Month: May 2020

The words of Mark Twain have never been more true,

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”

Only it now applies to most mainstream sources of information. The powers that be are tightening their grip on those who tell the truth and do not stick to the narrative dictated by the agenda.

I’m dumping the full text of this article right here rather than providing the link … due to the fact that Mercola’s articles are experiencing more suppression and the link might very well be blocked. It is well worth the read from top to bottom.
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola (Fact Checked) May 05, 2020
– Content that questions or contradicts the biased edicts of the World Health Organization is now being blocked, taken down or tagged as fake news on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.- April 26, 2020, Twitter suspended the account of the publicly traded biotech company AYTU BioScience for sharing information about its novel UV light therapy for COVID-19, which it is developing in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai medical center. YouTube also removed a video demonstrating how the technology works.- NewsGuard recently classified mercola.com as fake news because we reported the SARS-CoV-2 virus as potentially having been leaked from the biosafety level 4 laboratory in Wuhan City, China, despite U.S. and U.K. government officials admitting they are considering this possibility.- Facebook is also censoring posts that refer to SARS-CoV-2 possibly originating in a lab. The “fact check” basis for this censorship is an article written by a researcher who works with the Wuhan lab.- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki — wife of Google product director Dennis Troper — says the platform will ban videos that contradict World Health Organization guidance on the pandemic or share “fake or unproven coronavirus remedies”.- Draconian censorship is in full swing again, this time around the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Just about anything that questions or contradicts the biased edicts of the World Health Organization is now being blocked, taken down or tagged as fake news on social media platforms.- Twitter Suspends Biotech Company- For example, April 26, 2020, Twitter suspended the account of the publicly traded biotech company AYTU BioScience.1 Its crime? Sharing information about its novel UV light therapy for COVID-19, which it is developing in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai medical center.- Expedited Food and Drug Administration approval is being sought for the technology, which involves administering “intermittent ultraviolet (UV-A) light inside a patient’s trachea.”2- Shortly before Twitter suspended the company’s account, YouTube also removed a video demonstrating how the technology works. Both YouTube and Twitter claim AYTU violated terms of service — which now apparently include sharing factual and truthful information that might jeopardize the surveillance capitalists’ agenda to control and vaccinate the entire world against SARS-CoV-2.- NewsGuard Is a True News Blocker- Similarly, NewsGuard recently classified mercola.com as fake news because we reported the SARS-CoV-2 virus as potentially having been leaked from the biosafety level 4 laboratory in Wuhan City, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak.- NewsGuard intern Nina Zweig (edited by deputy editor John Gregory) referred to my February 4, 2020, article, “Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare,” in which I stated:- “In January 2018, China’s first maximum security virology laboratory (biosecurity level 4) designed for the study of the world’s most dangerous pathogens opened its doors — in Wuhan.3,4 Is it pure coincidence that Wuhan City is now the epicenter of this novel coronavirus infection?- The year before, Tim Trevan, a Maryland biosafety consultant, expressed concern about viral threats potentially escaping the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory,5 which happens to be located just 20 miles from the Wuhan market identified as ground zero for the current NCIP outbreak.6”- According to NewsGuard,7 “There is no evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of the outbreak, and genomic evidence has found that the virus is ‘96% identical at the whole-genome level to a bat coronavirus.'”- Clearly, NewsGuard doesn’t understand or adhere to the definition of fake news, considering multiple government sources are reportedly looking into the virus’ origin, including Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom Fox News quotes saying:8- “It should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that and we’ve had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. I would just say at this point, it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we don’t know for certain.”- According to an April 5, 2020, article9 in Daily Mail, British government officials are also considering the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan facility, stating the possibility of this “is no longer being discounted.”- Interestingly, an April 16, 2020, report10 by CNN reveals the censorship of articles mentioning the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may have leaked from the Wuhan BSL4 facility appears to come from China, which means NewsGuard, Facebook and others are functionally protecting Chinese interests and inhibiting scientific inquiry.- Questioning the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will also land you in “Fakebook jail.” As reported in investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s news analysis, “Facebook’s Dangerously Fake ‘Fact Checking'”:11- “I have often spoken of disingenuous ‘fact checking’ efforts conducted by conflicted third parties who are actually trying to shape public opinion and control the information the public can access …”- A recent example is a popular documentary by Epoch Times about the possible link between Covid-19 and a research lab in Wuhan, China. The documentary formed no conclusions and the theories it discussed had not been disproven.- However, Facebook intervened to punish me and others who dared to share this factually accurate documentary on Facebook. Without warning, the social media company notified us that our pages were being throttled or shown to fewer people … Facebook also said that people visiting our pages would be told we share fake news.”- Would it surprise you in the least to learn that the “fact check” basis for this censorship is an article written by a researcher who works with the Wuhan lab? Me neither. Like NewsGuard, Facebook has placed itself as judge and jury over what lines of thinking people are allowed to engage in, and this tactic simply has no place in a free and democratic society. So, what does that tell you about these organizations and platforms?- YouTube CEO Vows to Ban Content Contradicting WHO- In an April 23, 2020, article,12 Business Insider reported statements made by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, wife of Google product director Dennis Troper. She too spits in the proverbial face of Americas freedom of speech:- “Wojcicki says the platform will ban content peddling fake or unproven coronavirus remedies. In an interview with CNN, she also suggested that video that ‘goes against’ WHO guidance on the pandemic will be blocked …- For example, she said, content that claimed vitamin C or turmeric would cure people of COVID-19 would be ‘a violation of our policy’ and removed accordingly. She continued: ‘Anything that goes against WHO recommendations would be a violation of our policy …'”- Among the censored YouTube videos is a viral video13 by Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, California, in which they questioned the logic behind California’s stay-at-home order. The video had garnered 5 million views by the time it was taken down. In the video, Erickson pointed out that there’s:- “… a 0.03 chance of dying from COVID in the state of California. Does that necessitate sheltering in place? Does that necessitate shutting down medical systems? Does that necessitate people being out of work?”- Erickson also criticized the fact that mortality statistics are being skewed by counting people who die from other conditions as COVID-19 deaths.- “When someone dies in this country right now, they’re not talking about the high blood pressure, the diabetes, the stroke. They’re saying ‘Did they die from COVID?’” Erickson said in the video.- “We’ve been to hundreds of autopsies. You don’t talk about one thing, you talk about comorbidities. ER doctors now [say] ‘It’s interesting when I’m writing about my death report, I’m being pressured to add COVID. Why is that?”- By banning anything that contradicts the World Health Organization’s recommendations, Wojcicki asserts that the WHO is infallible, which it clearly is not. There’s no shortage of examples proving WHO has been wrong on many occasions, and should not be relied upon as the premier, let alone sole, source of information and medical instruction.- The WHO is beyond conflicted, and because of its existing funding fails to complete its initial mandate to promote the attainment of “the highest possible level of health” by all peoples.- The WHO Has Long Been Criticized for Its Bias- For example, June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic of novel influenza A (H1N1).14 A vaccine was rapidly unveiled, and within months, cases of disability and death from the H1N1 vaccine were reported in various parts of the world.- In the aftermath, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) questioned the WHO’s handling of the pandemic. In June 2010, PACE concluded “the handling of the pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), EU health agencies and national governments led to a ‘waste of large sums of public money, and unjustified scares and fears about the health risks faced by the European public.'”15- Specifically, PACE concluded that the drug industry had influenced the organization’s decision-making.16 Another example is presented in the 2019 report17 “Corrupting Influence: Purdue & the WHO,” produced by U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), which concluded Purdue Pharma had influenced WHO’s opioid guidelines.18,19- The WHO was also heavily criticized for its lack of leadership during the 2013 through 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.20 Two separate reports published in 2015 highlighted the WHO’s failures, one issued by a panel of independent experts commissioned by WHO itself,21 and one by an independent group of 19 international experts convened by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Harvard Global Health Institute.22- The LSHTM and Harvard Global Health Institute experts pointed out that the WHO has lost so much trust that radical reforms will be required before it will be able to assume an authoritative role.- US Suspends Funding to the WHO Pending Investigation- Considering the fact that nothing has actually changed within the organization since then, it’s not inconceivable that the WHO’s COVID-19 pandemic response is questionable. The drug industry has no lesser influence over WHO today than it did in 2009, and the Gates Foundation’s influence has only grown since then too.- April 7, House Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., and 20 additional co-sponsors introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to defund the WHO “until its embattled Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus resigns and the United Nations-backed organization is investigated over its treatment of China during the coronavirus pandemic,” Fox News reported.23- Republican Sen. Rick Scott, Florida, is also calling for a congressional committee to investigate the WHO. According to Scott:24- “When it comes to coronavirus, the WHO failed. They need to be held accountable for their role in promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic. We know Communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it — and the WHO never bothered to investigate further.”- A week later, President Trump announced the U.S. will temporarily suspend its funding to the WHO while the White House investigates the organizations handling of the pandemic.25- Gates Funds Not-So-Independent Defense- Remember Mark Lynas? Lynas is a Monsanto ambassador26 and well-established shill for the GMO industry27,28 who in recent years has started defending vaccines as well, suggesting that anti-GMO and anti-vaccine groups are closely linked. I wrote about this evolving trend in my 2018 article, “Strange Bedfellows: GMO and Vaccine Partnerships.”- In an April 20, 2020, article29 for Cornell Alliance for Science, Lynas tries to debunk the “Top 10 current conspiracy theories” on COVID-19. The second conspiracy theory on his lists is “Bill Gates as scapegoat.” How convenient, considering Cornell Alliance for Science is funded by the Gates Foundation.30- Third on the list is the claim that “The virus escaped form a Chinese lab.” As discussed above, government officials in the U.S. and U.K. are not discounting this possibility, so why is Lynas? Could it be because the Gates Foundation funds the WHO, which in turn protects China?- Also on his list is the claim that “COVID death rates are inflated,” which he says “has no basis in fact.” Is that so? The CDC no longer requires doctors to do testing in order to confirm that a patient is in fact infected with SARS-CoV-2 or died from COVID-19. The numbers now include “suspected” and “assumed” cases. How could this not result in an overestimation of the problem?- Censorship Breeds Distrust- Censorship inevitably leads to public distrust. There’s no need for censorship when you have nothing to hide and are willing to address shortcomings. Ninety percent of news media is controlled by six corporations. As a result, the vast majority of what you read, see and hear is already part of a carefully orchestrated narrative created and controlled by special interest groups.- When you tack on censorship by internet platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, your chances of being grossly underinformed or misinformed are exponentially magnified. The end result is a Truman-esque fictitious reality where most of what you believe to be true is in fact false.

David Lang
18 April at 21:24
I am an ER physician in a small rural WI town and I have been reading everyone’s take on the Covid 19 pandemic for the last 2 months and having worked directly with it every day, thought I would share the way I see it. Sorry that this is long, but I have a lot to say.

Shutting down our borders when we did was a great move. It probably should have been done sooner actually. Shutting down everything else when we did was also a bold and wise move. Initially, the information on the virus was suspect at best, and we needed to prevent our hospitals from getting overwhelmed. Unfortunately that did happen in several larger cities such as NYC, New Orleans, Detroit and Washington state.

The reality of the situation in most other areas of the country, however, is far different. Most rural hospitals, like the one I work in have seen few if any cases. Unfortunately most hospitals have also severely limited the access to our health care system to people with anything but potentially Covid related symptoms. Initially this was a wise and prudent move. We had no way of predicting how bad things were going to get. But every week, we are getting more reliable information that this virus has already spread much more than we initially thought but the death rate is much less than we thought. The feared deluge of Covid patients, outside of a few hot spots has not yet materialized.

The initial estimates talked about hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid. But as we get more information and as we see the benefits of self-quarantining those estimates are being consistently being down graded. The most recent estimate I saw today was 60k deaths. This may seem like a large number, and it is, especially if a family member or a friend is in this group. But a bit of perspective is warranted. According to the CDC data, the average number of people who die from influenza over the last 10 years was around 37k. In 2018 it was over 60k. Furthermore we have a vaccine for the seasonal flu, but many people refuse to take it.

Furthermore, and this may sound callous, but as far as what steps we should take during a pandemic depends greatly on who is getting sick and who is dying. The vast majority of CoVid deaths (and influenza deaths) are elderly patients and those with other medical conditions, particularly diabetes and obesity or those with any type of immune compromise. The chance of dying from CoVid if you are under 60 and otherwise healthy is extremely small. Yes, there are cases of young healthy people dying but these, while tragic, are outliers. Most younger, healthy people will get mild illness or have no symptoms at all. Knowing this, it makes great sense to protect those who are most vulnerable. We all do this every year during flu season. If we have elderly parents or grandparents or friends with other illnesses we often have them stay home if possible. We wouldn’t drop our sick kids off at grandma’s house or have your aunt with lymphoma watch them while you are on vacation. But we wouldn’t prevent young healthy people from going to work.

Another issue is what we are calling a CoVid death. As physicians we fill out a death certificates on any patient who dies while under our care. We are asked to put down a main cause of death and any other possible contributing causes. So for example if a patient dies in my ER from a heart attack, that would be listed as the main cause of death, but we would also need to list diabetes, hypertension or any other condition that MAY have contributed to the death. Many elderly patients have many serious medical conditions. If they had CoVid on top of that, what is the cause of death? Is CoVid the main cause? If a patient with CoVid gets hit by a bus, is that a CoVid death? That may sound absurd, but I have heard of physicians being pressured to add CoVid to the death certificates in cases like this. Furthermore there is, as you know, a lack of testing ability. If someone dies and has flu like symptoms, but never got tested, physicians are being pressured to add Covid to the death certificate for presumed CoVid. This would also skew the statistics and make having a sensible plan to combat the virus difficult.

However, the main problem I see is that were are focusing entirely on preventing CoVid deaths. While this is a noble goal, many other patients with other serious conditions are being ignored or are falling through the cracks of our health care system. Most of our clinics and hospitals are having such low volumes because we have stopped most elective or non urgent procedures. These are what keep hospitals open and in business. Nurses, staff and even physicians are being furloughed. We have turned our clinics into what seem like armed military institutions. Clinics are surrounded by barricades, large warning signs and crime scene tape. You will be greeted at door by someone in a hazmat suit who takes your temperature and asks if you have coughed in the last month. I am intimidated just showing up for work. Imagine how patients feel.

Often in the last month I have seen patients in my ER who come in with potentially serious conditions that have been having symptoms for several days. I ask why they didn’t come in sooner. They say either that they thought we were too busy and they didn’t want to bother us or they thought that we had people dying of CoVid lining every hallway of the hospital and they didn’t want to get sick. I have seen patients with diabetes and heart failure out of control because they couldn’t get in to see their doctor. What if your breast cancer is missed because you couldn’t get a mammogram or your colon cancer was missed because you couldn’t get a colonoscopy? We are seeing actual harm to actual patients because they are being prevented from getting the care they need. This needs to be balanced with the damage from CoVid. Furthermore, I fear once CoVid is conquered we will see a huge rush of very sick patients to clinics and hospitals that are short staffed because nurses and staff have been laid off.

We are making strides in getting video visits up and running and this is helpful, but many of the older patients I see in my ER still have flip phones. I doubt they will be pulling off a Facetime call or a Zoom conference anytime soon.

And we can’t ignore the economy. Millions are out of work. Government bailouts with money we don’t have. This doesn’t just affect the 401k values for the 1%. This affects everyone. My brother in law is a HS teacher and he told me that more than one of his students expressed concern that their family would lose their home as both of their parents are out of work. This is in a fairly affluent part of town, so I am sure it is much worse in other areas. We can buy time with bailouts for a short time, but not much longer. Millions are out of work and or needing to go to food banks. Poverty is real and a major source of illness and death.

Mental health is suffering. I am seeing this in my ER also. Loneliness and lack of human connection is a major problem for anyone, but especially those suffering from underlying mental illness. Binging on Netflix can only go so far. We are also seeing a surge in domestic violence from people cooped up with their families for too long. This will only get worse as the weather gets nicer.

Don’t get me started on people who wear gloves all day, This makes zero sense. This just drags the same bacteria and viruses around as if you had no gloves. The check out person at the grocery store wears the same gloves for hours. Unless she changes them after each customer it is useless. She would be better off with a container of hand sanitizer and washing her hands every few minutes. And wearing a mask that doesn’t cover your nose is pointless. The best way to not get Covid is to wash your hands regularly and not touch your face.

I have no doubt that CoVid was here long before the first official case was found. The initial cases in Wuhan were in October and November and there was no shortage of people coming here and travelling to Europe from that area during that time frame. During the last part of 2019 and the early part of this year, I saw an unusual amount of patients in my ER with severe flu like symptoms who tested negative for influenza A and/or had the vaccine. I get the fact that the flu swab is not always accurate and the flu shot isn’t 100% effective, but the amount of people like this I saw was very strange. I have talked to many of my colleagues who noticed the same thing and have seen many physicians online reporting the same thing. This is relevant and fits with the data that were are seeing more people who show exposure to the virus and who are possibly at least somewhat immune to further infection.

There are two main way to defeat any illness or pandemic. One is to wait until the virus naturally dies out. With influenza this happens when the weather gets warmer and the virus becomes less virulent. It seems this doesn’t happen as much with CoVid. The other way is by making most people immune. This can happen with a vaccine, but this won’t be here for many months if at all. The other way is by herd immunity where most of a society has had the illness and is theoretically immune. That is why it is a good thing if many more people than we thought have been infected and potentially immune.

So what would I recommend that we do?

1) Make sure we have enough protective gear for our health care workers and others regularly are exposed to the public.

2) Work diligently to find treatments and a vaccine for CoVid.

3) Continue to quarantine as elderly and vulnerable as much as possible, but make sure they have the support they need.

4) Get our clinics and hospitals running more normally when and where it is possible. We can’t jeopardize every other patient to focus on CoVid.

5) Use masks and gloves as you see fit or if you are vulnerable, but use them wisely and properly.

6) Start getting society back to normal quickly. There is no reason a small store can’t be open but hundreds of people are jammed into WalMart and Home Depot. Open restaurants with tables spread out. Open hair salons. These things can start to save our economy and let us develop the herd immunity we need to stop the virus. And yes, I am aware that this will cause a spike in CoVid cases but the damage from this I believe will be far less than the damage for keeping things shut down much longer.

7) And for the love of God, STOP HOARDING TOILET PAPER!!!

If you are still awake after reading this, let me know what you think….

This is copied from my friend Kate Leffler’s post. Read carefully and then check out these points yourself with your own research. These are chilling revelations….

Pharma has 80 COVID vaccines in development, but Gates & Fauci pushed Moderna’s “Frankenstein jab” to the front of the line. Scientists and ethicists are sounding alarms. The vaccine uses a new, untested, and very controversial, experimental RNA technology that Gates has backed for over a decade.

Instead of injecting an antigen and adjuvant, as with traditional vaccines, Moderna plugs a small piece of coronavirus genetic code into human cells, altering DNA throughout the human body, and reprogramming our cells to produce antibodies to fight the virus. MRNA vaccines are a form of genetic engineering called “germ line gene editing”. Moderna’s genetic alterations are passed down to future generation. In January, The Geneva Statement — the world’s leading ethicists and scientists — called for an end to this kind of experimentation.

Moderna has never brought a product to market, proceeded through clinical trials, or had a vaccine approved by the FDA. Despite Gates’ investments, the company was teetering on bankruptcy with $1.5 Billion in debt, before COVID.

Fauci’s support won the company an astonishing $483 million in federal funds to accelerate development. Dr. Joseph Bolen, Modern’s former Research & Development Chief, expressed shock at Fauci’s bet. “I don’t know what their thinking was,” he told CNN. “When I read that, I was pretty amazed.”

Moderna and Fauci launched federally-funded human trials on March 3rd, in Seattle. Dr. Peter Hotez, Vaccinologist, warns of potentially fatal consequences for skipping animal studies. “If there is immune enhancement in animals, that’s a show-stopper.”

Dr. Suhab Siddiqi, Moderna’s ex-Director of Chemistry, told CNN, “I would not let the vaccine be injected in my body. I would demand: where is the toxicity data?”

Former NIH Scientist, Dr. Judy Mikovits, says it’s criminal to test MRNA vaccines on humans. “MRNA can cause cancers and other dire harms that don’t surface for years.”

As precautions, Moderna ordered trial participants to avoid unprotected sex or sperm donations, and Fauci directed that all COVID vaccines BE PROTECTED BY BLANKET IMMUNITY.

Gates hopes to sell his experimental gene-altering technology to all 7 billion humans, and transform our species into GMOs.

Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Reaction Anything More Than The Biggest PR Exercise You Have Ever Seen – For Bill Gates Vaccine Interests?

I have created (and am adding to) a timeline in order to better understand the sequence of events and potentially establish a theory about a relationship between them.

When you line up all the pieces you could be forgiven for thinking that the well orchestrated and almost universal response to the COVID-19 infections has been one of the greatest public relations and marketing stunts ever pulled by Bill Gates to promote his upcoming vaccine.

You be the judge. But if, after reading this, you don’t smell a rat, get yourself tested for COVID-19. Apparently one symptom of COVID-19 is loss of smell.

Here is the timeline: https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=27424

Vaccination had a modest effect on time off work and had no effect on hospital admissions or complication rates. Inactivated vaccines caused local harms and an estimated 1.6 additional cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome per million vaccinations. The harms evidence base is limited.

So, to repeat, NO reduction in complications, NO reduction is deaths, NO reduction in hospitalisations, a small chance of less time off work but an increased risk of permanent neurological damage. Let me roll up my sleeve – NOT!

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001269.pub4/full