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Boston’s Dem Mayor Says Vaccine Passports Are Racist
From freebeacon.com
2021-08-04 15:40:36
Cole Carnick
Excerpt:
Boston’s Democratic mayor on Tuesday compared vaccine passports to slave papers, saying the requirement could “create a barrier” for Boston’s minority communities.
“There’s a long history in this country of people needing to show their papers—whether we’re talking about … during slavery,…
Poll Shows Many Seniors Would Switch Parties For Lower Drug Prices
From crooksandliars.com
2021-08-04 13:01:00
Common Dreams
Excerpt:
A survey released Tuesday by the Alliance for Retired Americans finds that seniors overwhelmingly support allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies—so much so that a sizeable percentage would cross…
PGC – When you define hate crime as speech, and you give the state power to process that speech as crime, you empower the state to control speech, endstop.
We see evidence of this in the rhetoric of the left themselves, who, whenever the narrative somehow begins to turn against them ,despite their inordinate advantage at controlling most of the bullhorns most people hear in these lands, they turn to the morality police informant willing to destroy any semblence of Bill of Rights standards because this time the narrative is too important to lose.
The handling of the Cough Cough by governments and corporations has demonstrated to most people willing to plainly observe that they view we humans as lab rats and children that must be held by the hand at all times and controlled from cradle to grave unless we manage somehow to get a ticket into the big show, the place where the human pig dependents are made.
From within their protected citadels, they make decrees and the ones who write laws and command cops follow the signal wherever it goes. One professor is now sending a message to all the powers that be in that special club that they’re losing the narrative on Covid. All of your efforts to micromanage our lives to safety have led to perhaps more harm than good.
We can’t even begin to count the ways that these lockdowns have changed the lives of so many of our youth who were denied we don’t even fully know what. As we see suicide rates increase dramatically, and small businesses forever destroyed, we see no reason to believe you anymore, not because of conspiracies, but because of the plain fruits of our lies and what our simple eyes show us.
When your news shows can’t hide the failures, you must criminalize the very thought of failure itself. So a Professor of good standing in one of the bastions of the DNC ideology comes forward and declares it to be a rational idea to declare questioing the official science on Covid should be considered a hate crime. Let’s throw in a protection for Fauci as well, and make it clear he’s off limits like Covid Science is off limts.
A pediatric doctor from Baylor Colliege of Medicine, Dr. Peter Hotez, offered such a scenario. This man is a pediatric doctor. I am willing to bet some of the fathers and mothers of some of the very children he serves might get arrested one day if his hate crime expansion fantasy were to happen. Maybe one of them would go to jail, over speech, and this ‘do no harm’ in name only doctor is suggesting we throw that child’s parent in jail because the narrative is failing and no one believes we incompetent scientists anymore.
Someone recently argued with me about the rising hate in this country, suggesting it wasn’t to the point people were willing to subhumanize vast groups of people. This item here is what confirms in me that my suspicions are sadly well founded, suspicions I am sure many of you share.
Most of this anger, most of this hate is coming from our highest leadership in all of our own major institutions, as in this case, the University of Baylor becoming a legitimizer in the minds of millions that it’s ok to view people who don’t agree with the authorities as being something less than human, subhuman, criminals who should all be locked up.
Professor suggests it should be a federal hate crime to criticize Fauci and
From feedproxy.google.com
2021-08-04 01:23:17
Jennifer Kabbany – Fix Editor
Excerpt:
Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine, is arguing that federal hate-crime protections may need to be extended to Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists “targeted by far-right extremism.”
In his July 28 paper “Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States,” Hotez writes that a “band of ultraconservative members of the US Congress and other public officials with far-right leanings are waging organized and seemingly well-coordinated attacks against prominent US biological scientists.”
With that, the professor contends in his paper that Congress “should look at expanded protection mechanisms for scientists currently targeted by far-right extremism in the United States,” citing a bill that has been introduced named the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021.
The CDC has uniltaterally declared an eviction moritorium effective for 60 days in light of the spiking of the Covid-19 Delta varient. The moritorium covers areas that are considered at high levels of infection rate.
U.S. announces 60-day moratorium on evictions in areas with high COVID-19 levels
From www.cbc.ca
2021-08-03 08:11:49
Reuters
Excerpt:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday announced a new 60-day moratorium on residential evictions in areas with high levels of COVID-19 infections, after having rejected an earlier push by the White House.
The order applies to about 80 per cent of U.S. counties that have substantial or high COVID-19 community transmission rates and covers about 90 per cent of the U.S. population.
“The emergence of the delta variant has led to a rapid acceleration of community transmission in the United States, putting more Americans at increased risk, especially if they are unvaccinated,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement.
“This moratorium is the right thing to do to keep people in their homes
The expected correlation of infection rates in nations with high vaccine rates has so far not played out, as nations with the highest vaccine rates are also highest in infection rates.
Countries with highest vaccination rates have highest infection rates
From www.americanthinker.com
2021-08-04 01:00:00
Excerpt:
A series of graphs compiled by Twitter user @holmenkollin (Corona Realism) document that “the most-vaccinated countries in the world are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, while the least-vaccinated countries are not.”
Iceland, Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus, for example, have vaccination rates of 90-98% and are experiencing surging virus cases. European countries with high vaccination rates are experiencing increasing infection rates, while those graphs show minimal infection rates among the countries with the lowest vaccination rates.
In Israel, where COVID cases are spiking despite a vaccination rate of 80%, the government is launching a campaign to inoculate its population with a third jab. The vaccines’ effectiveness may very well be wearing off after a few months, but doubling down on booster shots may prove counterproductive if something else is at work.
Lost in the angry retorts by those opposed to the Covid-19 vaccines is a simple truth: over 99% of recent Covid-19 deaths are unvaccinated individuals. To argue “the vaccine doesn’t work” is a misnomer. But this isn’t the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem is the potential long-term effects of this virus and its long-term success at mitigating the virus.
The real tragedy may be that people who are reasonable and well-educated might reject an otherwise perfectly safe vaccine and then get sick and die without protection. On the other hand, upon what do they have to base their trust: the drug companies, the government, their doctors who depend on the former two for reliable information?
The thing is we SHOULD be able to rely on drug companies and the government for reliable information but we really cannot at this time. The corruption of corporate heads and politicians and their willingness to lie and deceive for self-gain, regardless of the consequences to others, is beyond comprehension.
It’s the opposite of “the boy who cried wolf”, it’s a case where “the boy who cried ‘sheep’ where it was really a wolf!” It may truly be a sheep, but many don’t trust the boy!
Trying to suss out the credibility of claims about the vaccine is difficult because we cannot know if all data needed to make an informed decision is accurate or even available. We know the parties asking us to trust them aren’t trustworthy.
We also know that, for now at least, the vaccine has been shown to prevent serious illness and death. This is a good reason to take the vaccine. The slowness of the FDA in approving the vaccine, the unwillingness of all parties to assume responsibility or make guarantees regarding the vaccine’s effectiveness, and the unavoidable fact this was a rush effort all cause hesitancy.
The response to the hesitant has only made matters worse. Shunning, shaming, and bullying are not useful.
The spread of false information attacking the vaccine has only made matters worse, but these falsehoods are thriving because of factors the powers that be could mitigate. The FDA could stop dragging its feet and either approve vaccine or stop its use, whatever the facts dictate. Someone, anyone, could actually assume legal responsibility for any harm caused if we find, like the polio vaccine, the vaccine is tainted. The government could come clean on the polio vaccine and its true impact.
People will likely die without the vaccine but mostly because the way this roll-out has been conducted doesn’t engender a level of confidence necessary to earn universal compliance.
Health coverage is expensive, but medical care isn’t? How is this and what can we do?
Dr. Marion Mass went through a metamorphosis from a physician to a patient rights advocate when she saw how money and politics, not patient needs, were adding multiple layers of complication and costs without benefiting patients. Her story and recent podcast transcends partisan labels and is a fresh way to approach medical care instead of playing politics with “health care” that may provide “coverage” but is too expensive and doesn’t serve patient needs.
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Dr. Mass serves as the vice-chairman of Practicing Physicians of America whose mission includes protecting the ability of all practicing physicians to serve as their patients’ primary health care advocate and to confront unnecessary and overbearing regulation that limits any physicians’ ability to serve their patients.
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For the sake of argument, let’s stipulate that the vaccine against this pandemic is perfectly fine. We may ignore the fact Israel is now issuing a third vaccine as the old one isn’t stopping the new varient. We can also ignore the whole fear of new varients that may render the first vaccine, which many reported gave miserable symptoms after injection of the second dose, useless. Also ignore the lack of longevity research possible for any new vaccine.
The authoritarian and arrogant way the Biden administration is handling this, almost as if it is a wedge issue designed to make Republicans look bad, has backfired. Far from being browbeat into submission, Americans are responding with suspicion and resistance.
The basic idea is, “if this is so good, why do you have to try to shame and bully me to do it?” What is more, while the vaccine is practically being forced on everyone, the accountability for negative side effects or long-term problems is gone. Nobody, from manufacturers to the government, accepts any responsibility if taking this proves, in the long-term, causes harm. And nobody can guarantee there won’t be any long-term negative effects.
The issue isn’t that the vaccine is available, the issue is threefold: people don’t like being bullied, people aren’t sure if this is useful against new varients or of its long-term effects, and nobody is on the hook if it doesn’t work or has ill effects.
The issues with the vaccine tend to be common with any new vaccine. And the need for vaccines means that new vaccines must be rolled out sooner rather than later. But it also means that every new vaccine has unresolved questions as to its efficacy or possible ill effects. The difference is in the fact nobody is willing to take responsibility if this doesn’t work or causes harm and yet you are being bullied and shamed and your concerns are being ridiculed in a partisan and over-the-top manner.
By showing such disrespect and condescension and using rabid partisan attack language against people who have concerns, while shifting 100% of the risk on the person being bullied into getting the shot, you make it harder, rather than easier, to say yes.
This seems to be the only default now for Democrats: bully, shame, and defame while belittling and ignoring legitimate debate and questions and suppressing discourse and scientific exploration outside their agenda of preconceptions. If the vaccine is going to help, which also requires accountability for manufacturers and government if they get this wrong, then the present hubris shown by proponents needs to end now.
Take away all the rabid language and bullying and add accountability if this doesn’t work, and our rate of vaccination would be much higher.
The old line “the beatings will stop when morale improves” is funny, but not when it’s the entire establishment beating down on anyone who has a concern, anyone who has questions, anyone who wants someone to take responsibility for this if it fails, and exploration of ongoing science as to alternatives.
BY HANNAH COBB, CNHP
We live in a world where we are constantly exposed to environmental toxicities coming from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. While we cannot live totally sheltered from toxins, we can greatly reduce our exposure by implementing a few lifestyle changes. Contaminants in our tap water have long been an issue of concern.
Most American families are unknowingly consuming a chemical cocktail while they drink their tap water. The state of our drinking water is devastating, to say the least. We cannot rely on governmental agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the safety of the water we consume on a daily basis.
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