dailymail | The White House coronavirus coordinator
said that Biden's December 8 vaccine deadline for government contractors
is 'not a cliff' at a press briefing on Wednesday.
Jeffrey
Zients said of the deadline, which is when Biden all federal
contractors have to be vaccinated by: 'Even once we hit those deadlines,
we expect federal agencies and contractors will follow their standard
HR processes and that, for any of the probably relatively small percent
of employees that are not in compliance, they'll go through education,
counseling, accommodations, and then enforcement.'
Federal workers should be vaccinated by a deadline of November 22.
The statement means that employers with more than 100 workers will not
have to fire unvaccinated employees in two month's time. Instead of
immediate lay-offs there will be time for education, counseling and
other measures before potentially ending employment.
Prior to the press briefing millions of
workers were left believing they'd be jobless come December 9 unless
they got a religious or medical exemption.
Zients added: 'These processes play out across weeks, not days.
'And
so, to be clear, we’re creating flexibility within the system. We’re
offering people multiple opportunities to get vaccinated. There is not a
cliff here.'
The coordinator was also
sure to note that the purpose of the deadline, 'most importantly, is to
get people vaccinated and protected, not to punish them'.
Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Gary
Kelly said last week: 'We want our employees to know that nobody is
going to lose their job on December 9 if we're not perfectly in
compliance... We're not going to fire anybody who doesn't get
vaccinated.'
Meanwhile, American
Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said he did not expect any
employees to leave as a result of the vaccine mandate.
A
group representing FedEx Corp, United Parcel Service Inc and other
cargo carriers told the White House last week it would be virtually
impossible to have 100 percent of their respective work forces
vaccinated by December 8.
His statements came after it was revealed that just 68 percent of the US military is vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Many
federal contractors have told employees that they risk losing their
jobs if they are not vaccinated by December 8. Raytheon Technologies'
Chief Executive Greg Hayes warned in a CNBC interview Tuesday the US
aerospace and defense firm will lose 'several thousand' employees who
refuse to take Covid-19 vaccines, as it prepares to meet the December 8
deadline.
On Wednesday Republican
Senator Roger Wicker urged Biden to abandon the plan completely and
said: 'We cannot afford to gut our transportation network of tens and
perhaps hundreds of thousands of essential, good-paying jobs.'
Nationwide,
about 191million Americans have been fully vaccinated - nearly 58
percent of the population, according to CDC data.
jonathanturley | “Come on, man,” seems to be President Biden’s signature response to
any uncomfortable question. The phrase is meant to be both dismissive
and conclusive in ending inquiries, frequently used to counter reporters before often walking away. Indeed, it is so often repeated that it appears on T-Shirts or coffee mugs and in remixes.
This week, however, it was not the pesky press but freedom itself
that got hit with a version of the comeback. When asked during a CNN
town hall program about those still objecting to taking COVID vaccines,
Biden mocked them and their claimed rights with “Come on, ‘freedom.’ ”
He then called for any police officers, firefighters, medical personnel
or other first responders to be fired en masse if they refuse to be
vaccinated.
Biden’s response to the question was applauded by the CNN audience,
as if to say “Freedom Pfff, that is so last century.” And he reduced any
vaccine refusals to claiming “I have the freedom to kill you with my
COVID.”
He is not alone in such rhetoric. Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared that police officers refusing to take vaccines are insurrectionists.
The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious
exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the
constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §2000e-2(a), which declares
unlawful any “employment practice for an employer … to fail or refuse to
hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate
against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms,
conditions, or privileges of employment because of such individual’s …
religion.”
The federal government also is subject to the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits the government and other covered
entities like the District of Columbia from “substantially burden[ing]”
a person’s exercise of religion. Under RFRA, there is no “Come on,
man,” defense. Instead, the federal government must show that the burden
imposed furthers a “compelling governmental interest” and is “the least
restrictive means” of furthering that interest.
There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back. In New York, the state is appealing a
preliminary injunction against its refusal to allow religious
exemptions to its vaccine mandate. A lower court found the governor’s
mandate “has effectively foreclosed the pathway to seeking a religious
accommodation that is guaranteed under Title VII.”
Likewise, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month affirmed such
a preliminary injunction against Western Michigan University. The
university allowed students to ask for individual exemptions but failed
to grant religious exemptions under its discretionary policy.
The issue reached the Supreme Court this week when health workers
challenged a similar law in Maine allowing for medical but not religious
exemptions. Justice Stephen Breyer rejected an emergency motion but too
much has been made over that order, which was not based on the merits
of the claim. The appellate court was already expediting review of the
case, and the dismissal was “without prejudice.” The health care workers
can refile if circumstances change or if the appellate court rules
against them. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a
decision by Oct. 29, when the vaccine requirement is scheduled to go
into effect.
denvergazette | Republican lawmakers are pressuring President Joe Biden to drop or
pause his vaccine requirements for federal defense contractors over
fears they will compromise national security supply chains.
The Washington Examiner
reviewed a letter Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville sent to the
White House Tuesday afternoon claiming that Biden's "federal contractor
vaccine mandate will have negative effects on our national security" and
called on the president "to remove — or, at a minimum, delay and
clarify — vaccination requirements on private companies and academic
research institutions that are actively supporting the Department of
Defense."
"I share your desire to see our country through the COVID-19 pandemic
as quickly as possible, and, I — like you — have elected to take the
vaccine. But your administration's mandate is short-sighted,
ill-conceived, and threatens our national security," Tuberville wrote in
a letter sent to the White House on Tuesday. "The American warfighter
is ultimately harmed when skilled workers leave the defense contractor
workforce, a foreseeable consequence of your order."
Tuberville
specifically noted that Alabama alone employed nearly 100,000 federal
contractors in 2020, and "more than 5,000 contractors who support the
Department of Defense."
"They provide capabilities to the Pentagon
that are often difficult to replicate. Losing any sizable share of a
small firms' workforce means a direct reduction in the ‘economy and
efficiency' that your Order purports to seek to advance. When these
firms are unable to perform, our country is at risk," he continued. "It
is quite possible that your mandate will result in individuals leaving
the workforce to avoid the vaccine, thus, resulting in increased worker
absences and labor costs, and decreased efficiency. During this time of
increasing worry about the technological advances of near-peer
adversaries, we should focus on policies that will ensure our national
security interests are protected. This order does the opposite."
"We
will lose several thousand people," Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said on
CNBC Tuesday. "It's not just the prime contractors, but it's also all of
our subcontractors that need to follow that mandate as well."
Tuberville's letter follows on the heels of a similar offering from nearly a dozen Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee.
On Oct. 22, those lawmakers petitioned the White House and Secretary of
Defense Lloyd Austin to suspend the Pentagon's vaccine mandate for
contractors over fears that it could lead to military supply chain
problems.
"We strongly urge you to reconsider the manner in which
you are seeking to address this issue so as not to harm the livelihood
of civilian contractors, industry partners, and strategic goals of our
armed services," the letter reads. "Those who adamantly refuse the
vaccine will accept termination. We will lose critical experience in
skilled labor. We will lose opportunities for mentorship and on-the-job
training from veteran craftsmen. In the long-term, we will miss quality
control standards. We will face endemic cost overruns and rework as
decades of lessons are not passed to the next generation."
Roughly 100 employees at United Launch Alliance,
a joint venture funded by Lockheed Martin and Boeing that contracts to
both the Department of Defense and NASA, walked off the job Monday over
the federal government's vaccine mandates and pledged to continue
protesting in the days leading up to the deadline to be vaccinated.
"The
COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every facet of life over the
past 18 months. COVID-19 also is a challenge for our business, a
business that is critical to national security and civil space
endeavors," a ULA representative said in a statement. "ULA decided to
require vaccinations to ensure the health and safety of our employees
and to align with our U.S. government customer and industry direction.
This places ULA in a much better position to meet the nation's needs and
our manifest commitments while protecting the health of everyone at our
facilities."
RT | Hitherto-revered US leftist Noam Chomsky’s call for the
unvaccinated to be ‘isolated’ from the rest of society, and his cold
dismissal of concerns over how they would even get food, is deeply
shocking. How the mighty have fallen.
The one good thing about
the last 18 months is that it has exposed who were the genuine
supporters of basic human freedoms and who were not. Goodness me,
there've been quite a few surprises, haven‘t there?
If I had said to you back in 2019 that, under the guise of fighting a virus
with an IFR of 0.096% states across the western world would impose the
greatest peace-time restrictions on civil liberties ever seen, with
people even prevented from attending the funerals of loved ones or
visiting them when they were seriously ill in hospital, you’d have
probably said ‘I bet that socialist-libertarian Noam Chomsky will
speak out strongly against it. I don’t agree with everything he says,
but he’s always against tyranny and disproportionate government
measures.’
But Chomsky not only didn’t speak out against lockdowns and mandatory
face-masks (if he did, I missed it), he actually went a whole lot
further. Showing a level of authoritarianism that would make even Joseph
Stalin blanch, he said in a recent viral interview that the “right response” towards those who did not wish to take vaccines was to “insist that they be isolated”
from the rest of society. Then, as Max Blumenthal highlighted on
Twitter, far from showing contrition, he doubled down. When asked ‘How
can we get food to them?’ (i.e. the unvaccinated), he chillingly
replied: “Well, that’s actually their problem.”
He went on to say that if they “really did become destitute” then the state would have to move in with “some measure to secure their survival,” as was done with people in jail. Thanks for being so charitable, Noam.
To
justify his extreme position, the much-lauded ‘great thinker’ then made
a quite ludicrous analogy. He compared the unvaccinated to people who
don‘t want to stop at red lights at traffic junctions.
While the vaccines have been shown to reduce transmission of the virus, they don’t entirely prevent it spreading, or people becoming sick or even dying from Covid. Never mind the scientific research
from Israel which shows that natural immunity confers “longer lasting
and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and
hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to
the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.”
No, the great
Noam Chomsky actually compared people who had made perfectly rational
science-based decisions not to take the new-on-the-market vaccines, with
nutters who drive through red lights and who really do put themselves
and others at risk. It’s a comparison that you might expect a
dumbed-down shock-jock to make when they’re desperate to boost radio
ratings, but... Professor Chomsky? Laureate Professor of Linguistics at
the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology? How the mighty have fallen.
Chomsky’s
remarks would have been appalling at any time, but against the backdrop
of what is actually happening they are really quite horrific. Because
what he is calling for is actually being rolled out in a number of
so-called ‘democracies.’ Fist tap Dale.
reclaimthenet | Former US Secretary of State and former Democrat presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton has waded into UK politics and has said UK
Prime Minister Boris Johnson should enforce vaccine passport mandates.
She made the remarks in an appearance on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.
During the interview, Clinton suggested the enforcement of vaccine
mandates in order to contain the spike of infections ahead of the
winter.
“I do think it is imperative that the Prime Minister do what he can
to stop the rise in Covid in the UK. He doesn’t need to shut the society
down but he does need to mandate vaccines,” Clinton said.
When Marr clarified that mandating vaccines equals the implementation
of vaccine passports, Clinton said that was the right path to follow.
She referenced the situation in the New York health sector where
vaccine hesitancy resulted in the implementation of a mandate. Further
illustrating her point, Clinton claimed that a hospital in New York had
to fire more than 1,000 employees for refusing to show a passport,
suggesting that it was a good thing.
“I think you have got to make it clear that we are not going to go
back into lockdown – that is not going to happen,” Clinton said.
“But if you don’t get vaccinated, if you don’t have proof of vaccination when you go into a club or a restaurant…”
Appearing to suggest people should be fired for not showing a
passport, she said: “And if employers don’t enforce vaccines, we may see
some problems here in the UK as the weather gets colder and people are
forced back inside again.”
Clinton’s comment came after the PM publicly decided to stop vaccine
certification plans, though there is some speculation they could still
be used.
summit |A leaked government report has found that vaccine passports
could actually exacerbate the spread of COVID because they would
encourage people to visit smaller, more poorly ventilated venues.
According to the report, compiled by the the Department of Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport [DCMS], introducing the scheme could actually
have the opposite intended effect.
“If certification displaces some fans from structured and well
ventilated sports stadia, this could lead to them attending unstructured
and poorly ventilated pubs instead, where they will have access to more
alcohol than if there were in the stadia,” states the report. “Evidence
from the Euros showed spikes in cases associated with pubs even when
England were playing abroad.”
“The policy would also slash turnover for the organisers of events
required to use vaccine passports, and necessitate the hiring of
thousands of new stewards which may be hard to deliver,” reports the Telegraph.
After Scotland tried to introduce vaccine passports, the process was
called an “unmitigated disaster,” with staff at nightclubs receiving
abuse and the technology repeatedly failing.
Many venues decided to close early and lost 40% of their footfall,
illustrating once again how the scheme will put innumerable nightclubs
that operate on a profit margin of 15% out of business for good.
Another example of how vaccine passports are largely useless is the
fact that providing a negative test is no longer being offered as an
option, despite the fact that the vaccinated can still transmit the
virus.
As we highlight in the video below, people visiting nightclubs in
Ireland had to be vaccinated to get in, but were then told that masks
were not required while dancing.
Apparently, COVID has developed some form of artificial intelligence
so that it knows when to leave people alone when they are rubbing up to
dozens of other sweaty people in close proximity.
VCI | VCI™
is a voluntary coalition of public and private organizations committed
to empowering individuals access to a trustworthy and verifiable copy of
their vaccination records in digital or paper form using open,
interoperable standards.
The scope
of VCI™ is to harmonize the standards and produce the implementation
guides needed
to support the issuance of verifiable health credentials -
signed clinical data bound to an individual identity. VCI™ does this by
leading the development and implementation of the open-source SMART Health Card Framework and specifications.
Individuals
can then use those verifiable credentials for medical purposes and to
demonstrate their health status to safely return to work, school, travel
and life.
How?
Participating
organizations commit to implementing, testing, and refining the SMART
Health Cards Framework within their sphere of influence and will also
commit to providing verifiable clinical information, including
vaccination records directly to citizens if such records are in their
stewardship. They may also be called upon to assist in other ways as
necessary to ensure the success of the initiative.
To
ensure that convenient access to records crosses the digital divide and
does not exacerbate health inequities, those without smartphones should
receive paper printed with QR codes containing W3C verifiable
credentials.
thegrayzone |Described by Forbes as a “cloak and
dagger [research and development] shop” that is “the most important
organization you’ve never heard of,” MITRE has developed some of the
most invasive surveillance technology in use by US spy agencies today.
Among its most novel products is a system built for the FBI which
captures individuals’ fingerprints from images posted on social media
sites.
MITRE’s own COVID-19 umbrella
coalition includes In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central
Intelligence Agency, and Palantir, a scandal-stained private spying
firm.
Elizabeth Renieris,
the founding director of Notre Dame and IBM’s technology ethics lab,
has warned that “as dominant technology and surveillance companies” like
MITRE “pursue new revenue streams in healthcare and financial
services…privately owned and operated ID systems with profit-maximizing
business models threaten the privacy, security, and other fundamental
rights of individuals and communities.”
Indeed, the involvement of the
military-intelligence apparatus in the development of a digital vaccine
passport system is yet another indication that behind the guise of
public health concerns, the US surveillance state could be due to
enhance its control over an increasingly restive population.
The Vaccine Credential Initiative, a neoliberal vehicle advised by military-intelligence professionals
As detailed in the first installment of this series,
tech oligarchs like Bill Gates and global capitalist policy hubs such
as the World Economic Forum have advanced digital ID and electronic
currency systems across the Global South in order to harvest data and
profits from populations that were previously out of reach.
The advent of vaccine passports
providing access to employment and public life has become the key vector
for accelerating their agenda in the West. As the financial consulting firm, Aite-Novarica, declared this September,
digital COVID-19 vaccine passports “expand the case for digital IDs
beyond COVID-19 vaccination only, and potentially serve as a digital ID
as a more comprehensive, universal source of identity information…”
As vaccine passports exclude millions across the West, sparking furious protests and wildcat strikes, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is working with its partners to implement them in digital form.
c&en |For small biotech companies hoping to strike a deal with larger drug developers, there’s no greater destination than the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. In early January 2020, leaders from the start-up Shape Therapeutics
made the annual pilgrimage to this mecca of biotechnology networking in
San Francisco to make a pitch: What if you could edit someone’s genetic
code without ever touching their DNA?
The biotech industry is awash in companies using tools like CRISPR gene editing
to fix or turn off problematic DNA. If gene editing works, it could
provide a one-and-done cure. But some researchers are worried that if
CRISPR slips up and cuts DNA at the wrong site,
the damage could also be permanent. “Targeting DNA has a lot of
all-or-nothing consequences,” says David Huss, head of research at
Shape.
At the conference, Huss explained to potential partners that Shape’s
solution was to edit RNA instead of DNA. Our cells constantly produce
short-lived RNA molecules that convert the DNA code into functional
proteins. Incredibly, our bodies have already evolved an ingenious tool for editing RNA:
an enzyme called ADAR—adenosine deaminase acting on RNA. The enzyme
converts select adenosine (A) bases, one of four letters that compose
the messenger RNA (mRNA) code, into another base that the cell
interprets as guanosine (G). Shape was founded in 2018 on the basis of
academic work showing that synthetic molecules called guide RNAs could
recruit ADAR and direct it to make these A-to-G edits at precise sites.
Scientists estimate that A-to-G editing could fix mutations
responsible for nearly 50% of genetic diseases. “We have a tool that can
be applied to so many diseases that we couldn’t possibly do them all
ourselves,” Huss says. When Shape executives pitched their RNA-editing
technology to the Big Pharma company Roche, the two teams clicked, says
Sylke Poehling, head of therapeutic modalities at Roche.
vanityfair | The disclosures of the last four months—since Vanity Fair was first to detail how conflicts of interest resulting from U.S. government funding of controversial virology research hampered America’s investigation into COVID-19’s origins—present an increasingly disturbing picture.
Early last month, The Intercept published
more than 900 pages of documents it obtained through a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit against the NIH, relating to EcoHealth
Alliance’s grant research. But there was one document missing, a fifth
and final progress report that EcoHealth Alliance had been required to
submit at the end of its grant period in 2019.
In its letter Wednesday, NIH included that missing progress report,
which was dated August 2021. That report described a “limited
experiment,” as the NIH letter phrased it, in which laboratory mice
infected with an altered virus became “sicker than those infected with” a
naturally occurring one.
The letter did not
mention the phrase “gain-of-function research” that has become so
central to the bitter clashes over COVID-19’s origins. That type of
controversial research—the manipulation of pathogens with the aim of
making them more infectious in order to gauge their risk to humans—has
divided the virology community. A review system established in 2017
requires federal agencies to particularly scrutinize any research
proposals that involve enhancing a pathogen’s infectiousness to humans.
Dr. Fauci’s spokesperson told Vanity Fair
that EcoHealth Alliance’s research did not fall under that framework,
since the experiments being funded “were not reasonably expected to
increase transmissibility or virulence in humans.”
However, Alina Chan, a Boston-based scientist and coauthor of the book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19,
said the NIH was in a “very challenging position. They funded research
internationally to help study novel pathogens and prevent against them.
But they had no way to know what viruses had been collected, what
experiments had been conducted, and what accidents might have occurred.”
As
scientists remain in a stalemate over the pandemic’s origins, another
disclosure last month made clear that EcoHealth Alliance, in partnership
with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was aiming to do the kind of
research that could accidentally have led to the pandemic. On September
20, a group of internet sleuths calling themselves DRASTIC (short for
Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19)
released a leaked $14 million grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance had
submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA).
It proposed partnering with the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and constructing SARS-related bat coronaviruses
into which they would insert “human-specific cleavage sites” as a way to
“evaluate growth potential” of the pathogens. Perhaps not surprisingly,
DARPA rejected the proposal, assessing that it failed to fully address
the risks of gain-of-function research.
The leaked
grant proposal struck a number of scientists and researchers as
significant for one reason. One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2’s
genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more
infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just
the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology
had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal. “If I applied for
funding to paint Central Park purple and was denied, but then a year
later we woke up to find Central Park painted purple, I’d be a prime
suspect,” said Jamie Metzl, a former executive vice president of the Asia Society, who sits on the World Health Organization’s advisory committee on human genome editing and has been calling for a transparent investigation into COVID-19’s origins.
westernjournal | New concerns are being raised about side effects from the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus.
Swedish health officials have now decided that a moratorium on giving
the Moderna vaccine to anyone under 31 will be extended indefinitely,
the U.K. Daily Mail reported. The pause on the Moderna shots had been scheduled to end on Dec. 1.
Finland, Iceland and Denmark have taken similar steps. Norway is
encouraging men under 30 not to get the Moderna shot, but is not
mandating it.
For months, the Moderna vaccine has been under scrutiny because of data that shows young men who receive it are at increased risk for myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac around the heart.
The Daily Mail reported that one U.S. study that has not yet been
peer-reviewed concluded that “young males under [age] 20 are up to six
times more likely to develop myocarditis after contracting COVID-19 than
those who have been vaccinated.”
The decision comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
putting Moderna’s plans for a shot aimed at the population from age 12
to 17 on hold due to concerns over risks of the ailments, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Although a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
panel on Thursday approved boosters for the Moderna and Johnson &
Johson vaccines, there were some cautions raised, according to CNBC.
Dr. Tom Shimabukuro said there is an increased risk of myocarditis
and pericarditis with either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, in
particular after the second dose of the vaccines.
According to the Daily Mail, the data indicated the risk was 13 times
greater for those getting the Moderna vaccine than for those who got
the Pfizer vaccine.
thesenecaeffect |Nevertheless, there could be creative possibilities for a "soft" elimination of large numbers of consenting people. One
way could be not letting them know that they are being killed.
Alternatively, they could be convinced to kill themselves in ways that
they don't recognize as "suicide." Both methods require deception, but
that's not a problem: deception is part and parcel of the very concept
of "Propaganda."
We all know the story of
people quietly walking into gassing chambers after having been told that
they were going to have a shower. It is an example of the strategy of
deception used in Nazi Germany to eliminate that fraction of the
population defined as "Lebensunwertes Leben," ''life unworthy of life.''
It included not only Jews and other ethnic minorities, but also "Aryan"
German citizens affected by malformations or just considered a burden
for the state.
In Germany, regular medical doctors used
barbiturates to kill children and gas chambers to get rid of adults.
Neither the victims nor their families were told of what was being
done. Officially, the victims were hospitalized to receive medical
treatment, and, later on, families received notice that, unfortunately,
their relatives had not survived the attempt to cure them. The number of
ethnic Germans killed in this way is estimated as around 300,000. Much smaller than that of the Jews and other ethnic groups exterminated, but still not negligible.
These
deaths were not suicides, but there was a certain element of voluntary
acceptance of the procedure and it is hard to think that people would
not at least suspect what was going on. The human mind is pliant, and probably everyone, including the victims, was doing their best to believe that it was all done for the sake of their health. Hence, they offered no resistance and even collaborated with their exterminators.
In our times, we have methods to get rid of people with their consent that were not available in Nazi Germany.
In terms of "substance abuse," we have a wide choice of substances that
shorten one's life expectancy and that are willingly ingested by
people. In some cases, they are forbidden, although obtainable illegally
(heroin, cocaine, and others). Some are marketed but advertised with
severe limitations (alcohol and tobacco). In other cases, they are
heavily advertised and widely available (junk food). We need also to
mention that some medical treatments are widely recommended as good for
your health, but nobody really knows if they really are (4) and in some
cases, it is discovered only later that they are very bad. Maybe you
remember the case of Thalidomide, but there are many more in the history of medicine. Surely, there will be more cases in the future.
Although effective, these substances are slow and messy ways to get rid of people and
they may generate negative side effects, for instance criminality and
handicapped people that are expensive to care for. For instance, cocaine
taken every day will shorten a person's life by
about 10 years, too slow to be interesting for would-be exterminators.
It is at least unlikely that the diffusion of heavy drugs in our society
is the result of an evil plan of extermination, although some agencies
of the deep state may well have a role in their supply and
distribution.
At this point, the question is
whether the stress on our society could accumulate to a level in which
we would start doing the things that were done in Germany during the
Nazi period, that is to exterminate people singled out for some physical
factor, religious belief, or ideology. And there is no doubt that our
society is heavily stressed although, probably not so heavily as Germany
was in 1945 (not yet, at least).
Of course, the reaction to this hypothesis normally comes with the sentence "It can't happen here" and
clearly, we are not seeing our governments distributing cyanide
capsules to the population. Nor we have evidence that doctors are
willingly killing their patients. But a basic rule in history is that if something happened once, it may happen again.
americanthinker | Lately, it has been all about getting 100% of the population jabbed.
For what reason? I am not sure, and some of the more detailed and
investigated theories scare me. I shudder to think. But last year’s
heroes are being labeled selfish and villainous for not getting the
vaccine. Hospital systems have abandoned their community’s health and
ignored early successful outpatient treatment in favor of huge
government subsidies for inpatient and ICU treatment. The success of
these treatments was not great, but that is another article. Now we
have the same hospital systems turning their backs on their own
employees. Basically, health providers have a choice, get shot, or get
fired. How does that help? Both vaxxed and unvaxxed can spread the
virus, so it doesn’t help anyone. It only helps the hospital to get
more government money by meeting quotas.
I, for one, will
remember that when we faced a real crisis, the hospitals and many
physicians chose money and profit over their own community’s best
interest. Perhaps it is time for groups of physicians to get back to
running their own healthcare clinics and hospitals. We used to have a
code of ethics. We used to put patients first. Not anymore.
As
for physicians, those who are blindly following the government edicts
are culpable in a moral atrocity. Bullying and deriding patients who
chose to refrain from this still experimental therapy is an
abomination. (You will say it isn’t experimental anymore, to which I
would say that just because the government broke its own rules regarding
approval, doesn’t make it legal or right). Patients have sincere
beliefs for making their choice. Respect their thoughts. Do you yell
as much at smokers, drinkers, fornicators, drug abusers, etc? No, I
think not. I think you chose to fit in because it gives you a sense of
righteousness.
And going so far as to encourage vaccination in
children and pregnant women is crazy. There is blood on the hands of
any physician who does this. With children, there is no benefit to the
vaccine, only harm. They would serve themselves and society better with
natural immunity. The vaccine hasn’t been studied on women and their
babies. It is pregnancy category X (unknown) but being pushed wholesale
on these poor women without proper studies. Shame on you, doctors who
are doing this. I certainly have lots to answer for when I meet my
maker, but this is on another level.
I beg physicians to get back
to basics, remember all the epidemiology and immunology that bored us to
tears in school. Investigate the real literature and take a stand.
Society needs us to do this. Even if you have been vaccinated, help
those who are fighting for their lives. Stand up against this forced
vaccine tyranny. Support those who have legitimate reasons for
declining the jab. If you don’t stand up now, who will stand up for you
when you are faced with your choice of yet another booster or your job.
Guardian | With Fukuyama's move into this territory, it may
be that bioethicists are going to be upstaged by political economists.
His question is clear: do we really want this post-human future, full of
bioengineered cyborgs? Should we just retreat behind the mantra -
originated by physicists who worked on the hydrogen bomb - that science
is progress, and cannot and will not be halted? Most US free marketeers
writing in this area take this view, in contrast to the European
tradition of regulating in the public interest. So the major surprise of
Fukuyama's book is that, in the field of human biotechnology at least,
he favours regulation.
He begins by
summarising what he sees as the current state of play in the science and
technology of genetic and brain sciences, in terms of their capacity to
extend healthy human life, to understand the roots of human behaviour
(intelligence, aggression, sexual orientation), and to control and
change that behaviour with drugs (Prozac, Ritalin and so on). Although
refreshingly sceptical about the claims made for the power and scope of
such drugs, he rightly argues that at the least they are harbingers of
increasingly effective new generations of psychochemicals.
He
is on less firm ground when dealing with genetic claims, where he
accepts at face value the rather suspect evidence for so-called "smart"
or "aggressive" mice engineered by adding or removing DNA from their
genomes. And sometimes he is way off course, as when he repeats the
once-fashionable 19th-century nostrum that "ontogeny recapitulates
phylogeny" - ie, that a human foetus relives its evolutionary history in
the nine months prior to birth. But for his purposes, such errors in
biological understanding aren't important, and his assessment of the
direction in which such work is heading seems about right.
That
some of us are sceptical about its feasibility should not prevent us
from looking hard at its potential consequences. We should be warned by
the example of Sir Ernest Rutherford, who knew more about the structure
of atoms in the early decades of the past century than anyone else, but
still insisted that the prospect of atomic power was "moonshine".
So
what should we do about it? The middle section of the book centres on
two classical philosophical problems viewed from within this new
context: human rights and human nature. The discourse of rights has
become very murky in recent years, in part, according to Fukuyama,
because of the rejection of naturalism. Naturalism would claim that
there is an intrinsic universal human nature, and that therefore ethics,
and as a consequence human "rights", can be derived from it.
These
assumptions together constitute what has been called the naturalistic
fallacy. Critics point out that human nature can be expressed only
within the diverse and historically contingent societies that humans
create, and therefore cannot be understood a priori. There is no
"nature" outside social context, and within the limits of evolved human
biology the societies that we have created are extraordinarily diverse.
In
any event, as philosophers from Hume onwards have pointed out, one
cannot derive an "ought" from an "is". Evolutionary psychologists reject
the first criticism, and despite their protestations that they wouldn't
dream of doing so, happily spend their time deriving multiple oughts
from diverse ises. Fukuyama accepts their claims to universalism in
order to build his case that the naturalistic fallacy is itself
fallacious. Hence, he argues, there is a human nature on which human
rights can be based. And insofar as human biotechnology threatens to
interfere with that human nature, it is essential that it be regulated.
Sound conclusion, faulty premises.
So,
finally, to the tough question: how to bell this particular cat. Most
biotech is done in the US, and outside federal laboratories it is
largely unregulated. But the situation is paradoxical, as US
conservative religious views on, for instance, stem-cell research clash
with an otherwise deregulatory agenda. (Legislation to ban so-called
therapeutic cloning is currently before Congress, at the same time as
the US withdraws from the Kyoto and Start treaties and weakens
environmental protection.)
historynewsnetwork | The
journalist Annie Jacobsen recently published
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought
Nazi Scientists to America (Little Brown, 2014).Scouring
the archives and unearthing previously undisclosed records as well as
drawing on earlier work, Jacobsen recounts in chilling detail a very
peculiar effort on the part of the U.S. military to utlize the very
scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.
As
I read your book I started thinking about the various Nazi genre
films such as; The Boys from Brazil, The Odessa File, and Marathon
Man — they all hold to a similar premise, key Nazi’s escape
Germany after the war and plot in various ways to do bad things.
Apparently truth is stranger than fiction. What was Operation
Paperclip?
Operation
Paperclip was a classified program to bring Nazi scientists to
America right after World War II. It had, however, a benign public
face. The war department had issued a press release saying that good
German scientists would be coming to America to help out in our
scientific endeavors.
But
it was not benign at all, as seen in the character of Otto
Ambros, a man, as you explain, was keen on helping U.S. soldiers in
matters of hygiene by offering them soap, this soon after they had
conquered Germany. Who was Ambros?
Otto
Ambros I must say was one of the most dark-hearted characters that I
wrote about in this book. He was Hitler’s favorite chemist, and I
don’t say that lightly. I found a document in the National
Archives, I don’t believe it had ever been revealed before, that
showed that during the war Hitler gave Ambros a one million
Reichsmark bonus for his scientific acumen. The reason was two-fold.
Ambros worked on the Reich’s secret nerve agent program, but he
also invented synthetic rubber, that was called buna. The reason
rubber was so important — if you think about the Reich’s
war-machine and how tanks need treads, aircraft need wheels — the
Reich needed rubber. By inventing synthetic rubber, Ambros became
Hitler’s favorite chemist.
Not
only that when the Reich decided to develop a factory at Auschwitz, —
the death camp had a third territory, there was Auschwitz, there was
Birkenau — they did it in a third territory called Auschwitz
III also known as
Monowitvz-Buna. This was where synthetic
rubber was going to be manufactured using prisoners who would be
spared the gas chamber as they were put to work, and most often
worked to death by the Reich war machine. The person, the general
manager there at Auschwitz III, was Otto Ambros. Ambros was one of
the last individuals to leave Auschwitz, this is in the last days of
January 1945 as the Russians are about to liberate the death camp.
Ambros is there according to these documents I have located in
Germany, destroying evidence right up until the very end.
After
the war, Ambros was sought by the Allies and later found,
interrogated and put on trial at Nuremberg, where he was convicted of
mass-murder and slavery. He was sentenced to prison, but in the early
1950s as the Cold War became elevated he was given clemency by the
U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and released from prison. When he
was sentenced, the Nuremberg judges took away all his finances,
including that one million Reichsmark bonus from Hitler. When McCloy
gave him clemency he also restored Otto Ambros’ finances, so he got
back what was left of that money. He was then given a contract with
the U.S. Department of Energy.
He
actually came to work in the United States?
Otto
Ambros remains one of the most difficult cases to crack in terms of
Paperclip. While I was able to unearth some new and horrifying
information about his postwar life, most of it remains, “lost or
missing,” which I take to mean classified. We do know for a fact
that Ambros came to the United States two, possibly three times. As a
convicted war criminal traveling to the United States he would have
needed special papers from the U.S. State Department. The State
Department, however, informed me through the Freedom of Information
Act that those documents are lost or missing.
Spartacus True Fact: The vaccine and the virus were made by the same people.
Spartacus True Fact: The pandemic and its response served multiple purposes for the Elite.
Spartacus Question: What is the purpose of all of this?
My Answers: Based on a protracted survey of Two Piece And A Biscuit and No Lives Matter devaluation of formerly exceptional (now completely expendable) populations.
Profit via extractive medical, financial, and criminal parasitization of expendable demographics.
Demonization of expendables in multiple wars of all against all with accompanying profit and attrition.
Avoidance of direct or centralized causal attribution.
For Spartacus: The more probable outcome (more probable than nanotech-based BCI) of non-fatal exposure to the virus or the mRNA neovaccinoid - is cognitive degradation. Such degradation is consistent with the long-term and large scale project to bring on the same gross degradation of mass populations via toxic drugs of addiction and digital social media.
Deemed "lives devoid of value" no one has to gin up enmity toward the drug-addicted and the mentally ill. These poor unfortunates already grovel at the fringes of society and are ripe for popularly sanctioned mass extermination.
Therefore - as we move into the necessary stage of Phase III clinical trials of ISRIB mediated suppression of the ISR, and begin large scale testing of gain of cognitive function (with side-effects) that will necessarily accrue to this - there will be a large, ready, and available population of willing human subjects - or willing subject guardians - eager to obtain relief for their afflicted family members.
Which brings us squarely back to the UR-Profitable, legitimate, medical and financial parasitization of yet another vulnerable and afflicted demographic.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Walter demonstrated that when too many unfolded or misfolded proteins—which are characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases—were detected inside a cell, it triggered the equivalent of an emergency shutoff switch that halted all protein construction until the problem was solved. The action, which Walter dubbed the “unfolded protein response,” was akin to a blaring red alert at a busy worksite, stopping work; cellular repair crews would then converge on the site, attempt to fix the problem, and if all else failed, eventually order the cell to commit suicide.
Misfolded proteins, other researchers discovered soon after, were just one of many problems that could cause the cells of the body to temporarily shut down protein production. Starvation, viral infections, physical force that damaged the cellular architecture, the oxidative stress common in aging cells, and many other stressors could also trip cellular circuit breakers that would stop the protein assembly line. In fact, researchers now know that almost any metabolic disruption can halt production and potentially trigger cell death. Eventually others gave a name to a broader pathway that overlapped with
Walter’s unfolded protein response. They called it the integrated stress response (ISR).
On page 9 of the letter, I find the more important consequence of the virus.
Messenger RNA is normally consumed right after it is produced in the body, being translated into a protein by a ribosome.364 COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is produced outside the body, long before a ribosome translates it. In the meantime, it could accumulate damage if inadequately preserved. When a ribosome attempts to translate a damaged strand of mRNA, it can become stalled. When this happens, the ribosome becomes useless for translating proteins because it now has a piece of mRNA stuck in it, like a lace card in an old punch card reader. The whole thing has to be cleaned up and new ribosomes synthesized to replace it.365,366 In cells with low ribosome turnover, like nerve cells, this can lead to reduced protein synthesis, cytopathic effects, and neuropathies.367–369
and then again on page 10:
SARS-CoV-2 Spike has a prion-like domain that enhances its infectiousness.394–396 The Spike S1 RBD may bind to heparin-binding proteins and promote amyloid aggregation. In humans, this could lead to Parkinson’s, Lewy Body Dementia, premature Alzheimer’s, or various other neurodegenerative diseases.397 This is very concerning because SARS-CoV-2 S1 is capable of injuring and penetrating the blood-brain barrier and entering the brain. It is also capable of increasing the permeability of the blood-brain barrier to other molecules.398–400
The vaccine and the virus were made by the same people.
The virus was made for the neovaccinoid, not the other way around. People versed in multi-level asymmetrical warfare are responsible for the policy of forced injection with the mRNA goo in violation of personal bodily sovereignty and common sense given its poor efficacy and documented side effects. The mandate is both biological and psychological warfare. Using corporations to enforce the mandate is evil genius.
One of the indispensable tenets of this mandatory vaccination scheme is the avoidance of attribution. This avoidance can't be accomplished by propaganda and misdirection alone.
Think about the Sackler family and what it has managed to get away with.
Think about demonization of the "unvaccinated" - "so you managed to defeat the virus, well, we have a cytotoxic vaccine that you'll be forced to take - OR ELSE!!"
You can't exactly coerce non-addicted segments of the population to destroy themselves with fentanyl, methamphetamine, super-potent cannabis, or even the preoposterous bombe - can you? But a very large segment can be ridden all the way down to oblivion, destroying its minds and its lives, and causing massive disruption, alienation, indebtedness, violence, crime, and criminality across the ranks of associated friends and family - by compliant acceptance of an mRNA gob of goo that causes ISR and cognitive degeneration.
What a miraculous system for culling the herd - while profiting all the way at multiple levels - absent any mechanism of direct or consolidated attribution. Friends and family of those effected by gross cognitive degradation will eagerly embrace enrolling their afflicted loved ones into a program of mass medical experimentation in hopes of achieving a cure.
Oh, and the digital biosecurity system is just a cherry on top. Look at the totality of the situation once again friend Spartacus. The infrastructure for all of what I've described above is already in place. For BCI and transhumanism, not so much.
As for the tested and vetted ISRIB, well, that will only be for the carefully selected lives that truly matter. Much like mRNA and CRISPR neovaccinoids that cure cancer and congenital defects and disease. Any remaining barriers to widespread human testing free of consequences have been ripped to shreds by the precedents of emergency use and trust the science.
High upon their Empyrean perches, the elite gamesmen look down on us and mockingly ask: What are you? Some kind of anti-vaxx political extremists?
thegrayzone |The death by starvation of Etwariya
Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand,
might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more
widespread trend.
Like 1.3 billion of her fellow
Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system
called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her
monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to
register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration.
Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was
repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her
home.
Premani Kumar, a 64-year-old woman also from Jharkhand, met the same demise as Devi, dying of hunger and exhaustion
the same year after the Aadhaar system transferred her pension payments
to another person without her permission, while cutting off her monthly
food rations.
A similarly cruel fate was reserved for Santoshi Kumari,
an 11-year-old girl, also from Jharkhand, who reportedly died begging
for rice after her family’s ration card was canceled because it had not
been linked to their Aadhaar digital ID.
These three heart-rending casualties
were among a spate of deaths in rural India in 2017 which came as a
direct result of the Aadhaar digital ID system.
With over one billion Indians in its
database, Aadhaar is the largest biometric digital ID program ever
constructed. Besides serving as a portal to government services, it
tracks users’ movements between cities, their employment status, and
purchasing records. It is a de facto social credit system that serves as
the key entry point for accessing services in India.
Having branded Aadhaar’s creator,
fellow billionaire Nandan Nilekani, as a “hero,” initiatives backed by
tech oligarch Bill Gates have long sought to bring the “Aadhaar approach
to other countries.” With the onset of the
Covid-19 crisis, Gates and other mavens of the digital ID industry have
an unprecedented opportunity to introduce their programs into the wealthy countries of the Global North.
For those yearning for an end to
pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their
vaccination against Covid-19 have been marketed as the key to reopening
the economy and restoring their personal freedom. But the implementation
of immunity passports is also accelerating the establishment of a
global digital identity infrastructure.
As the military surveillance firm and NATO contractor Thales recently put it, vaccine passports “are a precursor to digital ID wallets.”
And as the CEO of iProove, a biometric ID company and Homeland Security contractor, emphasized to Forbes,
“The evolution of vaccine certificates will actually drive the whole
field of digital ID in the future. So, therefore, this is not just about
Covid, this is about something even bigger.”
For the national security state,
digital immunity passports promise unprecedented control over
populations wherever such systems are implemented. Ann Cavoukian, the
former privacy commissioner of Ontario, Canada has described
the vaccine passport system already active in her province as “a new,
inescapable web of surveillance with geolocation data being tracked
everywhere.”
summit | Earlier Paul had tweeted “I told you so doesn’t even begin to cover it
here,” after NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak admitted in a letter
to Rep. James Comer (R-KY) that a “limited experiment” was conducted to
determine whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat
coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human
ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”
Senator Rand Paul, who was again proven right after the
National Institutes of Health admitted it did fund gain of function
experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, has blasted Anthony Fauci for
lying for a year and a half about research that “could destroy
civilization.”
Appearing on Fox News Thursday, Paul urged that Fauci has
intentionally “been parsing words” as a way of never admitting that gain
of function took place in NIH funded Chinese labs.
“They still to this day are trying to get around the truth,” Paul
said, adding “They say ‘well it was unexpected that it gained
function’.”
The Senator continued, noting that Fauci’s “declination is this: it’s
inadvertent, we didn’t know they were going to gain function. That is
what a gain of function experiment is,'” Paul explained.
“You don’t know when you combine two viruses that they will be more
deadly, but it might be if you have half a brain you know if you combine
two viruses it might be more deadly,” Paul proclaimed.
The Senator also noted that while he has referred Fauci to the
Justice Department for investigation, Attorney General Merrick B.
Garland is more concerned with targeting “moms complaining about what
they are teaching in school.”
TAE | Our resident physician John Day in Texas comes with an update on his
situation. It seems his clinic no longer seeks to fire him for refusing
to be vaccinated, they now claim it’s for cause (it’s not). A doctor who
has been free to decide medical treatments for and with his patients
for many years, all of a sudden cannot decide that for his own body.
And of course it’s not just America, and it’s not just doctors, it’s
also pilots and nurses and soldiers and police men and women, and
vaccine mandates are being introduced in many countries. That will
deprive many fields in our societies of their leaders, and leave them
occupied by followers only.
People who think for themselves, and wish to decide for themselves
(as is their right), are being put out by the curb, and by the
thousands. The resulting changes in society will be devastating. Losing
all those years of experience and wisdom and kindness and intelligence
will make us all a lot poorer. And why? It’s obviously not about logic,
and it’s not about health......
..... I am left to wonder why the clinic took surprise action to remove me
from patient-care, while still paying my salary for two weeks. I
suspect there was free-floating anxiety about what I might say or do. I
had been informing people of the actual circumstances of my leaving,
being fired for non-compliance with mandatory vaccination. The
management has been consulting with attorneys the whole time, and
somebody else is contesting her firing for non-compliance with that
mandate, I am told. Governor Abbott did say that vaccine mandates are
not tolerable in Texas, Monday of last week. I suspect that my being
fired-for-cause, other than non-compliance with COVID vaccination might
be more plausible when the date of my firing is moved forward from the
prior date of my termination for non-compliance
I do not intend to contest my firing through recourse to the law.
The only law I am really, currently concerned with is the Law of Karma,
and I am very concerned with that law. I am constantly aware of the
implications of Karma as we wade further into this rip-tide of history.
margaretannaalice | Think about this for a moment—why wouldn’t the public, the
media, governments, health agencies, and everyone in the world be
ecstatic about the possibility of an exceptionally cheap drug with more
than four billion doses administered since 1998 and four decades’ worth
of clinical data proving its safety and efficacy having the potential to save the lives
of those who contract a disease people have been living in terror of
for nearly two years now? What kind of contorted, harlequin world are we
living in where lifesaving early-treatment protocols are being maligned
as a threat? Don’t you find that suspicious?
If, after honestly
examining the extensive scientific evidence demonstrating the value of
ivermectin as a therapeutic against COVID—uncolored by the blinding
biases that have been implanted in your consciousness to deter you from
questioning, thinking for yourself, and researching the claims made in
press releases issued from on high and regurgitated by talking heads,
bots, and the unthinking public—you do come to realize they’ve been
lying to you about ivermectin, ask yourself, What else are they lying
about? Why would you believe anything they say, including their
relentless efforts to demolish all who have the moral fortitude,
intellectual prowess, and chutzpah to reveal the Big Lies being
inflicted on the eagerly submissive populace?
And then consider
this—what kind of next-level psychopaths would purposely sully the
reputation of a drug that has the potential to drastically reduce
mortality rates in COVID-19 patients? Again I ask, Why would you trust
their credibility on any other aspect of the narrative they’ve concocted
to drag us toward their rapacious and tyrannical ends?
Are you
with me? Instead of permitting those malefactors to define your
perception of reality, unplug from the Matrix (television, newspapers,
radio, mainstream sources), detox from social media, and start
conducting your own independent research outside the confines of what
Big Brother allows you to see.
Scientific inquiry requires
transparency, freedom from fear of reprisal, the liberal exchange of
ideas, and encouragement of the pursuit of scientific truth—none of
which are present in today’s COVID-1984 climate.
I realize this
lengthy letter may seem like an overblown reaction to a meme intended to
serve as light humor. When you understand that the vilification of a
lifesaving medication has likely caused innumerable unnecessary deaths
and will continue to do so if we serve as purveyors of such lethal
smears, you might begin to fathom why I am responding this way. Fist tap Big Don
jpost | Over-the-counter aspirin could protect the lungs of COVID-19 patients and minimize the need for mechanical ventilation, according to new research at the George Washington University.
The
team investigated more than 400 COVID patients from hospitals across
the United States who take aspirin unrelated to their COVID disease, and
found that the treatment reduced the risk of several parameters by
almost half: reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%, ICU admissions by
43%, and overall in-hospital mortality by 47%.
“As
we learned about the connection between blood clots and COVID-19, we
knew that aspirin – used to prevent stroke and heart attack – could be
important for COVID-19 patients,” said Dr. Jonathan Chow of the study
team. “Our research found an association between low-dose aspirin and
decreased severity of COVID-19 and death.”
Low-dose aspirin is a common treatment for anyone suffering from
blood clotting issues or in danger of stroke, including most people who
had a heart attack or a myocardial infarction. Although affecting the
respiratory system, the coronavirus has been associated with small blood
vessel clotting, causing tiny blockages in the pulmonary blood system,
leading to ARDS - acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Israeli researchers
reached similar results in a preliminary trial at the Barzilai Medical
Center in March. In addition to its effect on blood clots, they found
that aspirin carried immunological benefits and that the group taking it
was 29% less likely to become infected with the virus in the first
place.
“Aspirin is
low cost, easily accessible and millions are already using it to treat
their health conditions,” said Chow. “Finding this association is a huge
win for those looking to reduce risk from some of the most devastating
effects of COVID-19.”
"It is an epidemic,” a leading investigative official told DER
SPIEGEL. And the crisis has also captured the attention of the
government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. President Felix
Thisekedi held a special cabinet meeting to discuss the new drug earlier
this year. He is eager to demonstrate that he is doing all he can.
In
one of the city’s most disreputable neighborhoods, Selembao, four young
men are sitting in a concealed courtyard. A pane of glass is lying in
front of them with brown powder on it. Next to the powder, they crumble
white tablets to dust and then mix both substances. "The tablets need to
be mixed in; they stimulate the appetite. If we didn’t include them, we
wouldn’t eat anything for two days,” the youths explain.
The youths then form the powder into three short, thin lines with a
razor blade, similar to how lines of cocaine are prepared. Most of it is
snorted, with the glass pane being passed around the circle. The rest
is crumbled into cigarettes and smoked. After taking it, the youths
first become euphoric, but then they begin to move more and more slowly.
You don’t get much else for that amount in Kinshasa. A meal in a
mid-range restaurant can easily cost 30 US dollars, while rents in the
better neighborhoods approach those in Munich and Frankfurt. Kinshasa is
among the most expensive cities in the world, at least for foreign
workers. There are many super-rich residents, who drive through the wide
streets of the business district in giant SUVs.
At the same time,
though, the economy is in shambles, the country’s raw materials wealth
reaches only a small elite and there is barely a middle class. A large
part of the estimated 15 million inhabitants of this metropolis has no
fixed job and no regular income, a number that has only grown throughout
the coronavirus pandemic.
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