November 22nd, 2020 • 3h 30m

1297: Going Bananas

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Hi Adam,

Thank you for your courage and helping us get through the latest saga of media shenanigans with the elections.

I'm behind on listening and just finished episode 1293, so maybe you've addressed some of this. I am an Internal Medicine physician whom practices as a hospitalist. I had written you earlier in the COVID pandemic, and you mentioned something about verification. I'm not sure how this is done, buy my NPI is xxxxxxx. Anyhow, I have been treating hospitalized COVID patients in Los Angeles county since this all started, and unfortunately the media is telling the truth about hospitalizations being up, but not the whole truth (the best lies have a tincture of truth). I am seeing higher numbers of hospitalized COVID patients than anytime this year - however - I can nearly guarantee all of them will walk out alive and okay. I cannot say the same for my other patients, as we are quite busy with the typical heart attacks, pneumonias, and drug overdoses. Hospitals and ICUs in any sizeable city are always crowded and at capacity this time of the year - even in Hawaii where there is no real winter. This is a well known phenomenon between November and February, pandemic or not. That being said, from my humble observations, COVID appears to be decreasing in virulence. In everyday language - it seems to be just as contagious as ever, but causing less harm.

Speaking to the testing - think I've mentioned this before - but about as good as a coin flip. We have many many patients with known COVID (based on clinical picture - x ray, etc) that have negative PCRs. On a personal note, I tested IgG antibody positive in June and then became sick with the virus in August. A gnarly virus to say the least - I believe at some point in my febrile delirium I did say "F*&k China" several times as this felt like no other cold or flu and caused bizarre symptoms. However, as Trump so eloquently put it - we should not let the fear of this virus rule our lives.

On a separate topic - at the end of 1293 you guys talked about Gen Z depression and anxiety & I have an interesting anecdote regarding this. A surgeon friend of mine travels to Tibet every year to perform a variety of surgeries in a mountain village. This is done at a Tibetan monastery and she typically comes back with amazing pictures and stories - these (mostly young men) insist on carrying her luggage the day after an amputation and request and need no pain killers after brutal surgeries. They live a simple life with simple wants and needs. That all changed recently. As there was nothing within their monastery rules and regulations regarding cellular phones, the younger ones have gotten iphones within the last few years. Now when she goes to the monastery, these young monks are suddenly complaining of aches and pains. They have odd abdominal pains and vague complaints that do not seem to have an anatomical origin. The only thing that has changed is their possession of these phones and plugging into social media.

Producer Jay on Stay Safe follow-up term

ITM gents. The recent discussions about the over use of the phrase "stay safe" have forced me to write to you about the new weird phrase going around that I find personally disturbing. It too is usually reserved for saying goodbye to someone. I noticed that people started saying it about one year ago. My coworker said it to me and it immediately grabbed my attention. She is kind of one of those people who starts saying the latest slang words or terms that usually only stay within a small group so I didn't think anything of it. But then within only a short few months I started having other people I know say it to me and I would over hear others say it to other people.

The phrase is "I love you". Or sometime "love you" to make it more casual. To me, this is something that only family say to each other or maybe close friends in very particular situations. It has never been a throw away line "take care" or "have a good one". Now I hear older type guys saying it to other guys. The kind of guys who a couple years ago would have thought that it was gay to say something like that to a dude. I believe that the covid shutdown also seemed to accelerate this phrase. Perhaps because the fear many had about the uncertainty of our future.

An interesting side note. I have always hated when people who liked to think they were smart would reference the movie 'Idiocracy' and claim that the same thing was happening right now and that the creator of that movie was so ahead of his time. Yet there is a scene in the movie where a greeter at a big box store is telling people "I Love you" as they walk into the store. I wonder if the other producers are noticing this phenomenon as well. Thanks gents. Love you, Mean it!!!

Covid generation should be Coronials

Ohio lawmakers pass bill stripping Gov. Mike DeWine of his power to issue statewide coronavirus orders - cleveland.com

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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gives an update on COVID-19 at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Ohio's Republican governor was hailed as prophetic for his decisive steps to shut down schools and stop the state's presidential primary election early during the coronavirus outbreak. Since then, he's found navigating a path out of the state's pandemic shutdown to be a bumpy one. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) AP

COLUMBUS, Ohio'--Ohio lawmakers on Thursday sent Gov. Mike DeWine a bill that would strip his administration of the authority to issue statewide coronavirus orders, even though the governor said the measure would be ''a disaster'' and vowed to veto it.

Senate Bill 311, which passed 58-30 along party lines, would ban the Ohio Department of Health from issuing mandatory quarantine orders enforced against people who are not diagnosed as sick or directly exposed to disease. It passed the state Senate in September.

The bill would not void existing statewide orders, including the three-week 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew announced by the governor earlier this week, a renewed statewide mask mandate, and a ''stay-at-home'' order like the one DeWine ordered the state health director to issue last spring. But it would prohibit such orders from being issued in the future, and it would allow lawmakers to vote to rescind any existing state health order.

Supporters say the legislation provides a needed check on the DeWine administration's authority to unilaterally issue health orders. Conservatives, in particular, have fiercely criticized many of DeWine's coronavirus policies, arguing they infringe on personal freedoms and unnecessarily devastate the state's economy.

A lengthy House floor debate prior to the vote involved Republican proponents arguing that they are expressing the will of their constituents and rightly checking the power of the governor versus Democrats who pointed to opposition from public-health experts saying the bill would cripple efforts to fight the coronavirus.

''The administration is acting as two branches of government. This is not the way our republic was intended to work,'' said state Rep. Scott Wiggam, a Wooster Republican, during a House floor speech Thursday. Wiggam said the bill was ''not a debate about the seriousness of the coronavirus or any potential future outbreak,'' but rather about protecting Ohioans' rights ''against government overreach.''

State Rep. Reggie Stoltzfus, a Stark County Republican, said that his constituents are ''furious'' about the governor's orders. ''Ohioans are scared of this virus,'' Stoltzfus said. ''But Ohioans are also scared about what the governor is going to do next.''

State Rep. Allison Russo, a Democrat from suburban Columbus, said ''we all understand the value'' of checks and balances and hearing from constituents.

''But we are in a position right now where our public health authorities need to be able to react quickly,'' Russo said.

State Rep. Brigid Kelly, a Cincinnati Democrat, said if SB 311 becomes law, it ''will only lead to more deaths and further destabilize our economy.'' Kelly asked: ''Is it that science and data really matter? Or is it that science and data be damned because we think we know better?''

DeWine, a Greene County Republican, said during a televised coronavirus briefing Thursday that he has ''a moral obligation'' to veto the bill, as it would hamstring his ability to respond to a number of crises, from pandemics to biological weapon attacks.

''This bill would make Ohio slow to respond to a crisis. It would take tools away from this governor and future governors,'' DeWine said. ''It would put the lives of Ohioans in jeopardy. This bill is a disaster.''

If DeWine follows through on his promise to reject SB 311, the Ohio Senate could override his veto if three-fifths of senators (20 of 33) vote to make it law. The bill passed the Senate in September with exactly 20 votes.

Senate Bill 311 just the latest in a series of bills the Republican-dominated Ohio legislature has passed since the coronavirus crisis emerged this spring to rein in the governor's power to issue coronavirus-related rules.

In July, DeWine vetoed Senate Bill 55, which would decriminalize violations of public health orders.

Other legislation still pending in the Ohio General Assembly to rein in the governor's coronavirus power include:

Senate Bill 374, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Senate President Larry Obhof, a Medina Republican, that would repeal a three-month-old executive order from DeWine requiring bars and restaurants to stop serving alcohol after 10 p.m. Senate Bill 31, the House version of which would require local health officials to get written approval from contract-tracing participants. House and Senate members still have to work out in conference committee whether to keep the contact-tracing provision in the final version of the bill. Senate Bill 375, which would void a DeWine administration coronavirus order closing county fairs except for junior fair activities. The Ohio Senate passed it on Wednesday. Read more Ohio politics and government stories:

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'Conspiracy theories' on Covid-19 come from BRAIN DAMAGE? Questionable science is being used to pathologize real dissent '-- RT Op-ed

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People who believe in so-called conspiracy theories about Covid-19 are actually suffering from ''neuropsychological impairments,'' says a neurologist, in what sounds more than a little bit like Soviet-era weaponized psychiatry.

'Conspiracy theorists' who refuse to wear masks and embrace lockdowns are the victims of their own scientific illiteracy, which has fundamentally damaged their brains to such an extent that they cannot understand the science of Covid-19, claims neurologist Bruce Miller from the University of California, San Francisco, in a paper published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Miller leverages his formidable credentials '' he's both director of the Memory and Aging Center and co-director of the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF '' to legitimize a baseless and frankly dangerous theory that could potentially be used to lock those same ''conspiracy theorists'' away in psychiatric facilities indefinitely. His questionable paper takes the pathologization of dissent even a step further than recent bogus ''anti-maskers are sociopaths'' studies, to a very dark, totalitarian place '' ironically, the exact same endpoint feared by the conspiracy theorists he so glibly patronizes.

Also on rt.com As Boris Johnson announces Britain's 'great reset', were the Covid 'conspiracy theorists' right all along? Dissent = brain damage?Miller equates ''anti-mask behavior,'' ''anti-vaccine beliefs,'' and ''conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19'' with ''denial of science,'' blaming the whole package on low levels of science literacy rooted in poor-quality education. While the quality of US science education is certainly dismal, Miller's reductionist viewpoint leaves no room for the many intelligent, educated people who hold these views. His area of expertise may be in delusional disorders, but writing off informed dissent as delusion born of ignorance is, well, ignorant and delusional.

Despite being published in JAMA, one of the most prestigious journals in medical science, Miller's article cites very little actual science: two papers on the neurobiology of delusions (actual delusions, as in schizophrenia and dementia, not ''differing views the writer doesn't like'') and one comparing Covid-19 deaths in the US with those in other countries. While he liberally sprinkles medical terms throughout, hidden between his references to Capgras syndrome (the false belief that a loved one has been replaced by an impostor) and frontotemporal dementia (in which people falsely believe they are rich) are admissions that these paradigms do not necessarily apply to beliefs about Covid-19 that counter the establishment line.

It's not that Miller himself isn't a scientist '' indeed, it's his prestigious credentials that make him all the more dangerous, as the same scientific illiteracy he complains about makes people much more likely to be duped by his tactical deployment of neurological jargon. However, like most specialists, his expertise in neurology doesn't necessarily translate to a deep understanding of politics. Or respiratory diseases, for that matter - he pooh-poohed the dirt-cheap malaria drug hydroxychloroquine despite scores of studies upholding its effectiveness in treating Covid-19, apparently believing every last one of them was conducted by delusional quacks (unlike, presumably, those that say it doesn't work).

But what about the conspiracy theories?In fact, the real science in most of the cases he cites favors the ''conspiracy theorists'' '' or at least doesn't rule them out. Take masks: the largest-ever randomized controlled trial of mask-wearing was finally published on Wednesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine after being blocked by JAMA and its fellow top-tier journals New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet, showing face coverings do not protect against infection with the novel coronavirus.

Also on rt.com Landmark Danish study casts doubt on effectiveness of mask-wearing alone as effective Covid-19 strategy There are dozensmore, though most relate to other respiratory viruses and mask-wearing. Some have been mysteriously deleted for being ''no longer relevant in our current climate'' '' a chillingly Orwellian explanation that has nothing to do with science and everything to do with control.

And vaccine hesitancy? Vaccine frontrunner Moderna claims its jab is 95 percent effective, but the company has not released the results of its latest clinical trials '' and the last time it did, the data revealed that all participants who got two shots of the highest dose experienced side effects, many of them severe. Even with the Pfizer jab, there are reasons for caution, especially with the UK Labour Party preemptively calling for blanket censorship of all ''anti-vaccine'' content. The last time the UK rushed a vaccine to market in the middle of a much-hyped ''pandemic,'' thousands of people were permanently injured, and some died. Meanwhile, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock refuses to rule out making the jab mandatory, and several countries have floated making it a requirement for travel. Sound kosher?

As for the origins of Covid-19 itself, the official story has changed so many times (those darn Chinese and their wet markets! What, they didn't sell bats at the Wuhan market? Well, the bat must have spent some intimate time with a pangolin, or maybe a snake'... stop asking so many questions!) it's no longer credible. Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier and US bioweapons expert Francis Boyle say it was created in a lab. The science is not settled, on this or any of the above issues, and it never will be if the establishment keeps smearing researchers who deviate from an increasingly threadbare orthodoxy as loony conspiracy theorists.

More than just public shamingMiller's paper goes one step beyond the usual establishment sneering, however. Tracing the origin of ''conspiracy theories'' to an organic brain defect reeks of the Soviet weaponization of psychiatry, a dark chapter in history that seems '' if papers like this and another recent ''study'' out of Brazil are any indication '' poised to repeat itself. During the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR weaponized psychiatry to institutionalize political dissidents, diagnosing them with mental illness '' because after all, one would have to be crazy not to embrace communism! '' and locking them away. The practice served to neutralize the targeted individual, marginalize others who shared his opinions, and terrify the rest of the population into keeping their doubts about the system to themselves.

Also on rt.com Victoria's creeping totalitarianism is based on wild overreaction to Covid, and the rest of the world is going down the same path The parallels to 2020 are impossible to ignore. If Miller's scientifically baseless theory that belief in conspiracies represents an organic brain defect is embraced by the medical establishment (and there's no reason to suspect it won't be), dissidents could find themselves locked up indefinitely as incurable ''cases.'' Those who dismiss such a possibility need only look at the comparatively recent removal of homosexuality from the DSM-IV psychiatric manual. Many of the mindsets we now take for granted have been pathologized, and many which were once seen as normal (''oppositional defiant disorder,'' ''attention deficit disorder'') were created only recently.

Countries are also changing their laws to make it easier to institutionalize targets. One of the changes to UK law rammed through in its emergency legislation package reduced the number of medical professionals signing off on the decision to ''section'' (institutionalize) an individual from two to one. And now, American doctors are licking their lips at the possibility of sidelining those troublesome conspiracy theorists once and for all.

Are these the behaviors of governments that have nothing to hide? How long will it even be permitted to ask such a question?

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Cost of Lockdowns: A Preliminary Report '' AIER

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4 minutes In the debate over coronavirus policy, there has been far too little focus on the costs of lockdowns. It's very common for the proponents of these interventions to write articles and large studies without even mentioning the downsides.

Here is a brief look at the cost of stringencies in the United States, and around the world, including stay-at-home orders, closings of business and schools, restrictions on gatherings, shutting of arts and sports, restrictions on medical services, and interventions in the freedom of movement.

Mental HealthMental Health DataSourceRegionDuring late June 2020, 40% of US adults reported to be struggling with mental health or substance abuse.CDC (June 2020)USOf adults surveyed, 10.7% had thoughts of suicide compared to 4.3% in 2018.CDC (August 2020)USReported symptoms of anxiety were three times higher than they were in Q2 2019 and reported symptoms of depression were four times higher than they were in Q2 2019.CDC (August 2020)USOf individuals aged 18-24, 25.5% considered suicide.CDC (August 2020)USIn New York alone, Google searches increased for phrases and words: anxiety, panic attack, and insomnia.JAMA (October 2020)New YorkBetween April and October, the portion of emergency visits related to mental health for children (5-11) increased by 24% and 31% for 12-17 year olds compared to 2019.CDC (November 2020)USIn late June, 13% of survey respondents said they had started or increased substance use to cope with the pandemic.CDC (August 2020)USMore than 40 states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality.AMA (October 2020)USFrom January 2020 to March 2020, 19,416 people died from drug overdoses, which is 3,000 more than in 2019 of the same quarter.CDC (2020)USThe EconomyUnemployment Unemployment StatisticSourceRegionUnemployment rate increased to 14.7% in April 2020. This is the highest rate of increase (10.3%) and largest month over month increase in history of available data (since 1948).BLS (May 2020)USIn March, 39% of people living with a household income of $40,000 and below reported a job loss.Federal Reserve (April 2020)USThe unemployment rate between February and April increased by 12% for women and 10% for men.Bureau of Labor StatisticsUSMothers of children aged 12 and younger lost 2.2 million jobs between February and August (12% drop), while fathers of small children lost 870,000 jobs (4% drop).Stateline (August 2020)USOne out of four women who were surveyed reported their job loss was due to lack of childcare, twice the rate of men surveyed.Washington Post (July 2020)USEducationEducation StatisticSourceRegionAbout 24 million children may drop out of school next year as a result of the lockdown's economic impact.UN (October 2020)WorldwideA decrease in life expectancy by 5.53 million years of life is found to occur for US children due to the closing of US primary schools.JAMA (November 2020)US30,806 internships were lost (a decrease of 52%) between March 9 and April 13.Glassdoor (April 2020)USBetween March 9 and April 13 travel & tourism internships fell 92%; IT dropped 76%, architecture & engineering 65% and telecommunications 65%. Accounting & legal internships fell the least, dropping 22%.Glassdoor (April 2020)USHealthcareHealthcare StatisticSourceRegionAt the 10-week mark of lockdown, 2.1 million people in the UK were waiting for breast, cervical, or bowel cancer screening.Cancer Research UK (June 2020)UKDiagnosis for 6 cancers (breast, colorectal, lung, pancreatic, gastric, and esophageal) has declined 46.4% compared to 2018.JAMA Research Letter (August 2020)USPancreatic cancer diagnosis has dropped 24.7% compared to 2018.JAMA Research Letter (August 2020)USBreast cancer diagnosis has dropped 51.8% compared to 2018.JAMA Research Letter (August 2020)US''The Netherlands Cancer Registry has seen as much as a 40% decline in weekly cancer incidence.''JAMA Research Letter (August 2020)NetherlandsPre-Covid, Medical University of South Carolina dropped from 20 stroke-related calls daily (or 550 per month) to about nine in mid-April.Washington Post (April 2020)USUK (suspected) cancer referrals have decreased 75% since Covid-19 restrictions were implemented.JAMA Research Letter (August 2020)UK38% decrease in STEMI treatments in 9 major hospitals across the US.JACC (June 2020)USIn Italy, cardiological diagnostic procedures decreased 56%, PCI 48%, structural interventions 81% and PCI in STEMI 40%.REC Interv. Cardiol. (2020)ItalyCardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US; Premature cardiovascular disease and stroke mortality costs $137.5 billion in lost future productivity.AHA (2020)USAdmissions for chemotherapy decreased 45-66% while urgent referrals for early cancer diagnosis decreased 70-89%.Lai et al. (2020)UKDuring April weekly emergency department (ED) visits declined 42% from the previous year average of 2.1 million to 1.2 million.CDC (October, 2020)USIn 2018 patients visiting the ER for opioid overdoses are 100 times more likely to die by drug overdose in the year after being discharged. They are 18 times more likely to die by suicide relative to the general population.NIMH (May 2020)USHospital financial losses will be as high as $323.1 billion for the entire year.AHA (July 2020)USCrimeCrime StatisticSourceRegionDuring the first six months of 2020 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses increased 14.8%, and aggravated assault offenses were up 4.6%.FBI (September 2020)USProperty crime offenses declined 7.8%; except for motor vehicle thefts, which increased 6.2%.FBI (September 2020)USArson increased 19.2% in the first six months of 2020 compared to the same time the previous year; and increased 52.1% in cities with populations of 1,000,000 or more.FBI (September 2020)USBetween June and August 2020 homicides increased 53% and aggravated assaults increased 14% compared to the same period in 2019.NCCJ (September 2020)USA UK domestic abuse charity (Refuge) reported a 25% increase in calls made to helpline since the start of lockdowns.Refuge (April 2020)UKFood and HospitalityFood and Hospitality StatisticSourceRegionRestaurants have spent an additional $7,400 on PPE and enhanced safety protocols (training, cleaning, Plexiglas, etc.) which will take 66% of businesses 6 months to recoup.QSR (September 2020)USThe restaurant industry is set to lose $240 billion in revenue and 8 million employees in 2020.QSR (September 2020)USIn May, nearly 75% of independent restaurants reported new debts greater than $50,000; 12% reported additional debt at $500,000 and above.FSR (August 2020)US1 in 3 restaurants are expected to close.FSR (August 2020)US86% of restaurants reduced staff due to Covid-19; 40% of restaurants expect to be out of business by March 2021.QSR (September 2020)USOther resources: Collateral Global '' A global repository of research concerned with collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.Lockdown Resistance '' Focuses on Covid-19 policy impacts on wellbeing, quality of life and life-expectancy.Retail Dive '' Maintains a running list of 2020 retail bankruptcies.AIER StaffFounded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. 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South Australia Police: You Cannot Leave Your House to Walk the Dog or Exercise - Big League Politics

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The United Nations is now confirming that COVID-19 lockdown tyranny will cause ''famines of biblical proportions'' in the third-world, with the economic damage caused by illegal government overreach eventually killing far more people than the China plague.

After cheering on extreme lockdown measures for months, the globalists are finally being forthright about the impact that their policies will really have on the disadvantaged and vulnerable.

David Beasley, who works as the executive director of the UN's World Food Program, is bearing the bad news that COVID-19 policies are going to result in widespread starvation

''We were able to avert it in 2020,'' Beasley said to The Associated Press, but said that his bureaucracy would need billions of dollars, otherwise ''we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.''

Beasley claims that giving an additional $15 billion to his bureaucracy would allow him to stop the famine that would otherwise be caused by draconian COVID-19 lockdown policies.

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''If I could get that coupled with our normal money, then we avert famine around the world,'' he said.

Beasley does not have the courage to criticize lockdown policies, instead preferring to use the crisis in an attempt to further enrich his own government agency.

Big League Politics has reported on the dire economic ramifications of COVID-19 lockdown policies since its inception, as the globalists use mass hysteria to set up their ''Great Reset'' to consolidate power:

U.S. unemployment claims have passed the 1 million threshold for the second straight week, as the economic situation remains dire because of the seemingly never-ending COVID-19 lockdown.

Although job numbers have rebounded in certain respects, the economy continues to shed jobs in sectors devastated by the shutdown. American Airlines announced that they will be cutting 19,000 jobs by October, Delta announced that they will likely be axing 1,900 pilots, and United Airlines is expected to cut up to 36,000 employees this year.

The experts are claiming that COVID-19 fear has gripped the American psyche, and the Democrat Party and mass media are keeping the economy in the dumps due to the mass hysteria that they will just not let die.

''Though we are seeing a meaningful decline in new Covid-19 cases, the trends in economic indicators have not changed significantly. There continue to be signs that the recovery is slowing at best and at worst is reversing somewhat,'' Bank of America Global Research wrote in a note to investors.

''We likely need to see daily Covid-19 cases decline much more significantly in order for gains in economic activity to accelerate meaningfully,'' the note read'...

It will not be fully understood for years exactly how much damage has been done to society because of the COVID-19 scamdemic.

The scamdemic has ushered in a new age of corporate dominance, ironically cheered on by confused left-wing useful idiots who simultaneously claim they oppose Big Business. Millions will die because of this cruel hoax that has been perpetrated on the masses.

Vaccines and such

WHO advises against use of remdesivir for treating COVID-19 | News | Al Jazeera

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Global health agency says there is no evidence that drug improves survival rates or reduces need for ventilation.

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert panel has advised against the use of the antiviral drug remdesivir for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, regardless of how severely ill they are, because there is currently no evidence that it improves survival or the need for ventilation.

The WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG) based its recommendation on a new evidence review comparing the effects of several drug treatments on more than 7,000 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in four international randomised trials.

The expert panel, which includes four patients who have had COVID-19, concluded that remdesivir ''has no meaningful effect on mortality or on other important outcomes for patients, such as the need for mechanical ventilation or time to clinical improvement,'' the WHO said in a statement.

In October, the WHO said its global Solidarity trial using remdesivir in the hospital treatment of COVID-19 had found it had little to no effect on the length of time patients spent in hospital or their survival.

Remdesivir, developed by US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences for the treatment of Ebola, was one of several drugs that attracted global attention as doctors looked for more effective ways to treat the novel coronavirus, which emerged in China late last year.

It was given emergency use authorisation from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States on May 1 and taken by US President Donald Trump when he was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in early October. The drug also secured regulatory approval in several other countries.

Alternative treatmentsThe panel acknowledged that the evidence did not prove that remdesivir had no benefit at all, rather that there was no evidence '' given currently available data '' that it did improve important patient outcomes.

It noted, however, that given the remaining possibility of important harm, as well as the relatively high cost associated with remdesivir, which needs to be administered intravenously, the recommendation was ''appropriate''.

In July, Gilead priced remdesivir at $2,340 for a five-day treatment in the US and some other developed countries.

The recommendation, published in the BMJ, is part of the WHO's living guidelines, which are used in fast-moving research areas like COVID-19 because they allow researchers to update previously vetted and peer-reviewed evidence summaries as new information becomes available.

Gilead has yet to release full clinical study reports on remdesivir, and the panel said it supported continued enrolment into trials evaluating the drug, especially to provide higher certainty of evidence for specific groups of patients.

Since the early excitement about remdesivir, alternative treatments have emerged including the cheap and widely available steroid dexamethasone, which is usually used to reduce inflammation in other diseases such as arthritis.

In trial results announced in June, dexamethasone, was shown to reduce death rates by about a third among the most severely-ill COVID-19 patients.

Clarification on statements made regarding COVID-19 by Dr. Roger Hodkinson - Royal College Newsroom

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Home > Clarification on statements made regarding COVID-19 by Dr. Roger Hodkinson

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On November 19, 2020 the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Royal College) was made aware of statements regarding COVID-19 by a Royal College Fellow, Dr. Roger Hodkinson. In some online references, Dr. Hodkinson is being incorrectly identified as a chair/past-chair of the Royal College.

We would like to clarify that Dr. Hodkinson is not nor has ever held the position of chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

We can confirm that Dr. Roger Hodkinson was certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a general pathologist in 1976.

The Royal College believes COVID-19 presents a serious threat to the health of Canadians. The Royal College strongly supports all public health advice given by the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, including recommendations to practise physical distancing and to wear masks to help prevent COVID-19 transmission. We are very appreciative of the dedication and commitment of our Royal College Fellows, residents and all front-line health care workers in the fight against COVID-19.

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Hal Turner Radio Show - We've Got the Box! Astra-Zeneca's COVID-19 "Vaccine" - Frankenstein in a Bottle

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The Hal Turner Radio Show has obtained the actual packaging in which the Astra-Zeneca Pharmaceutical Company's COVID-19 "Vaccine" will be packaged in. Calling this "The Mark of the Beast" is an understatement; this "vaccine" will hurt you - likely very badly - if it doesn't KILL you outright.

On the box, Astra-Zeneca reveals their new "vaccine" is "ChAdOx1-S" Recombinant DNA also known as AZD1222. That is the single most prominent ingredient and you'd better sit down as we reveal what, exactly, this is.

Research into AZD1222, reads: ''We used direct RNA sequencing to analyse transcript expression from the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 genome in human MRC-5 and A549 cell lines that are non-permissive for vector replication alongside the replication permissive cell line, HEK293''

A quick look at human MRC-5 reveals the first horror:

Yes, you read that correctly. They are using a cell line developed from the ABORTED FETUS of a 14 week Caucasian male.

It gets crazier.

The virus they're using to simulate COVID-19, is from: Chimpanzees.

Looking up AZD1222 we find that (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is a weakened and non-replicating version of the common cold virus (adenovirus) taken from chimpanzees, which has been engineered to contain instructions for creating the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 '' the virus that causes COVID-19 (here, here) . An article published in the journal Nature (here) says the vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 used T-Rex 293 HEK cells in the virus propagation stage.

When you look up HEK-293, you find this refers to ' human embryonic kidney' cells, which are from a different human cell line.

OK, so we already have a cell line from an aborted 14 week old Caucasian male, virus from Chimpanzees and now, more cells from human embryonic kidneys cells from a different human cell line.

And they want to INJECT THIS INTO YOU ???????

Into your children ?????

Let me ask you, folks, what do you think all this DNA they're pushing into your body will do to YOUR DNA?

Alter it?

Into what? Frankenstein?

Most folks know that our DNA is the actual building code for our entire body. Making a small change at the DNA level can have all sorts of unintended consequences farther down the line. Consequences THAT CANNOT BE UNDONE.

Astra-Zenecka also makes clear in the literature coming along with this "vaccine" that they are seeking an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to track the adverse reactions!

So they already know that there will be so many adverse reactions, of such a wide-ranging array of problems, they need ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to analyze it all.

Hal Turner Opinion

This whole thing seems to spell T R O U B L E.

And once you let them inject this crap into you, there's no way to stop whatever changes begin to take place at the DNA level.

What if you end up . . . . not human anymore?

What if their goal is to alter DNA so we are no longer recognizable to God?

Could that be why the Book of Revelations makes clear that anyone who takes the mark of the Beast will NEVER get into Heaven?

If we're changed at the DNA level, then we are no longer made in the image of God.

That is far too high a price to pay over a virus that has a 99.6% survival rate.

No thanks.

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Cyber War Declared in U.S. and UK to Quash Vaccine Hesitancy as Nations Prepare for Mass Inoculations ' Children's Health Defense

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In just the past week, the national-security states of the U.S. and UK have discreetly let it be known that the cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 ''war on terror'' are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting ''vaccine hesitancy'' and information related to COVID-19 that runs counter to their state narratives.

A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the U.K.'s signal intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be ''propaganda'' that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored COVID-19 vaccine development and the multinational pharmaceutical corporations involved.

Similar efforts are underway in the U.S., with the U.S. military recently funding a CIA-backed firm '-- stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State '-- to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting ''suspected'' disinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis and the U.S. military''led COVID-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed.

Both countries are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored COVID-19 vaccination efforts, now that Pfizer's vaccine candidate is slated to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by month's end.

Pfizer's history of being fined billions for illegal marketing and for bribing government officials to help them cover up an illegal drug trial that killed eleven children (among other crimes) has gone unmentioned by most mass media outlets, which instead have celebrated the apparently imminent approval of the company's COVID vaccine without questioning the company's history or that the mRNA technology used in the vaccine has sped through normal safety trial protocols and has never been approved for human use. Also unmentioned is that the head of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Patrizia Cavazzoni, is the former Pfizer vice president for product safety who covered up the connection of one of its products to birth defects.

Essentially, the power of the state is being wielded like never before to police online speech and to deplatform news websites to protect the interests of powerful corporations like Pfizer and other scandal-ridden pharmaceutical giants as well as the interests of the U.S. and U.K. national-security states, which themselves are intimately involved in the COVID-19 vaccination endeavor.

Subscribe Now - It's Free!U.K. intelligence's new cyberwar targeting ''anti-vaccine propaganda''

The U.K. newspaper The Times reported that the U.K.'s GCHQ ''has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states'' and ''is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State'' to do so. In addition, the U.K. government has ordered the British military's 77th Brigade, which specializes in ''information warfare,'' to launch an online campaign to counter ''deceptive narratives'' about COVID-19 vaccine candidates.

The newly announced GCHQ ''cyber war'' will not only take down ''anti-vaccine propaganda'' but will also seek to ''disrupt the operations of the cyber-actors responsible for it, including encrypting their data so they cannot access it and blocking their communications with each other.'' The effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the ''Five Eyes'' alliance (U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Canada) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such ''propaganda'' sites hosted within their borders.

The Times stated that ''the government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer,'' suggesting that efforts will continue to ramp up as a vaccine candidate gets closer to approval.

It seems that, from the perspective of the U.K. national-security state, those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental COVID-19 vaccine candidates (all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human use) should be targeted with tools originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda.

While The Times asserted that the effort would target content ''that originated only from state adversaries'' and would not target the sites of ''ordinary citizens,'' the newspaper suggested that the effort would rely on the U.S. government for determining whether or not a site is part of a ''foreign disinformation'' operation.

This is highly troubling given that the U.S. recently seized the domains of many sites, including the American Herald Tribune, which it erroneously labeled as ''Iranian propaganda,'' despite its editor in chief, Anthony Hall, being based in Canada. The U.S. government made this claim about the American Herald Tribune after the cybersecurity firm FireEye, a U.S. government contractor, stated that it had ''moderate confidence'' that the site had been ''founded in Iran.''

In addition, the fact that GCHQ has alleged that most of the sites it plans to target are ''linked to Moscow'' gives further cause for concern given that the U.K. government was caught funding the Institute for Statecraft's Integrity Initiative, which falsely labeled critics of the U.K. government's actions as well as its narratives with respect to the Syria conflict as being related to ''Russian disinformation'' campaigns.

Given this precedent, it is certainly plausible that GCHQ could take the word of either an allied government, a government contractor, or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council's DFRLab that a given site is ''foreign propaganda'' in order to launch a cyber offensive against it. Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources for The Times article bluntly stated that ''GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [sic] online and on social media. There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda,'' which suggests that the targets of GCHQ's new cyber war will, in fact, be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected ''foreign'' origin. The ''foreign'' aspect instead appears to be a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ's operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens.

This larger pivot toward treating alleged ''anti-vaxxers'' as ''national security threats'' has been ongoing for much of this year, spearheaded in part by Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, a member of the U.K. government's Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force, which is part of the U.K. government's Commission for Countering Extremism.

Ahmed told the U.K. newspaper The Independent in July that ''I would go beyond calling anti-vaxxers conspiracy theorists to say they are an extremist group that pose a national security risk.'' He then stated that ''once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it's easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism,'' thereby implying that ''anti-vaxxers'' might engage in acts of violent extremism. Among the websites cited by Ahmed's organization as promoting such ''extremism'' that poses a ''national security risk'' were Children's Health Defense, the National Vaccine Information Center, Informed Consent Action Network, and Mercola.com, among others.

Similarly, a think tank tied to U.S. intelligence '-- whose GCHQ equivalent, the National Security Agency (NSA), will take part in the newly announced ''cyber war '''-- argued in a research paper published just months before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis that ''the U.S. 'anti-vaxxer' movement would pose a threat to national security in the event of a 'pandemic with a novel organism.'''

InfraGard, ''a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and members of the private sector,'' warned in the paper published last June that ''the U.S. anti-vaccine movement would also be connected with 'social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns' orchestrated by the Russian government,'' as cited by The Guardian. The InfraGard paper further claimed that prominent ''anti-vaxxers'' are aligned ''with other conspiracy movements including the far right '...and social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns by many foreign and domestic actors. Included among these actors is the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government''aligned organization.''

An article published just last month by the Washington Post argued that ''vaccine hesitancy is mixing with coronavirus denial and merging with far-right American conspiracy theories, including Qanon,'' which the FBI named a potential domestic terror threat last year. The article quoted Peter Hotez, dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, as saying ''The U.S. anti-vaccination movement is globalizing and it's going toward more-extremist tendencies.''

It is worth pointing out that many so-called ''anti-vaxxers'' are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves, making the labels ''anti-vaxxer'' and ''anti-vaccine'' misleading. Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making COVID-19 vaccines donate heavily to politicians in both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the U.K. is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.

CIA-backed firm ''weaponizing truth'' with AI

In early October, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command announced that they had awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the U.S.-based ''machine intelligence'' company Primer. Per the press release, ''Primer will develop the first-ever machine learning platform to automatically identify and assess suspected disinformation [emphasis added]. Primer will also enhance its natural language processing platform to automatically analyze tactical events to provide commanders with unprecedented insight as events unfold in near real-time.''

According to Primer, the company ''builds software machines that read and write in English, Russian, and Chinese to automatically unearth trends and patterns across large volumes of data,'' and their work ''supports the mission of the intelligence community and broader DOD by automating reading and research tasks to enhance the speed and quality of decision-making.'' In other words, Primer is developing an algorithm that would allow the national-security state to outsource many military and intelligence analyst positions to AI. In fact, the company openly admits this, stating that their current effort ''will automate the work typically done by dozens of analysts in a security operations center to ingest all of the data relevant to an event as it happens and funnel it into a unified user interface.''

Primer's ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of ''truth,'' as defined by the state. Primer's founder, Sean Gourley, who previously created AI programs for the military to track ''insurgency'' in post-invasion Iraq, asserted in an April blog post that ''computational warfare and disinformation campaigns will, in 2020, become a more serious threat than physical war, and we will have to rethink the weapons we deploy to fight them.''

In that same post, Gourley argued for the creation of a ''Manhattan Project for truth'' that would create a publicly available Wikipedia-style database built off of ''knowledge bases [that] already exist inside many countries' intelligence agencies for national security purposes.'' Gourley then wrote that ''this effort would be ultimately about building and enhancing our collective intelligence and establishing a baseline for what's true or not'' as established by intelligence agencies. He concludes his blog post by stating that ''in 2020, we will begin to weaponize truth.''

Notably, on Nov. 9, the same day that GCHQ announced its plans to target ''anti-vaccine propaganda,'' the U.S. website NextGov reported that Primer's Pentagon-funded effort had turned its attention specifically to ''COVID-19 related disinformation.'' According to Primer's director of science, John Bohannon, ''Primer will be integrating bot detection, synthetic text detection and unstructured textual claims analysis capabilities into our existing artificial intelligence platform currently in use with DOD '... This will create the first unified mission-ready platform to effectively counter COVID-19-related disinformation in near-real time.''

Bohannon, who previously worked as a mainstream journalist embedded with NATO forces in Afghanistan, also told NextGov that Primer's new COVID-19''focused effort ''automatically classifies documents into one of 10 categories to enable the detection of the impact of COVID'' on areas such as ''business, science and technology, employment, the global economy, and elections.'' The final product is expected to be delivered to the Pentagon in the second quarter of next year.

Though a so-called private company, Primer is deeply linked to the national-security state it is designed to protect by ''weaponizing truth.'' Primer proudly promotes itself as having more than 15 percent of its staff hailing from the U.S. intelligence community or military. The director of the company's National Security Group is Brian Raymond, a former CIA intelligence officer who served as the Director for Iraq on the U.S. National Security Council after leaving the agency.

The company also recently added several prominent national-security officials to its board including:

Retired Gen. Raymond Thomas, who led the command of all U.S. and NATO Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan and is the former commander of both U.S. Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).Retired Lt. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson, the former deputy chief of staff for Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance who led the Air Force's intelligence and cyber forces. She also personally developed ''strategic partnerships'' between the Air Force and Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM in order ''to accelerate the Air Force's digital transformation.''Brett McGurk, one of the ''chief architects'' of the Iraq War ''surge,'' alongside the notorious Kagan family, as NSC Director for Iraq, and then as special assistant to the president and senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. Under Obama and during part of the Trump administration, McGurk was the special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS at the State Department, helping to manage the ''dirty war'' waged by the U.S., the U.K., and other allies against Syria.In addition to those recent board hires, Primer brought on Sue Gordon, the former principal deputy director of National Intelligence, as a strategic adviser. Gordon previously ''drove partnerships within the U.S. Intelligence Community and provided advice to the National Security Council in her role as deputy director of national intelligence'' and had a twenty-seven-year career at the CIA. The deep links are unsurprising, given that Primer is financially backed by the CIA's venture-capital arm In-Q-Tel and the venture-capital arm of billionaire Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg Beta.

Operation Warp Speed's disinformation blitzkrieg

The rapid increase in interest by the U.S. and U.K. national-security states toward COVID-19 ''disinformation,'' particularly as it relates to upcoming COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, is intimately related to the media-engagement strategy of the U.S. government's Operation Warp Speed.

Officially a ''public-private partnership,'' Operation Warp Speed, which has the goal of vaccinating 300 million Americans by next January, is dominated by the U.S. military and also involves several U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as intelligence-linked tech giants Google, Oracle, and Palantir. Several reports published in The Last American Vagabond by this author and journalist Derrick Broze have revealed the extreme secrecy of the operation, its numerous conflicts of interest, and its deep ties to Silicon Valley and Orwellian technocratic initiatives.

Warp Speed's official guidance discusses at length its phased plan for engaging the public and addressing issues of ''vaccine hesitancy.'' According to the Warp Speed document entitled ''From the Factory to the Frontlines,'' ''strategic communications and public messaging are critical to ensure maximum acceptance of vaccines, requiring a saturation of messaging across the national media.'' It also states that ''working with established partners '-- especially those that are trusted sources for target audiences '-- is critical to advancing public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of eventual vaccines'' and that ''identifying the right messages to promote vaccine confidence, countering misinformation, and targeting outreach to vulnerable and at-risk populations will be necessary to achieve high coverage.''

The document also notes that Warp Speed will employ the CDC's three-pronged strategic framework for its communications effort. The third pillar of that strategy is entitled ''Stop Myths'' and has as a main focus ''establish[ing] partnerships to contain the spread of misinformation'' as well as ''work[ing] with local partners and trusted messengers to improve confidence in vaccines.''

Though that particular Warp Speed document is short on specifics, the CDC's COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook contains additional information. It states that Operation Warp Speed will ''engage and use a wide range of partners, collaborations, and communication and news media channels to achieve communication goals, understanding that channel preferences and credible sources vary among audiences and people at higher risk for severe illness and critical populations, and channels vary in their capacity to achieve different communication objectives.'' It states that it will focus its efforts in this regard on ''traditional media channels'' (print, radio, and TV) as well as ''digital media'' (internet, social media, and text messaging).

The CDC document further reveals that the ''public messaging'' campaign to ''promote vaccine uptake'' and address ''vaccine hesitancy'' is divided into four phases and adds that the overall communication strategy of Warp Speed ''should be timely and applicable for the current phase of the COVID-19 Vaccination program.''

Those phases are:

Before a vaccine is available.The vaccine is available in limited supply for certain populations of early focus.The vaccine is increasingly available for other critical populations and the general public.The vaccine is widely available.Given that the COVID-19 vaccine candidate produced by Pfizer is expected to be approved by the end of November, it appears that the U.S. national-security state, which is essentially running Operation Warp Speed, along with ''trusted messengers'' in mass media, is preparing to enter the second phase of its communications strategy, one in which news organizations and journalists who raise legitimate concerns about Warp Speed will be de-platformed to make way for the ''required'' saturation of pro-vaccine messaging across the English-speaking media landscape.

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Masks in Football

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pitt-vs-virginia-tech-will-be-first-game-with-players-required-to-wear-face-coverings-in-the-field-of-play/

According to this, football players from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Virginia Tech will have to wear masks *while* playing. I played high school football and two years of college football, and I can tell you, I would not be able to breathe properly wearing a mask while playing. I have become an avid runner in the last six years, and I absolutely cannot wear a mask while running. I have tried when it gets really cold out in order to keep my face warm, and I can't get enough air to keep going. Someone in this game is going to hyperventilate or pass out due to lack of oxygen.

This is also despite the fact that there have been no documented cases of Wuhan virus transmission during play anywhere in the entire world:

https://www.outkick.com/nfl-chief-medical-officer-no-evidence-of-covid-19-spread-in-play-anywhere-in-world/

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Court issues new circuit assignments - SCOTUSblog

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Posted Fri, November 20th, 2020 12:06 pm by Amy Howe

A little less than a month after the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court on Friday issued a new set of circuit justice assignments, which take effect immediately. Barrett was assigned to the 7th Circuit, where she served as a judge for three years before becoming a justice. Two other justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch, were also assigned for the first time to the circuits where they had previously served as judges '' Sotomayor to the 2nd Circuit and Gorsuch to the 10th Circuit.

A circuit justice is primarily responsible for emergency requests (for example, an application to block an execution or to allow it to go forward) from the geographic area covered by his or her circuit, as well as more mundane matters, such as requests to extend filing deadlines. However, justices can and often do refer significant emergency requests to the full court '' a role that has taken on increased importance in recent years with the sharp uptick in activity on the court's ''shadow docket.'' A map of geographical regions covered by each circuit is available here.

Sotomayor's move to the 2nd Circuit, which had previously been assigned to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who grew up in New York City and lived there before moving to Washington to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit), kicked off a game of musical circuits among the justices. Sotomayor had previously been responsible for the 10th Circuit, which is now assigned to Gorsuch, as well as the 6th Circuit, which is now assigned to Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh, who had previously been assigned to the 7th Circuit, also took on the 8th Circuit, ceding the 7th Circuit to Barrett.

The new circuit assignment list signaled a reprieve for Justice Stephen Breyer, who normally serves as the circuit justice for the relatively small 1st Circuit. Since Ginsburg's death in September, Breyer has also been pinch-hitting under the Supreme Court's rules as the circuit justice for the larger and busier 2nd Circuit. Emergency requests and applications for extensions from the 2nd Circuit will now go initially to Sotomayor instead.

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Circuit Assignments - Supreme Court of the United States

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Circuit Assignments

It is ordered that the following allotment be made of The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of this Court among the circuits, pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, Section 42 and that such allotment be entered of record, effective November 20, 2020.

For the District of Columbia Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice For the First Circuit - Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island) For the Second Circuit - Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice (Connecticut, New York, Vermont) For the Third Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgin Island) For the Fourth Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia) For the Fifth Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas) For the Sixth Circuit - Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee) For the Seventh Circuit - Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin) For the Eighth Circuit - Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice (Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) For the Ninth Circuit - Elena Kagan, Associate Justice (Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Washington) For the Tenth Circuit - Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice (Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming) For the Eleventh Circuit - Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice (Alabama, Florida, Georgia) For the Federal Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice.

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Airbnb Executive Resigned Last Year Over Chinese Request for More Data Sharing - WSJ

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When it filed to go public this week, Airbnb Inc. said that its ability to continue doing business in China is a risk factor for its brand and profitability.

Operating in the country has sparked debate among the home-sharing startup's senior leadership for some time, leading a top executive to depart abruptly last year, according to people familiar with the company.

Airbnb hired Sean Joyce, a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in May of 2019 as its first ''chief trust officer,'' a role that entailed protecting users' safety on the platform.

He resigned six months later over concerns about how the massive rental platform shares data on millions of its users with Chinese authorities, the people said.

A high-profile hire for Airbnb, Mr. Joyce grew alarmed during his tenure that the company wasn't being fully transparent about the data it shares with the ruling Chinese Communist Party government, including for Americans traveling in the country, these people say. He also was concerned about what he viewed as Airbnb's willingness to consider more expansive data requests from China, the people familiar said.

Airbnb has told users since 2016 that it shares information with Chinese authorities, according to a review of its communications. Even so, Mr. Joyce believed most people using the platform weren't aware of the extent of the data shared, which included phone numbers, email addresses and messages between users and the company, two of these people said.

Nick Papas, a spokesman for Airbnb, said the company complies with applicable laws, regulations and requirements when responding to requests for data, similar to Western hotel chains operating in China.

''We are committed to being transparent with our community, and clearly disclose our data policies to all of our hosts and guests by displaying a clear message to users when they are on the platform and through multiple other notifications,'' Mr. Papas said in a statement. The data policies were in place before Mr. Joyce joined ''and continue to this day,'' he said.

Reached by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Joyce said he had a ''difference in values'' with Airbnb. He declined to comment further.

In the summer of 2019, Chinese officials approached Airbnb with an unwritten request for more user data, including more ''real-time data,'' such as when a user first makes a reservation, said one person familiar with the matter.

Mr. Joyce worried such data-sharing would enable Chinese government surveillance and put members of minority ethnic groups such as repressed Muslim-majority Uighurs at risk, that person said.

He voiced his concerns to senior executives, including in a summer 2019 meeting that included Chief Executive Brian Chesky and co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk, who leads Airbnb's China unit, the people familiar with the matter said. While the executives were sympathetic to Mr. Joyce's concerns, one of these people said, the discussion came at a moment when executives feared they might not be allowed to continue operating the company's large business in China.

''We're not here to promote American values,'' Mr. Blecharczyk told Mr. Joyce, according to people familiar with the conversation. Mr. Joyce resigned weeks later.

Messrs. Blecharczyk and Chesky declined to comment through a spokesman. An Airbnb spokesman acknowledged the request from China but said the company doesn't share real-time data.

Debates are under way inside many American companies over how to do business responsibly in China, the world's largest consumer market. The risks are especially acute for Silicon Valley companies, U.S. national-security officials say, due to the data tech firms collect and Beijing's potential interest in using that data for surveillance.

Chinese government agencies can request and monitor some data from international and domestic companies, according to consultants and university researchers. Hospitality companies like Airbnb are bound by further rules and regulations, requiring them to report guest information like traveler itineraries to law enforcement and other local agencies, policy experts say.

Airbnb said in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing related to its initial public offering, planned for next month, that it could lose the ability to operate in China if it doesn't comply with the country's data-sharing requirements. The company also cited brand and reputational risks if it does accede to such requests or requirements there.

For U.S. companies operating in China, ''nothing is black and white, particularly when it comes to government access to data,'' Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, told lawmakers at a Senate hearing this year about data security in China.

The issue of how Americans' data is shared with China came to the forefront this summer, when President Trump demanded a sale of the popular video-sharing app TikTok over concerns its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd., could give U.S. user data to Beijing.

The Trump administration has given preliminary approval for a deal with U.S.-based Oracle Corp. TikTok has said it would never share Americans' data with the Chinese government.

User data is ''something that companies have got to get better at safeguarding, because they [China] are accumulating more and more of it,'' John Demers, the U.S. assistant attorney general for national security, said during a panel discussion earlier this year. ''It is of tremendous intelligence value, and tremendous value to the Chinese to develop their artificial intelligence tools.''

The Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., didn't respond to a request for comment.

The largest home-sharing platform in the U.S., San Francisco-based Airbnb is poised to go public at the end of the year at a valuation of roughly $30 billion, the Journal has reported.

Airbnb's business in China has grown astronomically in recent years, rising from several thousand listings at the end of 2014 to about 372,000 active listings in September, according to research firm AirDNA, which tracks short-term rentals.

China growth and quality was one of seven metrics that determined bonuses for Airbnb's top executives in 2019, according to the company's recent SEC filing, along with safety on the platform and growth in its ''Homes'' and ''Experiences'' divisions.

Mr. Joyce had retired as deputy FBI director in 2013 after serving under then-Director Robert Mueller and was leading the cybersecurity practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP before taking the job at Airbnb. He returned to PwC after leaving Airbnb.

People who worked with him in government described him as a ''boy scout'' with a rigid sense of right and wrong who wouldn't hesitate to raise concerns to superiors about practices he believed were unethical or risky for national security.

While at Airbnb, Mr. Joyce opposed the Chinese government request that the company begin providing customer data when a user books an online reservation, rather than when they arrive at a property, one of these people said.

That request departed from what Airbnb had shared before Mr. Joyce's arrival and differs from other hospitality companies' practices, consultants and people familiar with the matter say.

Airbnb tells guests and hosts in China through the booking process and on its website that the company shares data with China, but it doesn't specify at what point the data collection begins, according to a review of its public communications and alerts.

The former law-enforcement veteran believed such an arrangement could help Chinese intelligence services better anticipate guests' movements and ascertain their travel itineraries and future locations, one of the people said. He brought his concerns to Mr. Chesky and other Airbnb executives.

Mr. Joyce believed Airbnb was on the cusp of complying with the data request at the time of his departure, the person said. It couldn't be determined whether his resignation altered the company's consideration of sharing real-time data.

Mr. Papas, the Airbnb spokesman, said, ''It is wrong to suggest that we were about to comply with this request.'' He said, ''We have not and do not share data when a booking is made,'' a policy that ''has been consistent for years.''

''When we do share information,'' Mr. Papas said, ''we do not share the time-stamp data that would indicate the time a booking was made.''

'--Jim Oberman contributed to this article.

Write to Dustin Volz at dustin.volz@wsj.com and Kirsten Grind at kirsten.grind@wsj.com

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NEW YORK GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO TO RECEIVE 2020 INTERNATIONAL EMMY® FOUNDERS AWARD '' International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

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New York, November 20, 2020 '' Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York will receive this year's International Emmy® Founders Award, in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world. The Emmy® will be presented to Governor Cuomo, also a New York Times best-selling author, during the Academy's live, International Emmy® Awards show streaming at 11 AM ET, on the Academy's website www.iemmys.tv , on November 23.

''The Governor's 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure,'' said International Academy President & CEO, Bruce L. Paisner. ''People around the world tuned in to find out what was going on, and New York tough became a symbol of the determination to fight back.''

The Founder's Award is presented to an individual or organization who ''crosses cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity''. Prior recipients include Vice President Al Gore, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg.

On March 2, 2020, New York Governor Cuomo conducted a media briefing from Manhattan to inform and educate New Yorkers and the public at large about the coronavirus outbreak that was just starting to be recognized as a massive public health threat. That 12-minute introduction, part of a 34-minute session with other state leaders, was the first of 111 consecutive daily briefings for New Yorkers and the wider world about the grim progress of the worst pandemic to hit the United States in a century. The briefings were carried live by New York's local TV stations, nationally on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other news outlets in the U.S. and around the world. The last ''daily'' briefing was held on June 19, 2020. These daily communications have drawn a total of 59 million viewers.

Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56 th Governor of New York. After the 1996 election, President Clinton appointed him to serve as HUD Secretary. In 2006, he was elected New York State Attorney General. In 2010 he was elected Governor and re-elected twice in 2014 and 2018.

About The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a membership-based organization comprised of leading media and entertainment figures from over 60 countries and 500 companies from all sectors of television including internet, mobile and technology. The Academy's yearly schedule of events includes the prestigious International Emmy ® Awards held in New York, The International Emmy ® Kids Awards at MIP and a series of industry events such as Academy Day, The International Emmy ® World Television Festival and Panels on substantive industry topics. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognizes excellence in television produced outside of the United States, as well as US Primetime programs produced in languages other than English, with the prestigious Emmy ® Award. Currently celebrating programming across varied areas including: Arts Programming, Current Affairs, Comedy, Documentary, Drama Series, News, Non-Scripted Entertainment, Short-Form Series, Telenovela, and TV Movie/Mini-Series, it also recognizes excellence in Performances and Kids programming. For more information, go to www.iemmys.tv

Media ContactsThe International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Eva Obadia, Senior Director, Communications & Partnerships eva.obadia@iemmys.tv

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Big Tech

BREAKING: Candace Owens DOES IT - Massive Lawsuit Coming - Freedom News USA

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(The Post Millennial) '' Conservative activist Candace Owens is suing Facebook ''fact-checkers'' for defamation, the Daily Wire reports.

''It is time to fact-check the fact-checkers,'' proclaimed Owens. ''I'm going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship is that they have with Facebook.''

Owens said that she decided to launch the lawsuit after her views on coronavirus were ''fact-checked'' on Facebook, despite her claim that the viewpoint was shared by doctors.

According to Owens, this fact-checking led to her Facebook page being demonetized, a fact which improves the prospects of her case significantly. While defamation laws vary by state, evidence of damages is generally required for a defamation suit to succeed, whereas in many other countries defamation only requires a false claim to have been made.

''Quite literally a doctor gave his opinion about COVID-19, which I shared, and Facebook issued a strike on my account because they said only information that they agree with about COVID-19 '... was acceptable,'' Owens said.

Facebook, like other social media giants, has been heavily criticized for their use of fact-checking, which many opponents describe as censorship. Social media giants have been repeatedly accused of targeting American conservatives in particular with allegations of spreading fake news. In some cases, big tech companies have outright banned, removed, or restricted content which turned out to be verifiably true, such as the New York Post's bombshell report on Hunter Biden's business dealings in October.

Owens herself had her account locked out of Twitter in October after posting screenshots of texts messages allegedly between Hunter Biden and his mother where he discusses allegations of sexual behavior with a minor.

Twitter LOCKED my account until I removed the screenshot of Hunter Biden's text convo with his mother about sexual allegations with a minor.

The REAL texts violate their ''child sexual exploitation'' policy. @JoeBiden you & Hunter are guilty as sin & @jack can't cover that up! pic.twitter.com/iIqzXCwaSe

'-- Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 28, 2020

As a result, social media company executives have been hauled before the US Senate, with Republicans grilling Facebook and Twitter over their censorship policies while Democrats demand more of it. Senator Josh Hawley has been a particularly vocal opponent of big tech among Republicans, calling for scaling back legal protections of social media companies and going as far as to suggest anti-trust law be applied.

Owens started a website to raise money for her suit, arguing that ''[the] overlords of Big Tech are determining what Americans can and cannot say, share, like, and post. Support our legal efforts today as we fight back against Facebook's fact-checkers, confronting those who are suppressing free speech, thought, and expression across our great country.''

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Hydrogen Production: Natural Gas Reforming | Department of Energy

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You are here Natural gas reforming is an advanced and mature production process that builds upon the existing natural gas pipeline delivery infrastructure. Today, 95% of the hydrogen produced in the United States is made by natural gas reforming in large central plants. This is an important technology pathway for near-term hydrogen production.

Natural gas contains methane (CH4) that can be used to produce hydrogen with thermal processes, such as steam-methane reformation and partial oxidation.

Most hydrogen produced today in the United States is made via steam-methane reforming, a mature production process in which high-temperature steam (700°C''1,000°C) is used to produce hydrogen from a methane source, such as natural gas. In steam-methane reforming, methane reacts with steam under 3''25 bar pressure (1 bar = 14.5 psi) in the presence of a catalyst to produce hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and a relatively small amount of carbon dioxide. Steam reforming is endothermic'--that is, heat must be supplied to the process for the reaction to proceed.

Subsequently, in what is called the "water-gas shift reaction," the carbon monoxide and steam are reacted using a catalyst to produce carbon dioxide and more hydrogen. In a final process step called "pressure-swing adsorption," carbon dioxide and other impurities are removed from the gas stream, leaving essentially pure hydrogen. Steam reforming can also be used to produce hydrogen from other fuels, such as ethanol, propane, or even gasoline.

Steam-methane reforming reactionCH4 + H2O (+ heat) '' CO + 3H2

Water-gas shift reactionCO + H2O '' CO2 + H2 (+ small amount of heat)

In partial oxidation, the methane and other hydrocarbons in natural gas react with a limited amount of oxygen (typically from air) that is not enough to completely oxidize the hydrocarbons to carbon dioxide and water. With less than the stoichiometric amount of oxygen available, the reaction products contain primarily hydrogen and carbon monoxide (and nitrogen, if the reaction is carried out with air rather than pure oxygen), and a relatively small amount of carbon dioxide and other compounds. Subsequently, in a water-gas shift reaction, the carbon monoxide reacts with water to form carbon dioxide and more hydrogen.

Partial oxidation is an exothermic process'--it gives off heat. The process is, typically, much faster than steam reforming and requires a smaller reactor vessel. As can be seen in chemical reactions of partial oxidation, this process initially produces less hydrogen per unit of the input fuel than is obtained by steam reforming of the same fuel.

Partial oxidation of methane reactionCH4 + ½O2 '' CO + 2H2 (+ heat)

Water-gas shift reactionCO + H2O '' CO2 + H2 (+ small amount of heat)

Why Is This Pathway Being Considered?

Reforming low-cost natural gas can provide hydrogen today for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) as well as other applications. Over the long term, DOE expects that hydrogen production from natural gas will be augmented with production from renewable, nuclear, coal (with carbon capture and storage), and other low-carbon, domestic energy resources.

Petroleum use and emissions are lower than for gasoline-powered internal combustion engine vehicles. The only product from an FCEV tailpipe is water vapor but even with the upstream process of producing hydrogen from natural gas as well as delivering and storing it for use in FCEVs, the total greenhouse gas emissions are cut in half and petroleum is reduced over 90% compared to today's gasoline vehicles.

Ministry of Truthiness

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: "LOL. The notion that you can't point out NBC's long-standing role in spouting CIA propaganda without ''endangering'' their employees is manipulative bullshit. They hired *John Brennan*, Ken Dilanian & every other ope

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The new party started bij Sylvana Simons actually has noodle-rules written in its program...

A short text from the party program:

MEER ZEGGENSCHAP OVER JE EIGEN WERK

De zeggenschap over werk wordt uit de handen van bedrijfseigenaren gehaald. Werknemers krijgen zélf zeggenschap over hun eigen werk doordat bedrijven in handen van werknemers democratisch worden bestuurd.

Black Farmers Have Been Robbed of Land. A New Bill Would Give Them a ''Quantum Leap'' Toward Justice. '' Mother Jones

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After the US Civil War, newly emancipated Black growers won a share of the agricultural landscape. They did so despite fierce backlash and the ultimately failed promises of Reconstruction. By the 1910s, nearly a million Black farmers, a seventh of the nation's total, owned an estimated 20 million acres of land, mostly in the South. * That turned out to be a peak. Since then, due largely to lingering white supremacy and racist machinations within the US Department of Agriculture, the number of Black farmers has plunged by 98 percent. The remaining few managed to hold on to just 10 percent of that hard-won acreage.

A new Senate bill, called the Justice for Black Farmers Act, set to be released November 30, would mount a long-delayed federal effort to reverse the ''destructive forces that were unleashed upon Black farmers over the past century'--one of the dark corners of shame in American history,'' lead sponsor Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told Mother Jones.

Co-sponsored with senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the bill would, among other things, create an Equitable Land Access Service within the USDA, including a fund that devotes $8 billion annually to buying farmland on the open market and granting it to new and existing Black farmers, with the goal of making 20,000 grants per year over nine years, with maximum allotments of 160 acres. It would also fund agriculture-focused historically Black colleges and universities as well and nonprofits like the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust to help identify land for the USDA to purchase, and ''help new Black farmers get up and running, provide farmer training, and provide other assistance including support for development of farmer cooperatives,'' the bill's summary states.

If the land transfer sounds like a generous giveaway, consider that ''we've done this before'--we have seen massive land grants in US history,'' Booker said. Indeed, the westward expansion of the United States was largely driven by land grabs followed by handouts. The 1850 Donation Land Claim Act delivered the Oregon territory to white US settlers in 320-acre chunks. The biggest of them all was the Homestead Act, signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, which ultimately delivered about 270 million acres'--about 10 percent of the US land base'--to smallholders.

The Justice for Black Farmers Act's much more modest proposal would amount to an ''equitable balancing of the scales after decades of systematic racism within the USDA that disadvantaged Black farmers, excluded them from loans and other programs, [and] prevented them from holding on to their land,'' Booker said.

The 19th century's great land transfers, which generated trillions of dollars in wealth for beneficiaries and their heirs, ''effectively precluded African Americans from participating,'' said Thomas Mitchell, a law professor at Texas A&M and 2020 MacArthur fellow, who participated in the bill's drafting. Meanwhile, the near-complete wipeout of Black farmland ownership since the early 20th century'--driven largely by racist federal and state policies'--represents a transfer of wealth from Black to primarily white Americans ''conservatively'' worth $300 billion, Thomas added. That handover contributes to a persistent racial wealth gap'--today, the median white family is 12 times wealthier than its Black counterpart.

In addition to the land-grant program, the bill would create a Farm Conservation Corps, which would focus on young adults from socially disadvantaged communities with USDA-funded apprenticeships on farms, with the goal of providing ''academic, vocational and social skills necessary to pursue careers in farming and ranching.'' While the program would be open to anyone from a disadvantaged background, Black trainees would be given priority for land grants from the Equitable Land Access Service.

The bill also attempts to purge the USDA of its ongoing legacy of racism. It would create an ''independent civil rights oversight board to conduct reviews of any appeals of civil rights complaints filed against the USDA, to investigate reports of discrimination within USDA, and to provide oversight of Farm Service Agency County Committees,'' and monitor the activities of the existing Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. The bill would also remedy a long-time complaint of researchers: ''USDA data is woefully inadequate if you're trying to analyze and understand the status of Black farmers in America,'' Texas A&M's Mitchell said. The legislation would require the agency's Economic Research Service to ''conduct research on the status of minority agricultural producers, including their share of land and assistance, and farmworkers,'' the summary states.

Getting it through Congress and onto President-elect Joe Biden's desk will be an uphill task, but things can change fast. ''I'm now some years in the Senate,'' Booker said. ''When I got here, a lot of folks indicated to me that issues of racial justice could not get done.'' Since then, he said, conversations about criminal justice have changed dramatically, leading to the First Step Act, which passed in 2018 with bipartisan support, addressing stark racial differences in sentencing over cocaine charges and other issues. Leah Penniman, a New York''based farmer, educator, and advocate for Black agrarianism, called the bill an ''opportunity to reverse and correct the millions of acres of land loss within the Black farming community and fortify the next generation of Black farmers with the foundation they need for successful careers in agriculture.'' She added, ''I never dared to imagine that such an elegant, fair, and courageous piece of legislation as the Justice for Black Farmers Act could be introduced.''

With recent protests against police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, ''I think there is growing momentum for addressing the legacies of overt discrimination in our country,'' Booker said. And a strong push for the Justice for Black Farmers Act, while it won't likely pass through the current Congress, could succeed in embedding its key provisions in the next farm bill, the twice-a-decade omnibus food and farm policy legislation that's set for renewal in 2023.

Lawrence Lucas, president emeritus of the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees, called the bill a ''a quantum leap for justice'' that confronts the ''racism embedded in the USDA since its founding, and that has been allowed to control the destiny of black farmers' lives.'' Lucas blew the whistle on internal USDA racism in a 2008 US House hearing. He has a hand in shaping the Booker-Warren bill; it grew from a letter he and a group of Black farmers and advocates sent to Sen. Warren during her presidential campaign in 2019, urging her to directly take on the USDA's racism and issues of Black farmland loss.

I asked Lucas if he thought it had a chance of passing. ''In my estimation, yes,'' he said. ''Decent Americans and decent congressional representatives will look at this bill, understand the history, understand its intent to address generations of abuse of a group of people, just as they did with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.'' He added: ''This is the Black Farmers Civil Rights Act of 2020, and it's long overdue.''

Correction: This article originally misstated the peak number of acres that Black farmer owned in the early 20th century, based on a 1930 US Census report. Furthermore, a group called the Land Loss and Reparations Project'--a team consisting of Texas A&M's Thomas Mitchell, the New School's Darrick Hamilton, Harvard's Nathan Rosenberg, and journalist Bryce Stucki'--argues that the USDA undercounted Black-owned farmland in that study, so this article has been corrected to reflect their estimate.

Wed. 11/18: Vote YES on the Black Lives Matter at Schools Resolution at the UFT Delegates Assembly '' Movement of Rank and File Educators

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In collaboration with union leadership and educators within the Movement of Rank and File Educators and Black Lives Matter at Schools NYC Group, the following resolution is being presented at the next UFT delegates assembly. Please read, discuss with your chapter and pledge that your chapter leaders and delegates attend and vote YES for this resolution! Share your support at our Google Form: https://blmedu.wordpress.com/participation-form/

RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF BLACK LIVES MATTER AT SCHOOL

WHEREAS, the United Federation of Teachers reaffirms Black Lives Matter, and

WHEREAS, the statement Black Lives Matter means that until people of African descent are treated with dignity, humanity, and respect in all areas of our society and the barriers to their safety and health and full participation in the economy and wealth creation are dismantled, all lives do not matter, and

WHEREAS, our work is grounded in the fight for fairness so that every person we serve achieves their highest good, and

WHEREAS, throughout our history, our union has demonstrated that belief, time and time again, through our collaboration with and support for local and national organizations working toward the equity, access, and empowerment of every student and family we serve, and

WHEREAS, representation of and participation in heterogeneous communities allow each of us to grow in our understanding of the human condition and establish our role in the improvement of our society, and

WHEREAS, anti-Black police violence continues to take place in the United States without accountability; and

WHEREAS New York City represents nearly 60% of NY state's total population of Black students,

WHEREAS, we recognize that our students are harmed in our schools as the result of ongoing systemic problems, including segregation, funding disparities, and lack of equal access to academic, artistic, professional and cultural opportunities, and

WHEREAS, we know that these systemic barriers consistently, disproportionately impact Black students; and

WHEREAS, the UFT supports culturally responsive educational practices, including but not limited to, efforts to diversify New York City's educational staff so that it more closely reflects its student population, and the expansion of Black studies as well as Asian, Latinx, and Native American studies programs and LGBTQ history in our P-12 classrooms, and

WHEREAS, the UFT has supported recruitment, training and retention initiatives including, but not limited to, NYC Men Teach, the NYC Teaching Fellows, the Success via Apprenticeship Program, Today's Students, Tomorrow's Teachers, and the Young Men's Initiative; and

WHEREAS, we are personally and professionally committed to the health and well-being of every student and staff member in our schools; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the UFT reaffirms our commitment to policies, initiatives and movements that promote respect for and inclusion of Black students and educators and move affirmatively to make it a reality, and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT continues to urge its members to amplify our demand for justice, change and equity by supporting Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action scheduled for February 2021 and other activities in the schools throughout the year and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT will participate in and share resources around the Year of Purpose, the National Black Lives Matter at School Steering Committee's new initiative to bring the 13 Guiding Principles of the Black Lives Matter Movement to the entire school year; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT will join annually with the AFT, NEA and NYSUT and proactively encourage its members to invest in critical reflection and honest conversation in school communities for people of all ages to engage with issues of racial justice; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT will call for members to participate in the planning of community forums and the creation and implementation of age appropriate P-12 curricular resources and to utilize the Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Framework (CRSE) and initiate school and community discussions around the actions needed to affirm racial justice; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT continues to recruit, develop, and retain a membership that reflects the demographics of the city in which we work and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT will call for members to use tools such as the AFT ''Share My Lesson'' website with titles like Teaching About Bias, Diversity and Social Justice, resources to exchange lesson ideas, instructional materials and resources about these socially relevant topics, and use the tools of the NYSUT Civil and Human Rights Committee, the BLM at School Curriculum at www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com in the public domain and resources from Teaching Tolerance, NEA Ed Justice during Black History Month and beyond, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT reaffirms its past, present, and future commitment to providing inclusive educational opportunities including, but not limited to scholarships, community partnerships, and events that support the advancement of students of color, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT seeks reapportionment of city and state funds to bring resources into Black communities to foster self-determination and awareness through education, entrepreneurship, home ownership and the means to reverse generational economic disparities and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT proactively engage in the necessary work to dismantle inequities in our systems through its coalition partners so that our students and families have access to employment, affordable housing, and quality healthcare and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT will continue to work with local, state and federal elected officials to secure permanent housing for our homeless students and students in temporary housing, and be it further

RESOLVED, the UFT stands in solidarity with Black students and educators as well as all communities of conscience, in the struggle for a more supportive, equitable, and fair school system and society, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the UFT will commit to making demands along with student groups such as IntegrateNYC and Teens Take Charge and call on the NYC Department of

Education and City Council to work towards undoing systemic racism and in so doing to:

1. End Zero Tolerance discipline in schools

2. Mandate Black and Ethnic Studies in schools

3. Hire More Black educators

4. Fund More Counselors, social workers, and mental health specialists

5. Fully integrate our schools with proper and equitable funding for librarians, PSAL sports, and access to technology.

*The 13 Guiding Principles of the Black Lives Matter Movement

1. Restorative Justice

We are committed to collectively, lovingly and courageously working vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension all people. As we forge our path, we intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting.

2. Empathy

We are committed to practicing empathy; we engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.

3. Loving Engagement

We are committed to embodying and practicing justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.

4. Diversity

We are committed to acknowledging, respecting and celebrating difference(s) and commonalities.

5. Globalism

We see ourselves as part of the global Black family and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black folk who exist in different parts of the world.

6. Queer Affirming

We are committed to fostering a queer'affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking or, rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless s/he or they disclose otherwise.

7. Trans Affirming

We are committed to embracing and making space for trans brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are committed to being self-reflexive and doing the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

8. Collective Value

We are guided by the fact all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status or location.

9. Intergenerational

We are committed to fostering an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with capacity to lead and learn.

10. Black Families

We are committed to making our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We are committed to dismantling the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work ''double shifts'' that require them to mother in private even as they participate in justice work.

11. Black Villages

We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ''villages'' that collectively care for one another, and especially ''our'' children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.

12. Unapologetically Black

We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a necessary prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

13. Black Women

We are committed to building a Black women affirming space free from sexism, misogyny, and male'centeredness.

Go Podcasting!

Is Your Favorite Podcast Tracking You? '' The Markup

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In these muddled times, at least one thing is clear: Nearly everyone's tracking you, always. But there is one area that has been largely off-limits to digital data collectors for 20 years: podcast listening.

Traditionally, the podcast ecosystem has been tracking-resistant, in part because podcasters release their shows through RSS, free technology dating back to 1999. Podcast players, also known as podcatchers, like Apple Podcasts and Castro then aggregate those episodes in easy-to-use apps. Listener behavior is strewn across a plethora of apps, many of which don't share data with anyone, including the podcast creators.

That's all changing. Advertisers are projected to spend more than $800 million on podcasts in 2020, and companies are devising ways to provide them with data that will persuade them to spend more. The most common tactics include using IP addresses to identify users, adding tracking URLs to ads, and abandoning RSS in favor of proprietary platforms that already track their users.

The change has provoked considerable debate, sometimes combative, within the podcasting industry.

In September 2019, Basecamp publicly dumped its podcast hosting service, Art19, after discovering that the company was building the capability for personalized ads. In December 2019, Libsyn, one of the major podcast hosting services, banned Podsights, one of the major podcast data companies, saying, ''[W]e feel it is necessary to protect listener privacy.'' In February, podcasting giant PRX hosted a conference on ''emerging threats'' to privacy in order to encourage more productive discussion. Then in August, one of the major podcast apps, Overcast, added a feature that lets users see which podcasts have enabled tracking.

''I see the storm clouds gathering,'' said Michelle De Mooy, a privacy consultant who spoke at PRX's conference. ''There's a danger that this is a moment that can change away from privacy.''

Podcast listening habits, like browsing history, can potentially reveal a lot about someone's interests. There are podcasts about mental illness, substance abuse, sexuality, debt, and other sensitive topics. So what do your podcasts know about you?

'(C) linkTraditionally, Podcasts Couldn't Track MuchThe main metric of success for most of podcasting history has been the one thing the RSS infrastructure allows: how many times the file was downloaded. It's like the early days of the web, when websites proudly displayed a ''hit counter'' that tracked the raw number of visits.

But the act of downloading a podcast still passes some data, and whoever hosts the file can log a download's date and time, the podcatcher used, the IP address (which also reveals rough location), and typically, the type of device.

I see the storm clouds gathering.

Michelle De Mooy, privacy consultantAdvertisers, meanwhile, have tended to target listeners based on a podcast's subject matter. If you've ever heard a host give out a promo code for listeners while reading an ad, it's because that's basically how advertisers would track which podcasts were actually driving customers. Ads were not personalized because there was no data to personalize them with, and no way to match an ad to a specific user.

This could rapidly change if the podcasting industry were to ever shift away from RSS. And there are some signs of that happening.

Spotify has been signing exclusive deals with megastars like Joe Rogan and Kim Kardashian West. Bloomberg reported that Apple is hiring an executive to lead the charge on original and exclusive podcasts, and Amazon has announced its first platform-exclusive podcast.

Needless to say, these exclusives will likely not be available via RSS.

''They are not podcasts. They're audio shows,'' said Andrew Kuklewicz, the chief technology officer of PRX.

However, when the venture-capital-funded podcast network Luminary appeared to be copying audio and rehosting it instead of using RSS, it triggered an exodus of podcasters. (Luminary clarified that it was not copying audio and was still using RSS, just rerouting traffic first.)

Meanwhile, as podcasts have grown and become more professional, the commercial industry around them has found ways to work around RSS's limitations.

'(C) linkHow Are You Being Tracked Now? In 2014, the podcast ''Serial'' debuted, introducing the medium to mainstream listeners. (As of September 2018, ''Serial'' had more than 340 million downloads across its first two seasons.)

That same year, Acast, a podcasting company based in Sweden, announced ''dynamic ad insertion.'' Previously, ads were ''baked in'' to a recording, but now podcasters could mark their files with ad breaks, enabling a hosting company to switch in a different ad based on the time or location the podcast was downloaded. It also paved the way for ads to be sold programmatically, based on a bidding system that automatically matches buyers and sellers without the need for salespeople. Much of the advertising on the web, including Google Ads, is bought and sold this way. Programmatic buying requires consumer data in order for advertisers to rapidly experiment with different ways to target users and optimize ads for the best results.

''That's probably when I certainly saw things start to change,'' said Kuklewicz, the CTO of PRX. ''Once you can actually dynamically inject ads, then that data that I'd be able to get from requests becomes actionable. And once that's possible, then we start to look a lot like the rest of ad tech right now.''

Our goal here is to make tools that will let this medium grow in general and bring more people into the space and create better content.

Andy Pellett, co-founder of PodsightsSuddenly, companies on the hosting and ad tech side started to try to squeeze as much data as possible out of the limited interaction they had with listeners, using a couple of different methods: They could add an extra web address in the metadata of an ad, forcing a tiny download that allows the advertiser to register the listener's IP address, the podcatcher they used, and usually the type of device. They could also use ''prefixes'' or redirects that take the user on a brief detour to another webpage so a third party can register them, similar to the way a URL shortening service like Bit.ly works.

At this point, we're still just talking about basic data. But advertisers want more granular data: Did someone listen to my ad on a podcast, and then visit my website or buy something? And what else can I learn about podcast listeners, so I can decide whom to target with my ads?

Some companies, like Podsights, now collect basic data, such as IP address and device type, and combine it with information from third-party data collection companies.

Podsights co-founder Andy Pellett said the company uses this data only to establish ''attribution'''--that the same person who listened to an ad also visited a brand's website, for example'--and does not share any data that could be used to identify listeners.

''Our goal here is to make tools that will let this medium grow in general and bring more people into the space and create better content,'' he said.

Other companies at least advertise the ability to do more granular targeting, though it's not clear how many podcasts actually use such services. Megaphone says that its Megaphone Targeted Marketplace, which allows automated buying and selling of ads, allows advertisers to target users by ''demographic and purchase intent.'' Megaphone did not respond to a request for comment.

'(C) linkYour Podcast Player Could Know More About YouPodcatchers themselves have access to far more accurate data about users, such as the full list of podcasts a listener subscribes to and how far they listen in any given episode. Some of the smaller podcatchers, however, have emerged as bulwarks against anything potentially invasive. When Russell Ivanovic, head of product for the podcatcher Pocket Casts, heard that some analytics companies had figured out a way to place cookies on users' devices when they downloaded a podcast, he immediately disabled the capability in Pocket Casts.

''They might be doing innocent things with it, but we felt like that was like a bridge too far,'' Ivanovic said. ''That's not something users are expecting.''

They might be doing innocent things with it, but we felt like that was like a bridge too far.

Russell Ivanovic, Pocket CastsCompanies like Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and Google, which all offer apps and devices that play podcasts, are in the best position to collect user data. These companies already have ''first party'' data, collected through their other services, that they can combine with someone's podcast listening habits, as well as additional insights from the device you've installed them on. Spotify knows if your phone is in your hand or in your pocket, for example.

Another way to collect more data would be if different layers of the ecosystem agreed to work together. National Public Radio attempted this with a project called Remote Audio Data, or RAD, essentially instructions for how podcasters and advertisers could finally measure if someone who downloaded a podcast actually listened to it, and for how long.NPR publishes lots of podcasts and also has its own podcast player, the NPR One app, giving it access to more data about how people listen. This data was used to reassure advertisers that their ads were actually getting heard, and also to tweak show formats. The creators of the show ''Pop Culture Happy Hour,'' for example, noticed that their listeners were dropping off in the middle of an episode. ''The team was able to pivot and release episodes more frequently, but much shorter and more focused,'' said Stacey Goers, senior product manager for podcasts at NPR. ''And it really gives users what they wanted.''

The ad server NPR uses, AdsWizz, also allows ads and stories to be swapped in and out of episodes. This enables NPR to experiment with its fund-raising campaigns as well as the content of the show. The first half of ''Consider This,'' for instance, is the same for everyone, but the second half comes from a station in the listener's local area.

The catch with RAD is that podcatchers also have to participate, and so far, they haven't taken it up. ''RAD has not seen a large amount of adoption,'' Goers said.

Part of that is because app developers would rather spend their limited resources on features that would attract new users, she said, and part of it is because of the lack of centralization.

''Podcasting still doesn't necessarily have a big governing body that's putting its foot down and asking for it,'' she said.

'(C) linkThe Changes Are Controversial'--and It's Not Clear How Widespread They Are''Ultimately if podcasts are going to grow as a media type, as they emerge, the advertisers are going to require the more granular level of tracking,'' said Eric Picard, a consultant and former vice president of advertising product management at Pandora.

But not everyone agrees that podcasting's health relies on gathering more data.

''That's bullshit,'' said Rob Walch, vice president of podcaster relations at Libsyn, a major hosting service that also sells ads for podcasters. ''The podcasters that make the most money are the ones that are doing host-read ads that don't do any of this. Joe Rogan makes more money podcasting with advertising than any of these people.''

At least for now, podcasting is still a fairly private activity, in that it doesn't produce much data on its own.

''That's one of the things, to be honest, that's stunted podcast growth initially,'' said Brad Smith, CEO of Simplecast, a hosting and analytics company. ''Advertisers want to go where the deepest, richest data lives. And by default, you're not going to get data out of podcasting.''

Nothing has fundamentally changed, he said. ''We gather the exact same information about a listening session today that we did five years ago.''

CorrectionAn earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the technology NPR uses for dynamic ad and content insertion. It is AdsWizz, not RAD.

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Dr. Mike Yeadon

In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says "there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen." The "Big Pharma" insider asserts that false positive results from inherently unreliable COVID tests are being used to manufacture a "second wave" based on "new cases."

Dr. Mike Yeadon, a former Vice President and Chief Science Officer for Pfizer for 16 years, says that half or even "almost all" of tests for COVID are false positives. Dr. Yeadon also argues that the threshold for herd immunity may be much lower than previously thought, and may have been reached in many countries already.

In an interview last week Dr. Yeadon was asked:

"we are basing a government policy, an economic policy, a civil liberties policy, in terms of limiting people to six people in a meeting...all based on, what may well be, completely fake data on this coronavirus?"

Dr. Yeadon answered with a simple "yes."

Even more significantly, even if all positives were to be correct, Dr. Yeadon said that given the "shape" of all important indicators in a worldwide pandemic, such as hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths, "the pandemic is fundamentally over."

Yeadon said in the interview:

"Were it not for the test data that you get from the TV all the time, you would rightly conclude that the pandemic was over, as nothing much has happened. Of course people go to the hospital, moving into the autumn flu season...but there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen."

In a paper published this month, which was co-authored by Yeadon and two of his colleagues, "How Likely is a Second Wave?", the scientists write:

"It has widely been observed that in all heavily infected countries in Europe and several of the US states likewise, that the shape of the daily deaths vs. time curves is similar to ours in the UK. Many of these curves are not just similar, but almost super imposable."

In the data for UK, Sweden, the US, and the world, it can be seen that in all cases, deaths were on the rise in March through mid or late April, then began tapering off in a smooth slope which flattened around the end of June and continues to today. The case rates however, based on testing, rise and swing upwards and downwards wildly.

Media messaging in the US is already ramping up expectations of a "second wave."

Survival Rate of COVID Now Estimated to be 99.8%, Similar to Flu, Prior T-Cell Immunity

The survival rate of COVID-19 has been upgraded since May to 99.8% of infections. This comes close to ordinary flu, the survival rate of which is 99.9%. Although COVID can have serious after-effects, so can flu or any respiratory illness. The present survival rate is far higher than initial grim guesses in March and April, cited by Dr. Anthony Fauci, of 94%, or 20 to 30 times deadlier. The Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) value accepted by Yeadon et al in the paper is .26%. The survival rate of a disease is 100% minus the IFR.

Dr. Yeadon pointed out that the "novel" COVID-19 contagion is novel only in the sense that it is a new type of coronavirus. But, he said, there are presently four strains which circulate freely throughout the population, most often linked to the common cold.

In the scientific paper, Yeadon et al write:

"There are at least four well characterised family members (229E, NL63, OC43 and HKU1) which are endemic and cause some of the common colds we experience, especially in winter. They all have striking sequence similarity to the new coronavirus."

The scientists argue that much of the population already has, if not antibodies to COVID, some level of "T-cell" immunity from exposure to other related coronaviruses, which have been circulating long before COVID-19.

The scientists write:

"A major component our immune systems is the group of white blood cells called T-cells whose job it is to memorise a short piece of whatever virus we were infected with so the right cell types can multiply rapidly and protect us if we get a related infection. Responses to COVID-19 have been shown in dozens of blood samples taken from donors before the new virus arrived."

Introducing the idea that some prior immunity to COVID-19 already existed, the authors of "How Likely is a Second Wave?" write:

"It is now established that at least 30% of our population already had immunological recognition of this new virus, before it even arrived...COVID-19 is new, but coronaviruses are not."

They go on to say that, because of this prior resistance, only 15-25% of a population being infected may be sufficient to reach herd immunity:

"...epidemiological studies show that, with the extent of prior immunity that we can now reasonably assume to be the case, only 15-25% of the population being infected is sufficient to bring the spread of the virus to a halt..."

In the US, accepting a death toll of 200,000, and a survival rate of 99.8%, this would mean for every person who has died, there would be about 400 people who had been infected, and lived. This would translate to around 80 million Americans, or 27% of the population. This touches Yeadon's and his colleagues' threshold for herd immunity.

The authors say:

"current literature finds that between 20% and 50% of the population display this pre-pandemic T-cell responsiveness, meaning we could adopt an initially susceptible population value from 80% to 50%. The lower the real initial susceptibility, the more secure we are in our contention that a herd immunity threshold (HIT) has been reached."

Masthead for "Lockdown Skeptics.org" publisher of "How Likely is a Second Wave?"

The False Positive Second Wave

Of the PCR test, the prevalent COVID test used around the world, the authors write:

"more than half of the positives are likely to be false, potentially all of them."

The authors explain that what the PCR test actually measures is "simply the presence of partial RNA sequences present in the intact virus," which could be a piece of dead virus which cannot make the subject sick, and cannot be transmitted, and cannot make anyone else sick.

"...a true positive does not necessarily indicate the presence of viable virus. In limited studies to date, many researchers have shown that some subjects remain PCR-positive long after the ability to culture virus from swabs has disappeared. We term this a 'cold positive' (to distinguish it from a 'hot positive', someone actually infected with intact virus). The key point about 'cold positives' is that they are not ill, not symptomatic, not going to become symptomatic and, furthermore, are unable to infect others."

Overall, Dr. Yeadon builds the case that any "second wave" of COVID, and any government case for lockdowns, given the well-known principles of epidemiology, will be entirely manufactured.

In Boston this month, a lab suspended doing coronavirus testing after 400 false positives were discovered.An analysis of PCR-based tests at medical website medrxiv.org states:

"data on PCR-based tests for similar viruses show that PCR-based testing produces enough false positive results to make positive results highly unreliable over a broad range of real-world scenarios."

University of Oxford Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, writes in a July article "How Many COVID Diagnoses Are False Positives?":

"going off current testing practices and results, Covid-19 might never be shown to disappear."

Professor Heneghan's scientific article on the topic is "Virological characterization of COVID-19 patients that test re-positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR."

Of course, the most famous incidence of PCR test unreliability was when the President of Tanzania revealed to the world that he had covertly sent samples from a goat, a sheep, and a pawpaw fruit to a COVID testing lab. They all came back positive for COVID.

Made in China

In August, the government of Sweden discovered 3700 false COVID positives from test kits made by China's BGI Genomics. The kits were approved in March by the FDA for use in the US.

Second Waves of Coronaviruses Not Normal

Dr. Yeadon challenged the idea that all pandemics take place in subsequent waves, citing two other coronavirus outbreaks, the SARS virus in 2003, and MERS in 2012. What may seem like two waves can actually be two single waves occurring in different geographical regions. They say data gathered from the relatively recent SARS 2003 and the MERS outbreaks support their contention.

In the case of the MERS:

"it is actually multiple single waves affecting geographically distinct populations at different times as the disease spreads. In this case the first major peak was seen in Saudi Arabia with a second peak some months later in the Republic of Korea. Analysed individually, each area followed a typical single event..."

In the interview, when questioned about the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, which came in successive waves during World War I, Yeadon pointed out that this was an entirely different kind of virus, not in the coronavirus family. Others have blamed general early century malnutrition and unsanitary conditions. World War I soldiers, hard hit, lived in cold mud and conditions the worst imaginable for immune resistance.

Saudi and Korea Waves of MERS Coronavirus

Lockdowns Don't Work

Another argument made by Yeadon et al in their September paper is that there has been no difference in outcomes related to lockdowns.

They say:

"The shape of the deaths vs. time curve implies a natural process and not one resulting mainly from human interventions...Famously, Sweden has adopted an almost laissez faire approach, with qualified advice given, but no generalised lockdowns. Yet its profile and that of the UK's is very similar."

Mild-Mannered Yeadon Demolishes Man Who Started It All, Professor Neil Ferguson

The former Pfizer executive and scientist singles out one former colleague for withering rebuke for his role in the pandemic, Professor Neil Ferguson. Ferguson taught at Imperial College while Yeadon was affiliated. Ferguson's computer model provided the rationale for governments to launch draconian orders which turned free societies into virtual prisons overnight. Over what is now estimated by the CDC to be a 99.8% survival rate virus.

Dr. Yeadon said in the interview that "no serious scientist gives any validity" to Ferguson's model.

Speaking with thinly-veiled contempt for Ferguson, Dr. Yeadon took special pains to point out to his interviewer:

"It's important that you know most scientists don't accept that it [Ferguson's model] was even faintly right...but the government is still wedded to the model."

Yeadon joins other scientists in castigating governments for following Ferguson's model, the assumptions of which all worldwide lockdowns are based on. One of these scientists is Dr. Johan Giesecke, former chief scientist for the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who called Ferguson's model ''the most influential scientific paper'' in memory, and also ''one of the most wrong.''

It was Ferguson's model which held that "mitigation" measures were necessary, i.e. social distancing and business closures, in order to prevent, for example, over 2.2 million people dying from COVID in the US.

Ferguson predicted that Sweden would pay a terrible price for no lockdown, with 40,000 COVID deaths by May 1, and 100,000 by June. Sweden's death count is under 6,000. The Swedish government says this coincides to a mild flu season. Although initially higher, Sweden now has a lower death rate per-capita than the US, which it achieved without the terrific economic damage still ongoing in the US. Sweden never closed restaurants, bars, sports, most schools, or movie theaters. The government never ordered people to wear masks.

Dr. Yeadon speaks bitterly of the lives lost as a result of lockdown policies, and of the "savable" countless lives which will be further lost, from important surgeries and other healthcare deferred, should lockdowns be reimposed, .Yeadon is a successful entrepreneur, the founder of a biotech company which was acquired by Novartis, another pharmaceutical giant. Yeadon's unit at Pfizer was the Asthma and Respiratory Research Unit. (Yeadon, partial list of publications.)

Sweden During International "Lockdowns"

Sweden

Why is All This Happening? US Congressman Says He is Convinced of "Government Plan" to Continue Lockdowns Until a Mandatory Vaccine. Conspiracy Theories?

The list of news items grows which reflects unfavorably upon the narrative being played out on the major television networks, of a mysterious, "novel" virus which has been controlled only by an unprecedented assault on individual rights and liberties, now ready to pounce again, on already suffering populations with no choice but to submit to further government orders.

Governors have quietly extended their powers indefinitely by shifting the goalpost, without saying so, from "flattening the curve" to ease the strain on hospitals, to "no new cases." From "pandemic," to "case-demic."

In Germany, an organization of 500 German doctors and scientists has formed, who say that government response to the COVID virus has been vastly out of proportion to the actual severity of the disease.

Evidence of chicanery mounts. Both the CDC, and US Coronavirus Task Force headed by Dr. Deborah Birx, are candid that the definition of death-by-COVID has been flexible, and that the rules favor calling it COVID whenever possible. This opens the possibility of a vastly inflated death count. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration is under federal investigation for all but signing the death warrants for thousands of nursing home elderly, when the state sent COVID patients into the nursing homes, over the helpless objections of nursing home executives and staff.

Why are the major media ignoring what would seem to be an eminently newsworthy item, an industry rockstar like Yeadon, calling out the biggest guns in the public health world? Would not the Sunday talk shows, the Chris Wallaces and Meet the Press, want to grill such a man for record audiences?

Here the talk may turn to dark agendas, and not just mere incompetence, obtuseness, and stupidity.

One opinion was put forth by US Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) when he said on the Tom Woods Show on August 16th:

''The secret the government is keeping from you is that they plan to keep us shut down until there is some kind of vaccine, and then whether it's compulsory at the federal level, or the state level, or maybe they persuade your employers though another PPP program that you won't qualify for unless you make your employees get the vaccine, I think that's their plan. Somebody convince me that's not their plan, because there is no logical ending to this other than that.''

Another theory is that the COVID crisis is being used consolidate never-before-imaged levels of control over individuals and society by elites. This is put forth by the nephew of the slain president, John F. Kennedy Jr., son of also-assassinated Bobby Kennedy. In a speech at a massive anti-lockdown, anti-mandatory COVID vaccination rally in Germany, Bobby Jr. warned of the existence of a:

''bio-security agenda, the rise of the authoritarian surveillance state and the Big Pharma sponsored coup d'etat against liberal democracy...The pandemic is a crisis of convenience for the elite who are dictating these policies,''

In a lawsuit, Kennedy Jr.'s medical witnesses warn that mandatory flu shots may make many children more susceptible to COVID.

The warnings of dire intentions of Kennedy's "elite" are coming from more mainstream sources. Dr. Joseph Mercola, of the highly trusted, mega-traffic medical information site Mercola.com, has penned a careful review of one doctor's claims of genetics-altering vaccines coming our way.

And it does not assuage fears that a defense establishment website, Defense One, reports that permanent under-the skin biochips, injectable by the same syringe that holds a vaccine, may soon be approved by the FDA. It does not help the anti-conspiracy theory cause that, according to Newsweek, Dr. Anthony Fauci actually did give NIH funding to the Chinese Wuhan lab, for bat coronavirus research so dangerous it was opposed on record by 200 scientists, and banned in the US.

In 1957, a pandemic hit, the H2N2 Asian Flu with a .7% Infection Fatality Rate, which killed as many people per capita in the US as the COVID has claimed now. There was never a single mention of it in the news at the time, never mind the extraordinary upheaval that we see now. In 1968 the Hong Kong Flu hit the US (.5% IFR,) taking 100,000 people when the US had a markedly lower population. Not single alarm was raised, not a single store closed nor even a network news story. The following summer the largest gathering in US history took place, Woodstock.

Mass hysteria is never accidental, but benefits someone. The only question left to answer is, whom?

Dr. Mike Yeadon InterviewAugust Protest in Berlin Against Lockdown, and Against Mandatory COVID Vaccination

Woodstock 1969

Masks are for the Little People!. Socialites at Washington DC Ballet Gala "After Party" July 2020.

RELATED READING:Belgians File Lawsuit Against Professor Neil Ferguson and Bill GatesShmuel Chanowitz on November 09, 2020:

Hi i just only read the latest comment. I still dont see how were getting out of this covid mess yet

Sanechap on October 20, 2020:

I am in disbelief when reading much of the below.

Do not believe the supposedly official stats and figures. You are being lied to comprehensively.

Do your own research and decide on the real science, facts and evidence.

JOC from Syracuse, NY on October 16, 2020:

I cannot help your feelings of sensitivity. There is therapy for that.

munkle on October 16, 2020:

JOC Seems to me like you are the troll here.

MadelynMarie on October 15, 2020:

This is a must watch video with German-American lawyer, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, who outlines the scientific fraud involved in the Covid PRC test (not designed for diagnostic purposes) and the Covid crimes against humanity with regard to the governmental response:

Video: ''Crimes Against Humanity'': The German Corona Investigation. ''The PCR Pandemic'' Full Transcript

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-crimes-against...

Please copy and share this information!!

Carla T. on October 14, 2020:

ANNNND.....the fact checkers say it's not true! Who fact checks the fact checkers???

Cheryl E Preston from Roanoke on October 13, 2020:

This is a very interesting theory. Only time will tell if it is true.

Andrew Sutton on October 04, 2020:

Mike Yeardon is right This should go vira,l lock downs don't work everyone should listen to this

JOC from Syracuse, NY on October 04, 2020:

You're the moron comparing a virus with zero purpose to the death from something necessary like driving.

Sweden? 5,876 deaths with a population of just over 10 million. Norway and Denmark, combined population of about the same - 900 deaths. Again, over six times the death rate. If we make it to the vaccine, that's about 4,900 people that were lost to help keep an economy open. We see where your priorities are.

And again, no one is saying to stay locked down. Your claim of people not living their lives is comical. Let me know when you've climbed 70 mountains in the past four years instead of just sitting behind your keyboard being an internet troll - then we'll be on equal footing.

Plus, the research had confirmed that early lockdowns helped to save lives: https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/a...

In terms of the death rates, we will not agree with the data. You're going to take the CDC information, which has been confirmed to have been altered by Trump's people at the Department of HHS to align with his downplay strategy. I'll take the Johns Hopkins data of known cases and known deaths collected from county dashboard all across the country.

munkle on October 04, 2020:

JOC said: "Driving serves a purpose. This virus does not."

This is typical the jumbled thinking of those who internalize the COVID hysteria campaign. Who said the virus "serves a purpose" you blithering idiot? It is WORKING which serves a purpose, to EAT AND FEED YOUR FAMILY without arbitrary and useless limitation due to a bug which is less deadly than flu up to age 65.

Sweden never locked down and now they have a LOWER per capita death rate than the USA.

The service economy cannot run on 50% capacity. In the restaurant business alone you need a full house at least Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings to turn a profit. You would know nothing about this as sheep living in your hovel. This is a deliberate collapse of the economy and the worst is yet to come. Wait until starving people are prowling your street.

JOC said: "Again, your 99.8% survival rate is complete fabrication."

You have been presented with the updated CDC rate accepted even in the major media, .26% Infection Fatality Rate which is about a 99.8% survival rate, probably higher due to higher estimates of asymptomatic cases. WHO estimates that is 80% of infections, a source someone like you would trust. So you keep calling what you don't like "a complete fabrication" with zero support, just your empty words.

You have said nothing to address the similarly severe pandemics, per capita, in the US in 1957 and 1968, in which not a word was whispered anywhere about any "lockdowns." So you are seeing what you want to see, and ignoring the rest. The miracle is how you trembled through life even this far. All I can conclude is some people actually like living in fear, and love the chains it imposes on them.

They say slaves learn to love their chains. I never knew what that meant. Now I do.

"The CDC Just Gave Us the Biggest Reason to End the Coronavirus Lockdowns"

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margoli...

"According to the CDC's current best estimate, the case fatality rate of the coronavirus is .4 percent. And that's just amongst symptomatic cases, which, the CDC estimates, is 65 percent of all cases. This means the CDC estimates that the fatality rate for all infections across all age groups, symptomatic as well as asymptomatic, is approximately .26 percent."

"The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data" by Dr. John Ionnadis (Stanford)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13...

"Interestingly, despite their differences in design, execution, and analysis, most studies provide IFR point estimates that are within a relatively narrow range. Seven of the 12 inferred IFRs are in the range 0.07 to 0.20 (corrected IFR of 0.06 to 0.16) which are similar to IFR values of seasonal influenza. Three values are modestly higher (corrected IFR of 0.25-0.40 in Gangelt, Geneva, and Wuhan) and two are modestly lower than this range (corrected IFR of 0.02-0.03 in Kobe and Oise)."

"COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios"

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/plan...

JOC from Syracuse, NY on October 03, 2020:

Driving serves a purpose. This virus does not. Again, your 99.8% survival rate is complete fabrication, and likely explains the choices you make in regards to putting your fellow Americans at risk.

Your claim that anyone is still saying to stay inside is right-wing propaganda. The fact that you believe lies makes you the useless one to our society. People are saying to wear a mask and socially distance as you go about your daily lives.

munkle on October 03, 2020:

CHRIS57 Yes let's ban driving since the highways are slaughterhouses killing millions of people a year, and end bike riding samey same, we need to stop all economic activity and lock ourselves in house arrest until nothing bad ever happens again and the world is safe for unicorns and children. In 1957 and 1968 as many people died per capita in flu pandemics in the US, yet you never even heard about it. Anyone who can't see by now that they are being played by a non-stop "case-demic" for a 99.8% survival rate disease - same as flu - should just keep living out their useless lives inside like they were doing before. The reason they don't mind lockdowns is their lives are not much to begin with so they don't really notice any difference.

CHRIS57 from Northern Germany on October 03, 2020:

I don´t know if it is still worth while to contribute to this article. Everything is said - excess death statistics as published by the CDC - importance of bringing active cases down - importance of social/physical distancing - knowledge about the very limited impact of herd immunity (some already recontracted)

yet people still think this is something inbetween a hoax and a mild flu. Unbelievable

Shawn Hubbard on October 02, 2020:

By isolating, we are making the Human Species weaker! We are becoming aliens in our own home planet earth! In a future generation, (soon) will will need to wear spacesuits on planet earth, and live in a sterile environment!

Breeze on October 02, 2020:

2 of 2

Those who got sick and went to the hospital, the tens of thousands who needed treatment and not aymptomatic, was because if conbtracting the virus not their imaginations. I pray to the magical sky wizard nobody catches this and suffers long term multi organ damage or suffers debilitating symptoms for 100 plus days. Why would you (munkle mike) not give a damn about the health of your family and friends, its obvious you dont care about your own, this virus surged then we locked down and went to mitigation techniques and the surge dropped. Mitigation works, look outside of your own countrg to see what's happening elsewhere, its the same in most places. Sweden has several thousand deaths compared to their lockdown neighbours who locked down that have deaths in the low hundreds. Those who don't think covid19 is real should volunteer at covid units in hospital, no ppe as you're invincible, tell the relatives of those who have died and those dying and unable to have family close to them it's fake and not really happening.

Disgraceful of this scientist spewing lies.

JOC from Syracuse, NY on October 02, 2020:

Surprised the author published that response that was so filled with incorrect information. Actually, based on the side he likely sits upon in the Covid fight, not really surprising when you think about it more.

JOC from Syracuse, NY on October 01, 2020:

Munkle - I can agree that there are likely many cases where people are asymptomatic and do not realize they have had it. At the same point, the experts have actually said we are likely undercounting the actual deaths - not overcounting as the right-wing media continues to contend to help Trump's case for reelection.

No one wants to go back to a lockdown. Everyone wants to reopen the country, one party wants to do safely, the other wants to pretend the virus doesn't exist any longer or won't still infect people. And we could, as Redfield and Fauci have been asking, mostly by wearing masks and social distancing which Trump and his supporters continue to refuse to do.

And having actually gotten Covid, I can understand why people should be scared about the long-term health effects. Those who have not gotten it or know anyone who has, would not understand why that fear should be taken seriously.

CHRIS57 from Northern Germany on October 01, 2020:

The current (active) case fatality rate in the US is some 0,5%, or the other way around: survival rate is 99,5%. Just take the death toll of past 2 weeks and divide by average active case count of same period. May be a little laymans way, but if you do this for other (not politicising) countries like Italy or Germany, you get the same 0,5% for September.

So the key is really the number of active cases. Because Germany had an average of 25.000 active cases in the past 2 weeks, only some 120 people passed away. In the US, there are almost 2.3 million active cases, consequently the death toll for past 2 weeks is more than 10000 and still the same 0,5%.

The statements and maths of JOC are correct - and the number of munkle is almost correct (better 0,5% and not 0,2%). Active cases make out of 0,5% case fatality the horrible numbers you encounter in the US.

With due respect, i simply don´t understand why you folks allow this mess to happen. Just do the distancing, wear masks and get the active cases down. All countries did this, only the US knows better and kills its own population.

munkle on October 01, 2020:

JOC says: "Add to the death rate, the long-term recovery from this virus and herd immunity strategies might not be the way to go: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/91-percent-covid-s... "

Any respiratory illness can have bad after effects. Why is the media trying to scare you into thinking COVID is special?

https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/fl...

Because they want to continue to lock us down until they can force us all to take a vaccine needle. And with that needle comes your biochip, right in the same syringe. Then you are a slave of the elite forever, and so are your children. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/mili...

Notice this won't be for billionaires:

"Elon Musk says he and his family won't get a coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-family-w...

munkle on October 01, 2020:

JOC said: "Nationally, look at 100 of your friends and figure out which 3 of them that you'd be fine living without. That's what you're saying. Of the 7,000,000 US cases, 204,000 have led to fatalities (204,000/7,000,000 is around a 3% death rate)."

JOC you are badly misunderstanding the difference between the CASE fatality rate and the INFECTION fatality rate. Because the vast majority of COVID infections are asymptomatic (never show symptoms, people get immune without knowing it) the actual number of people who catch it is much higher than the "cases" who test positive. Now we can't even believe that number. I believe vast numbers of ordinary flu case are being passed off as COVID. The case fatality rate may be 3%, but that does not tell you the actual death rate of infection, which is more like .2% or even lower. In other words, a 99.8% survival rate, similar to flu, which is 99.9%. Under age 50, look around at your friends and understand that more of them will die of flu if they catch it, than would die of COVID if they catch it.

You may understand this now that I have explained it, but a lot of people will not. Elites understand that a dumbed-down country which is bad at math is easy to fool. They just hit the emotion button constantly on TV, and like magic, you give up your rights.

Also I hope you don't believe that all those 200,000 people actually died of COVID. Especially when Dr. Deborah Birx and CDC tell you right to your face that COVID is always listed as the primary cause, even if you died in a motorcycle accident.

WKSwanson on October 01, 2020:

If as many as half of the tests are false positives, and who knows how many death certificates show that a person died "of the virus" instead of correctly stating "with the virus" -such as the motorcycle accident death in Florida falsely attributed to the virus as the most egregious example, then one must be very skeptical of any official statistics. The Democrats politicization of the virus has been nothing short of breath-taking (pun intended). Their philosophy of victimology knows no bounds -even to the point of complete hysteria and irrationality to achieve a political advantage. For them the ends always justify the means.

JOC from Syracuse, NY on October 01, 2020:

I'm going to argue both sides of the issue.

Nationally, look at 100 of your friends and figure out which 3 of them that you'd be fine living without. That's what you're saying. Of the 7,000,000 US cases, 204,000 have led to fatalities (204,000/7,000,000 is around a 3% death rate). 750-1,000 people still die a day from this virus. For the flu, the death rate is closer to 0.1%.

Add to the death rate, the long-term recovery from this virus and herd immunity strategies might not be the way to go: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/91-percent-covid-s...

The data from the scenarios in our area certainly could be used to support your herd immunity case though. We're a college town, from the beginning of this pandemic until August 4 (six months), our whole county had 250 cases and four deaths. In the two months since the college students have returned to the area, the county has seen 400 cases (with 277 attributed directly to the college), but thankfully no additional deaths. We're fairly rural, so the at-risk populations will tend to be a little lower than a larger city.

Carol Hetzler on September 29, 2020:

No one has mentioned there was a recent very long FB article, complete with a very long bibliography documenting everything, that Fauci creates vaccines, that Bill Gates has supported Fauci's foundation for years, that Bill Gates has ID2020 (you can add . org and come to his site) which goal is to give everyone an international number. Their plan is to require everyone to have that vaccine and be given a number. Bill Gates was quoted as saying, yeah, and no one would be able to buy, sell or work without it (the vaccine with the number)!

Andrea on September 29, 2020:

I have come to the conclusion that the best way to tackle this is for human beings to leave social media and stop watching the news. If we stopped watching and reading the news there would be no lockdown because nobody would know about it. I've been angry towards media and the news and now that has shifted to the people constantly feeding it by watching it. I'll believe in a pandemic when I see people collapsing in front of me. For now I wish to believe in love not fear. Peace to you all xx

irish 68 on September 29, 2020:

only the sheeple fall for this nonsense over the flu.its been fake since day one.

munkle on September 27, 2020:

And yes Virginia freedom comes with a cost as you said. It always does, it always has. The cost can be terrible, like those brave Americans who stormed the beaches at Normandy so we could remain free. Just to give it all up because we are afraid of a flu? I hear those brave men turning in their graves. In the American Revolution they fought in the middle of a small pox epidemic. The did not call off the fight for freedom. Look it up.

Life is dangerous, no two ways about it. Eventually we all die. But you may have heard "Those who would give up liberty for a little safety, deserve neither." Benjamin Franklin.

Virginia Allain from Central Florida on September 27, 2020:

Ah, Munkle, freedom comes with a cost in this case. I live in Florida and our nickname for our governor is Ron DeathSantis. The deaths in the state and the number of new cases have not dropped enough to warrant this. Two weeks from now, the numbers will explode.

munkle on September 26, 2020:

BREAKING SEPTEMBER 25 MASKS AND LOCKDOWN GONE IN FLORIDA! Call your state representatives. Win your freedom too. Florida has the oldest population in the US and they are not afraid.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/florida-go...

"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in Florida on Friday, and banned local fines against people who refuse to wear masks as he seeks to reopen the state's economy despite the spread of the coronavirus."

Lois Foster on September 26, 2020:

This info needs to go viral. The lockdown needs to end. The elite pushing for mandatory vaccines ie Gates and Fauci need to go jump in the lake. And the fear mongering needs to stop. I have been saying this since March.

askmenot on September 25, 2020:

BREAKING Elite moving hard and fast on ID2020, rolling out in Austin for "homeless people" to obtain better services. Social Security, all health and financial data, will be on one chip, all that's left is to put it under your skin. Since when do homeless people need total ID for services? You are hungry you go to a soup kitchen. You line up for a bed at the shelter.

Now watch the "Bill Gates conspiracy theory" denouncers kick into action, but you can see under-the-skin biochip technology being developed by the Defense Department (DARPA) right here, Profusa Inc.:

"A Military-Funded Biosensor Could Be the Future of Pandemic Detection"

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/mili...

And who has given funding to Profuse? You got it, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation! The Foundation grant is described as ''Implantable multi-analyte sensors for the continuous monitoring of body chemistries'' https://globalprojects.ucsf.edu/sponsor/bill-melin...

Sure just crazy conspiracy theory.

"Welcome the City of Austin to the ID2020 Alliance!"

https://medium.com/id2020/welcome-the-city-of-aust...

Remember the way to stop Gates is to prosecute him for his vaccine experiments on unsuspecting, illiterate families in India, which violated consent rules. These are a violation of the Nuremberg Code put into place after WWII to stop medical experiments with no consent after Nazi Josef Mengele.

"Economic Times of India: Controversial vaccine studies: Why is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under fire from critics in India?"

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/heal...

"The committee found that consent for conducting these studies, in many cases, was taken from the hostel wardens, which was a flagrant violation of norms. In many other cases, thumbprint impressions of their poor and illiterate parents were duly affixed onto the consent form. The children also had no idea about the nature of the disease or the vaccine. The authorities concerned could not furnish requisite consent forms for the vaccinated children in a huge number of cases."

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