving Gazans (Pro tip: if you don’t want to suffer from the >>> predictable consequences of war, don’t elect terrorists as your
government). Then they complained that they—the students, now, not the
Gazans—were hungry. One female protester shouted into a megaphone, “This >>> is absolutely unfair. My peers and I, we are starving. We are physically >>> exhausted. I am quite literally shaking right now as you can see.” What, >>> is the nearby McDonald’s closed?
Then the protesters persuaded some of the professors whose
indoctrination made them the misguided weenies they are to make
themselves look foolish by signing a letter of protest in the students’
support. It’s long and infuriating, but here are the best parts…
We, the undersigned faculty of Princeton University, write to you about
a matter of deep and urgent concern. On Friday morning, May 3, eighteen
Princeton students began a hunger strike, eating nothing and drinking
water only sparingly. These students’ blood pressures had dropped and
their bodies had begun to consume their own tissue. One of the students
was rushed to the hospital on the evening of Wednesday, May 8. As of
today, on day nine with no food, thirteen students have broken their
hunger strike. Seven more students have begun a hunger strike…the
University administration has a lot more work to do to facilitate
meaningful, mutually respectful, and good-faith efforts toward seriously >>> considering their demands. This includes the urgent need to divest from
Israel until such time as it ceases its genocidal war against the
Palestinian people of Gaza and until Israel comes into compliance with
international law and ends its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, East
Jerusalem, and other Palestinian lands…Despite the urgency of the hunger >>> strikers’ situation, these administrators have yet to advance the talks
toward a substantive discussion of the protesters’ demands.
This disregard for our students’ health and well-being would be
appalling in any context. The fact that the Palestine Solidarity
Encampment is now located on Cannon Green — visible from the offices of
Nassau Hall — casts President Eisgruber’s decision not to acknowledge
these students as especially callous.
The University has gone out of its way to make life difficult for these
beleaguered, underslept, and already-hungry student protesters…We
strenuously urge you to exercise your authority as University Trustees
and intervene in this rapidly-deteriorating situation. Play your role in >>> protecting our students, preserving and enshrining the rights of all of
us to speak, protest, and organize freely and safely; and join us in
standing up for the just and decent cause that our students demand we
pay attention to and act in order to stop: Israel’s genocide of the
Palestinian people of Gaza.
For such a long-winded and pompous letter—that was less than half of
it—an appropriate and effective response would be remarkably brief:
“Bite me.” Nobody has any obligation to provide aid or care to those who >>> are inflicting hardship on themselves and can stop doing so any time
they please. The letter is useful in explaining why so many Princeton
students are such bone-headed assholes, however.
But wait! There’s more! Wait for iiiiiiiiit….
Rotary hunger strikes! Genuine hunger strike specialists like Gandhi and >>> Dick Gregory are rolling in their graves—with laughter. I’d call this
innovation for the woke and faint of heart tag-team hunger strikes if it >>> were up to me. Right now I am trying to picture Abbie Hoffman being
beaten by Mayor Daley’s cops outside the 1968 Democratic National
Convention and saying, “OK, guys, just hold up a minute. Tom Hayden’s
going to take my place now while I go get some ice for my head and a
bandage. Tom? Tom! Come on over here and take over, will you? This is
starting to hurt.”
And Tom comes over, and the cops start beating him.
The only godly way to win the war against terrorism and bigotry is
through our Messiah (aka Christ) Who is our #1 Example of living
http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Luke 24:42-3).
No doubt about it!
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry for food right now (Luke 6:21a) and
hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
appetite for food right now too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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