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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Vax, Not Covid, Causes Myo by Igor Chudov
The Coastal Elites’ Bitch by Walter Kirn
Guillain-Barre with Vax by Dr. Peter McCullough
Japanese Professor On A Mission by Aussie17
Mask-Don’t-Work Infographic by Justin Hart
Another Half-Hearted Apology by A Midwestern Doctor
The Decline of The Science by eugyppius
Cochrane Review Author Speaks by Maryanne Demasi
Shingles Reactivation by Dr. Peter A. McCullough
RNA Integrity & Prion Disease by el gato malo
Three Compliance Tests by Jeffrey Tucker
Ending the Emergency by Dr. Robert W Malone
Fauci: Vaxes Can’t Work by Igor Chudov
China: Transmission & PCR Tests by Austrian China
In Masks We Trust by Vinay Prasad
Spike Remodels Cells by Walter M Chesnut
Japan: Worse Now Than At The Beginning by Guy Gin
HBOT For Long Covid by Dr. Peter McCullough
The Questions We Want Answered by Justin Hart
“I Was Lied To” Is No Excuse by Mark Changizi
Delayed Mask Studies by Damian
Vax, Not Covid, Causes Myo by Igor Chudov
A new study from Scandinavian countries is out:
It turned out that in their countries:
530 people had myocarditis from the vaccine
109 had myocarditis from Covid-19
As far as deaths go:
27 persons died from vaccine myocarditis
18 died from Covid-related myocarditis.
Some of the “Covid myocarditis” cases happened in vaccinated people who happened to have Covid "despite” (or because of?) their vaccines. Those are counted as “Covid myocarditis,” even though vaccines played a role in these illnesses that happened to vaccinated persons.
The most important addition (brought up thanks to Peter Kust’s comment) is that the vaccine-caused myocarditis was all for nothing. The vaccines ended up not preventing Covid-19.
The Coastal Elites’ Bitch by Walter Kirn
Just a few weeks back, I sat down with my morning coffee, opened up the paper and learned that I now live in a quasi-fascist state. It said so in the paper.
The paper wasn’t a local publication but one from a couple thousand miles away, the New York Times, whose glossy Sunday magazine included a lengthy, illustrated feature with the five-alarm headline How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism.
To illustrate the state’s alleged swerve toward neo-fascist theocratic rule—a dire development I’d somehow missed—the story included a scary gothic photo, heavily filtered to bring out its dark tones, of a ghostly white cross on a bare hillside reflected in a passing rearview mirror. I
t also included, of course, a Yellowstone reference and Kevin Costner’s name—right up top, where the search engines would see them.
Guillain-Barre with Vax by Dr. Peter McCullough
Using VAERS, Abara et al reported 211 cases of GBS submitted from December 2020 through January 2022 occurred with mRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna) presenting with symptoms 8-10 days after taking the shot.
These findings are a severe blow to the mRNA vaccine development programs active in several companies including Moderna who recently received FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for their investigational respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidate, mRNA-1345, in adults aged 60 years or older. Data safety monitoring boards and advisory committees should be on a alert for GBS which can occur days to weeks after injection with mRNA.
Japanese Professor On A Mission by Aussie17
Prof Fukushima and his team held a press conference where he put the Government Officials in a Catch-22 situation by presenting data that the number of infections in Japan has doubled. The number of infected people is four times higher than that of unvaccinated people!
They demand the Health Ministry acknowledge causal links between vaccines and deaths. They are prepared to file lawsuits if the Health Ministry fails to do so.
They want the Health Ministry to distribute a “Vaccination Victim’s Handbook” to everyone vaccinated. The handbook is similar to the “Atomic Bombs Victim’s handbook” distributed to survivors of atomic bombs.
Mask-Don’t-Work Infographic by Justin Hart
The Cochrane Review poured over 78 mask studies and concluded there was little to no evidence that facemasks provide any efficacy against viral transmission.
For their core analysis on masks they focused on a dozen studies to determine whether or not masking can quell the spread of infectious respiratory diseases.
We took it upon ourselves to update that infographic into something more visual with quotes from the studies. FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE!
Another Half-Hearted Apology by A Midwestern Doctor
this piece, like Oster’s (who was also not a doctor), was primarily written for an educated liberal audience (hence why it uses so many of the academic constructs they love)
I believe the goal of this piece is to test out soundbites that could be used to address the major issues that the medical establishment has created for itself through analyzing how COVID-19 was handled.
The goal essentially is to have their cake…and eat it…
In my own opinion, if these people are actually sorry for what they did to us, they would be willing to relinquish some of their power so it could not happen again and I believe moving forward it is critical for us to hold them to that. Anything less should not be considered acceptable for them to be granted amnesty.
The Decline of The Science by eugyppius
papers cite other papers which cite other papers, and by studying these patterns of citation over time, you can work out roughly what is happening in a discipline. If a field is utterly changed by new, foundational discoveries, a lot of older work will never be cited again.
Papers in fields experiencing stagnation or steady, cumulative advancement, on the other hand, will continue to cite increasingly old research, as work from many generations ago remains relevant.
Whereas words like “produce” and “make” dominated research in the 1950s and patents in the 1980s, recent work is more likely to talk of improving, enhancing, or including.
Science has entered a new, careerist era, one in which it will grow ever more conformist, erratic and unreliable.
Cochrane Review Author Speaks by Maryanne Demasi
DEMASI: May I just ask a finer point on masks… it's not that masks don’t work, it’s just that there is no evidence they do work…is that right?
JEFFERSON: There's no evidence that they do work, that’s right. It’s possible they could work in some settings….we’d know if we’d done trials. All you needed was for Tedros [from WHO] to declare it’s a pandemic and they could have randomised half of the United Kingdom, or half of Italy, to masks and the other half to no masks. But they didn’t. Instead, they ran around like headless chickens.
Shingles Reactivation by Dr. Peter A. McCullough
Martinez-Reviejo et al completed a literature review of varicella-zoster reactivation (shingles) and compared cases arising after vaccination and those with the respiratory infection. There were more manuscripts and cases after vaccination. However, the manifestations of varicella-zoster were more severe in those with acute COVID-19 illness which was also high in disease severity.
shingles can occur with severe COVID-19 and it is treatable.
COVID-19 vaccination continues to be an ongoing threat for varicella-zoster reactivation syndromes, some of which are very serious including ocular damage and long-lasting painful cutaneous syndromes.
RNA Integrity & Prion Disease by el gato malo
you do NOT want a prion disease. it’s a result of misfolded proteins and in cases like CJD universally fatal. per mayo clinic, it’s extremely rare affecting 1-2 people per million per year. that makes this clustering and timing look extremely unusual.
and the thing about a prion disease is once you know to look for it, the diagnosis is definitive and because it’s so rare, an uptick in occurrence is a VERY loud signal especially with such extraordinarily tight timing.
codon optimization for easier design and manufacture led to CG enrichment in drug vs wild.
MHRA were fully aware of the significant drop in RNA integrity (which is a critical quality attribute) to ~55% in the commercial batches (Process 2: large scale production) of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine compared to ~78% in the clinical batches
Three Compliance Tests by Jeffrey Tucker
Daily, we are bombarded by fake history that we know is wrong. We lived through it.
One way to think about these last three years is a succession of compliance tests: how much liberty and good sense are we willing to surrender to the regime and on what terms?
they came in three great waves: lockdowns, masks, and vaccine mandates.
The lockdowns hit us hard from mid-March 2020 and onward, imposed as if they were a conventional response to a circulating new pathogen, though they literally had no precedent in history.
At the March 16, 2020, press conference, not one reporter asked a critical question. Even if this was only for two weeks, as was promised, how is any of this compatible with law and the Bill of Rights?
In these early days, there was no thought put into universal masking. It was never part of our history.
Practically overnight, that advice changed. Part of the deal was that masks were the key to getting out of lockdown.
Eventually, there came a third test of compliance. This time it was more explicit: if you don’t like lockdowns and masking, the way out is pretty simple: get the shot.
And yet the vaccine mandate was the most egregious by some measures. If lockdowns were the war, the vaccine mandate was conscription.
Ending the Emergency by Dr. Robert W Malone
the widely distributed and weaponized fearporn which has driven the gross over-reaction of governments and their citizens (all over the world) was not justified.
In retrospect, the global COVIDcrisis agenda and response which has devastated global economies, enabled a massive upwards transfer of wealth, and has been exploited to justify imposition of “The Great Reset” globalist agenda items cannot be justified as a credible and effective “public health” response.
So now, despite the efforts of WHO/Tedros and so many others to continue to extend this non-crisis in a desperate effort to continue policies which damage people, communities, economies and tear apart the entire fabric of society, the US Federal government has decided to wind down their illegitimate suspension of fundamental constitutional rights and privileges in the name of a public health non-crisis. Why now, you might ask?
In short, the answer is that the election last November turned control of the US House of Representatives over to the Republican party. Elections have consequences.
Fauci: Vaxes Can’t Work by Igor Chudov
A new scientific study is out, and Anthony Fauci co-authored it.
What is remarkable about that study is the derogatory language Fauci et al. employ towards influenza and Covid vaccines.
The substance of the Cell article only explains why current influenza vaccines cannot prevent influenza and why Covid vaccines cannot prevent Covid.
Fauci and his “science” are still injecting the original Wuhan strain-encoding mRNA, well into the fifth calendar year of the pandemic, while being fully aware that mutations have rendered those injections to be “less than suboptimal.”
Fauci explained…why a vaccine-induced blood (humoral) response to Sars-Cov-2 would never stop respiratory infections. And yet, he lied to us for THREE YEARS about how vaccines would be the key to “getting out of the pandemic” and getting to herd immunity.
China: Transmission & PCR Tests by Austrian China
Almost all people who tested positive for Covid-19 for the first time in December exhibited clear symptoms of illness.
According to the Ordos city health department, only 1.75% out of 16,000 cases examined exhibited no symptoms
The cycle threshold in China for people lacking a record of infection in the previous 6 months is 40 cycles for both snippets. For the others (those previously infected) a threshold limit of 35 is applied.
at least for those without previous recent infections, the percentage of false positives was very very low, thus making it into a very effective diagnostic tool.
Transmission is a fact, regardless of whether or not viruses exist
Without a shred of a doubt, transmission of some illness-causing factor is taking place. This can happen by direct human to human contact but also within buildings, especially between households above or below each other. From what was observed in southern Chinese border cities, it is hard to avoid concluding that some kind of infectious genetic matter was literally blowing across borders.
This illness-causing factor is correlated with two specific genetic snippets which can be tested for.
This illness-causing factor is correlated with specific antigens which can be tested for.
In Masks We Trust by Vinay Prasad
the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. No one has proven masking doesn’t work. In fact the MAJORITY of the confidence interval is favorable. Masks work, we just need the right trial to prove it.
very few abandoned medical practices were abandoned on the basis of evidence that excludes the possibility of some useful treatment effect. Yet, for the most part, people do not claim “it would have worked, if only” or “this doesn’t prove it failed.” For the most part, we accept the failures and move on.
Many experts are actively treating masks differently than any other medical intervention and inventing new standards to reject practices (the entire CI must be unfavorable), which have not been used in any aspect of medicine. It is hard to believe this is genuine trial interpretation and not a desire to preserve something that many people have faith in, believe in, trust in.
In God we trust, all others must bring data.
Spike Remodels Cells by Walter M Chesnut
bombshell paper was published on Saturday which shows that the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 causes red blood cells to actually DEFORM in vivo upon exposure
This deformation is caused by ACTIN REMODELING via integrin receptor binding.
This immediately brought to mind how COCAINE affects the heart. It can REMODEL CELLS IN THE SAME WAY
Furthermore, CHRONIC COCAINE EXPOSURE INDUCES FIBROSIS, via mechanisms parallel to CHRONIC SPIKE PROTEIN EXPOSURE.
Japan: Worse Now Than At The Beginning by Guy Gin
Japan was indeed comparatively “normal” in mid 2020. Schools and businesses were open, and the government even ran a large-scale domestic tourism campaign. But the abnormal Covid cosplay of masks and partitions was everywhere and still is.
the BBC still hasn’t convincingly explained why Covid deaths were so much lower in 2020, when most experts assured us that the Japanese had no immunity, than in 2023 after 380 million jabs have been administered.
It couldn’t be that the jabs have messed with the immunological advantages the Japanese had in 2020, could it?
HBOT For Long Covid by Dr. Peter McCullough
Several observational studies and one small randomized trial demonstrated salutary effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) consisting of a series of treatments with the whole body in a HBOT chamber where the partial pressure of oxygen is modified to levels used to treat chronic wounds and other medical problems.
In my practice, HBOT is the only form of treatment I have found in post COVID-19 syndromes (especially residual pulmonary disease) that appears to have a bone fide treatment effect.
The Questions We Want Answered by Justin Hart
Our favorite team of doctors took it upon themselves to itemize the questions that demand answers. They refer to this team as “The Norfolk Group”
It consists of: Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD; Leslie Bienen, MFA, DVM; Ram Duriseti, MD, PhD; Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD; Martin Kulldorff, PhD, FDhc; Marty Makary, MD, MPH; Margery Smelkinson, PhD; and Steven Templeton, PhD.
“I Was Lied To” Is No Excuse by Mark Changizi
It was their responsibility — especially if they had a large audience or formal leadership responsibilities — to check the data themselves, especially given the societal damage and civil liberties at stake.
It was their responsibility to THINK! Even without data, common sense should have told anyone that you can’t slow aerosol-spread viruses, that lockdowns won’t work, that masks are a joke, that you can’t freeze an economy, and so on. They turned off their thinking brain.
It was their responsibility to wonder whether humans have a tendency to panic, and rush off cliffs. That’s the very reason for the Precautionary Principle — to protect us from ourselves.
If they had had a true commitment to civil liberties, believing those lies would not have justified civil liberties violating interventions in the first place.
Delayed Mask Studies by Damian
Cochrane Review, which clearly showed that masks were likely to do nothing to stem Covid transmission, was ready to go around April 2020 just when the first Governments were beginning to legally force their populations to wear masks.
Had it been released at that point, so much of what followed might have been different. Maybe 2 year olds in the US might not have been forced to wear them all day in school. Maybe OAPs in Ireland might not have been sent to jail for failing to mask in a supermarket.
we have the suppression of the DANMASK-19 study which completed in the summer of 2020. This study was the first RCT conducted after the Pandemic began and the first to focus entirely on SARS-CoV-II (as opposed to previous RCTs which focused on influenza and influenza-like illnesses). It, therefore, carried some serious weight and, like the Cochrane Review, its results showing no benefit to masking were ready for publication just as mandates and policies around masks were being cemented in society. Furthermore, also just like Cochrane, it too was held up and delayed until November.
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excellent review, helping to keep us informed with real news