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2.2.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Rethinking Vaccination by Marc Girardot
End of EUA by Meryl Nass
Public School Enrollment Declines by Dennis Roche
Fossilized Versions of Truth by Paul D. Thacker
Protecting Free Speech by Tusli Gabbard
Another Bad Study by Norman Fenton
Pfizer’s Free Pass by Maryanne Demasi, PhD
Luxury Maoism by Chris Bray
16 Reasons to Refuse the Jabs by Robin Koerner
Money Out Of Thin Air by Naked Emperor
Stop Mask Mandates by Dr. Peter McCullough
When 2% is a “Leading Cause” by Kelley K
WHO Rigs Another HCQ Study by Mathew Crawford
Big Pharma’s Pfirst ever $100B Year by Aussie17
Where Did Respiratory Deaths Go? by John Dee
Japan’s Biannual Jabs by Guy Gin
GoF Pump Fake by Nick Hudson
Race-based Art by Rikki Schlott
Bossypants Creeps by el gato malo
Cochrane Settles Mask Debate by Damian
Thought Police by Aaron Kheriaty, MD
Hotez to Replace Fauci? by Steve Kirsch
Guinea-Bissau Mask Study by David Zweig
5 Confessions by Pierre Kory
Rethinking Vaccination by Marc Girardot
In 1979, the W.H.O. and the C.D.C. redesigned the ICD coding list - International Classification of Diseases - and erased any possibility for the world’s coroners to label a cause of death related to vaccination!
the public health disaster that has been happening for nearly 60 years. This public health disaster was driven essentially by the underlying authoritarian belief within part of Public Health Authorities and the Medical community that they know better, and therefore our informed consent can be nudged and manipulated for the greater cause of perceived collective health.
Prior to the 1960s, the concept of sudden infant death syndrome didn’t even exist, and was not listed in the main causes of mortality.
Between 1990 and 2019, 2,605 infant deaths were reported in VAERS, 78.3% of these deaths occurring within a week of vaccination!
Contrary to what we have been made to believe, vaccination is neither safe for our children, nor for us. Poor vaccination protocols have been the likely premier cause of illnesses for over a century.
End of EUA by Meryl Nass
The “Emergency” designation gives the federal and state executive branches dictatorial powers. It is also absolutely necessary if EUAs are to be used. The day the Emergency ends, all EUAs end—they get revoked.
What happens in May? Schizer and Murderna will be allowed to sell their fully licensed COVID vaccines for over $100 per dose, instead of selling them to the government for $20-$30/dose.
By then the full process for removing liability for these products will be complete: a Federal Register notice and an excise tax of 75 cents/dose will have been completed and because CDC put the vaccines on the childhood schedule, the COVID vaccines will fall under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP).
A pot of money will become available to pay out for a limited number of injuries, collected from the excise taxes paid for all vaccines in the program. The USG and the manufacturer will again dodge liability.
Public School Enrollment Declines by Dennis Roche
Our analysis found just over 400 of the largest 500 districts, or just over 80%, lost enrollment during the two year period between 2019/20 and 2021/22. As a point of comparison, just under 50% of those Top 500 districts lost enrollment during the more recent one-year period 2020/21 and 2021/22.
Fossilized Versions of Truth by Paul D. Thacker
it’s now becoming clear that it was governments that were working behind the scenes to shut down public debate, communicating secretly with social media companies and urging them to censor views that criticized government policy
labeling some speech as “misinformation” has become a convenient vehicle for the British government to investigate and denigrate views that are critical of government policies.
even with science, there things that are facts until they're not. It's a constant process of discovery. Things became so dogmatic over the past couple of years, like “follow the science.” As if there's some kind of like fossilized version of truth, especially when this process began soon into the pandemic, and we were lost to a large degree.
Protecting Free Speech by Tusli Gabbard
The Twitter Files exposed how perfectly comfortable those in Silicon Valley are to privately embrace a culture of shadow banning and punitive practices while publicly denying that any such culture exists.
The power and influence of corrupt politicians in Washington working hand in glove with big tech monopolies has created a dangerously chilling effect on free speech.
Big tech and their legacy media allies can choose to amplify whatever they wish without fear of consequence in order to advance their preferred narratives.
Democrats used to be the most reliable and passionate defenders of free speech, but not anymore.
Today’s Democrat leaders have become increasingly comfortable making public demands for censorship.
Self-censorship is what these cancel culture mobs desire most, and we cannot allow them to have it. The marketplace of ideas is foundational to who we are as Americans. Free and open debate is what has allowed us to excel, innovate, and prosper as a nation.
Another Bad Study by Norman Fenton
In fact, the authors of the study are demonstrating a very clear bias by referring to the people in the study as ‘unvaccinated’. Of course, they were unvaccinated – it was a meta-analysis of 110 published studies between 1st Dec 2019 and 16th July 2020. There was, of course, no vaccinations anywhere during that period so referring to these people as ‘unvaccinated’ must have been done to fit a particular mischievous agenda
Just because you see covid hospitalising a lot of people who had pre-existing cardiac comorbidity certainly does not mean that covid caused their comorbidity. It seems that this part of the conclusion may have been influenced by possible conflicts of interests
Pfizer’s Free Pass by Maryanne Demasi, PhD
We are three years into the pandemic, and the FDA has still not established a “correlate of protection” for the vaccines.
Eight COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorizations (EUAs)* have been granted, based on their ability to induce “neutralizing antibodies,” a surrogate marker of protection.
The idea is, the more antibodies you produce, the better you are protected.
Except, neutralizing antibodies do not predict the degree to which someone is protected from infection… and the FDA knows it.
As part of its post-marketing requirements, Pfizer is legally obligated to conduct a study involving people aged 16 to 30 to look at rates of subclinical myocarditis (i.e. underlying damage to the heart muscle without causing symptoms).
The final report was due 31 Dec 2022, but that deadline lapsed, and the FDA said nothing. There was no mention of the study, neither in the briefing notes ahead of the VRBPAC meeting, or during the meeting.
Luxury Maoism by Chris Bray
A white actress was nominated for a best actress Oscar. This is a racial injury, because black actresses were also in movies this year, so the white actress stole their nominations.
it’s a story of oppression, in which the Motion Picture Academy has attacked and harmed black women to inappropriately elevate a white woman, but it’s simultaneously a reverse-image injury of social class: a low-class outsider, a person of poor status, inflicted injury on high-class insiders, who were deprived of the appropriate degree of honor
The Guardian concludes its funhouse-mirrors-in-print story by warning that Riseborough has harmed her career by being nominated for an award: “No matter what happens, her reputation is being tarnished, whether her campaign did something or not.”
The oppressed were subject to the cultural oppression of not being given trophies, despite their participation in luxury dinners and magazine profiles.
16 Reasons to Refuse the Jabs by Robin Koerner
Read the entire article from Brownstone HERE
the “vaccine” was rolled out without long-term testing. Therefore one of two conditions applied. Either no claim could be made with confidence about the long-term safety of the “vaccine” or there was some amazing scientific argument for a once-in-a-lifetime theoretical certainty concerning the long-term safety of this “vaccine.”
the establishment was prepared to do much more harm in terms of human rights and spending public resources to prevent a COVID death than any other kind of death.
The companies responsible for manufacturing and ultimately profiting from the “vaccination” were given legal immunity. Why would a government do that if it really believed that the “vaccine” was safe and wanted to instill confidence in it?
As time went on, it became very clear that some of the informational claims that had been made to convince people to get “vaccinated,” especially by politicians and media commentators, were false.
Money Out Of Thin Air by Naked Emperor
banks are creators of the money supply. They create money out of thin air. Most people think of banks as deposit taking institutions that lend money but the legal reality is that this is false. A deposit is not a bailment and is not held in custody. Legally, when you put money in the bank, it is not a deposit but simply a loan to the bank. The banks borrow from you the general public.
Banks don’t lend money either. Instead they purchase securities. If you sign a loan or mortgage contract with the bank you issue a security, namely a promissory note and the bank purchases that.
This is very different to what the banks present to the public.
If banks create credit for consumption you suddenly have more money created and more demand for goods but the same amount of goods and services remain. This creates inflation.
Stop Mask Mandates by Dr. Peter McCullough
paper from the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Illnesses Group by Jefferson et al, is an important summary to quote for the schools, employers, travel, and hospitals. This UK group is known to be exhaustive and fair balanced in their conclusions.
included 12 trials (10 cluster-RCTs) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of viral illness and laboratory confirmed viral disease risk
Five studies of N95/P2 respirators compared with medical/surgical masks on the outcome of clinical respiratory illness
medical/surgical masks were non-inferior to N95 respirators in a large study of 1009 healthcare workers in four countries providing direct care to COVID-19 patients
Mask mandates and public masking can be dropped with no misgivings based on these data.
When 2% is a “Leading Cause” by Kelley K
I fact-checked an early flawed pre-print in June 2022, after the CDC used it in the VRBPAC and ACIP meetings to get Covid vaccines in children under 5. At the time, the CDC used it to claim Covid was a top 5 cause of death in children of every age group (<1, 1-4, 5-9, 10-14, and 15-19)
Now that it’s been revised yet again and published in JAMA
They likely focused on pediatric deaths in the US instead of their own country because the death rates are higher in the US than the UK, likely due to our generous counting of Covid deaths.
As for whether Covid is one of the leading causes of death is a matter of semantics, not math or data
For the ages and time period the authors selected, Covid is the 8th leading cause of death in children, making up ~2% of deaths in that age group. Based on that, they can call it a “leading cause of death”.
Microbiome and Virome
Read entire article from 2021 in Global Research HERE
For the first time since human civilization began, our species is being genetically modified. Vaccine manufacturers have now made it possible for the human genome to be permanently altered—and humanity’s relationship with nature forever changed—by means of an experimental pharmaceutical injection that is being falsely referred to as a “vaccine.”
The matrix of organisms that make up the microbiome have built a viromic information stream that has allowed for adaptation and biodiversity to occur on the planet.
The power of natural immunity will always outperform any perceived immunity to a virus said to result from an injection, whether experimental or government-approved.
humans are not separate from the virome and the microbiome but are, rather, integral to the virome and microbiome’s vast, complex ecosystem. Yet we have increasingly placed ourselves in direct opposition to the very living system of which we are an intrinsic part: nature.
WHO Rigs Another HCQ Study by Mathew Crawford
The WHO trials absolutely did not demonstrate that HCQ is not an effective medication for COVID-19. In fact, a re-analysis at the protocol level of the raw data likely shows that it certainly does---even for late stage (moderate or severe) COVID-19 patients.
The trials tested an antiviral on late stage patients
It may very well be that the dosage [high] level is responsible for some number of the deaths.
The WHO could not have plausibly chosen a less optimal treatment protocol.
Big Pharma’s Pfirst ever $100B Year by Aussie17
If you look at the number of COVID-19 Vaccines administered worldwide, you can see that the peak happened in 2021 and tapered off a lot in 2022 because people started realizing the vaccine is harmful. But why is this opposite of Pfizer’s 2022 record sales?
The reason is that…whenever governments worldwide purchase a drug from Big Pharma, they have already booked the sales. They don’t care if the drug goes to the patients or not.
They achieved sales of 100.3b, exactly within the range of Sales Guidance given in February 2022.
When you are slightly under the sales target, you simply call up your distributor or local governments to stock up on the drugs.
Where Did Respiratory Deaths Go? by John Dee
Yes indeed, that there first sudden hike in (non-COVID) respiratory deaths also took place during 2020/w15 (w/e 10 April). Thus, we have cancer, cardiac and respiratory diseases all mysteriously peaking in the same week, which is why I’m betting a whole pile of cash on iatrogenic causes.
It sure looks to me like a whole heap of genuine respiratory death has been re-branded as COVID, and this is a situation where a certifying physician’s idea of causality would have been over-ridden by the MUSE software coding rules.
Japan’s Biannual Jabs by Guy Gin
the government and media are manufacturing support for “free” annual/biannual Covid jabs
I’m sure you all remember how the goalposts for vaccination were moved from “preventing infection/transmission” to “preventing severe disease”. But this is the first time I’ve heard history be revised to claim preventing severe disease has always been the main goal.
The intended effect here is clearly to generate the impression in viewers’ minds that the government’s proposal of one shot a year might not be enough for people in risk groups. Does anyone think the government won’t give in to any pressure to offer the elderly 2 shots annually? It’ll make the shots seem more necessary and the government seem responsive to people’s desires and needs.
if it decides to offer two shots a year to its elderly, Japan will be following the example of the FDA, which the average Japanese TV viewer wouldn’t think is corrupt and incompetent. Moreover, if the government stops buying excessive numbers of jabs at ¥10,000/US$100, the hospitals will apparently be at risk of overload because 44% of eligible adults won’t pay out of pocket for the jabs.
GoF Pump Fake by Nick Hudson
How many of you are, like me, sceptical about the entire bioweapons and gain-of-function story?
My sense is that the pressure to over-elaborate or even completely fake viral outbreaks emanates from decades of failure in this field.
I…do not see in the biodefense industry a sensible strategy against a manifest risk; more the stuff of wildly imaginative just-so stories and hyper-embroidered fairy tales.
If there is gain-of-function to fret about, it stems from the evolutionary pressure from inflicting an epitopally narrow, necessarily non-sterilizing jab into billions of bodies.
Race-based Art by Rikki Schlott
“Every time I spoke to funders, the first conversation was about diversity. It just felt like, okay, this is how you get funding now. Honestly, it felt like somebody was holding a gun to my head and saying, ‘Your integrity or your life’s work.’”
That bargain—pledge allegiance to the new orthodoxy or stick to your mission and risk your career—is one now faced by many in the world of American fine arts.
“Artists already have enough challenges, and now we have all these layers of bureaucracy and mandates,” said one Pulitzer Prize–winning creative, who asked me not to print his name or even his field because he fears reprisals. “Artists are just too vulnerable to the vagaries of funding and cultural trends. Even those who are successful just can’t risk it. A freelance artist’s career could be over tomorrow if they make a fuss.”
Bossypants Creeps by el gato malo
in just three years, the share of politically-mixed marriages in the U.S. has declined from 23% to 21%, and the share of marriages between a Democrat and a Republican dropped from 4.5% to 3.6%
we are pulling apart rapidly along party lines. americans are nearly 5X as likely to intermarry by race than by donkey/elephant dichotomy the the trends look to be widening.
racism may be on the wane, but partyism is intensifying. the two political tribes have ~90% unfavorable views rates about one another but the real story is the huge rise in “very unfavorable” which is exploding and has risen from ~20% each in the late 90’s to 50-60% now.
the problem with this is, of course, that “big government” is built into most of the policies team blue prefers and if we’re being honest, one can make the same argument about team red much of the time regardless of what they claim on the campaign trail.
so finding widespread agreement on pruning leviathan gets REALLY hard as you’re basically asking two crony corporatist enterprises to give up being gold givers and grifting grabbers of personal fortune and power.
this is never going to come from the parties.
Cochrane Settles Mask Debate by Damian
“There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.”
There’s really nothing more to say at this point. This is as thorough a review of the evidence for masking that you are going to get. It is completely up to date with the latest studies specifically focusing on SARS-CoV-II transmission. And it shows masks don’t work. Even your fancy N95s are useless. Case Closed. Move on. Let’s not talk about it anymore, okay?
Thought Police by Aaron Kheriaty, MD
CISA, a little known U.S. government agency that’s been around for only about six years. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency was originally set up to protect us from cyberattacks—malware, computer viruses, etc. But a year or so into their existence, CISA leadership decided that their real mission was combatting another kind of threat, which they called—in a brilliant Orwellian euphemism—domestic threats to our “Cognitive Infrastructure”.
Now, just what does this refer to? The new dangerous threats to our cognitive infrastructure are your thoughts, your ideas, the things you express for example on Twitter or Facebook or in the newspaper. With this sleight-of-hand, CISA quickly positioned itself to become the thought police at the center of the US government’s illegal censorship regime.
seven decades after the publication of 1984, it turns out that Big Brother is Always Watching. Perhaps this is a good moment to remind everyone that Orwell’s classic dystopian novel was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Hotez to Replace Fauci? by Steve Kirsch
Hotez wants action to counter what he calls “anti-vaccine aggression” but is not specific about what should be done. Cohen’s investigation, however, shows that Hotez means censorship and criminalization of anyone – especially doctors and scientists – who deviates from the big pharma agenda.
With support from Pfizer, Bill Gates, the Clintons and Fauci, Hotez has made a career of testing pharmaceutical products in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. His latest product, the CorbeVax vaccine for Covid, has been injected into tens of millions of arms in India and elsewhere, thanks to the corrupt influence of government bodies as we see in these videos.
Guinea-Bissau Mask Study by David Zweig
Read the entire blog HERE
Though masking on an individual level can be effective in specific circumstances, there is no convincing evidence of any meaningful benefit of mandates, which are a population level intervention.
mandates are based on a lack of understanding about the gulf between the theoretical and the actual, and about human behavior. The results from a new, greatly anticipated study –– a large, randomized trial of mask use, in Guinea-Bissau –– help illustrate this critical point in a surprising way.
The results from the study, eagerly awaited since its inception in summer of 2020, out now in preprint, found among the more than 39,000 participants no statistical difference of Covid symptoms between the control group and the intervention group that was provided cloth masks.
The study found that 99% of participants, regardless of whether they were in the intervention or control group, reported facemask use, and 92% said they wore a mask whenever they left home.
Yet observed use of masks, by a member of the study team, was only 40%, with a 3% difference between the groups –– all this was while masks were mandated in the country.
5 Confessions by Pierre Kory
Admit promises about experimental mRNA vaccines fell short
Acknowledge that re-purposed generic drugs should play a role in the ongoing fight against COVID
Scrap plans for annual COVID-19 vaccinations
Immediately remove all pandemic mandates
Concede that vaccine injuries are real, and call off the merchants of doubt.
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