public health regulations: protecting people or a power grab

 Just a few posts for my later perusal

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Coreydiggs has a long article about the medical control grid.

Actually the article sounds good: They are preparing to protect people and many of these things proposed are routine public health.  But it is part of a series about how this is being used to control the world from above.

Through this legislation, agencies and organizations outlined in this report are tasked with preparing for the next pandemic, developing and stockpiling more mRNA injections, scaling up surveillance tools, research and development of biotechnology, and maintaining U.S. chemical and biological defense programs. In short, the 2023 Omnibus and NDAA will expand funding of the biomedical control grid using billions of taxpayer dollars.

 https://rumble.com/v2t3a9c-dig-it-189-who-covid-passports-cbdcs-mrna-in-livestock-and-more.html

vaccine problems

the anti vax nut Robert Kennedy is running for president. But if you want to hear his opinions, fugetaboutit because Youtube has removed the video of his interview with Jordan Peterson. However it can be found on Rumble, if you can stand actually going to that controversial site.

cue Joe Rogan.

And the pro vax scientist laments he is having his feelings hurt by these influential folks.

What I worry is that, like the lies about the Dengue vaccine here, that the lies about the covid vaccine will lead to a distrust of all vaccines, and lead to people dying of diseases like measles, whooping cough, tetanus, etc...even though these vaccines have been around for decades and have saved millions of lives. 

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In the meanwhile, I might get into trouble because I tweeted this report about the newest Covid vaccine to a local newspaper pushing folks to get the newest vaccine:

Among adults aged ≥18 years without immunocompromising conditions, bivalent booster vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19–associated hospitalization declined from 62% at 7–59 days postvaccination to 24% at 120–179 days compared with VE among unvaccinated adults. Among immunocompromised adults, lower bivalent booster VE was observed.

translation: it seemed to lower the death ratefor two months (!): (italics mine).

In time-stratified analyses comparing mortality rates among unvaccinated persons with those among vaccinated persons 2 weeks–2 months after receipt of a bivalent booster dose, mortality RRs significantly declined from 16.3 during the BA.5-predominant period to 8.4 during the XBB.1.5-predominant period, representing a modest reduction in crude vaccine effectiveness

so give it to grandmom, not your two year old kid. 

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update: actually the protection for grandmom isn't that great.... maybe because the vaccine is lousy or maybe because the immune system is sluggish in the elderly who often have comorbidities.

From the CDC:

Among nursing home residents who were up to date with COVID-19 vaccination (most had received a bivalent vaccine), vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection was 31.2%.

so instead of lamenting the lousy immunity boost, they say hey it works so keep the shots up to date.

Well, it's better than nothing....

to put it into perpective: the weekly rate was 7-15 per thousand if you got the vaccine, but 11-19 if you had the vaccine.

I should note: Someone needs to teach these folks to write clearly.

and not answered: Will repeated shots increase the rate of spike protein induced auto immune problems? LINK Immunology 2022 article wondered about this. 

and this article (Vaccines Basel) wonders if this mechanism means more vaccine shots increase your vulnerability to covid. 

and this 2022 article (Cureus) noted that the myocarditis in young men was increased after the second dose. but as this Korean study (Jan 2023 Eur heart journal) shows, it remains rare with 1.35 per 100 thousand, but much higher (5 in 100thousand)  in young men. 

the original covid virus, which killed mainly the eldelry but also killed the middle aged and young (several local businessmen died of it, and one of our friends' pregnant daughter and her baby died of covid: She refused the vaccine because of pregnancy.) 

But now, with the omicron varient, covid pneumonia deaths  which had a typical x ray. are rare,

Most of the deaths are with covid (of bacterial pneumonia, simlar to deaths with influenza), not from the virus causing pneumonia.

The problem is was not pushing the use of covid vaccines early in the epidemic. That was justified.

The problem was censoring alternative opinions, prolonging the lockdown, etc. And now the problem is continuing to promote their use on low risk people after omicron varient took over.

Dr Malone discusses (banned video).

His criticisms are a bit over the top, so he was banned, but the Streisand effect kicked in and the banning made his discussion with Joe Rogan pretty well explode the monopoly of the gatekeeprs. And not just to the anti vax types:

Joe Rogan Savagely Bullies Scientist By Inviting Him On Podcast To Explain His Position https://t.co/UMEtNaKS5o pic.twitter.com/K1bSQHoio6

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 20, 2023

 A lot of us got upset when doctors trying to give possible helpful medicines were threatened by losing their licenses... the problem was trying to give anti virals and medicines with few side effects like Ivermectin was now taboo despite contradicting studies  link link link

people who face a serious disease will often succumb to quack medicine of course. or sometimes just find a way to buy the medicines because they know that they could die wanting for the FDA to approve the medicine. Dallas buyers club anyone?

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the British scandal of party gate has MPH Dr Campbell and historian Neil Oliver angry. Apparantly the VIPs in the UK partied at a time when lockdowns prevented people visiting their loved one, etc.

Sort of like when BLM protests were okay but attending church or school was not.

Sigh.

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treatable covid?

https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD/status/1668815261519028225?s=20

covid origin coverup unravels

cross posted from my main blogMore and more articles are coming out that the covid epidemic was a lab leak, and that the virus was caused by gain of function research, funded by Fauci (because President Obama stopped this dangerous research in the USA) and yes it may have been part of Chinese bioweapon research (luckily they didn't accidentally leak a more virulent version).

shellenberger Twitter thread

Max Taibbi Racket news article

Public news at substack written by MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, MATT TAIBBI, AND ALEX GUTENTAG

read the entire article and weep. Because this was all highly suspected for years, but the experts pushed back to stop these rumors. And major MSM and medical journals went along with the ruse to the point of punishing those who promoted these theories. But the Racket article ends hopefully saying that the MSM still has some honest reporters so maybe we will find the truth.

One reason that this story is appearing now: First of all, because Elon Musk allowed an investigation on censorship on Twitter.

Second, this article in the very liberal UK Times (behind paywall) LINK

this goes beyond China lying about it (heck, China lies all the time). It is about lies by experts in the USA who silence voices who dared to point fingers and say it needed to be investigated. And it is about major medical journals who went along with the propaganda.

For example, ecohealth funded the Wuhan lab research, but no one blinked when the head of ecohealth got a bunch of scientists to write a letter to Lancet to deny it was a lab leak very early in 2020.

and as the evidence continued to leak out, the slowness of the MSM continued.

For example, this article in May 2021 in the WAPOST admits it could be a lab leak, and hey maybe someone should look into it.

so why didn't they? The article essentially say the reason it wasn't looked into by their intrepid reporters is because those trying to publicize the theory were Republicans. They even blame Trump because when he hinted this might have been the case,  " The Trump administration’s messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims."

by the way: the anti Chinese rhetoric was because he called it the Chinese virus, and because he stopped travelers from arriving from China at a time when the W.H.O. said it wasn't infectious and that one shouldn't stop travelers. That is why Nancy Pelosi encouraged Chinese new year celebrations that probably spread the virus (and the BLM demonstrations were allowed because they didn't spread the virus either)

OF course by then it was too late: already it was spreading in Italy (and spread to NYC) and was making people sick in Seattle etc.

But it points out another way the anti Trump obsession resulted in news stories that were not just inaccurate, but resulted in people dying because no one dared to question the experts (and those who dared were ignored).

And guess who was the first to point out the lab leak as the source: according to that WAPO article:

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) from the start pointed to the lab’s location in Wuhan, pressing China for answers, so the history books will reward him if he turns out to be right.

Yup. what the article doesn't point out: He is a practicing physician, but of course he was a Republican from Oklahoma so could be ignored.

So those behind this propaganda (that slowed the original shutdown at a time that might have saved lives) are the same ones who later proposed over the top lockdowns that were not needed, and vaccines to children who were not at risk.

and don't forget those who placed infectious covid patients into nursing homes.

 Governor Cuomo sometimes is condemned for this since he allowed it, but of course he was following advice from experts. And of course, we need to blame those experts who followed out of date Medicare rules to do this because the Medicare rules insiste that well trained staff (/s) in (understaffed) nursing homes could keep people safe. But will anyone  blame those who wrote those rules? Of course not.Nor will those experts who told governors this practice was safe be punished.

 Indeed,  Dr. Levine, who approved of this in Pennsylvania has actually denied reality and defending her actions, and denied that placing infected people into nursing homes caused deaths because as Newsweek points out she didn't do it (she merely ordered them to do it, but never mind).

(although) Levine serve(d) as the Pennsylvania secretary of health and was active in that position when the state's health department issued the guidance to nursing home facilities saying they can accept patients from hospitals and patients who formerly had COVID-19, that (fact) does not prove she placed coronavirus-positive patients in nursing homes or contributed to thousands of elderly deaths in the state.

so Levine was rewarded with a high government job, because hey, he is a she and can't criticize a trans person for incompetence or you will be called a bigot.

so why is it important to bring all these things up?

Because those who lied should not be left in power to lie again. 

and because of the "boy who cried wolf" problem: When a real epidemic starts, no one will believe them.

We saw this in the Philippines, when children died from an experimental Dengue vaccine, so some parents didn't trust vaccines that had been around for decades: They refused to get their kids vaccinated against routine childhood illnesses, so kids got measles, diphtheria, etc. and some of them died.

so now that some  of the problems the establishment covered up (such as the side effects of the vaccines) are being revealed, the conspiracy theorists are being believed by some, often in an exaggerated form.

But what is worse, is that the establishment types who were behind the coverup are being rewarded:

and very real questions on risky research are not being asked by those who should be discussing the risk/benefit problems.

according to Nature

NIH reinstates grant for controversial coronavirus research

EcoHealth Alliance lost funding during the Trump administration, but can now proceed with its research — under extensive restrictions.

yup. But did EcoHealth learn their lessons? Who will be inspecting these facilities? And why are only those evil Republicans  trying to stop them when distrust of Big Pharma is a traditional liberal position?

By the way: EcoHealth got a grant to put one of these labs into the Philippines...it's aim?

 REDUCING THE THREAT OF VIRAL SPILLOVER FROM WILDLIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES

and some here are not pleased. Inquirer editorial Feb 2023 insists that this needs to be looked into:

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) doing work on weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives. Isn’t this funding suspicious? This role of civilian and agricultural cooperation rests with the US Department of Agriculture, not with agencies within the US DoD, clearly. Will the DFA and DND ask US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during his visit to clarify the US position?

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update: UKGuardian opinion article on the UK investigation of the Covid response, and the complexity of deciding what to do

But it’s vital that the inquiry separates out what were scientific questions, that independent adCpvvisers and academics could provide data and input on, and what were leadership decisions. Policy measures such as closing gyms or schools or play parks, or the introduction of mandatory face coverings, were conveyed as “scientific” decisions, but they weren’t. Scientists could present the probable risks and benefits of certain policy options, but the final decision didn’t lie with them.

Could infecting mosquitoes decrease dengue infections?

a bacteria that infects insects could make mosquitos sterile. 

LINKWolbachia pipientis makes mosquitoes all female by interfering with the eggs

LINK

Wolbachia, a naturally occurring endosymbiont of many mosquito species that can potentially limit virus transmission through several host genetic alterations, would be a potential alternative for dengue prevention. We also critically discussed the challenges and prospects of Wolbachia-based dengue control in developing countries. The evidence supporting the efficacy and safety of this intervention and its mechanism have also been elucidated. Empirical evidence suggests that this introgression method could be an eco-friendly and long-lasting dengue control method. This review would help the policymakers and health experts devise a scheme of Wolbachia-based dengue control that can control mosquito-borne diseases, particularly dengue in Bangladesh and other developing countries.

Wolbachia, a naturally occurring endosymbiont of many mosquito species that can potentially limit virus transmission through several host genetic alterations, would be a potential alternative for dengue prevention. We also critically discussed the challenges and prospects of Wolbachia-based dengue control in developing countries. The evidence supporting the efficacy and safety of this intervention and its mechanism have also been elucidated. Empirical evidence suggests that this introgression method could be an eco-friendly and long-lasting dengue control method. This review would help the policymakers and health experts devise a scheme of Wolbachia-based dengue control that can control mosquito-borne diseases, particularly dengue in Bangladesh and other developing countries.

Physorg article:

NEJM article from 2021 summarizes a field study

After successful introgression of wMel into the intervention clusters, 8144 participants were enrolled; 3721 lived in intervention clusters, and 4423 lived in control clusters. In the intention-to-treat analysis, VCD occurred in 67 of 2905 participants (2.3%) in the intervention clusters and in 318 of 3401 (9.4%) in the control clusters (aggregate odds ratio for VCD, 0.23; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.15 to 0.35; P=0.004).

so numbers infected fell from 10 to 2 percent. not perfect but better than nothing.

headsup from Physorg article:

Yellow fever.

Yellow fever epidemics could still happen: There have been recent major outbreaks in both Brazil and Angola (that last epidemic spread to the DRC and even to China before mass innoculations stopped the spread of the disease.)

But since the virus lives in animals, and since the greens are opposing things like draining swamps and spraying with DDT, one wonders how long before another epidemic hits the USA (Or the Philippines: I haven't seen them spray for mosquitoes since covid hit, probably because all the public health money went to covid shots and testing).

The history of Yellow fever epidemics in the USA has been pretty well forgotten, even though theYellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a major event in medical history

note the article mentions use of black nurses: it was assumed they had immunity to yellow fever.

and the role of nurses, including black nurses, in the Yellow fever epidemics of Memphis in the 1870s has also been overlooked.

from the dailyJstor; (an article in the modern marxist analysis that stresses the problems of prejudice instead of the goodness of those trying their best to help people).

Despite those prejudices, nearly 3,000 women worked as nurses on yellow fever’s front lines. Women from out of town were only paid $4 per day; women from within Memphis and black women were paid $3. In contrast, doctors were paid $60 per week. They were treated as social inferiors and refused accommodation at the city’s finest hotel, which put up doctors.

Gender conflicts prevailed in the sickroom, too, and arguments broke out over things like treatment duties and breaks. Class and cultural tensions prevailed, but Hall writes that racial tensions were at the heart of the worst discrimination faced by nurses. Black nurses were assigned the most uncooperative patients and faced daily struggles over duties, responsibilities, and competency.

left out: Many had little or no training, and not screened for skill or moral turpitude. 

Despite their heroic efforts of nurses of all races, 20,000 people died of yellow fever in the Mississippi Valley during the epidemic—over 5,000 of them in Memphis. Even that terrifying crisis was not enough to overcome prevailing racial, class, and gender tensions, Hall writes. Who knows what tensions a 21st-century epidemic might expose?

Yes, she actually wrote that. Because in modern academia, this is the most important idea you have to discuss. 

However, in her defense, these things do have to be considered when you fight a plague.

the riots from the burning of Chinatown in SanFrancisco to stop bubonic plague there does show you have to pay attention to racial tension and prejudice.

Left out of this was of course the religion angle: Because the blackout of contributions of black people and women are now being reversed by modern scholarship, the religious aspects are still being ignored.

this LifetimeFilm is a partially fictional biography of Sister Henrietta, and at the end shows their fight against the yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans.

Hint: A lot of altruism was inspired by people who like good Americans tended toward the Pelagean idea that deeds, not lip service, are how you serve God.

Which brings me to the latest atrocity of the culture war: The war against nuns.

Nuns nursing in wars (5000 in the Civil War) and epidemics, or just founding hospitals in the middle of nowhere contributed a lot to the development of American health system

What is new is that their sacrifices and work has been ignored or written out of history, while it is de rigueur to ridicule them: we even are seeing a major league baseball team lauding those who ridicule these sisters with little outcry.

the ridicule is just another version of trendy AntiCatholicism, of course. 

But although their ridicule is aimed at Catholic sisters, it also is ridicule of non Catholic sisterhoods, such as the Anglican orders and Deaconesses.

What brought me to post about this was an article in the Anglican site Virtue on line, which mentions that the Anglican orders are facing the same problems of loss of members as their Catholic counterparts.

But then I ran across this paragraph:

In 1878, five CSM Sisters responded to the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. Four of the Sisters and two Episcopal priests got the dreaded mosquito-borne disease and died. They were: Sr. Constance, Sr. Thecla, Sr. Ruth, Sr. Frances, Fr. Louis Schuyler and Fr. Charles Parsons.

They are now considered the Martyrs of Memphis and their commemoration was added to the Episcopal Church's Lesser Feasts and Fasts in 1981. Their feast day is celebrated on September 9.

so at least the Episcopal church remembers their sacrifice.

But of course, they were not the only ones who fought that epidemic that killed over 5000 people: This site (historic Memphis) remembers the numerous doctors, nurses and others who helped nurse the sick.,,

and this film gives an overview of the epidemic but while lauding the work of the heroic doctors, completely ignores the sisters and others who died because they stayed to nurse the sick.

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https://historic-memphis.com/memphis-historic/yellow-fever/fever-5_small.jpg

MacnamarasBlog notes:

Between 1873 and 1879, nearly eight thousand people died during Memphis’s Yellow Fever epidemics. While ministering to the sick, some thirty-four physicians lost their lives, along with twenty-four police officers and twenty-four firefighters, two dozen Catholic priests, and fifty women religious. In Memphis’s Calvary Cemetery there stands a monument to the priests, but none to the Sisters.

Italics mine.

Sigh

As Ms Mueller writes: 

The world has turned its back on the Sisters of St. Mary and many other faithful and prayerful Sisters-in-the-Veil -- Catholic, Episcopal or Anglican -- yet embrace the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as the Los Angeles Dodgers prepare to bend their collective knee to the rainbow-colored Pride altar.

Shame.

mRNA and other vetinary vaccines: a breakthrough or a problem?

 I am mainly posting this for later reading.

From CoreyDiggs:

6. Is it possible for mRNA vaccines in livestock to contaminate meat, dairy or egg products?

According to a recent Epoch Times report, a 2014 USDA presentation on Vaccination for Contagious Diseases states that food animals receiving vaccines are subject to “mandatory withdrawal periods prior to slaughter for human consumption. Animals may not be sent to market until the withdrawal time has elapsed. During the mandatory withdrawal time vaccinated animals or products from vaccinated animals may not enter the food chain.  The withdrawal time is determined by the country in which the vaccine is licensed and stated in the product license.”  As the Epoch Times report notes, the USDA recognizes that there must be a waiting time between vaccination and slaughter for human consumption due to risks of contaminating the food supply.  The USDA presentation does not, however, acknowledge DNA or RNA-based biologics, but the same standard of waiting times likely applies, as evidenced by Merck’s RNA vaccine for pigs, which states “Do not vaccinate within 21 days before slaughter.”  However, Dr. Peter McCullough notes 

that mRNA technology “is far more durable than we ever could’ve imagined.  It lasts in the human body for months unchanged.”  Therefore, even with standard wait times, Dr. McCullough believes it is conceivable that mRNA technology administered to food animals could contaminate the food supply.

more here.

Aida and colleagues have graphically summarized the genetic technologies in use as of 2021 in veterinary medicine. In the consumer meat category at present, only swine are of concern given the use of plasmid DNA, replication incompetent viral vector, and RNA replicon products. Do these technologies cause noninfectious diseases in the animals? Can any of the genetic material survive denaturing during curing and cooking? How about pork intestines harvested for the production of heparin widely used in human medicine? It is conceivable that genetic incorporation of foreign RNA or DNA into humans and production of antigens for example, porcine endemic diarrhea or influenza A, could have untoward effects including autoimmunity similar to that with the COVID-19 vaccines?

and here about China immunizing mice with mRNA stuff in milk.

Zhang and colleagues have demonstrated that a shortened mRNA code of 675 base pairs could be loaded into phospholipid packets called exosomes derived from milk and then using that same milk, be fed to mice. The mice gastrointestinal tract absorbed the exosomes and the mRNA must have made it into the blood stream and lymphatic tissue because antibodies were produced in fed mice against SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein (receptor binding domain).

from yellow card to WHO controlling you

 

I am old enough to remember when we had to prove we were vaccinated against small pox and yellow fever by carrying a yellow booklet that we had to carry with our passport.

the present yellow card started in 1967, but NPR notes that this practice started way back in 1898. and that there was a need for this because certain preventable diseases could spread among pilgrims to religious sites in India or in the Hajj.

Since smallpox is now eliminate in the world, the only vaccine mandated for the card is for yellow fever. The article discusses the WHO and their feeling that there is a need for a similar (and up to date) document for Covid.

Uh, the problem is that Covid keeps changing, and being vaccinated does not prevent you from catching or spreading the disease. So why is this necessary?

Dr, C discusses

Or is this part of the power grab by the WHO to give everyone in the world a super ID card to control them, in the same way China controls their population and can punish them for doing bad stuff.

but what about if we get hit by another epidemic, such as bird flu?

Sigh.

using the WHO to impose tyranny?

This sounds crazy, but after we saw the health authorities shut down the economy for covid when in hindsight it looks like a modified shutdown and protecting high risk populations would have worked better. So now the regulations might by pass the US ability to refuse to approve of foreign treaties in the constitution.

awaiting Dr C being banned from you tube in five, four three two ....LINK.LINKEveryone seems to be ignoring this information. This is NOT about the proposed “Pandemic Treaty.” This IS about the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations and the method by which they are adopted…,

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