The “cure” to COVID was far worse than the disease. Ineffective lockdowns, masks, school closures, and money printing were the main sources of societal and economic harm - not a disease with a 99.9% survival rate in healthy young people. COVID vaccines and masking never worked; these lies and mandates destroyed all trust in public health. Many people like me lost their jobs over this madness.
The last thing we need is to give more power to failed corrupt organizations like the WHO, CDC, and Big Pharma. Follow the Great Barrington Declaration instead. And never, ever trust the tyrannical CCP or its Democrat court eunuchs who admire absolute power: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/amnesty-international-silence-ccp-esg-covid
And worse - never a hearing by either the United States Congress or the UN - on culpability for the release and spread of the virus and damages to be paid for it. We might start by canceling $6 trillion of the Treasury debt held by the perpetrators of the bio weapon.
I know that individuals can't sue for injuries but I didn't know if that included countries who paid for a product that did not live up to the claims, "blocks transmission" and "prevents one from getting the disease."
Your issue appears to be with the response to COVID and your criticisms are legitimate.
I believe this article is talking about the flow of information related to a disease so treatments can be developed and proper precautions taken. What those treatments might be and what precautions are appropriate can only be determined when we have the knowledge to execute them.
Further, I would point out, that without good information, people will instantly assume the worst, which is not an unreasonable response to unknown risk.
And, to be fair, COVID was not a nothingburger, it just was not what the media sold us. At some point though, we will have a more deadly pandemic, it just seems statistically inevitable.
To be fair? Let's be honest. The Chinese Communist government lied about Covid -19 from the start. And who aided and abetted those lies when he chirped in January 2020 that "da Choineeze ah beyun fully transparent?" Why none other than the malevolent little shite Anthony Fauci, - who funded the lab from which Covid emerged in the first place.
I think it disingenuous to say that. You cannot diagnose or treat a disease, much less relay reliable information about it, without knowing what it is. As relates to Covid 19, we will never know because the handling was botched from.the outset. And not just by the CCP.
It is at least part cold but when it hit the news in early 2020 I started reading. I read scientific articles and while I did not understand some of the technical.virology jargon I did understand the words that strung it together. The furrow or cleave site was frequently discussed because that was why it spread so easily. You know what has a very similar cleavage site? HIV. Note that the new strand is HV.1
Yeah? Its a cold. We were exposed on December 8, 2019. Possibly the worst cold ever. No amount of Jewish penicillin alleviated it. I almost didn't go to work one day. By the third episode It barely slowed me down.
"At some point though, we will have a more deadly pandemic, it just seems statistically inevitable".
The most troubling aspect of this report is the apparent resistance of the bacterium (M. pneumoniae) deemed responsible for the outbreak to antibiotics, which in China is estimated to be 70-90%. Bacterium resistance to antibiotics has been increasing worldwide for decades. China is the world’s biggest petri dish. Sooner or later a super bug will emerge from it or India. I wonder if the geniuses at CDC are testing the efficacy of our antibiotics for M. pneumoniae and other troublesome bacterium. I wonder if they’re investigating our production capacity to produce effective antibiotics or if we even have the capacity. I wonder if they feel any urgency for developing new antibiotics to combat lethal bacterium strains resistant to any current antibiotics that will inevitably hit our shores.
I couldn't help thinking, as I was reading this, that the current victims are largely children--precisely the same group that Covid did not affect as harshly.
Maybe but kids dont have immune history. It's as easily explained if a cousin of this bug went around 6-7 years ago and most people got antibodies to it then. Kids wouldnt have them.
SinoVax the Chinese vaccine is a traditional one, not mRNA. So all American children would be immunocomprimised by the normal vax schdeule by that logic.
Thank you for opening this with a great "organizing" comment, in that it clarifies the matter being discussed.
Speaking of the flow of information, it was disheartening that so few "new" pieces of information were allowed to come out of the CDC, NIH, or other involved government agencies. We only ever received policy prescriptions, rather than new findings and data. Meanwhile, the UK was regularly releasing information about new strains of COVID, and a great deal of information was coming out of Israel as well. I would love for an investigation, whether journalistic or congressional, to be made of the question: How did the CDC perform so poorly, particularly in comparison to some other national health organizations whose budgets are some small fraction of the $7 billion (?) the CDC had in 2020. Such an investigation should also consider the limited messaging by the CDC to be contributory to whatever crisis of "mis/disinformation" that followed.
Being a doctor who cared for patients with COVID, one of the problems with our response is crazy nonsense like this. It was depressing to watch 90% of our COVID deaths be from unvaccinated people. Over and over and over, including some friends of mine. It is quite the conspiracy to think every hospital in the country kept seeing this trend and only deranged OB doctors were the ones to see something different. I fear a lot of people who read The Free Press seem to have lost the ability to interpret information because they are so mad about lockdowns, masks, the election and whatever else.
Vaccines should not be lumped together with masks, or lockdowns or whatever. Don't let your tribalism lump those things all together.
I am a Free Press reader and not anti-vaxx. However, I'm just curious about the 90% of Covid deaths be from unvaccinated people. Do you, then, include people who died before the vaccines were made available? My issue with the government response to all of this was (1) travel bans were seen as sinister and something that could not be enforced; (2) gov of NY and mayor of NYC telling people to go out to celebrate Lunar New Year because people in the other political party were asking questions; (3) not telling people who were symptomatic to wear masks initially because they thought those people would be discriminated against and then no one would want to wear a mask ... uh ... (4) telling people that just putting anything over their face was going to keep them safe; (5) requiring masks outside in open places; (6) having some people declared "essential" like workers at Home Depot; (7) shutting down other businesses as non-essential even if they could show they could use PPE the same way a hospital used it; (8) shutting down places of worship but doing nothing with large scale protests; (9) firing people who didn't want to be vaccinated (supposedly this was going to include members of the military but none of them were actually removed from service and the vaccine was never given to all soldiers); (10) caving to the teachers unions and keeping schools closed even when it became fairly clear who the most vulnerable populations were, and so on. Couple those things with the number of states attorneys general suing pharmaceutical companies, the profits of pharmaceutical companies, the Trump Derangement Syndrome (and I'm not defending him at all), and the attempted lock down of thought about Covid that was not in step with Anthony Fauci and you wonder why the vaccine wasn't attractive to some people?? We were told the vaccine would prevent Covid, then that changed to prevent Covid deaths, then that changed to lessen the symptoms? It is not the people who have lost the inability to interpret information. It is the government's inability to put out a truthful message. For a physician who spent years understanding the nature of disease and so on it might seem very simple but for everyone else it was panic and then rage.
Yes, this! I, too, believe that the vaccine helped more than it hurt. My daughter is a critical care nurse and it was terrible for that period before the vaccine release. And yes it didn’t stop but it definitely slowed and outcomes were better. But the response was terrible, everything you mentioned. We are still suffering the effects of the stupid policies that the government enforced. And what really burns me up is the way the monsters wanted to hold on to their power as long as they could possibly get away with it. And monster-in-chief is still in the White House. Although to be fair, he’s not the one who’s really in control.
Most people who comment on this site see quite clearly. For me, the COVID vaccine was junk that caused more harm than good. Never again. How many were killed with Remdesivir and ventilators?
Not to be facetious, but that is ludicrous. If you are in the hospital and near a ventilator, you are already close to dying. My bet is that a lot of the readers here know someone who died of COVID and still believe these kinds of ridiculous things.
Again, here is someone who can't analyze each facet individually, so instead they throw shade on all of it. What does Remdesivir have to do with vaccines? Or mandates have to do with ventilators? When a person disbelieves everything related to COVID, you have to start wondering.
And for the record, with all of the patients I watched die of respiratory failure due to COVID, I never saw anyone die of the vaccine. And to throw a little nuance at all of it, it is true that a person is nearly bulletproof from COVID in the first 3 months after being immunized. After that, you can get sick, but the fact remains that your odds of dying from COVID in 2021 were 90% higher if you were unimmunized.
Relating to the article, as long as we have crackpots that have to reflexively disagree with whatever Joe Biden says, we will have a segment of the population unprepared to harvest correct information.
Thank you for being the voice of reason. I know 4 people who died. None were vaccinated. Two were nurse practitioners who encouraged patients not to get the vaccine.
If you were an unimmunized 20 year old, your odds of getting COVID-19 were the same as the odds of an immunized 50 year old getting it, and odds of dying were lower, per CDC. Did many healthy 20 somethings simply decide they didnt need better than that? Many with suspicion of the medical system, like the African Americans that marched on Barlclay Center in protest, did. Many with needle phobia also did.
Your 90% of people dying from unvaccinated - does that include those who died pre-vaccine? Also, of those who were unvaccinated, typically how old were they? What co-morbidities did they have? You are throwing out a figure out there that in and of itself is far from a complete story.
The efficacy of the Covid vaccine is far from 100%. Now, flu shots often have fairly low efficacy (some years < 50%), but you don't see flu shots mandated among the general population. The Covid vaccine was oversold and over-enforced.
Now, lest you think I am anti-Vaxx, I can tell you that this fall I got both the Covid booster and flu shot. But then I am in my 60s and somewhat overweight. I weighed the risks and felt it was better for me to get the shot.
The covid mRNA technology was a new , inadequately tested ,technology that was forced on the country and the world. It is a medical scandal of gargantuan proportions. No one has been held accountable. In this case it should be included with the lockdown and mask fiascos .
My point about age group was assessing risk properly. "Unvaccinated" wasn't the only risk factor and the tiny percentage of people 18-29 who died of the disease mostly had other comorbidities like obesity and diabetes. We knew all of that in early 2021, but no one bothered to communicate it. There was no reason for healthy people 18-29 without comorbidities to get vaccinated, because there was virtually zero risk to them from the disease (perhaps if they had a sick relative to avoid transmitting to).
We also could have more effectively communicated on other risk factors to save more lives. A 55+ year old diabetic person who was vaccinated should have been wearing N95 masks in public thru mid 2022 (nobody ever should have worn surgical or cloth masks, nearly pointless). Until omicron hit and cleared the pandemic mostly, they were at significant risk still. Instead, people got vaccinated and acted immune.
Your 90% number may be accurate for you, but the CDC had the share of vaccinated as a fraction of all deaths at 20% by fall 2021, and by summer 2022 it was 50% due to waning vax effectiveness versus omicron and the 4:1 ratio of vax to unvax. I.e. at 50%, the vax is reasonably protective but with 4x as many people vaccinated, the deaths turned out equal by that point.
Serious question: how many of the deaths were from people that were 20-30 year old healthy caucasians? Do you think that 20-30 year old caucasians with no risk factors needed to get vaccinated? Did you have a concern at all that no one ever was straight with people about what actual risk factors there were beyond age? And who really needed to be concerned about vaccination? Would more people have believed public health officials if they acted more trustworthy and ended up more trusted?
How did it help things that they went right on and scared everyone into vaccinating their kids for mostly no reason?
I think it is a fine idea for 20-30 year olds to get vaccinated. We saw a few healthy young people die from COVID. Even in that age group, the risks of the vaccine were lower than the risks of the disease. The margin is a lot slimmer for sure. Even young men who were more likely to get myocarditis from immunization were safer getting the vaccine. Keep in mind the myocarditis is caused by an immune reaction to the viral protein, so myocarditis was an occurrence with the disease as well.
In our hypercritical polarized environment, it is just plain hard. They could have done better to let go of masking sooner when it seemed like it didn't work. They could have abandoned the idea of vaccinating kids a lot sooner. We thought those were meaningful interventions early on, but they just plain aren't. Definitely should have let kids back in school sooner. My state did that, based on the best evidence in the fall 2020. We thought it was going to be OK, but it would be a lie that my hospital staff didn't hold their breath a bit hoping our caseload wouldn't explode. It is terrible that other states didn't follow us sooner. As far as getting more people immunized, it seems like there were just going to be conspiracy theories, exaggerations and all out denials of the truth no matter what. Because Joe Biden said to get vaccinated, some people would refuse based on that alone.
I also would suggest dropping the phrase "the vaccine" when referring broadly to risks. Even Moderna and Pfizer were massively different products. There is a reason several countries banned use of Moderna in young men, and not Pfizer, having to do with the specifics of the vaccine and some bad choices made by Moderna about choice of antigen. Let's just say choosing your antigen to be a naturally bioactive product in an active form is not the greatest idea for a vaccine anyone ever had in a world where attenuation is common. Pfizer got it right.
No one had any true measure of the risks of the vaccine in 2021. The new technology mRNA vaccines had been administered to very few people for a few months, so it was perfectly reasonable for any individual to be concerned about long term safety. Just look at how H1N1 vaccines turned out to cause severe debilitating narcolepsy in up to 1 in 400, and European countries that mandated them came to regret it.
I have no idea how a doctor can think that masking didnt work. The best evidence out there that it did, which is not in any trial or controlled setting, is that we went from ER and other hospital docs dying from the disease to very few in-hospital transmissions.
In fact, a few outbreaks in hospitals were traced to staff members eating together unmasked rather than patient exposure while properly masked.
I am not against getting vaccinated but everyone around me are all up to date on flu/covid shots. I stopped getting boosters some time last year. I’ve tested every time someone at work or in the house is positive and some of my house mates are the grandkids! I never got COVID.
Makes me wonder if getting shots apparently I don’t need is in my best interest.
I have a question for you. I have lupus SLE and autoimmune emphysema. I got 3 jabs, my last one on 12/17/2021. I came down with covid 18 days later. I was very sick but when I went to the ER for tachycardia (168 BPM at rest sitting watching TV) two starkly different things happened. A nurse told me she was seeing people die from the boosters and vaxed people dying from omicron (I sobbed so hard and bitterly after this they sent her out and had to shoot me up with Ativan so I could stop shaking enough to keep the heart monitor on) The doctor I saw later, when I asked him about what the nurse said, he replied "had you not gotten that booster you would be upstairs in the ICU with the rest of our unvaccinated patients." I was so confused. I was caring for my mother so didn't have time to research about it much but after she passed in March 2022 I started following Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, Karen Kingston, Steve Kirsch, Dr. John Campbell, and others. I saw so many people posting about loved ones who died suddenly or developed turbo cancer after the shots. I have been a wreck for the past year spending every waking moment in terror grief and fear of sudden death from the Vax or from covid reinfection. My job requires me to ride multiple buses a day and go in and out of people's private residences. I haven't gotten a flu shot in the past two years bc I read horrible things about how they are putting mrna in the flu shots and there is a depopulation agenda. Right now I have a bit of a sore throat and am scared maybe I screwed myself by not getting the flu or covid shots since 2021 but I was just so scared I just didn't want to die bc all I did was work and caregive the past few years. All I wanted in the world was one good day. Will my past flu and covid shots from 2021 still help if I get sick this year? Do I have any T cell memory? My sister had a covid induced cardiac arrest and arterial dissection in her brainstem in 2020 before any shots so I mask whenever I can but still drink coffee in small cafes between clients every day as it is the only pleasure I have left in my life after all that has happened and when I couldn't even do that I thought about ending it all. Any advice helps I don't know what to believe and I just don't want to die!
My 85 yo uncle died a month ago. He was a month out from chemo for bladder cancer. Had a GI bleed. Got a blood clot. Happened to test positive for Covid despite no respiratory symptoms and he died. Yup, labeled a Covid death. May he rest in peace.
I am very very sorry about your uncle and may his memory be a blessing to you and your family. But covid can and does cause blood clots as the spike protein targets endothelial cells. My twin sister got "mild" covid in spring 2020 and suffered a cardiac arrest one month after infection and an arterial dissection 4 months after that. She is permanently disabled and this has destroyed my family. It never ever would have ever happened had she not been infected with the bioweapon.
You can't actually say that, folk die from complications of the common cold and the common 'flu every day. The only thing a virus or bacteria "thinks" about is propogating; having your personal interests at heart aren't part of their programming.
If the lab had been Fort Detrick and actually IN the bioweapon business, the likelihood of the Kung Flu getting out would have been much reduced; but still not zero. Instead the lab was doing research without its' head screwed on and the lab's backers only in making moolah and getting around their own pesky regulations and safety measures.
Their own personal interests in otherwords.
Everybody dies and we need to get over it. Wrapping everyone in cotton wool... well, the paradoxical thing is that is known to make things worse and has been forever.
I'd like to think that our government would be transparent if something we made at Detrick got loose, but history has shown a strong desire for humans to save face.
I understand that but he had been in the hospital for other severe health complications. To say he died from Covid? No. Nobody in the family agrees with that and even protested the designation. “But but but you can get money.”
Please find the nearest mirror, because you, dear Ruth, are the biggest part of the problem. Now go get your jab, don you mask and sit alone in your basement as your rights are trashed by these authoritarian lunatics.
I’m sure Yuri B. understands very well 20 million dead. He merely asserts other truths of equal or greater importance. More government is not the answer nor vaccine experiments on our population packing the pockets of big pharma.
I understand the figure but question the reliability for a wide variety of reasons. As yet unexplored, to my knowledge, is the impact of the virus on the ability to count - cases, mortality or votes. But even if it was that deadly that means the former president was right to call for an immediate travel ban. And instead he was demonized. There are things worse than dying. There are things worth dying for. And if one lives in fear of dying they are not living a quality life. Covid placed a nose ring in the bull that was the American people.
Ruth, I will concur with some of your friends comments back to you, 20 million deaths, but not all from Covid.
We will never know the real numbers, because the money trail is being covered by time and other issues. What we did hear and learn is that many people, companies and institutions all benefitted $financially from following Covid mandates / directions from the cities, states and our government. Most, not all, but most of this occurred in 2021 and beyond.
Why does everyone think we can't know the real numbers? I totally agree with all who are saying that the numbers were falsified to get additional US gov't $ for each "Covid" death, but a fairly predictable number of people die each and every year, and it was pretty easy to see for 2020 and 2021 how many more people died than usual. Yes, some of that was depression/suicide from lockdowns, but that was more than offset by the reductions in, for example, traffic fatalities.
So those numbers, known as "excess deaths", are pretty trustworthy as an estimate of the pandemic-caused deaths.
I just looked and the excess deaths for March 2020-March 2022 which is the pandemic period is pretty close to the nominal 1,150,000 COVID deaths. I don't believe the two are equal, because as I said I do believe you are all right that there is fudging going on. What I think it means is that the fudging is 10-15%, not a larger portion.
10-15% fudging makes the real covid death number closer to 1,000,000 instead of 1,150,000. Then why would the excess deaths number match the higher number? Well the real 1,000,000 plus another 150,000 deaths that are things like COVID lockdown depression suicides and regular old annual increases in opioid deaths that got lost in the shuffle, since no one's doing much of anything about those.
The cure has killed far more than the virus. Most of the dead attributed to Covid died from the medical care Remdisver has a 54% death rate in its trials. The death rate from ventilators is way over 80%. They died of pneumonia caused by bacteria but were denied antibiotics. They were isolated and cut off from emotional support they were denied basic nutrition and hydration. They were given massive doses of life ending drugs. The medical industrial complex got paid the more that died. They were denied early and effective treatments. One lawyer who sued hospitals to force them to give ivermectin to people that were denied it won 50% of his cases and 100% of those patients survived. We have witness a crime against humanity by the very people tasked to protect us. Fauci funded the research that became Covid-19 and then he lied to the President and the people to cover his tracks. He is as evil a person that has ever walked this planted to knowingly and purposely cause so many needless deaths.
The covid shots were NOT a cure, and were never even close to adequately tested. They were forced on everyone with the lie that they were not only safe but that that they will prevent transmission. The batches that were injected into the public were manufactured with a different technology than the small batches used in the inadequate study population. The mass manufactured process included DNA and this was never disclosed to the public. It was deliberately sloppy and dishonest. The horrors of this fiasco are still unfolding and the people suffering are largely being ignored. There is zero recourse because the pharma companies were given full immunity. These are incontrovertible facts .That covid killed many people is also a fact but does not justify the lying for profit that went on.
Our response to Covid was horrific. 165 million people were pushed into $2 a day poverty starting in 2020 because of lockdowns. Poverty declined every year since 1998, but 25 years of gains were totally wiped out because of our hysterical response to Covid.
Having said this, vaccines worked and were very beneficial for elderly people and those suffering with severe health issues. The problem was forcing healthy young people to take vaccines.
Did they really work?? My jury is still out. I have so many friends who got COVID shortly after boosting and they trotted out the old saw "it would have been so much worse if I han't gotten the booster" Well how the heck do any of us know??
I have immediate family who worked in healthcare (urban hospital situation in one of the worst hit cities) I heard lots of stories! Yes- anecdotal evidence, but no real proof that people w/ boosters, who contracted Covid had milder cases than they would have if they hadn't been boosted. Almost impossible to prove!
Talk about cure worse than disease - Keith Moon died because he was attempting to get off alcohol and was allowed unsupervised use of a "withdrawal helper" drug that kills when taken in large amounts or with alcohol.
I say this as as someone who regrets my shots and lives every waking moment in abject terror of dying from them--
For ppl like my sister, the disease was worse. She was infected in spring 2020 and suffered a cardiac arrest and arterial dissection in her brainstem. She is disabled for life with permanent heart, brain, & nerve damage. It has destroyed my family forever and I beg God each day to make it so it all never happened.
Confirms the opinion that NO "public" "health" "organization" (except Sweden?) is to be trusted. Hope that the Alternative Media keeps their fingers on the pulses identified by the author.
oh Herr, dont forget about the mail in ballot option that almost every state enacted, many without authority in their constitutions. what a farce, and yes, 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
Without the mail in ballot, Trump would have never voted, and thousands of people who lack the health to go out and vote, couldn't vote. When there is legal evidence of the 2020 election being stolen, I'll believe it. Not one court case was decided in Trump's favor, not even by the judges he appointed. If this unproven accusation continues, no one will ever believe that the candidate of their choice lost an election. No, I didn't and won't vote for Biden or Trump.
I did not say mail in ballots are "bad", they were clearly abused by the governments.
Who knows if Trump voted or not. Im not sure that has any bearing on this. Mail in has been avail for years, and esp for those "thousands" who dont have health situations, it is a useful tool, albeit it is badly abused by many.
re evidence ; the majority of cases brought were dismissed by judges, as the plaintiff(s) had shown " no standing" to bring the case. I understand "standing" to mean, the person bringing the suit needed to show harm to themselves by a direct action. My reply is this; the judges and administrative systems in various states are hiding behind/using some legalese that blocks the states from scrutiny in this area.
Stepping back emotionally, I think a rational person would see the dozens or maybe hundreds of purported voter fraud claims and frankly cheating that was done around the US, as something to question.
Im sure you and others here have seen many of the examples brought forward the past 3 years, and the cases dismissed. (Keri Lake and Arizona is a classic and it needs sunlight). Perhaps it is for the reason that it is too late, and I believe the judges and others dont want to deal with the fallout/implications arising from a needed new election.
Voting results are supposed to happen "overnight". I propose mail in with a valid reason and ID, all in person voting same day, with proper/acceptable id shown. No excuses for the "ID excuse". Anyone can get an ID if they care enough to vote. I care, I register and I show up in person. Why isn't ID required for mail in ballots then? Hell, my grown kids were still getting mail in ballots for the state of WA, when they had moved 10 years later to another state. The voting system is corrupted by all the "special interest, special needs" groups. We can address the special needs folks as one offs, not the entire population.
How could there possibly be everyone voting on the same day? How would you accomodate the mile long lines and the people who have to work on that day? Which "special needs, special interest groups" are you refering to? What would be a "valid reason" for mail in? How do you present a "valid ID" for a mail in ballot. I agree about a valid ID to vote. I had to have one in Florida. I like the Australian version; everyone who is a citizen has to vote or be fined. I don't know if they have write ins. I'd keep that part.
As to your other assurtions, I don't know enough to comment. When someone says they "believe," I generally classify that under opinion. People can believe anything they want to believe and that doesn't mean it's true.
1. The WHO is a corrupt arm of the Gates foundation, and Davos, seeking to control and issue global digital currency.
2. The CDC and FDA are bought and paid for by Pharma.
3. The guidance on controlling Covid was neither effective nor safe. Millions were harmed from lockdowns, masks, social distancing and the like.
4. We threw our children and elderly under the bus.
5. We sacrificed our informed consent and were manipulated into taking a gene therapy that was neither safe nor effective. We were lied to— and still are— about the safety of these products.
6. People are eager to prove they are good and are easily led to slaughter by virtue signaling and propaganda.
7. Covid was the biggest wealth transfer of all time.
8. Science and data are easily manipulated and bought.
9. The governent actively censored any narrative that didn’t go along. Even when they were right. The government is not our friend, and does not have our best interests at heart.
So, who's ready for another round of lockdowns? Another year of missed school for kids. Another 15 pounds of obesity and inactivity. Another year of every event being shut down. Another year of families not allowed to spend time together. Another year of neighbors calling the police on anyone for having a party. Another year of everyone retreating further into their online world.
Should lockdowns be issued I am fairly confident rational Americans will have something to say about that. We will not tolerate that again. Probably for at least, hopefully, a generation.
“China Says This New Outbreak Is Nothing to Worry About. How Can We Be Sure?”
What in the wide world of sports would give anyone any reason to trust a single thing, “China says,” especially when the word “outbreak” is attached to it.
You know what's really frightening? That in any part of "transparency," the writer would cite WHO as a trustworthy organization. If you rely on WHO or any of the other nonsense public healthy agencies from the U.S. to the U.N. to every other country, we're doomed.
Our boy Biden, sitting in China’s back pocket, will be ineffective again. He refused to push for accountability with the origins of CoViD 19 so now we are left to guess about the Wuhan lab procedures that should be verified as now adequate. China stonewalls the rest of the world when it comes to a potentially deadly disease originating there, and Biden doesn’t push for transparency. I am told that over 1.1 million Americans have died of CoViD - imagine the attention if that were car crashes or food poisoning popping up again. China killed over a million of us without firing a single shot. They are warping our minds and tracking our movements with TikTok. They are sapping our treasure with unfair trade and theft of intellectual property. And our boy Biden took bribes from them. We are truly f***ed.
I guarantee you the world is not shutting down again. That is one thing we learned from the Covid debacle. Good luck with a fast tracked “vaccine” too.
"...China censored vital information about human-to-human transmission. Not only that but China penalized Healthcare workers for trying to speak the truth." Just in case anyone missed it, so did the Biden administration. The odious gnome Anthony Fauci outright lied. Repeatedly.
One of the more ironic aspects of all of the lying and obfuscation by Fauci and CDC is that they missed a golden opportunity to actually prevent the outbreak. We KNEW and KNOW that the best upfront preventative for any infection is a healthy immune system. Exercise, sunlight (or vitamin D), diet and so on. We never heard a word about these from the CDC. Why were they silent when Cuomo, Whitmer and others mixed the sick with the well in nursing homes: we KNEW and KNOW that this bordered on the criminal.
What about saline spray - research has shown it to be effective at neutralizing the virus, and drastically reducing hospitalizations and deaths. What about UV light - the National Academies concluded it was effective in killing both covid and other viruses. Why didn't we hear then - why aren't we hearing now - about these? Too "old school?" Not "Big ____ (substitute Pharma, Government ...) enough? The CDC's failing the covid pandemic is the best evidence we have against universal health care.
When hearing of a new potential outbreak of disease, the first thought that comes to mind is that the Democrats need a pretext for again removing all election integrity measures. This is then reinforced when learning that the potential threat comes from China, which has long been, shall we say, "friends" with the Democrats. Is this a reasonable reaction to have? While it could well be completely wrong, it's certainly not irrational, given recent history. And that speaks to a bigger problem.
WHO you gonna believe? WHO. No, Who is on first. Here we go again. We are told we need to put our faith and trust in global and multi national organizations once again. And of course with zero transparency ( calling Jen Psaki and Karine Jean Pierre who are the transparency twins, or so they say). Please please please do not bring back the Fauch for a return engagement.
The minute anyone says anything that begins with the words “China says…” doubt must immediately follow. From business leaders to the official medical world to our foreign policy establishment, they keep hoping, with fingers crossed, that Chinese leadership might be telling the truth this time. For China, there is no punishment for lies, as we saw when Xi was applauded by US business execs in CA recently. A travel ban for not sharing information with other countries might be the incentive needed for truth. Can that be nonpartisan?
The “cure” to COVID was far worse than the disease. Ineffective lockdowns, masks, school closures, and money printing were the main sources of societal and economic harm - not a disease with a 99.9% survival rate in healthy young people. COVID vaccines and masking never worked; these lies and mandates destroyed all trust in public health. Many people like me lost their jobs over this madness.
The last thing we need is to give more power to failed corrupt organizations like the WHO, CDC, and Big Pharma. Follow the Great Barrington Declaration instead. And never, ever trust the tyrannical CCP or its Democrat court eunuchs who admire absolute power: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/amnesty-international-silence-ccp-esg-covid
Don’t forget the 6T spent. Massive inflation that we are still feeling the effects from.
And worse - never a hearing by either the United States Congress or the UN - on culpability for the release and spread of the virus and damages to be paid for it. We might start by canceling $6 trillion of the Treasury debt held by the perpetrators of the bio weapon.
This is the answer to why we failed to learn - zero accountability for egregious acts and omissions. Just move along, nothing to see here.
Thomas Sowell warns that it is foolishly to entrust decisions to those who pay no price if they're wrong.
I’m not sure why countries can’t bring product liability cases against the vaccine manufacturers? They didn’t work.
US Federal Law barred such actions as part of the "war speed" development of vaccines.
I know that individuals can't sue for injuries but I didn't know if that included countries who paid for a product that did not live up to the claims, "blocks transmission" and "prevents one from getting the disease."
And says nothing about why the US - and other affect nations - are too timid to seek reparations from China. Unless they were all in on the game.
Well but Joe Biden made those claims, so sue him. The companies said things like "95% effective at preventing hospitalization". Was that not true?
I think you are conflating two different things.
1. Knowledge of a disease
2. Response to that disease
Your issue appears to be with the response to COVID and your criticisms are legitimate.
I believe this article is talking about the flow of information related to a disease so treatments can be developed and proper precautions taken. What those treatments might be and what precautions are appropriate can only be determined when we have the knowledge to execute them.
Further, I would point out, that without good information, people will instantly assume the worst, which is not an unreasonable response to unknown risk.
And, to be fair, COVID was not a nothingburger, it just was not what the media sold us. At some point though, we will have a more deadly pandemic, it just seems statistically inevitable.
To be fair? Let's be honest. The Chinese Communist government lied about Covid -19 from the start. And who aided and abetted those lies when he chirped in January 2020 that "da Choineeze ah beyun fully transparent?" Why none other than the malevolent little shite Anthony Fauci, - who funded the lab from which Covid emerged in the first place.
I think it disingenuous to say that. You cannot diagnose or treat a disease, much less relay reliable information about it, without knowing what it is. As relates to Covid 19, we will never know because the handling was botched from.the outset. And not just by the CCP.
Except it is a cold. Colds kill the weak.
It is at least part cold but when it hit the news in early 2020 I started reading. I read scientific articles and while I did not understand some of the technical.virology jargon I did understand the words that strung it together. The furrow or cleave site was frequently discussed because that was why it spread so easily. You know what has a very similar cleavage site? HIV. Note that the new strand is HV.1
Yeah? Its a cold. We were exposed on December 8, 2019. Possibly the worst cold ever. No amount of Jewish penicillin alleviated it. I almost didn't go to work one day. By the third episode It barely slowed me down.
Your Milage May Vary.
It is a virus. Penicillin is an antibiotic. Antibiotics are useless against viruses. But I am curious, do you think it is a naturally occurring virus?
"At some point though, we will have a more deadly pandemic, it just seems statistically inevitable".
The most troubling aspect of this report is the apparent resistance of the bacterium (M. pneumoniae) deemed responsible for the outbreak to antibiotics, which in China is estimated to be 70-90%. Bacterium resistance to antibiotics has been increasing worldwide for decades. China is the world’s biggest petri dish. Sooner or later a super bug will emerge from it or India. I wonder if the geniuses at CDC are testing the efficacy of our antibiotics for M. pneumoniae and other troublesome bacterium. I wonder if they’re investigating our production capacity to produce effective antibiotics or if we even have the capacity. I wonder if they feel any urgency for developing new antibiotics to combat lethal bacterium strains resistant to any current antibiotics that will inevitably hit our shores.
I couldn't help thinking, as I was reading this, that the current victims are largely children--precisely the same group that Covid did not affect as harshly.
Coincidence?
That was one of my first thoughts too. That and the idea that there are no such things as coincidences.
I thought this too, but I had to stop. It is frightening to contemplate it.
Maybe but kids dont have immune history. It's as easily explained if a cousin of this bug went around 6-7 years ago and most people got antibodies to it then. Kids wouldnt have them.
Maybe it's also explained by the children having been vaccinated against COVID-19 are now immunocompromised.
SinoVax the Chinese vaccine is a traditional one, not mRNA. So all American children would be immunocomprimised by the normal vax schdeule by that logic.
The answers to your questions rely on if there's money to be made and how much.
Work on improving your immune system.
Sound advice. Fortunately for me, mine is about as robust it it gets. Proper diet, vigorous exercise and choosing ones parents wisely works.
LoL. Side note any relation to "Buttons"?
He was a second cousin. It seems he got my share of surfing genes.
Thank you for opening this with a great "organizing" comment, in that it clarifies the matter being discussed.
Speaking of the flow of information, it was disheartening that so few "new" pieces of information were allowed to come out of the CDC, NIH, or other involved government agencies. We only ever received policy prescriptions, rather than new findings and data. Meanwhile, the UK was regularly releasing information about new strains of COVID, and a great deal of information was coming out of Israel as well. I would love for an investigation, whether journalistic or congressional, to be made of the question: How did the CDC perform so poorly, particularly in comparison to some other national health organizations whose budgets are some small fraction of the $7 billion (?) the CDC had in 2020. Such an investigation should also consider the limited messaging by the CDC to be contributory to whatever crisis of "mis/disinformation" that followed.
Teacher's unions influence? Dem politicians? Could that be the difference?
Nope. Here’s what I know for sure: public health has lost all credibility and cannot be trusted.
He didn’t say it was a nothing burger.
Wrung out lemon, you are correct, as this article is about flow of information which is dubious when everything is a state secret.
It is nothing. It was nothing. The next will also be nothing.
It was a cold. You and those like you are cowardly. I type that in the nicest way possible.
Being a doctor who cared for patients with COVID, one of the problems with our response is crazy nonsense like this. It was depressing to watch 90% of our COVID deaths be from unvaccinated people. Over and over and over, including some friends of mine. It is quite the conspiracy to think every hospital in the country kept seeing this trend and only deranged OB doctors were the ones to see something different. I fear a lot of people who read The Free Press seem to have lost the ability to interpret information because they are so mad about lockdowns, masks, the election and whatever else.
Vaccines should not be lumped together with masks, or lockdowns or whatever. Don't let your tribalism lump those things all together.
I am a Free Press reader and not anti-vaxx. However, I'm just curious about the 90% of Covid deaths be from unvaccinated people. Do you, then, include people who died before the vaccines were made available? My issue with the government response to all of this was (1) travel bans were seen as sinister and something that could not be enforced; (2) gov of NY and mayor of NYC telling people to go out to celebrate Lunar New Year because people in the other political party were asking questions; (3) not telling people who were symptomatic to wear masks initially because they thought those people would be discriminated against and then no one would want to wear a mask ... uh ... (4) telling people that just putting anything over their face was going to keep them safe; (5) requiring masks outside in open places; (6) having some people declared "essential" like workers at Home Depot; (7) shutting down other businesses as non-essential even if they could show they could use PPE the same way a hospital used it; (8) shutting down places of worship but doing nothing with large scale protests; (9) firing people who didn't want to be vaccinated (supposedly this was going to include members of the military but none of them were actually removed from service and the vaccine was never given to all soldiers); (10) caving to the teachers unions and keeping schools closed even when it became fairly clear who the most vulnerable populations were, and so on. Couple those things with the number of states attorneys general suing pharmaceutical companies, the profits of pharmaceutical companies, the Trump Derangement Syndrome (and I'm not defending him at all), and the attempted lock down of thought about Covid that was not in step with Anthony Fauci and you wonder why the vaccine wasn't attractive to some people?? We were told the vaccine would prevent Covid, then that changed to prevent Covid deaths, then that changed to lessen the symptoms? It is not the people who have lost the inability to interpret information. It is the government's inability to put out a truthful message. For a physician who spent years understanding the nature of disease and so on it might seem very simple but for everyone else it was panic and then rage.
Yes, this! I, too, believe that the vaccine helped more than it hurt. My daughter is a critical care nurse and it was terrible for that period before the vaccine release. And yes it didn’t stop but it definitely slowed and outcomes were better. But the response was terrible, everything you mentioned. We are still suffering the effects of the stupid policies that the government enforced. And what really burns me up is the way the monsters wanted to hold on to their power as long as they could possibly get away with it. And monster-in-chief is still in the White House. Although to be fair, he’s not the one who’s really in control.
Most people who comment on this site see quite clearly. For me, the COVID vaccine was junk that caused more harm than good. Never again. How many were killed with Remdesivir and ventilators?
Not to be facetious, but that is ludicrous. If you are in the hospital and near a ventilator, you are already close to dying. My bet is that a lot of the readers here know someone who died of COVID and still believe these kinds of ridiculous things.
Again, here is someone who can't analyze each facet individually, so instead they throw shade on all of it. What does Remdesivir have to do with vaccines? Or mandates have to do with ventilators? When a person disbelieves everything related to COVID, you have to start wondering.
And for the record, with all of the patients I watched die of respiratory failure due to COVID, I never saw anyone die of the vaccine. And to throw a little nuance at all of it, it is true that a person is nearly bulletproof from COVID in the first 3 months after being immunized. After that, you can get sick, but the fact remains that your odds of dying from COVID in 2021 were 90% higher if you were unimmunized.
Relating to the article, as long as we have crackpots that have to reflexively disagree with whatever Joe Biden says, we will have a segment of the population unprepared to harvest correct information.
Thank you for being the voice of reason. I know 4 people who died. None were vaccinated. Two were nurse practitioners who encouraged patients not to get the vaccine.
If you were an unimmunized 20 year old, your odds of getting COVID-19 were the same as the odds of an immunized 50 year old getting it, and odds of dying were lower, per CDC. Did many healthy 20 somethings simply decide they didnt need better than that? Many with suspicion of the medical system, like the African Americans that marched on Barlclay Center in protest, did. Many with needle phobia also did.
For my part I don't vaccinate. I'm ok with that decision killing me. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
What’s your opinion on mask wearing?
Your 90% of people dying from unvaccinated - does that include those who died pre-vaccine? Also, of those who were unvaccinated, typically how old were they? What co-morbidities did they have? You are throwing out a figure out there that in and of itself is far from a complete story.
The efficacy of the Covid vaccine is far from 100%. Now, flu shots often have fairly low efficacy (some years < 50%), but you don't see flu shots mandated among the general population. The Covid vaccine was oversold and over-enforced.
Now, lest you think I am anti-Vaxx, I can tell you that this fall I got both the Covid booster and flu shot. But then I am in my 60s and somewhat overweight. I weighed the risks and felt it was better for me to get the shot.
But universally mandate them? I don't think so.
The covid mRNA technology was a new , inadequately tested ,technology that was forced on the country and the world. It is a medical scandal of gargantuan proportions. No one has been held accountable. In this case it should be included with the lockdown and mask fiascos .
My point about age group was assessing risk properly. "Unvaccinated" wasn't the only risk factor and the tiny percentage of people 18-29 who died of the disease mostly had other comorbidities like obesity and diabetes. We knew all of that in early 2021, but no one bothered to communicate it. There was no reason for healthy people 18-29 without comorbidities to get vaccinated, because there was virtually zero risk to them from the disease (perhaps if they had a sick relative to avoid transmitting to).
We also could have more effectively communicated on other risk factors to save more lives. A 55+ year old diabetic person who was vaccinated should have been wearing N95 masks in public thru mid 2022 (nobody ever should have worn surgical or cloth masks, nearly pointless). Until omicron hit and cleared the pandemic mostly, they were at significant risk still. Instead, people got vaccinated and acted immune.
Your 90% number may be accurate for you, but the CDC had the share of vaccinated as a fraction of all deaths at 20% by fall 2021, and by summer 2022 it was 50% due to waning vax effectiveness versus omicron and the 4:1 ratio of vax to unvax. I.e. at 50%, the vax is reasonably protective but with 4x as many people vaccinated, the deaths turned out equal by that point.
Serious question: how many of the deaths were from people that were 20-30 year old healthy caucasians? Do you think that 20-30 year old caucasians with no risk factors needed to get vaccinated? Did you have a concern at all that no one ever was straight with people about what actual risk factors there were beyond age? And who really needed to be concerned about vaccination? Would more people have believed public health officials if they acted more trustworthy and ended up more trusted?
How did it help things that they went right on and scared everyone into vaccinating their kids for mostly no reason?
I think it is a fine idea for 20-30 year olds to get vaccinated. We saw a few healthy young people die from COVID. Even in that age group, the risks of the vaccine were lower than the risks of the disease. The margin is a lot slimmer for sure. Even young men who were more likely to get myocarditis from immunization were safer getting the vaccine. Keep in mind the myocarditis is caused by an immune reaction to the viral protein, so myocarditis was an occurrence with the disease as well.
In our hypercritical polarized environment, it is just plain hard. They could have done better to let go of masking sooner when it seemed like it didn't work. They could have abandoned the idea of vaccinating kids a lot sooner. We thought those were meaningful interventions early on, but they just plain aren't. Definitely should have let kids back in school sooner. My state did that, based on the best evidence in the fall 2020. We thought it was going to be OK, but it would be a lie that my hospital staff didn't hold their breath a bit hoping our caseload wouldn't explode. It is terrible that other states didn't follow us sooner. As far as getting more people immunized, it seems like there were just going to be conspiracy theories, exaggerations and all out denials of the truth no matter what. Because Joe Biden said to get vaccinated, some people would refuse based on that alone.
I also would suggest dropping the phrase "the vaccine" when referring broadly to risks. Even Moderna and Pfizer were massively different products. There is a reason several countries banned use of Moderna in young men, and not Pfizer, having to do with the specifics of the vaccine and some bad choices made by Moderna about choice of antigen. Let's just say choosing your antigen to be a naturally bioactive product in an active form is not the greatest idea for a vaccine anyone ever had in a world where attenuation is common. Pfizer got it right.
No one had any true measure of the risks of the vaccine in 2021. The new technology mRNA vaccines had been administered to very few people for a few months, so it was perfectly reasonable for any individual to be concerned about long term safety. Just look at how H1N1 vaccines turned out to cause severe debilitating narcolepsy in up to 1 in 400, and European countries that mandated them came to regret it.
I have no idea how a doctor can think that masking didnt work. The best evidence out there that it did, which is not in any trial or controlled setting, is that we went from ER and other hospital docs dying from the disease to very few in-hospital transmissions.
In fact, a few outbreaks in hospitals were traced to staff members eating together unmasked rather than patient exposure while properly masked.
I am not against getting vaccinated but everyone around me are all up to date on flu/covid shots. I stopped getting boosters some time last year. I’ve tested every time someone at work or in the house is positive and some of my house mates are the grandkids! I never got COVID.
Makes me wonder if getting shots apparently I don’t need is in my best interest.
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I have a question for you. I have lupus SLE and autoimmune emphysema. I got 3 jabs, my last one on 12/17/2021. I came down with covid 18 days later. I was very sick but when I went to the ER for tachycardia (168 BPM at rest sitting watching TV) two starkly different things happened. A nurse told me she was seeing people die from the boosters and vaxed people dying from omicron (I sobbed so hard and bitterly after this they sent her out and had to shoot me up with Ativan so I could stop shaking enough to keep the heart monitor on) The doctor I saw later, when I asked him about what the nurse said, he replied "had you not gotten that booster you would be upstairs in the ICU with the rest of our unvaccinated patients." I was so confused. I was caring for my mother so didn't have time to research about it much but after she passed in March 2022 I started following Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, Karen Kingston, Steve Kirsch, Dr. John Campbell, and others. I saw so many people posting about loved ones who died suddenly or developed turbo cancer after the shots. I have been a wreck for the past year spending every waking moment in terror grief and fear of sudden death from the Vax or from covid reinfection. My job requires me to ride multiple buses a day and go in and out of people's private residences. I haven't gotten a flu shot in the past two years bc I read horrible things about how they are putting mrna in the flu shots and there is a depopulation agenda. Right now I have a bit of a sore throat and am scared maybe I screwed myself by not getting the flu or covid shots since 2021 but I was just so scared I just didn't want to die bc all I did was work and caregive the past few years. All I wanted in the world was one good day. Will my past flu and covid shots from 2021 still help if I get sick this year? Do I have any T cell memory? My sister had a covid induced cardiac arrest and arterial dissection in her brainstem in 2020 before any shots so I mask whenever I can but still drink coffee in small cafes between clients every day as it is the only pleasure I have left in my life after all that has happened and when I couldn't even do that I thought about ending it all. Any advice helps I don't know what to believe and I just don't want to die!
The cure was far worse than the disease? What part of 20 million dead do you not understand?
Dead FROM covid? Or dead WITH covid? Did that gun shot wound to the head matter?
My 85 yo uncle died a month ago. He was a month out from chemo for bladder cancer. Had a GI bleed. Got a blood clot. Happened to test positive for Covid despite no respiratory symptoms and he died. Yup, labeled a Covid death. May he rest in peace.
Sorry for you loss. How much money did the hospital get for that diagnosis?
Well I know for a fact the family received burial money, not sure about the hospital.
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/historic/coronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance
I am very very sorry about your uncle and may his memory be a blessing to you and your family. But covid can and does cause blood clots as the spike protein targets endothelial cells. My twin sister got "mild" covid in spring 2020 and suffered a cardiac arrest one month after infection and an arterial dissection 4 months after that. She is permanently disabled and this has destroyed my family. It never ever would have ever happened had she not been infected with the bioweapon.
You can't actually say that, folk die from complications of the common cold and the common 'flu every day. The only thing a virus or bacteria "thinks" about is propogating; having your personal interests at heart aren't part of their programming.
If the lab had been Fort Detrick and actually IN the bioweapon business, the likelihood of the Kung Flu getting out would have been much reduced; but still not zero. Instead the lab was doing research without its' head screwed on and the lab's backers only in making moolah and getting around their own pesky regulations and safety measures.
Their own personal interests in otherwords.
Everybody dies and we need to get over it. Wrapping everyone in cotton wool... well, the paradoxical thing is that is known to make things worse and has been forever.
I'd like to think that our government would be transparent if something we made at Detrick got loose, but history has shown a strong desire for humans to save face.
I understand that but he had been in the hospital for other severe health complications. To say he died from Covid? No. Nobody in the family agrees with that and even protested the designation. “But but but you can get money.”
True that! When $'s drive a "cause of death," funny things happen.
Please find the nearest mirror, because you, dear Ruth, are the biggest part of the problem. Now go get your jab, don you mask and sit alone in your basement as your rights are trashed by these authoritarian lunatics.
Please don’t sugar coat it Bruce!
Remember when I said "being a dick means never having to say you're sorry?"
Found a mirror. I look cute!
Well you might have really differing views on the COVID response and jab but at least you’ve got a great sense of humor!
Did you manage to take off the mask?
I’m sure Yuri B. understands very well 20 million dead. He merely asserts other truths of equal or greater importance. More government is not the answer nor vaccine experiments on our population packing the pockets of big pharma.
I understand the figure but question the reliability for a wide variety of reasons. As yet unexplored, to my knowledge, is the impact of the virus on the ability to count - cases, mortality or votes. But even if it was that deadly that means the former president was right to call for an immediate travel ban. And instead he was demonized. There are things worse than dying. There are things worth dying for. And if one lives in fear of dying they are not living a quality life. Covid placed a nose ring in the bull that was the American people.
"There are things worse than dying. There are things worth dying for. And if one lives in fear of dying they are not living a quality life."
Lynne, I love this!!! You have a future in bumper sticker quotes :)
I am looking for a side gig! 🤣
Ruth, I will concur with some of your friends comments back to you, 20 million deaths, but not all from Covid.
We will never know the real numbers, because the money trail is being covered by time and other issues. What we did hear and learn is that many people, companies and institutions all benefitted $financially from following Covid mandates / directions from the cities, states and our government. Most, not all, but most of this occurred in 2021 and beyond.
Why does everyone think we can't know the real numbers? I totally agree with all who are saying that the numbers were falsified to get additional US gov't $ for each "Covid" death, but a fairly predictable number of people die each and every year, and it was pretty easy to see for 2020 and 2021 how many more people died than usual. Yes, some of that was depression/suicide from lockdowns, but that was more than offset by the reductions in, for example, traffic fatalities.
So those numbers, known as "excess deaths", are pretty trustworthy as an estimate of the pandemic-caused deaths.
I just looked and the excess deaths for March 2020-March 2022 which is the pandemic period is pretty close to the nominal 1,150,000 COVID deaths. I don't believe the two are equal, because as I said I do believe you are all right that there is fudging going on. What I think it means is that the fudging is 10-15%, not a larger portion.
10-15% fudging makes the real covid death number closer to 1,000,000 instead of 1,150,000. Then why would the excess deaths number match the higher number? Well the real 1,000,000 plus another 150,000 deaths that are things like COVID lockdown depression suicides and regular old annual increases in opioid deaths that got lost in the shuffle, since no one's doing much of anything about those.
Everybody dies. Get over it.
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The cure has killed far more than the virus. Most of the dead attributed to Covid died from the medical care Remdisver has a 54% death rate in its trials. The death rate from ventilators is way over 80%. They died of pneumonia caused by bacteria but were denied antibiotics. They were isolated and cut off from emotional support they were denied basic nutrition and hydration. They were given massive doses of life ending drugs. The medical industrial complex got paid the more that died. They were denied early and effective treatments. One lawyer who sued hospitals to force them to give ivermectin to people that were denied it won 50% of his cases and 100% of those patients survived. We have witness a crime against humanity by the very people tasked to protect us. Fauci funded the research that became Covid-19 and then he lied to the President and the people to cover his tracks. He is as evil a person that has ever walked this planted to knowingly and purposely cause so many needless deaths.
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The covid shots were NOT a cure, and were never even close to adequately tested. They were forced on everyone with the lie that they were not only safe but that that they will prevent transmission. The batches that were injected into the public were manufactured with a different technology than the small batches used in the inadequate study population. The mass manufactured process included DNA and this was never disclosed to the public. It was deliberately sloppy and dishonest. The horrors of this fiasco are still unfolding and the people suffering are largely being ignored. There is zero recourse because the pharma companies were given full immunity. These are incontrovertible facts .That covid killed many people is also a fact but does not justify the lying for profit that went on.
Our response to Covid was horrific. 165 million people were pushed into $2 a day poverty starting in 2020 because of lockdowns. Poverty declined every year since 1998, but 25 years of gains were totally wiped out because of our hysterical response to Covid.
Having said this, vaccines worked and were very beneficial for elderly people and those suffering with severe health issues. The problem was forcing healthy young people to take vaccines.
Did they really work?? My jury is still out. I have so many friends who got COVID shortly after boosting and they trotted out the old saw "it would have been so much worse if I han't gotten the booster" Well how the heck do any of us know??
There is at least anecdotal evidence by those in healthcare (critical care) who treated patients with Covid.
I have immediate family who worked in healthcare (urban hospital situation in one of the worst hit cities) I heard lots of stories! Yes- anecdotal evidence, but no real proof that people w/ boosters, who contracted Covid had milder cases than they would have if they hadn't been boosted. Almost impossible to prove!
Screw the Who!
Man, they're my favorite rock band. Loud, but with feeling! Quadrophenia is one of the best albums ever.
I'm a Who's Next guy, the album cover is a classic. For you young uns out there, album cover art used to be a thing.
Talk about cure worse than disease - Keith Moon died because he was attempting to get off alcohol and was allowed unsupervised use of a "withdrawal helper" drug that kills when taken in large amounts or with alcohol.
I say this as as someone who regrets my shots and lives every waking moment in abject terror of dying from them--
For ppl like my sister, the disease was worse. She was infected in spring 2020 and suffered a cardiac arrest and arterial dissection in her brainstem. She is disabled for life with permanent heart, brain, & nerve damage. It has destroyed my family forever and I beg God each day to make it so it all never happened.
I'm so sorry about your sister. We lost 2 family members, a father and son, both of whom were the only unvaccinated ones in the family. It's hard.
Please accept my sincere condolences for the loss of your relatives
Confirms the opinion that NO "public" "health" "organization" (except Sweden?) is to be trusted. Hope that the Alternative Media keeps their fingers on the pulses identified by the author.
It's an election year. The oligarchy needs we proles to be compliant.
And not to be able to get to the polls.
Somebody has to be able to get to the polls or there's no election. How one get to be one of the "chosen?"
oh Herr, dont forget about the mail in ballot option that almost every state enacted, many without authority in their constitutions. what a farce, and yes, 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
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Without the mail in ballot, Trump would have never voted, and thousands of people who lack the health to go out and vote, couldn't vote. When there is legal evidence of the 2020 election being stolen, I'll believe it. Not one court case was decided in Trump's favor, not even by the judges he appointed. If this unproven accusation continues, no one will ever believe that the candidate of their choice lost an election. No, I didn't and won't vote for Biden or Trump.
I did not say mail in ballots are "bad", they were clearly abused by the governments.
Who knows if Trump voted or not. Im not sure that has any bearing on this. Mail in has been avail for years, and esp for those "thousands" who dont have health situations, it is a useful tool, albeit it is badly abused by many.
re evidence ; the majority of cases brought were dismissed by judges, as the plaintiff(s) had shown " no standing" to bring the case. I understand "standing" to mean, the person bringing the suit needed to show harm to themselves by a direct action. My reply is this; the judges and administrative systems in various states are hiding behind/using some legalese that blocks the states from scrutiny in this area.
Stepping back emotionally, I think a rational person would see the dozens or maybe hundreds of purported voter fraud claims and frankly cheating that was done around the US, as something to question.
Im sure you and others here have seen many of the examples brought forward the past 3 years, and the cases dismissed. (Keri Lake and Arizona is a classic and it needs sunlight). Perhaps it is for the reason that it is too late, and I believe the judges and others dont want to deal with the fallout/implications arising from a needed new election.
Voting results are supposed to happen "overnight". I propose mail in with a valid reason and ID, all in person voting same day, with proper/acceptable id shown. No excuses for the "ID excuse". Anyone can get an ID if they care enough to vote. I care, I register and I show up in person. Why isn't ID required for mail in ballots then? Hell, my grown kids were still getting mail in ballots for the state of WA, when they had moved 10 years later to another state. The voting system is corrupted by all the "special interest, special needs" groups. We can address the special needs folks as one offs, not the entire population.
all the best, rich
How could there possibly be everyone voting on the same day? How would you accomodate the mile long lines and the people who have to work on that day? Which "special needs, special interest groups" are you refering to? What would be a "valid reason" for mail in? How do you present a "valid ID" for a mail in ballot. I agree about a valid ID to vote. I had to have one in Florida. I like the Australian version; everyone who is a citizen has to vote or be fined. I don't know if they have write ins. I'd keep that part.
As to your other assurtions, I don't know enough to comment. When someone says they "believe," I generally classify that under opinion. People can believe anything they want to believe and that doesn't mean it's true.
We have learned a lot from Covid!
1. The WHO is a corrupt arm of the Gates foundation, and Davos, seeking to control and issue global digital currency.
2. The CDC and FDA are bought and paid for by Pharma.
3. The guidance on controlling Covid was neither effective nor safe. Millions were harmed from lockdowns, masks, social distancing and the like.
4. We threw our children and elderly under the bus.
5. We sacrificed our informed consent and were manipulated into taking a gene therapy that was neither safe nor effective. We were lied to— and still are— about the safety of these products.
6. People are eager to prove they are good and are easily led to slaughter by virtue signaling and propaganda.
7. Covid was the biggest wealth transfer of all time.
8. Science and data are easily manipulated and bought.
9. The governent actively censored any narrative that didn’t go along. Even when they were right. The government is not our friend, and does not have our best interests at heart.
I wouldn’t trust a thing the WHO or the CDC say about this. They are hard left wing entities designed for propaganda not science or medicine
So, who's ready for another round of lockdowns? Another year of missed school for kids. Another 15 pounds of obesity and inactivity. Another year of every event being shut down. Another year of families not allowed to spend time together. Another year of neighbors calling the police on anyone for having a party. Another year of everyone retreating further into their online world.
Should lockdowns be issued I am fairly confident rational Americans will have something to say about that. We will not tolerate that again. Probably for at least, hopefully, a generation.
I think that depends on what part of the country you are in. I bet CA and NY would jump right on that chance.
The governments may. Most people will ignore the lockdown orders to the best of their ability.
not this New Yorker!!
From your lips to God’s ears! I pray you are right. One thing’s for sure, this old gal will never be locked down again….
Don’t forget the psychological damage to millions of children.
Not happening in Florida!
This time we invoke A 2.
Our own public health agencies have a trust problem too. I don’t believe anything they cone out with.
“China Says This New Outbreak Is Nothing to Worry About. How Can We Be Sure?”
What in the wide world of sports would give anyone any reason to trust a single thing, “China says,” especially when the word “outbreak” is attached to it.
China is the world heavyweight of liars.
All leftists are liars. Communists are polished.
You know what's really frightening? That in any part of "transparency," the writer would cite WHO as a trustworthy organization. If you rely on WHO or any of the other nonsense public healthy agencies from the U.S. to the U.N. to every other country, we're doomed.
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Our boy Biden, sitting in China’s back pocket, will be ineffective again. He refused to push for accountability with the origins of CoViD 19 so now we are left to guess about the Wuhan lab procedures that should be verified as now adequate. China stonewalls the rest of the world when it comes to a potentially deadly disease originating there, and Biden doesn’t push for transparency. I am told that over 1.1 million Americans have died of CoViD - imagine the attention if that were car crashes or food poisoning popping up again. China killed over a million of us without firing a single shot. They are warping our minds and tracking our movements with TikTok. They are sapping our treasure with unfair trade and theft of intellectual property. And our boy Biden took bribes from them. We are truly f***ed.
I guarantee you the world is not shutting down again. That is one thing we learned from the Covid debacle. Good luck with a fast tracked “vaccine” too.
"...China censored vital information about human-to-human transmission. Not only that but China penalized Healthcare workers for trying to speak the truth." Just in case anyone missed it, so did the Biden administration. The odious gnome Anthony Fauci outright lied. Repeatedly.
This is the country our leftist and globalist elites want the United States to emulate. See a pattern here? Stop believing and buying their lies.
One of the more ironic aspects of all of the lying and obfuscation by Fauci and CDC is that they missed a golden opportunity to actually prevent the outbreak. We KNEW and KNOW that the best upfront preventative for any infection is a healthy immune system. Exercise, sunlight (or vitamin D), diet and so on. We never heard a word about these from the CDC. Why were they silent when Cuomo, Whitmer and others mixed the sick with the well in nursing homes: we KNEW and KNOW that this bordered on the criminal.
What about saline spray - research has shown it to be effective at neutralizing the virus, and drastically reducing hospitalizations and deaths. What about UV light - the National Academies concluded it was effective in killing both covid and other viruses. Why didn't we hear then - why aren't we hearing now - about these? Too "old school?" Not "Big ____ (substitute Pharma, Government ...) enough? The CDC's failing the covid pandemic is the best evidence we have against universal health care.
When hearing of a new potential outbreak of disease, the first thought that comes to mind is that the Democrats need a pretext for again removing all election integrity measures. This is then reinforced when learning that the potential threat comes from China, which has long been, shall we say, "friends" with the Democrats. Is this a reasonable reaction to have? While it could well be completely wrong, it's certainly not irrational, given recent history. And that speaks to a bigger problem.
WHO you gonna believe? WHO. No, Who is on first. Here we go again. We are told we need to put our faith and trust in global and multi national organizations once again. And of course with zero transparency ( calling Jen Psaki and Karine Jean Pierre who are the transparency twins, or so they say). Please please please do not bring back the Fauch for a return engagement.
The minute anyone says anything that begins with the words “China says…” doubt must immediately follow. From business leaders to the official medical world to our foreign policy establishment, they keep hoping, with fingers crossed, that Chinese leadership might be telling the truth this time. For China, there is no punishment for lies, as we saw when Xi was applauded by US business execs in CA recently. A travel ban for not sharing information with other countries might be the incentive needed for truth. Can that be nonpartisan?