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Jeff Childers has a great one today…Check out the Boomerang on Public Health in general and CNN Witch Doctor Lena Wen in Particular
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There are a lot of very smart people like Stanford scientist Jay Bhattacharya who were suppressed by covid censorship during the pandemic but are going to have a WHOLE LOT to say as corporate media’s covid embargoes keep dropping.
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Peter McCullough, MD MPH
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CDC reforms? @DrJBhattacharya says on @IngrahamAngle “tell the truth” on the evolving science and stop trying to manipulate human behavior. CDC dictatorial mandates and colluding with social media on the false agenda were criminal actions!
August 20th 2022
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Jay was one of Governor DeSantis’ go-to scientists during the pandemic. I’ve enjoyed the distinct honor of several in-depth private conversations with Jay, and he’s absolutely one of the smartest, most courageous, and faithful guys I’ve run into. He also has a keen sense of politics.
Dr. B is clearly not happy about how he was treated during the pandemic. And since he wound up being right about everything, he has a ton of moral authority. I’m betting a lot of his colleagues were quietly grateful that Jay was doing and saying things they were too afraid to say or do, plus there are a bunch of other fair-weather academicians who always want to be on the winning side, and Jay will have all their support too.
I can’t wait to see how this plays out.
? Here’s a terrific animation illustrating exactly how they concealed jab efficacy failure by boiling the public’s frog:
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Ian Smith
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The game of inches.
August 19th 2022
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Watching that probably seems frustrating, but remember: they’ve probably been doing this same exact thing for DECADES with other drugs, and we’d have never caught on without covid. Like parents horrified to discover what the “teachers” were doing on “remote instruction” zoom sessions, we’ve all now been exposed to the disgusting bowels of the FDA’s approval sleight of hand techniques.
Sure, there are a handful of heroic whistleblowers who’ve been courageously trying to convince people that the FDA was compromised, but not enough people were listening. Now it’s about to get real, because now there are too many people who know how the game is rigged.
I realize it’s hard to trust that things could possibly improve. But the previous stasis has been disrupted. Something has to give.
? And here’s another one! Bless those jokers over at the Daily Wire for putting together this neat montage about CNN. It perfectly illustrates how CNN sacrificed every last shred of credibility during the pandemic, and now the network is paying the price:
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Daily Wire
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This montage never ceases to be relevant
August 18th 2022
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The “Most Trusted Name in News” has become the punchline to a lot of mean jokes. Again, I question whether this would’ve happened absent the pandemic.
Even more amusing, Brian Stelter, the anchor appearing most in the Daily Wire’s montage, is now OUT at CNN:
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JUST IN – Brian Stelter is out at CNN as network cancels his show.
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August 18th 2022
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Soon, there won’t be many pre-pandemic reporters left at the network. Too bad. Buh-bye!
? Haha, CNN’s worm turned again. Remember CNN’s TV Doctor Leana Wen? She’s been a brutal Narrative publicist. Here she is in September of last year, arguing unjabbed people should be confined to their homes:
But Dr. Wen pivoted along with the official Narrative in January, and began pushing the new-and-improved Narrative 2.0 talking points, and her liberal Branch Covidian fans turned on her. They’re still mad. On Thursday, the Boston Globe ran an “issues” story headlined, “An Absurd and Disturbing Cancel Campaign in Public Health.”
The lengthy sub-head explains, “Some attendees at an upcoming conference want to prevent Dr. Leana Wen from speaking. Their accusation? She has been expressing views on COVID that are essentially mainstream among the public.”
The former Planned Parenthood director is slated to speak this November at a swanky Boston academic conference, the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. But a whole lot of folks don’t even want to hear one tiny bit of anything she has to say: “This week some members released a public letter, now signed by more than 500 people, that seeks to have her banned from speaking at the meeting.”
Hahahahaha! They don’t mean her previous pro-mandates messaging. They don’t like that she’s following the CDC. Here’s a summary of the letter’s complaints about Dr. Wen:
Wen is called “unscientific” — for suggesting that vaccinated people can return to a pre-pandemic normal.
Wen is called “unethical” — for agreeing with CDC guidance for schools relaxing restrictions on distancing, masks, and automatic quarantines, and for agreeing with the CDC that covid now poses a far lesser threat than earlier in the pandemic.
Wen is criticized — for mentioning ‘learning loss’ is a concern related to keeping kids out of school.
And, most bizarrely, Wen is even accused of being “fatphobic” — for opining that eating doughnuts every day is not healthy.
The Boston Globe calls all of those opinions “mainstream.” How about that? C&C has held those “mainstream” positions since Day One, but whatever. The point is, media personality Dr. Wen is now getting caught in blue-on-blue crossfire, and the media doesn’t seem to like it.
Here’s a link to the letter: https://tinyurl.com/329myf5r. It’s a roundup of typical woke liberal poppycock, but the list of signers is the most interesting part. First the liberal Boston Globe recognizes that “the letter reads like a parody of woke righteousness,” then it admits that “it has been signed by epidemiologists, physicians, researchers, administrators, and PhD candidates and postdocs in public health, at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, and Emory, among other institutions.”
I feel like we maybe ought to save that list someplace, just in case it disappears from the Internet later.
The Globe has discovered sanity, and makes an excellent point:
Is the public expected to take seriously the assertion that echoing the CDC’s guidance is outside the parameters of acceptable academic discourse? There is an unreality to the positions espoused in the letter, and it’s deeply troubling that many of the signers are in positions to influence public policy.
Haha, “there is an unreality to the positions espoused in the letter,” and “it’s deeply troubling that many of the signers are in positions to influence public policy.“ No kidding. Welcome to OUR neighborhood, Boston Globe.
It’s not just the reporters, either. A lot of public health professionals were alarmed, probably because they can see this same thing could happen to them, too, if they follow the CDC:
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Stefan Baral
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The campaign to cancel Leana Wen’s talk at @PublicHealth is peak public health Twitter awesome.
And by awesome, I mean painfully embarrassing for our field as a whole.
August 16th 2022
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Eric Widera, MD ??
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You can disagree with @DrLeanaWen on her stances on opening schools or mask mandates, but connecting her to eugenics in an effort to get her cancelled from the @PublicHealth annual meeting is morally reprehensible. I cant believe people signed this.
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August 16th 2022
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Ironically, Dr. Wen is scheduled to speak on a panel about “weathering backlash against public health.” You can’t make this stuff up.
? Philly parents need some help. Schools there began Friday, and the district’s policy is that ALL kids have to mask for the “first ten days” (when have we heard THAT before), and pre-K kids have to mask ALL YEAR. That’s right, Pre-K kids, the ones who are MOST HARMED by being unable to see faces and mouths.
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RNC Research
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“CRAZY”: Pre-K students — as young as 3 — will be required to mask ALL YEAR LONG in Democrat-run Philadelphia schools
August 17th 2022
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No one on my team is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, but we stand ready to assist local attorneys who want to start litigating this issue. I’m pretty sure there’s already some bad case law out there, but maybe we can figure out something new to work with.
And maybe our heroic activist groups can also lend Philly parents some support, with ideas about how the make school officials uncomfortable until they change the policy.
Let’s pitch in!
? Take a look at this fascinating infographic from the CDC about where the latest monkeypox outbreak is sprouting up. The blue circles are where pox has historically been reported. The orange circles show where the new sexually-transmitted version is now growing the fastest:
Where are all the biggest orange circles? The largest one? In all of North and South America, there’s only one single country with more than a minimal number of cases. Here are the top two countries in the CDC’s list:
Wow, we really took the prize, with almost three times as many cases in the U.S. as the next highest country. The difference isn’t nearly as significant after adjusting for population, but still.
For some reason this reminds me of all the previous warnings about genetically targeted bioweapons. Here’s one example from the Moscow Times:
That’s dated in NOVEMBER 2017. The Russians have been accusing us of hitting them with designer bugs for years.
Furthermore, there have been tons of discussions about how CRISPR technology could be used to design viruses targeting ethnic groups. I’m not accusing anyone of anything. It’s just a weird distribution of monkeypox is all.
? Speaking of monkeypox, Medpage Today ran a story last week about a new CDC study headlined, “CDC Examines Monkeypox’s Ability to Linger on Home Surfaces.” The study’s gist was, pox DOESN’T remain viable on surfaces, as explained by the article’s subhead: “Investigators find no viable virus on high-contact areas, but study has caveats.”
The study’s caveats have to do with it being a small study of one gay couple’s apartment. The two men were infected and quarantined, after which researchers tested every surface they could find. Although they found PCR-positive results in many places, they could not culture any of the samples. Remember, PCR tests find dead virus same as live virus. So the conclusion was the monkeypox on the fomites (surfaces) in the apartment was dead (“non-viable”).
? Also last week, Medpage ran another interesting monkeypox article headlined, “Monkeypox Symptoms Tied to Specific Type of Sex Patients Had.” Trigger warning, it’s about to get gross.
Surprising no one but really harshing the narrative, it turns out a Spanish study found that the place in the body where the pox flares up is linked to where the original sexual contact occurred:
Proctitis, an inflammation in the lining of the rectum, was more likely in individuals who reported anal receptive sex, while nearly all of those who presented with ulcerative tonsillitis reported oral receptive sex[.]
This result reminds me of that NEJM study last month that found monkeypox in nearly all tested semen samples: “Monkeypox virus DNA was detected in 29 of the 32 persons in whom seminal fluid was analyzed.” [Monkeypox Virus Infection in Humans across 16 Countries — April–June 2022 | NEJM](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323)
All this news raises some very serious questions about exactly how the KIDS are getting monkeypox.
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U.S. Confirms 9th Pediatric Case of Monkeypox as National Total Reaches 13,571
United States Confirms 9th Pediatric Case of Monkeypox as National Total Reaches 13,571
A child in Oregon has tested positive for monkeypox and health officials assure the virus was not contracted at school, child care, or another community setting
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August 18th 2022
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I don’t need to spell it out for you, do I? Will the CDC “follow the science” and suggest doctors refer pediatric patients to Children & Family Services or law enforcement for follow up? Some kind of investigation? Any investigation at all? I doubt it, because that would be the sane and rational thing to do.
I’ve noticed something else interesting about the reports of pediatric monkeypox cases. First of all, the media’s not going crazy with them like they did with pediatric covid cases during the last two and a half years. But second, and more ominously, none of the reports describe WHERE the children’s monkeypox was presenting.
You can find this information about pox location in ALL the adult reports. Why not tell us where on the child’s body the pox occurred? The reports don’t mention the child’s name, so there can’t be any legitimate privacy concern.
You can guess the reason as easily they’re not telling us as easily as I can. Don’t make me say it.
? Finally, I fact check the following meme as: TRUE!
Have a blessed Sunday! I’ll catch up with you guys tomorrow morning for the new week.