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"The antiviral drug Paxlovid is widely available, but it’s only approved for people at high risk of severe disease, such as older adults and people with underlying conditions.
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Antivirals currently available overseas seem to be effective at shortening the length and treating the symptoms of mild-to-moderate cases of COVID-19."
EXCLUSIVE: Email Reveals Why CDC Didn’t Issue Alert on COVID Vaccines and Myocarditis
CDC officials were worried about causing panic.A health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in a file image. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
By Zachary Stieber
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The nation’s top public health agency did not send an alert on COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation because officials were concerned they would cause panic, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021 drafted an alert for heart inflammation, or myocarditis, and the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Officials prepared to release it to the public, taking steps including having the agency’s director review the language, internal documents show.
The alert would have been sent through the CDC’s Health Alert System (HAN) network, which goes to state and local officials, as well as doctors, across the country.
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The alert was never sent.
In the May 25, 2021, email, exclusively obtained by The Epoch Times, a CDC official revealed why some officials were against sending the alert.
“The pros and cons of an official HAN are what the main discussion are right now,” Dr. Sara Oliver, the official, wrote in the missive. “I think it’s likely to be a HAN since that is CDC’s primary method of communications to clinicians and public health departments, but people don’t want to appear alarmist either.”
Dr. Oliver did not respond to a request for comment. Asked about the email, the CDC did not address Dr. Oliver’s statement.
The “CDC’s apparent decision to not immediately issue a formal alert to clinicians warning them about the increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccinated individuals is not only inexcusable, it’s malpractice,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told The Epoch Times in an email.
Would, again, masking, disinfectant washing, and practicing social distancing help?
According to the Cochrane Databases, masking is nothing but a virtue signal and is scientifically proven to be useless. As per Dr. Fauci in a recent House Committee hearing, social distancing is a farce that was arbitrarily imposed on the populace with ZERO scientific evidence supporting its usefulness. Good hygiene is always a good idea.
It has been known since 1973 that lockdowns could never work. This was simply the greatest heist in human history, wiping out small businesses, with the biggest beneficiaries being businesses like Amazon. You only have to look at the Pandemic rehearsal of October 2019, "event 201," to know none of this was a coincidence.
You would have to be out of your mind to inject yourself nine times (!) and trust governments who want you dead by suppressing cheap repurposed drugs
that work in favor of an unproven gene-altering poison! And indeed, Bob, by your own admission, sadly, you are.
So here is a great article based on a 1973 paper that proved long ago that lockdowns could never work,
The Antarctic Expedition That Showed Lockdowns Would Never Work
And Never Will
JAN 3, 2024
In 1969, 14 men ventured to the British Antarctic Survey Base on Adelaide Island. It is situated on the south-west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, around 1000 miles south of the Falkland Islands. The base is isolated from late March to mid-December every year which coincides with the departure and arrival of two survey aircraft.
Adelaide Island was first sighted from the brig Tula in February 1832 when completing a circumnavigation of the Antarctic continent. The ship’s master, John Biscoe, named the land after Queen Adelaide, the wife of British monarch King William IV. It was not until the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–37 that Adelaide was confirmed to be an island separate from the Antarctic Peninsula.
The 14 men arrived by sea and air at various times between December 1968 and March 1969, relieving a previous group of men. The Base members were all between the ages of 21 and 35 and in good health.
The last aircraft left on 18 March and flew north for the winter, after which the Base was completely isolated from the outside world, except for radio. In effect, these 14 men were in lockdown with their only company being each other and five husky dogs.
They lived in dry wooden huts in the form of a small complex of buildings, heated by solid fuel burners. However, the sleeping hut was made of fibreglass and was heated with a small electric convector heater, supplemented by paraffin stoves in the colder months. This meant the sleeping hut could get damp on occasions.
Food mainly came from packets or tins and there were no fresh fruits or vegetables. They did supplement their diets with regular vitamin tablets. Bread was baked daily and occasionally meat was thawed for a special treat.
In the winter months there was very little daylight or none at all. Other than the husky dogs an occasional penguin or seal might wander by.
The medical history of each Base member was noted throughout the period of isolation and when symptoms and signs appeared they were recorded on daily observation charts. Serum and nasal samples were taken monthly from the men.
This was the closest you will ever get to a controlled clinical trial to establish whether lockdowns work to prevent the transmission of viruses. These men were alone, for months on end, in the middle of nowhere.
Before this expedition it was commonly believed that on small Antarctic bases such as this, isolated for many months, upper respiratory infections died out in the first few weeks of isolation. Previously, the arrival of relief ships or aircraft resulted in outbreaks of respiratory diseases.
However, this time something strange happened.
As I say, 14 young and healthy men arrived at the Base with no illnesses. The last aircraft left on 18 March leaving them in total isolation. For the next 17 weeks, all the men remained in good health with no colds observed or detected clinically. Two men left the Base with their dog teams at the end of June for 6 months, during which time they suffered no respiratory symptoms.
Then, on 14 July 1969, one of the 12 remaining men presented with respiratory symptoms closely resembling those of a mild to moderately severe cold. Over the next 2 weeks, eight out of the 12 men suffered similar respiratory symptoms and a further two had attacks of sneezing.
Remember, these men had not seen another soul for 17 weeks and had been healthy the whole time but then suddenly, out of nowhere, a virus had made them ill.
Of the four men who showed minimal or no symptoms, two worked in a separate hut during the daytime and shared the same sleeping cubicle. Another tended to work at night and slept during the day, thus reducing contact with other Base members.
Whilst looking at all the environmental factors, researchers noticed that the outbreak occurred just over 3 weeks after midwinter and was preceded by 2 weeks of bad weather conditions. During this time most people stayed in the safety of the central hut and social contact was thus greatest in the 2 weeks before the outbreak of respiratory disease.
There was also minimal daylight for the first half of the month and there was no sunshine until 24 July, 10 days after the appearance of the first symptoms.
Researchers trying to work out what had happened at the Base found that nasal washings from two men, affected in the outbreak, produced cytopathic effects in WI38 cells and these effects were reproduced in the next passage of WI38 cells. The changes in the cells looked similar to those caused by coronaviruses but they couldn’t definitively say that they were caused by a coronavirus.
No virus was detected when samples were examined with an electron microscope. Nor did the samples yield any pathogenic bacteria.
Ten volunteers were given pooled nasal secretions from the outbreak and only one doubtful cold was produced. Nasal secretions were taken from these volunteers and given to a further seven participants, none of which produced any symptoms.
The researchers concluded that the occurrence of a common cold during isolation, when the chances of introduction of a new infection from the outside was virtually nil, implied that in some way the virus persisted, either in the environment or in the men.
One way for the virus to persist was in the respiratory tract of one or more of the men. If such were the case it would be necessary to postulate a triggering mechanism to precipitate the symptoms. The researchers found it interesting that the symptoms occurred 4 days after a precipitous fall in outside temperatures and during one of the coldest months of the year.
Non-respiratory viruses such as those of the herpes group often persist for the lifetime of a human so why would it not be the case for other groups of viruses? Observations in animals have shown that pigs can carry swine influenza and transmit infections to other pigs 3 months later.
What this cold outbreak shows is that however hard or early you lockdown, you will never be able to prevent transmission of a virus. Viral swarms exist within each of us and eventually these will mutate to evade the host’s immune system or better adapt to the host environment. Mutations may occur in one individual or when the swarms mix when humans interact with others.
Even in the complete isolation of an Antarctic Base, a virus managed to escape detection for over 17 weeks before producing symptoms in an individual and then spreading to others.
"Many people are sick with flu, while others have RSV or other routine winter viruses. But COVID-19 is also tearing through the population, thanks largely to the highly contagious JN.1 variant. Just like every year since 2021, this one is starting with a COVID-19 surge—and Americans are getting a good glimpse of what their “new normal” may look like, says Katelyn Jetelina, the epidemiologist who writes the Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter."
Would, again, masking, disinfectant washing and practising social distancing help?
We must all judge, individually for ourselves, with caution about "expert" opinions, what is REAL (The mission of The REAL News) and what is false ("disinformation").
We must all judge, individually for ourselves, with caution about "expert" opinions, what is REAL (The mission of The REAL News) and what is false ("disinformation").
Photo by Evangeline Shaw on Unsplash
Soon the billionaires and elites will be flying on their private jets, emitting enormous amounts of CO2, heading towards Davos.
Of course, they aren't the only ones heading to Davos...Last year it was reported that escort services are in high demand during the annual World Economic Forum meeting.
Here of course, they will be mingling and rubbing shoulders together, planning on how to control your life, how the powerful can become even more powerful. How the rich can become even richer.
What will they be talking about in their yearly elite meetings? Well, The World Economic Forum led by Klaus Schwab has announced that next week they will be holding a meeting called "Preparing for Disease X".
They have invited speakers which include Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who leads the WHO, the leader at Big Pharma company AstraZeneca and the European editor-in-chief at Politico.
Basically we have the WEF meeting together with Big Pharma and the mainstream media planning for this unknown "Disease X".
Why is the mainstream media in on it?
They warn that this new disease could be 20 times more deadly that covid.
The WHO, who have been busy planning the new pandemic treaty, have also been talking about this "Disease X".
In case you haven't heard, if the pandemic treaty goes through as intended, it would mean that the WHO gets power to implement lockdowns, introduce vaccine passports, quarantines and even censor things that they deem to be "misinformation". Are you ready for "The New Agenda"?
Last year I held a speech outside the UN headquarters at a protest in Geneva against the WHO pandemic treaty that you can watch on my Rumble channel here: https://rumble.com/v2qlfo0-powerful-...at-the-un.html Free speech.
Of course, they also have a meeting about freedom of expression and how "disinformation...are among the elements deepening the dire environment for the press"
The word "disinformation" in this context merely means anything that goes against the mainstream narrative. And that is bad for the mainstream media they say. Who will be speaking at this meeting? Among others the chief at the media outlet Deutsche Welle and the chief at New York Times.
"There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
The US is in the midst of the largest Covid surge since Omicron, but with minimal testing and good population immunity, the wave is largely being ignored."
I have read through many articles and posts and have digested the Propaganda so you don’t have to.
There is a desperation about the “JN.1” variant, by the COVID Cartel - it seems to be one last effort to scare substantial numbers of people into taking their COVID booster shots, before a probable “escalation”.
The earlier part of this effort, let’s call it “Phase 1” was the marketing campaign for people to get their COVID-19 jab with their flu jab - this was pushed heavily by politicians and celebrities.
The COVID & flu jab campaign only got about 10-15% of people to take the new COVID-19 jabs, far short of the 50% that Big pharma was targeting (flu jab uptake is 50% and the “double jab” was meant to be a new normal for “annual shots”).
Phase 1 failed. One more round of poison for 50% of the population didn’t work.
Phase 2 is the JN.1 Variant. Heavily mutated (30+ mutations in spike region), rapidly spreading (predictions of up to 2 million infections per day in the US at the peak), but not particularly dangerous (yet).
The “hospitals are overflowing” and nursing home outbreaks propaganda is coming mainly from Australia and Canada, not as much the US. In fact, past 2 days, I am seeing a lot of “overflowing ERs” with “unacceptable waiting times” in various Canadian provinces. Canadians are petrified. There is a reason for this controlled chaos.
Who is struggling with JN.1? The recently COVID Vaccinated and the 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x jabbed. The 2x and 3x jabbed may have recovered from immune dysfunction.
Since governments refuse to give data on vaccine status of those in the hospital, assume that close to 100% of the hospitalized are vaccinated whose immune systems are severely damaged.
Still, deaths from JN.1 are uncommon. So instead, the fear mongering focuses on “Long COVID” and suddenly “Long COVID” is the new HIV.
According to big pharma MD Eric Topol, COVID Vaccines reduce Long COVID by 40-50%. So if you don’t get the new jab, you’ll end up with Long COVID which is like HIV.
In reality, if you take the jab, you will end up with a destroyed immune system like HIV.
Add in the subliminal messaging of the “HV-1” variant in Australia that looks very much like “HIV-1”.
I do believe we’re nearing the end of Phase 2, and they will continue to try to force mask mandates throughout US and Canada.
A more uniform rollout of mask mandates would set the stage for Phase 3 and possible lockdowns due to a “black swan event”.
The warning signs (which I will cover in the next substack):
Jan.17, 2024 - WEF Davos Conference Session on “Disease X”
Feb.2024 - Google warns of “sensitive event” (civil emergencies, natural disasters, public health emergencies, terrorism, mass acts of violence, etc)
May 2024 - WHO Pandemic Treaty"
"The World Economic Forum would like you to believe that all of the back to back ‘Pandemics’ are from ‘Climate Change’ when they’re actually coming from Biological Weapons Labs. We didn’t vote for their Scams…and we certainly didn’t vote for the son of a Decorated Nazi."
"There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
The US is in the midst of the largest Covid surge since Omicron, but with minimal testing and good population immunity, the wave is largely being ignored."
I'm still alive, I guess.........had COVID-19 twice and it wasn't too bad, despite my being in highest fatalities group.
Bob A
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There are certainly some downsides to wearing masks.........otherwise we'd all be wearing them always.....not natural to wear a mask.
It is, as I maintained, a cost/benefit analysis for each individual.
It depends how serious the consequences of certain air-borne illnesses are to that particular individual.........death certainly seems serious enough?
Then one has to factor in the negatives......if the negative of a mask is immediate death (No scientific evidence of this for most people), then I guess you choose which way you want to die.
I hate the N95. But my old cloth one is ineffective according to research......even doubling the old ones.
So I have to balance the serious consequence to me of getting COVID-19 (Senior Diabetic II), especially the new HIV.1 variant (Have I got this right), for which you need Shot # 7(not just the "Booster") against the risk of being maskless in most circumstances, and the inconvenience.
Decision: Wear Mask where high people concentration inside (More in winter); otherwise not (I do have my shots & therefore some immunity); do wear in medical context where risk is higher.
A health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in a file image. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
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