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Masks Don’t Work by Vinay Prasad
Pre-Purchased With No Takers by Igor Chudov
Egg Yokes vs Spike by Jessica Rose
Sudden Mental Health Deaths by John Dee
Overestimating Excess Death by Carl Heneghan, Jason Oke, & Tom Jefferson
Levi Files by Jennifer Sey
Drag Queen House of Cards by Mickey Z.
Diabetes Post-Vax by Dr. Peter McCullough
Lab Leak Hypothesis by Pat Fidopiastis
CDC’s Covid Scare Numbers by Kelley K
Paxlovid, Lagevrio, Molnupiravir—The Three Mutageneers by Anandamide
Inhumanity & Greed by Jeffrey Peel
Underimmunization Status by Jessica Rose
In The Name of Profit by Mickey Z.
The Atheism of Sciencism by Noelle Mering
Vax Studies & Systematic Biases by Norman Fenton & Martin Neil
Proteostasis Compounds to Treat COVID by Walter M Chesnut
Vax Spike vs Virus Spike by Bret Swanson
Dropping Objectivity by Andrew Sullivan
TikTok & Mental Illness by Gayathiri Rajkumar & J.D. Haltigan
PCR Tests Are Accurate by Brian Mowrey
Viral Mutation Gaps by Steven Andrews
Natality Drops by el gato malo
IgA Vasculitis Post “Vax” by Dr. Peter McCullough
End Hospital Masking by Vinay Prasad
Masks Don’t Work by Vinay Prasad
The science did not change. Public health experts started lying. We never had good data that mask mandates help, or that mask advice (a softer policy) improves outcomes.
Here is the big summary finding. With 276,000 participants in RCTs or cluster RCTs, masking does nothing. No reduction in influenza like or Covid like illness and no reduction in confirmed flu or COVID. That’s stone cold negative.
This is why Fauci said what he said initially on 60 minutes. He wasn’t lying. The best evidence showed no benefit.
Masks have no good data to support them| It is a religion, not a science
Pre-Purchased With No Takers by Igor Chudov
It turns out that makers of Covid vaccines expertly screwed their customers, keeping a large part of the prepayment money advanced to them without shipping vaccine doses that no longer find any demand.
The worst example is J&J, manufacturer of the Janssen vaccine, which was pulled from use worldwide due to blood clots. Despite that, J&J demands that more money be given to it “because of existing contracts.”
Bill Gates, having a financial interest in BioNTech, did not want his own GAVI to pay for BioNTech vaccines that eventually found no buyer; instead, the US government paid Pfizer directly. Pfizer will keep the funds, giving the US government an “option” to buy vaccines that nobody wants anymore.
Egg Yokes vs Spike by Jessica Rose
IgY antibodies are found in birds, reptiles and lungfish, but especially in chicken egg yolks!
These IgY antibodies are amazing little guys! They don’t activate complement, they don’t activate rheumatoid factors in humans and so don’t aggravate the inflammatory responses! What they do do? They neutralize many pathogens including RSV…including SARS-CoV-2
And no conflicts of interest. I read the methods and they are as sound as any methodology. They checked multiple viruses, variations of the S protein competitive inhibition of ACE-2 binding and found that IgY competed real well for binding sites showing significant neutralizing…ability.
Sudden Mental Health Deaths by John Dee
These three slides are truly shocking. We’re not looking at any kind of accident. We’re not looking at error. We’re looking at inexplicable and sudden death of elderly folk with mental health issues during the spring of 2020, and this in conjunction with the inexplicable and sudden death of those with cancer, cardiac and respiratory conditions all in the same couple of weeks.
I do not believe these deaths, that are spread across four ICD-10 chapters, that have occurred suddenly and all within in the same narrow time frame, can be attributed to erroneous diagnosis and/or sudden and inexplicable failure of the PCR test. This is strong evidence of iatrogenic death, which means these people were likely killed by whatever protocols, treatments and management procedures were put into place at the time.
Overestimating Excess Death by Carl Heneghan, Jason Oke, & Tom Jefferson
what is the true excess and what should be the baseline measure for comparisons
With an increasing trend, the historic average will underestimate expected deaths and overestimate excess deaths. Increases in population size and an increasingly ageing population mean more people die every year in the UK.
after accounting for population size and age structure, the ONS report the ‘year-to-date (January to November) age-standardised mortality rate (ASMR) in 2022 in both England and Wales was significantly lower than most years since our data time series began in 2001.
Excess death is an important metric, but it can be challenging to get right. Methods using historical averages are almost certainly producing estimates of expected deaths that are too low and therefore overestimating the excess.
Levi Files by Jennifer Sey
CNBC’s Jim Cramer asked CEO Chip Bergh about this just last week, on the heels of Levi’s earnings report for 2022. Kramer asked:
“Levi’s stock went down when she moved to Levi’s [. . .] Kohl’s stock went up [. . .] Activists say she wasn’t doing a good enough job. I’d like to know your response to that.”
Bergh answered the question with a question:
“Fundamentally you have to ask yourself is Kohl’s a better company today because of Michelle than it would have been if Michelle hadn’t been there?”
Cramer did not follow up. But here are the facts. Gass became CEO of Kohl’s in May 2018 and the stock was at $61. She left the company in November 2022 with the stock at $29.
Drag Queen House of Cards by Mickey Z.
Why are prepubescent children being taught about sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation? It’s one thing if a child has same-sex parents and other kids ask questions about it. Some basic details should be shared. Beyond that, why would a 6-year-old need to understand sex — never mind crossdressing, stripping, etc.? Who are these programs “helping”?
Why do gay people allow their celebrations to be fronted by men in drag who may or not even be gay and, at most, represent only a minuscule fraction of the LGB community?
the minute this hit double digits in december, alarm bells should have been going off everywhere. by the time it hit 100, these alarms should have been calling for a pause. these death reports hitting 500 in the US alone by the end of jan was insane and unprecedented for a vaccine. 500 deaths in 30 million people is ~17 per million, over 11X the rate that got h1n1 vaccines pulled.
combine this with the obvious and immediate failure of the vaccines to provide sterilizing immunity to prevents contraction, carriage, and contagion, and this was the easiest decision in public health history.
period.
there was no plausible (by historical standards) pretext for allowing this campaign to continue. any one of these would have been the most egregious safety signal in the vaccine history. taken together, this was a 4 alarm fire in the living room during family TV time.
Diabetes Post-Vax by Dr. Peter McCullough
There are several papers emerging concerning new onset diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis after taking a COVID-19 shot. Moon and colleagues reported a well characterized case of new onset type 1 diabetes in an adult temporally related to COVID-19 vaccination.
The rapid depletion of endogenous insulin (C-peptide) and detectable auto-antibodies suggests this new condition for the vaccine recipient will be permanent.
Because the auto-immune attack on the pancreas can be insidious and take time, I am concerned that months or years later the chronic disease epidemic of diabetes mellitus could be intensified by mass vaccination.
Lab Leak Hypothesis by Pat Fidopiastis
Find the entire article from Brownstone HERE
The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is the most important question of the pandemic, with implications that extend exponentially beyond scoring political points.
the genetic and circumstantial evidence for lab leak is impossible for any reasonable person to deny.
Animals susceptible to COVID-19 were sold at the market but none tested positive.
Positive environmental samples found at the market were taken too late to infer virus origin
Early strains of SARS-CoV-2 were unnaturally human adapted
There was financial motivation and established methodology for creating pandemic viruses
The unique furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2 is evidence of genetic engineering
The unique genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site is evidence of genetic engineering
Suspicious cut sites in the SARS-CoV-2 genome are evidence of genetic engineering
CDC’s Covid Scare Numbers by Kelley K
The CDC Data Tracker Demographics page continues to grossly overstate pediatric deaths.
comes from the CDC’s flawed Data Tracker Demographics page, which has a long history of overstating pediatric deaths (while oddly understating adult deaths) when compared against the official death certificate counts from CDC
After contacting the CDC directly, and getting journalists involved to help ask some questions, the CDC made a big correction, blaming the problem on some bad computer code.
However, I don’t think the CDC actually fixed anything, because the problem has continued where the Data Tracker grows much more quickly than the NCHS data — just for kids.
Paxlovid, Lagevrio, Molnupiravir—The Three Mutageneers by Anandamide
what other viruses present with SARs-CoV-2 symptoms, yet have an RdRp (RNA-dependent RNA polymerase)?
many of these mutagenic drugs are getting relaxed regulations from the FDA right as Science magazine is starting to hint at some problems
not only are we performing on GOF on C19 with human subjects, we may in fact be pushing the evolution of many other RNA based viruses with indiscriminate use RdRp mutagens.
Inhumanity & Greed by Jeffrey Peel
Theranos and Moderna were very good at hyping their technology (that didn’t work). But that didn’t seem to stop people investing in it. The key difference with Moderna was that it developed a relationship with Gates who is, quite simply, the ultimate king-maker given his near total control of the new philanthropy that is vaccine peddling.
the fact remains, many more died of the disease (as defined by health authorities) after the vaccination programme than before - according to their data. Perhaps the statisticians messed up. Perhaps not. And, meanwhile, excess deaths are going up just as Bill Gates exits the mRNA market.
There was no need for Moderna’s products - or Pfizer’s (based on similar conjectures and duff science). The drugs have no efficacy because the viruses they purport to protect people against have never been proven to exist (throat swabs and electron microscopes still don’t show causality).
There was, simply, incompetence, money-making, greed and terrible inhumanity inflicted on people who were most in need of care and the love of their families.
And then came the mRNA “vaccines”. And the associated excess deaths (this time skewed towards younger age groups).
It’s a tale of greed, inhumanity, market manipulation, and duff science.
Underimmunization Status by Jessica Rose
The implications here are incredibly bad. Based simply on the fact that they have this kind of ‘coding system’ for injected versus uninjected people enacted, makes me very concerned about where this could go.
Look at ICD-10 code Z28.21. “Immunization not carried out because of patient refusal”.
‘Patient refusal’ is already an obtuse way to phrase that a HUMAN BEING (not a bloody patient) might have intelligently chosen not to get injected with something
These new codes should concern you, and you should simply stop letting anyone tell you that you need any shot at all until we get some bloody answers about this recent COVID debacle.
In The Name of Profit by Mickey Z.
In the decades before WWII, doing business with Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy (or, as a proxy, Franco’s Spain) proved no more unsavory to the captains of industry than selling military hardware to Saudi Arabia does today.
it wasn’t appeasement that took place prior to WWII. It was, in the best cases, indifference. More often, it was a collaboration based on economic greed and more than a little shared ideology
Among the US corporations that invested in Germany during the 1920s were Ford, General Motors, General Electric, Standard Oil, Texaco, International Harvester, ITT, and IBM — all of whom were more than happy to see the German labor movement and working-class parties smashed.
For many of these companies, operations in Germany continued during the war (even if it meant the use of concentration-camp slave labor) with overt US government support.
In 1938, on Henry Ford’s 75th birthday, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle from the Führer himself.
Despite committing atrocities, countless murderers, strong men, and dictators have received overt and covert support from the West in general and the US in particular… all in the name of profit and power.
The Atheism of Sciencism by Noelle Mering
contempt for others can be pleasurable and feels like a shortcut to actual virtue
a society shut off from the transcendent is bound to comply with a totalizing regime like scientism. Obedience is the inevitable result of a society long blinded to the terrible, wonderful mystery of the supernatural.
A truly human account grants the limits of science and so makes room to revere the hidden and higher things before which every knee must bend. Paradoxically, it is in that veneration of the things we can’t measure that we grow resistant to the dehumanizing demands of authoritarianism.
there is a chasm of difference between authorityand authoritarianism, just as there is between science and scientism
And what will fill the void when we have broken down the statues, villainized the heroes, sneered at tradition, deconstructed father and mother, and divorced ourselves from our Author? It won’t be the freedom that comes from a fear of God but the perpetual fear of everything else.
The atheism of scientism is inextricably tied to the psychology of compliance.
Vax Studies & Systematic Biases by Norman Fenton & Martin Neil
The main trick to getting to the high efficacy figures is to completely ignore vaccinated people who get infected within the first 14 days after their first dose - they are not even counted as ‘partially vaccinated’ since that only applies to people post 14 days of their first dose and pre 7 days of a second dose.
if you dont look for covid, by not testing for it, or by ignoring the test results you wont find it.
of the total of 1482 participants with a positive test and at least one Covid-19–like symptom there was a grand total of zero deaths: an infection fatality rate (IFR) of 0%. And 812 of those were unvaccinated.
All studies on vaccine effectiveness suffer from one or more (often most or even all) of the following systematic biases:
Misclassificaton
Delayed reporting
Illegitimate comparisons
Different testing protocols between vaccinated and unvaccinated
Survivor/selection bias
Study took place during period of naturally falling infection rate
Vaguely defined outcomes
Proteostasis Compounds to Treat COVID by Walter M Chesnut
I now believe that COVID, Long COVID and all Spike Protein-related pathologies are essentially diseases of conformation. They are diseases of misformed, mistranslated proteins - including Amyloidosis.
There are several natural compounds which are very beneficial for maintaining PROTEOSTASIS. Proteostasis is the stability of the proteins your cells make. If your body can withstand the assault of the Spike Protein – and clear it, while maintaining the integrity of the proteins it forms, I believe the host can fully survive SARS-CoV-2.
Of course, it remains to be seen if any of us COMPLETELY clear the Spike Protein and the virus.
it is not only the creation of aberrant proteins that is dangerous, but also impaired AUTOPHAGY – the body’s ability to REMOVE those aberrant proteins.
Vax Spike vs Virus Spike by Bret Swanson
In severe Covid-19 infections, the Spike can damage lung, vascular, and kidney tissues, etc. and trigger a cytokine storm. But the vaccines generate far more Spike and totally bypass the mucosal layer – our first line of defense – going directly to our sensitive organs.
In most natural infections, our immune systems kill off the virus in our mucosal layers – nasopharynx, lungs, gut – over the course of several days. The virus (and Spike protein) therefore do not often reach tissues beyond the mucosal layer.
instead of remaining near the injection site, as advertised, the LNPs go all over your body, even crossing the blood-brain barrier. They get into nearly every cell and tissue type.
The mRNA lasts far longer than advertised
Persistent modRNA then keeps producing Spike protein for long periods
Spike particularly attacks the vascular endothelia, the lining of our blood vessels and capillaries, which permeate every tissue. The result is often far, far more Spike, for much longer, in many more tissues, than nearly anyone would produce during a natural infection.
Dropping Objectivity by Andrew Sullivan
In the last few years, pressured relentlessly by young, super-leftist staffers, they have slowly and then precipitously dropped the goal of objectivity and news in favor of subjectivity and narratives.
in the words of one editor-in-chief, “Objectivity has got to go!” So every story now assumes “white supremacy” as the core truth of the world.
In the words of The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb: “The most pernicious effects of American racism were to be seen in what happened in the absence of white people, not in their presence.” So we instantly knew this was not about bad individuals, or bad training, or bad policies, but about white supremacy. Because everything is always about white supremacy. The unfalsifiable nature of this assertion is key to its popularity.
We live in the freest, most multiracial democracy in the history of the planet. Of course traditional prejudices linger, ebb and flow, and the past has helped define the present. But they do not come near to definitively describing the infinitely fascinating interactions between all of us, in every possible combination, our shared humanity, the cross-racial friendships and marriages, our individual personalities, our different upbringings.
TikTok & Mental Illness by Gayathiri Rajkumar & J.D. Haltigan
In recent years another concerning trend has emerged on social media in which adolescents present with various psychiatric impairments that are inconsistent with classical psychiatric disorder classification
they appear to incorporate their perceived illness into their self-identity and glamorize it within their communities.
TikTok, a popular social media app, has received increasing criticism for being a potential “spread vector” for various mental health symptoms and disorders.
Videos regarding mental illness, disabilities, and gender identity have gained widespread traction on the app, with hashtags like #DID (i.e., dissociative identity disorder) and #BPD (i.e., borderline personality disorder)
The phenomenon of defining one’s uniqueness through claims of mental illness has been characterized by many as TikTok’s “sick-role subculture,” as many youths attempt to identify with popular creators on TikTok by taking on a sick role or personal identity.
PCR Tests Are Accurate by Brian Mowrey
By definition, a “false positive” PCR cannot tell you that an individual is unlikely to test positive again later. And yet it has been found in study after study that people who test positive are afterward dramatically unlikely to test positive again vs. the background rate.
against a background PCR positive rate of 4.3% over the study period, not a single repeat PCR positive was recorded (at the time of the preprint upload).
If false positives are such a big problem, why couldn’t Shrestha, et al., find any later positives in the previously positive people? What was protecting them from the “false” positives?
once one accepts very simply that PCR tests are accurate for present infection, and thus future immunity, regardless of symptoms or anything else, nothing else needs to be explained at all.
The PCR test has multiplied SARS-CoV-2 genes because SARS-CoV-2 was currently replicating in the respiratory tract of the person who was swabbed; therefore this person is not likely to have PCR-test-detectable SARS-CoV-2 genes in their nose later on.
Viral Mutation Gaps by Steven Andrews
A possible explanation is that we have to guess the circulating influenza virus to create a vaccine that can potentially induce an appropriate immune response. If we get it right a positive effect on mortality is observed but if we get it wrong, we redirect the immune system to create an immune gap with more severe consequences.
could explain why the current vaccine program is having increasingly negative consequences. This was a relatively new virus with a significant mutation rate. If we inject with any “vaccine” designed to create an immune response specific for a previous variant, then we could be redirecting the immune system to create a viral immune gap.
The measures that were implemented virtually on a global basis would have, if anything, a negative impact in terms of the severity of impact of covid-19. This is because if they are effective they have the potential to create viral mutation gaps.
Natality Drops by el gato malo
when one looks at the raw data alone:
provocatively, this drop in male and female conception compounds to 0.921 X 0.948 = 0.85 = 15% drop in expected births
something very odd has been going on in global natality (like 4 std dev odd) and contrary to the seeming headline, the raw data from this study that actually compares vaxxed to unvaxxed on a per cycle basis aligns with it quite well (and refutes its own abstract).
looks to me like this data corresponds quite well to exactly the drops we’re seeing
IgA Vasculitis Post “Vax” by Dr. Peter McCullough
There are many classes of antibodies and our particular attention with respect to respiratory pathogens is with IgA found in secretions protecting the nasopharynx and urogenital tract. When IgA is aberrantly produced and circulatory in the human body it can attack the lining of blood vessel cells, skin, lungs, and kidneys.
The major points of this paper are: 1) auto-immune disease will happen after genetic vaccinations of any type and IgA vasculitis is just the tip of the iceberg, 2) skin rashes can be the only clue to internal organ damage and the need for treatment.
End Hospital Masking by Vinay Prasad
The strongest argument against continuing current policies is that they have no data to show they help. Pre-vaccine for covid, we had no cluster RCTs of hospitals to show universal masking policies (visitors, staff, docs, all floors) slow the spread of respiratory viruses, including sars-cov-2.
Meanwhile, a trial would show harms. Mandatory masking dehumanizes patients, who are already objectified and dehumanized. It prevents intimacy. It is hell on earth for people hard of hearing. I have seen people asked to wear a mask who are having dyspnea. Women giving birth. That is a great harm.
allowing administrators to impose, by fiat, policies that do not have good evidence is why medicine has become…. for lack of a better word… shitty.
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